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The Widows of Captains, Commanders, Lieutenants, and Mas ters, on Thursday, the 10th of this instant, (January.) The Widows of Boatswains and Gunners on Friday, the 11th ; and the Widows of Surgeons, Pursers, Carpenters, and Second Mas ters, en Saturday, the 12th ; and on every succeeding Thursday, between the hours of ten and twelve. And the Widows who in habit London and the parts adjacent, are to take notice, that their Pension or Bounty will not be paid unless they come in person to receive the same; or that their Attorneys do bring a Certifi cate from the Minister and Churchwardens of the Parish they belong to, shewing the cause of their inability. And, in order to discourage and deter any Women who may endeavour to defraud the said Charity, under the pretence of being the Widows of Officers, or without the circumstances re quired, when they are not really so, the Governors have thought bt to order a Reward of Fifty per Cent. upon what shall be saved by the detection of such Frauds, which shall be paid to any person who shall discover anti detect the same. . CHELSEA HOSPITAL, Janoiry S, 1811. 'THESE are, by order of the Right Honourable the Lords and Others Commissioners for managing the Affairs of the koyal Hospital at Chelsea, to give Notice, That all Out-Pensioners belonging to the said Hospital, residing in Lon ion, or within Twenty-five Miles thereof, are required to ap pear, personally and regimentally, at the Secretary's Office in the said Hospital, on the respective days, and in their different Masses, according to their several ra:es of pension, as under men tiunedovhen attendance will be given from nine o'clock in the• morning until three in the afternoon, for the Payment of Half a Yetis s Pension in advance to Midsummer next, with the Aug mentation in proportion to their disability and length of service, according to his Majesty's late Regulations in their favour. On MONDAY, the 7th of January, The Pensioners at 6d. per Day, from the different Regiments of Cavalry, Foot Guards, with all the Regiments of Infantry, or Corps. On TUESDAY, the 6th of January, Those at 9d. per Day, from the different Regiments of Ca valry, Foot Guards, with ail the Regiments of Infantry or Corps. On WEDNESDAY, the 9th of January, Those at Is. per Day, from all the different Regiments of Ca valry, Foot Guards, the Ist Regiment of Foot to the 50th in elusive. On THURSDAY, the 10th of January. Those at is. per Day, from the 51st Regiment of Foot, with all the remaining Regiments or Corps ; also the Pensioners from any Regiment or Corps at Is. OF!. is. id. and ls. lid. per Day. On FRIDAY, the 11th of January, The Pensioners at Is. 2d. Is. 2-id. and Is. 3d per Day. On SATURDAY, the 12th of January, Those at Is. Std. per Day, with those of the Merest rates to 41. 9d. per Day inclusive. On MONDAY, the 14th of January, Those at Is. Sid. per Day, and upwards. On TUESDAY, the 15th of January, The Pensioners from the Militia, at sd. per day, with the pri vate Gentlemen who receive Annuities from the late lit and 11c1 Troops of Horse Guards, with those Pensioners from the several Regiments who have been admitted oa account of Blindness, whether at is. per day or upwards, when the Hospital Surgeons will attend, for the purpose of examining all snob men, and re port to the next Board upon any of them who may appear to be recovered or improved in their sight, the .. payroont of whose Pension is then to be suspended, till the further order of the Board. And that all Out-pensioners belonging to the mid hospital who live at a greater distance than 25 miles from I.ondo a, and those in Scotland and Ireland, are hereby required and commanded, after the 25th of tune next, and after every succeeding 25th of December and 25th of June, until further orders, to apply to one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace in the neighbourhood where they reside, and make the following Affidavit, which the said Ma gistrate for the County, City, Borough, or Riding, before whom the Pensioner appears, will sign and dart, viz. G• came before me, one of his Majesty's Justices of " the Peace for the County of and made oath that he " was admitted an Out-Pensioner of Chelsea Hospital on the " day of 17 (or 18 ) from the Regiment of , commanded by ; was then aged about years, " served in the army years, was discharged for " and that he is no otherwise provided for by the