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5 Feby 1810
Parly Reform

It is ever in terms of superior respect that
the mode of remuneration source of emolument called a Sinecure
that sinecures in contradistinction to pensions are
spoken of by the f earliest of the two Committees.
The physical disease called a fever was deified
by pagan piety placed among the Gods. The political plague called
a fever is by the fi earliest of those by consultations of those state physicians of the body politic
proposed to be ennobled, supposed to be raised to the
dignity of the peerage.

"It appears" (say they) "to your Committee † † 12 Rep. p.19. that
"that Sinecure Offices of high ranks in some of the ancient
establishments of the State may be usefully employed

a particular instance, as either to accompany a Peerage

"given for the reward of personal services, or to secure
"an honourable retreat to persons who are entitled to
"marks of public favour by the long and meritorious
"discharge of the duties of high Office, or who
"have sacrificed lucrative professional situations in engaging
"in the public service". Thus for the Committee.

That they are not absolutely by their very
nature rendered absolutely incapable of being applied to
their respective purposes, may be admitted.

But what of the observations above delivered
have any truth in them can not be derived is
that a benefit in this shape and more particularly is in a peculiar degree
unfit ill adapted to be applied to any one of those purposes: is
and this as well because they are in their nature variable fluctuating
in their amount, as because even if the amount of them
were fixt and always the same, it is in each instance
almost certain
of being either
too high for the purpose
or too low.

Identifier: | JB/147/452/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 147.
Date_1	1810-02-05	Marginal Summary Numbering	4-6
Box	147	Main Headings	Sinecures
Folio number	452	Info in main headings field	Parly Reform
Image	001	Titles
Category	Text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	D2 / E2
Penner		Watermarks
Marginals	Jeremy Bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	49677
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