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Case relative to the Tothill Fields Bill
the pretium affectionis could, in the present instance, be
supposed to operate, it would be that of the Paupers in the
Five Chimney Poor House; whose grievance would be the
having 4 or 500 Yards to move from a decayed habituation
to a new one. But surely, if there be any Class of Individuals
whose affections may be called upon to give way to the superior
Interests of the Public, it must be that one of all others,
which has not other title to the situation in questions than
what it derives from the gratuitous bounty of the Public.
In the Dean's Yard Square Act already mentioned (28 geo
2 Ch 54) powers were included, for pulling down a Poor-House
in and belonging to these same Parishes: though the object of
that Act was nothing more than the building of Houses fit
for the reception of Parents having Children in the King's
School, and the Poor House there in question was— not the present
decayed structure, containing no more than 8 or 9 Inhabitants
with or without Families— but the principal Poor House,
containing the bulk of the Parish Poor to the amount of many
hundreds.(c) —
About 300 Private Houses were exposed by that same
Act to the same fate: (though, owing to a failure in the ways
and means, only a few of them eventually experienced it:) as
appears by a petition presented by the Inhabitants of those
Houses to the House of Lords, which Petition is reprinted in
the abovementioned Pamphlet written by the abovementioned
Dr Wilson, at that time one of the Prebendaries of Westminster
and perpetual Curate of St Margarets. —
How much stronger a case that was than the present,
will appear from the following passages in the Petition (being
the whole of it except the formal words at the Introduction
and Conclusion) in which the sufficiency of such a Ground
as that of the present Bill is in a manner
admitted. — "The
(c)The average number is 500
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