Jan y 1806

Facienda

IV. Inquirenda

Fees

On this subject, how entire soever may be the unanimity of all others, I do not see, I must confess, how it is possible there should not be a sort of system in that highest and most select of all Committees, in whose resolves depends the destiny of so many notions. The /My/ Lord Chief Justice, successor of the noble and learned Lord whose son is in possession of what in 1798 was ,1 │ │ and now in 1807 is probably at least ,2,000 poured into his lap by one of these no-benefits │ │ successor[?] again of the same noble and learned Lord who out of a (Clerkship yielding to the possessor a nominal income of ,1.8. │ │ was in the habit of) an income of ,18 a year received by the Clerk of the Errors saw the [...?] propriety of converting ,17 │ │ to a so much nobler use, the same Guardian of the public morals /official [...?] [...?]/ who in his own learned and noble person observed in 180 the obligation he was under of vesting in the conjoint hands of two most trustworthy persons the ,5 │ │ annuity of 1798 with its subsequent increments the fruit of another of these no-benefits in this most learned and most competent will of course by congenial sympathy, with a problem[?] no less acute than that of their whole Lordships, feel the real nullity of those apparent benefits: while the first Lord of the Treasury who not professing to be a keeper of the public morals nor of any thing more valuable than the public purse has seen /but seeing/ in all no-benefits extracted from the public in the shape of fees a source /perennial fountain/ of corruption and oppression has so lately occupied himself in drying up the much less copious source of these [...?] that till t'other day carried its /continued to cause/ infection through the Custom house