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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
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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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