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Among the numerous classes of Cases in which specific rights of property
are every day made to give way to public exigence or even convenience, an
instance is perhaps hardly to be found, of a change so pregnant with —
advantage to the general mass of interests concerned, and at the same time
so clear of hardship. To the neighbourhood it would afford not only a
negative security, by the removal of the source of danger above indicated,
but a positive safeguard of no mean account. For the security of the
Penitentiary House itself, a numerous watch, upon a plan of uninterrupted
attendance will be kept without as well as within the House, night as
well as day: so that at all hours there will be an armed force upon
the spot, unexposed to those jealousies which are apt to narrow the
protection derivable from the military, and in readiness to act at a
moments warning, for the quelling of tumult or apprehending of
malefactors. —

It would render the spot instead of an eye-sore, an ornament
to the vicinity by substituting to the miserable Poor House, a —
magnificent and elegant structure, and to the present combination
of swamps and laystals a cultivated spot laid out upon a plan in
which ornament would be combined with use.

To the Westminster Scholars it would afford an advantage as
flattering as it would be new and unexpected. At present whatever
benefit they reap from the use of that dreary and ill-looking expanse
in the way of sport and exercise, is subject to the perpetual intrusion of
mean, dangerous and unwelcome company of all sorts. By the Bill, in
compensation for their undefined right of roaming over the whole Waste,
an allotment is made to their separate use, of a spot of ground for a
Cricket ground, the most elevated healthy and pleasant spot in the
whole Waste; a retired corner containing not less than half as much
ground again as is employed in the largest of the spots kept up for the
purpose in the neighbourhood of the Metropolis: about 11 Acres instead
of between 7 and 8. And this appropriated Cricket ground besides —
being fenced off might and would be put into such a state as to be much
better adapted to the purpose of that pastime than any part of the Waste
has been in as yet.

As to the Paupers, the present Inhabitants of the Poor House and
their Successors, they will be put in the same plight and condition they are
in at present, with no other difference than the having a new house to live
in instead of an old one, and without removing farther than to another

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Box	123	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	189	Info in main headings field
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Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	1
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Notes public		ID Number	41615
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