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1.11.112QU15-OF 11/11I1'INGTON.
yrung Nwhlemae, whn had been upon his
trough York:Ante and Lancashire, with his
Mr. JCINVS• arrived early last week, with his
Holyhead, Wales. Deing inqrtisitive with
the passage to Duhlin, he was ireformed,
voyage was aabout 14 hours; when. Corned,
ntrary
61r, and veithont the consent of hi, ptecept,,,
chola con,alting the Duke of D Ernesto ar,
ler, he embarked on hoard the iv t packet,
'bout the time specified, arrived at the Castle
isblin, where be paid an unexpetted visit to
Excellencies the Duke and Ditchess of BID..
This diszingiiished guest was received with
cordial welcont • I'ne d:gnified, depnrt-
die yruthlul Marquis displayed every per-
;anion. On a cln,e inquiry, however, with
leis retinue, and his time to stop, the truth
was soon ascertained. that it was a enoonlight voy-
age. The Duke of asuroao immediately, on the
result of this investikation, ordered his yacht to he
ready on the third day, to convey the young No-
Islemsn hack to Holyhead, where he,ras placed,
enee more, in the ,are of his Preceptor :and retinue.
eis Lordship iswn on tau now ate
3.1 ot Ca-rnanett month,rven, in Walto attend
es, and is
sp..!test in to
the Funeral of Mr. Foe. _
iSfRAL OF Via RIGHT.HON. C. J.
FOX.

,ellll Noblemen and Gentlemen will have under-
taken the direAion of Mr. Fox's Funeral, respea-
fully inform those who have signified their intention
of attending on the occasion, that the ceremony is
fixed for Fri3ay. Othaber 10, instead of Tuesday.
the VI. The names received by Messrs. Marsh
and Tatham: having been transmitted to the Direc-
tors, it is requested that such persons as in future
may signify their intentions in this respect, do send
their names, descriptions, and place of abode, ad-
drossed tes Mr. Moore, Salisbury-street, strand, be-
fore Tuesday. the 7th of Dauber, between the hours
of ten and tour. STa. M,ortx.
brelrelL INTELLIGENCE.
PORTsMOUTIS,strr 24.
To rooretnence of the order which I noticed to
7 u last tug it hal helm rece;vtd, the 6th. 7th, and
gth hattations of the ji,ing's German Legion. which
were on their passage to Coelt, put back to Spithead
this afternoon, to wad for fresh oroers. .
Arrived the Prompre bomb. and the Jackdaw
Stammer, wit:i a convoy from the Downs.
• Sailed from St. Helen's, the Km-charm sloop, Capt.
Tewh,is, to join Sir James/Sumatra, at Guernsey.
1k /Woe, Nereele. Thoth. and Charwoll, for
irmenot Ares. espea to sail'every day.
! railed the Oat schooner, with a convey for
Gurrnsey.
Po' back, by express, ten sail of transonrts, which
Ut'lsd nn Sanday last from the Isle of Wight, under
Curtis. The Neheiooto frigate is appointed
tonvoy fey the Downs.—Wind NE.
YMOUTH, sire. 24.
This morning, signal being made for the trans-
ports to en-mour. by K.+ o'clock, s7xty were under
weigh, with a fine stir breeze, at north. The
convoy were the Rept! Gerge, of 110 guns, Vice-
Admiral Duckworth ; the Wilton, of 50 guns ;
Delve, and Cannes brigs. They will be joined of
Falmouth, by Admiral Louis's squadron. The
troops, as hefore stated, amounted to 4.100 men,
all heale,y. and in high spiritr. Sailed also the
Motilde. r,que, East indiamen,
Lrsi a,
dr.e. under convoy for the Cape of Good Hope ;
aod the frfaeteriens armed ship with a convoy to the
westward.
Sailed the .4.,•• sclmsoer.
Arrived His Majesty's ship Agee, Captain Pym,
from she Channel Ames ; the Cerobne armed ship from
tht eerE:stwmarad; and the Betsey and Qscenbro' priva-
assist.
lesLleCitsTlf, SEPT. 23.
Arrived the brig .4 , honson, from Swansea.
Sailed the Lord Hobart packet, Hamilton, with
Snails, for .New Yolk and Halifax ; Prior, Era.sl
packet. Petre, with mails for the Windward Islands,
and His Majesty's ship Heather. Hill. for a cruise.
Remain the Peas rot Aryette packet, with mails
for Malta and Gihtaltar.—Wind N.
SEPT. t 4.
Arrived the Lade EL:e cartel, lions Morlaix,
with English prisoners.

