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DONCATEk, Yesterday, at seven o'clock in the mutning, their ' Royattfighttesset took leave of the Noble Proprie tors of Knowsley. It would be difficult to repeat the expresiioM of regard paid to the Prince on this excation i he distinctly marked the grateful sense he entertained of their very great attention, and what a delightful week he had passed under their hospitable rooh His Royal Highness profited ed bit Warrington, Knutsford, Maccles fi eld, Bos ton, - Middleton, Chesterfield, and Workson, to this place. His Royal Highness went this road in order to view Chatsworth, the proud and magnificent resi dence of the Cavendishes. The waterworks of these gardens are peculiarly beautiful, and were much admired by the Royal Brothers, as well as the beautiful halite and ground*, the meats of which steed no comment from me. The inhabitants were every where colleeled to greet the arrival of their Prince ; the different corps of Volunteers were as sembled in the towns, and received His Royal High ness ; sad the whole scene exhibited a most ani mated and happy people, loudly rejoicing at the sight-of. their Prince. This morning the Yeoman ry, consisting of six hundred rank and file, corn trended by Colonel Foljambe, and the Volunteers corny:tended by colonel Wrightson, paraded in font of the Royal ilotice, and, the moment the Prince appeared. saloted llis Royal Highness ; the Corps then marched pasts and His Royal High r,ess thanked the Commanding Officers for their attentions, having pasted his well-merited praises upon-their readiness and military appearance ; it is to be observed, that a large proportion of the Yeo manry had come fifty miles to this parade. happy to give this mark of their dutiful respell. His Royal ets's' was 'afterwards waited upon by all the ' Noblemen and Gentry of the neighbourhood. They henetwecl Lord Fitzwilliam (the Lord Lieutenant of the Comity) with their company to the Race-ground, ood'ertorwirrds dined at his Lordship's house in this cowls j His 'loyal Highness conversed with his usual condescension. and paid his attentions to all the tenpanY in the stand who had the honour to be known to bins. The Mayor and Corporation present their address to-morrow. Yea cannot wear-rate the delight end ivy of the de every where be passed, nor His Royal High. iftesgrace and cotitineension on every occasion. • wereeramosni • 1141,41 L INTELLIGENCE. • noersnovira, stet. 24. An *vier was received this morning for the mtnra of the King's German L.gion, which sailed on Sund ty for Ireland, to Soithead. They are, it is said. to be sent to the Centii.ent, instead of Ireland. Arrived the Allipl , e, frigate, front Barbadoes ; and the Deritelnliiisi bomb, from the Downs, with a convoy. The 4filiaeier brings an account that Sir Ri chard Strechait's squadron were much damaged in as lirricane, in the West Indies, and that the An. • eltlitub Lost all her masts. Sir Richard was cruising for Jerome Bonaparte's squadron. The 30th and Beth Regiments embarked on board the transports, at Spithead, are going to Buenos Apes, under convoy of the Ardesol, of 64 gush and sesetal other ships. Sailed the Rarehoree sloop, for the Guernsey sta. lion. and the iteehue*, en a crinw. Thiamin at St. Helen* the 3pelieer. and Phstasest. C.O.,,treil, and Coluesiiee sloops, fitted for foreign service. • etrstoirrn, aItIPT. *3. The wind hes continued foul for the Sicilian ex pedition till yesterday miming, When it got up to ;he northward; several gun. were fired at day-break, as signal forainmooring, but at ten o'clock it got back to the - west again. This miming a fresh breese sprung up from the North, and has con tinued from that, and a little to the west of that point. all day, every axpenation was formed of dair sailing. it being sufficiently free to carry them down Channel. but, to our surprise, notion anchor is ert4ghed, new any 'apparent preparation making. though the blue Peter is still flying at the Admiral' s mast head. Arrived from Admiral t ouis's squadron the Re :A:ewe frigate, but have not been attic to find she has brought ary news ; also the Penelope frigate, and .4.frias cutter, from off L'Orisen. Sailed with dispatches for Earl &. Vincent the Nerired novas. stet. *4. • Case into the harboar the brig Whitten, of Sun - dahmislinschimes, whit bowed, from Petersburgh far Deem. A Moss been sent in this morning by. the List(' •Centnin-house cutter, of tendon, lassiaborith JO half inhere of spirits. The Nile era" Joinsuse. mikes has been refitting out here isms tie*. Me aid again *pen a cruise. nest, etre 44. Mk ttauttft. at sit o'clock, a Messenger arrived barillieva ee, and immediately embarked en • WC ° SOlNlallkw tugger, Lieut. M'Cready, which Ikall dis 64 :ting, passed tin back of the Good ell' 11law% rbilaradisb au of war. with a fleet of valealki sumbr Iliad& aciaata. wider convoy to the .alualmrardi. . _.! ..... bribed sad oiled fat the River. the afiGrator Ifinietz sa ftr i BTtwinia a sad the Amelio, Young, *NB Ibilled- AIR .1111swit frigate. no a cruise, and the dirtreara bpaabockb the outward-bound meet, under aaara i larillasaratooth. the Downs, the &teethes Sophia, Viral& fo: li t7e ll eediterranriin, and several other ont• .ward-hound vessels ;also the Carite. schooner. from Sheernew, to the wmiward. Arrived the *Ore sloop of war, from a cruise, and the Zeis► s bomb, from Sheerness ; and remain is the DOwtie„ with the rest of the Ship as per fact. _......