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.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    it. I roi^ht have lost 46i. it there had not been an expression at the end,°whleh was so ably explained by Mr. Gardiner ; and no nun, perhaps, explains a join, interest better. If he has b«n less suecessful in explaining away his own individual letters, ’tis be- cause he has treated his subject with such poignant wit, such cutting jokes, as, united to the stubborn facts they contain, render it impracticable. With respect to the conversation which I asserted took place between Mr. Gardiner and me at the point of my departure, walking from my lodging towards the War-Office, it was exactly what I stated ; but 1 do not think I was right in letting it pass. How far, if any thing wrong had been done in the entries, it might then be apparent, seemed to me at the moment to be doubtful; but it did not appear doubtful whether the instant of departure on service with another appointment lately conferred, would have been the worst of all others, and have had the very worst ap- pearance for entering on the investigation. For this seemed certain. The moment was of his selecting, not mine. With regard to the picture ascribed to Zuccarelli, it was a mere thing to occupy a place over a chimney that might smoke: given at the time when I was quitting my lodging—though now made of importance. After my return to England, and my discovery of the real state of the entries, I asserted that Colonel E. Dillon’s offer to me was of 1000^. immediate and direct, for law expenses, offering to give me a check for it at the moment: and so it really was: and as