MI

DEAL, !LPT. 2

Sailed the Sianr,an frigate, on a cruise.
The Veiswiss bomb has a signal flying for a con
oy to the westwar.l.—Wind N.N.
DOVER, SEPT. 25.
Last night. a hoineward-bound West Indianian
came into the R -lad,, with the loss of an anchor and
cable ; but, in the course of the right, our boatmen
got another en board; and this rrorning she pro--
cee.led for the River. A 6ne Swedish frigate is now
tidies in the Roads, she is homeward bound, and
takes le a pilot here. A Pilot's Court was holden
bat this day.
DARTMOUTH, SEPT. 21.
Since my list, arrived the Ulyarrs, Hutchings, from
Portsmouth ; Durum,. lidady, and Chenely got-brigs,
and the Trafitise privateer. from a cruise ; Re.sola.
tam, Godfrey, from Jersey; George, Drummonds,
tram Laidoe ; S•stsus, Ps rston, from Bristol. both
with groceries ; and L'Ehrat, cartel, from MOILDI,
with '27 hnglish prisoners (all women).
Sailed-the Auclitriat, for Lisbon ; Doe.
te • and ilar4y gun-brig., ort a creiss ; Chea.;,, gon-
t• r Pi JED Mal ; and the Trafalgar privateer,
on a crai,e.
I/MOUTH. SEPT 24.
Since my last, arrived the Wrthons, Craig ; and
Ilulkeley, from Sunderland ; /Asa,
from Swansea; and Aier:. Turnbull, from Blyth.
with coals; There Broers,
Mo o Maddicot; ; Two BrsibreA,
Taylor ; ;tad Re,•frwtha, r, • from Dartmouth,
with timber, old &c. ; Trlfidgar, Webber ;
Orgikeer. Maws; and Fren4a,.larm.in, from Neath h
,
leiskesdru ; Lbs.. Underhill, from Biddeford,
Alfa r wit
Aim esd lases, Luckess George Asa, Hods
der ; and S,:aitteriat, Slade. from Plymouth, with
oldjunk, &c. ; Ann, Sheacs, from Plytni.uth, with
• . slate; Feign's, Welsher, from Bristol, with MET.
stumiise.
Sailed the 7firer R:1,4, es, Maddicott, for Dart-
. im.eth; anU Vawy. Lents, for Billsoa, in bathe.

