JB/147/318/001

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March 1810
Sinecures

What? is it your is this their meaning than viz. that the answer
given to a Committee of Finance is always false?
not I indeed: all I mean is – and surely this is
enough – is that its being true or false is matter
of accident – that it depends upon circumstances: and
that in no instance is there any adequate security
for its being true – meaning always by true, not only
correct as far as it goes correct, but compleat likewise.
In this or that case, it may be that the amount of the
emolument is already public: or what comes is the same
by means of documents easily accessible liable to be made at any
time to become public, may naturally be expected so to
be. In this case – this what is natural is the either
that there shall be no suppression at all, or none but
what might easily be supposed to be the result of unintentional
denial.

Another case that may without much impossibility
find its exemplification is – that the result expected
from the investigation is suppression abolition of the Office, and
consequently all compensation to the office persons interested.
In this case, if any defalcation from the
of the gross receipt there is no danger: the
what danger there is, is on the opposite side: viz. an exaggeration
in any estimate that may come to be
presented, of the amount of the drawbacks.

Thus then stands the matter under the existing order of
things. In the first place Great uncertainty whether any account will be given in
all: and if an where an account be is given in, great uncertainty to whether
and how far it may be depended upon: what degree of confidence
can be with reason be
bestowed upon it.

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Date_1	1810-03	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	147	Main Headings	Sinecures
Folio number	318	Info in main headings field	Sinecures
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