1 April 1817

Plan Cat

2 o Note?

Introd

§ Exclusion of Placemen

1

Omitt in præsente?

Note (a)

In a measure of t’other day, reader behold an exemplification and use of the

Judico-teipsum principle

In the section on secrecy of suffrage you have been seeing

how a sham ballot was prevented, and the practice cast into the gulph of everlasting

infamy by the well applied foot of M r Brougham. That form of

imposture being thus spoilt for use, comes instead of it a Committee filled by a

choice avowedly ministerial – a Committee of finance for the declared purpose of

making defalcation from the mass waste as practiced in the field /temple/ of official

emolument, and in particular in that polished corner of it which is occupied by

Sinecures.

Of the Committee thus appointed will any and what retrenchment be the fruit? Who can

tell? as yet, probably not even the contriver of it: on each ensuing day it will

depend upon the existing circumstances. For the amusement of the public of hopes and

that even in a specific shape have already been held out: a mark for abolition has

been set upon this and that and that other office in the character of a sinecure.