Star. — London, England, 1817-04-21 00:00:00

• discontinued, in pursuance of the suggestions con tained in that Report. Your Committee conceive, that in am %tore ap pointment to the office of Deputy Secretary at War, a salary of £1,500 per annum, with an inerease of £5OO a-year, after a continuance in his office of tea years, will be sufficient; and they also venture to re. commend £l,OOO as a proper salary for the first and principal Clerks.. . - . lii iddition to the establishment of this department, which; including 019426. the charge of the branche• employed in the eXA initiation of accounts for the period to arrest, amounts to 060,802; the compensations and 'retired allowances, enumerated in p. 67, and forming the sum of 86,771, must be regarded as a very buy. burden ineidenta to the charge.of this office. Your Committee, however, have considerable satkl• faction in contrasting the state of the current accounts of this office, with that of the period when the Com mittee public expenditure, in the year 1811, no ticed " the disordered and disgraceful state in which the accounts of this great branch of public expendi ture has been for so many years suffered to remata." In the current accounts the arrest is inconsiderable, and by the more modern and judicious arrangement, a considerable portion of the establishment had been transferred, (without any interruption of thccurrbat business,) to the examination of the perils's in onnfas brovhich means nearly the whole of the outstanding :accounts from the year 1784 to the year 1797 have been settled:; and-the Committee have tease to ex per4 that the'settlemect of those now outstmding foe the period betweeea the years 1797 and (810 will take place with as much expedition as the difficulty of investigating accounts which have rentaised so 100 unexamined wilrpermit. The hours of attendance are stated to he kora ten to four, as they are in the Pay Office. The number of persons ittiployed in examining accounts in the War.Offickend the charges arising therefrom, in the entrel years from 1813 to 1817, appear by annexed PaPers. MEDICINES, its. _ The charge of medicines and surical matorials io Great Britain and Ireland amounted, for the year 1616, to £60,266, which is -reduced in the current year to 026,466- VOLUNTEER CORPS. Your Committee would not have thought it requi site to snake any remark on the estimate for ply and contingent allowances to volunteer corps of yeomanry, were they not desirous of bearing their' estimony to the great utility and importance of that species of fore:, for the maintenance of order and protection of • 'property, supported as it is by a comparatively small exPense, and calculated to keep alive the ancient spi rit of the nation, is the quarter where it is most desi rable and most useful. They therefore 'highly ap prove of the addition of 01 to each individual of this • body. the allowaltcel having been previously reduced from 04 a-year to 42. TROOPS IN PRANCE. It dies not appea r to your Committee that their dutycalls o a theta to enter into any detail respecting the army stationed in Prance. The estimate points out a diminution of the ex pense.: the numbers of :hip army will soon be reduced • by k MO, via. from $O.OOO to 4,000 men tied it is natletneod that - all practicable retren ' are how nialdiftylia coati tbsaB not ,of tbu , troops., . • 1 .•.•:; Your Committee have great satisfaction is that no part of the charges of ibis force have Whored fallen An !VS COMM, 1 and they are enabled to add a confident and well-grounded expectation, that the *tole will continue to be defrayed oat of the sums , contributed by the Government of France, according tnther ovhionsof the Treaty.of Pails Of 20th No •ventber, 1815 ; hi addition to the 15 millions of francs (01.000.000 sterlioi) recently bestowed by his Royal. Mahan' the Prince Regent on the gallant army who* cooquered at Waterloo, and captured Paris. • REGIMENTS IN THE EAST INDIES. 'II* stoops serving within the territorial possessions . 