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Memorialist has a necessary negative, as your Lordships
will find, upon any other choice. An option is given to
your Lordships between the spot in question and what other?
— not any other whatsoever; but any other which
shall be as convenient & proper. As to the word proper
it seems to have reference principally, if not exclusively,
to the public service. But to be as convenient the new
spot must be as convenient not only to the public, which
is one party, but to your Memorialist who alone is, and
was, looked to as the other. But no other spot, equally convenient
to your Memorialist, is to be had under the Act.
This your Memorialist, after the maturest examination is
fully persuaded of, and if necessary, is ready to prove to
your Lordships, as far as a negative, and such a negative,
can be proved. But here surely averment may be received
for proof: for of what is convenient to an individual, being
of full age and ordinary discretion, who but that individual
shall judge?

A situation, in itself not equally convenient, might
in so far as pecuniary advantage is concerned included in
the idea of convenience, be rendered equally convenient, by
a pecuniary compensation, given in proportion to the
want of intrinsic convenience. But out of whose pocket,
but that of the public, would such compensation have to
come? Any such other situation then would not be equally
convenient with reference to the public, as according to
the act it ought to be. Does

Identifier: | JB/118/119/003 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 118.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	27-28
Box	118	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	119	Info in main headings field
Image	003	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d25 / d26 / d27 / d28
Penner		Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	see note to letter 988, vol. 5	ID Number	39173
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