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.... 1! R MINUTES OF EirthEtteig, Mawr saroas THE COSIHR*HIF os simicuu oppigla, 0. • JUNII:irt1810. THE DCII. SOHNifFJAH W:4111) IN THE CHAIR. e.l`. N: WI, Esq. Chairman to the Commissioners of Stamps, ! called in and examined. What is the nature of the office of the Receiver. Cour it of Stamps ?—lt is to roceive all the monies arising out of the duties under the management of the Commissioners of Stamps, to pay the pme into the Bank of England daily, virsuant to an Act 46 Geo. 111. and afterwards to pay it into the Exche quer weekly, and to make up accounts of the Stamp Revenue to be passel before the Auditors. Is the trouble and responsibility attached to the office more than adequately compensated by st. salary tof £BOO per annum should think it is not, on ae eount of the responsibility. Could the business of the office be so arranged as to dispense with the appointment of Receiver. General of Stamps ?--I should think there should be a super intendent Officer certainly in such a department; and lam not aware the business could-be arranged so as to dispense with that appointment. Is it the curoin of the Commissioners of Stamps to allow the distributors of Stamps in the different coun ties to act by deputy ?—Thc rule of the Office is quite the oontrary. The exceptions may he confined to two, stated in the Appendix to the Third Report of the Committee on the Public Expenditure but Ido nat know the ground of those exceptions, as they took place before I came to the Office. Are there any other offices in the department of the Stamps which are sinecures, or executed wholly by deputy, not already regulated and rendered efficient upon the death of the present possessors ?—.The office of Clerk of the Securities has been a sinecure for ma ny years ; it is now vacant • and it is intended by the Board to recommend to the Treasury to promote the Assistant, who now does the business, to the principal office, and to abolish the office of !Assistant. The salary of Clerk of the Securities is £lOO, with other allowances to the amount of about £3O. The salary of the Assistant is A'6o. The office of Stamp Ware house Keeper, with a salary of £2OO per annum, is also a sinecure. Right Hon. GIORGI Ross, a Member of the House, examined. What are the duties of Keeper of the Records in the Receipt of the Exchequer ?—He is entrusted with she safe custody of them, and directing from time to time the making of Calendars and Indexes to them, and rendering them as generally useful to the Public as possible. For more particular information, I de. sire to refer to a Return made by me, printed in the Collection of Reports upon the Records of the Kingdom, which was written by myself, from the knowledge acquired by my attendance upon the (Ivies of that situation; and that at present there are one or more persons attending en that office, under t'ie authority of the Commissioners of ReCords, in ad dition to the Clerks employed by me. I was appoin ted to the office nearly forty years ago, at the recom mendation of a Committee of the House of Lords, from my supposed qualifications for the duties of it. Are you now subject to any attendance on that of fice ?--My personal attendance now is very little ne cessary, especially during the attendance of the per sons employed by the Commissioners of Public Re cords. Would any, and what, inconvenience occur from the abolition of your offic; ?—Some person must be 'in the situation of Keeper of the Records ; they are vary valuable, and of great importance to the Public, and should therefore, in my opinion, be in the custody of some intelligent and respessible person. What is the establishment of your Office ?—Three Clerics, beside the Principal, with salaries amounting to £lOO per annum net. Are you Clerk of the Parliaments ?—Yes ; I hold the office by a grant from the Crown, under a rever sion granted le me, on the death of the late Mr. A. Cowper. I succeeded in the year 1788, in the same germs as, the grant had been made for many centu ries, for two or three lives, to be executed by myself O: deputy. By whom have the duties been performed since you held the office?—By the Clerk Assistant of the House of Lords, under an appointment from me. Would any, and what inconvenience arise from the abolition of your office of Clerk of Parliaments ?--I feel a difficulty in expressing an opinion upon that subject. Has any inconvenience in point of fact, arisen from the office being executed by deputy, during the time yon' have possessed it ?--I believe, not the slightest. Have you ever been called upon to execute this duty in person ?—Certainly not. Mr. Rose delivers in an account of the net Re ceipts of the Clerk of the Parliaments, on an aver., ge of the last seven years, amoumiPg to ie4946. • . BONAPARTE'S COMMERCIAL pomcr. - _ The Right lion. Jean' CweaLr LILItS, a Member of the Howie, examined. _ _ Are you Chief Justice in Eyre iwrth of Trent ? Yes. _ _ - - - What nre the duties of your cffice ?