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way into his breast. But he is far, very far, and
he trusts always will be, from harbouring any such
unreasonable and arrogant pretension, as to call
upon the Gentlemen in question to take his feelings
for the measure and standard of theirs: and should
the degree of sensibility they manifest, appear in the
eyes even of unprejudiced persons, to go more or less
beyond, what might have been expected to be excited
by the circumstances of the case, he knows not of any
other sensation than that of regret, which an observation
to that effect ought to excite in the breast of a candid
Adversary, much less in that of an impartial Judge.
But there are cases, and those unhappily but too
numerous, in which the momentary feeling of a
part of the community, must inevitably give way to
the lasting service of the whole: and the present case
if he is not much mistaken, will be found one of
them.
20.
In Acts for providing
Land, neighbourhoods
are not considered as
having an interest.
In no case where Land is to be bought
for public use, does the Law know anything of
Neighbourhoods: it takes care, anxious care, of
Propietors and Occupiers<: but there it stops, and
does nothing at all for the Neighbourhoods.
Farthest of all would itbe from manifesting
any such care in the instance of Prisons. A
prison a nuisance? a prison in a desert? no such phenomenon
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