The Sun.
London, England, 1808-12-08 00:00:00

nppoitiled. %.Icc.i)tcc.l by that icAtt
propasect in the i<ffLer which he sent to him,
-7.11!ch were to alluw two and a halt pet. cent.

yew :is Aetedror procuring these articles;
mid Air. D. accoldinsly supplied the &neck Office
with seerte, and he was then the only person caho
sepelied the. Barrack Od-ict,. in that re'spee:t. He
went on actl'n in this character as an Agent, and
the 'd decent stores to the tarrack Otlice,
without any change taking place, until the year 179 e,
'as treat its the General could recollect : and during
all that time Mr. D aeled entirely as an -Agent, and
es fares GAierat DqatiCey had any knowledge, acted
fairly and honestly ill :that cli*eter during all that
period., aed Cen‘iti,:;i to the
.Geeeral's perieo atis-
f:',ction. In the year
,1708
,there was a change,
however, there being alien air
,eitraordinary demand
ter articles in the batfackj
,DePartmeht; and during
the whole of that time the' shpplies Were very great ;
-that time there were not only additional Bar-
lecke about to be errEled, which, of Course, would
requite- additional supplies, but it became also ne-
(esearYid supply the old ones with many articles, '
beeatt,e those in them were very old, and required
leaning, and being very much worn, some of them
required to be replaced altogether. All this, to the
bet of his recollection, occurred in the year mu.
As to supplies to the Barrack Department, general-
ly speAlogc he never knew any difference in that
respect, either before Mr.:D. supplied it, or after-
Welds. He then stated' the mode in which the
supplies were required, in which generally, a writ- '
ter order 'was given, and the supplies were to be
in preparation and every article was to be ready,
when it was demanded. The direCtions were given
to Mr. D. to supply the Barrack Department gene-
rally, without au) specific order, but he was
peeted to be really to prepare the articles whenever •
they were required of him :e as to any specific ar-
t:eles, when they were to be seat down, he believed
the course of toe Office coal to send a written order
for the purpose. But Mr. D. acted, in the first in-
stance, from personal orders front himself ; and it
was expecte:4 t hat he should be prepared, without
farther notice, with a considerable quantity of any ar-
ticles that allele be wanted, upon the bate supposi-
tion that they would be su; but until Mr. D. had
supplied the articles, however long they might have
been ordered, he couid not expect payment for them;
and when they were sent, they were sent at the risk
of Mr; De, is en, it they Should happen to be report-
ed to be unfit fur their purposes by the Office; who
had the care of their inspection ; and 'the teturn
of them was to be at- the expellee of Mr. D. he
believed. ,With respect to the change winch took
place in the year 1798, the General stated, it had
been represented to tern by Mr. D. that there was a
ditheull in getting the articles which were wanted
for toe Barrack Department ; and that he, Mr. D.
bad an opportunity of supplying these articles from
his own stores, which the General permitted him
to do. Before that time he never had any such per-
mission, at least that the General recolietied : at
that. time" Mr. D. made a request that he might be
permitted to supply those stores, but he did not re-
coiled that he ever did before. From the begin-
ning of the year 1798, Mr. D. supplied these to
the Earfack Department lien] his own stores. At
that time the General rather inclined to-think there
was an increased demand for these stores. At the
time when these stores Were thus supplied, Mr. D.
was hi the habit of sending patterns of the articles
he supplied, together with the prices affixed to them,
for the purpose of inspe dion. The General was'at
the head of the Office, and had several persons in-
that Department under him; and the charges of
these supplies in the ,hitter manner, as well as the
supplies themselves, were known to those who had
the management of the business under the General
in the Office, particularly to Col—Mackenzie, and
to a Gentleman of the name of Castlyn, to both
which Gentlemen the General Mentioned this sub-
jeet, aed they were -engaged in assisting him in in-
spetting the articles,. and to whom he shewed the
patterns, and the prices fixed upon them.- Colonel
Mackenzie was at the head of the Barrack to which
be belonged, and he inspeeted these patterns,- toge-
ther with the prices; and, of course,, gave his opi-
nion on them before they were purchased. The
General did not know where Colonel Mackenzie
new is, he was in England he knew, but where in
Engiand he knew not. As to Mr. Castlyn, lie is
dead. He, however, communicated to Mr. C. also
those patterns and prices, in order to give his judg-
ment on them, which judgment the General valued
very much ; and as to the supply of the articles at
that time, he never heard of any instance of failure.
The General said, he thought there was a very en-
larged demand for the supplies at that time.
Here the ATTORNEY -GENERAL observed, that
the better way no explain it was to shew the re-
turns.

The General then proceeded to state, that there
was no disappointment whatever in the supplies in
the Barrack Department.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL doubted whether this
was a correct evidence in the. absence of the re-

turns.
Lord ELLl:Nreonoron, Chief Justice, observed,
that if General Delancey undertook to speak of it
from his memory, it certainly was admissible evi-
dence; and if it were not true, it might be contra•
dkled by the produaiott of documents.
Ibis alteration, which took place in 1798, in the
sitlation of the Barrack Department, toe General
considered as a very important alteration in that
.3upply. He assented to the proposal of Mr. Davison,
that he ehould supply the Department from his own
stores,- but he considered it as the only alteration in
the agreement between him and Mr. D. entered into
by their two letters in the years 1794. and 17g3,
which he considered as the basis and tbundation of
a!I the transaetions between Government and Mr. D.
on this wbject..