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25 Feb. 1810
Sinecures

Take for example the two as yet great unreduced Exchequer
Sinecures – those that by the last accounts produced
each of them in consequence virtue of the war, above £23,000 a year. Not to speak Independently
of their tendency to keep on foot that calamity,
may it not be supposed that if at the time
of the grant, the swelling of the emolument to so enomous
an amount had been foreseen, some stop
might not have been put to it, or some abatement
made in it? Might not In the mind of The Minister might he it
not have been felt to be too much to ask, or in
that of the King to be too much to give?

In the case instance of these two Exchequer Sinecures, in
which instance the public has the comfort of seeing sees already the last individuals
by whose existence it will to such a degree
be oppressed, the difference between peace and war
is in comparison of that which follows not so enormous, takes the case of the vast
Percival Sinecures. Amount in war time subject
to unspecified deductions, above £38,000 a year,
amount in peace, under £200. Should
peace ever return reset the country again would not the fall in the
provision made for the dignity of that noble family
be felt, in that noble family at least, in the character
of a cruel grievance?

Identifier: | JB/147/121/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 147.
Date_1	1810-02-25	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	147	Main Headings	Sinecures
Folio number	121	Info in main headings field	Sinecures
Image	001	Titles
Category	Text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	C3 / E3
Penner		Watermarks	TH 1806
Marginals		Paper Producer	Andre Morellet
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1806
Notes public		ID Number	49346
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