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Estate that the neighbourhood would ultimately be
rather prejudiced than served by the establishment —
will your Lordship's candour allow me to enquire, —
whether, under the particular circumstances of the
case, that would be a just motive for opposition
or present to a person in your Lordship's situation
a probable prospect of opposing with success? —
The materials for judging [Fresh paragraph] The materials for judging have in some particulars
not presented themselves yet to your
Lordship's view: allow me to perform that office
Publicity [Fresh paragraph] Publicity as I have already observed, is of the
very essence of the motivation; it is with a
special care to that advantage, that the spot
in question was made choice of — And by whom
made choice of? Not by the Supervisors only, but by the most
respectable and competent body 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 Mr
Bowdler one of the appointed Supervisors informed me) or at least 13
actually signed the instrument of approbation: and if it went without
the signature of the other or 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 more 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 conceived on that account (your Lordship will
remember it was a 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 ground of objection was accepted as
conclusive

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