-1 . apprehend, The ancient ditties of the office were, the general kiris. • diction and gwv.rnment of the icing's Forests North ~11 . Trent ; the whole or the greatest part of this jurisdic fon is become ohs , te. I cannot altswer for what j ris • diction may hay , hecn exercised by the other Chief . Juitice, wh,se office is precisely of the same nature ;' but it has not happened to me to exercise any joris-1 ~diction. Licences for inclnsures used to be given un i'itsler the authority t.f . the Chief Justice ; but I have had -.spa applic .tion since I held the office. Would any, and what inconvenience. arise from •,'! the abolition of y ur office ?-- I cannot undertake ro sly that no inconvenience would arise from the aboli -.rah n of an office of great ancient dignity and legal .I . frjorisilictinn; but, as I have before stated, it has not• beau ezereised with any utility its my time. qm; 1 1 , 4 •• • , „Convey /10 hie conscientious feernge that inf o - est e se • ~. How long have yak held the Mice —Since the it . ' &la is the Prnaigintdifinereased and increasing t 'T . syear.lBo6.. - . .. - demand for her good. throughout India and America. concerning . els distressed and crieical condi t in n ...i.; c , , Jaltralircesa,Esq. Fire Clair to the Auditoria the lutes. • In fact it is proved beyond 0 doubt by the rcalste:doubtless nes never yet been fairly laid before lei s , called in and examined. —allr' is authentic public documents, arid by the testimony of • With his powerful arm, with his genius, it re s ., is • What arethe ditties of the Auditor of the Etches t he most intelligent and impartial travellers, that the glee us, utterly to put an ( n.l to th ‘ restraint s nose quer ?--The Auditor makes out instruments called inaustry, the. commerce, the public revenue , and w s i t u we are p erishin g , and to constr u ct a ILA' TyStel l Orieraopursuant to warrants signed by the Lords of cr . e g . y dit of En land not onl have not sustained any 'in unison with the accomplis'.m nt of his g rt .. r . 0.. the Treasury ; in doing which he is to take partici', -diminution, bur, on the contrary, have been increas. i signs. May you enjoy the . incstim ,ble felici t y andthat class of herpopulation is in a state reigning over subjects h ippy, c etteetsl, g ,err ler care that the monies; granted for the public service ing, . every . _, . sire issued is conformity to the votes of Parliament.. of occupation, prosperity and comfore If we re. loyal, and virtuous ! This is the gr • test hl . 5.i.:.; / Cis also a net his dot to transmit to the Auditors verse the picture , what dreadful evils ere suffered cn , which we can implore HitAVEN to conter upon y ou ;1/4 pail y —.—. ofroblic Accounts an account of all monies isued to the Con tinent ? Our ports are closed, our ships can I public Accountants. . . no longer be employed in carrying on that trade be- What part of these duties does the Auditor execute tween different parts which their different circum j. •in person ?—Every instrument originating in or pass- s tances render indispensable, and which cannot be ing through 'his Office is transmitted to him by hie, conduc ted by land carriage. Thus the intercourse First Clerk, for his approbation and signature , except which is essential to the social system of the Conti- Etchequer Bills, which, by an Act of the 48th of the neat cannot be maintained. The Southern nations any person to sign, with the „King, he may appoint approbation of the Board of Treasury. silks, &c. for the corn, the hemp, the linens, the tim ber, the iron, and the tallow* of the Northern. In The Right Hon. G41"4414 Comm:, Receiver-General 44 dki every country there is an accumulation of their stir . Alienation Office, a Member of the House, examined. plus produce decaying and perishing. They are un- What is the nature of your O ffi ce ?—The business able to purchase with it the most necessary foreien of my Office is to receive the fines paid to the King `commodities, and thus they lose all motive and all upon Writs of Covenant and Writs of Entry by per i inclination to exert their own powers of production. sons levying fines of land, or suffering recoveries—. I Another source of distress to the COUtinent is, the these are technically called Pre-fines, and are after- , want of many articles which England furnished, and wards paid by the Receiver-General into the Excites • the privation of which has thrown many industrious quer. The Office also receives fines called Post-fines, i persons out of employment. Raw cotton and yarn, whch are received for the Sheriffs of Counties by the dying goods and different drugs, were articles of this Receiver, and afterwards paid over by the Receiver sort ; an d w h at adds ter the evil is, that the Continent to such Sheriffs, upon their demand. • is not suffered to purchase from America those of them What is the average of the amount of Fines in the which she could supply. The mischievous effects of hands of the Receiver ?—lt fluctuates from between this prohibitory sy stem do not confine themselves to 13 and 14 to between 6 and £7OOO. , one or to a few branches of the trade and industry or Is any security given by the Receiver •?--In point particular nations. All the happiness, all the habits of fact, I have never been called upon for any. I of industry throughout the whole Continent arc affec-i Does the Receiver execute the duties of his °RI ce in ted by it ; every department is pervaded bye...mbar person or by deputy ?