Star. — London, England, 1806-10-07 00:00:00

Mr DUTENS' PIEMOIRS. T'tie day were puhlithed, Rksantly printed in s vele. fmall ndlaeo p Ice ars In boartle. MEMOIRS of a TRAVELLER, nnvi in Re tirement, written by HIMSELF; and containing Anec dotes of moll of the Courts of Europe, and of diflluruiked Sratefmen and Public Ch..raeti re who have lourifhed duticg the lalt Half Century. Printed fix RICHARD PHILLIPS, N 0.6, Bridge•ftreet, Black friars ; acid to be had of all Bookkllers. Of whom may all(' he had, Jail publllhcd. r. Mr.CARICs STRANGER IN IRELAND, 45 1 . 1. Mife OWENSON'S WILD IRISH GIRL. 23, 6d. 3. And Mrs. ROBINSON'. POETICAL WORKS, I^. MILITAR r r. MOND REPORT OF 'CH[ COMMISSIONERS OF MII.I CARY INQUIRY. , (Continued from the STA II of the 16th ult ) BARRACK PI CFKIRAL. The duties of the Barrack Mailer General remain ne ly the fame as thole defcrihed in'the Report r.l the Selea Committee on Finances, in 579 y, with the exception of providing sores and I - implies, which are now purchafed by the Commilftry General ; but the fphere of his duties has been enlarged fince that pe riod, in proportion td the increafe of barracks ; and ' he may now be confidered as the head of a vet y im• portant and expenfive branch of the public ferrite. The powers and au.hority, however, of the prefent Barrack Manes General, differ fo far from thol e of his predeceffar, that whereas a wide range of difcre tionary power appears to have beer. exercifed by the late Barrack Mailer General, the prefent Barrack Mailer General ails wholly under the dilation of the Treafury, without whole fanflion lie can neither vary the eflablifhment of the office, undertake new works. nor even repairs, not do any other aft where the el timate exceeds five hundred pounds ; which eftimates are now made upon oath by the officer to whom the 1 1 fame are referred. His Salary, as Barrack Mailer General, is 81. per diem, OF 2,9201. per annum, which is equivalent to what his predecelfir received under various denomi nations of regular, extra, and 1141 T pay. The Mary is paid quarterly, betides which he is repaid his Ira Yelling difburfements, and occupies a houfe, the fur• tithing of which, together with the rent and taxes, is paid by the public. The prefent Barrack Mallet General has no other employment nor emolument under Government, ex. eept his commiffi.rn as Colonel of the 61(k Regiment of Infantry ; and forage for the effeClive borfes, which the General dates he is obliged to keep for the difcharge of his public ditties, according to the re Klations for o ffi cers of his tank belonging t.i the King's flaff. DIFUTT BARRACK MAITIR GSWIR•L. The duty of the Deputy Barrack Mauer General, is to 21E11 the Barrack Mailer General in the general Wind; of the department. Although his duties do not appear to differ materially fr-m thole of the lame officer in s 797, yet they are now fi extenfive, his pre fence can rarely be difpenfed with at the office. It is his province to open and read all letters, which we learn are very numerous every day, and, after refe rence to the Barrack Mailer General, if neceffary, or to the different bsanchea of the office to which the , fuhjefl matter may more particularly belong, to pre pare or approve the anfwers to them. We infpefted, at the office, the mode of tranfaaing the official correfpondence, which appeared to be conduCled with great prectfion and regularity. A praftice obfcrved by the barrack-office, in the mode of writing official letters, was new to ns, and teems to well calculated to rave trouble, and infure entree nefs, that we think proper to deice ibe it. A (beet of, paper being folded in the middle, officers of the de partment. who addrefs the barrack office, write their letter on the left fide, and with the original letter, fend a duplicate in the fame form, and figned alto ; on the blank tide of the duplicate, is written the Bar rack Mailer Grncral's anfwer, which is tot warded to the writer in dire courte, and on the original letter, which i. prefer ved in the office, is copied the anfwer that has been returned ; each party has thus an exalt copy r f the whole cm relpondence, and the poffih;lity