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21 Feb. 1810
Sinecures

True it is that in each of these instances, true
it is that the mischievous tendency indicated which will be seen as belonging
to the sinecure, does not result from it,
in quality of sinecure, i.e. from the circumstance
of their the non-existence of any public service
rendered by the Sinecurist in return for it. Accordingly
although the offices in question were all every one of
them efficient offices, the sort of mischief here in question
would not the less be as of the of the number
of their effects or tendencies. In every instance The cause of the mischief
is in the nature of the service is in the source of the emolument from whence the emolument
flows: is in the nature of the occasion several occasions in
which the emolument finds its source: those occasions
being so the situation of the Sinecurist being such
that as above mentioned it lies within the natural
sphere of his powers to give encrease or continuance
to the multitude number of those occasions.

But it is not with the less propriety that the sort
of mischievous tendency in question is ascribed to the
several sinecures: since if they were respectively abolished,
the mischievous tendency though not compleatly
done away, would proportionally in a degree proportioned to the
amount of the abolished emolument be diminished.

Identifier: | JB/147/140/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 147.
Date_1	1810-02-21	Marginal Summary Numbering	22-23
Box	147	Main Headings	Sinecures
Folio number	140	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	Text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	E14
Penner		Watermarks	TH 1806
Marginals	Jeremy Bentham	Paper Producer	Andre Morellet
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1806
Notes public		ID Number	49365
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