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

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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$(COPY.) No. 25, North Judley Street, loth 2\lay, 1805. sni, A bill being now before Parliament which has for its object an enquiry to be extended to the War Office Department, arid there- fore to the expenditure of Foreign Corps, it becomes my Duty to inform you, that the Accounts which were acknowledged to have been delivered in at the Auditor’s Office at the epoque of the 15th of December last, purporting to be the Accounts of the Foreign Corps under the Inspection of E. I. Woodford, Esq. are not, as I believe, the true original accounts; and that I am ready to state my reasons for thinking so, and to point out the names of such persons as may further contribute to ascertain this point, if it should be required from me. I trust, Sir, the painful duty which I now fulfil in making this communication, will justify me in future, having thus made the circumstance known to you, before the bill passes into a Law; and also protect me, if I should hereafter protest in my Exami- nation against a set of Accounts which I do not believe to be wholly genuine, fearing that their having been received, and long remaining in a public Office, might otherwise impress the Com- missioners with such an idea of tlieir Authenticity, as my indivi- dual Evidence, however true, might then prove unable to efface, or even to withstand. (Signed) Addressed to The lit, lion. IVm. Pitt, ^c. c^-f. ^c. James Poot.e, Late Dep. Inspect. General | of Foreign Corps.$