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20 Feb. 1810
Sinecures

At any rate what is certain is that a promise
of an annuity to the amount in question can
never be anything more so good for more good purpose to an equivalent for the
annuity itself. The annuity itself is what the pension
fund can afford at all times, the promise is what
setting aside grants in reversion, the promise is all
that, except now and then by a rare accident, the Sinecure
fund can afford.

Then for consideration the reversion of an annuity sinecure: and this is the expedient to which if there
were had been no such thing as a pension fund – nothing but
a Sinecure fund – government would have been driven.
And For this same expedient, as is but too well known common
and to the degree which is but too common well known government has been driven or has driven itself, notwithstanding
the pension fund and the boundlessness
of its extent.

But of a sinecure in possession reversion to any amount the value upon
an average is scarce so much as a sixth part
of that of a sinecure in possession to the same amount.
So if the newspaper report be accurate we have from an
Honourable Gentleman a Member of the House of Commons
from on whose accuracy correctness may the highest firmest
reliance may be placed on all occasions, and in particular
on an occasion of this sort in which accuracy correctness
depends on calculations.

( ) Mr Henry Thornton. In Commons Debate 31t Jany1810
in Times newspaper 1 Feb.

Identifier: | JB/147/130/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 147.
Date_1	1810-02-20	Marginal Summary Numbering	5-6
Box	147	Main Headings	Sinecures
Folio number	130	Info in main headings field	Sinecures
Image	001	Titles
Category	Text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	E4
Penner		Watermarks
Marginals	Jeremy Bentham	Paper Producer
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Notes public		ID Number	49355
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