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contended with the provision so long ago made by
the law, but rather the gentlemen who are discontented
with it. Were a number not more than half a dozen
of them for example picked out for this purpose, &
picked out with due selection, I would venture to undertake,
Sir, there would not be a man left who
would ever give you any trouble. I say, with most
economy: for though I confess myself but indifferently
qualified for entering into their conception of
the damage, yet in their instance a douceur to rather
less amount than the supposed £6,000 a year
or £100,000 capital, added to the unliquidated principal
money which would in my instance prove ineffectual
would I should flatter myself suffice. As to
the proportions, an equal distribution, or if differences
be admitted, a gradation of public situation and
fortune, might at first sight be the most obvious
plan. But if I might be permitted to advise, as
the abhorrence testified to the nuisance is, not in
the inverse, but in the direct rates of the distance, so
should the quantum of douceur applied to conquer
that abhorrence. And as to the persons who would
be to have the nuisance under their very noses, as
they are whimsical enough to be fond of it, & are
ready to declare themselves so, as it is no nuisance
to them they would have no pretension to diminish
the

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	118	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	104	Info in main headings field
Image	004	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d19 / d20 / d21 / d22
Penner		Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	copy of letter 988, vol. 5	ID Number	39158
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