The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-06-01 00:00:00

AUDIT-OFFICE.

A Correspondent of one of the Morning Papers
has eaposed to the Public the diao•de.ed state .f the
Audit-office, is Somerset-place. This writer, how-
ever, went little further then s few hints, which, we
have uo doubt, were very well eedersteed by Minis-
try, but they were hardly intelligible to the world in
general. A person, seder the signaler. of Valenti,
has published . reply to these Letters, winch we
sapper** is 'rosiest, for le defending the Aatik
Beard, he wittily elucidates all thorn points which
the original writer enty glatteod it. We insert the
the Letter ef Vtensz, both for its sit sad for the
Information it Conlaini.
LETTLR OF YIN DEI.

sa Star—As
you have thought proper to lased in
poor apterous an attack grin an individual of pre-
feesioaal rink and of high siteati,,n in sotiely, yew
•ill, primps, in jurrice, allnw yner Paper to coo-
fain the refute lion of a calumny which your Corr,-
spondent has thus published so ono of lb. members
of the Audit-office.

66 This Gentlemen, who addresses Lord LITER-
root. under the signature or ■ • PCILIC ACCOUNT•
ANT,' is SO well acquainted with the stele of th•
Aodit-office that we may conclede he is more clowly
allied to that estabNibmeni than he would be willing
to acknowledge.

" Independent of msnv allusion, to bad ditposition
and pectelisr which your Cor►aipondenl well
lianas that all who are acgasinied with the bashing
meld attribute In but one individual, his smirk upon
t►e Internal wranagernont of • public department can.
net. in the 'maths workl, bat be construed into an
errsignment of ►im to whom she Government ►as
been pleased to intrust the centres' of sash a depart-
ment.

" We pot it to the good sense of every man, why.
thee it is (hir to believe, upon the inaissation of as
•sonymeua Correspondent, that a Gentleman of the
rank of Serjeant et Lure, end of Parliamentary 10.
wont in the County of CorOwall, would be allowed by
Government to superintend a groat public establish-
ment, coatis' the country nearly 50,0001. a year, if
he were, as your Correspondent insinuate•, a man of
habits sad of a disposition to paralyse the Moors of
se costly a department of the public service.
" Incessant dingreement has disturbed the Audit
Board ever since Its constitution in IBM ; but if
vulgar broils, altercation, and personal de6ince
have taken place, ace we to presume that
a Gentleman advanced in years, and of • pro-
fessional rank, is the cause, the rule cause, of seek
disgraceful quarrels, nr that he even participates le
Them. We must infer directly the reverie; for this
Gentleman's nine coadjutors, who were appointed to
the Audit Beard in 1806, for years opposed his mea-
sures with firmness, petulence, rage, or indignation,
according to the tone of their seteral dispositions;
but they bare now discontinued such opposition,l
and have become the reedy Instruments of that
man shoot they once 'oil ed to insult by
rudeness, or to cirremvent by contrivassees and
management, a proof of the rectitude and saga.
city of him whom your Coireopondeet has tee.
tiered she object of she suspicion sold contempt
of tie Poblic ; fo► oe slew with indifference
those sly isstineatinns which would make es belies*
that this •otwerviency of the Board has been procured
by other means thee the wisdom and penman
Weds of the Chairman.

" We think that when a Gentleman in the go.
verement of a great Public Ofice can coax servants,
creep elneg passages, listen at doors, dodge 'Nand
eerier., and peep (or hoer, ender a windur.bliud
to detect Pushy in the attendance of inferior clef
he meet have that tool for the public musk* which
entitles him to the respect end admiration of the he-
noorable and sinuses. Your Correspondent appears
to ►ate wee, different ides. on the subject. Oer
sentiments se this point are at issue, and we lease
the decision to dm discernment of the Peblic.

" Year Correspoodent seems to have little dlspm.
sltlen to approve of any eteaserea. He neat finds fault
with the Whig Administration, for appointing • (o•
feigner to the MSc, of Secretary to the Hoard of
Audit, In Somerset-place. h may be tree, however
mortifying to English vanity, that of the 1W persons
so the eatablishment of the Auditors, toot oneiedivi-
deal toglishman bad talents to qualify hire for hold-
log the Micah sod literati', situation of Secretary
to the Board. The Secretary, independent of other
business, 1186241 take ■inures of the proceedings of
the Baird, and to sign every day a number of lettere.
1 We my he allowed to add, that it roost be • silos-
lion of delicacy end pale, which imposes oe a Gentle-
mail the duty of reconciling the endless quarrels of
sullen and infuriated superiors, and of seppressing
the murmurs, and mitigating the selleriogs of up•
' wards of a hundred inferiors, who cooceived t►em-
selves oppressed and injured.
" If year Correspondent should again be so indis-
meet as toassail the nips's-table character of the Omit-
, man of the Audit Board, we advtee him not to con-
, lent himself with seggestions and insinuations, bet
to b►iag eel his charges with their dates, sums, and
names. If be do net follow t►is advice, instead of
eliciting the public contempt and indignation against
his onvirentling adversary, the Ctseirsoso of the Audit
Board, he will impose himself to the neglect of that
Public whets attention he appears so analou to
acquire.

" VINUEL"