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Mr Bentham's Evidence

Legal Obstacles, with the Existence of which nobody is
chargeable, have been unavoidably Productive of a Part of
the Delays. As far as I may be permitted to judge, the
great Aversion entertained to the employing in the present
Case, or applying for, the compulsive Powers regularly granted,
as often as Land is to be purchased for a Public
Purpose, is, and has been throughout, the only Source of
Difficulty, at least at the Fountain Head. I am satisfied
in my own Mind, that the Business would have been
dispatched near Five years ago, if Land could have been
found that belonged to nobody, and was in no Neighbourhood.
My own Aversion to such Powers is not inferior,
and would be productive of the same Effects, if I saw by
what possible Means the Business could be done upon less
unpleasant Terms.

My great Comfort as well as my great Encouragement
at the Outset of this Business was, the Observation of a
Spot, in the Instance of which, as it seemed to me, these
Difficulties had already been overcome. It was upon the
Ground of an Act of Parliament, and of a Decision
that had been given upon it by a Tribunal, of which
the Twelve Judges formed a Part — it was upon this Ground,
coupled with other Assurances, that I proceeded at the Outset
of the Business; it was upon the Faith of another Act of
Parliament, which the Committee have before them (I mean
that of 7th July 1794) that I persevered in it. Had it been
said to me in those Days, these Powers are employed in other
Cases, but they will not be in your's, my Property would have
remained undissipated, & the Committee would not have had
this Trouble.

Tothill Fields possesses Two Properties essentially necessary
to the Execution of my Plan; Vicinity to the Metropolis, and
Vicinity to Water Carriage: In my Manufactory, raw Materials
and

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