--The duties of receiving the • rassments, obstructions, and oppressions et various fines are wholly executed by deputy, whose attend- • sorts. The very means of correspondence by the Post ance at the Office is constant. The custody °I. tie Office, whether upon topics of trade, of literature, or money is in the Receiver. . i i of private business, or friendship, ere restrained by it. What is the salary of the Deputy ?-8170 per an- . Upon the coast, the inhabitants are precluded from num, which is paid by the Principal, leaving the net their old occupation in the fishery ; they lose their salary and emoluments (arising from fees) of the let- ; maritime skill and habits, tlle natura l nursery of sea ter betwe e n 8250 and £ 3OO. men is rendered unproductive, and all hope is taken Would any, and what inconvenience arise from the from the Continent of again becoming able to esta abolition of the Receiver-Generalship ?—I apprehend blish a navy, military or commercial, capable of con that the Office cannot be abolished unless the whole tending with those of England. of that branch of revenue is to be put on a new footsi 66 It is by no means the merchant alone who suffers ing, as the duties of the Receiver-Generalship must; by these multiplied and complicated restraints. Every necessarily be performed ley somebody. i person connected, however remotely, with commerce, (To k continued.) or who has directed any portion of his capital or in dustry to any of its various branches, participates in the calamity, and, by the operation of these measures in restraint of freedom, we see the very sources of rrs DIREFUL EFFECTS ON THE CONTINENT, I wealth and prosperity, one after another, dried up. An article, of which the following is a translation, . Th. acturers, brokers, clerks, agents of every kind,us persons of every description, monied men, ma hasnur been very extensively, though covertly, circulated . rsons d the are-owners, pack- upon the Continent, where it has made a deep impress ' I pe ers ' c ' iers persons sea, b of other occupations, sion. The agents of France at Hamburgh have offered whose bread c and i is taken from them, those who were a reward of 600 crowns to whoever will informs employed in the manufacture of clothing, furniture, against the writers and printers of it; and the posses i &C. in short, the whole of that numerous set of per. sion of a copy is subjected to a penalty of 300 crowns. :. sons who s ubsist upon the wages of the labour which The facts and the reasoning will be found to be extrac- ; the rich have been accustomed to require from them, ted from the very interesting and able work lately i sensibly feel the interruption of the circulations of published by Sir Francis D'lvernois, " Effects of the . - 1 - eommerce, and are already involved by it in different Continental Bleckade upon the Commerce, &c. of the ! British Islander, in which the ruinous operation of that . degrees of distress. Nor is the agricultural part of the community by any means exempt from this distress ; measure upon the Continent, and its complete impo- the husbandman 'in in looks for those customers tence as against this country isindisputably established. who heretofore flocked ra in to him with ready money to " Lamentation: of the Continental Nation: of _Europe upon purchase his wine and the other produce of his soil. the interruption of their Commerce ; addressed to all the "It cannot be wondered at, that in such circum- Primer of that part of the world : stances the countryman is disheartened from sowing ss Sovereigns, Princes, Fathers of Nations!—Deign . his fields and planting his vineyard, and that this ve to listen to the complaints extorted from us by that I glect of cultivation should prejudice for years the pro universal system of prohibition to which our corn.lductive powers of the soil. It would be easy to en merce is subjected. The justice and the high impor. large upon these topics, but surely enough has been .tence of these complaints are sufficiently demonstra. already said to prove that the Continent cannot con. ted by the afflicting condition to which the people of , tinue to support the stagnation which his taken place the Continent are reduced. in the ordinary intercourses of life. 64 Now that this system of commercial warfare , 46 But more than this, how is it t be imagined that against England, from which we were taught to expect nations can continue to pay taxes, impositions, and such mighty advantages, his been carried on for some ` contributions , after the channels of income have been years, we may be permitted to inquire whether it has, closed ? It was a wise observation of Prince Eugene in fact, been productive of any advantage to us? jof Savoy. " Nobody complained of a very great, 1 " Frofi this inquiry, wc shall find that while the ! but very equitably distributed tax, which I proposed .Continent is every day more and more embarrassed,, throughout the whole kingdom, because I at the impoverished, and distressed, Great Britain is advan.; same time afforded