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This
glorious
establishment
had
been
early
in
the
field
,
when
the
one
sublime
principle
involving
the
difficult
art
of
governing
a
country
,
was
first
distinctly
revealed
to
statesmen
.
It
had
been
foremost
to
study
that
bright
revelation
and
to
carry
its
shining
influence
through
the
whole
of
the
official
proceedings
.
Whatever
was
required
to
be
done
,
the
Circumlocution
Office
was
beforehand
with
all
the
public
departments
in
the
art
of
perceiving
—
HOW
NOT
TO
DO
IT
.
Through
this
delicate
perception
,
through
the
tact
with
which
it
invariably
seized
it
,
and
through
the
genius
with
which
it
always
acted
on
it
,
the
Circumlocution
Office
had
risen
to
overtop
all
the
public
departments
;
and
the
public
condition
had
risen
to
be
—
what
it
was
.
It
is
true
that
How
not
to
do
it
was
the
great
study
and
object
of
all
public
departments
and
professional
politicians
all
round
the
Circumlocution
Office
.
It
is
true
that
every
new
premier
and
every
new
government
,
coming
in
because
they
had
upheld
a
certain
thing
as
necessary
to
be
done
,
were
no
sooner
come
in
than
they
applied
their
utmost
faculties
to
discovering
How
not
to
do
it
.
It
is
true
that
from
the
moment
when
a
general
election
was
over
,
every
returned
man
who
had
been
raving
on
hustings
because
it
hadn
’
t
been
done
,
and
who
had
been
asking
the
friends
of
the
honourable
gentleman
in
the
opposite
interest
on
pain
of
impeachment
to
tell
him
why
it
hadn
’
t
been
done
,
and
who
had
been
asserting
that
it
must
be
done
,
and
who
had
been
pledging
himself
that
it
should
be
done
,
began
to
devise
,
How
it
was
not
to
be
done
.
It
is
true
that
the
debates
of
both
Houses
of
Parliament
the
whole
session
through
,
uniformly
tended
to
the
protracted
deliberation
,
How
not
to
do
it
.
It
is
true
that
the
royal
speech
at
the
opening
of
such
session
virtually
said
,
My
lords
and
gentlemen
,
you
have
a
considerable
stroke
of
work
to
do
,
and
you
will
please
to
retire
to
your
respective
chambers
,
and
discuss
,
How
not
to
do
it
.
It
is
true
that
the
royal
speech
,
at
the
close
of
such
session
,
virtually
said
,
My
lords
and
gentlemen
,
you
have
through
several
laborious
months
been
considering
with
great
loyalty
and
patriotism
,
How
not
to
do
it
,
and
you
have
found
out
;
and
with
the
blessing
of
Providence
upon
the
harvest
(
natural
,
not
political
)
,
I
now
dismiss
you
.
All
this
is
true
,
but
the
Circumlocution
Office
went
beyond
it
.
Because
the
Circumlocution
Office
went
on
mechanically
,
every
day
,
keeping
this
wonderful
,
all
-
sufficient
wheel
of
statesmanship
,
How
not
to
do
it
,
in
motion
.
Because
the
Circumlocution
Office
was
down
upon
any
ill
-
advised
public
servant
who
was
going
to
do
it
,
or
who
appeared
to
be
by
any
surprising
accident
in
remote
danger
of
doing
it
,
with
a
minute
,
and
a
memorandum
,
and
a
letter
of
instructions
that
extinguished
him
.
It
was
this
spirit
of
national
efficiency
in
the
Circumlocution
Office
that
had
gradually
led
to
its
having
something
to
do
with
everything
.
Mechanicians
,
natural
philosophers
,
soldiers
,
sailors
,
petitioners
,
memorialists
,
people
with
grievances
,
people
who
wanted
to
prevent
grievances
,
people
who
wanted
to
redress
grievances
,
jobbing
people
,
jobbed
people
,
people
who
couldn
’
t
get
rewarded
for
merit
,
and
people
who
couldn
’
t
get
punished
for
demerit
,
were
all
indiscriminately
tucked
up
under
the
foolscap
paper
of
the
Circumlocution
Office
.
Numbers
of
people
were
lost
in
the
Circumlocution
Office
.
