JB/119/135/001

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Objections to a new
choice

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 a 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 plan, 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 lien on it.
He took it subject to this lien: of which being so notorious, it is
impossible he should not have been apprised. From this burthen 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 deriliction of it been
declared by Administration. It has all along, if I am not much misinformed,

Identifier: | JB/119/135/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 119.
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Box	119	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	135	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	4
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