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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    Mr. Gardiner’s Triumph at some Mistakes into which 1 have fallen throws, he says, a general Discredit on my ; Narrative; but they can never produce that Effect if only ; compared with the Avowals in his own wiitten Letters; though, whilst connected only with his Denials, of what he has both said and done, they may convey such an Idea to those who never saw his epistolary Descriptions of the Source itself. No doubt, I am liable, like others, to forget what is of little Importance; yet nothing less than a total Oblivion of the Senses can enable me to forget the extra- ordinary Transactions I have witnessed. But Mr. Gardiner avows a Mistake of his own, which exceeds 2i\\ that ever was heard of; for, after asserting, as might he expected, that the Accounts he brought home could not be in his mind those he called Monuments off Peculation, he says, to what Accounts he alluded he cannot) notv recollect. Now, if Monuments of Peculation leave so ■ slight a Trace on the Memory of Mr. Gardiner when env- ployed in a Department of the War-Office, how is my‘ Memory'to serve me for Circumstances at the End of; Many Years, whohave noapproach to Officesor official Docu- ments, to correct my Dates by? I shall therefore, in my^ turn, console myself with his forgetting which were Ae Mo- numents of Peculation, with the unprecedented and indelible’ Letters he has written from the Interior of that Office; Let-- ters which alone suffice to justify my having brought forward' the Charge; and though no Inquiry has been instituted upon’ them, I will never allow that I came forward without suffi- cient Ground for the Charge, tvhilst those Letters remain), nor can I admit the Presentiments of those Gentlemen who