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8 Feb. 1810
Parly Reform Sinecures

Certain penalties taken at quod papist

Thus stands the matter, upon the face of those ordinances
which have for their source the supreme power
in the state: viz. that power which is in general regarded
and acknowledged as supreme and to which all other
authorities our subjection and with without exception
are supposed to pay and for the most part really do
pay obedience.

Unfortunately however instances are not wanting
in which a power not like that which Burton
speaks of behind the throne but even considerably beneath
the throne is to certain this and that purposes and those very not
unextensive extensive ones greater in effect than that of the throne itself – and
this is one here may be some of them.

In the present instance this super supreme ultra-supreme
power is lodged in the hands of a Junta, composed
of four "great characters": 1. the Judge of the Court of Admiralty
the King's Advocate,
the King's Proctor
and the Registrar
and by the effective form material and efficient power of the Junta,
the formal power lodged in and exercised by the hands
of George the 3d is to no inconsiderable extent reduced to cut down to the
same thing of a state equivalent to that of Ferdinand the 7th.

Identifier: | JB/147/215/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 147.
Date_1	1810-02-08	Marginal Summary Numbering	3-4
Box	147	Main Headings	Sinecures
Folio number	215	Info in main headings field	Sinecures
Image	001	Titles
Category	Text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	E2
Penner		Watermarks
Marginals	Jeremy Bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	49440
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