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London, England, 1809-08-26 00:00:00

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REPO37S.

[Continurd from Te.iterday's Paler.]

" The account_of beef and pork, supplied from
the 24th of November, 1800, •to 23th July, 1801,
amounting to 73,4,873 . has not yet been!investi-
gated and stated, so as to be ready for the Board's
consideration and decision .;
but the two oters 'fOr
beef and pork, namely, the one from the 23111 Ja-
nuary, 1799, to the t ith January, 1800, for
488,7221. and the other from the Ist February,
1800, to. the 9th August, 1800, for 749,9451.
making together the sum of 1,238,6671. though
they have been ready for the Board's decision there-
on ever since the 18;h March, 1802, upwards of five
years, have not yet' been passed by the Board.
" The one also fur butter, amounting to 10,1311.
has been ready ever since the 14th December, 1802,
notwithstanding which the Board have not yet come
to any determination upon- it.
" Two other ofsthe Commission Agents' accounts
are with Mr. Charles Flower,, for supplying cheese ;
One from the 6th Febi nary, 1,900; to the 31st March,
1801, and
rare other from the 2d March, 1801, ,to
the I.sth October,, 150 e ; these accounts have - also
been reported to the Board -as ready fort heir deci-
sion, the former so long ago as the 16th of No-
vember, 1802, and the latter on the WI of Sep,
"tember, 1804; but nevertheless ,they still remain
unliquidated. _ _

These t o accounts involve the sum of no less
than 252,4771.

" The other seven of the Commission. Agents'
ca,h accounts are siwed to -us as not :being yitt
ready to be Wore the Board for final decision.
" The.Ne last accounts eMbrace the ' sum of
484,7331.

‘.‘ With respe& to tire: Foreign Agents-cash ao.-
cOunis, aitioutit of the money in%olved in
ii emn wii4, as bewre stated, QII the 9th D,ece-nber,
1801 i, 0,554,9221. 17s. 310. and they are turty-two
in number.

" l'hese accounts related tu transatlions which
ILA taken plite,, and otpences: that .had been in-
nrea st'i April, 1779, and oth Wo-
her, a petio4 ut twenty-seven years the whole of
which, not A it hstan,,ing many of them were of such
'vet) old dates, remained unadjusted at the time, we
commenced-oor inquiries intu the state -of accounts
in the VictuallinOtlice.
"-Since then, it appeared by the statement of the
Chairman of the ,Viauaihngßoardi who has the
supetnitendance, of the Cash Department, that
six out of the forty-two accounts before-men-
tioned have been finally decide-d
upon,. and Passed
by the Board.
•" These kix accounts comprehend the sum of
oLd. thus reducing the number of
the betore-nietitioned outsrandiag Foreign Agents'
cash accounts to 36, and the amount of the itnjrests
,to the sum of 5,056,6471. 18s, 3i(L

" The principal- accourit of those six recently
passed, was that of Mr. Arthur Cuihbert, 'Agent
Victualler in. the East Indies, front the ith it
to the 11th March, 1785, the iwprests on
which arnouuled to 1,024,5261. 14s. 6td.

"This Account was under the Consideration of
the Commissioners of-1788, who in their Ninth.
Report, state some very extraordinary circum-
stances With respect' to a few of .the items -of ex-
pence charged in it, tending to spew the existence
of enormous .
abuses in India. They say, We can-
out, however, ovoid •tiering a general opinion upon
the victualling of your Majesty's fleets in India du-
ring t fie last 'war, (the American war) ; namely, that
of the monies which are stated to have been ex-
pended in purchases by the Agent Victualler there,
amounted to more than one million of pounds ster-
ling,a moiety of that snm,i.- upon the most' moderate
calculation, would have been saved to the public if
that branch of the service had been conduded with
zeal and economy. Notwithstanding, however,
what those Commissioners stated, no less than 22
years were suffered to elipse, from the lime Mr.
accounts ended, before they- NA eie
dated; and tile party himself had been dead many
years prior to their being passed."
11 is much to be lamented -that an account,' in-
volving sums of money io so immense an amount,
should have been suffered to remain' unliqualated for
'so Wan) years. - -
" We cannot think that the examination of any
account, however striit it may. be, can be at all cf-
fedual at such a distance of time ; and it is there-
fore but surprising that the public should pot have
recovered any part of those aunts which a speedy ex-
amination would no doubt •haye shewn they were
emitted to; the circumstances a hich occasioned the
expenditures, so far from being fresh' in tecolledion,
Must be totally lot sight of;, neither 'll6, necessity
nor the propriety of disbursements can therefore he
judged of; still less can the reasonableness of the
charges be ascettained ; moreover, as the party him-
self,, in this,case, had been dead many years berOre
his accounts- were passed,
.even the chance, of ob-
taining any information from hint, on doubtful
points, was altogether lost. •
"An account cl still greater importance is now
pending, embracing a period of more than eleven
years, and inlaying the sum of 1,418,23G1. (is. 9d.
namely the acaount of the Honourable. -Basil
Cochrane, as Contractor and Agent in the:East
-Indies, from .15th 961, 1794, to 31st Dec. 1865 ;
in examination and liquidation of Which,. without
further delay, too nruch attention cannot be paid. -
" Fifteen ou.t of the 42 unliquidated ,Cash Ac-
counts-of Foreign Agents have been prepared and
ready (some of them for many yews) for the Board's'
examination, but still wait to be taken up by than
and passed.
"Two of these accounts, amounting to one hun-
dred twenty - two thousand three hundred and
twenty-eight pounds' and, two-pence farthing, have
been ready for the Board's final determination' up-
wards of 18 years, and one, amounting to t wo.huri-‘
dred' fifty-six thousand three bUndred and thirteen
pounds twelve shillings and one penny, for upwards
of twenty years, but they still remain unpassed.
" The foll Owing are the periods at which
.the
whole of those fifteen accounts were ready for the
Board's determination :

Names of foreign Agents_ Sums. When. ready.-
4•
el.
Henry Davis 25 4.
3,313 12 1 r4th' March ;787
John Detatuns 9.,b1,,, I 3 25t1; luly ,17;,6

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