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6 Aug. 1808 16 To 16 But in copying
6 Aug. 1808 16 To 16

But in copying on an occasion like the present the evil habit that has

obtained among the members of 26. 9 This extent led to

the recently established Audit Board.

will in this instance receive their crass and

name. the old established judicatories, the members of this

or any other such judicatory, with I am apt to think find

themselves to have miscalculated, if their they have acted

in

conduct has been grounded in the expectation of the same

indulgence. Set the engine of it a few hundred years back, the abuse,

how pernicious so ever, becomes itself a standard a standard

and of right and wrong:

and by which they are tried and the indignation which if

rightly properly printed would have pointed itself against the

authors of the abuse, is now reserved for the audiences hand that should

to point out a remedy.

Unless therefore it can be shown that the

Board of Commissioners who their existence always

supposing supposed as before them to exist

and have migrated from the office at

Somerset place to an Office at the Adelphi have at no office found,

or a state of migrations and in readiness for

their use the second royal mint in which in the great Hall

of Westminster have been coined in so illustrious an abundance,

any unauthorized imitations of the nature in question will instead of

the much name of be in danger

of finding themselves saluted at the best by the name of untruths, and from

course lips mouths by a much harsher name.
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