of an anfwer sir ati.hority hem A mifapplied, is en:irely obviated ; it laves ail repetition. The hours of att endance at the Barrack o:Tice are from ten till four daily, without regard t except Chrillinas.day and G rod ; and the clerks attend as much linger as occafinn requires, for which, however, they teceive extra pay ; there k no check on their attendance. It the prefent eftahlifh. rnent of officers and desks he neertfary in the efficient condtat of the hr tinefs of the Ben ack Department, would be defitable to provide a more foitable horde for their accomme (Jailor, as that in which the office is now held appears to be very inalequate to Pie objeft. The fal try of the prefent Deputy Barrack Maller General is 69e1. tot. per annum, paid quarterly, and' he allow , d forage in time of war for effeOive burls, not exceeding five ; in time of peace not ex• ceeding three ; but it is Hated to us, that as no period fince his apponamcnt has the prefent Deputy Bar rack Matter General drawn the allowance for mole than three effenive Ironies. The allowance for fn rage to the Deputy Barrack Mailer General is Slated' to be the fame as to the Deputy Adjutant General, and Deputy Qilarter Mailer General ; confiderir g, lowevcr, the duties of the Deputy Barrack Matter General, and that he is allowed his poll chaife ex• peaces when travelling on public duty, we do not tee the propriety of this allowance, which obferva ri. n squally to the allowance L r Image to the BAI rack Matter Genet al in that cbaratter. The prefent Deputy Barrack Mailer General is Major of the 28th Regiment of infantry. THk FIRST TRINCIPAL ASSISI - AMT AAAAA CK MAIM GSNIRAL. This Officer Reins the Deputy Barrack Mailer Genet.), arid replaces him in cafe of neceffary ab fence from town. The prefect Principal Affiflant Barrack Mafttr General, is all,' Secretary to the R..) al Maury ; but it does not appear that the thoie , he has hitherto been called upon to dif charge in that capacity have interfered with thole of his tare in the Barrack Department. The Glary of tlti Office' is !laced to be 3001. per annum regular Sal try, and 55. per diem ex..., par ; for his office of 5. , - , rta y the R yal Military C. liege, he tcceires 2001. per annum. THI PRINCIFIBI AKA' TACT BAR RACK MASTIat 0555. Fit THR GiNIJIAL of BARRACKS. i.e duties of tAis officer are of conlidera'.,:c tins portanee, and of wide range, inafmuch as he toe' dere the Scotch Barracks equally within his depart meat as thole of England. He is charged with the examination of all builders' accounts, on the jufinrls of whore prices k is his pr wince, jointly with thel atchited• and finvey 'es, toscleterini-e. ft is alfo a branch of his duty to dire& the anon!) letting the canteens or ruffling houfes attacked to the dif fetent barracks; this is now done by advertifing for tenders, and accepting that of the highell bidder. —By adapting thi. &Ilan, the avenue ai ifing from this fource has been recently mai improved ; the amount for the laft year is hated to be upward. of rixteen thourand pounds. All the canteens are not, however, tinder the diredion of the barrack office ; the old ctiaorn af allowing to governors and corn. raandants the benefits ariting from the lettinguf them, v c underhand, (fill prevails at Nutt - month and Ply mouth, and did until lately in Guet nfey and fetter. As it would be advantageous to the public, if all the canteens were under the controul of the barrack office, we recommend, that in the ab-ve inflances, or in any other., where there emolumentsare hill enjoyed by the Governor and Commandar t t of the fortref , , the old cullom firould he abolithed, and, in lieu thereof, a compenfition allowed to the Governor, &c. a nd that the rents arifing fiorn them lhould he received by the Barrack Matter General, and placed to the credit of the barrack office funds. It is anther pact of the duty of this officer, to ar range the papers and documents relating to the pro- perty of the Barrack Department, for the examina tion of the law clerk, which, we are informed, had not been done, as the papers came into the office, ow leg to the great prelrute of the general