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1821 June 8

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'.5. Draughtsman single

In this case, From plurality as opposed to unity, two distinguishable sorts of bad effects (it may have been observed) have been brought to view. The one applies to offices in general; and is composed produced by the want of restraint as applied to ill desert, and the want of encouragement to extra good desert, with a reference to public service taken at large. The other, applies in a more particular matter to the particular function here in question: it consists in the multiplication given to the number of persons prone to the making sacrifice of the universal to sinister & particular interests & prejudices: and thence to the number and extent of those sacrifices:- sacrifices the extent of which, taken in their totality, is when compared with that of the correspondent sacrifices capable of being made in the course of the business of any ordinary office, a infinity to one.