Public, but as 4 ‘ a Pensioner of the said Hospital, at per Day, and uow lives in the Parish of ,in the County of • . " Sworn before me ' this day of 11 ." And such of them as were admitted on account of Blindness are ordered to transmit with their half-yearly Affidavits, a certi ficate as to the state of their sight, signed by as Army Surgeon, Dr other Medical Person, resident in their neighbourhood ; but In such distant parts, where a medical certificate is impracticable, a c.:•rtilicate from the Minister of the Parish to that Fact, and to ascertain the continuance of their Blindness, will be admitted. The Affidavit draik according to the above form, sworn before, dated and attested by a Magistrate, is te be put sip in a cover, and sent by the General Poet, directed thus, " To the " Right Honourable the Paymaster General of hi lelajesty's " I,and Forces, London." Marking on the cover Chelsea 44 Pensioner's A ffi javir..."-.-And counterparts or duplicates et the said Affidavits, as to be reserved by the Out Pensioners reqpeae . , Lively, to be exhibited to such persons as shall be directed to pay them, that they may be satisfied that all such as may claim Out- Penseons are the real persons entitled to receive the same. And to the end that the Commissioners for the Affairs of Chelsea Hospital may he satisfied that the Pensioners are the same Per sons who have passed their examination, it is hereby further dL tested, that such of them who have served in, and have been discharged from any cf the Regiments, or independent Compa nies of Invalids, or Royal Veteran Battalions, (are not to mention in their Affidavits, such Regiment or Company of Invalids, or sitoyal Veteran Battalions) in which they served last; but the Regiment, Troop, or Corps of the Army, from which they were Brat discharged and recommended, and received at Chelsea Tiospital. The Pensioners are particularly to take notice, that the half. yearly payments after Christmas are regulated, as to the place of payment, by the musters at Chelsea, sr the Affidavits sent as above, after the Midsummer preceding, and that the Midsummer payment is in like manner regulated by the musters or Affidavits after the Christmas preceding. It is also ordered and directed that no person who shall change the place of his abode given in at his muster, or specified in his .Allidavit aforesaid, and who may apply fer his Pension (except ing to the Officers of Excise nearest such place of abode,) shall receive the same, unless it appears, by the certificate ef respectable Tersons, that such removal was through unavoidable necessity, which he or they could not foresee or prevent ; and that if any ensioner shall fraudulently attempt to receive a doublespayment of the Pension, either at Chelsea or at different places, he shall be struck off the List; for the better prevention of which frauds, each peusioner is required to produce his Instruction Papers, at the time of payment. Lastly, it is notified, that none will be entered upon the Pay- Lists of the said Hospital, or be entitled te receive any benefit therefrom, who shall not act agreeably to these orders and direc tions; particularly in sending their half yearly Affidavits to the ?artiste? Ginerai, as above directed and to ao ethos of., which aeveral of the Pensioners have ef late either neglectea to do, of sent them irregularly to other departments. N. B. The under-mentioned Persons have been struck off the List, 49th Foot, Howard Kenny, at ls. td. per day, for assisting to obtain the Pension of NV ilharn Mealey, of the 85th Regiment, at 1 s. per day, By false Certificates. 69th Fool, Timothy Cummings, at is. per clay, for producing a forged Certificate of Service in the West Indict, Royal Garrison Battalion, William Byrne, at-Is. 2.d. per day, for r e ceiving a double Payment. G. AUS r, Secretary and Registrar. SATURDAY', JANUARY 5, 1811. ADMIRALTY OFFICE, Drowsier 20, 1810. NOTICE it hereby given, That a Session of Oysr and Terminer and Coal Delivery, for the Trial of Ofeame emennot kd on the Hsi* Sew, within the joriedirtion @fate Admiralty of England, will he held at shatioe Hall ' in the Old Bailey, Loam, on Tamil it/. 