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The plan I have pursued of taking the old foundations as well in the literal as the
figurative sense of the words, to build upon and that to the utmost of their extent, is
liable to no objections that I can see. The having recourse to a new choice is liable, as
will be seen, to very forcible objections, such as nothing short of absolute necessity would
compel me to encounter with.

1. Unavoidable and indefinite delay: delay to the very commencement of the play, to say
nothing of its completion. The former choice consumed upwards of three years.
2. Superior hardship to any other proprietors on whom the lot might fall in the event
of a new choice. The Archbishop of York in whom the fee simple is in right of his See
has no objections: he has no ground for objection. His interest is small: his income could
not sustain any diminution: it could not but receive an increase. Earl Spencer (Lessee
under the See for lives) Earl Spencer when he came to his Estate (which was since
the valuation) found it with this lieu on it. He took it subject to this lieu: of which
being so notorious, it is impossible he should not have been apprised. From this burden
it has never been discharged: the stop put to the execution of the plan was considered
not as final but momentary: two years afterwards it was still considered as such by the
Committee of the House of Commons [See Report 1784.] At no time has the final
dereliction of it been declared by Administration. It has all along, if I am not much
misinformed, been kept upon the Carpet. Mr Pitt & Lord Thurlow may perhaps
recollect the audiences given by them to the intended Architect, the late Mr Blackburn.

To any other unwilling proprietors a similar burthen would be new and unexpected:
and of willing proprietors with fit land belonging to them I have neither any knowledge
nor any tolerable hope.

Thus it stands as between proprietor and proprietor: and as far as neighbourhoods
may be supposed to be concerned, thus also does it stand as between neighbourhood &
neighbourhood.

A new choice (as far as the Proposer were to be concerned in making it a power
from which he could not be wholly precluded as will be seen presently) a new choice
would lodge a very strong and extensive power in the hands of an individual, who were
he to listen to the suggestions of personal interest or affections might be under temptation
to abuse it. He might pick out situations adapted to his own interest or caprice
to the disregard of much superior interests on the part of great numbers of individuals.
By

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