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3 Feb. 1810
Sine Cures

When the Finance Committee of 1797 1798 carried
their eyes into the Exchequer, they found it a nest
of Sine Cures. Of Looking at the Exchequer year, holidays composed they saw the
ground of it composed of holidays: the ground here and there a working day, like
a black dark spot, like the black Monday or and bloody
Tuesday of the Schools, even might be descried in it.

It seemed to A notice obtained in the Committee that in that office work
should be done as well as paid for: a Bill was brought in
and passed that through the House. The persons above took the alarm, A storm gathered in the Upper regime
that a set of Officers who had so long been in possession of the privilege of neglecting
their duty, should be called upon to attend to it?⊞ What every body
felt for was the expression feelings
of those official idlers
meditated
against the those almost official
idlers: what pleaded
in vain for attention
was the public business.
The Doo-littles that
were beneath found a
partaker – a ready and
assured partaker in the
great doer of nothing
that was above: the
people whose past interest
in the matter might
in to some eyes have disappeared
the greater, found
themselves as usual in their usual condition in
the condition of "this poor
time that liable never to help
"time." The
regime House above air resounded with exclamations against the injustice:
and for that one once the a one year was found, and
in that day one year one day, in which the Auditorship
of the Exchequer was not a sine cure.

A change of men took place took place in men, but not in not a change of principles and
practices remained unchanged. What a every Place-man
member always is, the noble Auditor of the Exchequer because
in a sudden under himself, Judge over himself in his own cause. Decorum
conceived started scruples: Precedent found held out procured a remedy. The
Auditorship was presented itself under a double aspect: for
the purpose of receiving the money the emolument it had been feigned
to be an efficient office: for the purpose of not parting
with the emolument, it was acknowledged to be a Sinecure.
This was the first act case this the first act
of the Grenville last and never re-approaching administration. Emolument was preserved: but
something else, by which if preserved, power might peradventure
have also been preserved, was parted with.

Identifier: | JB/147/249/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 147.
Date_1	1810-02-03	Marginal Summary Numbering	4-5
Box	147	Main Headings	Sinecures
Folio number	249	Info in main headings field	Sine Cures
Image	001	Titles
Category	Text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	D22 / E2
Penner		Watermarks
Marginals	Jeremy Bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	49474
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