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31 Jany 1810
Parly Reform Sinecures

Propose that a Sinecurist should a or a note to a Vulgar of crimes
to any one who has subscribed in , agreed a
writ &c. Would a Note – a to each as

This is one objection which I am almost afraid ashamed
to mention lest for want of the proper distinctions I should be thought to reflect or in the same
is in , most received to the of the highest as well as in many more of the another accounts most respectable situations on all Bishops
Priests and Deacons – the numbers of both and
themselves – or the Merchant in this great commercial city the Judges of the land – in all
Juries Common and Special and all Directors of such Juries
all Counsel learned to the law in all who have ever subscribed an article or a volume of latin Statutes – signed a writ
a judgment rule or order joined in the of a common recovery or levying a fine
signed a motion of cause an motion or a bill in Equity,⊞ ⊞ pleaded argued for it when they knew B to be in the right joined
in a verdict they thought not true, valued a handful of quinces
at nine and thirty shillings, recommended or commended
such valuation from a bench, swallowed or drawn up made up
for swallowing a custom house oath and so forth.

It consists (I mean my objection), in the insincerity involved on both sides of
in the transaction, involved in it on both sides: that of the
patron and that of the incumbent immediate or contingent.

Quoth the Patron, appointing you to this the discharge of this public trust
I am assured of two things: 1. that you will discharge it
and that, being fit for it, you will discharge it as it ought to be discharged.
Quoth the nominee, in accepting of this trust, I promise
two things: that I will discharge it, and that being conceiving myself fit for
discharge of it I will discharge it as it ought to be discharged.
On neither side it is true nor any such assurances expressed
in words: but in on both sides are they not as
clearly expressed in the very nature of the case – Suppose
the facts in either case the reverse of the facts so supposed
to be asserted to be true: would it then in the creation of the
office could so much as a single syllable have been found to say
in defence of it? If at its first so much as
a single office could have been instituted at the expence of the people without duty ought
not their whole substance
have been granted away
in offices upon the same
principle?

Identifier: | JB/147/233/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 147.
Date_1	1810-01-31	Marginal Summary Numbering	1-3
Box	147	Main Headings	Sinecures
Folio number	233	Info in main headings field	Sine Cures
Image	001	Titles
Category	Text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	C1 / E1
Penner		Watermarks
Marginals	Jeremy Bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	49458
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