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such apprehensions would, as far as he can judge, have
upon an occasion like the present have found their way
into his breast. But he is far, very far, and he trusts
always will be, from harbouring any such unreasonable
and arrogant pretensions, as to call upon the gentlemen
in question to take his feelings for the measure and
standard of theirs: and should the degree of sensibility
they manifest appear in the eyes even of unprejudiced
persons, to go more or less beyond, what might have
been expected to be excited by the circumstances of the
case, he knows not of any other sensations than that of
regret which an observation to that effect ought to excite
in the breast of a candid adversary, much less in that
of an impartial Judge. But there are cases, and those
unhappily but too numerous, in which the momentary
feelings of a part of the community, must inevitably
give way to the lasting service of the whole: and the
present case, if he is not much mistaken, will be
found one of them.

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In Acts for providing
Land, neighbourhoods
are not considered as
having an interest

In no case where land is to be bought for public use,
does the law know any thing of neighbourhoods: it takes
care, anxious care, of proprietors & occupiers: but there
it stops, and does nothing at all for neighbourhoods.

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- especially in the
case of Prisons

Farthest of all would it be from manifesting any
such care in the instance of prisons — A prison a
nuisance? — then so is a Court of Justice. A prison in
a desert? no such phenomenon was ever heard or
thought of. To seat a prison in a desert, would be to
make

Identifier: | JB/118/115/004 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 118.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	18-21
Box	118	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	115	Info in main headings field
Image	004	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d9 / d10 / d11 / d12
Penner		Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	see note to letter 988, vol. 5	ID Number	39169
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