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Memorial.

Sippio answer'd a specific charge of peculation with a
general

28.
There is one celebrated remarkable instance indeed upon record,
of a man who in high office who found his account in answering a specific charge
of mal-administration, not with utter absolute
indeed, but with what is next to it, a general
allegation mention of past services. This man was Scipio.
But the Scipios are not numerous in any age: certainly
not in ours: nor were they in fact ever so numerous
would it be believed they were so. [they be believed to be so.] What is more
it is not to be wished that defence of such as can be called a conduct like Scipios
in the instance of in question, should even in men
of equal virtue meet with the success that his did. All circumstances
considered it is by no means so clear
to us at this time of day that the charge upon
Scipio had no foundation as it was then to the mainstream majority of the Roman populace. Were
a modern Paymaster to be charged with peculation,
it would be looked upon as a mark proof rather
less equivocal of his innocence to publish his accounts
than (as Scipio did) to burn them. One may perhaps go
farther: it would perhaps not only thought, but it
would really be so: say tho' that Paymaster were
a Selby and or a Clarendon. Suppose a man exempt
from the frailties of human nature, you
may take his word for his integrity: but it is a conduct full
a natural and much more satisfactory when a
man is conscious of his integrity, to make public
those documents that might serve for as tests
of it, than to hide them. To acquiesce in a man's
embracing the former latter line of conduct rather than the former,
however

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	17-28
Box	149	Main Headings
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