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17 July 1808 + Charge 2

Charge 2
2. 3. Query 4

4
Sole possible explanation
gross impropriety
of expression

What is possible, indeed, is — that in saying by the words "the Receipt"
what Mr Chief Inspector meant was - not "the receipt" but "a fresh
"acknowledgment:" [+]1 [+]1 viz. the very document,
which, for the information
of the Accountant
it was so necessary
to distinguish, and which
by the Accountant had
in the past, been accordingly been so
carefully and pointedly distinguished
from it But, it is only in for the support of this supposition the grossness of
the impropriety with which, on the other supposition, his
conduct would be marked, re constitutes the only ground: a
gross and most unaccountable impropriety of expression is
the only supposition, by the help of which the imputation of a still more gross
impropriety of conduct can be escaped.| [+]2 At the bottom

5
Conduct of the
Accountant
under the perplexity
thus occasioned —
— truth acknowledgment
produced sent in

As to the Accountant, in In the perplexity into which by a requisition so
worded he was plunged — then what this Accountant
what he did, was — to obtain and produce i.e. send in + + By Letter dated
24 May 1808 — not indeed
the confessedly unob p unproducible document which he had
thus been required to produce, but that which alone
it was in his power to produce; viz. the document which
by his unnoticed statement subjoined to the item in question,
he had eventually offered to produce already made an eventual offer of producing.

6
No answer —
perplexity unremoved

But having so done, done every thing in his power
and what in his own conception, if supposed on the supposition that the receipt would
have been sufficient, about that which is in equal degree
sufficient for the discharge, his perplexity remains as
great as before: nothing has no communication having in the intervening interval been made vouchsafe 15 August 1808.
for any such purpose as that of relieving him from it.——

4 continued

[+]2 Though the word Receipt had in the terms of the C
requisition been employed, yet if the preferred fresh acknowldgment
had been meant, the indefinite article a, if
employed instead of the definite article the, might effect
allowance made for impropriety and might have been accepted understood
as meant to designate the proffered "fresh acknowledgment" But
in
in the present instance
the difference in effect
between a and the
is so marked, and so
little is my critical
acquaintance with the
rules of grammar necessary
to the comprehension of it, that it seems difficult to conceive, how from any the most
illiterate pen it could have been the result of ignorance. By fa any fair and natural construction by the receipt could not be understood any other
document, than that which, for the very purpose of distinguishing it, had been already designated
by the very words the receipt.

Identifier: | JB/122/119/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 122.
Date_1	1808-07-17	Marginal Summary Numbering	4-6
Box	122	Main Headings	Panopticon
Folio number	119	Info in main headings field	Charge 2
Image	001	Titles
Category	Text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	"Recto" is not in the list (recto, verso) of allowed values for the "Rectoverso" property.	Page Numbering	E4
Penner		Watermarks
Marginals	Jeremy Bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	See note 3 to letter 1986, vol. 7	ID Number	001
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