And after thus seducing him, when his independence is gone, and the means of supporting his family relinquished, you will suffer him to be displaced and turned loose on the world with the odious brand of sinecure-pensioner--privileged order--put upon him, as a lazy drone who seeks to live upon the labour of others.
Beveridge condemns the practice of displacing judges after compromising their independence, likening it to a betrayal.
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