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1818 April 15 Annuity Notes Advertisement
Beginning of the Committee of Finance
lingering after his possible
Unnoticed — worthy
the inurbanity — not so any sinister interest in
which it may have had its latent source Of that Comn Finance Committee which had Lord
Colchester for its Chairman Mr Abbot now since Speaker
now Lord Colchester one of the res gestae consisted was
the proposition for consolidating into a common fund
the aggregate mass of the fees received respectively in different departments sections
of the Official Establishment.
Of this proposed arrangement the manifest object
was the doing so much as there seemd any hope of
seeing done towards the reducing the amount of the that
temptation afforded to evil in all so many various imaginable shapes
to into which frail man is led by official profit to the once ruling
few rising in proportion to sin and deliquency on the part
of the promiscuous multitude.
What was thus marked not to be done in the all
the several departments in which the course of the printer
admitted of this check to upon whom was done in some
departments less undone in others
The departments in which it was done or done most promptly were few
and those such few such in which the your temptation and to the
facility it afforded to the abuse bounty premium upon abuse upon misconduct official misconduct wickedness was least efficient:
the departments in which it was and is left undone or done most tardily were those
in which that facility temptation was and is most efficient
Abuse has of course for its holiest sanctions those
seats of highest and most irresponsible power the Ju
Ecclesiastical Establishment and the Judicial do.
In the Ecclesiastical the whole mass of power has been may be seen
improved and transfigured refined subliminated refined and transfigured into abuse. It is the wished for appletree of the Institution
in which the whole stock of the apples have been converted into quince
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