18 June 1811

Parl. Reform

On S.C. N o 3

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Exactly opposite is the interest of S.C.’s “658 men of the first character and consequence (with a very few exceptions) in the country, or at any rate what comes to the same thing of the only part of them /those /all/ among them/ who can find motive for that constancy of /any adequate degree of constancy in/ attendance on which the general result depends.

It is their interest that, to the utmost amount that the people will endure, pensions without public service, pensions for […?] mischief to the public for service done to men in power at the expence and to the injury of the public should continually be bestowed, sinecures that to the utmost possible /endurable/ amount in respect of the numbers as well as quantity of emolument attached to each, sincerity[?], unless places and overpaid places should be preserved /created/ and upon every favourable occasion created - that as well in the shape of money as in every other shape, benefits at the expence of the people should be heaped up upon those whose study it is by well-applied obsequiousness to render themselves useful and /or agreable to men in power:

and that to this end waste not only of honours, dignities and so forth but of public money should continually have place to the utmost amount that the people can be brought to endure, and above all, as being that source of waste in comparison of which all others put together was as nothing, that unnecessary, ever unnecessary either if not from its very commencement, as to its continuance be {and frequently as possible} kindled, and as long as possible kept up.