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15 March 1810
Sinecures

In No 81 England are contained articles 263.
For the first 22 21 of those articles the order of the alphabet
is the order pursued. But after these 22 it occurrs to
the at the 21st article which is thus worded .. viz. Comptroller of Army Accounts
the framer of this Index becomes tired of the order of the
alphabet. Accordingly the article which occupies the 22d
place is "Lord Chamberlain's Office". This it ought
be supposed would be an adherence Nay (but says
somebody) this would be still in alphabetical order were
it not that before the word Chamberlain you have the
word Lord. No say I – for throw out the word Lord
you have the word Chamberlain, the place of which would
in alphabetical order be not the 22d but the 18th.

After this short excursion, Courts of Justice beginning
with Letter C, bring him back to it again.
Whereupon But the words Courts of Justice instead of
forming an article which as such in the order of the alphabet would have
been entitled to its place in the next after
Comptroller of Army Accounts he evicts it into makes out of it a sort of
subtitle printed in capitals, and in the middle of the column
out of the line of the articles.

Under this Sub title comes immediately after the word
Chancery: but this too stands out of the line of articles, viz.
to the left hand, nearer to Column 1. Arrived at In the latitude of the
Court of Chancery, order gives way to dignity, all the
idea of any other order that that what which which is suggested by dignity
and the respect which it dignity commands is driven away
by the "Lord High Chancellor by whose Official title finds
it a place in article 23.

Identifier: | JB/147/279/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 147.
Date_1	1810-03-15	Marginal Summary Numbering	5-6
Box	147	Main Headings	Sinecures
Folio number	279	Info in main headings field	Sinecures
Image	001	Titles
Category	Text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	D5 / E2
Penner		Watermarks
Marginals	Jeremy Bentham	Paper Producer
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Notes public		ID Number	49504
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