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admitt of your taking it away from our Memorialist
(which your Memorialist humbly insists contends it can not)
it could never admitt of your Lordships subjecting
him to any such damage, without affording him
a full and at least equally if not more expensive compensation.
If for example argument's sake instead of the £6600 they it was once valued
at the premises were now to be valued at £20,000,
£20,000 would be the least sum which your Lordships
found you. If obliged would find yourselves bound to buy out for your Memorialists
benefit in the same way:⊞ ⊞ and if nothing less than twice £20,000 would procure your Memorialist a spot equally advantageous to him, even £40,000 suitable to his purpose an expence of £40,000 instead of £20,000 or £6600 would be the is the best economy that justice would allow. The encrease of value it may be said has reference to the aptitude
of the spot for Villas: and a Penitentiary House
is not a Villa. That your Memorialist admitts: True:
but it happens but the case is that the those same circumstances of the properties of the place
place spot which render it eligible as a site for a Villas, render
it not only eligible but necessary to the more important purpose of a Penitentiary
House: more especially to a Penitentiary House to
be conducted upon a the plan of contract which the Administration
your Lordships as members of above mentioned have stand engaged as well by Act of Parliament as by the treaty to adopt.
deemed fit to be adopted. Ground at least equally valuable for
Villas may be found without equal vicinity to the River,
without equal vicinity to the Metropolis or without equal elevation: it is so
at various spots, and as Clapham for may be instanced as
for one. But with anything less than But without
the convenience of equal vicinity to the River, equally elevation, and equal vicinity to
equal elevat vicinity to the Metropolis, and equal
it can never be equally convenient and proper for
the

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	34
Box	118	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	025	Info in main headings field	memorial
Image	002	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f53 / f54 / f55 / f56
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	draft of letter 988, vol. 5	ID Number	39079
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