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8 Feby 1810
Parly Reform Sinecures

While those prominent and numerous features
of mischievousness are, all of them overlooked, others
as if from an anxious though ineffectual desire abortive wish
to find something to object to an institution or rather a practice the
immorality of which is stamped upon it by its
very name, two charges are brought forward against
it, it is made the subject of two charges imputations
Sinecures it is charged with two alledged mischievous features imperfections
of in neither of which the mischievous quality seems
very easy to discover easily discoverable.

"A Pension" (it is said) "is more strictly characteristic
"of its purpose, and therefore more likely to be watched
"in its amount and application."

Here a prominent and really important distinction
is almost covered from observation here a sort of cloak thrown over it. A pension
more likely to be in its amount watched i.e. thence a sinecure less
likely to be watched. Watched? no Less likely
to be watched? No: that is not the correct the plain
account of the grievance. What is known is capable
of being watched: what is not known is not merely
less likely to be watched but absolutely incapable of
being watched. Of a pension what is known in
proportion as any list of pensions is made public, what
is known is that it is a pension its existence, to whom granted, and moreover the
exact amount of it: and on various occasions such
such lists had been called for by Parliament and made public.
of a Sinecure Sinecure Office all the Reports of this Committee were made
public, it was not generally known though from the Red Book it
may perhaps have in general been known that the in the character
of an office it was
in existence, and in
whose hands, yet what
was not known was
what was most material
and without which
knowing everything else
was knowing next to nothing, was the amount of the emolument of it, and that its existence in the character of a Sinecure.

Identifier: | JB/147/453/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 147.
Date_1	1810-02-08	Marginal Summary Numbering	7-8
Box	147	Main Headings	Sinecures
Folio number	453	Info in main headings field	Sinecures
Image	001	Titles
Category	Text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	D3 / E3
Penner		Watermarks	TH 1806
Marginals	Jeremy Bentham	Paper Producer	Andre Morellet
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1806
Notes public		ID Number	49678
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