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Imputing no blame to any of the Gentlemen in
his heart, he never has with his lips or with his
pen. Sympathising with them in his heart, he would
grudge nothing that could serve to testify the
sincerity of his sympathy.
23.
The Houses of
the principal
Opponents are
above a mile distant
After such an explanation, he hopes it may
be permitted to him to remark, were it only for
the Singularity of the occurrence, that the
gentleman in whose instance that dissatisfaction
had display'd itself in the strongest colours, are
comparatively at a distance: gentlemen close to
the spot, have conceived no such disgusts or
apprehensions. Your Memorialist has had
the distances measured, between the nearest
part of the spot in question, and the Villas
of the only two gentlemen who have happened
to be mentioned to him as standing in the
front of the business: the result is, that the
one distance is pretty exactly a Mile, and the
other about fourscore yards more. From the
particular spot intended for the building, which
in effect not only and not in appearance would be a
prison, the distance would not be so little by at
least '4 of a Mile more.— So much for unpleasant
views. No part of the land is, as far as he can
learn, seen from either of those Houses.
Persons going from London to the proposed
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