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John Fonblanques Eulogium on Brougham
THE EXAMINER.SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1831.
No. 1204.
Paper, Print, &c. .... 3d.
Taxes on Knowledge, 4d.
7d. PRICE
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THE POLITICAL EXAMINER.
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Party is the madness of the many for the gain of a few. — Pope.
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REFORM IN CHANCERY.
The whole fabric of Chancery abomination totters to its
fall; the venerated dust and rubbish of antiquity is to be
swept away; the cobwebs are to be brushed from their
prescriptive corners; the spiders cry our that the world is at an
end; and, as daylight is let into the intricate crevices of the
building, the obscene birds who have formed their hereditary
nests there from generation to generation, hoot at the light,
and, in their purblind struggles, fly in the faces of the unwelcome
intruders. The CHANCELLOR has redeemed his pledge;
he now stands forth,—not the popular disclaimer—not the
opposition orator,—but the practical, ministerial, reformer of
the law. He proposes no petty amendment—no abolition of
minor offenses or minor evils—no palliative—no sedative—no
placebo—no compromise between acknowledged evil and
conflicting interests. He lays his axe to the root of the evil—he
refuses the supplies, and the ways and means of corruption
are at an end. Judicial officers, and their administrative
subordinates, are to be paid by salaries—not by fees; or if in
part by fees, then only in that stage of proceeding over which
they have no control to multiply, hasten, or retard the steps
of the suitor. The Masters' Clerks grieve for their gratuities
—the Registers for their copy-money; those pleasant
unctions—those cordials to pen-wearied diligence—those stimulants
to expedition—are gone forever. The Masters plunge
their hands into the depths of their femoralia, and, with
lengthened faces and lack-lustre eye, meditate the departed
glory of their warrants; while seventy Commissioners of
Bankrupts, dispersed to all quarters of the wine, wonder what
the world is to do without them. Yet all this is done with
so much judgment, with so much due consideration for
individual interest, that those who inwardly curse, and privately
mutter, cannot openly complain. If they remain in office,
they are liberally paid for the proper execution of their duty.
If their services are dispensed with, they are as liberally
compensated for the loss of their emoluments. A present
and permanent good is cheaply purchased at the expense of a
temporary and decreasing incumbrance; and this, too, is put
on its just footing: there is no twaddle of the indefensible
rights of vested interest—no prattle of freehold— no talk of
inheritance in official extractions. Thus the sinecures held by the
Reverend Mr. Thurlow* amount to between nine and ten
thousands a year; among these is the most iniquitous office
that it ever entered into the mind of man or courtier to
imagine—a tax of seven thousands a year out of bankrupts'
estates, to be collected at a further expense of about fifty percent.!
"I am aware," says the Lord Chancellor, "that the holder of the patent
place I have alluded to has vented rights in it: but if he should be very
exorbitant in his demands, let him not think himself very sure of the tenure
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