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Guardians under his Majesty of the public purse, would at first
blush very naturally and very laudably draw back at the idea of any new
and unexpected expenditure. But justice, without which there
can be no true economy, justice will, as he humbly trusts, effectually
prevent your Lordships from considering the objection
as one by which your Lordships decision in the present instance
can be governed. The convenience of the spot which he
found appropriated to the purpose, was among the advantages
which he promised himself from the Contract, among the
inducements which he found for proposing it, and among the
means on which he relied, and still relies, for enabling him
to fulfill it upon such reduced terms. Whatever be the value
of the spot, if your Lordships justice could admitt if your
taking it away from your Memorialist, (which your Memorialist
humbly contends it can not) it could never admitt of
your Lordships subjecting him to any such damage, without
affording him a full and at least equally if not more expensive
compensation. If, for arguments sake, instead of the
£6,600 it was once valued at, the promises were now to be valued
at £20,000, £20,000 would be the least sum which your
Lordships would find yourself bound to lay out for your Memorialist's
benefit in the say way: and if nothing less than
twice £20,000 would procure your Memorialist a spot equally
suitable to his purpose, an expence of £40,000 instead of
£20,000 or 6600 is the best economy that justice would allow.
The encrease of value, it may be said, has reference to the aptitude
of the spot for Villas: and a Penitentiary House is not
a Villa. True: but the case is, that these same properties
of the spot which render it eligible as a site for Villas, render
it

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	33
Box	118	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	121	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d33 / d34 / d35 / d36
Penner		Watermarks
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Notes public	see note to letter 988, vol. 5	ID Number	39175
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