JB/147/455/001

Click Here To Edit

9 Feb. 1810
Parly Reform Sinecures

It must be par viz equally in both cases.

whereas in the case of a Sinecure Office, it not being known
except to a very few that nothing was done for it,
not except to still fewer what nor what is still more material perhaps not more
than one, what the emolument was is that is reaped
from it, the restrictive consideration which as abovementioned, apply to
the case of the pension, would if applied to this case
lose the greatest part if not the whole, of their force
intrinsic difference. In this respect between sinecure and pension sinecure whose was the Held by a Member in his own name and⊞ ⊞ for his own life
Sinecure could not
be any more than
pension: secrely
held for his benefit
by another person,
though for the life of
that other person, and
not for his, if pension was capable of
being, so was sinecure.

But one more whatever were be the true state of the
case, why not lay it before the public plainly in its common
and simple colours and clearly, as above? why stands it over there
and varnish it?

At bottom the only circumstance I can find
that seems likely to make in this respect any here in question any the difference to render
I i.e. to render the sinecures in general permanently (I mean
more better adapted upon the whole than pensions to the purpose of waste and corruption,
is – that among sinecures there are many
of which the emolument is so enormous, that under
the name of pension, and without the pretence of concomitant
official service, the public would not endure they would not be found undesirable
(it was apprehended) be found undesirable.

But the patience of the public as such
surpasses its the utmost expectations hopes that could reasonably
be entertained of it, is as undefatigable as the
utmost exertions of those who take it for the subject of
their experiments. From the face of Waste and Corruption
the veil mask has been torn off removed and still Sinecures are
in existence – and still they continue to be applied to their very utmost use.

Identifier: | JB/147/455/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 147.
Date_1	1810-02-09	Marginal Summary Numbering	11-12
Box	147	Main Headings	Sinecures
Folio number	455	Info in main headings field	Sinecures
Image	001	Titles
Category	Text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	D5 / E5
Penner		Watermarks
Marginals	Jeremy Bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	49680
Box Contents