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1826 July 16
Preface to Official Aptitude &c with its Appendages

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Preface to the edition of the Miscellany containing amongst
other articles the Observations on it

I speak it with unfeigned reluctance and with the
most sincere regret, I have not been able to discover
on the part of Mr Peel's conduct taken as a whole
any the slightest closer to see witness the existence of appropriate
aptitude in any of its four shapes on the part of any
person those who fill or are to fill any of the situations the posses
to which it belongs to him placed at his disposal to nominate — any the slightest
desire to abstain from hast responding in haste and applying
to the purpose of corruption the additional inducements recently attached by
him to those situations

On the contrary were it had I occasion to speak
of the course which by a statesman having it in his
situation no other view than that of applying it to the purpose
of gratifying his own instruments, dependants and
favourites under the full knowledge of their being distinguished
from all other persons by their the degree amount of their aptitude
relative inaptitude — in a word of their utter worthlessness, I could
it would be as in my power to point out any course more
favourable that that actually pursued by this individual in the case
in question

Accordingly in offering to his notice the present plan for
the maximizing of official aptitude in every situation
and at the same diminishing in each every such situation
the quantum of official expence, it would be weakness in one
if I regarded as probable his approves of regarding it with approbation
as to the whole or any part of it, more insincerity hypocracy
of, a professed sincerity so to do, satire of a
manner indicative of a wish and expectation to be understood
as meaning the contrary of that which the expression if taken literally would direct

Identifier: | JB/057/283/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 57.
Date_1	1826-07-16	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	057	Main Headings	official aptitude
Folio number	283	Info in main headings field	preface to official aptitude &c with its appendages
Image	001	Titles	[[titles::preface to the edition of the miscellany containing amongst other […?] the observations on it[?]]]
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d1 / e1
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
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Notes public		ID Number	18613
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