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Feb. 1810
Sinecures

Every thing swell that vaults of money

Another consideration seems apt enough to present itself
in the character of an objection – and that is the degradation
to which it may be supposed any such great character may
be involved, by stooping to take upon itself the stile and
title of any such little ones. A Noble Earl Lord made ViceRoy
of Ireland one of his Majesty's kingdoms and that for his services in that capacity, promoted
to a Clerkship in one of the Law Offices! Hearing of this,
without hearing of what is at the bottom of this, would not
a man be apt to fancy himself as the service to be Russia? in Russia
and in the time of Ivan the Great. Please Your Majesty
to remember me next promotion ..... and quoth and some Colonel or
Lieutenant Colonel – Oh yes I'll promote you – this very
instance. I promote you to be make you a Corporal – there – Go along Get you along
and serve.

Under Edward the 3d, if we may believe his Chancellor, it
was manners that made the man; under George the 3d it
is money that makes the man: and, so long as he has but money
enough, what else he may have is not worth a thought.
As to his fitness that is sufficiently established by the penal infliction
that hangs over all hands and all pens that shall
presume to question it.

I mention this as an apparent objection rather
than a real one. To be real one, it ought to be a
degradation if not of the in the eyes of the noble supposed
Ex Lord Lieutenants Ex ViceRoys and supposed Clerks themselves – at
any rate in the eyes of some at least of those with whom
they are in habits – the only eyes whose respect as
towards them can in their eyes be worth thinking about. Now in
the whole compass of that illustrious circle, are there any
such eyes to be found? To establish the negative it the
and simple recorded fact seems of itself sufficient, viz. that
there exists that noble Lord – upon one of those whom the
King delighted most to honour who scruples not to ask thinks it not dobbery, obtain
and retain a Clerks place of not more than £8 a year and that – I do not
say upon false pretences, for that if it were true might go near to subject one to
penal infliction – but
upon allegations which
if the intention of doing
anything for the misery besides the receiving it
were among them
might not be liberating
and correctly true.

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Date_1	1810-02	Marginal Summary Numbering	1-2
Box	147	Main Headings	Sinecures
Folio number	243	Info in main headings field	Sine Cures
Image	001	Titles
Category	Text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	D17 / E1
Penner		Watermarks
Marginals	Jeremy Bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	49468
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