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7 May 1802
Inessentialia?
Dispensing power

forcing himself once more upon a Master, whose patience
had been worn out by seventeen years of hereditary and Money received for job – none: most certainly
inbred insolence, a partizan whom he had thus as certainly there was not the least occasion for it
bought in secret smallest need of it. Had there been ever
bought should, with the colours of independence
flying upon his countenance upon his stand up and so much, how would the case have been varied by it? move a vote of thanks to him for his pretended the proof rather more simple: but in what respect would
services which any body else in his place, would the mischief have been swelled?
have rendered as well as he?

When a bad measure is forced in this way saddled upon the public country
or a good one lost to it, is it a matter worth
enquiring about, supposing it ascertainable, to which,
among a multitude of concurrent motives – avarice –
ambition – laz indolence loss of ease – personal private
sym affection – private enmity aside and so on
without end – the mischief to which among all those inscrutable causes, exclusively or conjunctively
– if and if conjunctively in what proportions
– the mischief is ought to be ascribed?⊞ ⊞ Is a problem of metaphysics like this worth thinking about in politics? Is gold
the only dress in which corruption cloathes itself? is gold the
only cause of evil to be apprehended from, in a state?

That the late Minister was but a bad Minister
is an opinion I may declare profess to entertain without much danger
of being disbelieved: and sure enough my own inconsiderable
experience is not my only ground for it.
But that he is the only bad Minister, the nation Country
can ever be to need ever fear being afflicted with, or even the
worst – and that too under such an encouragement
for despotism and incapacity as would be
afforded by the amnesty I am contending against,
this surely is too much for any man of tolerable
discernment and candour to contend for – even in my
place. The difficulty would be, to conceive, how how it should possibly happen, that with
such a for both license for between⊞ ⊞ corruption as in Westminster what is supposed, they could ever be men should not be should not growing worse and worse every day worse and worse.

Identifier: | JB/121/359/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 121.
Date_1	1802-05-07	Marginal Summary Numbering	Not numbered
Box	121	Main Headings	Panopticon
Folio number	359	Info in main headings field	Inessentialia? Dispensing power
Image	001	Titles
Category	Text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	"Recto" is not in the list (recto, verso) of allowed values for the "Rectoverso" property.	Page Numbering	D5*
Penner		Watermarks
Marginals	Jeremy Bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	001
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