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comes to £6,000. £200,000 is the property invested
on the part of the gentlemen at Clapham &c. £200,000
is accordingly the less apprehended by those gentlemen,
supposing the whole value of all those Villas
to be destroyed by the first stroke of the first pick-ax
employed in opening the ground for the Penitentiry
House, as compleatly as by an Earthquake.
The gentlemen alluded to reckon at £200,000 a depretiation,
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 form that (as I call it)
ideal less. 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, being Judge, can you bring
yourself to conceive that if set down at Battersea
Rise it should effect the utter destruction or the destruction
to any thing like £100,000 of the value of the houses
at Clapham a mile off.
But



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118

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panopticon

Folio number

101

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001

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correspondence

Number of Pages

4

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recto

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d9 / d10 / d11 / d12

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copy of letter 988, vol. 5

ID Number

39155

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