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Parliament to propose to itself: Yet such would be the Judgment virtually
involved in any Determination which should regard the Objection —"—""
grounded on the supposed extraordinary Value of the Common Right
to the very small proportion of the Commoners, as affording opposing a —
peremptory Bar to the Improvement of of the Waste on the Plan here —
proposed. If even with the support of the Plea of Public Exigency, —
the Private Plea grounded on the Interests of the vast majority of the
Commoners is not strong enough to outweigh the Objection, much less —
will it be when standing alone as it would do in the Instance of any —
Plan of Improvement originating with, and confined in its Object to the —
sole Benefit of the Commoners. If the stronger and the weaker Plan two Plans together
are not strong enough, even when taken together, much less can the —
weaker ever be, when standing alone. —

As to the pecuniary Compensation for the rights in question, either —
they are susceptible of it, or they are not: if they are, they are as susceptible
of it on the present Occasion, as they can be on any other: if they are —"—"—
unsusceptible of it, and the Circumstances of their being so is to be —"—"
considered as a conclusive Bar to their being given up, then, so long as it is
considered in that light, the Waste must remain a Waste, were it to —
the End of time.—

Were this Waste to be divided, like other Wastes, among all the
Commoners, in Proportion to their respective quantities of Interest (in the —
present Instance in equal Shares) the quantity of divisible Land —"—
compared with the numbers of the Shares, would scarce afford to each
of them a Spot big enough to strech himself upon: and in that Case
the very Expence of fencing (to say nothing of draining) would of itself
be more than sufficient to eat up the whole value of the Subject
to be divided(a). But upon such a Plan of Division such as that the particular —"—
Accidental Interest just spoken of, would be more compleatly and irremediably
sacrificed, than upon the Plan here proposed. Those to whom it is —
now of the most Value would have no greater Share than any —
one of the thousands to whom in its present State it is of no Value
at all.—

(a) Number of Acres remaining after Allowance made for Roads and
an Allotment of 10 or 11 Acres clear for the Westminster Scholars about say 40; —
Number of Inhabitants, in Saint Margaret's 12000, in Saint John's 8000 —
(Saint John's appointing 20 out of the 50 joint Vestrymen to 30 of Saint
Margarets) Total 20000 — divided by 5 to obtain the number of Householders 4,000.

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	123	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	212	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c11
Penner		Watermarks	[[watermarks::[monogram] propatria [britannia motif] 1795]]
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year	1795
Notes public		ID Number	41638
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