JB/108/135/001

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1828. Apl. 13.

This considered, Mr. Bentham, I am
persuaded, can not, without concern and
anxiety, look upon some of the retrenchments
made on projected by the Dutie of Mulchington:
in particular, dismissal of lower paid
clerks, and without adopting in this respect
the principle so laudably established by the
Bank of England: punishment where there
is guilt, yes: but, no retrenchment having
the effect of punishment, where guilt is no
shape is so much as imputed. If what has been
reported on this subject be true, it is not among the
singularities of the present time that while, for the
preservation of what in his eyes is good order a theorist,
a radical, not to say a republican, is thus testifying
the most anxious regard for the feelings of individuals,
not recognizing, under the name of reform, any
change they are not adequately provided for, a tory, not
to say an absolutist, in prosecution of what in vocabulary his eyes
is reform, cuts and slashes, to the right and left, cutting
off men's subsistence and driving them into the Poor House,
regarding as saved to the public, every thing at which the
possessors have been stripped. No confiscation or even
partial taxation would Mr. Bentham see any instance
of, if he could help it. But if it must at any rate
be begun, it is at the top of the scale of office that he
would see it begun, not the bottom.

Identifier: | JB/108/135/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 108.
Date_1	1828-04-13	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	108	Main Headings
Folio number	135	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	1
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Penner	john flowerdew colls	Watermarks
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Notes public		ID Number	35638
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