__ FROM LLOYD'S LIST. •11111Vg•,, ir. Y an. 161.11 &Amis.—Mr Maier. Chervil; Swift, Salter; a ~,; .1, , • , . ..,r,!... MID MEI: 1 , 111 , 1 Arrimiret. OK 11,” , -.-tItc Wilton, W,Ntason ; anA tlte Irawiticte, • Jetse., , te.rl eittwAvriti ' At I) tottin...tii , Hatutob, Scott, fiont.Potersbwgto . - As 4.411104 - .4he am* ty, Ali:m* o n, *wit Pete - tit , nit, , , Al Antwietw--tile I,lww,se. --.--, itnnt l'llvie:r pA.A. 442,1psfiritligAint!..—•ho Ye,.“, 101'..11., moo. 11-14 tot ' 4SirElraises Munn, Linn, hens Pourstiiiii. A • 1.tewp.41.-4ite. Noire, ihio.t.o.b, hoot Pete,* IRO; Jamie, ---•---. 6 ' 4 " VitStAto; Hew, ---- : ts,, ths Sj,..Si..c WI Adol - ............... fibs* the Cow ta soda. MILITARY INQUIRY. SECOND REPORT OF THR COMMISSIONERS OF MILITARY INQUIRY. (Cootiftuted trout sow Paper if Yesterday.) MMUS ST GENILItA L. The duty of the Deputy Barrack Master Gene. rat, is to assist the Barrack hlatter General, in the general business of the department. Although his duties do not appear to differ materially from those of the same officer in 1797, yet tkey are now so extensive, his presence can rarely be dispensed with At the office. It is his province to open and read all letters, which we learn are very numerous every day, and, after reference to the Barrack Master General, if necessary, or to the different brar.ches of the otiice to which the subject matter may more particularly belong, to prepare or approve the an swers tdthem• We inspeCled, at the office, the mode of trans aaing the official correspondence, which appeared to be conduced with great precision and tegularity. A pra.lice observed by the barrack-office, in eke mode of writing official letters, was new to us, and seems so well calculated to save trouble, and insure correthwess, that we think proper to describe it. A sheet of paper being folded in the middle, officers of the department, who- address the barrack-office, write their letter on eke left side, and with the ori. ginel letter, send a duplicate in the same form, and signed 4 10 1 es the blank side of the duplicate, is trrigamalta Barrack Master General's answer, whith artalirded so the writer is Arnie course, and on the °right& letter, which is preserved in the office, is copied the answer that has been returned ; each party hae this an axed copy of the whole corre spondence, and the possibility of an answer or au thority being misapplied. is entirely obviated ; it saves also much repetition. The hours of attendance at the Barrack Office are from ten till four daily, without regard to holidays, except Christmas-day and Good Friday; and the clerks attend as much longer as occasion requires, for which, however, they receive extra pay ; there is no check ea their attendance. If the present es tablishment of officers and clerks be necessary to the efficient conduit of the business of the Barrack Department, it would be desirable to provide a more suitable house for Weir accommodation, as that in which the eller a new held appears to very inadequate to the objet. - - The salary of the roma Deputy Barrack Master General is six hundred and ninety-seven pounds ten shillings par ammo% paid quarterly, and he is allowed forage in time of war for effeetive horses, not weeding eve - in time of pease not exceeding three; but it is stated to us, that, at no period since his appointment has the present Deputy Barrack Muter General drawn the allowance for more than three 'Saliva horses. The allowance for forage se the Deputy Barrack Master General is stated to be dte the same as to the Deputy Adjutant General, and Deputy Quarter Master General ; considering, however, the duties of the Deputy Barrack Master General, and that he is allowed his post-chaise ex ponces when travelling on public duty, we do not see the propriety of this allowance, which observa tion applies equally to the allowance for forage to the Barrack Master General in that cbaratker. The present Deputy Barrack Master General is • Major of the 28th Regiment of Infantry. Tat TIRST SSINCIP AL ASSISTANT SAIIII•Cli SIAS. Tilt 0 1.. This Officer assists the Deputy Barrack Manor General, and replame him in case of necessary ab sence from town. Thepresant Principal Assistant Barrack Master Genital, is also Secretary to the Royal Military Caw; bus it does not appear that the duties he has Wean* been