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14 Mr. Bentham's Memorial.
and upwards have already been lost, to Your Memorialist and to the
Establishment, since the 12th of October, being the day when the purchase
was made of the said Salisbury Estate (i); and that a great part, of the
(i) See Notes
Season for building, will have elapsed at any rate, before it will be possible
for him, to reap the benefit, of any such measure as it may please Your
Lordships to take for his relief. And Your Memorialist humbly
leaves it to be considered, whether the misfortune, of being thus, for an
indefinite length of time, deprived of the use of certain parts of the
said Estate, affords any sufficient reason, for his being unnecessarily
deprived, for the same length of time, of all the rest.(k)
(k) See Notes
Your Memorialist is unwilling to trespass on Your Lordships
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Savings, and sacrifices,
made by Memorialist,
in regard to the buying
out the Leases.
time, with any unnecessary details, (l) relative to the said difficulties, or
(l) See Notes
any premature anticipation of the results. — It may however be necessary
for him, on the present occasion, to report in general terms, that,
had the instructions, which, on his application, Your Lordships Sollicitor
(in the evident view of securing the most effectual provision made
for the fulfillment of Your Lordships intentions, and of the pleasure of
Parliament in that behalf) ( ) had the goodness to favor him with, been
(m) See Notes
literally pursued: — viz: that the surrenders to be required of the several
interests in question should be "immediate and absolute" — the indemni-
fication money, in respect of the same, would, without any "exorbitancy
of demand</hi>", have amounted to several thousand pounds: — that
by far the heaviest part of the charge, arose out of premises
of small extent, the possession whereof, how valuable soever the
same might have been, to Your Memorialist, could not be regarded
as
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