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that could be devised: a body composed of the twelve Judges, with the
addition of the Lord Chancellor, the Speaker, and the first Magistrate of the
Metropolis: of these 15, 14 (as M.r Browdler of the appointed Supervisor
informed me) or at least 13, actually signed the instrument of approbation:
and if it went without the signature of the other of the two others, it
was not because after so great a majority the person or persons in question
not being on the spot, it was thought not worth while to delay the measure
for the sake of adding their signatures to the rest.—
Another circumstance may in this view be very material for Your
Lordship's consideration. Before this place occurred, another (not to
mention two that are not to the present purpose) had been made choice of:
viz: a spot much nearer Wandsworth, and so near, that its vicinity, and
the disgust that the Inhabitants conceiv'd on that account (Your Lordship
will remember the plan then in contemplation was one which presented
none of the antidotes above stated) was made a ground of objection.
This ground of objection was accepted as conclusive by the very tribunal
I am speaking of: such was its becoming tenderness for the feelings of
individuals: and by that very same high and considerate Tribunal
was the choice of the very spot now in question confirmed without a
dissenting voice, as being free from the objection which had put a negative
upon the other. The rejection itself appears by the report which I
inclose: the reason of it as above stated (a matter which must be known
in the Neighbourhood I mean in Wandsworth) I had from the supervisor
and the difference is indeed apparent on the face of the present spot. For
my Lord, what are the buildings that (except in the
way of distant prospect
as London may be) are in sight of it? — Two or three cottages of no value
and a public-house that would make a fortune by the choice. Did your
Lordship's Agents' (I should have said those of the late Earl) make any
objection then? I never heard they did; but if they did, they were
over-ruled. The choice, Your Lordship will have the goodness to observe,
is not now to be made; it is a res acta: in succeeding to the estate, Your
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