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1820 Sept.
Emancipation Spanish

Since my last I have taken down from my shelves a copy I have of a Statement
made by my Brother of the Services rendered by him to Government
in the situation of Inspector General of Naval works, a situation created
for him in 1792 when Earl Spencer was at the head of the
Admiralty. I was going to give you something of his history: but
the principal part of it may be seen in this work of his. Though a
great part of it will be unintelligible to you as well as to me for
want of professional knowledge yet you will find enough in it, or I am much
mistaken, to excite a most lively interest. To the objects of
his pursuit he bears much the same relation as I do to mine.
You will read me in his manner of stating and reasoning: He is
nine years younger than me: our original temperaments are
very different; making allowance for this difference, his mind
was formed by mine. In 1791 he came hither with his on a
furlough, with laurels on his head, earned in the Russian Service
a land officer commanding a flotilla with which he had defeated
a Turkish arsenal composed of a flotilla of twice the force with
three or four ships of the line. His being taken note the English Admiralty
service was produced by a system of Mechanical invention
of which the Pitt, Dundas and other to day leading men Ministers
had been seeing at this house of mine. He brought with him
into the service that stock of Mechanical and Chemical knowledge
of which the work in question shews the fruits. His situation
was intermediate between the Admiralty Board and a Navy
Board. Below him as well as above him was a mass of
no compleat ignorance and inaptitude, as an enemy could
have wished to see there: with the exception of Earl Spencer the
first Lord of the Admiralty by whom he was introduced, and
had just knowledge enough to distinguish my brothers
knowledge from compleat ignorance: all the other Admiralty Lords were
empty headed men of quality, put in to earn their salaries by
their votes in Parliament. The Navy Board was composed of two
sets – the Accountant Set ignorant of every thing without exception
put in under the system of corruption on the same principle as
the others except a Navy Captain or two who understood the commanding
a ship and nothing else: The Operaters Set, consisted of
with no other who had risen from day labourers, with no
other learning or knowledge
than that of a common
House-Carpenter, except
what depended on the difference
between working
on a House and on a
Ship.
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Identifier: | JB/013/072/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 13.
Date_1	1820-09	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	013	Main Headings	emancipation spanish
Folio number	072	Info in main headings field	emancipation spanish
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d5 / e5
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::[fleur de lys] i&m 1818]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	arthur wellesley, duke of wellington
Corrections	john flowerdew colls	Paper Produced in Year	1818
Notes public	letter 2713, vol. 10	ID Number	4521
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