1820 Dec. 21

Rid Yourselves

Introduction

Non-payment of money due on the score of official pay

Non-payment of money due for goods ordered and received -

if under the head of expenditure, nonpayment on both or either of these forms was

meant to be included - and, to the extent in question, expenditure and such

non-payment one or other or both had place, - on this supposition indeed howsoever

incorrect in the expression the statement is correct in substance. Still the

difficulty remains, how it is that under such circumstances members of the official

establishment would have continued alive, and how it is that the possession of goods

should not rather have destroyed than furnished them: