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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:<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 | 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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john herbert koe |
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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