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what nature too would be the instruction given by such
a precedent to your Memorialist? to look out for another
good place, for a place "as convenient and proper" as the
present one? — No: — but for a bad place: for as bad an one
as could be found: for its badness would be his only chance.
He would have to hunt the four Counties over for a desert: and
if they contained no desert, they would contain no place
for him at all. For let him fix on what spot he will, if
there be such a thing as a House within a Stile or two of
it, his chance is gone. To what purpose look for consent? for
consent to an establishment which your Lordships have pronounced
a Nuisance, and that of so baneful a nature, as to render
Houses uninhabitable at more than a Miles distance? If
opposition would otherwise have been wanting, the decision
itself would be enough to make one: it would be an
Advertizement for opponents. Had your Memorialist Courage
for the pursuit, what a Task would he have to go through!
What up-hill work! What a labyrinth of Negotiations! of
Negotiations of which any person at a Mile's distance might
cut the Thread! Indeed, my Lords, your Memorialist has no
such Courage. If driven from this his first and his last
hold, nothing remains for him to make his Bow. If the
Oak will not bear him, he must submit to his fate: it would
be lost labour to catch at Straws.

It is easy, — it is natural, and on the part of
Gentlemen who conceive themselves aggrieved by the Choice,
it may be sufficient, to say, the world is wide enough,
you will find places enough: go elsewhere, in short any
where but here. And if they may say so, so may they say
without enquiry: for nothing calls upon than to enquire.
But, if your Memorialist is to be believed, who has made
enquiry, and who has been Months in making it, there is
no such choice. He can't go elsewhere: there is no elsewhere in
the case.

34. Such a delay would be inconsistent with the requisition of the Act —

The enquiry, as your Lordships see, would at any rate hardly

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