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Case relative to the Tothill Fields Bill
is applied, as far it can be applied: and where it cannot, the damage
(which in the present instance cannot surely amount to
much if any thing) is regretted without being compensated. —
It will hardly (it should seem) be contended, that the creation of
a perpetuity, and that too in favor of Waste and desolation, would in
this instance, any more than in any other, be a git object for Parliament
to propose to itself: Yet such would be the Judgement 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 opposing
a Bar to the improvement 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 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 two Pleas together
are not strong enough, much less can the weaker ever be, when standing alone. —
As to pecuniary compensation for
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