14 Aug 1809

Parl y Reform

Ch. Grievance Clergy State

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It takes them out of the society of the only classes of persons to whom in their professional character their services could be of any use, or at any rate of those classes to whom it would be of most use, and places them in the society of those classes to whom in their professional capacity they can not be of any use, or at most can not be of equal use.

To this mass of the matter of wealth thus misapplied as above, by being made to compose the unnecessary /useless/ /superfluous/ part of overpaid benefices add that which constitutes the emolument attached to sinecure benefices: pay wasted on men /those/ by whom no service whatever is rendered to any person in any shape.