'For ..the East India Company do not fall under the . coneldwation of loot Committee, as the whole ex pense is borne by the &span, ; but, - with regard to* • the remaking sereise, for which a charge appears in . the minutes of 017,826 cleirly inadequate to cover . the expenses it appeirs• that an arrangement has been. snide *r the payment; and the computed charge far recruits transferred to the Company's sn ow, areas the ej a i• 1799 to 1115, is credited to Go vetnetloat .1. ibe sectwat.with the East India Cosa. rely, promoted to die House on the 28th of . Iday l last, as follows s— .• Pelodpol, portly miaow! too° lottmot - • . a .t 4 1 3 0 , 0 Tv/ rtgin%ente of dragoons, and finis:Wallops of ere untiei order tp . rifturn, which - Will reduce the anoint of fores stationed. in the eeirlinrial . psys. adssAine of the'Eastindia COinpally 10 . 4 nearly -sow, -'roviskir-bff Ellgitartliet aeloogingeo then Ovoillogekrborm . I .40 coteMIT. ap.“) , the period.g. Abe: leading, , "Nos rediteump.ot ..nuoibera -to the extent of these eightiesis eteAhattations will take places so that no charge . can fall on tho public beyond the pay and elkiwasees requisite for she short period of effecting that:reduction. . . 'FAY OF GENERAL omens. . In proceeding to remark on this and several!), the subseqoeist beads of the Estimate, • your Committee think it slicessary, in the first instance, to press upo n the serious attention of the House, the amount of the allowances of the Army, Irtbi:ll have reference to • remuneration tor past services, with a view to their reconsideration prospectively j and to observe upon the very great proportion which these allowances, •Msonnting nearly to 42,400,000, beauto 46482,000, shagross sum proposed to be voted *the present year teethe support er the Military Eatablislasents of the -Country- • fl aggregate expense of - this system has appeared to be Niel), as so lead year Committee to inquire how far tiro public could be protected from its progressive increase in proportion to future promotions, by any change in the existing regulation, which might at the same time effeetthe gradual reductional. the present charge to a more moderate scale of expense f with oat keeling faith thirsted' the individuals td whom voted. Your Committee ship provisiuil has been have great satistactilm in log enabled to State to the i House, as the result of their nfinities on this bead, that it is In the implamplatios of the pips* dapartl meat so motlel . T tie *bag erAlt e r u c2 thig this unattached Sy, instead el ' to who marbe promoted to the rank of General .4411 henceforward be granted to a fixed sod liesksiritsak. 'see only = to which number the - prams bat will be gradually reduced, either by casualties, or by the officers now receiving this provision Wag appointed to the command of 'existents. GARRISON& The Estimate for 1817 is less than that for 18141, in consequence of some vacant app s not having been, and not being intends td be filled up t such as a Barrack-Master-General ('or Scotland, a Garrison Sur/alp at Edinburgh. and same other small reductions on the establishment of the Home, Garisons. fn the garrisons in North America, MO* various appointments are not continued in 18171. such as • Garrison Surgeois and Barrack Masters, which have ceased to emit on their former footing. The Irish Garrisons vary but litde. The charge fur 1817 is also effected. by* day's pay less than in 1816 for leap year. Upon carrying back the comparison of this head of charge to the year 1792, it appears that tissulif fennel" in favour of the present year ii between selS,ooo and 4816,000. • • PULL PAY roi itrrtuu, OFFiCER4.III. Almost all the persons provided for in this Esti mate Weft Ores, wbo from wounds or Intheoities 1 .contracted on dug, were incapable of aciiveiervicei• 'The several corm to which they belonged w!es midi tees. .poied of soldieq nearly of the same descri S Owl by the letters il service for thosing ' the or Invalid Corps t tr cfpilly by a calfut . sioners), tbel.) c rs, were promise` toll . • * ois 'dis bandment. Ttitie Invalid Corp s e *a *flied rw-. they looked upon ns llotonrable situation 0 mire. meet for the veteran O ffi cers. • 1 Some of them Officers, however. *empipetd the Retired Lin,. from actual=ity for any fur. tiger military dams. The pr of the °Sens of Veteran and Invalid Corps 414 riot germ by bray*. HALF PAY, AND MILITAItY ALUFWANCEL The proportion of charge in the present Estimate under the head of Halt Pan arising from the loans/ granted io June, 1814, may be reckoned at about £105.000 for the British Establishment ; but no exact estimate for the Irish Establishment can be given s without waiting for a return, from Ireland a the amount of that increase may in the meals time be supposed about atopoo: . FOREIGN HALF PAY. Tie half pay and reduced allowantles to Officers of disbanded Esreign Corps have no: been granted. upon any uniform system which strictly-applies to all ; but some sort of principle has prevailed, to 104 e them only to those whose set vide has ezteaded to the period of ve years, or whose regiusenti had so long' served. In some cases half pay has been allowed to those Officers only who had been readied frees other regiments, in which they would have ben entitled thereto : the other Officers receiving' u disbanding 11441ey, train three months to the* years inn pay, according to. the periods of their ferrite. It fano be observed, that. the folloyfina claims- at Officers are allqviedtennotinse their htlfipay ispuiripryy. the geactl , roler of . • - resew( (sidAF AI Act siti k cap. fis) deem fee the lose of • 011eete 4 die Itturi Denman Logien et Fwd. *mem Bamako, serving Woe Hasoweelaa areres ' Olken of die llniestekk Cope, In dee Ifilleli - eria" aimed fee die proketeleu of else doailolitai of die Duke of briaufwisk. Sorbs Oilcan and in the Swiss .PAShIa. • • • • Ogeora reviving penmen. from tha French Oaswomettr, pro vided so wren be attached to Mk ?miens. IN AND OUT OF CHELSEA AND - KILMAINHAM HOSPITAUS. The increase in the current year ' as compared with the last, is not 'finite 112,600 for the la-Pensioners; but with regard ti the amount of she expel'se attest 'ping the,Out•Pensiosers, it is necessary toaster into considerable detail, embracing the information which' your Committee bare called fir from the Paymaster-' General and the 'Aecristary at War. The Pi/master- General of thekorces holds in rum of • his pueblo the office of Trebsurer of Chelsea Hospital ; he pre sides at the Boards which are held for the general bu siness of the Hospital; and attends the examination of discharged soldiers, Who claim either in respect of service or disability. to be placed upon the pension list. By the Act of 46th Geo. 111. esp. 69, persons dr, , enabled to inliit in the infantry for a limited period of seven yeari, to - reinVst for a second period at *even years, and for a third period of seven years. In the cavalry, for a first period of ten years, • second of seven years, and'ir third of seven years. They are to bientided . tii'their.discharge fit; the espiretion o f . aey hf *tie' pitloth . Ot service s. and fettber M.Suelf pensions for theffseviceir as his bleiesty, by goy re. , g clarions 'to be' filmed is cortiequenee 4 dill&Ori, might Cathie*. to allow. • • - 7 i .., .• By a . wersitiklar I%i Majesty of 7th October, 186(1; j 1 a pension cif &Li pir day was grasped to privates were; were disebargediMtd had served their seteliff#efiod; vie:ioniseen years in the infasti7, or wars ears in the cionfirri and a pension of Is. per day is:those who were discharged, and had served their.third pe riod, viz. twentren years in the infantry, or ptenty four yearsin the cavalry. • - In addition to these rates of pen s i on . all tho s e who have served beyond the third period are to be allow. ed ore halfpenny a day for every year of service, after the expiration of the third period a and in esti mating the number of years service for the pension. two years service In the East or West Indies reckon as three years in any other part of the world,. • ' And. subsequently all soldiers present at the battle of Waterloo hare been allowed, by direction of his. Royal Highness the Prince Regan, 31st July, 1615; to add two years to their term of 'service, is eui mating the amount of pension which they cicici: There is .also is regulation, by which soldiers dis- charged during their second or third period of ser vice, are to be allowed, upon registering their names ,in a book to be kept at Chelsea, to reckon every two .years which may elapse alter such discharge as tqui vacate* one of service ; and to receive the pension , belonging to the 'second or third period of service at 'the enination Of. the' nanaber s of years . whi c h are re ini.site in .c6n4late:at u h. periods of s erv i ce respec tirely I nigh: discharged soldiers tains 'liable to be called tilion to attend owners, • and i s time of war to begnrolled, W found &for t&titeh, In the vette' n betudNni. Easkyear irons . the period of the first discharge till that of being oiled again itset sirOice, is tanned a year of ablest*. ..