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21 March 1810
Sinecures

But it is the persons, be they who they may, by whose will these good things under the notion of there being rewards
for meritorious service are bestowed, the situation in which
on all such occasions those persons act or that of an uninterested an
impartial judge.

It is the interest of all those being founda fountains of
reward, it is the interest of all the advisers of the ostensible
or secret – let us speak out since it a situation not
action species not individual that is here in question – it is the interest, the
personal interest of the King – of every King that none
of those supposed services mass of reward should ever be applied
to any such purpose as that of real service meritorious public service.
Of that stock of the matter of reward which passes through their
hands, it is their interest that in the greatest possible quantity
it should be applicable and applied to one or other or
both of two purposes: 1. to the purpose of affording remuneration remunerating reward and encouraging
to the exercise of the power of pleasing in every all its
imaginable variable shapes to the ben in the service and to the benefit
to the author of those good gifts – in complying with
all his humours – in contributing by every imaginable means
to the gratification of all his wishes.

2. To the purpose of giving encrease and to the power
and influence exercisable by him in those assemblies in
which his power beholds its only checks limits in which his
conduct and the conduct of his instruments beholds its
judges, and in whatsoever degree interested and biased
not to say corrupted, its only efficient judges.

Identifier: | JB/147/156/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 147.
Date_1	1810-03-21	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	147	Main Headings	Sinecures
Folio number	156	Info in main headings field	Sinecures
Image	001	Titles
Category	Text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	C3
Penner		Watermarks	TH 1806
Marginals		Paper Producer	Andre Morellet
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1806
Notes public		ID Number	49381
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