The Sun.
London, England, 1815-04-11 00:00:00

Arrictull a'ppertil tat:thllarger ivl-.an the ,Sittn3
were drawn for by different persons, "the total was
not more than if tile former system had been
adopted, while the oubli :service was benefited
by the thange.•
'.2.).• tot amount drawn ljr on.
the Treasury fol- the service. of the year 1-814, was
20.931.826/. which included 5,000.000,1. that had
been paid over to other dep,n.tinents and for dis,:-
tinet.purpo.;es. The ‘vhole amount, then, fore, of
the Army Extraordinaries was 15,931,000/. and
upards ; which exceeded the amount of the pre-
• ceding year by about six hundred thousand pounds.
If this-excess were thought considerable, he could
only entreat the House to recollect the extraor-
dinary circumstances of The time. In the course.
of the last' year, and even after the peace, it was
not only necessary to continue .our establishments
- to their full extent, but also to make provision for
the payment' of arrears • which had occurred long
before, and of which it had not been possible at
that period to get accounts. Of the bills that had
begn drawn, a considerable part of the amount
was for foreign subsidies which our liberality had
granted to the Allies, and which had produced.
sad) great results. It was also satisfactory to
him to be able to' state that there was not any
sum, except about 250400/, but -.what had arisen
out of the items already recognised by Parliament. ,
This sum- was one which, under More favourable
circumstances titan the prsent, was granted to
:the King of France, to enable him to return to „
his Kingdoni, and it was included in the amount
drawn. for by the Commissary‘General. Tire
total amount of the bills drawn ',in 1813, was
17,780,000/. reltich viais reduced by sums applied
to, 'other military and naval services by a bout
5,400,0001. so that 12,300 0001. remained for the
purposes of the Army Exmramalinaries. In 1814,
the total amount -of bills drawn was 15,590,00 W.
from which, .vviten the sums for the subsidies, 8:c.
were subtracted; them e'remained 12,900,00 W. for
• the Army Extraordinaries. The first bead of the
accounts on the table contained the whole of the
bills paid by the Treasury, which, as he had be-
fore observed, amounte4 to nearly 21 millions.—
The next general head was fur the conveyance of
Officers to foreign stations. Another head was
for conveyance aspecie, for which service it
was customary to allow the Commanders of ships
of way one half per cent.. to. answer for any slight
embezzlement that might occur, and to pay for, in -
surance. For many eases had occurred in which
embezzlements had been made, which it .had 'not
been in the, power of the Officers. ao'
There was another head of extra payto _Officers
on foreign service ; and the account was closed
witiethe heads of the excess of the graots for the
Conimissary, in Chiet, and the Storekeeper-Gene-
ral ; the first of which •amounted to 4,085,000/.
and the latter to 16,6:001. The amount voted for
the Commissary in Chief merely for the services in
his department towards the, close of last year was
3,000,0001. yet. the amount of the expenditore
was 3,748,000/. So that. the actual expellee had
somewhat exceeded the cote, and was about
-200,0001. short: of the. estimate ; though larger
than the
.stun voted by _Parliament, including all
the purchases of stores. The HOnse was a are,
that With the Commissary General's Department
retect alt the meaue, of proehriug. those great itip-
plies which were necessaryfor our military service
abroad, Although, therefore, there was an ex-
cess in the braiich of the Commissariat, yet
if the articles which caused it had not been
raised by the Connnissary-Peneral, They unlit
have been- raised by some other means.; 'and by.
those which had been adopted lasryear, of plac-
ing the whole accounts to the charge of time Com-
missary in Chief, he was confident the publkService
bad been advantaged. The amount Of -sums of
money raised by the Commissary-General exceeded
3,900,000/. a mid the sum of about 10,000,000/. pass-
ed through his hands in the course of .the last year.
But when the -I-lonse recollected the' importance
and nature of the war carried-on in the Peninsula,
and the expences with which -it -was necessarily
attended from the extreme difficulty of procuring
supplies, the badness. of the roads,. and various
obstftles which the Commissariat had to encoun-
ter, they woeld, cease to wonder'at the expellees
of this branch of service. The great Cominatider,
who had, conducted the war in that country, had,
by his energies,and foresight, been able to solve
a paradox which nobody before him could under-
stand. It had been said, that if, a 'treat. army
was to enter Spain, it mast beastarved, and that
a small one must be defeated:. But, he had led
a large army to victory, .by procuring for it all.
the' aunplies" that were necessary, in a coun-
try which had appeared to be totally incapable of
affording there. The House, were now called on
to make g'ood the
_winding up of the sum: that
bad tiers arisen, and a part of which remained to
be voted. A flight Hon. Gentleman opposite
bad, on a'former occasion„ asked him a question
respecting time amount of the Extraordinaries in-
curred since the end of last year. He had wished
to know what was the amount of the Army Ex-
traordinaries which had been paid since the
close of 1814 ? The amount a as, after deduct-
ing from it certain items, 2,200,0001: in the
course of the last three months. The deduc-
tions were, the -sums for the ordinary services,
and the Bills paid for our Allies. The whPle is-
sue amounted to 4,400,0001. al which 2,200,000/.
- were properly belonging to the Army Extraordi-
naries. There was a payment still making on ac-
count of the army in Spain, at the rate of a mil-
lion of dollars per month ; the whole of which
account would be wound up in six months, the
amount that remained to be paid being about six
millions of dollars. On the whole, he, might
that tihe sum required for the extraordinary
expenses of the-army, from the 2 th of Decem-
ber 1813, to the 24th December 1814,,.inclysive,
would not exceed 3,983,435/. 9.5.-3aTal. for which
he- should proceed to mote;:
Mr. TIE RIS Ey asked if the sum of 21,000,0001.
included all the: Army Extraordinaries, and if they
were to understand that there was to .be no far-
ther claim for Amity Extraordinaries beyond this
21,000,0001;?
The CIM :•CELLOR of the EX CF(ERUER said, be
presumed that three millions of the present year
might belong to the expenditure of former years.
Mr. 'Films EY said, it would be necessary then to
edd to the 21,000,0001. this other sang of three
millions. He wished to know time amount of this
description of tlebt incurred previous to ,Decent-