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that whereas it is
the right of every
person having business
depending before
the Board and believing
himself with
customary respect and
decorum to have access
at all reasonable
hours and as often
as is necessary for the
purpose and for any
length of time as on
each occasion is necessary
to the purpose
to have access to that
<gap/ one of the two Secretaries
who happen
to be stand charged with such
his business —
[+]1 and whereas the said
Secy by his own
spontaneous offer and
proposal and charged
with the settlement
of the Penitentiary Establishment
in respect
of the estate proposed
by him for that purpose.
yet being, in pursuit
of the object of
the conspiracy, engaged
in the measure
of fraud and
oppression above specified —
and being
su on that account
constantly impressed
with a turn of
shame and terror [+]2
[+]2 and having in pursuance
of the resolution
taken by him as
above to the effect if
possible the ruin of
J.B. in mind as
well as fortune
In Long for a course
of years but more
particularly from Dec
1798 to Apr. 1798
when his deceit was
fully brought to light
would as much
as in him lay, the
giving audience to
J.B.
and for the sake of
making such wilful
neglect
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[+]2 and whereas it
is in many cases
impossible in the
nature of the case
that any definitive
measures such
as those which require
the signature and
formal sanction of the
members of the Board
or other superior
authority can be<lb?> properly adjusted
without previous
negotiations and explanations
carried
on with some individual
person
such as the Secretary
of the Board, particularly
as it is
only now and then
and for that the
Board is assembled
— and whereas this
necessity always
existed in a particular
degree in
the of the
present business
as would be seen
by turning to the
statement of the seven
particular businesses
occurring in the
course of it.
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neglect the more
oppressive, and the
sense of it the more intolerable [+]3 [+]3 and for the purpose
and in the hope of
making life a burthen
to him, and thereby
driving him into
some course of desperation
liability and In wilfully
and purposely
forbore so much
as to give on each
day any refusal
of to see him on that
day — but having
notice of his attendance
wilfully
and purposely forbore
either to
see hi or e so
much as to refuse
to see him on
that day, because
such refusal would
put an end for that <gap/. to his
attendance, with the
convenience, anxiety
humiliation and loss of<lb/. time attached to it:
and this notwithstanding
the
of J.B. repeatedly
conveyd to
him in the most
gentle and submissive
manner
and language: and
this although he
will know and
has repeatedly confessed
that through
the whole course of
J.B.'s attendance
on him amounting
then to 7 years
there to never had
been any thing in
the language or deportment
of J.B.
that had ever in
so much as in his
own occasion, offered
him any just
cause for complaint
or censure.
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not only to
make any
any time for the
attendance of J.B.
but when
often as he attended
for the in hope &
for the chance of obtaining
an audience.
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That having that
for such a length of
time perceived in
him an undeclared and
habitual
to ref withhold
from J.B. all
facility and means
of explanation, and
all possibility of
continuing his solicitation
to the purpose
either of accomplishment
or
time of relinquishment
he at length
when the de view of
an danger resulting
from any such explanation
had become intolerably
irksome to be borne
a decided
prohibition upon
all further interviews
with either by letter
or interview.
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honour of the Board
in respect of them
,
and the of
J.B. in respect
of them lessened by
proper explanations
yet even such measures if any as
are justifiable
appeared were left to appear<add> for want
of such explanation
unjustifiable,
and
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that in like manner
and for the like
reasons, when J.B.
for want of re better
accessibility of verbal
explanation, or otherwise
for the sake
of and
pressure from him <lb?> to addressed to
Long letters containing
the objects
of his several
requests or other
communications,
together with the
grounds and reasons
why the same ought
to be complied with,
to exhibit to view
and demonstrate the
propriety and expediency
of complying
with them yet in pursuit of
the object of the conspiracy — and from
the impossibility <add> difficulty of
giving answers without<lb?> sacrificing the<lb?> object of the conspiracy<lb?> or else expressing
himself and
co-conspirators to
and despair
of answers — and the
better more efficiently to express the
subordinate object and by
of the ruin and destruction<lb?> of J.B.
As Long made it<lb?> an habitual and
almost uninterrupted<lb?> practice to take as
whatever of
any such letters:
whereby all facility
of explanation in
any way was effectually
out off and refused: and insomuch
that had there been any measure
which
by proper <gap/.
might have been
suppressed — and the
how
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