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21 March 1810
Sinecures

☞ Give a list of offi sinecures of which it is manifest
that they could not any of them have been
bestowed with a view to public service.

Nor yet in the preferring for the any preference given of this private mode of disposal to
the only proper public one, is any such thorough depravity
requisite as would be implied in the total compleatly all-comprehensive and constant
disregard of the public interest in every shape, and thence of all real services rendered
to it. Where any real merit has been displayed – where
any real services, capable of susceptible of being established by any sort of proof, even of
the loosest texture, they see another fund open to them – a
fund which they are never backward to draw upon – a fund
which when drawn upon by such hands is never averse backward
to the being drawn upon – that fund – in a word – that inexhaustible
fund – which is in the hands of Parliament.

As to Parliament, even if its power admitted of such
trials, it need scarce be here remarked how incompetent far from evils admitted
it would be in its constitution – in respect of the influences
it is subject to, for the trial of such causes: by the prin
case of elections, by the principle of the Grenville Act its
comparative incompetency seems sufficiently established.
How loose the evidence is on which it is in the habit of
adjudging rewards pecuniary rewards at the instance of the advising Ministers
of the Crown, is but too indisputable notorious clearly beyond dispute. Still however, by
such a judicatory tribunal, the matter of reward can not in
the character of reward, be bestowed without at least
the colour of a title: and which to sinecure offices
bestowed at the instance of the advisors of the Crown, secret
or ostensible, not so much as the colour of a title
of any specific title in any specific and particular instance has
ever been required, or supposed or pretended to be have been required to be produced regarded as necessary to be produced.

Identifier: | JB/147/157/001 "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	157	Info in main headings field	Sinecures
Image	001	Titles
Category	Text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	C4
Penner		Watermarks
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Notes public		ID Number	49382
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