22d of January next, at eight sieloei in the morning. J. W. CROKER. Sir J. BRANSCOMB and Co. I. SIVEWRIGHT, Sole Surviving Partner, A RE happy to announce the New Plan of the 1 1 - STATE LOTTERY, to be Drawn 15th FEBRUARY, 1811, will remove every objection that has hitherto been stated. There are more Capital Prizes, and each will now be of dlffere:it Numbers, and there are none less than £2O. They trust their uncommon good Fortune will ever attend, their Friends the Public, having sold in this and last Year ALONE, Six Prizes of £20,100 The Only Forty of £4OO up to 10,000 AndseveralPrizesof loo, The First The Last And others too great to enumerate. Tickets and Shares in great variety are on Sale at their Old Offices, 37, Cornhill, 38, Haymarket, and I t, Holborn. OFFICIAL PAPERS LAID MORE THE HOUSE OP COMMONS, RELATIVE TO THE ISSUE OF PUBLIC MONEY. No. I.—This is a copy of a Warrant of the Lords Commissioners of his Majesty's Treasuty, directed to the Auditor of the Exchequer, dated 31st December last, for issuing £500,000 to the Navy. No. 2.—A Treasury Warrant, dated 31st Decem ber, 1810, for issuing £500,000 u the Army. Copy.—No. 3.—Lord Grenville, Auditor of the Exchequer, on the subject of issuing Money from the Exchequer, for the ser ♦ice of the Army and Navy, under the Warrants of the Lords of the Treasury. Jan.], 1811. Sut—Mr. Fisher has this moment brought to me two warrants from the Lords Commissioners of his Majesty's Treasury, under yesterday's date, by which I am required, in consideration of the circumstances therein stated, to draw an order for the issue of £500,000 to the Bank, on account of the Paymaster. General of the Forces, and also a like sum on accoust• of the Treasurer of the Navy, for which issues no an.l Charity under his Majesty's Great Seal, or Privy Seal or Sign Manual, has as yet been presented, accor ding to the accustomed mode and course of the Ex chequer in that behalf. I have been, up to this moment, totally unapprised of any intention on the part of their Lordships, to transmit to me any such warrants, but had on the contrary every reason to bepeve, from what you stated to Mr. Fisher, that the Officers of the Exchequer were to be called upao to act on this occasion, under the authority of his Majesty's Privy Seal, which however irregularly it might have been obtained, would have bees. in MT indiraient, imoerative on them. • It now be - conies tiecessiry for m 4, to Consider the nature and extent of the duties which this new and unexpected course of proceeding imposes upon me ; and 1 must for that purpose request that you will do me the honour to inform me, within what time it will be necessary, for avoiding those inconveniences to the public service, which are specified in the war rants of their Lordships, that such orders as are be fore mentioned, should be drawn and transmitted to their Lordships. I have the honour to be, Sir, your most obedient humble servant, (Signed) GRENVILLE. The Right Hon. Spencer Perccval , &c. (Copy.)—No. 4.—Mr. Perccval to Lord Grenville, stating the period when an issue should be ,nude front the Exchequer, in pursuance of the Treasury warrant. Downing-street, January 1, 1811, a quarter before three, P.M. MY Lotto—l 1...ve had the honour of receiving your Lordship's letter of this day's date, desiring to know within what time it will be necessary for avoid ing those inconveniences to the public service, which are specified in the warrants to which your Lordship's letter relates, that the order for issuing the money under such warrants should be transmitted to their Lord- I ships ; and I have to assure your Lordship that, ac cording to the usual course of supplying the weekly issues, both to the navy and army, it would be ne cessary that sums should be issued to both services beyond the amount of the existing credits at the Ex chequer, either to-morrow or the next day at farthest ; but although such is the usual practice, which I re gret the necessity of departing from, yet if the orders could be so furnished as to admit of an actual issue being made upon them by Monday next, I do not ap prehend any serious inconvenience to the public ser vice from such a short delay. — I have the honour to be, my Lord, your Lord ship's most obedient and humble servant, (Signed) SP. PERCEVAL. The Lord Grenville. (Copy.)—No. S.