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12 March 1810
Sinecures

Apply this to the non-sitting Scotch & Irish Lords

But for the making upon any Member of the House of Lords for calling for any answer answer to any
question to be addressed by the House or Commons or by any
Committee of the House, no leave it is believed has
ever in any instance been either given by the House of
Lords or so much as asked by the House of Commons:
and moreover if the time be when the House of Lords is
not sitting, any such one application to any such effect
would not only be not merely unprecedented, but physically
impossible.

Here then we have a set of receivers of public
money – and they are no inconsiderable numbers of whom – and
the mass of money so received by them, a mass of no
inconsiderable amount of which by the authority of the
House of Commons and for any such purpose of legislation
or correction of abuse, no account can be so much as
asked for.

Thus much for usage, and precedent and privilege.

But now Now then on any such ground as that of public welfare interest
or even English Constitution or common honesty or common
sense – ought there to be exist any set of men of whom
they being receivers of public money, no account of the
public money so received by them should is by the agents of
the people, the acknowledged guardians of the public money
should for any purpose either of correction of past misapplication profusion
or for the prevention of future, be capable of being required.
As between House and House here is a question which
many admit of debate at any length: but as between both
Houses on the one part and the people all the rest of the people
on the other, it is surely one of those questions which include
their own answer and admitt of no debate.

Identifier: | JB/147/418/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 147.
Date_1	1810-03-12	Marginal Summary Numbering	Not numbered
Box	147	Main Headings	Sinecures
Folio number	418	Info in main headings field	Sinecures
Image	001	Titles
Category	Text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	C13 / C5 / D5 / E5
Penner		Watermarks	TH 1806
Marginals		Paper Producer	Andre Morellet
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1806
Notes public		ID Number	49643
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