The Sun.
London, England, 1807-01-20 00:00:00

QUEEN'S BIRTH-DAB'.

AMONG the novelties of, Yesterday, none was
more conspicuous than the Procession of the. Car-
riages and Men employed by the Contraaor of the
present State Lottery,, who evinced his loyalty on
the occasion far surpassing any thing we have
hitherto seen. The Order of the Cavalcade may
not be uninteresting to Our Readers,‘ which was
nearly as_follows •

Two Marshal-Men. ' • •
Trumpets.
•oz Four Men with Banners : —The Inscription, " Long_ i
ri.
al live our amiable Queen : may the exertions
t.. 0
,'
in of her august Consort tC!!ore Freedom ti.
to Eurg!-'
A LOTTERY CAR :
Embellished with the nuinero4s Prizes undrawn.
Two Bugles..
Four Men with Banners ; pointing out the nearest Nvay to
Wealth. . _. '
A LOTTERY CAR as before.
. ' Two Bugles.
Four Men With Banners ; emblematic of Ease and llappiness.
A LOTTERY CAR as before.
..-J . • Two Bugles.
ot Four Men with Banners :-- "Long live` amiable t...
...
, . .
~. Queen," arc. eec. • - r....
A LOTTERY CAR as before.
Two Bugles. •
Four Men With Banners ; exhibiting the'Blessings of
Independence.
. ' A- LOTTERY CAR.
Two Bugles.
Four Men.with Banners ; inviting Fortune's Favourites.
' A LOTTERY CAR.
Two Bugles. •. ,
Four Men with Banners; crowning Perseyerance with
Success. '
't, ' A LOTTERY CAR. , 4
A . Two Men with Banners :—" Long live our amiable to 2
..- Queen," &c. &c.
a..
This Procession was condnaed with the greatest
propriety : and to those who have not yet made '
their purchases in .the Lottery, must have been an
inviting scene, as it pOinted out the impossibility
of obtaining, Fortune's Favours without an early
and expeditious purchase, as the next Day of
Drawing will be on Thursday, 22d January
1807.

CAMBRIDGE, JAN. 9,-,The subje& of the Poem
for Mr. SEATON'S-Prize fol. thepresentyear, is The
Shipwreck if St. Paul.- • The subjedts appointed by
the Vice . Chancellor for Sir
Medals for the present year ate, for' the Odes, " In
•OLitum Gulielnai Pitt." The Trustees for the
HULSAN prize have given notice, that a premium
of forty pounds will this year be. given ibr the best
Critical Essay on the Ninth, Book if Bishop
Irarburtun's, Divine Legation of Moses,"

the 2:

,

21A1.?AaS.

• • •
WiSlittiGT6N,DEc.the Senat:lC
passed the Bill susi:ending the Notirim,por;katkrz
Law, with an. Anmidrnetit;• authorising the Presi-
dent to suspend it for a longer time, not ex'c..eedilig
the second • Monday in Deceinber text, if, in hi 4
opittidn; the public kdbd should, require it.

THIRD REPORT
OF THE

COMMISSIONERS of Nil 14TARY INQUIRY,

sr TFIL 01 TICE. OF THE BAKRACK-MASTER-GENERAL,

ITS :-.FORES ANL( SUPPLIES.

(Corcluded from yesteiday's Paper.)

CASE.

ITnder the undertaking in the letter of Alex.
Davison, Esq. he supplied to the Islands of Guern-
sey and Jersey, and to different parts of England, a
great quantity of coals, making many entire cargoes
of vessels.

" From the invoices of the vessels loaded at Shields
and Sunderland, the number of chalcirons, of coals
put on loard is ascertained,-and the Barrack-Master's
reteirs skew the number of bushels a6tually deli-
vered from the different ships.
" From these docuMents it appears, that there
was \'ayS a Very great increase in, the number of
bushels stated to be received at the different Barracks,
beyond i,e-tinitiber contained in the' invoices, cal-
culating 36 bushels to the chaldron.
" Mr. Davison charges the Barrack:MaSter-Ge-
neral for the whole number of busheli certified to
be received 'by the Barrack-Masters, not allowing.
any ingrain. . •
." It is the praEtice, nevertheless, of the .whole-
"sale dealers, in the places where the Barracks were
situated to which Mr. Davison furnished coals, to
allow an ingrain, or that which is equivalent • to it.
- " Your opinion is desired by the Commissioners
of :vlilieiry Inquiry, whether, although Mr. Davi-
son stipulates to be paid; by the number of bushels •
delivered, an allowance ought not to have been made
by:' aim equivalent' to the ingrain, an allowance
usually given by whOlesale dealers at the places where
the coals were received

Cllrged by liitn, and allowed by ite Ilarrack-offit!e,
under certificate.

