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uniformity and nakedness it has little enough to recommend
it. Is beauty, even here, at variance with use? By no means.
A Galley may be painted: but will this render the condition of
the Galley-Slave a tempting one?

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Inutility of waiting
to hear any thing
on the other side.

The maxim and alteram partem: and your Lordships
will never begin an enquiry, which your Lordships will see
might never have an end. Proprietors & Occupiers are determinate
persons: they have determinate interests. Neighbourhoods,
especially such as that here in question, which three large Parishes
have concurred to make, neighbours are every body & nobody.
Are gentlemen living at the distance of a mile or two neighbours
to any such purpose? — then who is not? To what purpose
hear a syllable from any one of them? No one such gentlemen
can bind another: a thousand such gentlemen being satisfied
or dismissed, the decision might be never the nearer: since
another might present himself, & another, and so on without
end.

Driven thus out of the first allotted neighbourhood, the
establishment would thus be either crushed for ever or driven into
another. Then comes the same game to play over again. Yet your
Lordships must go on with it: for a precedent would be made
by the first hearing, and there would be no refusing another,
nor any other, with any colour of justice. Were the inconvenience
pronounced intolerable, and on that account removed from a
neighbourhood which had been prepared for it by 12 years expectation,
and after having been ordered by the 12 Judges to
submitt to it, how much more intolerable must it be to
a

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	33
Box	118	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	121	Info in main headings field
Image	004	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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