called upor to dis charge in that capacity have interfered with those of his office in the Barrack Department. The sa lary of this Ofiker is stated to be 9001. per annum 1 reg ular salary, and Ss. per diem extra pay ; for his Ice of Secretary to the Revd - Military College, be receives 200/. per annum. VMS PIIIICIFAL ASSISTANT moment MASTER OR. AAAAA 105 INS GISIII•L MISRACTION OF SAS. ACES. The duties of this officer are of considerable im portance, and of wide range, inasmuch as he con siden the Scotch Barracks equally within his de. partment as shoe of England. He is charged with the examination of all builders' accounts, on the justness of whom prices it is his province. jointly with the archness md surveyors, to determine. it is also a branch of his duty to direa the annual let ting of the canteens or suttling-bosses attached to the different barracks ; this is now done by adver tising for tenders. and accepting that of the highest bidder. By adopting this system, the revenue arising from this source has been recently much im proved ; the amount for the last year is stated to be upward► tarsi:mem thousand pounds. All the can teens are not, however, under the dirMlion of the barrack office ; the old custom of allowing to go vernors and commandants the benefits arising from the lettiag of them. we understand, still prevails at Portsmouth and Plymouth, and did until lately in Guernsey arid Jersey. As it would be advantage ous to the public, if all the canteens were under the_ conaSaltlf therlbarrack office, we recommend, that in the above instances, or in any others, where these emoluments are still enjoyed by the Governor or Commandant of the fortress, the old custom should be abolished, and, in lieu thereof, a compensation allowed v the Governor, etc. and that the rents arising from them should be received by the Bar rack Master General. and placed to the credit of the barrack office funds. It is another part of the duty of this officer, to arrange the papers and documents relatiog to the property of the Barrack Department, for the ex amination of the law clerk, which, we are informed. had not been done, as the papers came into the of fice, owing to the great pressure of the general be ortess, and the want of a legal person attached to the department. lie states, that the duties of his office very fully occupy all his time. It. is Captain Lieutenant on half-pay of the fs2d regiment, and has no other em ployment snider Government. The present Principal Assistant Barrack Master General has made two jnornies into Scotland, and stales the ohjea todsave been, that the Mike IN Lon don Anuld possess the same local knowledge of the barracks in Scotland. as of those is knglatid. We cannot 4 - on the expedienty nf these jouttiles, Master wbo is re- . decide . which the Barrack . General, - sponsible for the good conduft of the business within hit department, roust be the fittest judge ; but as there is a resident Principal Assistant Barrack Master General in Scotland, it should seem unne cessary that an officer of the same description should travel from London, to inspeft barracks immediately under the controul of the former. The salary of the Principal Assistant Barrack Master General for the General InspeCtion of Bar racks, is fifteen shillings per diens regular pay, and twenty shillings per diem extra, making per annum, 63t1'. Us. WRINCIP•L ASSISTANT IsItRACt MASTER GENERAL, FOR SUPFLICi AND RETURNS. The duty of this officer relate; wholly to the dis tribution and returns of barrack stores and supplies. To assist him in these duties, he has under him an Inspettor of Store Returns, and clerks, who re ceive and examine the returns of every description. The iaspeeion of the books of this branch of the Offiee, and the examination of its °Ricers, afforded to the Board very satisfadorr information as to the mode of checking the expenditure of the stores en trusted to the different Barrack Masters, for the use of the troops, so far, at least, as to ascertain that no expenditure takes place beyond the Barrack regu lations, and tct make the Barrack Masters account able for whatever has not been issued : but some fut. Cher check seems to us requisite. As the mode of pro-. /riding supplies, as well as of distributing and`theek! ing their expenditure, will, however, be ful treated in our report on that diVision of our inquiry, we must refer to that Report for the remarks we have to offer on this subjee. The salary of the principal Assistant Barrack Master General for supplies and returns, is the same as that of the first Principal Assistant Barrack Master General, viz. three hundred pounds per an num, and five shillings per diem extra pay. The present possessor of this office is also Standard Bearer to the band of Gentlemen Pensioners. The salary of the Inspeaor of Returns of Stores is three hundred pounds, per annum. INSTLCTOR OF 11•RRACI $TOl2$. This