- This regulation appvais to have been so little un dentood by the soldiers, that up to the 9:h of De. amber lasts only 277 men had tendered their names, with the View of *obtaining pensions under that regu lation I and none bed proposed to take advantage of it until the rtgulatiod was communicated to Com =wales Officers, Who time directed to promulgate it in their respective regiments. The only other important'altoration which was in;. troduced by the new systein tif 1806, in respect of. psalm, was a considerthlit increase given bt the same regulations in consequence disabilicy or in firmity contracted in service; as to which the Com itilatiesers of Chelsea Respite', in fixing the amount of pension, exercise their discretion, within certaie prescribed limits, according . to the nature of the callsl But as to the pension for service, no discretion is vests ed in them ; it having been the intettion of thetAct, and the regulations founded upon it, to confer upon the soldier x legal claim to a pension according to a fixed rate, and of which he cannot be deprived. ex- Opt by the sentence of a General Court Islartiol. The amount of the Out-pension at Chelsea His phi", in 1806, six months previous to the new regu lations being adopted, was, upon 21,11'11 Alen, £179,902. Bs. 4d. per annum ; six months subse quent to the regulations, en 20,805 men, the amount was 0347,862. 10s. . 7 ln 1798, previous to the War, the Chelsea Oat pinion was, upon 20,596 men, £157,739. 1.54.- autl the annual amount of it at. Michaelmas, 940, i upon 51,591 men*, 4884.659. 10s. Bd. The pea lion at gilipainhaes, ia'l79B; was, upon 2,550 men, 44160 t u was ac Michaelmas, 1818, upon 10.031 men, at159,870 r . tpaltiegi with 48884,6.59. 10s. BJ. the amount of the Chaim pend4o, £1,044,529. Bd. or in inmate in both establishments, occasioned by the war, 18870,710; per minim. RO/Al. MIT.= ASYLVM. Of the lke;:k sviditary Asylum, your Cantinittee need say no snore, than to express their general'ap probation of the economical manner in which it is conducted, annexing the substance of the regulations for its government, and a return of casualties since' it was established in IsOs.. The object of the Institution, is to provide for the it maintenance and education of a certain finagler of orphan and other children of the non.aminiv.:- officers and privates" of•the army. • . • In theigeliction of the children for admission, fame it siege,. • IW. To orphitts. I& To time *best tethers have beneutlei, liken Aled as he* envies. N. To those who hove test that mothers, and whose fathers mama ow shay abroad. - •• *h. to those whose [schwa are entered en. Amigo *woke, ar whose perms have other children to maintain. r • The ari as which the children are admitted into ie Asylum, is vegetated by the circumstances sestet *Abe printed forms of Petition and Cutificate a • Itati et the Asylum; but thew* a brand) of Ail establishment in the fsla pi. Wight, lee the reception of children of the eattlest tie. The continuance in the Asylum, either of boys or gbh,' it limited "to the age of ioutseen. TlaTare tau ht reading, writing, and the hat Mee * d'ir itllha e,"micordiziltia &Wri t Minn* 46 , 40011.m0i Oar ar• In the trades of sboe4lakers,,teilnes t eap-enakers,dec:l 4 they makii and mend alt thii Principal articles of their own deist, end theriby very rhaterially knelt the then, pens* of .thee institution. They are taught alilo . t4 march, and some other parts of military exercise, without arms& and all thou proceedingi are directed With military *III and regularity. At the age . 