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it was looked upon as due, on the footing of a Compliment. No decided
consent has been received from that quarter but such a tendency at least to
consent has been manifested, that it is in consequence of an intimation
given at a Chapter meeting by the Dean in the name of the Chapter that the Clause empowering the Treasury to accept
of a long Lease instead of the fee has been inserted. That for a purpose
like the present no consent is necessary, is a point already (as above observed)
decided upon by the Legislature: which has already subjected to the
compulsive powers in question, all the Lands within the four Counties —
contiguous to the Metropolis with no other exceptions than what are made
in favor of the pretium affectionis in the instance of Dwelling Houses
with their appurtenances.

In the instance of the Parishes, no consent was reasonably to be hoped
for (as it seemed) under the circumstances of the case. The idea of setting
down a new and large Prison in the neighbourhood, though it be such a
neighbourhood, could not naturally be expected to be a popular one, the
advantage in point of easement of Poor rates, how substantial soever,
could not be presented before hand in any liquidated shape: particular
inconvenience would naturally be apprehended on the part of those who
by vicinage are in the habit of making what little use is made of the
universal right by turning in their Cattle where Air and a resting place
at least are to be found for them, how little soever besides.

But a circumstance that seemed to leave very little chance of
any thing like universal concurrence, was a sort of interest incapable
of being compensated, because incapable of being avowed. The Waste
in question has, wherever situation favoured, been for a long time past
and still continues to be (as already intimated) a subject of encroachment
and peculation. In a Map produced in the Chapter at a meeting on
the occasion of the present plan, the number of Acres contained in what
was then called Tothill Fields appeared to be 67 — or some such number
at present not above 58 Acres can be made out, though the Map —
above spoken of is not above 30 Years old or some such matter. The
difference amounting at any rate to several Acres, has within that
space of time been pilfered by degrees by different individuals under
favor of the inattention or facility of the Dean and Chapter on the
one part, and on the other part, with the privity (as has been said) —
and by the connivance or with the concurrence of the Tradesmen in
whose hands the management of the Parish concerns has happened to be
vested during that time. —

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