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shall he made out accordingly for our Royal sign
manual."
late money this plied in the halide of the Bat,
rack treastirer, ha, heels drawn not either by 144
draft, of the Baersck 'Master General, err morn
dy bills ! iceareed according to die cntifeiohf
the office), dr 4 VII by various oersnns for serviee;
performed. '1 Its draft, ot the late Barrack Miami
G: rural do n ..apear to have been suhjeg to ally
controul. :Lod the first knowledge which the Ac-
countant had of them was from •he Treasurer's
sok. 0; the acceptances, a reeister was kept in the
Barrack Office, by %%Lich the lreasuret's hook,
sent weekly to the Barrack Office, Was regularly
chanted.
sass r;.e resignation of Lieut.-General De Lancey,
in November, 1894, many new regalations were
intr. t tool into the Barrack Dep.rtment, fry the
Lards of the 1 texture, of which we shall take no-
tice livreaiter ; and, amongst otters, the (office of
Treacti e: was suppressed, since which change.
the cash has been kept at the Bank of England.
At the period of .oppression (in Fehruary, 1805)
tie Treasurer had in his hands screen thousand
eight hundred and fourteen pounds. nineteen sial-
lings and seven-peace, of which sum twelve th u-
sand pounds WAS pail into the Bank by him on
the 31st of December, 1804, in pursuance of the
order of the Secretary at War ; two thousand
three handreu and ninety-eight pounds, two shi!.
ling' and sixpence. part of the balance of fur
thousand Pored hundred and fourteen pounds,
nineteen shillings and seven-pence, was paid into
the Bank on the IRh Fehruary, 1800; and the
Treasurer informs us, that he will pay in the
remaining sum rf two thousand four hundred
acid siiteen pounds, seventeen siollitigs and one
p any, as soon as the advance of one thousand
four hundred and sixty-five pounds three shillings
Mid nine pence, made by him for the Artificets'
eompow At Gsbraltar, shall have been repaid him.
During the time Mr. Greeneosod aged as Agent or
Treasurer to the Barrack Office, the bat meet in his
hand, on the account of the late Barrack Master
General, appear to have been very considerable,
varying from ten or twenty to fifty and sixty thou-
sand pounle, and, in corn.. instances, in 1801, to
have amounted tn an loindred thousand pounds.
1 he accounts have flugnsted, however, very rapidly,
and toe esi. nally the funds have been wholly ex-
hauled. sod the Treasurer in advance. It is easy to
asc-rtaia the amount of the balances at any stated pe-
tiods.hut it would be a work of cnr siderable labour, to
determine whetter they have exceeded a just and
prude& provision lot the pa' moons to be made
within any limited period. We entered nu this ins
vest anon, and pursued it to a cci tato evera ; but
we :.are not ilteno.orit erpedient to tarry it through,
as whttever might be the result, it c'.nld produce
no pra(tical benefi-, The Barrack Master General,
though he fiwnished the infatuation on which
funds were poets:, d, did not interfere with the is-
sues. which were regulated between the lords of
the Treasury and the Agent ; suol irimeorer it is
stated to as by Mr Greeawood. that no advantage,
to h s knowledge, was made by the Barrack Master
General. of these balances, while he aged as trea-
sure'.
It occurs to in, however, that if the slims rola-
site for the 'norm ot the department. had been
limed monthly, the balances must of necessity have
been consists-table. Estimating the expenditure
previous to 1803, at an average of eight hundred
thousand pounds per annum, the monthly proportion
would be upwards of sixty five thousand pounds;
this sum pais:. to the egad at the commencement.
Asia exhausted at the end of the month, wonkl leave
an average balance of thirty-two thousand five bwl.
dred pounds: in 1803, the expenditure exceeded one
Lunched and fitly thousand pounds per months
which, on the same date, would leave an average
halariee of seventy.five thousand pounds i and in the
tally part e 1 each month a much larger suns would
appear in hand on the face of the account. It does
not seem chid the money was provided exactly in
this mode, the issues appear to have been more fre-
qu.nt, and in proportion as they became so, the
avcraoe balances et course were less.
Whilst examining into the balances of money in
the hand: of the treasurer, we, for the purpose of
*ace:Raining what balances might be due from other
persons ifs the barrack department, called fu the
ki.l.4ers of the office; but horn these no information
on this 'head could be obtained. The payments
made appeared to be regularly charged to the ac-
counts to which they teepegively belonged; buts
singular as it may seem, these are not added up, nor
the amounts brought forward from prior to stease-
Tient ksigers ; neither are there any entries on the
credit side of the accaunts, with the exception of
t' use accounts which the death or removal of a party
has made it requisite to close ; the ledgers, therefore,
were totally useless for the purpose for which we re-
qnired them ; they are mere registers of payments,
°feting no reacts, and could not, in case the vouchers
should be Lot, or by accident destroyed, afford any
• light to ju• cif, or exonerate the variety of persons
who have been marketed with the BM rack Depart-
ment ; but it must not from hence be inferred, that
paytueitts hare been made without reference to the
service performed ; it appease, on the contrary,
that care has its general been taken in this respeg.
be accounts of the Barrack Masters have hero pe-
tinetically received, and after a certain degree of
mawnrutitioo, the baLtrice, have been paid; but the
Accountant of the Bairack Office thinksahat ail these
accasonts sahsequent to the thith June, 17514, not al-
ready finally exarnieed, must undergo a final exami.
eisnion berme th y can form a part ot Lient..Gen. De
Litlety% Busiders have received payments
is proportion only as their semi advanced, bat the
Accountant himself can assign no sufficient reason
for the present imperfect state of the ledgers; and
the fact is. that we cannot t•om hence learn whether
any and what halauccs are due tic the public from
tuts persons connected with the barrack department.
We are matteed, however, to think, from the intor.
viati.so we have act:pit:a from various sources, of
the con: se of business in toe barrack office, that (ex-
clueive et the Treasetrer) the Barrack blaster Ge-
neral. and the Agent employed in thelharchase of
stoics and supplies, are the only persons to whom
sensory has beet, advanced, in such mode as to ten-
der it pro:sable that it may have exceeded the service
perform •a. The issues to this agent, and the state
of his cash aceotra, bare engaged our attention,
mei wag Id • soutect Sart haute report. He ceased
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