it means of increasing its corn cing in a course of prosperity and wealth, and feels' . merce, which had not before been thought of." none o f t h e ruinous consequences of the restraints by I 66 Thus then it is to the interruption of commerce which we are fettered. So fir from it, she every that we must refer the extreme distress -under which •year has been able to render herself more and more the continent of Europe, from one extremity to the independent of the Continent ;to open to herself new other, at present suffers distres: which a continental peace channels of foreign commerce, and to discover within I alone cannot J#C to relieve. herself, new means of supplying all her wants in the " Even those countries of the continent in which same manner as the attempt which was made from the frightful cry of war is not inamediatefy heard, feel 1793 to 1796, to starve France by depriving her of all themselves oppressed and deprived of- their strength, foreign corn, only served to develope her resources, i they are without resources for the present, without and to stimulate her to an improved cultivation of hope for the future. All persons who have the means her own sail. At present hngland is supplied with propose to emigrate to England or America, and corn from America, Barbaty, Sicily, and from her amongst those to whom this plan of relief Is denied,. growth at home, where cultivation is every year ex- how many have already perished under their suf tended and improved. In addition to this, she has levities ! effected a great saving in her consumption, by pro- 44 There is one other consideration, which it can hibiting the use of barley in her distilleries, which are not be believed that governments will regard with now confined to sugar. This is beneficial to her in indifference—the shocking want of integrity and rod . another way, by taking off, at a fair price, that sur- E faith which these privations and distresses arc rapidly plus quantity of sugar which the Continent is pros introducing. Heretofore a ready obedience was paid hibited from receiving. I to laws, because the tendency of those lases was to o Wine. she obtains from Portugal, Madeira, the promote the welfare of the people ; but the new sys- Canary Islands, the Cape of Good Hope, Sardinia, tem which denies to them the means of providing for Sicily, Spain, Greece, and indeed through many chan. their subsistence, reduces them to a sort of stupefac iiels from France itself. tion they can scarcely believe in the reelity of such , " South America furnishes her with hides, and prohibitions, and they alledge their disbelief as an North America with timber ; hemp she gets from excuse for their disobedience. In this way they ha- Bengal, and she will soon raise enough of this article : bituate themselves to a contempt of the lens and the ' for her whole demand in Ireland, where very exten. I public Authority. Whit a host of criminals must sivemarshes have been drained far the cultivation of : such a state of things create ! How many under the it. From thence too, she supplies herself with yarn • influence of want and desperation will have recourse and linens. She has rendered herself independent of to fraud and robbery, and having no legal means of Russia for tallow, partly by the substitution of oil, pursuing their occupations will avail themselves of and partly by the use of inflammable gas. From the those which are illegal! Hence arise false oaths and coal which is employed in the production of this gas, thebribery of the officers employed to enforce the laws, she extracts pitch, tar, rosin, and a sort of turpentine ; so that what little gainful traffic remains is in the and she has discovered that the fish of her own seas most corrupt hands, and the most grievous severity will furnish her with as much isinglass as she may re- , of distress falls with all its weight upon persons of quire. In her silk manufecturies the raw material of the strictest integrity. India and China is found capable of being used with- ! " Princes ! Parents of your People ! Yon, who out the intermixture of any other i and her clothiers . hear their complaints and theirgroans—it isyou whom have been equally successful with British wool. lour prayers invoke—in you our hopes seek a refuge— With- respect to the exportation pf her own pro- ' ' you will be our intercessors—you will bear our la men - 'duce, the European blockade affedts Great Britain so tations to the throne of the Great Napolcoa, you will Ude - that ha manufacturers are scarcely sensible of I • Memoirs et Prince &leen sf'Savoy, Ed. 1809, p. re . rot Inrorma.' . oa hav'n3. b"en received that P arid Mem uas suspected of the murder 01 a Mr. 1 Lint; of Log's Temple, in Ireland, lie was traced Ly Bow4treet offica• t.) his brother's house, ne it Mall, where they obtained an interview by prete.4. l to have a letter lor him from Ireland ; but (11 dis. covering the real purport of their visit, he commenced a shew of resistance, when one of the officers drew a cutlass, the blade of which Hughes rashly seized, and thereby nearly cut off one of his fingers, and traimed his hand dreadfully ; he then surrendered, and u; t i conveyed to Bow-street office, whence he was com mitted for re-examination. On Friday, HumAreys, the officer, followed cos Laurens; a suspected character, and 'moth- r man, into a pawnbroker's shop in Hol'inra, aad of r s• eat altercation starched Lawrence, and lon ad on him se. 