MILITARY INQUIRY.
SECOND REPORT OF TIIF.
INQU IkY COMMISSIONERS OP
MILIEARY
(C.taiatiel from our Paper of Yestenl.l.)
Respelling the duties of the Barrack Masters,
Deputy Barrack Masters, Storekeepers, and BAT-
rack Serjeants. we think it sufficient, after referring
to the examination of the Barrack Master of Croy-
don Barracks, to observe, that they are detailed •
with great method and precision in a printed book
of instruftions, issued by the late Barrack Master
General, to which instrußions a stria
endadherencave is
constantly required. In the Appendix we h
given a copy of the half-yearly account of a Bar-
rack Master, in order to shew the nature and et.
tent of the disbursements of these officers ; to which
is annexed a copy of the affidavit which each Bar-.
rack Master is now called upon to make.
The Assistant Barrack Masters General receive
fifteen shillings per diem, with extra allowance of
ten shillings per diem, and one shilling and six-
pence per mile for post-chaise expellees, when tra-
velling. One of the Assistant Barrack Masters Ge-
neral hes been rocently allowed forage for two
horses, in lieu of one shilling and sixpence per
mire.
The Barrack Masters receive generally ten shil-
lings per diem ; the Deputies from two shillings
and sixpence to seven shillings and sixpence per
diem.
Barrack Masters are appointed by the Secretary
at War ; but it seems extraordinary, considering the
trust reposed in them, that no proper security has
ever been taken from them, nor are they sufficiently
under the orders and controul of the Barrack Mas-
ter GeneraL It has been rumoured, that Barrack
Masters have been sometimes appointed without
having any bailee: under their charge. The only
instance of this kind that we have been able to dis-
cover, is, the appointmettraf a Barrack Master,
the pay of ten shillings per ditni, at Clifton, near
Bristol. On inquiry, however, into this appoint-
ment, we find that the Barrack Master at Clifton
has the charge of a very extensive range of unfinish-
ed buildings, called The Royal York Crescent,
which have been purchased by Government, with
the intention of converting them into barracks. By
their letters of service, the Barrack Masters are
granted an allowance, exclusive of their salary,
equivalent to their half-pay, if on the half-pay list,
which was formerly paid them by the Barrack Of-
fice, but, at present, by the Paymaster General of
the Forces ; they are also allowed five pounds per
annum for postage and stationary.
The inferior officers am all appointed by the Bar-
rack Master General ; but it has been stated to us,
that sufficient care has not been invariably taken in
the appointment orßarrack Serjeants.
The circumstance of allowing halt-pay to be re-
ceived by persons holding permanent public appoint-
ments, being considered by us a deviation from the
general principle on which half-pay is granted. viz.
to make a certain provision for officers, for whose
services the nation has no immediate occasion, until
they are again called into employment ; we were
induced to call for a return from the Barrack Office
of the officers receiving this allowance; also, of the
amount paid to each, and the authority by which
this indulgence was granted.
By the papers returned to our precept we learned,
that half pay officers •had been employed in various
duties, particularly in that of Barrack Master, from
SG early period of the establishment ; and that in
consequence of several of them objeaing to make
the customary oaths to entitle them to receive their
half-pay, the late Barrack Master General, in a
letter to Mr. Windham, then Secretary at War,
dated .3th June, 1795, had proposed as an expedient,
to prevent the barrack department from being de-
prived of their services, that the salaries of these
officers should be increased in such proportions
as might induce them to continue in the de-
partment. Many respeaable Captains, the Ge-
neral observed, then held the office of Barrack
Master, at a salary of five shillings per diem, for
which they would not of course relinquish half-pay
to the same amount ; and the measure,proposed, he
added, would, in point of economy, be attended with
great benefit to the public, as the proportional in-
crease of salary would in no case exceed the amount
of the halt-pay then received ; whereas, to get men
of equal respeaability out of the military line, a
salary of a much greater amount than that given at
the time must be allowed ; which would, of course,
as the officer would still continue to receive his half-
pay, be at least an additional expence to the public
of the full amount thereof. The letter concluded
with suggesting. that if the measure proposed should
be adopted, it would be necessary, in order to pre-
vent any inconveniences, that notice be sent from
the War Office to the Paymaster General, that in
all cases where such increased salary was given, the
officer, while so employed in the Barrack Depart-
:neon, was not to receive his half-pay.
Of so eligible a measure, where the services of
officers of rank arid tried integrity were retained oti
the one hand, and the public purse relieved from ex-
pence on the other, the Secretary at War expressed
his approbation in a letter of the lath June, 1795,
wherein lie says, •• he is persuaded the business will
be most satistaltorily executed in general by persons
of that description, and, at the same time that an
additional provision is made thereby for experienced
and meritorious officers, returned from alive ser-
vice, a saving will accrue to the public, by their be-
ing discontinued ou the nalf-pay, while they hold
such employments."
The opinion of the-Secretary at War of this wit-
sure, is here expressed in explicit and unequivocal
terms ; yet, in carrying the measure into die.% the
economy of the proposal seems to have been com-
pletely overlooked ; for it appears by the letter of
service, and it is stated to us, that all the officers of
this description were paid (whilst the same was is-
sued by the Barrack-Office) the amount of their re-
speatve half-pay, in addition to such pay and allows
mires as jet reattached to their several offices in the
barrack department.
These raymerits were made by the Barrack Mat-
ter General. until Jane, 1804, when they were re-
sumed by the Pay Office ; and, from the return of
the sums paid for the halt•year, ending at the above
'mind, we infer, that the total amount issued under
this head, for lam years, must have exceeded three
thousand porrids per annum ; an expenditure whico

