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In this instance as in so many others the institution
comes first, and the reason (or justification in point
of utility is thought of afterwards) is made for it
afterwards, out of such materials as can be found.
When the Courts of Kings establishments were formed upon their
present plan of careless immunity, their great chief vassals
had their Courts establishment established upon a similar plan
though upon a smaller scale. These great members of the proprietors aristocracy have long since discussed their idle hands: it
is high time their chief should do the same.

Nor perhaps is it would it be found necessary
that this great chapter in the book of reformation
should wait altogether for an event which every
true Frenchman shou must wish to be a very
distant one. Might not the useless places be suppressed
as they fall in, upon the terms of applying
the a certain proportion of the Salary during the
life of the present monarch to the encrease of the
Privy Purse? Without a compact perfectly free
and an acquiescence altogether voluntary on the
part of the King honour and generosity would
concur in forbidding every idea of such a change
an operation: but might it not be worth trying
whether

Identifier: | JB/009/049/003 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 9.
Date_1	1789	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	009	Main Headings
Folio number	049	Info in main headings field	finance
Image	003	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f5 / f6 / f7 / f8
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::l munn [britannia with shield emblem]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	benjamin constant
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	see note to letter 680, vol. 4	ID Number	3350
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