The Sun.
London, England, 1810-09-27 00:00:00

borioui, and difficult tu.Cior which they were

pointed..
Thirry,six thousand rations of different kindS of
proviSion, and - six thousand of forage have fAeri
supplied to this .distriCt since the 4th of FebrUary,.
as also for'l77-clayS- alreadi smted,• eu thequatitny
of 6,39.2.,00.0 of the former, and 1,062,000 of the
latter; amounting, at the rate of the preSent prices,
to a daily expenditure of 138,000 reds -de
To, this should be added 1,400,000, as specified
the accounts of those employed the cleiivery of
the pro Visions, which were paid for at the excessive.
rates-charged for suth,neclssary articles,
" Two' hundk d and fOrti, thousand reals de vel-
lon have been regularly 'paid for each of the nionths
of Apr if, May, and June, as the contrihntion ton
such intervals to the Colonels, .and'sup.:-.
nor officers of the said troopi, and fOr July sAtue.
sum, with the. addition 'or 18,394' rcais , fir tie
'Spanish -Generals and Fielll-Orikers. Three hti7
Al-red and thirty-thousand rhiee tiOndred -and •thirty-.
three.reals.de yellon ;or the two months from the,
15 t h of/May to the isfli of il5 monthly co,,tri,
button front ea. hot the six P efeo ures (t-Andalusia.
These are des, fined ti- the cnest of the Imperial
anny•siation,,!..i 3t S v llc, which has. alreidy.

'ccxcd 666,60 dud I\vu-Lbhcis, dazing the said two

wont h... - "
Six hundred thousand teals de vellon have been,
placed' at the disposal of the 'Lieutenant-Generals.
of the Royal ArMy under I)titi Yoe! just() Sjicedu,
,
tyr the equipment, of the new levies, and 35,01)0 for,
the repairs of the various forts; and consti notion and-
,
tepairs or military roads from St. Litcar to „Port
Mary's,
. .
The hospitals, for beds, utensils, pay of the
supei intendants and
,actuari&S,, ch.,thing, shoes, and
the exi;e.nces of.traVelling-carts and equipages, have
consuMed upWards' of 487,000 teals, exclusite;ot:
some other unavoidable expences.
This Commissien, Sire, has not yei been'able.
to calculate, from authentic documents, the immense
quintities,of proyi,ion§ and necessary articles-sup-
plied to the inhabitants' dependent upon it ; .oi,the
•
amount of the donble rations furnished to the above-
mentioed troops at different -periods. -Already is
the fifth delivery On its route from this Prefecture;
for the various 'expeditions, therefore until tiro
from those distriasi Which also adannis;er to,
the necessities of the, people, are got together and
compared,. no. certain Or regular basis for a proper
calCutation of those aggregate expences can be had,
or of the expences wider the agieccnent made on
the 16th of, April between; the milk- contractors:and
this Commission. .
," -Neither have they been able to calculate, not-
withstanding their-Publicity
.and great importance 4.
respc6ting the injuries sustained by the inhabitants
of this districtin general, but rnOre especially. by the
labourers and growers of corn. Every thing pos-
sible, as yet, for titeir reliefi theyhave experienced
from the wisdom and active benevolence of the
Marquis Duke de &nano*, even to the incouveni-
euce and privation of his own troops:. .
" A sum, ,exceeding, 500,000 reals is not. includ-
ed in this statement, which has been drawn from
• the Treasury, and deliVered to the Impel ial army on
. its entrance. Nur the amount of the _rations supplied
for the head-qUatters of his Majesty; either towards
the' maintenancerof the Royal' Officers and Staff,
or for the purpose 'of distribution agreeably' to
the diaateS of tie royal benevolence of your august
Majesty.
.

These aggregateqbantities,;Sire, are distributed
in the. interval of the 177 days abJve-mentioned,
amount, by the best calcu:ations we are able to
make, to' 29,506,466 reals de.vellon, and charged
almost exclusively on this Piefecture, most lead •
speedily to its total ruint.
The principal milk contractor, being fully aware
of. these 1413, so early as the. first of May, feeling
the insufficiency of his resources, and
,convinced of
the impossibiLity of continuing the necessary supply.
to the people, has, in his laudable.zeal fOr.
anthfor the preserVation of this fine .provioce to
his Majesty, solicited the authority of the Marshal
and of this Commission, that a deputy or tnessenga
might be appointed for the purpose of accompany-
ing him to Seville, in ordert,to describe Co the Mar,
shal himself the real situatign of the Prefecture, with
a view to the obtaining that relief which its neces-
sities and stria justice require.
" And, in tact, in consequence of these wise
means, it' followed that in a re-union which took
plce on the 2d of June, between this Junta of_Sub-
sistences and that of Seville, thts last bound itself to
furnish for three nionths,'f om the 15th of JUne to
the t sib of September, for the subsistence of the
first corps 22,4-70 fanegas of wheat, 25,000 of bar-
ley, and WOO quintals of meat; requiring, not as a
condition of the contract; but as a brotherly demand
,conducive to the public weal, that in compenation
for the, freight of the barks which were to convey
the grain to San Lucar, they should furnish 20,000
arobas of, wine, to which this Commission imme7
diately assented, without any other .condition hay-
* Nothing`can be expected from the lips of a true Spaniard
in praise of the beneficence of Vidor, since. the sacking of
Cuenca, beficatting of and the naval armaments
enforced by his orders at St. I.:near. Tills beneficence attri-
buted to Vie:tor, must be regarded as a sort of Gallic•witti-
cism, or rather as the inov cruelly insulting irony !
t A precious 'iLlustratlon of the growing prosperity of
Xeres under C;allic government and administration; "and of.•
the corn tortable benefits distributed through the royal bene-
volence of Josef.