01 14, the boys have their choic e , e i t h er of being appren ticed to trades, or Of going into the army ; and the girls are also apprenticed out at the same age. Both are at such times completely clothed. to an extent suited to their nuance s and take with them a Bible, a Prayer Book, and a Whole D u ty o f M an . The children are of coarse clothed during the whole dose of their remaining iti the Institution. COMPASSIONATE' LIST, 110UK11" WARRANTS, AND, PENSIONS SOK WOUNDS. Allowances to officersrounded on service, hart' been pot upon a new footing since the battle of Wu. terloo, 1816; which entails considerable expense opal the public, withoot keeping that exact gritdatien which was apparently theobject of it. The inequality 'of the rule will be evident by putting the case of any young officer, so far disabled in action as to be ab: whitely incapable of following his profession, who dress remain with thepension attached to the rank Which he held when he received, his wounds; while another of the same_age and rank, less injured by sitoemilsa, and not impel* 91.. continuing in the see -I.!fice, receives on.iimpneotittioo of his , pension accor- Illiog so she successive stops whicb he spay obtain ie nik. Tbere seems tt .13e suitl.cr season nor equa. el in 'such A. Virg a uZ i on this • which requires t o: reconsidered, limp to be replaced upon its fir' looting. :4).4; le grants of Bcanstri - Warrants are to be under •stiscid as generally. confisesi .to the relatives of offi. cers killed in action, or dying from the immediate affects of fatigue on service, and to the relatives rif General Officers, who have no other adequate provi sion s leaviog it of cbune still open for a departure from this rule in any iodividuid instance of particular service or of extreme distress. The circunutances of each case are stated to the Secretary at War, by whom the same are particularly investigated, sad then submitted fur the Royal consideration. COMPAtiaIONATE LIST. Minima OBJECiII OF THE filuart. ckildres at Officers of the Regular Army. who die cm lull pay. Onions of lireccible Regiments who die ou tail pay .114 fat of Great Dritaim Officers of the Invalids. • Medical Officeis. fl.aff Officers, including Con nuance. Cliaplatos. • Officers who have beau reduced upon half-pay. Widows * sad Chill.lati at . Adjutalas of Local Militia, who had previously' served as Olken in the Line. Widows of Officers not strictly entitled to the Regular WI • dews' Perinea have been placed no tb.s List at cases of particular die tees, and in mane special m ass at rates equivalent to such Peugua 'fbesa allowances are in no case considered as being granted iur life. bin 'Otily so long at, the per ' .Vpiin the disbaminwat abet the Leo Years War in 1763, the number of Chelsea Pessimism were l tOuti, and the amount IA theft pedaloes 4112,100 pit sanuns. After the American mrar, the namben win UAW ablelic moons of pension about tei6n,ooo. loom erjoying them sham unprovidea for danghtets oldie/el Cease to receive . 1 1 Upon their maw tym, unless they c.in stww i n tisfactory manner oat they Are still m to, tini %t4 ,„ to require the assistance of ih.• b unity, whet: t are sometimes allowed to retail, it by spe( . in: SiOo to that effeat. The sons (eltcrot 1:1 cases of tq. 41111 or bodily infirmities whale sucipacitai, them to. sobtaining a livelihood) are tiff ilt.• list on Il k , outaining the ags.of !V 4,r uir sectivA4 VillittiOus in the Army or N itry, or ther Stith may be supposed to afford apt vuition ; .I n c rurally, all persons oil the List are d.scon lit being known at the War (Mice, tiiat ttn, 'cled for in a aay to render thi, ittasary,,, Persons.ctasing to apply to t mike.' I. tow year,, are also, eonsistutid As gitlsi g iv LI , claim to the allowance, and - their mime* A g e of the List. SVP/RANNVATICNT Al.l.o%cANCfs. Upon the allow•oces,. cuaweliNation., dients in the nature s of auperano.itii., .., A C4l!iki I T. bk increase. is tube abser . veil. Thz- a.. L... lot is:ti„ was 417,964; it is tot;' this year 415,666, accoinited tier by the vricus raJtictioni. whirls I , been mule in some of i!seuepart,,,,,,; t ,, c ,. for tumpensations or i : A ret_re_ .(.11, .„.(es :•, Show oh.. have been Itithe , t, , service; but this head tst should aiwdyeti, : wa 4 :clied with peculiar 40.1 the injunc , colt.iinert in the letter kn.