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misinformed, been kept upon the Carpet. Mr Pitt and 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 &
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 and 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 the power
of turning the scale as between situations standing on the same footing in
point of apparent eligibility with a view to the public service, he might lay
individuals, or even neighbourhoods, as it were under contribution. It certainly
does not lie in his mouth to say that by him any such oppression would
actually be exercised: and to the few into whose hands this paper may come
it may perhaps appear, that the more ready he has been to give warning
of the temptation, the less likely he would be to yield to it. But
constructions thus favourable are too much to be looked for on the part of the

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Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	4
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