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Feby 1810
Parly Reform

§. 16 A preference in Court favorites. Origin of Sinecures

In the political body politic as in the body natural
whether a disorder be curable or incurable, it is the mind finds takes
feels satisfaction a pleasure in it is matter of satisfaction to the mind to be
trace it to its source.

The genealogy of sinecures is in this . Antient
Penury bigot fees a payment by Fees: Payment by Fees bigot
Sinecures private Extortion and SineCures.

Another way in which this pretended mode of remuneration
injures public principle sets up pernicious and
anticonstitutional principles in opposition to the room of salutary and
constitutional ones is by displaying sitting in the opposition between
the King's personal interest against and the interest of the public his people
by giving a preference – a manifest and assuring preference
to the personal interest of the King and the circle of
Court favorites over in preference to the manifest and indisputable interest
of the people.

Payment by fees a mode by necessity
under the penury under which government laboured and to labour in
antient times. Of this mode of payment remuneration, reasonable proportionable proportionate
no app and rational in appearance, but only
in appearance, excess and extortion was a certain with a train of
mischiefs at the back of it, was a certain consequence.
Too little small the remuneration for efficient servicecould not for be: for as it is with
the goods which are among the productions the produce of labour, so is it with labour
itself, too small that price can not never be which the labourer
himself is content to take for it. Suppose the fee
which in the first instance happened to be allotted – suppose
it to have been too small: in that case no harm would
have been done, for no man would have been forced to
accept of it to the business of the office upon those terms.

But of excess on this side – excess in if so one
may say on the side of there could be little danger:
since where this was the mode of payment remuneration the price paid for the service of the official person was in
general set by himself, set by himself for his own benefit, and the
payment of it enforced by refusal of the service in case of un-compliance:
a mode of
enforcement which was
therefore coercive and efficient
in proportion to the
need which the suitor per
individual having business at the office – the suitor, if he may be so called, to the office, had in each case, of the service.

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Date_1	1810-02	Marginal Summary Numbering	1, 1*, 2-3
Box	147	Main Headings	Sinecures
Folio number	253	Info in main headings field	Parl. Reform
Image	001	Titles
Category	Text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	E1
Penner		Watermarks
Marginals	Jeremy Bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	49478
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