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1 Feb. 1810
Sine Cures
What makes the case of the 16 millions the more desperate
is that for this £38,000 ode a year no compensation
can be made: and so, unless the party of the Right
Honorable nobles of nations should take the so unnatural
course as that above alluded to, on we should must shall go fighting
and spending and taxing – so long as he continued continues where he is.
It is in this point of view on this consideration that the Conway sinecure
and the Buckingham Ann Hobart and York and Hardwater sinecure are
so much less dangerous to the country than the rest of Percival
sinecures. On the part To the noble vendors and delayers of justice
the objections against justice would not be insuperable:
for if they received their without the trouble of setting
themselves being set down in a paper under as the name
character of they received the same sums of
money as they now receive in recompense for that
trouble, their regard for justice might be reckoned upon. it would come to the same thing.
All this would be plain saying sailing: there would be
</del> precedents – no
want of either of principles or precedents.
But against peace in the case of the world, as against justice in the case of Scotland the objections are insuperable.
You can Give the people an Admiralty. in time
of peace the £38,000 which he would have made had
there been war? For this even the Percival favour Percival favour begun would
not have been sufficient: this could no more have been
than the securing to the preeminently learned
person the reading of the Court in times after the division of the Court judicatory the profits which a pension equivalent to
he had been or use to make before it, as during a
period antecedent to that catastrophe.
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