is a new appointment, made by the present Barrack Master General, in consequence of direc tions from the Lords Comtnisioners of His Majesty's Treasury. He examines all articles furnished in die metropolis, under the contracts of the Commissary General, at the Contraftor's warehouse, where they remain subj eft to the orders of the Barrack Master General ; he keeps an account of such as he has approved, and by means of the orders for their issue passing through his hands, he i- enabled at all times to ascertain the quantity which ought to be in the Contrattor's possession, ready to be distributed as the Barrack Office may dire& The pay of the InspeCtor of Barrack stores, is 15s. per diem. TIRE ACCOUNTANT. The duties of this Officer are of much importance. as, on their uniform and corral execution, depend, in great measure, the regularity and good order of the whole system; how far these duties, during the late Barrack Master General's time, have been punctually executed, may be in some measure col treed from our First Report, and we shall probably have occasion again to advert to the subjedt. With the aid of his Assistant, and Clerks, he receives and examines all accounts and vouchers, except those of the builders, sehich are examined and certified by the Arehitee. and the principal Assistant Barrack Mas ter General for the inspection of barracks ; he di- Tees the correspondence relating to all money mat ters, prepares estimates for Government, and ar ranges the general accounts of receipt and expendi ture. A general account is stated to be made up in the office annually, of all monies received and expended, under their respeftive heads of service ; but no ge neral annual account of the barrack expenditure, for the examination of any public office, has been made up since the 24th December, 1795 ; and the principal reason assigned by the Accountant for this omission, is, that the Barrack Master General did not know by what office his accounts were to be ex amined. The general accounts, to 24th December, 1795, are those noticed in oar First Report, and which are now at the War-Office for examination. The books in charge of the accouatant are cash-books, ledgers, bill-books, and others of a si milar description, relating to the receipt and distri bution of money. Bills drawn on ;he Barrack-Mas ter General amounting to six or seven hundred in a month, and of which fifty or sixty are sometimes presented fir acceptance in a day, are accepted by the accountant. _ _ Since the appointment of tl:e present Barrack- Master General, Mr. Stanbank, the Accountant, and a proportion of Clerks, with the eldest Archite& of the Department, have been set apart, solely to cc raitge the arrears ofi the late Barrack-Master Ge neral's accounts, a duty which (if not interrupted by the more summary proceeding suggested by us in our first report) is likely to occupy them three if not foot years ; and to execute the current business of the office, the late Assistant Accountant has been recently appointed Accountant under the present Soreask-Master General. Exertion, we are in formed, is now used in the Accountant's branch, to meat the business of the Departtneat, and to keep the present Barrack-Master General's accounts from failing into arrear ; an.L from what has been repott ed to us, there appears a well-grounded hope, that this desirable objet will be accomplished. Each Accountant receives a salary of eight hun dred pounds pot annum, and the Assistant Ac countant to the 04Ece lour hundred pounds per annum. LAW CLLRK. This Officer appears to be the general legal ad viser of the Barrack Office, upon all sabjeds referred to him, by the orders of the Barrack Master General, He examines the enntraßs for the purchase or hire of lands, on whielt Barracks are intruded to he ereaed, and the titles of the vendors of such laads, and settles and approves of all legal instruments, on the behalf of the office. The first appointment took place in 1803, by the Secretary at War, on the application of the late Barnacle-Master G 1, who states, that the Soli citor of the Treasury, to whom he had been used to refer all legal matters relating to the Llepartment, being unable, from the weight of his other business, w execute that of the Office withia the time acquit- ' ' 11V t',ll' illtr• i (" Iv -7- ~.... a r he therefore apnliesir fee , tether legal auxin. ante; and he adds' that thseppoiatment of a Law Clerk has been attended 114 mesh benefit to tke pu bli c . It appears indeed, that, the busi miss relat, sling to the coutraßs and the titleitme 4 the Una i,,, d been mach neglettked. as .we shaft have nee- ' ne 'Cs notice when we ester into the conaidaation of the budding branch ; and this citcuennaece :dose was ' certainly sufficient to make it expedient to hare some professional persoa in the eniptskraent of the office, to ascertain by what tenure the land war. holden, on which