1821. April 25.

First Lines.

Constitutional

Finance

(5.)

Look, for example, to the situation of the Monarch.

In the procuring to him, for example, that sort of qualification which

is afforded by quick motion, together with prompt conveyance

at all times to the several different places at which a promise

is afforded of successive gratification to his several other appetites,

horses, in vest multitudes, each in respect of its capacity of affording

gratification to those by whom it is used and abused, brought, by a

long and expensive course of trainers, to the most exquisite degree of

perception possible — the labour of men in correspondent multitudes

having been exclusively consecrated to this one purpose a proportionable

quantity of money has necessarily been employed. But

for an establishment of this kind, goes

management, so far as regards aptitude for the service, is really

desired. In the hands of an individual, and not in those of a

Board is thus branch of the public service accordingly lodged. For

were it in the hands of a Board, each member, in reality

as well as in name and pretence bearing a his part in the business,

what is sufficiently understood is that there never would

be a horse fit for service: each member would appoint to the management

of one of the sacred horses some dependent of his who

had never had any thing to do with horses. Constituting a necessary

exception to the general rule this branch of the public service

therefore of necessity have found itself in individual hands. For

the performing in the best possible manner this important service,

were this the whole of the service thought fit to be required at

the hands of the individual, an extremely moderate annual

salary, not more than ten or twenty times the expenditure of

an individual whose severe and bodily labour is employed in the production of

these four-footed and preeminently favoured subjects of a monarchy, would be sufficient.

But