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Case relative to the Tothill Fields Bill.

made in that vicinity, comes to be understood. If the Plan
presented by the Adams's about the Year 1760 met with
so little encouragement, it was because at that early Period
(it may be said) the Country and the Metropolis were not
as yet ripe for it. But an attempt made at a much
more recent Period, at the most favourable period known,
and in a situation which though contiguous presents the same
advantages in a much superior degree, has been equally unsuccessful.
Parallel to the course of the Thames between Tothill
Fields and the River, runs a tract of Land, stretching from
Grosvenor House to the Wharf called the Thames Wharf in a
line running (without any interruption worth noticing) through
a length of from 700 to 800 Yards along the River Wall, and
extending in depth from about 400 to about 250 Yards as far
as Tothill Fields by which it is all along bounded on the
other side. This Land has for its proprietor a single Person
(the Marquis of Salisbury) whose title is without dispute,
and his right without controul unfettered by settlements on
Leases. The time is not exactly known, but it was within
these 6 or 8 Years before, but not long before, the breaking out
out of that War which has thrown all improvements of this
kind to so melancholy a distance, that a Projector of new Towns
obtained so much Credit with the noble Proprietor as to have
been let into possession of the property, in confidence of his
covering it with Streets and Squares upon a plan outvying
in magnificence even that of the Adams's. But so compleatly
did the event fail of realizing these brilliant expectations
so impracticable was it found to procure so much as a single
foundation to be laid, that the object was no longer how to
get the Land covered with Buildings, but how to get it back
out of the hands of the Projectors in its naked state, nor
was even this latter object attained without a considerable
sacrifice. — As

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Box	123	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	220	Info in main headings field	case relative to the tothill fields bill
Image	002	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f5 / f6
Penner		Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer	fr3
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1794
Notes public	see note 3 to letter 1392, vol. 6	ID Number	41646
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