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of your Secretaries (it is not of the Person that
your Memorialist speaks but of the Situation)
still less will your Lordships think of deputing any
Person from such an Office, and that a single Person,
on so invidious and inauspicious an Errand: to
make for such a purpose a perambulation round the
Environs of the Metropolis: — to make a Statistical Survey
of a peculiar kind, with a Table of Villas and
their Inhabitants in his Hand, and with a
calculation, as it will be said, of Political Leanings
and degrees of influence in his Bosom: to draw, around
each favored Abode, a Circle of so many Miles radius
(for one of a Mile or some such Matter is protested
against as too narrow) within which no such
ignoble fool, as that of a Reformer of those by
whom the Peace of Society is disturbed, should
presume to penetrate: to avoid the Estate of a
leading and well affected Member of Parliament,
with much more Care than a Waste where
not a drop of Water was to be found,
and that of a Member of the Cabinet with
much more solicitude than a Marsh, the
certain Seat of Pestilence: in a word
to look over the four Counties for some
Desert (since Deserts within the four Counties still

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Box	118	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	056	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f27 / f28
Penner		Watermarks	[[watermarks::[britannia with shield emblem]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	patrick colquhoun
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	see note to letter 988, vol. 5	ID Number	39110
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