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Case relative to the Tothill Fields Bill.
"The bill, if passed into a Law" (say the Petitioners) "will
"greatly injure your Petitioners in their properties, and will be
"the absolute ruin of several hundreds of Tradesmen and
"Artificers, who must be driven from their respective dwellings,
"to seek their Bread in places where they are unknown.
"And your Petitioners humbly submit to the consideration
"of your Lordships, whether such powers as are contained
"in this Bill have in any instance been granted by the
"Legislature, where the object proposed has not been some
"great and public advantage.
"That your Petitioners apprehend that the inconveniences
"proposed to be remedied by this Bill, are only
"imaginary: that the evils which it would bring upon
"your Petitioners, are real and substantiated, and the
"advantages to be derived from it would be confined solely to the
"projectors and proprietors of the Houses to be erected in
"pursuance thereof."
The Projectors there spoken of are— His Grace the present
Archbishop of York (then head Master of Westminster School)
and a Mr Salter.
The Bill experienced as (under such circumstances
it may be well imagined it would) great opposition, as well
in as out of Parliament: it was petitioned against, not
only on the part of the Individuals whose Houses were
consigned by it to demolition, but ny the Vestry of the United
Parishes. That it had not been framed however without
great consideration, and the most respectable professional
concurrence, may be inferred from the name of the first Earl
of Mansfield, at the Time Sollicitor General (the intimacy
of whose connection with the principal of the two Petitioners
in behalf of the Bill, Dr Markham the present Archbishop
of York, is so well known) together with the names of his
three Brothers-in-Law or Nephews-in-Law the Finches, standing
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