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1826 July 26
London Petition

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On the contrary by the word gift, and the pretence liable as it
is of the absence of all remuneration received by the patron from the office
the purchasers at large are drawn fr excluded, and the exclusive possession
of it is confined to persons who being connected with the patron [with
him who should be the controuler of their conduct] by the
ties of natural affinity or of the strictest intimacy can have not
in the nature of the case have any thought punishment in any
shape be from him how amply soever merited.

Two for example are the offices in possession none
are reversed at the passing of the Act which the Lord Chancellor by whose influence under whose procedure the
Act was procured already conferred upon his only son the heir apparent
of his immense wealth: £3,500 a year the computed amount
of those already in possession: £9,000 a year the computed value
of the whole together supposing them in to come into possession conferred, bid
him? by sale? oh no: only by gift: the manifestation of pretended
bounty no reason for filial obedience. Suppose now complaint
made to the learned father and noble father of in non- or misfeasance
in any shape on the part of the Honourable son; suppose
the complaint ever so well founded? What would be the consequence
the more substantially compleatly and appallingly founded it were, the more
impossible would it be for the Judge to find him so much as
to hear it. But for supposition sake suppose him ever so determined
not only to hear it of the offence but to the like to punish it, what
man alive is there by whom any such expectation could be
entertained. In vain would it be said, no such misfeasance
can happen for neither in th virtue of any no one of those same offices
does the Honourable Gentleman ever do any thing. By this plea if
the matter were varied assuredly it would not be mended.

Here then is misfeasance here is here is receipt of money
by colour of office, on a false pretence. In each every instance either
the business of the office remains under, or has such retribution or is
settled on a fit and proper principle, it is done by some Deputy. In
this case we beg here to represent to Your Honourable House that all
that comes into the Honourable hands after payment made to the Deputy
or on the part of the Honourable
Son the fruit of extortion
on the part of the Right Honourable
father of peculiar
and
and if justice were the rule would instantly be abolished.

Identifier: | JB/081/009/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 81.
Date_1	1826-07-26	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	081	Main Headings	petition for justice
Folio number	009	Info in main headings field	london petition
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d4 / e4
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	j whatman turkey mill 1824
Marginals		Paper Producer	jonathan blenman
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1824
Notes public		ID Number	25796
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