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2 Feb. 1810
Sinecures

England expects that every man shall do his duty

Lewis the 16th had found himself for the
first time master of the royal palace, he saw a gentleman
who being respectably attired in a Court dress, followed
him from room to room as if he had been his shadow.
"Well, Sir, what is your business here?" – Upon explanation
– what belongs to water closets not being at
that time so well understood it in that country as
as the present time it is in this – it turned out that
the office of that gentleman great character was the reverse of that
of that of the Honorable turnspit, his duty being to give provide egress
to that for to which the turnspit had helped to give assisted in giving ingress.
The duty that he was expected to do or at least was
ready to do, it may be presumed supposed, (though in a country
where honour without money went in those days so much
further than here it can not be averred with certainty)
it may be supposed at least he would not have had to
do for nothing: refornotum ornate relates was an
order he could not but have had the benefit of. This Whatever it was that he was to receive this
greater character, it is plain clear did not consider would not have considered himself
as degraded by receiving the receiving of, even though he had to obtain
it it should have been necessary to him to do his
duty. The Honorable Turnspit, and the Noble Office
Clerk neither did have they consider themselves as degraded
by what by anything good that they received, so it were worth receiving and so
it were understood that they never did nor ever meant to do their duty.

England expects that every man will do his duty
was the order given by the Lord of the hill and of Trafalgar Lord Nelson.
But the mind that could come out with it such a speech
was, it is plain, a narrow one. Under the name of man It could see no men
but fighting men: it knew not recognized not in that character how to extend comprehend withinhow to extend comprehend its grasp to such men as Honorable Turnspits and Noble Office Clerks.

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Date_1	1810-02-02	Marginal Summary Numbering	6-7
Box	147	Main Headings	Sinecures
Folio number	245	Info in main headings field	Sine Cures
Image	001	Titles
Category	Text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	D19 / E3
Penner		Watermarks
Marginals	Jeremy Bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	49470
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