bunglers, and the want of a legal perfon attached to the de partment. fie hates, that the duties of his office very fully occupy all his time. De is Captain Lieutenant on half-pay of the Bad regiment, and has no other em ployment tinder Gurernment. The preterit principal Affiflant Barrack Mailer Ge neral has made two jourtstes into Scotland, and (hates the obit& to have been, that the office in London fhould potters the fame local knowledge of the bar- racks in Scotland, as of thole in England. We cannot decide on the expediency of there jourr,ies, of which the Barrack Mauler General, who is refponfible for the good condtid of the bufincfs within his depart , ment, mull be the fittett judge ; but as there is a re , fident Principal Affihant Barrack Mailer General in Scotland, it flun.lJ feem unneceffary that an officer of the fame defcriptinn (hould travel from London, to infped barracks immediately under the controul of the former. The falary of tllc Principal Affiliant Barrack Mail ter General f;.r the General Infpation of Barrack/. is fitteen Ilaillings per diem regular pay, and SOS. per diem extra, making per annum 6381 I p. PRINCIPAL ASSISTANT AAAAA CK MASTER GENERAL, FOR SUPPLIER AND RETURNS. The duty of this officer relates wholly to the dif . tribution and returns cf barrack fibres and fupplies. To affill him in there dude,, he has under him an Infpeaor of Store Returns, and clerks, who receive and examine the returns of every defcrip.ion. The infpeftion of the books of this branch of the Office, and the examination of its Officers, afforded to the Board very fttisfailory infxmation as to the mode of checking the expenditure of the Rores en trufled to the different Barrack Mailers, for the ufe of the troops, fb far, at lea It, as to afcertain that no expenditure takes place beyond the Barrack regula tions, and to make the Barrack Matters accountable far whatever has not hero iffued : but tome further' check feems to us requifite. As the mode of pro. aiding fupplies, as well as of dill' ibuting and check.' ing their expenditure, will, however, be fully 'raved in our report on that divifion of our inquiry, we arta refer to that Report for Ate remarks we have to offer on this filbjeft. The Wary of the principal Affiflant B mask Mai ter General for Inpplies and returns, is the fat s'o as that of the fir 11 1' in,.ipal Affiflant Barrack Mailer General Viz, Mice hundred pounds per annum, and five (billings per diem extra pay. The prefent poffeffor thin office is alto Standard Beater to the band of G video:en Petifioners. The (alas y of the Infpeelor of Returns L. Stores i• three hunerzd pounds par annum. IMAPECTOR OF BARRACK S'IORZS. This is a new appointment, made by the prefect Bai rack Mailer General, in confrgitence of duce lions front the Lords Commiffioner. of IlLoty*, 'l'rcafury. He elamines all articles forttifhed in the metropolis, tinder the contiaels of the Cttsumiffary General at the Contraflor's warchoufe, where they remain fubjeft to the orders of the Barrack Mailer General. He keeps an account of filch as he ha, ap. pr.tved, and by means of the orders for their iffue paffing through his hands, he is enabled at all times to akertain the qttantity asbich ought to b e i n the Contraaor's Ilion, ready to be dittributed as the Barrack OIECC may dire& _ _ _ the pay of the iniPeflor of Mirrack 'lore: is iss. per diem. THr ACCOV4 AA W T The duties of this Officer are of much inanrirtanee,' as on their uniform and cortat e x ecution, depend, I, in great meaftire, the regulaiity and gt oil order of the whale fyflem ; how far there duties, dutin; the late Barrack•Mafler General's time, have bccn pianc• tnally executed, may be in Come meafure collated from our Virg Report, and we 'hall probably have occafion again to adrett to the (tibial. With the aid of his Affittant, and Clerks, he ieccir.Ys and examines all accounts and votichet s, except thole of the buil. derr, which are examined and certified by the At. cliitat, and the principal Affittant Barrack•Maller General for the infpeetion if Barracks; he &rats the correfpondence relating to all money matter:, prepares eflimates for Govonmenr, and