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21 March 1810
Sinecures

The field of reward is the last stronghold of arbitrary power:
it maintains its ground there long after it has been in a
considerable degree dislodged from the parts of punishment.

And would you then have the merits of public men
as displayed in the public service – in the higher in the
highest branches of the public service – the merits of displayed by those
high great characters, in their high situation – would
you then and consequently their title to remuneration at
the public expence – would you then have them tried at
common law upon an action of assumpsit or upon the
case?

Not I indeed: not, in any, at any rate not in every instance before a Judicatory so composed
not before a Common Jury, no nor before an ordinary
Special one.

Not in that form: neither should John Doe nor
Richard Roe, no nor John Dean, or Richard Finn with
my consent bear any part in it, not but that they
in such case they would with less reason bear a part in it than they
do in the trial of what is called an office carried on
in a Court of Law by direction which has some faint dot of chance for coming at contested truth, by a decision of a
Court of Equity which by its own confession has no such
chance. In non no part of that system of falshood
compleatly useless as well as consummately pernicious
falshood, which has had depredation for its object, and had
and continues to have injustice, in which it is in the power of injustice can
operate for its effect with any consent should, into in this new case field be admitted,
any more than in the old or any part of it,
be endured.

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Date_1	1810-03-21	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	147	Main Headings	Sinecures
Folio number	158	Info in main headings field	Sinecures
Image	001	Titles
Category	Text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	C5
Penner		Watermarks	TH 1806
Marginals		Paper Producer	Andre Morellet
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1806
Notes public		ID Number	49383
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