J.B. to Walter Audit office Correspondence

2 S. P. 24 May 1808

Sir

I write this in answer to Your Letter of the 24 th

last just received. Enclosed

with this Letter were sent 1 — Booths ltr to

J.B. 2. White's Rec t

3. Whitcombs queries & observations on J.B.'s

accts.

I have to express my acknowledgements to the Board for

their indulgence: and at the same time to account for having thus long

trespassed on it.

The delay has not had for its cause any the slightest apprehension of

failure of proof in respect of any one aspect

of the articles of which my discharge is composed: amounting to a sum

be it remembered,

little less than twice the amount of the charge.

The evidence which I should have recourse to in the last

resort it a species of evidence which I trust the

Board would not, and which I am certain no Court of Justice before

which I could be called, would or could refuse: viz.

delivered upon oath delivered

upon (or by the affidavit of the Board

not for

thought fit) delivered either by persons to whom, or by

persons by whom the respective sums were paid, or by both:

this together with my own examination if required, in answer

to whatever relevant questions either have been or every

to have been put to me.

The sole cause of my not having sent in

full answers to the several questions and observations soon after

they were required made to me by the paper

framed by M r Chief Inspector, was the

indefinite length of time which the framing a

compleat

answer threatened to require, coupled with the great inconvenience

which could have been produced

to me by the objective of desisting from a business

of a public nature to which I had devoted the whole of my

time, and divesting from it a portion of time the extent of which I

felt myself unable to measure.