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London, England, 1810-09-21 00:00:00

tals sakes. aentilis4 isi
Idaiolsed. melanin of the wellelevri..lo4rweetat ages
whkh eanuot now be cokelatede barn been. esti-
tasted. by the Committee to which that sidiject
Cm referred by the Huse, at 23.1001.
Two further ones, not included to No. 84]. elp-
r,,hiseyq this account to have been joined from the
tier in September 1809. to Mr. Wyatt; viz.
For work at the two Huns of Perheitieut. 11, tool.;
fur work at to • Speaker's House, 8,9601.
_ (Rave follows as account of the elms. voted for worts
derma et Om two Homes of Parliament, sad Speaker's Home,
sad of the imam; the easier aninatieg to Dismal. and
tholotseeto izt,tail.)
It does not appear from the above statements.
; whether the difference between the total of grants
for these services, and the total of issues, or any
:pert of it, is owing to a repetition of grants for the
,same service, such as necessarily happened in the
Sessions 11044 and 1808; or to a repetition of
(greats for sutra . which, oot having been called for
,in a fernier year. were then voted away under the
bead if Surplus of Grants. and afterwards voted
again for the sane service in a subsequent Session ;
or whether any or what part of the above services
Jet rennin unpaid. The application of these seer-
Orel lanes N their respective heads of service tetanus
Is ha investigated by the Auditors.
(9ts.) The acceeuts of the Office of Works.
with ehe Lord Chamberlain's department, contained
in* Return sig9.d by the Earl of Dartmouth, for
two peen and three quarters, front Sth January
1807 to 10th October 1809. are before your Coin.
• nitwit; the. while of which accounts leave been
raid in thattit-pertinent. those of the year 1807 ly-
ug new for examinatiou (March 1810) before the
Aoditorsacd these of labs beiug is a state of pre-
peretiois.
• The total pf ihia expenditure within these ele.
yen quartets, for His Majesty's different Pslitces.
Parks. deedeas, &c. 6140,5791. ; of which St.
James's. Kentiageon, Windsor, and Whitehall,
form the largest 'ltems, in sums frum 16,6311. to
11,6181. The 'whole 44 this department comes
within the provisions °fete Act 22 Geo. ltl. c.
The new Mint has been attended with an expense
touch exceeding whatever was in contemplation
when it was lirvt undertakel. it originated from a
waSeninendation or the Lorderaf the Committee of
Privy Council appoiuted to take into consideration
the state of the Min, who direeteik an fumigation
ref the machinery used in the old Mint to be made
ley Mr. Rennie in 1804, with an ceder to report
tpro the expense of erecting angle improved ma-
libtaery ea =sight enable His Majesty's Mint to exe.
case, is the east prefect manner. the coinage of
geld and siker (whenever that measure Might be
doneness',' upon). end the buildings necessary
thereto. Ina Report etth June 18toe, Mr. Rea-
neatened that dingos had been made by Mr. Join'.
Imo foivettivet to the Mint, fir a new bedding
as the she where the Teeter warehouses then
Nosed. end at in designs for the same purpotes oil
the site tithe old Min, ; both of which designs in-
eluded the spaces requisite for Mr. floolton's im-
proved machinery.
(No. 851 ) The original estimate of en entire
Sew bedding. which was preferred and adopted by
the Cominiteiettere of Alf Majesty's Treasury Scan
time in 1801. aninented to 103.0001. (if fronted
with Peedand stone), end &Mt 01. for the machinery,
loaltiag tegitthee 888 boot.: the former eseiniste
basing been mode nut jointly by Mr: Johnson end
Mr. Rennie. the teeter by Mr. &Won nod Me.
.
The Awilints of Petite Ancients state. that in
Mud, 1810. accounts of the expenditure of
.1664801. upon account Of this building. had been
molit.ol, or were then tender *acclimation; and Mr.
Smirks. *he cduduete the work Vince the death of
Mr. Johnson. stated, in a letter of the .Rine date,
shot the two Niel. of 4148481. and 56.8001. would
be weenie, (as nearly as he could calculate fir ei-
white. op to the end of February lest. 1810, or
building and machinery, exclusive of recto par. of
the Inter as are furnished by Messrs. Renaiehad
loud Boohoo under contracts.
The mime issued directly from use Exchequer.
'on acconnt of the work rot No. 10194 are 133.6031.
duitteined in the paper above referred to.
It was strongly urged by the Committee of Privy
Council, Vial the whole of this work should be
executed by contract: nor see any reasons goren
for not attendiog to this recommendation, which
the prndigiou excess of the repine beyond the
original e denlatioo, shows the disadvantage of not
leaving followed.
Another circu:oetane.- deserting notice in the
erection of this new Mint is. that it contains Are
dwelling-houses for certain Officers belonging to
that establishment. none of Which were completed
or nccupied to March 1810.
Your Committee, wuthottt venteri.ic to pronounce
Mit so many as lire Of of the Mint ought not
to be provided with houses within the buildine,
recur to an opinion delivered opon a sinider sub.
jest in the tth Report ; desiring only to add. that
there an very few cases io which this mode of pay.
ing public servants can be deemed adviseable. when
the charges of bedding+ and repairs tee fairly coin.
pared with any adaitioaal salary which they *may be
given in lieu
The len& sod dimension open which public
buildings should be erected, with an attention to
some degree at least of grandeur and olognitode.
are frequentiv ill adepod. and ant of in proper-
si is to the residence of 'itch persons as are intended
to 'occupy them; an instaoce of which o.:eurn iu
the prozrews of this very work; for open it refire-
siont‘tiliwo Lein. mark to the Surveyor of tEc Must,
that the tire ifwelhot•honies were unnecessarily
large. he anotwered. Veit it ass beco•ne sesepossible
to reduce their eine without an entire attention of
the whole des,en.