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16 Feb 1810
Parly Reform Sinecures

§. 3. Sinecures are not given as rewards for public service.

The time w

The time when a pension is comes to be bestowed is where
the demand for remuneration, if remuneration is be
in question, or to take the case in its broadest widest extent
where the exigency, the demand for the donation the expenditure
has just taken place.

But the time when a sinecure comes to be
bestowed is not supposing it not already granted in reversion
is when it is become vacant. Here is a
good thing which somebody must have and which
any every body is equally capable of having –
merit or no merit, service or no service, reason
or no reason, pretence or no pretence. It then
becomes the object of a sort of King's plate, the
object of a race: coming there to possession the co-possession of an
adequate share of favour it becomes the prize of
him who has been industrious whose industry or good fortune has procured him
the first intelligence.

As If by the any person who thus becomes a candidate for it
any thing that can bear the name of a service – a public service –
should happen to have
been done, all proportion
between the worth of the
service and the worth
of the mass of emolument
thus capable of being
bestowed in the name
of reward is manifestly
out of the question.
Aptitude Certainty is not impossible,
but the chances against it
are as infinity to one.

In this case is a sinecure, layout out of the
case the faculty of granting it in reversion. But in
some instances – and indeed in but too many instances,
it has been granted anticipated away at a time and in a form
so eminently disadvantageous to all parties.(a) In these
instances cases, setting aside what difference may be come to
be made, by that diversity in respect of as between year and year, to
which every sinecure the emolument of which arises in any
part out of fees is subject, it stands on the same footing as a
pension to which the same contingencies would give
give rise give commencement.

Note
(a) Times, Feb. 1810 Commons
debate 31 Jan. 1810. Per
Mr H. Thornton. "A gift of a
Place in reversion is not worth

a part of the real value of

rise give commencement
"the share where the actual possession
could be given".

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Date_1	1810-02-16	Marginal Summary Numbering	1-3
Box	147	Main Headings	Sinecures
Folio number	152	Info in main headings field	Sinecures
Image	001	Titles
Category	Text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	E1
Penner		Watermarks
Marginals	Jeremy Bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	49377
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