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if one man works up in a year as much wood or
stone as it will cost £3 to convey from the length of Battersea
to Hounslow Heath and back again; 2000 men
will work up as much as comes to £6,000. —
£200,000 is the property invested on the part of the
gentlemen at Clapham &c.: £200,000 is accordingly
the loss apprehended by those gentlemen supposing
the whole value of all those Villas to be destroyd
by the first stroke of the first pickax employ'd in
opening ground for the Penitentiary-House, as
compleatly as if it were by an earthquake. The gentlemen
alluded to reckon at £200,000, a depredation which
I reckon at nothing. I reckon at £100,000 the
£6,000 a year, supposed (though insufficient) to be
paid by way of indemnity, for the real damage
proposed to be created for the sake of saving the
gentlemen from that (as I call it) ideal loss.

Which calculation then, that of the £200,000, or
that of the £100,000 would in your conception, Sir,
come nearest to the truth? You, Sir, who have
been pleased to declare that you, for your own
part, should have no objection to see the establishment
set down at Wimbledon, close to your own
residence, you, Sir, bring judge, can you bring
yourself

Identifier: | JB/118/070/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 118.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	118	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	070	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d9 f5 / d10 f6
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	letter 988, vol. 5	ID Number	39124
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