★ Keep up to date with the latest news - subscribe to the Transcribe Bentham newsletter; Find a new page to transcribe in our list of Untranscribed Manuscripts
1. Pensions of on Retreat. This class of pensions this
mode head of national expenditure is greatly as boundless
as it is unnecessary: it is a double source of prodigality:
on the part of the officer, and on the part of the
state. Invited by the Secure appearance of being provided for
he ought to do during the continuance of his service.
The provision thus assured to him holds out to him
a perpetual temptation premium for serving negligently and
badly. While he keeps clear of that species and
degree of demerit ill desert that would expose him to positive
censure, every other species or degree contributes
but to accelerate his retreat. The more inconvenience
his murmurs his ill-behaviour gives birth
to, the more inconvenience of every any kind it is productive
of to those who are at the head of the department,
the more important necessary it becomes to get
rid of him in order to find him a successor that
shall behave better.
Identifier: | JB/009/045/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 9.
|
|||
---|---|---|---|
not numbered |
|||
009 |
|||
045 |
|||
001 |
|||
correspondence |
4 |
||
recto |
d1 / d2 / d3 / d4 |
||
jeremy bentham |
[[watermarks::l munn [britannia with shield emblem]]] |
||
benjamin constant |
|||
see note to letter 680, vol. 4 |
3346 |
||