'c ral notes, and :t watch chain and .pp rndages, which bad ben stoical tr. nt a gentleman, who had lace, knock dow.t in RAs.: street, C. Gerdf.n. Tl•ry were therefore conveyed to Bow-st: ect, and co:, ted for re-examination. On Saturday, at Guildhall, a young man Was fully committed f r robbing the till of his master, Mr. Kingson, hosier, of Holborn. Mr: Kingson having some suspicion, sent a friend to porehase gon,ls with some marked money, which not tiliiing in the 141,14 taxed the pris'iner with the Oita, W:11 acknowadgsd the fact, and which confession he corrub.irate.!, with much contrition, b-fore the :attgistr Two women were ch.srgeit with ri Shii , g a Mr. Benton of his watch, ott Sitio-day I.(.a g . lane, and two men as their confederates. The wi.men obstructed Mr. Bentnii's passage on the ti )(up ith, bits he pissed briskly by them, And hist:v.lly niissed hit witch, when he g.tve An alarm, and tt e pat tits wets apprehended. The men were, at their own deNite, sent on board the tentkr, and the women contruiitcd to Blitlewell. Saturday, .at Union Hall, T. firahou, for fel'ny J. Relent, for house.breaking ; and IV. Jaques, fur highway robbery, were fully committed. Saturday J. Wieder WAS fully committed, &cm Whitechapel office, charged with driving away a cart containing a quarter and a piece of beef, five lambs, and several cheeps heads, the property of a Mr. Powell, whose wife had the custody of the gods, when the fellow artfully told Fee the butcher of wh,,m she had bought them wished to speak to her, and she left the property in his cate. lie is committed faa two charges, first, for horse-stealing, and secondly, steal. ing the other goods. MAR ktIED. Thursday, the 91. inst. at Newport, In the County of Sake, John Clarke, of Wig.ton Halt, In the Cour. y of Leicest,r, Esq. to Catherine Martha Iladdeley, eldest daughter of I hennas Da/ deley, of Neu port, Esq. On the 4th inst. tl,c Rev. Richard Hartley, of Newcarle•upa. Tyne, to 1 art., daughter of Nathaniel Bishop, of Glusic.ster-place s New-road, Esq. Wednesday se'neight, at Sunderland, Mr. Jane's Evt•ri•t, yreaclier in the methelli.“ connection, to Nils Hittchinson,daugls• ter of Mr. Michael Hutchniaun, aviatr of the pour humor, at Sunderland. lately. at Bath, Captain flamer, oldie North Hants Mifitia,* Mrs. 11111, daughter of the Late R. Lloyd, toy. N Ci. k L.akes, l'ipperar y. Lat..ly, at Kidlington, the Rev. Rober takee;of Goring Hsatk, to Sarah, youngest daughter of the Rev. Aiez. Litchfield, late Vicar of Wadliurst. Susses. Lately, at Some, Gloucrttersitire, George Bourne. Fast. uf 011 ssth R-glnient of Poo:, to Mrs. Bulkeley, orly dat.gliter of tba late IV intent Paty, Esq of BriAnt. Rcv. J. G. Howard. of Burwell, Nerfilk. to Charlotte, thisd dauAhter at Mr. Gur'..ant, uf Mote, Hu:.tingdonslire Key. T. Phillips, M. A. tit V l / 4 ' hitehureh, H. refordshire, to Arse, daughter of John Partridge, Esq. of Poo bridge. in that county. Rev. Rubinson 1.1%;:alt, of Tvlanchest,r, to Miry Aunt, el itst daughter of the Rev. Leeves, rector of Wrioren, burner setslaire. Rcv. J. Gilpin, B.D. vicar of Stockton-on-Ted, Durham, to Mi is Brawn. Rev. John Haygarth, son of DG Haygarth, of Bath, to Sophia, daughter of the Rev. E. Poulter, prebendary of Winchester. Rev. John Whittington, rector uf Cold Aston, Gloucestershire, to Erzabeth, relict of John Reinckle /Cater, Lbq late of Bristol Rev. John Kyran, vicar of Bangor, to Mass A. Owen, socoi:d daughter of the Rev. Edward Owen, rector of Lianiestynt. Rev. Mr..Dodd, to Miss 'kaiser, both of • lee:, I.inculoshlres . • • DIED.. At Madregield, Worcestershire, Lady Deerborst, wife ofLond V:szount Ueerhurst, and daughter of Lord lhauchainp. Her Ladyship has left issue aa only son, George William, born Octo ber ej, i 608. On the Ist instant, In the 9241 year of his age, Mr. Stephei Geary, of Dean's-yard, the oldest ii.habita-t of Wastminste:, haw tug seen a howekeeper in Dean's-yard near 70 year.. On the '26th of July, aged 7u, the Rev. W. Sheershatiks, M. A. formt ell Fellow and Tutor of at. John's College, Cambridge; 11. A. 17667 M. A. 1769; Prebendary of Carlisle ; Rec. or of Ovington, in Norfolk ; perpetual Curate of Schram, is Cutuher land-, and Minister of St John's, dwells. The Rectory of Ori:tg ton kin the sift of the University•of Cambridge. h; (Atelier his, at the Cape of Good Hope ; on board the Rake able, Lieut. Matthias Hawdon, of the Royal Marioes. Re cc ceived a wound at the taking of the isle of rsollihons 01dt terntirated fatally in a few days. Robert Anterson, shoemaker, a native of Ulvirstone, can" . from Carlisle to Lockcrby, about bee o'clock on Setirday *, r• night, and sent for his wife, -a native of Locketby, to an Mo. ik married her, some time last spring. '1 bey lived together at Coen . . near Dumfries, till July, when he in.prodently w nt alio 1 , 1;* land with a married woman, a neighbour's wife, and left ins owl. ' She, highly enraged at his former conduct, said to him, when s SAW him, " How have you the assurance to come where I am' He'replied," that be was come to die beside her, and that he wiseki tie early to-morrow morning, for his heart was In eh, ." 