Whilst the Commissioners were pursuing their
inquiry into the mole of the supply of coals, they
were made acquainted-with a letter addressed to the
Lords of the Treasury, by a person of the natne.of
Robert Edington, in which " be accuses Alexander
" Davison, Esq. and one Walker, and their depend-
" ant con federates, as well as Lieut.-Gen, De Lancey,
in conniving at
.the praaices of peculations and
" frauds in ' the supply of coals in the Islands of
"_Guernsey, Jersey, and Alderney, and he has no
" doubt but that these peculations will be ti,und to
have existed up to' the clear amount of 150,0001."
This letter was referred to the Secretary at War,
Mr. Yorke, who inquired into the allegations, the
result of which he declaredin 'his RepOrt not to be
satisfataory to him ; for the certificates of the prices
of coals in these Islands being signed at least by one
of the persons concerned with Mr. Davison in the
supply, were not proper vouchers.
,in support of his
claimS ; but he acquits- Lieut.-General De Lancey
of all connivance. The Commissioners also inquired
into the allegations of Robert Edington, but he
sheaved such a want of knowledge of the real state
of the transaaions, and he had so untruly represent-
ed many matte's, that they omitted to examine hirq,
and also because " he was himself a party in the for-
" gery.of which George Richard Walker was con-
vie-fed, having been admitted an evidence for the
" Crown." _ _ _

The Report further states, that the Commissioners
were surprised to learn, that there was no general
regulation as to any periodical or occasional exami
nation of the quality or quantity of articles. in. use
and in store with which a Barrack-Master is charged
in the books of the Office. The reason given for
this defeaive omission was the length of time and
trouble it would require to take stock and make
such an examination. .This the Commissioners for-
cibly refute as a futile argument, and recommend a
rigorous periodical examination of the 'stores.
It then proceeds to state, the manner in which the
supply has been made since Lieut. General Hewett
was appointed Barrack7Master-General, in conse-
quence or a new -warrant, dated the-7th of February
1805; In this it was direCled, that all supplies for
the Barracks should be furnished" by the Ccmitiiis-
sary-General. They were to be supplied by con-
tra&, and the tendere to be made by public' adier-
tisement. An Inspeolor was to be appointed, who
was to take cognizance of all contracts for ,the sup-
ply of stores furnished: in the metropolis, and the
Commissioners, after detailing the manner in which
this new system has been concluded, give their opi-
nion that it is more economical, and less. subje& to
fraud, than the-former. They point, out. some fur 7
ther means of checking the Barrack-Masters, as to
the supply -of fuel, light and straw for their respec-
tive distri&s. And.they conclude with saying, that,
on the whole, " our:present view of this system of
" proViding Barrack Stores, inclines us to think
"'that it ought to be continued.'- It will be requi-
" site, however, that the checks on the :Con-
" traaors, and on the Barrack-Masters, which
" are at present in. use,' or which we have re-
" commended, should be strialy and 'vigilantly eii-
fo rced,"

They think that the duty of inspeEling the stores
might be executed by some one of the ordinary Of-
ficers of the• establishment; With little or no addi-
tional expense ; and lastly, they recommend 'that
patterns of
_all the articles furnished, sealed up by
the Barraok-MasterGeneiiil, be deposited in all the
Bftrracks, for the especial:Use of the Officers who
shall command in each Battack.

(Signed) H. OAK Es.
J. DRINKWATER.
'Sam. C. Cox.
GILES TEMPLEMAN.
HENRY PETERS.
CHARLES BOSANQUET.
B. C. STEPHENSON.

There has been a bft for 10001. depending these
two months at BROOKES'S, between a sporting No-
bleman and another Gentleman, that the.proposer of
the bet names two placit, one of which is-the desti-
nation of COL CRAUFURD'S Expedition,—With pro- •
per caution, and patriotism, the names of the sup-
posed places were. sealed up.; and not to be opened
till the• 12th of January. •
The Caraccas is one of the obje&s of the Expedi-
tion, and Lima the other, as ;the Noble Earl bets
his money, If in the first he is right, it will take.
three'months to get to the: destination. To Lima a
little more than two months may finish the voyage.
The Expedition was seen safe, and together, the 7th
''of December last, off the Madeiras, steerina on a
southern course. Odds are in favOur of the Peer's
bet, five to four, and the speealators'aie'shyof bet-
- - - - - - •

The Highlanders of -the 2d Battalions of the 91st
and '93d Regiments have all turned out for their own
Regiments only, viz. the Argyleshire and S4kherigild
Highlanders:
The 2d Battalion of the Biith Regiment, or Con-
naught Rangers, commanded by Col. 'WALLACE has
landed at Cork.
As two youths were, on Saturdarse'nnighf, shoot-
ing near Liverpool, one of them who had got over
the'hedge, wa's assisting his-companion by the gun
which he held out to him, when it went off, and
lodged its contents in his thigh. A Gentleman whq
was returning home in the evening; attraaed by the-
boy's groans, found him weltering in blood;ana his
companion crying beside him; he immediately went
for surgical assistance, but before it was procured the
lad expired.

The of hriaginotion.-Louis NrtvEs avers,
that 'he knew a man who passed safely o'er a plank,
which lay across a great flood of water, in the dark :
the next day, 'when he saw the danger in .which lie
had• been, he trembled; and fell down dead at the-
sight of the peril be had escaped.—About seven years
ago (s'ays MALt.EtanNctiE;in Recherches de la rc-
ritO, in the Hospital for Incurables, there was a
young man, born an idiot, :whose body was dis,
located in the same places in which- those of cri,
mina's are broken. He lived twenty :years ikt 'this
sad. condition. The cause of his iniAlirtnne was
supposed to be a desire which: his mother qiad in-
dulged and gratified of seeing a criminal broken on
the wheel.