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than can be done by any dial-plate or number of dial-plates.

As to the first system of guarding and the intended portion position of the
Watch-houses, the plate No.3, accompanying the book which I hope
your Lordship has received, will represent it with sufficient
accuracy for the present purpose.

To the protection of an armed force, I think I may
venture to add as an accesion to the Neighbourhood, the authority
of a Magistrate ready at all times, and at all hours to direct
its application. Though I am not at present in the Commission
of the pPeace, yet having been bred at to the bar, and having
succeeded about 1½ year ago to the estate of my late Father,
who was in the Commission for two Counties, I may without
much presumption suppose it not unlikely that if I thought
fit (and in such a situation I should think fit) to have my
Name inserted for Surry, it would not be rejected, and in that
case, and in that situation I may leave it to your Lordship
to judge whether the Neighbourhood would be likely to find me
negligent of their service.

Before I quit the subject of security give me leave to
assure your Lordship, that any further measures, which might
suggest themselves to your Lordship in this view, would not
find me backward in adopting them, nor is it a small expence
that would prevent me.

So much with regard to security — Is the establishment likely
to present any thing disgustfull or unpleasant to the Neighbourhood?
— your Lordship may soon judge. Adopting in their fullest energy
the ideas of Howard with regard to the importance of publicity,
it is part of my plan, to give the establishment as
your Lordship may have observed, and indeed the main pillar
if it, to give the establishment such a face as may attract to it persons

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