JB/122/179/001

'Click Here To Edit

10 July 1808 + Answer C
Answer
Query 3
(1

Answer to Paragraph intituled Query No 3

Requisition the first [— [2] "He '(the Accountant)' is
"required to account for the reason they" (viz. certain
"of the Invoices) were not received as the other original
"Invoices"]

[Answer.] It was only by a sort of accident
that any of the invoices came into my hands. The
occasion of it was — my disposing selling off the cast iron
in the manner mentioned in my Answer to the
Query No 6. [It was then for the first time that
I made any inquiries or felt any practical reason
for desiring to be information on the subject] It was
on that occasion for the first time, and for that purpose
that it became material to me to be observe such
documents as were t be had in relation to these goods.

I either wrote or sent to my Brother's (General Bentham's) for that purpose.
Personally, if I do not misrecollect I had no conversation with him on the subject:
he was away in In his quality of Inspector General
of his Majesty's Naval works, he was about that time
every now and then out upon journeys: this I believe
was the case at the time in question: and that it
was accordingly in his absence, and from his
wife, that I received the from such papers as a search
instituted made in consequence of which my application had
been able to produce: and this without any verbal communication
on the subject between him her and myself.

But on this subject, the best recollection I can muster
up, is very indistinct and indeterminate. It was only for the
particular purpose above mentioned, that I took any steps for
getting
[+] (the Bills drawn on
me and honoured by
me excepted) for
getting into my possession
the documents in question.
Of any other purpose I had no conception of
any other that purpose
being answered, the whole
business fell out of my
mind. Till that time
thoI had never seen them:
nor so much as
a thought on them, except for on the occasion of my evidence, given to the Finance Committee as above. Being at that time assured of their being in my Brother's
possession, I spoke of them as being in mine. To the purpose
then in question there was no difference.

Identifier: | JB/122/179/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 122.
Date_1	1808-07-10	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	122	Main Headings	Panopticon
Folio number	179	Info in main headings field	Answer C
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	E1
Penner		Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	001
Box Contents