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2 Mar. 1810
Sinecures

But if those expectations have by any reader to either effect any expectation has to either effect has been entertained
a necessity will be found of retracting it. disappointment will be the result fruit of it.

In No 75, for example,Article 28, he will find a
power of Lord Seymours, viz. Ld Henry and Lord Robert, exerting
transacting or exerting while somebody else transacts, the business,
if any there be to transact in two Offices belonging
to the Kings Bench, viz. that of the a Clerk of the Crown
and that of a Prothonotary: and this, for so small a retribution
as the sum of £7, as per title to Column 3 being the "total amount of fees
and Salaries receivable in respect of those two offices taken
together, and those fees and salaries all of them, as per
general title of the No, paid out of the Civil List of Ireland.

Of a spectacle thus extraordinary a mingled emotion
composed of admiration of the generosity, and gratitude for the
condescension displayed by two such noble persons – their
acceptance of such a pittance, not without a half stifled secret suspicion
of and sympathy for the secret distress in which such
generosity and condescension may have secretly had found their root, added
to
nor without some resentment a rather unpleasant sense of the inattention which
in a very high quarter indeed could have left a compound of so much merit
in union with such high and blood, exposed to labouring under
a pressure so ill asserted to it
such distress:

Turning however to the next No 76, and thereon to the next
page but one (286) Art. he will find some hints, by which if the
cloud the hanging suspended as above over the condition of those two noble
persons be not entirely cleared away, lights light, of and
of a complexion in not uncheering a considerable degree cheering, will appear
to be thrown upon it. For the same pair of noble persons,
£12,511 and this for the trouble on the single account of the Office of which they could not but have
be at, in constituting between them one Prothonotary. Unfortunately, there
being


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Date_1

1810-03-02

Marginal Summary Numbering

1 continued

Box

147

Main Headings

Sinecures

Folio number

366

Info in main headings field

Sinecures

Image

001

Titles

Category

Text sheet

Number of Pages

1

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

C5 / C2 / D8 / E2

Penner

Watermarks

TH 1806

Marginals

Jeremy Bentham

Paper Producer

Andre Morellet

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

1806

Notes public

ID Number

49591

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