JB/118/026/001

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The maxim audi alteram partem may possibly
occurr as precluding your Lordships from so immediate
a compliance as is sollicited by with your Memoralist's
prayer as is sollicited by it. But with submission, there is
here no altera pars: and your Lordships will never
begin an enquiry, your Lordships who are not a
court of judicature will never for the sake of finding
argument for reversing a decision of the 12 Judges
begin in any way which your Lordships will see
might never have an end. Proprietors and occupiers
are determinate persons; they have determinate interests.
Neighbourhoods, especially such as that here in question
which three large Parishes have concurred to make a neighbourhoods
are every body and nobody. Are gentlemen
living at the distance of a mile or two neighbours to
any such purpose? – then who is not? To what purpose
hear a syllable from any one of them? No
one such gentleman can bind another: a thousand
such gentlemen being satisfied or dismissed, the decision might
be never the nearer: since another might present himself,
and another, and so on without end.

Driven thus out of the first allotted neighbourhood
the establishment would thus be either crushed for ever
or driven into another. Then comes the same game
to play over again. Yet your Lordships must go on
with

Identifier: | JB/118/026/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 118.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	118	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	026	Info in main headings field	memorial
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f57 / f58 / f59 / f60
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	draft of letter 988, vol. 5	ID Number	39080
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