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Case relative to the Tothill Fields Bill. —

are contingencies by which the value of rights of property
is liable to be affected in every situation; and if these were
admitted as conclusive arguments against forced mutations of
property applied for on the ground of a greater mass of benefit
to be reaped by the public at large, no Act for the widening
of Streets, and improvement of Towns, no Road Act no Canal
Act, would ever be passed. These are cases which, as often as
they occur, afford matter of regret; but are never regarded
as affording matter of peremptory objection. Compensation
is applied as far as it can be applied: and where it cannot,
the damage (which in the present instance, cannot
surely amount to much if any thing) is regretted, without
being compensated. —

It will hardly (it should seem) be contended that the
creation of a perpetuity, and that too in favor of waste and
desolation, would in this instance, any more than in any other,
be a fit object for Parliament to propose to itself : yet such would
be the judgment virtually involved in any Determination which should
regard the objection grounded on the supposed extraordinary value
of the Common Right to the very small proportion of the Commoners,
as opposing a peremptory Bar to the Improvement
of the Waste on the plan here proposed. If even with the support
of the Plea of Public exigency the Private Plea grounded on
the Interests of the vast majority of the Commoners is not
strong enough to outweigh the objection, much less will it be
when standing alone as it would do in the instance of any
Plan of Improvement originating with, and confined in its
Object to the sole Benefit of the Commoners. If the two Pleas
together are not strong enough, much less can the weaker ever be

or 6 Acres behind Rochester Row would afford ample space
to greater numbers than have ever yet been turned in upon the
whole waste; and in point of food, the herbage of the whole
waste can be no object to the Cattle holders at present. —

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	123	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	225	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	f15 / f16
Penner		Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer	fr3
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1794
Notes public	see note 3 to letter 1392, vol. 6	ID Number	41651
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