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13 Aug. 1808
Arrangements Suggested
4 III. Examine Accountants
Cause of non-examination — saving the truth to the Curiaes
epistolary is turned over to Inspectors.
On the individual occasion of the individual Account
which gave rise to these suggestions, through submission
to this most searching as well as expeditious mode of scrutiny was
was offered — spontaneously and expressly offered — the offer was not accepted.
Of the quantity of vexation hath to be produced [+] [+] by the exclusion of
put upon this most
expeditious as well as
searching mode of
collecting evidence
by this such forbearance, an idea example may be formed from seen in the
quantity actually produced in this same individual
case.
Of the necessary communications withholden, as well
as the irrelevent and on other accounts mindless questions
put, and other requisitions made, a d statement may be
seen in the paper of Charges to which they have
given birth. By a personal attendance and examination,
had the offer on to that effect/in that belief head been accepted, all these
sources of vexation could have been dried up at once.
The vexation which in that case would have been no more
those which a single morning's attendance would have contained.
As to Of the vexation that will have been actually produced, the part already incurred produced
has at different times incurred, reckoning the incidents arising out of it
has been sufficient to fill up the space of considerably more than a
month.
When As to the offer was there made, as above it amounted to nothing was no more than
an eventual consent; not being accompanied no petition urging the acceptance,
being coupled with it. In fact I had no wish to see it accepted:
my wishes being rather on the opposite side. Why? —
because my object was to save as much as possible of
time designed for other uses. What I took for granted
was — that the unexceptionable evidence of extraneous witnesses,
and that delivered in its best shape, would have received
if not the same preference, at any rate the same acceptance
in this as in the higher judicatories: in which case, the
sources of this evidence having been already indicated by me in the first
instance, viz. upon the face of the Account, a few lines from
me, for the purpose of settling the times of the attendance for the witnesses
witnesses in the terms of
their affidavits, would
have been all that
supposing the intercourse
with one carried on
in the epistolary mode, would have been necessary. On this supposition then by the true acceptance of the offer no vexation, but rather a relief would have been produced.
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