14 her Air spoke of the other woman to bitn,.he said he was ... mood, d witl. t 0* morse of conseecce, and the recollectusti of her home went whit; heart like a knife. Us told the landlord to 'end ow Li. wire s teal time, for ha should pot be able to speak ai:y of er nine o'clock.--, Whilst casting olf 11'4 cloatha he said," 7 ii.st sits it weer ge et riVar • The landlord obseryed, " I hope you arc ~or goes to :shrews! your own life." He replied, " God I.:rlndl 1 have ro w.ch n:* tendon." Abate nine o'clock at night L•.• took a In. iii.d c'' tinued in It till nearly five nest moining, wlseu be a sp.r.ll. ile 1 I had ell; nothing for three days, except the half of a penny km'• though he had money enough about him. '1 he sorgeors tioi , l; I saw no appearance of his having taken poisou, or any thing w...... ever to hasten his death. -- HIGH WATER AT LONDON BR ID ai I 0-11,10RIWU • Mortil.:g-.......... 25 nom te• atzer Afternnon ..... ... 5 • a LONDON Printed and publt.littl by LEVI. I . ..qran-Orrzca, No. 1, Carsrstr•rt, and eit shit IST.ts ill , • 1 smile-tar. .- ... ... , . . , , .° - I Hew long have ritlaiiii ire 01Bea8-sl•ee ale 'it. SINECURE OFtIcES. ritr.lBo6.• • de —.....,..., , usereat,ipaxx,Esq. Fine Clef& to the Auditelief the tubesiner, • MINUTES OF EXIISERCiI, called in and exandned. ai mum Bayous THE coathiMajp oto . .sissioun rorpiqsa, . What are the duties of the Auditor of the Etches 6 s • Just.lBlo. - • THE DOE. SOHN .4NILLIAti W:4111.0 IN THE CHAIR. Oriersopursuant to warrants signed by the Lords ot a ......... , the Treasury ; in doing which he is to take portic', e. F. I\ : nut, Esq. Chairman to the Commissioners of Stamps, . . far care that the monies; granted for the public service in F coiled in and examined. What is the nature of the office of the Receiver• l i are issued in conformity to the votes of Parliament. Of Getter ii of Stamps ?—lt is to receive all the monies .It is also a part of his duty to transmit to the Auditors v arising out of the duties under• the management of 'of Public Accounts an account of all monies isued to t n i l • the Commissioners of Stamps, to pay the came into' Public Accountants. . the Bank of England daily, virsuant to an Act 46 I What part of these duties does the"Anditor execute t ! Geo. 111. and afterwards to pay it into the Eoche- iin person ? —Ever y i n strumen t ori g inatin g in or pass- ''.. Revenue to be passe-1 before the Auditors. `, quer weekly, and to make up accounts of the Stamp I in g th ro ug h • his O ffi ce is transmitted to him b y Ida, First Clerk, for his approbation and signature. except " Is the trouble and responsibility attached to the Exchequer Bills, which, by an Act of the 48th of the _ 1 office more than adequately compensated by Is salary King, he may appoint any person to sign, with the ' Si ef 4800 per annum ?.,..-I should think it is not, on ac- approbation of the Board of Treasury. b eount of the responsibility. The Right Hon. CLOMPS Ciitintno, Receiver-General of the es Could the business of the office be so arranged as Alienation Office, a Member of the House, examined. P I to dispense with the appointment of Receiver. General What is the nature of your O ffi ce ?—The business i al of Stamps ?--I should think there should be a super- ; of my Office is to receive the fines paid to the King ` c+ intendant Officer certainly in such a department; and I upon Writs of Covenant and Writs of Entry by per. I it lam not aware the business could-be arranged so as sons levying fines of land, or suffering recoveries—. ~ A I to dispense with that appointment. these are technically called Pre-fines, and are after- ! vi Is it the curoin of the Commissioners of Stamps to i wards paid by the Receives-General into the Exche- ; t i allow the distributors of Stamps in the different awn- i quer. The Office also receives fines called Post-fines, ; „ ties to act by deputy ?—The rule of the O f f i ce is quite whch are received for the Sheriffs of Counties by the 'a the oonsrary. The exceptions may he confined to , Receiver, and afterwards paid over by the Receiver sr two, stated in the Aepandix to the Third Report of to such Sheriffs, epon their demand. is the Committee on the Public Expenditure 1 but Ido , What is the average of the amount of Fines in the v , not know the ground of those exceptions, as they took hands of the Receiver ?—lt fluctuates from between t i place before I came to the Office. 113 and 14 to between 6 and £7OOO. I o Are there any other offices in the department of the i Is any security given by the Receiver .?—ln point P Stamps which are sinecures, or executed wholly by of fact, I have never been called upon for any. 1° deputy, not already regulated and rendered efficient ! Does the Receiver execute the duties of his office in t 4 upon the death of the present possessors ?—.The office ' person or by deputy ?