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6 Jany 1803 Letter 3 (2 XVII Hulks
you are May be sure of him: to demonstration he has all the fitness that can
be given by good will, as well as he has all the fitness that
can be given by experience: practice: [+] [+] he has all the fitness
that can be given by
affection for the duties.
For a plan which has
both sweets and duties, the affection of a candidate
may be either for the sweets or for the duties: for one a
which plan has nothing but duties, it can be for nothing
but the duties.
With what hope could any such proposition be
made to Lord Pelham? — What he wants, is —
a gentleman who will pocket the pay: what he does
not want — what he will not look for — what
he will not so much as bear to look at — to speak
to, or to think of, is — a gentleman whose affection
is for the duties. What Lord Pelham he wants is — whatever the
gentleman on the other side the wainscot wants. What
the gentleman on the other side the wainscot is —
let experience speak it —
In the first place, salary for the accommodation of his
friends: witness the hyper-saccharated — Police — Magistrate
— pensions Salary — and upon that that the Inspectorship of the
Hulks.
In the next place, to save in addition to such salary exemptions for those friends from the fatigue
of earning it: witness the conversion of that same office
— the conversion of it all in in its present state — at
the very instant of its creation — into a sinecure.
In the third place, permanence for the abuse, the very abuse which
the sinecure, by the terms of its creation was to have
put an end to: especially of pestilence, famine, and
mortality form a part of it. Witness the keeping on the mortality
in
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