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is removed from the privileged purlieus of Battersea
Rise: it costs the public no more than
£6,000 a year to produce all this accommodation
& thus every body is satisfied.

Such are the colours, in which, according to
my humble conception, an arrangement of this
stamp would go abroad into the world. I do not
say they would in every particular be the true ones:
in my own instance I am sure they can not: for
no such arrangement though the £6,000 a year
were all clear gain to me, would satisfy me. I do
not say they are the true ones: but they have
so much the appearance of being true, & the imputation
convey'd by them is at least so plausible,
that I must confess I cannot stand it.
Were my inclination ever so ductile, I could not
bring myself to take a step so perfectly in the
teeth of all my former professions & all my former
practice: forgive me, Sir, but I have not nerves
for it. I Lord Spencer's conception, I understand,
his Lordship's receptacle of possible Villas is a sort
of Naboth's Vineyard: & myself a sort of David
in miniature. According to him it is the possible
Villa that is my object. Sir, the possible Villa,
is an object to me, it is true: so was the value of
the handkerchief an object to Othello: an object of three
& sixpence — Bating a fancy proportioned to an
object of some such amount, my humble residence,
the

Identifier: | JB/118/102/002 "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	102	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d13 / d14 / d15 / d16
Penner		Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	copy of letter 988, vol. 5	ID Number	39156
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