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61<lb/><lb/>two acts are there. Two Acts both of them to provide<lb/>for one gentleman, a gentleman already provided for<lb/>in a situation always <del>besigged</del> besieged by candidates | 61<lb/><lb/>two acts are there. Two Acts both of them to provide<lb/>for one gentleman, a gentleman already provided for<lb/>in a situation always <del>besigged</del> besieged by candidates:<lb/>an Act to increase his recompense, the other to<lb/>reduce his service.<lb/><lb/>But, Sir, what ground for all this? Is there<lb/>to be no end of all this malice — of all these impu-<lb/>-tations — these uncandid these envenomed insinuations?<lb/><lb/>My Lord, my answer is as distinct as possible.<lb/>Four features —four antecedent features —betray, even of<lb/>themselves the complexion of the business.<lb/><lb/>First the existence of such an abuse —and for<lb/>such a length of time —year after year — under the<lb/>very <hi rend='underline'>noses</hi> — (the term is a coarse one — under the<lb/><hi rend='underline'>eyes</hi> I should have said, had gentlemen chosen to<lb/>have eyes —) of such a pyramid of official personages<lb/>as those whose duty it was to prevent it.<lb/><lb/>Secondly, the neglect —a neglect too indecorous<lb/>to have been manifested without cogent reasons — the<lb/><sic>compleat</sic> neglect shown to the only persons by whom<lb/>the smallest wish to see it remedied had ever been<lb/>manifested.<lb/><lb/>Thirdly, the total absence of all signs of dis-<lb/>-pleasure —as well rewards the persons by whose im-<lb/>-mediate misconduct the mischief had been brought<lb/>about, as towards the perpetually silent and mo-<lb/>-tionless official spectators, by whose connivance it<lb/>had been fostered: —or the contrary — <lb/><lb/>Fourthly, the positive tokens of satisfaction given,<lb/>by resorting to these very patrons & protectors of the abuse | ||
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two acts are there. Two Acts both of them to provide
for one gentleman, a gentleman already provided for
in a situation always besigged besieged by candidates:
an Act to increase his recompense, the other to
reduce his service.
But, Sir, what ground for all this? Is there
to be no end of all this malice — of all these impu-
-tations — these uncandid these envenomed insinuations?
My Lord, my answer is as distinct as possible.
Four features —four antecedent features —betray, even of
themselves the complexion of the business.
First the existence of such an abuse —and for
such a length of time —year after year — under the
very noses — (the term is a coarse one — under the
eyes I should have said, had gentlemen chosen to
have eyes —) of such a pyramid of official personages
as those whose duty it was to prevent it.
Secondly, the neglect —a neglect too indecorous
to have been manifested without cogent reasons — the
compleat neglect shown to the only persons by whom
the smallest wish to see it remedied had ever been
manifested.
Thirdly, the total absence of all signs of dis-
-pleasure —as well rewards the persons by whose im-
-mediate misconduct the mischief had been brought
about, as towards the perpetually silent and mo-
-tionless official spectators, by whose connivance it
had been fostered: —or the contrary —
Fourthly, the positive tokens of satisfaction given,
by resorting to these very patrons & protectors of the abuse
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correspondence |
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d61 / d62 |
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john herbert koe |
1800 |
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1800 |
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letter was never sent; see note 8 to letter 1747, vol. 7, and note 4 to letter 1824, vol. 7 |
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