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be the forgiven
Memorial
After such and so sincere a declaration of his sentiments
your Memorialist hopes he may have the better
claim to forgiveness if in estimating the deference due from
Once more your Memorialist begs leave to disclaim disavow
the intention of conveying the smallest censure all ideas of imputing blame
on a single individual any person whatsoever by whom that
impartial Judges to the claims that have been dictated
dissatisfaction has been entertained which he has
by the dissatisfaction which he regrets he should feel himself
so much come to regret. But to your Lordships who
called upon to observe
have to judge of the propriety of giving that class
Meantime he hoped After this After such an explanation he hopes for their it
the proforma over other considerations he
in forgiveness when he may be permitted to him to remarks; were it only for the
hopes he shall stand in by the
gentlemen in observing singularity of the occurrence, that the gentlemen in whose
whom instance that dissatisfaction has displayed itself in its greatest force the strongest colours are
comparatively at a distance: at the same time that gentlemen close to the
spot, have conceived no such disgusts or apprehensions.
Your Memorialist has had the distances measured
between the nearest part of the spot in question
and the Villas of the only two gentlemen whose names who have
have happened to be mentioned to him⊞ ⊞ with such strength in having been the at the having been most are present themselves serve of
pains of taking the sense of the neighbourhood in having display'd any activity
as taking the as standing in the front of the business:
Vain : the result is, that the one distance is
pretty exactly a mile and the other about four-score
yards more.⊞ ⊞ From the particular spot intended for the Building which in effect only and not in appearance would be a prison the distance would not be so little by at least 1/4 of a mile more. So much for unpleasant views. No part of the land is, as far as he can learn seen
from either of those Villas Houses. Persons going from London
to the proposed site of the Penitentiary establishment,
will
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