--The duties of receiving the r of Clerk of the Securities has been a sinecure for ma- , fines are wholly executed by deputy, whose attend- • ri , ny years ;it is now vacant ; and it is intended by the ance at the Office is constant. The custody of the c Board to recommend to the Treasury to promote the money is in the Receiver. i 1 0 Assistant, who now does the business, to the principal I What is the salary of the Deputy ?—ati'l 70 per an- c office, and to abolish the office of Assistant. The I num, which is paid by the Principal, leaving the net ti salary of Clerk of the Securities is £lOO, with other ! salary and emoluments (arising from fees) of the Lit- n allowances to the amount of about 450. The salary ' ter between 8250 and tO3OO. i n of the Assistant is 460. The office of Stamp Ware- Would any, and what inconvenience arise from the h house Keeper, with a salary of 4200 per annum, is abolition of the Receiver-Generalship ?—I apprehend b also a sinecure. that the Office cannot be abolished unless the whole ti bight Hon. Groasa Ross, a Member of the House, examined. ' of that branch of revenue is to be put on a new foot-, What are the duties of Keeper of the Records in ing, as the duties of the Receiver-Generalship must b the Receipt of the Exchequer ?—He is entrusted with necessarily be performed by somebody. i i p she safe custody of them, and directing from time to ( To k continued.) a time the making of Calendars and Indexes to them, — d and rendering them as generally useful to the Public t 8 ONA P ARTE' S COMMERCIAL polder. as possible. For more particular information, I de. ,it -- sire to refer to a Return made by me, printed in rrs DIREFUL EFFECTS ON THE CONTINENT, 1 w the Collection of Reports upon the Records of the An article, of which the following is a translation, ' ; I I Kingdom, which was written by myself, from the knowledge I acaired b m attendance upon the has been very extensively, though covertly, circulated (Ivies of t y ir.st sit u ation; a y d that at present there are upon the Continent, where it has made a deep ;mores- tt i el k' n ore or more persons attending on that office, under von. The agents of France at Hamburgh have offered the authority of the Commissioners of ReCords, in ad- a reward of 600 crowns to whoever will inform :e7 against the writers and printers of it; and the posses- a &inn to th e Clerks employed by me. I was appoin- sion of a copy is subjected to a penalty of 300 crotus. : 54 ted to the office nearly forty years ago, at the recom- The facts and the reasoning will be found to be extrac- . ti enendatian of a Committee of the House of Lords, ted from the very interesting and able work lately from my supposed qualifications for the duties of it. Are you now subject to any attendance on that of- published by Sir Francis D'lvernois, " Effects of the !, Continental Bleckade upon the Commerce, &c. of the • d - ice ? -- M y personal attendance now is very little ne - British Islanda," in which the :vinous operation of that . cessary, especially during the attendance of the per- c measure upon the Continent, and its complete impo- ti suns employed by the Commissioners of Public Re- tence as against this country is indisputably established. cords. si Would any, and what, inconvenience occur from " Lamentation: ofMe Continental Nation, of Europe upon p the abolition of your offic: ?—Soine person must be the interruption of their Commerce ; addressed to all the 'in the situation of Keeper of the Records ; they are Prince: of that part of the world : s wry valuable, and ef great importance to the Public, " S overe i gns , P r i nces , F at h ers o f N at i ons !—D e i gn i ll and should therefore, in my opinion, be in the custody to listen to the complaints extorted from us by thatlS of some intelligent and responsible person. ! universal system of prohibition to which our corn- I d What is the establishment of your Office?—Three' merce is subjected. The justice and the high impor. 1 Clerks, beside the Principal, with salaries amounting .tance of these complaints are sufficiently demonst r a. a to £lOO per annum net. ted by the afflicting condition to which the people of , t Are you Clerk of the Parliaments ?—Yes ; I held the Continent are reduced. i she office by a grant from the Crown, under a rever- " Now that this system of commerci:tl warfare' .aion granted to me, on the death of the late Mr. A. against England, from which we were taught to expect r Cowper. , I succeeded in th e y ear 1788, i n t h e same such mighty advantages, has been carried on for some c 'terms as , the grant had been made for many centu- years, we may be perinitted to inquire whether it has, , c ties, for two or three lives, to be executed by myself in fact, been prodective of any advantage to us? I c os deputy. " Froth this inquiry, we shall find drat while the t I By whom have the duties been performed since you Continent is every day . more and more embarrassed, . t held the of f ice?—By the Clerk Assistant of the House i m po v e r i s h e d, an d distressed, Great Britain is advan. I s of Lords, under an appointment from me. ding in a course of prosperity and wealth, and feels' . I Would any, and what inconvenience arise from the none of the ruinous consequences of the restraints by abolition of your office of Clerk of Parliaments ?