The Sun.
London, England, 1812-08-25 00:00:00

b' "` 1-t con:,cquence of o umen hereafter to be pro-
duced,. or of.yorr Lord—ships' special authority. for
allb‘v-ing then.", in fUture Accounts. The jsur-
. charbes in ciumr.tiqn amour t -11 S Chinnc_Ty's
Account:" Agent 'fol.'. the Bahama Islands, to
3.,4021,. :is. 9d. and in his New South Wales Ac•
eonnts, to 2,92911 9s. it is eery pro-
thatwith respect to of. the Articles
which compose then stuns, Mr. Chinnery will he
found Nntitied to the relief which he ex.pects ti
the equity of your Lordships: -But it'iS lurper -tco
• remark that • both these sums consist of sur-chargcs or disalloWancer, which have been made
in former Accounts during'many. year's: past, with-
out any application •.(so • far as, appears to this
Board)' having been :made• by Iylr. Chinnery to
your Lordships for their allowance ; and' unless.
Mr. Chinnery's attention is' particularly directed
to his subject, it is possible that no.such--applica-
tion- may by made for many years to tome,. 'and
perhaps riot till the-passing of his final Accounts'
for 'these Services. We.are of opinion that -in all
cases in whiCh public Accountants have the means
of substantiating, such claims, and intend- to in-
sist upon them, they oughtto brhilk,them for-
Ward for your Lordships' decision within a rea-
sonable time. The contrary practice not only
occasions obvioui irregularity in public Ac-
'counts, but is attended with great inconvenience,
in cases where references are Made by your Lord-
ships to this and' otter public. Offices upon tines-
so-long 4tandittg,. and which are for that rea-
son'intriPate and 'difficult, hut -A-hien:might have
admitted of easy and satisfactory solution when
the transactions were recent; As there appear to
be some' circumstances in the nature of Colonial
Account "which lePtl to this irregularity in" the
present and other instances; we
Lordships the propriety of a circular imitructiOn
being given to those Colonial -Agents -;vlio render
Accounts to. this Board,
.direztirig them in all '
cases in which they apprehended that they have
sufficient grounds for obtaining relief against any
articles Of surcharge in their public Accounts, to
make their applications to your Lordships for
that.purpose, with as little delay as may be prac-
tiedble.'! , . •

Wg have the honour to be;
.
Lords.
Your Lordship's most obedient
humble Servants,
Wm. li. PREAD, JOHN WHISHAW,
RICH. DAwKINs, . PH. DEAR,
CHARLES MOORE, LEWIS JE...NKINS.
ANSTEY, •
The Right Hon. the I.emds-Commisstoners
of his Majesty's Treasury, &c. &c.
(General Board.).
Audit-Office, Somirset-plece, Aug. 26, ISOZ.

MY LORDS—In obedience to your commands,
signified. in Mr.,Wellesley's Letter of the .'2Sth:
lilt we have taken into consideration Mr. Chin-
nery-'s Letter of the 22d of that month, 4t4ting-
th'e Balance remaining in his hands as Agent for
New South Wales, and praying an issue cf
13,5831. 4.3. 2d. the vote for the present year.
In order to enable your Lordships to fprrn a
jutznent how far it may be proper to comply with
this application, we beg leave to' refer your Lord-
ships to the following Statement of the Balance,'
: •
Statement of the Balance of Public Monci' in the hands of -
Mr. Chinnery. as Agent for the Civil .Establishmenz- of
New Sonth Wales, on .12d July, 1803 ; taken from his
Account delivered iota this 011iee, for audit, on the 16th
. June last, for the year endin; Stst December, 1807, and
from documents which he. has since traunnitted to this

Onice.
Balance of Account to 31st De- L. 7. s. k. s, d.,
cember 1807, as stated by the
Accountant 2.1,011 :2 3
Deduct Amount of Warrant
dated 27th Dec: ISO 6, with
which he was• surcharged in
Account to 31st Dee. 'KR,
the same being included in
the above Ifalamp . . 111 11
Remains aidebted 20,533 1 3
Charge pursuant to Mr. Harrison's- Letter
dated the sth June, 1807, Amount of two
Bills of Exchange for value of Government
Cattle; viz. •
First Bill ,(1,050
Second Bill 1;134
•
2,184 0 0
• •

Total indebted
Deduct Paynients stated by Mr, ,C. s. d
Chinnery to have. been made
before the 22d July, 1808.... 5,900 4 44
Outstanding claims, as stated by
Mr. Chinnery ' 7,011 17 10i
I Stopped at the
Exchequer,
"for pmperty k 3,651 8 10
Duty .
Received back .
by Mr. Chin-
nery from 2,986 14 0 -
persons hav-
ing claims.

18,564 47 1

ll:dance

It appearing by the above statement, .that
Chinnery, after providing for all claims, Will have
in his hands the stun of 9,500/. and npxvardsi.we
da riot think it expedient that the whole of the,
vote of 13,583/..454d. for the.current year should
be. impressed to him to carry on that service ; on
the contrary,. we are of opinion, that 4,5001. ein-
ly will he sufficient for that purpose, if Mr. Chin-
nery is. to be charged with the amount of the. two
for 1,0501. and 1,1351. included in the above
statement. • •

We beg leave to state as a I-ease-v:1,
holding from thccredit of Mr. Chinnery.in tat
statement, the :amount of thedisallowanCes or sur-
charges made during a series of many'yeazs by. the
late -and present Board, A that-it does not appear
that he has taken; steps to remove any of those sur-;
chargei, though they- amount to 4,1811. ; •
and we recommend to yourlaordships the adop-
tion of the principle that governs us in this -par-
ticular, which is, to give the accountant a strong
interest in taking-immediate measures -for remov•-•
ing such of those disallowances
.or surcharges; as
he may conceive himself entitl&l to— be relieved
from.