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2 Mar. 1810
Sinecures

being two of those noble persons whose dignity is crying
for its support while their merit is crying claiming its reward, this
sum of £12,511 being to be divided between them the two, will
give no more than £6,255:10s for each.

On the other hand there remains as per No 75 p.284
another Office of the same Honourable Court viz. the King's
Bench, another office viz. that of the Clerk of the Crown
of which the duties or the no duties are by this noble pair, or
by somebody else (he will may have the satisfaction of assuring
himself) with executed with the same punctuality and
the same harmony.

Nor yet it will the consolation they afforded him
be either compleat or pure: for in looking should it occur to him to look for the retribution
allotted annexed to an office of such so abundant in dignity and importance
as to have the precedence of that Prothonotary of the
same Honourable Court, he may look himself blind in
he will find it any it. What? shall th while a Prothonotary
is thus competently – yes we may venture I say it with pleasure to
say even liberally handsomely provided – shall a Clerk of the Crown
go altogether be passed by altogether unrewarded? Alas! alas! wherefore why is
will such dignity be left without support its support! how long will such
merit be left without reward!

True it is that pursuing as he pursues his studies through the this same
No (76) and on the same page (286) further lights may perhaps
break in upon him, and of the same cheering consolatory nature, further
lights of one of which was would so much a single ray be found to penetrate
the gloom of No 75 .. "Crown Office in Kings Bench, – the
same person ... £ £427 (well that's something):
"Filazers Office, in King's Bench: Keeper of Declarations, the
the same persons ... £1,105: – a trifle more. But which
from by those little items the injustice done to the individual receives
a sort of palliative, the injustice done to the Officer Official person the injustice
done to the Office, is but placed in the stronger light point of view. For
the Crown Office something;
for the Crown
Office something more,
for the Prothonotaryship
smething handsome, and
if at the same time for the
Clerkship of the Crown
an obsolete nothing. Surely
he will be apt to say to himself, here is a claim a necessity, and that a very imperative one, for one of those applications to Parliament, the liberality frequency of which reflects
which does so much honour on the liberality of these our times.

Identifier: | JB/147/367/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 147.
Date_1	1810-03-02	Marginal Summary Numbering	2
Box	147	Main Headings	Sinecures
Folio number	367	Info in main headings field	Sinecures
Image	001	Titles
Category	Text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	C6 / C3 / D9 / E3
Penner		Watermarks
Marginals	Jeremy Bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	49592
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