Unfortunates
with
wrongs
,
or
with
projects
for
the
general
welfare
(
and
they
had
better
have
had
wrongs
at
first
,
than
have
taken
that
bitter
English
recipe
for
certainly
getting
them
)
,
who
in
slow
lapse
of
time
and
agony
had
passed
safely
through
other
public
departments
;
who
,
according
to
rule
,
had
been
bullied
in
this
,
over
-
reached
by
that
,
and
evaded
by
the
other
;
got
referred
at
last
to
the
Circumlocution
Office
,
and
never
reappeared
in
the
light
of
day
.
Boards
sat
upon
them
,
secretaries
minuted
upon
them
,
commissioners
gabbled
about
them
,
clerks
registered
,
entered
,
checked
,
and
ticked
them
off
,
and
they
melted
away
.
In
short
,
all
the
business
of
the
country
went
through
the
Circumlocution
Office
,
except
the
business
that
never
came
out
of
it
;
and
its
name
was
Legion
.
Sometimes
,
angry
spirits
attacked
the
Circumlocution
Office
.
Sometimes
,
parliamentary
questions
were
asked
about
it
,
and
even
parliamentary
motions
made
or
threatened
about
it
by
demagogues
so
low
and
ignorant
as
to
hold
that
the
real
recipe
of
government
was
,
How
to
do
it
.
Then
would
the
noble
lord
,
or
right
honourable
gentleman
,
in
whose
department
it
was
to
defend
the
Circumlocution
Office
,
put
an
orange
in
his
pocket
,
and
make
a
regular
field
-
day
of
the
occasion
.
Then
would
he
come
down
to
that
house
with
a
slap
upon
the
table
,
and
meet
the
honourable
gentleman
foot
to
foot
.
Then
would
he
be
there
to
tell
that
honourable
gentleman
that
the
Circumlocution
Office
not
only
was
blameless
in
this
matter
,
but
was
commendable
in
this
matter
,
was
extollable
to
the
skies
in
this
matter
.
Then
would
he
be
there
to
tell
that
honourable
gentleman
that
,
although
the
Circumlocution
Office
was
invariably
right
and
wholly
right
,
it
never
was
so
right
as
in
this
matter
.
Then
would
he
be
there
to
tell
that
honourable
gentleman
that
it
would
have
been
more
to
his
honour
,
more
to
his
credit
,
more
to
his
good
taste
,
more
to
his
good
sense
,
more
to
half
the
dictionary
of
commonplaces
,
if
he
had
left
the
Circumlocution
Office
alone
,
and
never
approached
this
matter
.
Then
would
he
keep
one
eye
upon
a
coach
or
crammer
from
the
Circumlocution
Office
sitting
below
the
bar
,
and
smash
the
honourable
gentleman
with
the
Circumlocution
Office
account
of
this
matter
.
And
although
one
of
two
things
always
happened
;
namely
,
either
that
the
Circumlocution
Office
had
nothing
to
say
and
said
it
,
or
that
it
had
something
to
say
of
which
the
noble
lord
,
or
right
honourable
gentleman
,
blundered
one
half
and
forgot
the
other
;
the
Circumlocution
Office
was
always
voted
immaculate
by
an
accommodating
majority
.
Such
a
nursery
of
statesmen
had
the
Department
become
in
virtue
of
a
long
career
of
this
nature
,
that
several
solemn
lords
had
attained
the
reputation
of
being
quite
unearthly
prodigies
of
business
,
solely
from
having
practised
,
How
not
to
do
it
,
as
the
head
of
the
Circumlocution
Office
.
As
to
the
minor
priests
and
acolytes
of
that
temple
,
the
result
of
all
this
was
that
they
stood
divided
into
two
classes
,
and
,
down
to
the
junior
messenger
,
either
believed
in
the
Circumlocution
Office
as
a
heaven
-
born
institution
that
had
an
absolute
right
to
do
whatever
it
liked
;
or
took
refuge
in
total
infidelity
,
and
considered
it
a
flagrant
nuisance
.
The
Barnacle
family
had
for
some
time
helped
to
administer
the
Circumlocution
Office
.
The
Tite
Barnacle
Branch
,
indeed
,
considered
themselves
in
a
general
way
as
having
vested
rights
in
that
direction
,
and
took
it
ill
if
any
other
family
had
much
to
say
to
it
.
The
Barnacles
were
a
very
high
family
,
and
a
very
large
family
.
They
were
dispersed
all
over
the
public
offices
,
and
held
all
sorts
of
public
places
.
