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1 March 1810
Sinecures

I say what is professed purports to be afforded. For besides not content with being
uninsructive matter the information thus given, would if credited
be delusive. What in every instance is professed to be
reported is the gross amount: of which term gross some
explanation might not altogether unreasonably have been expected.
But what in some instances is reported is the neat
the clear amount: at any rate the amount clear of all deductions
unless land tax and property tax be to be excepted.
In this predicament for example stand the Auditorship
of the Exchequer £4,000 a year: also the two unreduced
Tellerships £2,700 a year each. But in this same
predicament can not stand the either of the two unreduced
Tellerships: viz. Earl Camden's the Marquis of Buckingham's of £23,093 and Earl
Camden's of £23,117: for in each instance
in neither Column is inserted an intimation in these words
viz. Deputy and Clerks paid out of it.

In it may perhaps be said no delusion here: for here,
according to your own showing, the misconception is obviated
and prevented. In Column 3 the amount is stated
to be gross: i.e. subject to deductions, and in Column 2
in a line with the sum inserted in Col. 3, a statement is
given from what sources those deductions are derived.
Of the 93 articles contained in this No are is those any for
example any one in the instance of which from the sum reported in the
Column of sums a deduction is made of which no intimation
is given in the other column which stands next close to it? If yes, then
here we have a misrepresentation to the prejudice of the holder
of the Sinecure thus to which a value greater than its real value
is thus ascribed. Whether in any one instance of any, this is be the
case is more than I can pretend to say, more than the information
thus presented will upon the fact of it warrant any man in saying.
But upon that subject
some light may perhaps be thrown
by the information presented by the committee of 1797.

Identifier: | JB/147/349/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 147.
Date_1	1810-03-01	Marginal Summary Numbering	1-2
Box	147	Main Headings	Sinecures
Folio number	349	Info in main headings field	Sinecures
Image	001	Titles
Category	Text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	C3 / E4
Penner		Watermarks
Marginals	Jeremy Bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	49574
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