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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    ]5 the Examination of Papers since procured, wliicli hear false Wit- ness against my just and true Accusations, thereby making me appear a Defamer and Slanderer, for such I must be, iflhcir Conduct could be justified on an Examination of the rea/rmd original Jccomits^ hoping, also (and not in vain) to restore Mr. Richard Gardiner to Employments of Trust and Confidence, and to preserve to Co lonel Edward Dillon the Advantages arising from his Regiment such I believe to be amongst the Motives for this Combination.* t I am sorry I have to add to the dark Catalogue of these Trans- actions, that they are not entitled to any Extenuation on Motives of Atonement or Restitution of Money to Government, Mr. Richard Gardiner having published to the whole World, by An- ticipation, his Confidence of complete Victory and full Justifi- cation on these subsequent Accounts, with a Certificate of Com- mendation from the Hon. Charles Yorke, who passed the former Accounts; a superfluous Letter, as it appears to me, from the Right Honourable William Windham, and an im|mdent one, from E. I. Woodford, Esq. The Detection, however, of false Names employed in these Accounts, has already rendered his | Expectations incomplete, and nothing but his remaining hopes that fictitious Accounts w'ill be passed as real original one.s, can ever realize them. f I observe. Sir, in your last Letter, you require me to take back into my Possession my former Accounts as well as Vouchers; but after what has passed, in respect to other Accounts, the I •'Persons conspiring; together against an Individual is elirccl[^ rontr/rry l(y Law, and where Persons in Office aid or abet the same, it must be a bcipouS' Aggravation of the Oflencc.