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2 Mar. 1810
Sinecures
to be paid for it.
To learn and from the same unquestionable authority –
to learn of and concerning so Honourable a person,
that he has been "executed" – and this for an act
seemingly so innocent as that of weighing Cork, whether
it be the County or the Cortex, is another article of intelligence
by which at the first blush a mingled emotion composed of
alarm and sympathy and indignation might be excited
in the breast of our reader of sensibility to the
feelings of great characters in high situations that virtue
of which the present auspicious day affords so ample a stock, be
among the number of his virtues. But when after a little reflection it is considered
that if executed, it is only by Deputy that the Honourable
person is executed, and that the Deputy is some
Ignoble person, who assuredly it may be depended upon would not consent to be dealt
with the in any such manner, unless he were well
paid for it, the alarm, together with the other unpleasant emotions attendant on it, may naturally be hoped
and expected to subside.
Identifier: | JB/147/369/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 147.
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