Walpole by John Morley ~ Full Audiobook [biography]
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The End of Political Pension
When he proposed his famous plan of economical reform in 1780 birk admitted that the magnitude of the profits in the great patent offices called for reformation still looked with complacency on the next checker list. The system of political pension even as a direct and personal reward is drawing to an end whether either the purity or the efficiency of political service will gain by the change is not so certain wallpole at least can hardly be censured for doing what birk seriously and deliberately defended abuse of page niche. He was roundly and constantly charged with sustaining a lavish private expenditure by peculation from public funds footnote thus in the popular dog rule of the day but we very well know he
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