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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 House of Correction at
Clerkenwell? Is there any thing like a reason for apprehending 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 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:
and 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 there 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? 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 out upon lease, I rather think your Lords the
fact will turn out 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
with upon

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Date_1	1793-08-16	Marginal Summary Numbering
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Folio number	439	Info in main headings field
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Penner	Jeremy Bentham	Watermarks
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