—Lord Grenville, Auditor of the Exchequer, transmitting a case on the subject of iauiag Money from the Exchequer wider Treasury Warrants, and requesting the same might be transmitted to the Attorney and Solicitor-Genius!. Exchequer, Jan. 1, 1811. MY LORDS—I have been informed by a letter of this date, from the Right Honourable the Chancellor of the Exchequer, that it is desirable the orders re quired by your Lordships' warrants of yesterday's date, should be transmitted to your Lordships either to-morrow or next day at farthest, and that serious inconvenience is apprehended to the public service, unless the actual issue can be made upon them by Monday next. Under this pressure, I have thought h my indis. pensible duty to lose no time in drawing up such a statement of the case as my general knowledge of the subject enables vie to do on the sudden. If there should appear to your Lordships any deficiency or error in this statement, I beg leave to request that your Lordships will have the goodness to direct that the same should be supplied by your Lordships' Officers; and I cannot doubt that your Lordships will then, in compliance with this my humble request, direct that the case should be immediately submitted, by your Lordship? orders, to the Attorney and Solicitor-Ge neral, in order that I may have the sanction of their legal advice and authority in a matter of such novel and unprecedented difficulty. I have the honour to be, my Lords, with great re spect, your Lordships' most obedient humble servant, (Signed) Gesinvtax, Auditor. (Copy.)—No. 6. Case for the opinion of his Majesty's Attorney and SoHater-General—Jan. 1,16 ti. • The Auditor of the Exchequer is appointed by a , constitution from the Lords Commissioners of his Majesty's Treasury ; his office is generally described by Lord Coke, Inst. 106. His appointment states his duty to be, that of wri ting all and every the tallies and counter tallies of all whatsoever the bills to be made hereafter at the Ex chequer of our Lord the King, on all and every the payments and assignees to be there made ; and of do ing .an d exerciJing all other thing: to that office belonging. e has no general instructions accompanying his appointnutnt. • Special provisions relative to his office and duties are contained in the Bth and 9th W. 3. c. '2B, parti. cularly in sections 6,8, and 10, to which your atm& tion is desired, as well as to the general tenor of di several statutes for the regulation of the Exchequer; and also to the statute G. 3, c. 115, s. 6. Copies of the several forms of the warrants under Privy Seal and Sign Manual, and of the usual war rant from the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury to the Auditor, for drawing orders for the issue of money, according to the accustomed course of the Exchequer, are transmitted herewith. And Mr. Fisher, the Auditor's Chief Clerk, an officer of long experience in the Exchequer, will attend you, for the purpose of supplying Any explanation of these instru ments, or any other information which you may re quire. A copy is herewith inclosed of two warrants from the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury, dated De- cember 31, 1810; and requiring the Auditor, under the circumstances therein described, to draw orders for the issue of one million of the King's treasure, for the issue of which no authority under his Ma jesty's Great Seal, Privy Seal, or Sign Manual, has been presented, according to the accustomed course of the Exchequer in that behalf. Your opinion is requested, by the Auditor, whe ther the aforesaid Warrant of the Lords Commissio ners of the Treasury is a sufficient authority impera tive on him, and therefore a legal sanction for his proceeding to obey the same ; or whether any, and what discret►on is left' for exercise of Law . Majesty's gency , ving ments tow .1 we are referred, and the general prac tice.vrhich we understand to have prevailed in the Exchequer, as well before as since appropriation acts, similar to the 50 G. 3, c. 115, have been annually passed, we do not think that the warrant of the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury is in law a sufficient authority imperative upon the Auditor, nor conse quently a legal sanction for his proceeding to obey the same, nor that any discretion is left to him by the law on this occasion for the exercise of which he will not be responsible. (Signed) V. Gass. Tito& PLUME& Lincoln's Inn, Jan. 2, 1811. (Copy.)—No. 7.—Mr. Harrison to Lord Grenville. M Lone—l am commanded by the Lords Com missioners of his Majesty's Treasury. to acknowledge the receipt of your Lordship's letter of yesterday, re questing that the case, therein transmitted, should be immediately submitted to the Attorney and Solicitor General, in order that you may have the sanction of their legal advice and authority in a matter of such novel and unprecedented difficulty ; and to acquaint your Lordship that they lost no time in complying with your request.