The Sun.
London, England, 1806-05-16 00:00:00

PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS.

IT appears, from Papers and AcroUnts laid-before
the House of Commons, that the- real value of tin
plates exported from- Great Britain to Asia, Africa,
and the British Possessions in Ameiica and the West
for ten years, ending, the sth Jantiary, 1803,
amounted to an-average sum of 3;7741.75. 4d. in each
year.
That the number of men who volunteered from
the English M:litia, for limited service, into the Re-
gt,l3r Army, under. the Aea of the 39th and '4oth of,
tip orge 111. was 10,414.
That the nnmbcr of men who volunteered from
the English Militia into the Regular Army, for limited
service, under the Ad of the 39th Geo: III.• c. 106,
was 15,712.
That the return of the effedive strength of the
English Militia, 'on or about theist 0fJu1y,1799, was '
gp,6tv.
'Mit the effedive strength of the English Militia,
on or about .the Ist of Ott. 1799, was 63„879.

That the average valUe, for ten years, ending the
sth of .4.-4806, of all Briti.sh iron and iron wares,
of all sort's, -exported to Asia, Africa, and Ame-
rica, amounted in each year to, offiCial valoe,
718,3531. 16g. 10d. real value, 1,267;9431. 14s. f I d.'
That the return of the total, number of recruits
raised for the service of the Army, from the t St. of
January, 1793, to the Ist of January,. 1801-,.-as-far
as can he made up from doeuments in the. Adjutant
General's Office, 29th of April, 1806, was,- Cavalry,
-36,7681 ; Foot Guards, 12,483; Infantry, .159,842.
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Gross•total, 209,093. !

NOTE.---The numbers stated in the above return
include those received" as drafts by one Regiment
'from another, as well as those originally enlisted: It
has been found impossible •to avoid this. blended
statement, as the t&umninthe Regimental Monthly
Returns, which gives the number of men " recruited
or joined," includes the transfers from other Corps,
and which have seldom been -accounted for at the
toot of the 'returns ; the above return cannot, there-
fore, with any degree 'of -certainty,.:be considered as
givin,l- the actual number of men ; brought jut° the
,oerviCe of tloe Army in the period stated.
The form of the Regimental Monthly Returns has,
since the above period, b&en revised, in order to pre-
vent ;AY inconvenience which might in future be
oc,:asimed by a want of the most accurate informa-
tion on this head. _

The return of the number oi"7 men who. have vO-
ltmteered.from the British MiElia, into the Regular
*Forcesand Royal Marines, for general service, in th 6
year 18050, under the 45th of Geo.:III. c. 3 . -Vas,
serjeants, 170; corporals,- 295; privates, 10,C96.
The total number ;11lowed to so volunteer was, •wr-
jeants, 704; corporals, 704; privates, 14,923.

Return of the eireaive.strength, in rank and file,
of the British Militia,. on the Ist of April 18‘)'5-, from
the Adjutant-General's Office, .ist 1806;
69,219. -

A waggon which had just been unloaded fat Fo4
Pitt, Oar Chathatn, on Saturday, ba,cl the two leads
ing hoises tzd frorn it, in order to assist in getting
a loaded waggon -up the hill, when the tore horse
of ,the two which were, ]eft, being blind, proceeded
forward,' itt consequence of 'which, both horses and
Nvagg6n werc precipitated a considerable ex.-,
ca\-ation, neatly twenty feet deep. The
.blind horse
was not much hurt, 'but the Other is so.injured that
it cannot live : the waggon was dashed to pieces. •