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objection supposed, than the place in question can be in: 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 subservaient:
as if the public were made up with 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 concidered under all its faces. But
in the present instance would it be any real injury to any individuals?
would there be so much as any real damage? Is a 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 Lordships suspicion, that a part of
the land in question may prove to be out 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 to the spot I happened a short time ago, by accident
and without my seeking, to fall into conversation upon the subject of

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