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make it a Bastille. A prison to be repelled from a
country spot, on account of the populousness of the spot?
— No prison has ever been hitherto built but in a Town.
Scarce a session without an Act for such a purpose. In
any instance whatever, was opposition ever made in such
a case by individuals, on the ground of neighbourhood?
Your Memorialist believes not: surely none that ever prevailed.

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The opulence of the
neighbourhood does not
vary the case.

In aggravation of the supposed injury, your Memorialist
has heard the quantity of capital invested in
buildings and other improvements within the circle of the
neighbourhood in question, whatever extent may be
meant to be given to that circle, has been estimated at
about £200,000. Your Memorialist has no suspicion
of any thing like exaggeration in this estimate: he had
been obliged to guess, he should rather have expected to
find such a sum short of the truth then beyond it. But
in speaking of this value, gentlemen speak of it as if a
great part, there is no saying how great, but a very
great part of it, would be destroyed. Here it is that your
Memorialist has the mortification, or the satisfaction shall
he say, to be obliged to differ with them. The instances
of new prisons are not rare: and it will be difficult, he
believes, to find a single one, in which any such effect
has been produced by any such cause. The damage, if
there were any, would be damnum sine injuria: but no
damage even can he see: so far from it, instead of
damage

Identifier: | JB/118/116/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 118.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	22-25
Box	118	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	116	Info in main headings field
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Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	4
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Notes public	see note to letter 988, vol. 5	ID Number	39170
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