JB/147/421/001

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Feb. 1810
Parly Refm SineCures

§. 3

Unfit to in the character of a fund of Counties, in readiness
t be given applied dealt out to the purpose of affording remuneration and encouragement
to occasional and extraordinary public services, the SineCure
left will be seen to be no less unfit, if considered as applicable.

When a great character is in a high situation –
(I have read your trial Mr Cobbet and learnt how to speak)
in a situation armed with power, money should in large
quantities – it is difficult to say how large – ought
to be added to it.

1. It is necessary for the purpose of preserving to preserve him against being corrupted corruption.

2. It is necessary to for the purpose of enduring him with responsibility
that in the event of his being contrary to all probability
but not to all possibility, corrupted after
all, he may have wherewithal to be squeezed for it.

3. It is necessary for the purpose of enabling him to maintain
his dignity.

4. In particular cases (these I believe are never any other than law
cases)⊞ ⊞ where it finds him
engaged in the exercise of
a lucrative occupation it
is necessary the the purpose
of buying him off from that
occupation for public service, is necessary to buy him off for the service of the public from

Of the validity of these pleas alledged grounds I have at present
neither occasion nor stomach to enquire. Upon
these subjects I should have a good deal to say, if I said
any thing. What belongs to the present purpose case enquiry is that to
which remains of all these purposes money is necessary,
and in what quantity so ever necessary, it must
be money in hand – (as in prospects excuse me
Mr Cobbet for talking Latin it is not any classical Latin)
and that unless it be not only saleable but actually
sold in which case there is no sinecure in the case
but a something else) a sinecure can not yet in
possession can no more answer any of those good purposes
can no more be answered by a sinecure than a picture of so much money in a bag, or
a phantasmagoric view of it, in a word that a
man can no more resist present temptation pay a
present fine or maintain present dignity upon the strength of a csse
a life annuity than he can grow fat make himself
full fat upon a leg of mutton, or merry upon with a contingent bottle
of old port.

Identifier: | JB/147/421/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 147.
Date_1	1810-02	Marginal Summary Numbering	12 or 1 - 14 or 3
Box	147	Main Headings	Sinecures
Folio number	421	Info in main headings field	Sine Cures
Image	001	Titles
Category	Text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	D7 / E1
Penner		Watermarks
Marginals	Jeremy Bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	49646
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