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phenomenon was ever heard or thought of. To
seat a Prison in a desert, would be to make it
a Bastille. A prison to be repelled from a bounty
spot, on account of the populousness of the Spot
—No Prison has ever been hitherto built but in a
Town. Scarce a Session without an Act for such
a purpose. In any instance whatever was Opposition
ever made in such a case, by Individuals on
the ground of Neighbourhood? Your Memorialist
believes not: surely none that ever prevailed.

22.
The opulence
of the Neighbourhood
does
not vary the
case

In aggravation of the supposed injury, your
Memorialist has heard the Quantity of capital, invested
in Buildings and other Improvements, within the circle
of the Neighbourhood in question, whatever extent may
be meant to be given to that circle, has been,
estimated at about £200,000. Your Memorialist
has no suspicion of any thing like exaggeration
in this Estimate: had he been obliged to guess, he
should rather have expected to find such a Sum
short of the truth, than beyond it. But,in
speaking of this Value, Gentlemen speak of it as
if a great part, there is no saying how great,
but a very great part of it, would be destroyed.
Here it is that your Memorialist has the
mortification, or the satisfaction shall he say; to be
obliged to differ with them. The instances of new

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	22
Box	118	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	050	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f15 / f16
Penner		Watermarks	[[watermarks::[britannia with shield emblem]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	patrick colquhoun
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	see note to letter 988, vol. 5	ID Number	39104
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