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may be painted: but will this render the condition of
the Galley-Slave a tempting-one?

The maxim, audi alteram partem, may possibly occur,
as precluding your Lordships, from so immediate a
compliance with your Memorialist's prayer, as is
solicited by it. But with submission, there is no
altera pars: and your Lordships will never begin an
enquiry, which your Lordships will see might, never have an
end. Proprietors and Occupiers are determinate persons; they
have determinate interests. Neighbourhoods, especially such
as that here in question, which three large parishes have concurred
to make, Neighbourhoods are every body and nobody. Are
Gentlemen living at the distance of a Mile or two, Neighbours
to any such purpose? – then who is not? – To what purpose
hear a syllable from any one of them? No one such
Gentleman can bind another: a thousand such Gentlemen
being satisfied or dismissed, the decision might never the
nearer; since another might prevent himself, and another, and
so on without end.

Driven thus out of the first allotted Neighbourhood, the
establishment would thus be either crushed for ever, or driven
into another. Then comes the same Game to play over again.
Yet your Lordships must go on with it: for a precedent would
be made by the first hearing, and there would be no refusing
another, nor any other, with any colour of Justice. Were
the inconvenience pronounced intolerable, and on that account
removed, from a Neighbourhood, which had been prepared
for it by 12 year's expectation, and after having been ordered
by the 12 Judges to submit to it, how much more intolerable
must it be, to a Neighbourhood upon which the establishment
fell unexpected, and with a mark of reprobation on its head?
It would thus be hunted on from Neighbourhood to Neighbourhood,
without finding a foot of Land to repose on any where. And in
the mean time (to say nothing of your Memorialist) what would
become of your Lordship's time, and of the public service? Of
what

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	33-34
Box	118	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	063	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	2
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Notes public	see note to letter 988, vol. 5	ID Number	39117
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