1818 Novr. 24.

Official Establishment

?Ill served Offices

How most effectually to secure in every Office appropriate official

aptitude in its several /three/ branches due regard being all along had to frugality in

respect of pay - such is the problem which on this occasion calls for solution. To the

present design it belongs not to enter upon such details as would be necessary to the

examination of the particular shape requisite to be given to the several services

appertaining to the several departments.

To the present design belong no other rules than those which /such as/

apply with little difference to all the several departments.

To all these several departments be they what they may, applies that all

comprehensive analysis by which the relation to the business of Government appropriate

aptitude is divided into its 3 branches or elements, to wit appropriate probity,

appropriate intellectual aptitude and appropriate active talent.

With a view to the means requisite for securing in adequate proportion

the aggregate of the appropriate aptitudes already we see the aggregate list of Officers

whatsoever be their number and variety divided into two great classes.

The first is composed of those so circumstanced that for the due and

adequate performance of the service respectively belonging to them no extraordinary

personal endowment either in the shape of appropriate active talent or even /so much as/

in the shape of appropriate intellectual aptitude is necessary.

The other is composed of such Officers as by /this or that/ one

circumstance or other are placed in the opposite case.

Be