The Sun.
London, England, 1817-04-19 00:00:00

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WAR OFFICE.

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" On directing their attentiOn to the otiicial establishment
of the War Office, your Committee could not avoid remark-
ing several artielei, which, ultboitgh si;nctiOncil by the E,:i•
mates of fornier jeat y, at rtp,.4l' to thgnt 1.0. Cali fur 0b;.4 V4l iOll.
" The extra allowances made to Clerl(i for preparing ne
aNntini F,siininto, seem unfa to be conti:itted, "as
performed constitutes a part of the regular ani or.limtry bu-
sinexs of this •

" The nonaher of Messengers is also .s.cry large, amauntivg
to 529, several of whom receive above tool. a-year. • .
" But yoiir GoMmitteewislo particul:irly to observe on the
ref' red Allowances possessed by two., Clerks in this toMe.c,
account eftlocir lonvittit 'filled the tAttiatir.n„ in succession, of.
t',,ecvetary toraUer..Seeretariek :it War, by authority
froon thr.se at War theioNelves, wilco they erased
to fill that ()thee. Such are.certainly nystilloo,
if
not wit boot example, and the refute, ottaccount of the ;trees,
&lot, wholly unfit to be enooti,,ned, more especially as those,
two indieidnals still.retain,their situation in the.ofbee. •
" Your Onnt»ittee observe that thew two-cuses h.sve been
rentaric'ed upon in tiie Gth llepart of the CoMaliviioners of
Military Inquitly, pp. 293 and i:9•1! and the practice of lualt•
hog such grants has been discontinued in pursuance of sug.
gestiuns contained in that Report.

" Your Committee 'conceive that in any fitturedppointo:rut
to the office of Deputy Secretary at IFar,.a salary of 1,5001.
per.aorlon: with an increase of 50W. a-year after a cimtinu-
Knee in his officeUf 10 years, will he sufficient ; and they :640
venture to recommeud 1,0001. ts.s.a propei7 salary for the first
. .
am) principal (leas.,
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" In addition, to the establishment of this department,
rtg a,5.2fi/.. the 'charge of the bra nches employed
in the exaMination of Accounts .for the period in arrea'r,
amounts:to 60,802/.; the Compensations anti Retired Allow-
ances; entfitierated its p. 67, and forming the -sum of 6,7711..
omit lie regarded as a very large burden incidental to the
charge of 014 office.
"Your Committee however have considerable sn'lsfaetion
in contraiting the mute of the current Acconnts of thi; Office
with that of the period when the Committee on Public Ex-
penditure, in the year ibll, noticed "the disordered and'dis-
graceful state in which the Accounts df this great branch of
PtblieExiteisditure 'bad :been fOr so many years suffeted to
remain." In the current Accounts the asrea+ it iuconeidera-
ble, and by the more modern. and judicious arranctuent, a
considerable portion of the Establishment has been trim-
(erred (without any interruption oft he current inisiub'ss) to
the eXamitiation of the periods in 'arrear ; by whichmeans
nearly the whobt of the outstanding Accounts from Ole ye :1r
1784 to the.year.l797, have been settled ; and the Committee
hive reason to ex•,,ect thatthe Settleatettior tutee! how 0ut....
strisiding for the 'period betweehrthe years 1767 Ittl4 1810;wi11
at much 'expedititos as the difficulty of inves-
tigatitkx Accounts, which have remained so icing one;tatn;ned,
will permit.

MEDICINES, &c. •. " The char of Areilleines and Snrgieal :%Tateriats, in Grd•at
aßritain and' I reland., aumunted, for the tar IS la, to L.60,91;6;
idob is reijuced in the current year ti) ..... .... . .
VDI,UNTEEIt. CARP .S:
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" Your cOntiviittee would not:hare thought it -requisite to
make any.remark on,the Estirnate for pay and contingent al-
lowances to Volunteer Corps of Yeomanry, were :they not
dt-si. as Of..bcaring their tesitiniony-to the
importance of that A -treat utility and
pccie's of force, fin', the maintenance
of
Qtvirr .arid protection of property; Supporfed its it's iby a
441')P"rdivelY string exPence, rind caleuleteil to lieepalire the
ancient Spirit of the nation, the quarter. where
It is most
and most usefd. They therefore highly approve•of
adintitioik of ilta 64;hintliridual of this hotly, the allow-
allet3 having bee(lirevionsly reduced frolus4l.a:yeal OA.
'TROOP§ 11l
`‘ It does not appear ,to your Oommitte,, that their duty
calls on them to enter into any detail respeiting the Artuy
stationed in Prance. • -
• isThe It/iniite points out a J;minutiou qt the exPemcc,
thu tiutot)eis of ibis art eon rfdtated bytt fifth, viz-.