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London, England, 1807-05-27 00:00:00

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rn:irli J erwrt pc the Cotrori,sif.ners Toquiry,
r toe Oili.e oI tlic ii.Arrac6.:Alastqr,G.2neral,
tio'T '.;ty,s, with, a 52uppleinent to the First wt:!
Third o rs.

Th irre esting Document has been just printed,-
culd, w th the Appendix, contains 389 folio pages:
We c in, . therefore, only give -,a ,sketch ...of this
Deport.
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It begins with dividing.,the Barrack Accommodar
tins its Great'Britain, Jessey, 'and Guernsey, ex-
cept the buildinas_ithtbrtified. ploces, which are still
ere6ed
.under thet direCtion of .:t he Ordnahee, into.
three kinds, viz.-Ist, • Permanenhor :Established ;
2d, Temporary, the property of Government ; and,
hid, Temporary, hired... , , •
The ereaiou of such buildings (the hired ex-
cepted)" it states, has, in all cases; `originated 'with
the Commander in Chief, • whiff -; has;' from time 'to
time, signified his' intentionsron that head to the
larrack-M aster-General. .
Bui the Order of the .Commander. in Chief has
not of itself been considered as a.sufficient authority
for the Barrack-Masier.:General to incur the
Tr was necessary that- each measure should
receive the sanction either of the Lords of His Ma-
jesty's TreaSury, or th Secretary -at War, and tins
Inav be called the Finahcial 'Authority.
The Rtport• then goes: on .to cite cases, to shew
that these Orders and' Authorities were not always.
communicated th&-B,:irack-Master-General in
the .same manner,,the last, of which.cases took place
its 1803, in which year, in pursuance of a letter
dated the
.15th. May, from Lord HoliAthr, then one
or the Sectelaries of State, to the Barrack-Master-
General, barracks were erected for 50,000. men,
and 10,000 horses.
By His Majesty's Regelations of the .7th of Fe-
bruary, 1805, hoWever, 'by which theßarra'ckbffice
has from that time been, and ,now is, conduCted; the
ant tiorities necessary to be obtained, previously to the
eretiion of any barrack, are more expressly
.and
clearly •defined than they were at any antecedent
period.. By the FOurth Article of those Regulations,
it is direEted, that whenever' there shall be a neces-
sity for ere ,ding new huildings, or for making al-
term ions kor repairsittt hose already where
see) alterations or repairs shall exceed
.the sum of
SCO). the Barrack-.Master-General .is, previously
th the execution, to catlse a plan to "be prepared,
accompanied by an estimate of the expellee, which
plan and estimate are to be prepared upon oath,
and submitted to the Comtrisoder in Chief and to
the Lords of the Treasury for their approbation ;
which plans lnd estimates, when so approved, .are
to be the authority for
.undertaking such buildings,
repairs, or alterations, &c. and under these new. re-
gulations, barracks have been since built. at Canter-
bury, Pleyden, Hastings, Pett, &c.
The Report next proceeds to state the manner in
Which these regulations. of office, on these several
beads, had been., •in fa6t, carried
.into execution ;
considering—lsh Tile scites of the buildings, and the
agreements for the purchase or the' hire of them.
2d. The plans and specifications. 3d, The contracts
for building. 4th.,The modes of ascertaining the
cost, with the cheques to prevent fraud.
FirSt, then, with regard to the scites of the build-
ings, and the agreements for the purchase or hire of
theM, the Rephit states. • •
Directions of the Commander in Chief, -of
which we have already spoken, in all cases prescrib-
ed.:to the Barrack-Master General the general situa.
tion intended of the barrack or other building, as a
measure decided upon; but still the particular scite or
position. has in many instances beep lett to, the de-
termination of the' Barrack-Master General ; and
Lieutenant-General De LANCE Y has stated to :us,
that in this respect he relied entirely, both as,to the
scite and the price to be given for it, oh his own
judgment, malcing inquiries on the spot by himself
and the Officers he employed. This duty, he says,
he executed personally for the greater part of his
time, but from
,the great pressure of business and
ill health, The was obliged latterly to confide it to
others ; and he adds, that the belies in many leases
depended upon the possibility of procuring the land,
and that very frequently there .was no alternative as to
price .or scite : he also stated to us, that upon all
such occasions,- advantage was taken of the exigen-
cies of Government. On our inquiry, whether he
'could refer us to any.c&respondence in the offite in
support of this latter OViiiioll ? he referred ns to the
ease of BraybourneLeaze, in the county of Kent;
We accordingly required all the documents in the,
office relating 'to this land, and the history of the
traiisaaiou appears to be this :
On the 20th July, 1803, the late Barrack-Master-
General applied to Sir JOHN HOSEYWOOD as Lord
of the Minbr in which , Braybourne Leaze (or
chomion) was situated,. for, . hermision to occupy it
as a .military.station, proposing to -pay a fait rent
or compensation for any damage which might ac-
On the 4th Augushfollowing an agreement
was made between Sir JOHN HONEYWOOD and Lieu-

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tenitut-General DE LANC:‘EY; wheieby, iu cen;ill-e'r-

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at ion' of 5751. the' estimated value Of the stock of
rabbits on BrayboUrnb Wart*ti, and of the yearly
rent of '751. Sir JON'S HONEY-WOOD agreed to grant
a leae. for 21 years to Lieutenant-General DE LAN-

CEY., of so much and of such part of the said warren

or coirimon, as might. be wanted for the purpose of
ereding barracks thereon. On the Ist of Septem-
ber, tre lleY. A.—PiiSiikity,:E, the Vicar of 'Bray-
bourne, represented to the •Barrack-Master-General,
that- he and the other commoners on the land (which
it set-ins had been then taken possession of) were
. levy materially injdred. in - their rights ; asking- for
compew,ation, and stating that Sir JOHN HONEY-
wooI) had no power Of inclosure, or any right to sell
or lea!,e part of the Common, and that the com-

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nibuets.protested against any
.payments .being made
to Juni on that principle. In a subsequent letter, Mr.
II:ill-0-05a, after adwitting that Sir J. HONEYWOOD
be, entitled- to- the rabbits on the co own,
s:ates, that as SirJoHN fIoNEY wooD-clid.not possess
une'acre in the. parish of Brayboume, he had not re-
, :bellied to himself the power of turning out. one
sing-te head of stock to graze on the Common
- Nlr. PURSROUSE asserts, therefore, the invalidity of
the instrainent Lacier which the posse.ssion of the soil
10.1 ,ern taken by the Barrac.4-Master,,General.—