- And I am now commanded to transmit to you a copy of the opinion, which they have just received from the Attorney and Solicitor- General, stating, that they do not think that the war rant of the Lords Commissioners of his Majesty's Treasury is, in law, a sufficient authority imperative upon the Auditor, nor consequently a legal sanction for his proceeding to obey the same. My Lords directed me to add, that their sense of the mischief to the public service, which would arise, if any delay should take place in the issues of the monies required by their warrants of the 31st Decem ber, appears to render it indispensibly necessary that those warrants should be forthwith complied with ; and that they are consequently ready to take upon themselves the responsibility of any act which may be essential for that purpose. I am, my Lord, your Lordship's most obedient, and humble servant, (Signed) GEO. HARRISON. (Copy.)—No. B.—Lord Grenville, stating his reasons for not complying with the directions of the Treasury Warrant. Exshequer, Jan. 5, 1811. 55 min. P. M. MY LORDS—I had the honour to receive yesterday evening, a letter from Mr. Harrison, transmitting to me the opinion of his Majesty's Attorney and Solici tor General, on the statement which I took the liberty of submitting to your Lordships for the purpose of being laid befbre them ; aad 1 beg leave to express the due sense which I entertain of your Lordships ready compliance with my request. Having fully considered that opinion, I lose ao time in humbly apprising your Lordships, of the final judgment which I have formed as to the line of my official duty on this occasion. It is mattes of the deepest concern to me, to be made the involuntary cause of any, even the shortest delay, in an issue of his Majesty's treasure, stated to me from such high authority as that of your Lord ships, to be important to the public service. If [PRICE SIXPINCE-HALTPI24I4,I. • could be satisfied of the propriety of my doing what" is required from me by the war rants which I have • had the honour to receive from your Lordships, there is no personal responsibility which I would not rea•' dily incur for the public interests ; but I cannot per suade myself, that I could obey these warrants, with• out a. breach of my official duty in that point, which is above all others peculiarly obligatory on the person placed in the. situation of Auditor of the Exchequer ; nor without a high and criminal violation both of a " politive statute, and also of the essential principles of oar Monarchial and Parliamentary Conititutiun. The Acc passed in the Bth and 9th of King Wil; liam the Third, cap. 23. entitled, " An Act, for the , better observation of the course anciently 'used in the receipt of Exchequer," prohibits the issue of the King's: treasure, except in pursuance of the• special prdvi- Lions of an Act of Parliament, or under the autho rity of warrants under his Majesty's Great Seal or Privy 4pal duly entered in the office of the Auditor, Who it — thereupon to 4iss► the In the present instance all wanting ; and it is proposed ling of his Majesty's treasure sole ground of a warrant signed Every step taken towards Officer of the Exchequer, the Auditor, would he in open Statute, and of the accustomed quer ; for such an Act your r not, as I now learn from the me any legal sanction. I my own discretion, for the alone be responsible. This r. attaches upon me, I certainl; other persons, and least of a whatever willingness you hay , yourselves. My attempting , criminal ; tending to conform( in which I have the honour Lordships, and to annul those has established to ensure the . our respective duties, and thereb , public treasure. But I beg leave humbly to submit to your-Lord ships, that the law has in truth invested me with no discretion on this question. The exigencies of the public service, which your Lordships 11..ve coo. descended to detail to me in these your warrants, are matters of State, of which, as Auditor of ,tigr Exchequer, I have no knowledge, and can take no cognizance; my official ddty is strictly limited to "4 forms, of the Ex. W from time to To these "e fullest to relit. Lordships, a contained in those. Perhaps, however, on an occasion of such high and urgent public interest, it may not be improper for me, before I close this letter, further to submit to your