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A complete collection of state trials and proceedings for high treason and other crimes and misdemeanors from the earliest period to the year 1783, with notes and other illustrations Volume 11 - Brossura
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1816 Excerpt: ...directed, or from being paid to any other uses thau the direction of the said act ilidappoiut; that I will put tbe truth or talshood of what either he or 1 have writ about the revenue, upon the proof of that particular. And for the 83,400/: which he says was unpaid of the 900,000/. I confess I understand not how that could' he, when Mr. Kent and Mr. Duucomb might force the receivers of the excise to pay what was due to them on the one fifth, whenever they pleased: besides, that t believe at the time of my leaving the staff, there was 52,000/. in Mr. Kent's hands, by an arrear of the-2,000/. a week on the customs, then due to sir John James, Ike. By which Mr. Kent and Mr. Diincorabe might pay themselves so much of whatsoever sum was remaining unpaid to them at that time, on the one fifth of the excise. And Ln truth the w hole matter concerned me no more than it did sir Robert himself: and I have some reason to think, that the Examiner was not so ill instructed, as to have left that sum out of his charge (especially having particularly mentioned it.) if it could have been made any argument against me; which (as I have already said) it cannot be; unless I had eitlier given orders to the receivers of the excise, not to pay the fifth according to the act, or had given them orders for applying any part of it to other uses than the act directed: either of which 1 do challenge sir Robert, or any body else, to prove; and therefore it was, that I called it, notoriously false. The next head wherein he is knowingly unwilling to do me right, is, about the Poll Bill, which I find I have spokesofully to, in my answer to the Examiner, that I see be thinks not fit to make any reply to what I have there said; but only designs to make it a piece of my ill management, that 186...
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