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With the reluctance general important well or ill grounded in the
But will can any such consideration reluctance,
however grounded, be deemed by your Lordships
Lordships a sufficient warrant for putting a negative
upon the choice?⊞ ⊞ It cannot consistently with the a decision of the 12 Judges: it cannot consistently with the faith of contracts, it can not as your Lordships will see consistently with the recent injunctions of the legislature. if the decision of the twelve It can not without running counter
Judges or looked upon as to the decision of the 12 Judges, a decision given in this very instance
in the instance of this very individual spot when first alluded
to prepared for fixed upon for a Penitentiary
House. Two places were fixed upon for as many
Penitentiary Houses: One in Wandsworth field Common Field for
Females: this at Battersea Rise for Males. or
People of in Wandsworth were alarmed: the people of in
Battersea were alarmed: the Judges disallowed the
choice of Wandsworth Field, not because they regarded
the chance of the people at Wandsworth of of
neighbourhoods, because if they had considered the
alarms of neighbourhoods as sufficient grounds for
negativing such a choice, (for if they had they must have
both rejected this spot as well as the other,) but because they regarded the present this one spot
spot as sufficient as well as proper for both for establishments.
Your
Your Lordships are war therefore warranted
at least, in upon this land by the decision of
the twelve Judges, and that in sight of all notwithstanding
all apprehensions and reclariations that have been
or can be made in form on the part of neighbourhoods:
and surely after such a decision it is not a light matter
that would move your Lordships to pronounce an opposite one
lend an ear to any suggestion that was disposed to the apprehension
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