A reply to Mr. Richard Gardiner's answer to a narrative exposing a variety of irregular transactions in one of the departments of foreign corps / by James Poole.

  • Poole, James.
Date:
1805
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Credit: A reply to Mr. Richard Gardiner's answer to a narrative exposing a variety of irregular transactions in one of the departments of foreign corps / by James Poole. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and Documents having Reference to my Accounts, to transmit them to the Commissioners for auditing the Public Accounts, but ^ I have always declined, either by myself or my Agent, to receive \ into my possession the Vouchers on which I am afterwards to be - examined—they have been delivered in many Years with my : Accounts, and remained ever since in the Possession of Mr. Gardiner, or those to whom he transferred them ; they have been i audited or passed by special Commission in the Year 1709, be- ' fore the Hon. Charles Yorke, together with the real and original j Accounts*; and, with regard to the Precedent established in the • Department of Foreign Corps, by which Mr. Gardiner remained ] so many Years in Possession of the Accounts, Documents, and i Vouchers for his own Accounts (even of Expenditure incurred by himself) I begged Leave to decline imitating that mode of Pro- . ceeding, saying, I could not in J ustice to myself furnish such a Pa- ^ rallel, by taking back my own Vouchers previous to Examination. | As the Change of Administration was very recent, I took the i Liberty of enquiring at the War Ofiice whether the late reite- ’ rated Injunction, to take my Vouchers into my Possession, was ; to be considered as proceeding from the present Secretary at War, General the Right Hon. Richard Fitzpatrick, and was an- i swered in the affirmative. ' Some Days after, I wrote the following Answer to the last ; Letter, to P. Deare, Auditor’s Office. * I had often told Mr. Gardiner, previous to tliat Audit, that thou_^h no Examination was then instituted, a succeeding Secretary at War would one Day do it; and when Mr. Gardiner mentioned the Honourable C. Yorke, he added, that he was the very Person destined to succeed the then Secretary at War ; as he afterwards did. Many Gentlemen may have been committed after they come into office, but this is the only one I ever heard of who was so by Anticipatioo.