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received considerable encrease, have caused inquiry to be
made into the magnitude of that encrease, and the
sum has been found too much to give. As to this
matter, true it is, that the first movement of your
Lordships Minds, as faithful Guardians under His
Majesty of the public purse, would at first blush very
naturally and very laudably draw back at the idea
of any new and unexpected expenditure. But Justice
without which there can be no true aconomy, Justice
will, as he humbly trusts, effectually prevent your
Lordships from considering the objection, as one by
which your Lordships decision in the present instance
can be governed. The convenience of the Spot, which he
found appropriated to the purpose, was among the
advantages, which he promised himself from the contract,
among the inducements which he found for proposing
it, and among the means on which he relied, and still
relies, for enabling him to fulfill it upon such reduced
terms. Whatever be the value of the spot, if your
Lordships Justice could admit of your taking it away
from your Memorialist (which your Memorialist humbly
contends it can not) it would never admit of your Lordships
subjecting him to any such damage, without affording him
a full, and at least equally, if not more, expensive
compensation. If, for arguments sake, instead of the £6,600
it was once valued at, the premises were now to be valued
at £20,000, £20,000 would be the least sum which your
Memorialists benefit in the same way: and if nothing less
that twice £20,000, would procure your Memorialist a Spot
equally suitable to his purpose, an expence of £40,000, instead
of the £20,000 or the £6,600, is the best economy that Justice would
allow. The encrease of Value, it may be said, has reference
to the aptitude of the Spot for Villas: and a Penitentiary
house is not a Villa. True: but the case is that those
same

Identifier: | JB/118/060/003 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 118.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	30
Box	118	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	060	Info in main headings field
Image	003	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f35 / f36
Penner		Watermarks	coles
Marginals		Paper Producer	patrick colquhoun
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	see note to letter 988, vol. 5	ID Number	39114
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