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does not appeal: to es to be borne out by any au-
thority.
We shall now advert to the general ground al-
leged
by the late Barrack-Mester Ge.9eral, (or the
great increase of the establishment. and of its ea.
pence beyond what it was stated to be, to the &led
Committee of the House of Commons on Finance,
in 1797, viz. a. the great increase in the concerns
and business of the whole Department." But the
pay of some of the Officers, and some part at least
of the additional espence, dining the peri al whilst
he was at the head of the Department, will not ap-
-1 pear. we think, from the detailed account we now
proceed to give of the augmentation of salary and
emolument. in each particular instance, to
ciently justified or: these grounds.
The salary of the late Barrack-Master General,
when he was first appointed Super intendant General
of Barracks, was fired at thirty shillings per diem,
with bis travelling expences. This was afterwards
augmented to forty shillings per diem, to om
cmence
from Christmas 1792. He ern promoted to the
situation of Barrack-Master General in January
1794. and on the sth of April following, his pay was
further augmented to forty shillings per diem pay.
and forty shillings per diem extra, with his actual
contingencies and travelling expences.
This statement is agreeable to the one given by
him to the Select Committee of the House of Com-
mons in 1797 ; but it now appeals, that the late
Barrack Master General received, on the establish-
ment of the Barrack Office, two pounds per diem,
in addition to the four pounds alsove mentioned,
from Oftober 1794 to MI ; and, from the latter
period to his resignation in November Ma, a fur-
ther addition of two pounds per diem, making his
total pay, for the last three years, eight pounds per
diem.
He accounts for these augmentations of pay, and
for omitting to notice the first of them in his return
to the Committee on Finance, by sayiny, that he was
placed on the Staff of the army as a Major General,
in October 1794, and that he was authorised, by the
Secretary at War, to charge Major General's pay
of two pounds per diem from that date, on the Bar-
rack Office establishment, in aiditian to his salary
of four pounds per diem allowed him as Barrack
ceMasterived tilGelnafter the eral ; breturn was that this authority was not re-
ce to the Soled
Committee in 1797. The further pay of two pounds
per diem, commencing in 1801, was added, as he
states, in consequence of his being promoted to the
rank of Lieutenant General, and of his being placed
as such on the Staff of the army.
The staff pay as a General Officer, as well as his
pay as Barrack Master General, was paid from the
funds of the Barrack-Office ;it was not included its
the estimates of the half.pay annually laid before
Parliament, which we conceive to be the cause why
it did not cease during the late interval of peace ;
not indeed does it clas in any respell from the
salary of the Barrack Master General on the esta-
blishment, and as such, it is now received by the pre-
sent Barrack Master General, under the sanction of
the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury .
(To he centinueol.)
4......- ---4-4.4.-4-••.0
DONCASTER, Sul.. 22.
This place seems to contend in magnificence of
equipages and fashion with the metropolis. The
presence of the Prince has attracted every body far
and near. 'Their Royal Ilighnesses went to the Course
in Loid Fitzwilliam's carriage, accompanied by his
Lordship and Lord Darlington. In the Stand, His
Royal Highness, so justly famed for affability of
manner, conversed with every one, and his arrival
was marked with the greatest respect and delight.
The sport was very good, though the day was not
so fine as yesterday.
The Mayor and Corporation were received by
His Royal Highness, and addressed their Prince in
terms the most loyal. Their Royal Highnesses ho-
noured Lord Fitzwilliam with their company at
dinner, and afterwards went to the ball.

NORWICH, SEPT. r. 4.

TT! E lIIQU IS .011
Tl.i; young Nohlemau,
tour through Ittnit,hite atat
tutor, attired e:
suite, at Holyhead, Wales.
tr•gar3 to the psssage to DU
that the voyage was.ahout I
to the wilr, and without the
and without con,alting the
his father, he einharkel nr
and. about the time apecifiel
of Dublin, where be paid
their Excellencies the Duke
rein . This distinguished
the must cordial welcont •
meat of the yeuthlul Marq
venal attraflion. On a cb,
regard to his retinue, and