-1 which we are fettered. So fir from it, she every t feel a difficulty in expressing an opinion upon that year has been able to render herself more and more t ' subject. independent of the Continent ' • to open to herself new , ( 'Has any inconvenience in point of fact, arisen from ch a n n els of foreign commerce, and to discover within I 4 - the office being executed by deputy, during the time herself, new means of supplying all her wants in the -- you . have possessed it ?—I believe, not the slightest. same manner as the attempt which was made from , t Have you ever been called upon to execute this 1793 to 1796, to starve France by depriving her of all . t :duty in person ?—Certainly not. .. foreign corn, only served to develope her resources, I 1 Mr. Rose delivers in an account of the net Re- and to stimulate her to an improved cultivation of • 1 ceipts of the Clerk of the Parliaments, on an her own sail . At present Lngland is supplied with I aver.. ge of the last seven years, amoumieg to 1 corn from America, Barbels?, Sicily, an d from her : 44946. growth at home, where cultivation is every year ex- i 1 t The Right Hon. Jesse Greasrg VI min l Llers, e a Member of the tended and improved. In addition to this, she has II Moro, exad. Are you Chief Justice in Eyre math of Trent ?-- effected a great saving in her consumption, by pro- i Yes. hibiting the use of barley in her distilleries, which are II What are the duties of your cffice ?-1 • apprehend, now confined to sugar. This is beneficial to her in :' i another way, by taking off, at a fair price, that sur- i :the ancient ditties of the office were, the general je r is. plus quantity of sugar which the Continent is pro- i diction and gevernment of the King's Forests Dort;, .)f Fine, Trent ; the whole or the greatest part of this jurisdic- hibited from receiving. fon is become obst‘lt tee. I c annot altswer for what joris- she obtains from Portugal, Madeira, the ! 1 • diction may have bean exercised by the other Chief Canary Islands, the Cape of Good Hope, Sardinia, . Justice, whose etfice is precisely of the same nature ; Sicily, Spain, Greece, and indeed through many elm- but it has not happened to me to exercise any joris- eels from France itself. , !I sediction. Licences for inclnsures used to be given un- " South America futnishes her with hides, and i;,der the authority of the Chief Justice ; but ! have had North America with timber ; hemp she gets from 'sour applic .tion since I held die office. Bengal, and she will soon raise enough of this article • for her whole demand in Ireland, where very men- I . Would any, and what inconvenience, arise from the abolition of y ur sive marshes have been drained for the cultivation of • .s! office?-- I cannot undertake to it. From thence too, she supplies herself with yarn -filly that no incenveatence would arise frnm the aboli- and linens. She has rende r ed herself independent of -.r. eit n of an office of great ancient dignity and legal Russia for tallow, partly by the substitution of oil. , ' 174jerisilictinn; but, as I have before stated, it hes soot been exereised with any utility in my time. and partly by the use of inflammable gas. From the coal which is employed in the production of this gas, --.- she extracts pitch, tar, rosin, and a sort of turpentine ; "JUNE 6, 1810. - ?ROMA, DAVIS LAOIS, EAR. I IntrClerk ID AO SOOretiry Of and she has discovered that the fish of her own seas stare's OSee, aid in and examinoi, will furnish her with as much isinglass as she may re- , — What aee the duties of •th.it office, as performed by quire. In her silk manufacturies the raw material of you ?-6ince my app' iniment, khave not been called India and China is found capable of being used with- upon to perform any. out the intermixture of any other ; and her clothiers Are-theee any dotes which you conceive yourself have been equally successful with British wool. ' • liable te bevelled up , nto perform i—l have been told " With• respect to the exportation of her own pro- i , there are duties, but 1 hit * rue been obis to suer- 'duce, the European blockade affedts Great Britain so loin *hat they wort. ' - • Ude - that her manufacturers are scarcely sensible of ' . . , . . . , - Nit' It JefUrtt it reS.l Ants ett,4, r sl ster4 s gre a -. 0.. felicity g st. Ton you'. ttt P itri4 Ar. I lam; ced Ly tun ne tr preten J 1 but t•n (E S . 'nnlm enced :ers drew a seized, tali n 1 traimed I, and was was C(.111. Unwed ens nth r man, al s• nis on hint se. ages, which ) had la yr, 1'1•(`V co:, [n was fully natter, Mr, son having ;00,Is with t the 141,14 rate,!, with slag a !4r. , i,t I.(.ag. .men ntii ith, but missed hit at tits wer• ,ten desite, ;omitted to "JUNII 6, 1810. ?ROAMS DAVIS LAMS, Eln. SW ODA In the Secretary of State's Mee, cellist in sad esaralmi. — What a•e the duties ni•tbat (Ace, as performed by you ?-6ince my app imment, I have not been called upon to perform any. Are-there any duties which you conceive yourtelt Itable to bevelled up , n to perform I—l have been told ,;o;ere are duties, but 1 hav neves been aWs to suer -1.41044 irbat they woes.