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5 Feb. 1810
Parl Reform

When the happy and long expected event time viz. the
death of this plebeian did at last come, it might
for some years at least, almost as well not have come.
Remainder of that year, profits "net .... emoluments not
more than £20:6:3: Year 1791, the whole of it do
no more than £247:13:3: Year 1792, do no more
than £111:2s:11d: average of the two years as above
of those two almost barren years, no more than £179: : .

In a former part of this paper Letter the an observation was
made in how remarkable a degree a ryal bounty grace in
that form was ill adapted to the those connected purposes
of restraint of official improbity, encrease of eventual burthensome eventual penal responsibility,
and maintenance support of official dignity. So true Such is the truth of that observation In the
instance of this very chain of offices may be seen
a melancholy proof of it. Six and thirty long years, during
which dignity in this noble family had to wait for this
part of its support. Six and thirty long years during
which Virtue in this noble family had to wait for
its reward! As And when at last it did come we see
how that it fell for some years of proving itself anything like adequate
to its desirable
and important purpose.

As for restraint on official improbity and encrease
of eventual penal burthensome responsibility of actual beneficial
responsibility and thence of eventual burthensome responsibility,
these objects were indeed out of the case: laid
out of it not only merely by the virtues inherent in the nature
of the noble future contingent possession of the office,
but by the non-lapse of it into his hands perverse destiny by which it were was thus long kept out of his hands.

Identifier: | JB/147/167/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 147.
Date_1	1810-02-05	Marginal Summary Numbering	28 or 9
Box	147	Main Headings	Sinecures
Folio number	167	Info in main headings field	Parl. Reform
Image	001	Titles
Category	Text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	E7
Penner		Watermarks	TH 1806
Marginals	Jeremy Bentham	Paper Producer	Andre Morellet
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1806
Notes public		ID Number	49392
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