Lordships my view of the mode in which all difficulties on this subject may be removed, in se far at least as any agency of mine may be requi red for the purpose of those issues ; a mode which I am happy to think may still be resorted to, even within ' the period which the Right Honourable the Chancel lor of the Exchequer did me the konour to point out to me, as that within which no serious inconvenience is to be apprehended to the public service. Your Lordships have recited in your warrants the resolution by which the two Houses of Parliament have declared the melancholy fact of the ternponrri incapacity of his Majesty for the discharge of his high functions. If it be proper for me, in my official cha racter, in any manner whatever to act on this steels. ration, I cannot separate my knowledge of it fioni that of the accompanying resolution, by which the Lords and Commons did at the same time declare, that it was their right and duty uto provide:the means of supplying the defect of the personal exer , else of the Royal Authority arising from his Ma. jesty's said indisposition, in such manner as the 'exi gency of the case may appear to them to write' To this resolution all the, subjects of this. realrit ewe submission and obedience, and while it presents on one hand, in my judgment, a fresh and insuper able obstacle to my obeying your Lordships requist- Lion, it does, I trust, afford on the other hand, the means of obviating any inconvenience that might arise from my adherence to this my public duty, I should think myself doubly criminal, if, while the two Houses are actually proceeding in the execution of such their right , and duty, I were to take upoil myself to decide for them in what manner the pee. sonal defect of the King's authority shall be supplied, in so important a branch as that of the issue of 'IA royal treasure ; much more if I were tcrarrogate to myself the power of dispensing, for that purpose, with the express provisions of the laws by which my Ofi cial duties are regulated. . But if your Lordships shall think it proper to sub mit this difficulty to the consideration of the two Houses of Parliament, they have declared, that with them rests the right and duty to provide the means or removing it. With them resides, under the present exigency, the power to command those official seals, the use of which would constitute an imperative 4 4 I unquestionable authority to the officers of the Exche quer ; with them rests the discretion of judgin: i what other manner they may think it more fit to vide a sufficient warrant or sanction for any Is which .they may determine to be requisite for elk 1. lic interests ; and I certainly should not fall' t. ' .' to their pleasure with entire submission(and A 'ex* cute with the most implicit obedieete, W littletis which I shall receive from your Ltedshipi, a t sanction of their authority. , ... 4 have the *our to be, &c. ItiAgs 4 Game4,l,e, • . : .• . . • -0 , what discretion is left to him on this occasion, for the an, observance of the accustomed forum exercise of which he may be responsible in any Court chequer, and of the laws• which have of Law, or to the two Houses of Parliament : They time been passed for its regulation. having resolved that it is their right and duty to pro- am bound to adhere ; and it is on the vide the means of supply'aatbe defect of the pen°. sislakeosiow, thippimase of 4WD bi nal exercise of the Royal authority, arising from his me, to give to them, that I aniTalp Majesty's indisposition, in such manner as the exi- dine, but with all due respect to yoor 1 gency of the case may appear to them to require. compliance with the requisition contain Having considered the several statutes and docu- warrants to which this letter refers. menu to which we are referred, and the general prat- Perhaps, however, on an occasion • 'the seems,/ orderk..• all these authorities sed that £1,000,000 stet. sure shall be issued on th 4 igned by. your Lordships. such an issue by any but more especially by pen violation, both of that >rued course of the Exche- r Lordships' warrantsan. to highest outhority, afford must, I am told, act 03 exercise of which I must responsibility, if it legally nly cannot transfer to any )f all to your Lordships, lave expressed to take it on ig to do so, would itself be uund the official relations )ur to stand towards your hose checks which the law the faithful discharge of thereby the security of tit" vide nil