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age, without affording him a full, & at least equally
if not more, expensive compensation. If, for argument's
sake, instead of the £600 it was once valued at the
premises were now to be valued at £20,000, £20,000
would be the least tum which your Lordships would
find yourselves bound to lay out for your Memorialist's
benefit in the same way: and if nothing less
than twice £20,000 would procure your Memorialist
a spot equally suitable to his purpose, an expence
of £40,000 instead of £20,000 or £6600 is the
best economy that justice could allow. The encrease
of value it may be said has reference to the aptitude
of the spot for Villas: & a Penitentiary House is
not a Villa. True: but the case is that those same
properties of the spot which render it eligible as a
site for Villas, render it not only eligible but necessary
to the more important purpose of a Penitentiary
House: more especially to a Penitentiary
House to be conducted upon the plan of contract
which your Lordships stand engaged as well by
Act of Parliament as by the treaty to adopt. Ground
at least equally valuable for Villas may be found
without equal vicinity to the River, without equal
elevation: it is so at various spots, & Clapham
may

Identifier: | JB/118/096/002 "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	096	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f39 / f40 / f41 / f42
Penner		Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	39150
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