so much of the public rit.iney had been expended, and to transail this eery important business with more regularity in future. • It seems to have been the original intention of Lieutenant General 1)e. Lances', that the Law Clerk should do the tastiness of the Attorney of the office; in fall, however, be the in the charader of Counsel, there being also Solicitors employed by the office, whenever there. is occasion ; bet,. in general, the papers referred to the Law Clerk for his opinion. are seat immediately to hies from the office, without the intervention of the Solicitor ; and (as we have already stated) it is considered as apart of the Jeri of the principal Asssistant Barrack-Master General for the general inspection of barracks, to arrange the papers and documents relating to the property , of the Barrack Department, for the Law Clerk's examination. For these duties the Law Clerk receives no fee nor emokusent beyond . his salary of two hur.- dred ponodisper annum ; nal if the arrangement of the business, which we have above uoticeJ, leaking the intervention of the Solicitors in most Cases unnecessary, can he continued, it will of course save a considerable expense to' the Offilit: but we are informed by the present law Clei-k, that the examination of the 'rides is by no means in a state of forwardness, and that he f u nds it requisite to'have the abuttals made out in a regular profes sional manner. However, since the passing of the Defence AA, lI th of June 1803, which authorises the taking for the public service any piece of ground which shall be certified to be necessary, by the Lord Lieutenant, or two Deputy 'Lieutenants, of the county where the land is situated,• the trouble at tending the examination of titles and coetraets fax land must be much diminished, though the law Clerk is still consulted whenever any difficulty arises. as to the mode of proceeding under that Aft. Oa the whole. it seems to us, that the business of the Barrack Office is fully sufficient to warrant the continuance of the Law Clerk, at his present Ware of two hundred pounds per enemas. These are the officers particularly conneded with the Barrack Office i.l England. There are others forming a detached branch at Edinburgh. consist ing of one principal Assistant Barrack Master-Ge neral, with one assistant architalt, five clerks, and one messenger, whose duties and salaries are the same as those holding similar situations in Eng land. There are other offices appertaining to the Bar rack Department. whose duties are discharged at a distance from the oSee • these are, the Assistant Barrack Masters Generafattached to &arias, and the Resident Barrack Masters, Sec. having the charge of barracks, and other public buildings. For the particular details respeaing the detses of the Assistant Barrack Masters General, we refer to the accounts of duties given in the Appendix. and F particularly to the examination of M Once. Assistant Barrack Master General for Keutids distria. 'their duties and powers are a the sae% with the exception. that the Assistant Barrack Mee ter General at Gibraltar has the discretionary power to make repairs, without reference to the fleetest Office, when the eapence is estimated not to excised fifty pounds. (Ts be concluded.) ___ PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY. S pet Cent. Congo!' per Coat Navy Annuities '7it Imperial Untnitans India Bonds Exchequer Bilk Is. dis. 1 prow English Lottery Tickets Consols hot T. BASH. Stock•beculcor. No. 4, Ctmshill, and 9, Obarhes CIVIL IRISH STOCKS, Seer. IS. 18e1. Go. Debentures 5 per Cant 94 Royal Canal Loan, 6 per cent ..9tl strateterami 36 9 2 U. Ditto at Sid►a 36 Rouerdato e. f.. II 9 2 U. Hamburg► 34 I itiU. Alton 34 2 2411. Pant Ditto 2 Us 24 10 illoor4olua 2• Gds 341 effect. Ditto Madvot 34 effect. Ditto Geoaa 47 I.iv. fie. Vaasa. a. C.... 57 DAtto. 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On the 9th innant,at the Hetwells, Bristol, to the unspoilt. able grief and ailiction re his woethy and respectable paren't& end friends, Mr. Joshua Gilnin, only son of the Ref. Mt. Gilpin, Vicar of Rockwardine, in Sslop. Saturday, deeply regretted by his family and friends, Mr. Samuel Hasaut, benkireler and printer. Chenamtrert, etlo• whose, mentor, will be long and deservedly held dear W wbu kvaiw 0* Monday, the 24.1 instant, Mies Anne Eindene, wont daughtei et Jimmie Landame, Esq. of Merton. Sorter. tIIGH WATER. TH4C DAY, AT LONDON .. BRIDGE It min. after 11 EIMS• ••• 10 pia. after 1 :—Prtntrd b• G. 17 4.1/11.)tiON, No. 17. DA" o.ln, lion-stree:, Covent-Garden, and pubtraby4 at she Office, No Back of St. Oement's Clench, Scrsed, W W. STUCK, of No. 7, I•err Seltoe-seee. Lae( Acre. Orden, Jte. ter th.s Paver. teat to the Oliese (reelosalk will be duly attended to. 111.1•1111 M. M ~,I, a ! r 5!=M Ir i•H Si Ci 1 „ 41v 1 1 duw, 'Civrw I die IMF ••••••••• 0' tl Q , %1 bid. 111 ~' ~~ WI 0