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28 Feb. 1810
Sinecures

There are in this country a few names the mention of which like that
of Bonaparte is enough not unfrequently enough to produce that sort
of caution called shuddering – and this if York is one of them. It sets
me a fuming, my calm lapse for what length of time it may happen to me
to be to be at large.

But that that which is matter of real concern to
me to observe is that somehow in hand, and a system of still greater more flagrant iniquity
though from by reason of the slowness of its operation not certainty of
equal mischief is actually in progress, and in the hands
of a set of men who to the inclination add the power
of carrying it into effect.

This system not indeed the levelling f system
that which nothing to which nothing but dispatch
is wanting to render it still worse is that which
has not yet acquired a name but which consists in the
securing under force of law and under the name of fees or taxes the property of the rich and poor
and dividing it among rich the rich: nor yet among
the rich without distinction for even that would comparatively
be one alternative, but among such of the rich
as being in constant readiness to without ceasing so to act an act to us in prayer as that the
royal will shall be done are occupied with the same constancy
in addressing themselves to the same object of worship idolatry in
a service of strain of devotion composed of prayer and thanksgiving
for an encrease of daily bread.

To uphold Sinecures is in any view of the matter
to uphold in principle that system of universal confiscation.

Where as yet the fact of so much money habitually received
or extorted or otherwise received on false pretences had not
been brought under the view of parliament, it was remained
one of those practices abuses transgressions of which they having never been
taken into consideration marked for prevention extirpation, the prevention extirpation might
as soon as the matter had been sifted into, be expected.

Identifier: | JB/147/211/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 147.
Date_1	1810-02-28	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	147	Main Headings	Sinecures
Folio number	211	Info in main headings field	Sinecures
Image	001	Titles
Category	Text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	C2
Penner		Watermarks
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Notes public		ID Number	49436
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