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16 Augt 1808
J.B. to Mallett for Audit BoardV. Irresponsibility
Present case
18 — 1,
III Supposed untrustworthiness
of the Board in the
state of darkness above
indicated.
19 — 2
Exemplification in the
present instance — Unreserved
confidence placed
in the Board by the
Accountt at the outset
Proof
1 Original Vouchers
not preserved —
2 Examination tendered
3. Shape of the evidence
referred to the pleasure
of ye Board. p.12
20 — 3
Abatements produced
in that confidence, their
causes —
1. Transference of the
business from Somerset
to Commrs unknown
said to sit at ye Adelphi.
p.13
21 — 4
Vexation inflicted by ye
acquisitions of Ch. Inspr
Whitcomb. p.13
22 — 5
Of the application for
relief made to these
unknown persons no
notice taken but a
peremptory order requiring
a full & compleat
answer. p.14
23 — 6
The Judges being anonymous
and invisible
& sent the proceedings
ascribed to them, cessation
of ye confidence was
a necessary consequence.
p. 14*
24 — 7
Consequent suspicion
that no Commrs on such
occasions really take cognizance.
but that ye complaints
agt a subordinate Officer
receive no answer but
from ye officer complained of
V. Irresponsibility
Present Ca
Impropriety of
25 — 8
On the part of the
Great Judges, ye habit
of setting their names
to papers never considd
by them has ye sanction
of old established practice.
p.15
26 — 9
This function extends
not to the recently
established Audit Board
Fictions will in their
instance receive their
coarse & merited name
p.16
Present Case
27 — 10
Mechanical practice
here respected — ( The
Letter, (tho' Inspector
complained of in it)
transmitted to him
of course, for him to
act in consequence
the minds of ye Commrs
never having been applied
to it. p.17
28— 11
Cause of ye cessation
of J.B.'s confidence in
the Board — finding it
composed of invisible
& anonymous Judges
29 — 12
A state of anonymousness
& invisibility is
congenial to incendiaries
&c — not to
Judges. p.19
30 —13
The Constitution knows
no such Judges —
Westmr Hall affords
none such. p.19
31 — 14
The anonymousness
& invisibility having ye
effect of diminishing
individual responsibility;
has thus been the
cause of taking such a
liberty as to give their
sanction to proceedings
to which their minds
have never been applied.
p. 20
V. Irresponsibility
Present case
32 — 15
It is by the observance
of this irresponsibility
that J.B.'s distrust
as above, has been
produced. p.21
33 — 16
The consideration of the
anonymousness and
invisibility, & thence
of ye irresponsibility
is that which has
occasioned J.B. to step
so far out of the ordinary
course as to address
ye Board at large in
its chief seat. p.22
34 — 17
The visibility & thence
the apparent responsibility
of ye subordinate (Ch
Inspector) did not seem
sufficient to produce
efficient responsibility
any where, while his
immediate superiors
to whom alone any
complaint could regularly
be made were
this irresponsible.
35 — 18
But for this expedient
of addressing ye Board at
large, the chance of
justice would in these
circumstances have
appeared too small to
warrant J.B. in putting
himself to the trouble
of making ye complaint.
p.24
36 — 19.
The individuals being
so compleatly unknown
J.B. had on this occasion
nothing to judge
from but the general
principles of human
nature
37 — 20
By that criterion under
the circumstances of the
case, ye chance of justice
depended upon the disposition
of ye Board towards the
officer complained of —
viz. whether favourable
or unfavourable. p.25.
In a Board there can not
be such perfect inaction as
in an individual
1. Giving public more wishes
to be arbitrary. free from all
check or restraint: restraint
principle
2 Checks are 1 Punishment
2 Shame
3. Check of shame is applied
by appropriation of
relative publicity.
4. No one can be exposed to
it, unless any further than the act and the
part he bears in it is
known.
5. Punishment can not
be applied without prosecutors:
and as proportionate prosecution
is improbable, as is
punishment.
Series, shame
Publicity gives efficacy
not only to shame but to
punishment, viz. by
the number of possible
complainers thence
the probability of complaint.
(5)
Mode and Means of Impublicity
Board a
as expressions like
Land & Church is productive
of awe and respect
endure because independent
of good behaviours
relative Impublicity is necessary
in some cases:
but never defensible but
for special reasons: nor
then, but in im temporary
causes when as seen the ground for
concealment ceases
Uses of official publicity
to the public: 1. printing
or exposing moral misconducts excluding
intellectual incapacity.
(3)
Uses of impublicity
1. To incumbents
2. To patrons, enabling them
to provide for incapable
as well as capable
(4)
No more criticism of
public probity, than the
fondness or aversion to
responsibility and publicity
its cause.
(2)
II Modes of publicity
1 Oral
2. Words
6
The responsibility is diminished,
by in mere multiplicity of seats at the shroud: therefore as responsibility is more compleat but where it comes under the name of individual responsibility.
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