arranges the genial ace tunts of receipt and expenditure. A general account is Ilat:d to he made up in the office annually, of all mu s ics received and expended, under their refpative heads of ferrite : but no ge neral annual account of the barrack expenditure, f.O the examinat itsn of any public office, has been made up fine" the 24111 December, 1179 i ; and the princi pal reafon Aligned by ih: Accountant for this nm ij titm, is, that the Barrack Mailer General did not know by what office his accounts were to be exa mined. The gem ral accounts, to 24th . I)?cember, 11'95, are thofe noticed in our First Iteprut, and stisich are nuw at the War Office for examinvti n. The s , ckt-in charge of the 'acco , in Lan.t Ate c. 1111• bcok , , le,!gezi, Lill b00k.,, asd (thers of a fcription, relating to the re - ci;st and diiribatir,n of money. Bills drawn no the Barrack Maker General, amounting to 6 or 703 in a twooh, and of wfich 50 or Go are fometimes pre . cnozd for acceptance in a day, are accepted by the accountant. Since the appointment or the prefent Barrack Nialler General, Mr. Stanbank, the Accountant, and A proportion of Clerks, with the eldcft Architeft of the Department, have been let apart, folely to ar. range the arrears of the lase Barrack !starter General's accounts, a duty which (if not interrupted by the more fummary pr Iceeding fuggefled by us in our tiril report) is likely so occupy them three if not four year.; arid to -execute the current bal.-ids of the office, the late Affidant Accountant has been re cenily appointed Accountant under the prefent Bar rack Mailer General. Exertion, we are informed, is now tiled in the Accountant's ht inch, to meet the blifinefs of the Department, and t, - ) ke, p the - prefent Barrack Mailer Gene , al's accounts f.om falling into :wear; and, from what has been rri:orted to us, there appears a well grounded hope, that this &Ara ble objeet will be accomplithed Each Accountant receives a Mary of eight hum dred pounds per annum,and the Affillant Aceottn:ant to the Office lour hundred pounds per annum.—(le 6: continued.) THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. TUESDAY, OCTOBER y. PRICE. OP STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK Code's, for mJney, 6 zi—for ace, 641-omsium 6f PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY. isank Stoek Mut Short Aun Bug 13 per Cent R. An flirt India Bond., ts. is 3 per C. Con( 61;}i Fitch Bills. is. a 23 air. 4 per Cent. (hut l)ennium 6it preen. 5 per C. Move 9S 940 Englies Tick‘ts 191 tn. Long Ann. (but Confab for see 62f if Mr. BASILIC°, the Melfenvr,* art ived in town 'ail night, with difpachas from Lord LAUDIRDALS. A Cabinet Council WAS fummoned this morning, to take there difpatches into confederation. It was fitting when this Paper was put to prefs. A gentleman (Mr. CARR), who arrived yefterday from Holland, Rates, that at the time of his embark. Rtion. an embargo was immediately expedled in all the ports of Holland {Abet the Dutch army Was con. centtating ; that a general requifition of every Dutch fubjeCt capable of bearing arms hatf:nen ordered by the King ; and that great apprehentions were enter. I tamed of , the Dutch c , ,all being immediately invaded by the Englifh. Whitt, this gentleman was at Frank fort upon the Main, large bodies of French troops poured into the town, in their route to meet the Pruflians, and, as they marched though the fireets, displayed their accullomed vivacity and confidence. At Weife', which is the Ilrongeft fortification in the new territories of Prince Mutter, the foldien were tardy employed cutting down alt the trees in the neighbourhood, to reduce them to a lev.:l with the glacis ; an order was every hour expelled for demo hitting the houfes that furround the f•tr trefs, at toe molt vigorous preparations were making In:- fullain ing a liege. In many parts of Germany it was con. fidently reported that Jutotas Bnu A►ARTs would. in a few months, afcend the throne of Pr Ala. Mr. tAItR WAS unacquainted with the battle of Calabria, until his return to England. Some letters which were fent to him, containing intelligence of that event, fo en•i