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3 Jany 1810
Parly Reform Sine Cures

This uncertainty led to the expedient of sinecures

When at last the a windfall drops – what is it?
It may be £23,000 a year: £33,000 odd a year: it may be £5000 odd a year: it may be £8 a year,
Ask Lord Arden, he his Lordship knows all about it. To him them Ask the Right Honorable Surveyor of milking irons, and his noble Brother: they
belongs the top, to him them the middle, to him them the very bottom
of the scale. Of him them may be said speaking of those articles, when was by
reverend and elegant Hooker the judicious Hooker as
par excellence he can want to be stiled – was said of the law: – the highest is
not above his their power – the meanest is not beneath
his their care.

Now suppose some a moderate service done – done
by some fighting man, at the expence of a leg or two
or an arm or two, or without any such expence, some
Nelson or some Stewart – a French fleet destroyed or
captured – or a French army rented by half the number
which – let things of this sort be done in any number so long as the pension tree grows and flourishes there
is no difficulty. But suppose there were no pension tree
only a Sinecure tree. Just at the inch of time suppose,
(and it is no small matter to suppose) a windfall drops.
What is it? Is it the £23,000 their three and twenty
thousand pounder? – that is meat for his master – this
is too good by a great deal for the fighting man: this is too
good for any man but the bowing man. As most are subject to have maggots in them
is fit only for a Lord Arden. It is indeed unfortunately
subject to deductions, subject to a sort of such as somebody
or other knows of though nobody has told us who the maggots are, which
cut it out alas? too large a part of it. But still there
is left near £9,000 £13,000 a year, which is more a great
deal than Nelson could entitle merit by his death; or
Lord Chatham not the Walcheren Lord but his father could earn make himself desirous of
in the whole course of his life.

Identifier: | JB/147/142/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 147.
Date_1	1810-01-03	Marginal Summary Numbering	10 or 3
Box	147	Main Headings	Sinecures
Folio number	142	Info in main headings field	Sine Cures
Image	001	Titles
Category	Text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	C2 / D5
Penner		Watermarks	TH 1806
Marginals	Jeremy Bentham	Paper Producer	Andre Morellet
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1806
Notes public		ID Number	49367
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