-. tie treasury in ;8;6 . wbich presci airs that fto t allow .nc• uld be vflthip•any deplyrtment what:rut oven 0! / - *about' the speci;ll - sanct.i:n IT the . stairets of the . I.'see,ui"), 5h. , 41.1 u. ti.i bi departed hon.. EXCACQU'It rift 'On the charge of 435,!") for Exci your Commot tee obserre with mut h $ consequence of the 'l.lte gehifOtli art d.r of the distinguished Noblembi, Who hois's 'rellership which continued tqx.rt the oiu ... • lueft,•tlin while produce of these FeLs, w isscousiderible eaceptis tie, is eIOW tional purposes, in conformity to the Act, kr Ilating the Exchequer, 23d of the King, c. 83, wi.: out affording all socre:ielsif emolument to any uidpal -whaStoswe. -L. . ' I • tilt EV ING sirAtt, rjkl LONDON. NICIWDAY, APRIL 21, 1817. { !RICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY A I"I'W El .VE O'CLOCK Cob. 74-•• Do. for Account, 73filt— • •, co ! 721 • S per Cent. Navy, 1021 tOS-4 pt r 69i Exchequer BAIT lts. Su. pr.—lrdia tsunds 11 pre. • We are now.enabled to lay before our lie, ' IS 01 sequel of the pretended coospintoy, corm inica:el ,doe SUR of Thursday last, is a letter from C. ci doe lst of February, slhich has since It en NU the .other Papers. • The wretch who sought the death of aborlt twer.:7 tespectable.ichabitarits of that. island, by dow . ur.ciss them as. parties to a conspiracy . which . esisted, pe s ,d ;jai** fnaiirlY an All qi156 .; Nook, bat latterly attached so the Ptilice. He 1;u an accomplice of the name of Alcolli carasopide. *bo assisted him in copying the papers and preterded plans of opseationherhieh be had the address to get [coat:l4lo - 1: obi direllingt of the persons whom • wowed. • • It will be seen by the subjoined Proclamatton bis Excellency Sir flouts MAITLAND, that it was fully established, by an investigation before the Council, that the pretended Conspiracy was sole, the machination of the above individual. The Com mission sentenced him to death, but the Governs changed the sentence into imprisonment and compsl• sort' labour—a punishment certainly better calcul...ed to deter others from a similar crime than banging the wretch and sinking himself and his act is speedy oblivion. PROCLAMATION By his Enamel the Hommel,le Sir TROILAII Merman, Lieutenant-General and Commandenia-Chief of the Yams of his Majesty fa the Mediterranean, Lord High Corm'r slow of. his Majesty in the United States of the trxiA Islands, Ike. &e. Dee. " The Commission named in the Proclamation dated the 112 h of Januhry last, for the purpose of rumbling the case of dice Lepeolotty, formerly an Augustine monk, and r:pott:s respecting the same, have tonsetutively this day presented thtir Report. and x the same dam their opinion with regard to ea' punishment whickotight to be decreed in the eau of the 'WI a -I",lettr, and his accomplice, Njecolo Caneopolo, of Teodcro. 46 By the Avon in glutton, which is framed wide each .1,1: peer, eau, and perspicuity as to do great honour to the !Isl 'lsis of the Comudislon,itiseetpblhhed on the cleared tViJtriv . ". Etat, that the whole of the unppobod conspiracy, as apyrlx , the Council held in the Palau on the fist and 22d of Jaw INN was the sole machination ache l aid Lepenlotty ; that all :i seals, instructions, patents; le' • vs, dtc. were mere Im-redone t: ialdieationt produced by him; and, that with regard to the wr logs, the greatest part of them were copied by the atectap Caracopulo, before being presented. " Secondly, That after the nanturest examination, the Cer: mission has been unable to discover even the slfihtest itdarict of any person, besides the two absive named, Lecenlorty :t` Caracapulo, having had the slightest part in the tald suyytts: conspiracy.* " The Commission having maturely considered this mittiet Its inarings, have in the conclusion/3f their Report sugg'•:- ta iIL Excellency the Lotit High Commissioner their optr•'r' namely, that, according to the tenor of We laws, the nit: I.qt niotty ought to be subjected to the highest punishnutir, in publicly executed ; and that the accomplice Caracooiilo suffer solitary imprisonment for the space of one snit, ) s..r• " His Excellency the Lord High Commissioner, coucuri fectly in opinion with the said Report and the general and declares it to be his full persuasion, that th.: persons 101 l cated by Lcpeniotty in the base calumny intrwed to them I that state criminal, have on all occasions conducted thanselp with the greatest loyalty and made:ism. 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