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is it to be supposed that an establishment of such public importance will
be set aside altogether?
A prison can not exist, but it must exist in some
Neighbourhood: it cannot exist in a town but it must exist in a crowded
Neighbourhood, a Neighbourhood beyond comparison more exposed to
the objection supposed, than the place in question can be: is there then no
such thing as a Prison to be built any where?
How was it with regard to the immense House of Correction at
Clerkenwell? Is there any thing like a reason for apprehending, that
such a prison as the one proposed, can be more incommodious to the
distant inhabitants of Battersea and its Neighbourhood, than the
actually existing one must be to the inhabitants of the contiguous
House of Correction in the crowded Neighbourhood of Clerkenwell?
No man, give me leave to say my Lord, can be more sensible
than I am to the abuses to which the maxim that private interest
should give way to public, is liable, and is but too frequently made
subservient: as if the public were made up of any thing but individuals:
no man who would be more resolutely bent against making himself
an instrument of such abuse in any case, and above all things in a
case where an interest of his own was so visibly concerned: it is a subject
I have made a study of, and considered under all its faces. But in
the present instance would it be any real injury to any individual?
would there be so much as any real damage? Is the damage, if any, such
as can be set in comparison with the public benefit? Does it exist in any
assignable shape? Is it of such a nature as to have any claim to
indemnification? — Indemnification then it will have.
With regard to Your Lordship's suspicion, that a part
of the land in question may prove to be upon lease, I rather think
Your Lordship will find the fact to be otherwise: (not that it is at all
material as Your Lordship will see presently.) In the course of a visit
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