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13 Aug. 1808 Arrangements Suggested III.
13 Aug. 1808 Arrangements Suggested III. Examine Accountants

4 Case of un-reasonable - the truth to the Crimes epistolary is turned over to Inspectors.

In the 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 offered - spontaneously and expressly offered - the offer was not accepted.

Of the quantity of vexation hath to be produced [+] [+] by the exclusion of this most expeditious as well as searching mode of collecting evidence by this such forbearance an example may be 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 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 that head in that belief 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 might increasing attendance would have contained.

Of the vexation that will have been actually produced, the part already included produced 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. As to the offer was there made, as above it amounted to nothing more than an eventual consent; no petition urging 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 setting the times of attendance for the witnesses witnesses in the terms of their affidavits, would have been all that supposing the intercourse with an in the epistoliary mode, would have been necessary. On this supposition then by the acceptance of the offer no vexation, but rather a relief would have been produced.
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