nently glorious to the Britith arms, never reached him. Every precaution has, no dt•ubr, been urea by and his agents, t r prevent the kt.owledge of it, but in the fhape of a retrograde vitlory, from teaching his army. The following is an extra& of a private letter to a merchant in London, dated Cochlea, September IS " We are very uneafy In this quarter at the approach of war between France and the Kill of Pruffia The latter ads in cem cert with Firnia, Saxony, Sweden, and Denmark, whole 'orris will be joined to hie. We are prepared here for the march of one hundred thoufand Ruffians through this country, and for theft three weeks part we have had Pruffian regiments marching through the town every day, who are In fetch fpirits, and pant with fetch ardour to attack Bonaparte, that it Is a pl-alure to hear the men talk—fo coufident are they of beating hint. What we the inha bitants have twit to regret is, the ear. (five dearnefs of the ne e:Mules of lite, which will he the inevitable coufequences of the mdf.tite of fa large an arm! ; Indeed prorlfions have al ready osperlenced a conladerable rife every day. Nowt/w -igs we all pry jisevsn to render fuccefsful the undertakings of the King of Prunes ; and may he be happy enough to recover that charade.- which he tarnifhcd a year ago. The alarming and tin jul s tfial le flops followed by Bonacorte have at length opened the Dr3ndad , usli tv:onarch's eyes ; may he be now enabled to let bounds 14, that had man's encroachments, that the world may at length olltaln tte invaluable bleffi.ll of peace. Your country has proved Itfelf worthy of this grand crotch, and will, I am Pure, not abate any thing of that vigorous refinance which fprings, no. :mealy from hatred or contempt, but from the h int of joftice,arri the Inveof rational liberty, Inherent Ina thinking people. It wart with very great mortification we learned, that your Admirals did not faceted in catch* the lira V . TO . ;bt, brother Jerome" The report of a new and brilliant vitiory in Italy, is Rill maintained, and the particulars are laid to be, that the 13ritifh troops did, as the French papers affirmed, evacuate Calabria. Islasssii• and REG. N;Ell advanced into the Calabria , , and we took ad vantage of their being in thole provinces, to debark our troops in their rear, between them and Naples. Salerno is the place ne rr which the debarkation Li rumoured to have taken place. The French upon our landing, were under the neceffity rf meafuring back their Reps, but they were obliged to keep part of their force in Calabria, where the loyalills, in- I creating in liretv , th and cnnfidence, hav e k e pt th em contlantly on the alert. ltscats a was fent In orpolc us: hut I.i, oppolition was as iinfuccefsful as it was at Maida—he was entirely defeated, and himfell mot.. tally wounded. The enemy retreated in great dirt-a -1 der, aud Saictpo and another town were taken pot. P farm of by our troops, The French, in the meld time, were in the highell conflernation at Naples, and were apprehenfive of an immediate inforrettion. • A STRANGE FLEET. Our letters from Yarmouth inform as, that a Change fleet has been leen in the North Sea, but whe ther Dutch or Ruffian is not yet known. Admiral. Rossi:4.4 failed from Yarmouth yeflerday morning. in quell 'of them, and we may faun expeift to receive farther accounts refpeCling them. The following letter contains all Eke pal riculars et known : YARMOUTH, OCTOBER 6. " Yefierday afternoon a friga . te appeared in the Offing, with lignals flying, by which and the 6ring of guns, the announced to Admiral Russest that tie enemy was at fez. All was bottle here to get on board, but the evening doling pi evented the failing of the Admiral with the lquasiron under his com mand till day-light this morning. The whale of the fleet was out of light by eight o'clock, with a (tiff breeze at W. N. W. Various are the reports here— form fay it is the Dutch, others that it i. a Ruffian tpiadron. By the arrival of two packets from Got teobergh, with three Mails, we are informed that on the D..,fger Bank, the Diana packet, Capt. 6vawarr. law five fail of the line and two frigates, one of