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It is easy, it is natural, and on the part of gentlemen who
conceive themselves aggrieved by the choice, it may be sufficient,
to say, the world is wide enough, you will find places enough:
go elsewhere, in short any where but here. And if they may say
so, so may they say without enquiry: for nothing calls upon
them to enquire. But if your Memorialist is to be believed,
who has made enquiry and who has been months in making
it, there is no such choice. We can't go elsewhere: there is
no elsewhere in the case.

The enquiry, as your Lordships see, would at any rate
hardly be a short one: but a long one would, if not manifestly
necessary, be clearly indefensible. The very act of instituting it
would be an offence against the words of the act as well as the spirit of
the law: for by the words of the act at the very opening of it
your Lordships are not only empowered but "required" to
do one of two things, and that "soon" "as soon after the passing
"thereof as conveniently may be": "to fix" either "upon the
"said piece or pieces of ground" or else "upon" some "other
"as convenient & proper spot."

Your Lordships will be pleased to observe: it is not any body

else who is bound to find tis other convenient & proper spot,
it is not your Memorialist, it is your Lordships therefore
who are to find it, it is your Lordships who are to have found
it already if there be one. If the plan of it does not lie already
upon your Lordships table, your Lordships in waiting for it
would run counter to the requisition of the Act. For the Act
which describes the present spot, and gives your Lordships the
option of it, is already upon your Lordships table: and knowing
of that spot, which the Act has pronounced convenient,
at least as convenient as any other, and knowing of no other,
if

Identifier: | JB/118/122/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 118.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	34
Box	118	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	122	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d37 / d38
Penner		Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	see note to letter 988, vol. 5	ID Number	39176
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