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list, to known zeal in this line of sen service, rank
afforded an additional pledge- an additional recommendation.
When a second set of super intendants were to be
looked out for, sought or unsought it was destined
for Lord Mints & Sir Charles Bunbury: neither Lord Mints
nor Sir Charles Bunbury the office._
Other principles of selection guide Lord Pelham.
Abuse being brought to light by the intruders, busy
bodies, what was to be done. & Ingenuity of one sort is
nor wanting: the answer was neither difficult nor tardy.
What they eye does not see the heart will nor rue.
Put in a sure man & give it him in charge to cover
it up: the pretence for meddling will thus be taken
from all such busy-bodies. Thus, (as Blackstone would
have said) "everything is as it should be." By one &
the same operation abuse obtains concealment; favourites;
Ministers patronage. By a metamorphous
as prompt as it was ingenious, out of
the bitter thus cometh forth sweet. The busy-bodies
thought to have put an end to the abuse: they thought
to have served the public: Good creatures! they are
compleatly taken in- compleatly jockeyed. A new screen
is bought for the abuse and the public pays for it.
Lord Pelham taps the wainscoat as usual for the gentleman
by whom every thing is done: by whom, whether
any thing be or be not thought of or no, any then
every thing at any rate is done. The wainscoat found,
and in comes the gentleman with a friend in his
pocket for the place.
That
Identifier: | JB/116/640/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 116.
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john herbert koe |
1800 |
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1800 |
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letter was never sent; see note 8 to letter 1747, vol. 7, and note 4 to letter 1824, vol. 7 |
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