which cf•.accd the Diana packet two or three hour's oa Thuriday lail, but the frigates had no coloursllya ing. The packet Caw them alfo oa the Friday and Saturday. On the latter day the packet was chaeed for a confiderable time by three large huggers, but by fuperior failing (be efcaped them. The Admiral has the following (hips, viz. Majasrrc, Admiral Russitlia ; AGINCOURT, DICTATOR, Rtsozurror„ Nassau, and S men of wart Cams& (loop, and two gutters." MOP GOTTENBURGH MAILS. The three Mail. alluded to in the above letter reached the Poll Office thi► morning. The following are the only article► they bring worthy of any notice: QQTTENEURGH, SEPT. 17. .1 The BIAVVOV packet, Captain Watts, arrived yederday (-sprat's, with a Ruffian Courier, who is the bearer of important clifpatches for St. Peterilturgh. " SIEPT1141)11 21.---This morning arrived the DOA! ET packet, Captain 1 - liatit:cnis, having . 011 beard Count MICH• 111, tirOACIITIOINt who is us his journey tb St. Pe• ci (burgh. StPTIMBER 29.—The King of Siiiyam is at prefent at Billtufkog, in Scania, the country feat of General ToLs, wilerc !ilfo is the Queen. The Eng. I.th and Ruffian Minifters are escedled loon to join • al him therf s " Letters from Stockholm fltie, that a large Svc .; difli Weft Indiaman has been lately taken off St. Bardillomews, by a French privateer.w LISBON AND MALTA MAILS. By the Lifbon mail arrived yeacrday, Difpatchea l dated the t 9th ult. have been received from Admiral Lord Sr. Veacasr, who at that time was preparing to fail from the Tagus with the whole of his fqua. drop, having ace roplifhed the obje4t of his mifLon to the Court of Litbon, by forming fetch arrange; ments as are deemed calculated to infure the fafety and in tependenet of Portugal. We are not Accurately informed of the nature of the zneafures adopted for the accompli(hment of this imp ntant purpofe ; but whatever they may be. our Minillers are entitled to credit for the attention which they have thus evidently Fatid to the inlet-ens of an old and faithful nby. EXTRACT F • LITTER FROM LIMY, SEPT. 19. .• Lord St. Vincent lull here. It is now afeertainsd, that the obit& of his vim to 1 iflnin was to concert mealures for the lust . rity of the country, Ir. the event o f is being studio I by Bona. pars& The Filo& PeMpotentiaries, Lords St Vincent, Roislyn, and 3trangford, have .1 .liy ..rd long conferences with the Porta lfree Government. The latter difpatched his Secretary to Pato, exprefs. on the isth. Waters appear to go on very will, and not a doobt is entertained of the ultimate fecurity of Portugal. No unfavourable died. have been produced upon the commerce of the two countries." We yellosday announced the arrival of a Mail from Malta (being the firtt fence the new arrangement). private letters, as well as the official accounts, enable us to give accurate particulars of the late ea. plotion at that place. Obtal—We are authorifer! to Rate, that " . 67 ato counts reCrAved from Mahe yeterday, h appears thit the l fs occafioned by the explolion of a powder magazine, which happened on the 18th of July, amounts to— Ruy.i Artillery thirty-Moth Foot MAIICCC froopr V. -40 The number of inhabitants whn fuffered by the explofiop does not exceed 200. &plc hquies, and a finall part of one of the curtains in the town of Vit toriola, on the Cottoniera fide of the harbour, were thrown down." Ref - peeling this difaller, we have alfo received the foil .wing private letters from an Officer of Ea. gineerz, dated— .. 4 MALTA. Atte 4, iBo6. " Yuu will have beard of the melancholy confrquenecs of the explobon of ex, barrels of gunpowder, on the morning of the itth of !aft month, °meowed by the extreme t.me thy and difo• belience of a Non commiffioned Officer of Artillery, who jut loaded Mak in the magazine Itfelf, hatted of carrying them to a diitance for that purpofe, 14 gunners, 26 fuldiers (z 3 of whom were Malttfe ) and about zoo inhatiir ant., were either killed on the fpot, or buried In the ruins of the adjoining fortifications and bnildinia, betides thole wounded. A woman and child only have bc.ti dug uut alive. Belida the fortifications and tni.itary I ~• P ~~