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1828 March 24
To Herald on Peel and BenthamCopied & Copy corrected
– – – Alas! what have I been doing!
I beg pardon to correct myself Sir I was well nigh doing
the reproach of misrepresentation, and doing the Right Honorable
Secretary an injustice. Had I not been Had not weariness rendered me when writing what is above, too impatient –
had I read on with the requisite attention I should have read – "in addition to the
"Salaries now paid &c: the result I must can not but confess is –
that for aught I can be sure, in this Bahamian case as in the London
case, fitness may have been already rewarded, and conjunct unfitness
the accompanying unfitness in the same subject cured, at least for one while,
for the time , by any of any number
of hours £200 pounds given in addition to so many salaries of
three times the amount. This matter now I can accordingly find myself obliged to
leave in doubt with something like a doubt upon it: observing at the
same time that while in the proceeding article item next but
one the salary to the Governor is expressly said stiled
"Additional", no such adjunct is prefixt to the two Salaries here
in question, namely those of the two Assistant Judges – each of them £200 a year.
On the other hand, by of this same this source sequel an oversight of mine
unfortunately or fortunately omitted sequel to the has been
has had an effect of no inconsiderable importance:
my anticipation has confirmation is given of to the
mentioned and of the the discovering of the otherwise inconceivable boundlessness of the Right Honorable patron's
liberality and munificence. A Total of addition to
the whole of the said Establishment £3,040. First office
mentioned that of the Governor. His Additional Salary £800.
It appears therefore that by the Right Honorable justice in the person of this official gentleman the service
of fitness and unfitness, close as the of and end
in the same neutral had been already has so lately been
discovered as having in every place in the person of this fortunate Governor, and that it is for the correspondently united proposal
of remuneration for sufficiency and supply of deficiency, this that
same £800 a year was has been determined to be provided.
As to any such idea as the putting the question to his Excellency whether he
were content with what the Right Honorable patron found him
in the enjoyment of, any such question would have been abstract,
theoretical, speculative: giving him the £800 a year at once
without questions asked this was practical: – Police Official
practice: or in a word to give the honour where it is due – Pelian practice.⊞2
⊞2 When by the industry
of his learned
this pinrciple should
have ben embodied into
an Act, let it be called
the Peel Act: as the
Act for extension of
punishment and encouragement by applyng
the of to perseverance in by
it applying to the attempt the
same punishment which
it found confined
to the consummation is
styled the Ellenborough
Act: and which does by this means
the Manor of theRight Honorable Secretary
and the noble friend,
noble and learned father
might go on proceed hand in
hand receiving the tribute
of applause from future ages.
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