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' | <p>if one man works up in a year as much wood or<lb/>stone as it will cost £3 to convey from <add>the length of</add> Battersea<lb/>to Hounslow Heath and back again; 2000 men<lb/>will work up as much as comes to £6,000. —<lb/>£200,000 is the property invested on the part of the<lb/>gentlemen at Clapham &c.: £200,000 is accordingly<lb/>the loss apprehended by those gentlemen supposing<lb/>the whole value of all those Villas to be destroyd<lb/>by the first stroke of the first pickax employ'd in<lb/>opening ground for the Penitentiary-House, as<lb/>compleatly as <add>if it were</add> by an earthquake. The gentlemen<lb/>alluded to reckon at £200,000, a depredation which<lb/>I reckon at nothing. I reckon at £100,000 the <lb/>£6,000 a year, supposed (though insufficient) to be<lb/>paid by way of indemnity, for the real damage<lb/> proposed to be created for the sake of saving the<lb/>gentlemen from that (as I call it) ideal loss.</p> | ||
<p>Which calculation then, that of the £200,000, or <lb/>that of the £100,000 would in your conception, Sir, <lb/>come nearest to the truth? You, Sir, who have<lb/>been pleased to declare that you, for your own<lb/>part, should have no objection to see the establishment<lb/>set down at Wimbledon, close to your own<lb/>residence, you, Sir, bring judge, can you bring<lb/><add>yourself</add></p> | |||
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if one man works up in a year as much wood or
stone as it will cost £3 to convey from the length of Battersea
to Hounslow Heath and back again; 2000 men
will work up as much as comes to £6,000. —
£200,000 is the property invested on the part of the
gentlemen at Clapham &c.: £200,000 is accordingly
the loss apprehended by those gentlemen supposing
the whole value of all those Villas to be destroyd
by the first stroke of the first pickax employ'd in
opening ground for the Penitentiary-House, as
compleatly as if it were by an earthquake. The gentlemen
alluded to reckon at £200,000, a depredation which
I reckon at nothing. I reckon at £100,000 the
£6,000 a year, supposed (though insufficient) to be
paid by way of indemnity, for the real damage
proposed to be created for the sake of saving the
gentlemen from that (as I call it) ideal loss.
Which calculation then, that of the £200,000, or
that of the £100,000 would in your conception, Sir,
come nearest to the truth? You, Sir, who have
been pleased to declare that you, for your own
part, should have no objection to see the establishment
set down at Wimbledon, close to your own
residence, you, Sir, bring judge, can you bring
yourself
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