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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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Date_1

Marginal Summary Numbering

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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