The Sun.
London, England, 1804-05-17 00:00:00

CIPIL LIS r.

and the occasion of which will be found in the com-
parative suitemerst of charge of each Class for the
last eighteen scars. .
•
On this _part of the subjea in general, your
Committee is led to observe, that from the statement
laifd before Parliament in the Report of the year
18oz, the inadequacy of the Funds originally des.
tined for the charge of the Civil List Expenditure, to
the then existing and ptobable-future demands of that
service, must have been apparent, and may' be con-
sidered as having been recognized by the vote of
_the House for defraying the arrears of debt incurred
up to that period. 'ihissdeficiency being emahlish-
ed, and no provision having since been made by
Parliament for increasing the Funds, or diminishing
the charge, it is obvious that some accumulation Of.
debt must have been expeded. As' the particulars
which have given rise to the preseM debt 'are' now.
submitted to the consideration of the Flouse, ~who
will thus be enabled to form their own judgment on
the result, it may be unnecessary minutely to examine
what. ground of expectation existed when the former
debt was discharged, as to the probable future deft-
ciency in any given period; but it will be found on
referring to the Statement' inserted in'the Report of
18oz, that the inctease of charge above the Esti-.
mate, as stated fur the preceding year (adding the.
sums then due amounted to 230,0311. ; and it will
appear that the average excess, of the two last years,
18oz and 1803, amounts to 227,1051. per annurtr, a
sum not much differing from the former,
.thongll it
certainly cannot be assumed that the amount' of
charge for 18ot increased, as it was by the payment
of sums, to the amount of 51,6791. which might
not, in-the ordinary course, have been included ,in
it, and 'exceeding, as it did, considerably beyond
that amount, the charge of. the preceding year was
necessarily to be taken as the criterion for future
years.

On the whole, your Committee, concurring 'as
they do in the suggestions made by the Committee
of last year, and confirmed by subsequent experience,
in the propriety of suggesting to Parliament the
adoption of such measures as -may. be adequate to
rovide for the probable future demands of this s-
tablishment, beg leave to adopt - the Observations,
with which they concluded their Report.
On a-consideration of,the result of the whole,
your Committee are of opinion, that the Revenue
applicable to the Charge of. the Civil List Expendi-
ture, is become inadequate to the various services
which, in the Estimate of 1786, it was calculated
to meet. That, as this deficiency may • ob./iously
be accounted for by the advance of price which has
taken place since that period, on all articles of expen-
diture in which the Establishment of the Household
is concerned, -and in the' other branches of a-more
public nature, by necessary additions to various
articles of charge, there appears no ground to ex-
pea that, the_ same Establishment, intended to be
provided for by the Estimate in 1786, can be sup-
ported in future without some considerable addi-
tional provision ; which, your Committee beg leave
to suggest, might be most conveniently made in the
following mode : they are of opinion, that it
would be expedient, in the fiTSt.place, that-a new
Estimate, more adapted to present circumstances,
should now be prepared and laid before-Parliament;
that if this was properly forMcd on such part of-the
Fourth Class as respeas the Household, it might be
reasonably expeaed, that the future charoe.woold
be provided for, so as to- prevent any Debt arising
upon this head. , ,

" They think it might be proper,- however., that,
further regulations;shoold be adopted, with respel
to the charges pinprized in the Second Subdivision
of that Class, as well as in the Third ClaSs, and. the
Occasional P#Merlts, which latter, from the contin-
gent nature of the various particulars included in it,
it is. less easy to provide for by previous Estimate:
As all these are, in most, of the articles, conneaed
with the,general Expenditure of the Country, though,
by His Majesty's Prerogative, more immediately
under his eontroul, they are 'of opinion, that, it
Might be expedient that they should be'submitted
annually to the inspeaionof Parliament ; who would
thus he enabled to observe, whether any excess above
the correeied Estimate had taken place ; to-examine
-the causes .tid provide the rerimiy, either by con-,
trouling the expence, or taking measures for its
discharge. Considering the extreme uncertainty of
many of these charges, as well as the necessity of
discharging them by ready m'ney payments, so as
not to interfere with the order intended to be esta-
blished as to the payment or the other. Classes, they
wish further to submit to the wisdom of the House,'
how far it might be prudent to provide, annually,
by a previous vote, such a sum as might ensure these
Services being provided for as they arise, sub-
jeet to an account of pariiculats being laid be-
fore Parliament in each succeeding Session, and
liable to their cantroul, as in other cases of the dis-
position of,Public Money."

Most of the Dutch Prisoners have been allowed
to enter into the Marines, or to enter on board our
East and West Indiamen.

A dreadful Ophthalmia has lately prevailed in the
Isle of Wight, among the
.44th Regiment, which
is evidently contagious. Several men have lost
their sight. The disease at present has ceased.
It was of a very uncommon nature ; nothing
similar to the Ophthalmia •of Egypt., Dr. Sp
TER, Inspeelor of Hospitals (from his knowledge of
the disease-in Egypt), has been sent down there by
the Medical Board, to insped the disorder; since
his arrival several desperate cases have recovered,
under the treatment direded by him.