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OFFICE OF THE BARRACK MASTER. GENERAL
STOALS AND SUPPLMS.
The next head of our enquiry into the conduit of
the Barrack Department, relpeet; the Stores and
Supplies provided for the life of Barracks in Great
Britain, &c. under the direftions of the late and pre-
fent B:rrack Mailers General.
We have divided this head of inquiry into,
tlt, The mode in which the articles were precut--
et], their prices fixed and paid, and their quality and
quantity afcertained and checked.
idly, The mode of difiributing them to the dif-
ferent barracks, and of controuling and checking
their ufe and confumptitm.
The fribjeet, thus divided, has been feparately en*.
fidered for the relpedive periods, under both Barrack
Maters General ; and will, therefore, be feparately
treated of in our prefent Report.
The principal articles of gores and fupplies, ufed
in barracks, confining of beds, bedding, flteets, blan-
kets, towels, ironmongery, houfe and liable utenfils,
coals, candles, beer, and forage, were provided by the
late Barrack Mailer General, under the authority of
Iris letter of fervice, dated ill January, 1793, and his
Majeny's Warrants of 3oth May, 1794, and 24th
March, 1795 ; but thefe, containing only general in-
ftruelions for his condua, left it, of courfe, to him to
decide on the means belt calculated to procure them
on terms the molt advantageous to the publics
Prior to the year :795, when the number of bar-
ricks was comparatively (mall, it appears that al-
though lane of the articles were furnillied in Lon-
don by Meffis. Trotter and Co. of Soho (quart, mon
of thTm were purchafed in the neighbourhood of
the different barracks, by the Barrack MJlers, who
were allowed to charge in their accounts five pounds
per cent, on the prime colt ; and they were itriftly
' prohibited from deriving any profit or emolument;
on the articles purchafed, beyond this per centage..
It is evident that this mode of procuring the notes
and fupplies, for the ufe of barracks, left a great
opening for fraud. For although, as is flared in one
of the examinations, there could be no deficiency in
the quantity of the flores-returned by a Barrack
Mailer to have been purchafed by him, becaufe his
- account of them could be checked by his money ac-
count, yet in the quality of the articles, and price
paid for them, there might be much Attie ; and at
all events the intereft of the Barrack Mailer was at
variance with that of the public. In fag, it is (bled
in tne fame examination, that the condat of fume
Barrack Mailers, in this refpeft, had been made the
!Utak& of inquiry ; and one or two infiances are,
mentioned, in which fraud having been cletefted, i;
was followed by their fufpenfion, or difmilfat.
The Barrack Matters ceafed, in December, 1794,
to provide any articles of gores and fupplies, except
in particular places; and they are am permitted to
purchafe lonic articles of (mall value, if the Barrack
Offices are fatisfied that they can be procured as cheap
in the country as they could be fent to the Bat racks
from London.
In 18co, the iffue of beer to troops in barracks was
difcontintied, and in lieu thereot one penny per diem
was paid to each man ; and in November, rtlot, the
care of fapplying forage to barracks was transferred
from the Barrack Department to the Commiffary
General ; both which changes were direited by the
Lords Commiffioners of his Majelty's Treafury.
At the beginning of the year 1795, a very great
alteration took place in the mode of fupplying the
principal articles of barrack conlumption ; and this
niode vas purfued with very little variation, during
the remainder of the late Barrack Mailer General's
adminittration, a period of nearly tett years.
On the 28th December. 1794, General De Lancey
addrelfed a latter to Alexander Davifon, Ltq. pro-
poling to him to undertake the fupply of the articles
required for the ufe of the barracks, as an agent, on
a moderate commillion. Mr. Davifon's aLfwer,
wherein he accepts the offer, and fpeci:ies the terms,
is dated toth January, 1795. Thcfe letters, which
Mould, in our opinion, have been conlidered merely
as the ground work rf an agreement, to he after.
wards carefully fettled, and approved by the Trea-
fury, or Secretary at War, are the only evidence we
have obtained of the undertaking, by virtue of which
Mr. Davilon fupplied the great articles of Barrack
tonfumption, with the exception c.f coals, dining-it
period of between nine and ten years.
As thele letters contain no irrelevant matter, they
cannot, with propriety, be abltraded, and a full
knowledge of their contents being effential to the
right under flandieg of our further obfervations, we
infer t them here at length.

Sia, Barrack Office, Dec. aB, 1794-
Having confidered the very great extent of the
fupplies, from the nature of the prefent star, :lc-
ceifary for the troops Ilationed in Barracks, and the
manner in which the fame may be provided, confif-
telstly with the economy requilite in all expenditures
of the public money, without Ir.fing fight of the ne-
cefrary attention to the comfot t and convenience of
the troops ; and being fati,fied, that from the unex-
paled calls for large fupplies, as well as from the
experience of the uncertainty arifing from visaing to
Contraetots for the due and fitfficient furnithing of
heti articles as are in ufe in Bars acks; I have thought
it would tend to remove all doubts and difficulties,
if a pet fun of eztepive knowledge and experience in
li/Clcantile matters, and who had been in the habit
of flonithing fimilar articles for Government, would
undertake the fupply upon a inveterate corm:llion,
i,,ojeet to loch inipctliun and controul as this office
fhould think requilite ; I therefore requell to know,
it you will take upon you to fupply Nett articles as
thall be required to furnith, according to the
following mode and terms.
Whenever any articles (hall be wanted, an order,
in wri:ing, to be fent to you from this office, fpecify.
ing the nature and extent of the fupply ; to whit
race to be font; and the name of the perfon to

whom it is to be eonfigned. This order to be eanfi-
dered as the neceffary voucher to be produced by
you, with your accotmts, if required.
i bill of parcels to be fent to this office as Coon as
the purchafe is made, and the receipt of the perfon
from whom the articles are purchafed, to be produ-
ced by you, as the neceffary voucher on the fettle-
ment of your account with this office. Certificates
are alto to be produced by you, if required, that the
' prices charged for the feveral articles do not exceed
i the market price at the time the purchafe is made.
That if any Caving can be made by the purchafer,
or by the mode of Me or delivery of any article,
that the amount thereof (ball be made a credit to the
public in diminution of the colt of fuch article.
That no money may be unneceffarily drawn from
the Treafury, you will, whenever a payment is to be
made, fpecify to me the amount thetcuf, and how to
be applied; and you will not call upon this Office
until the fame (hall be due, according to the cullo-
mary modes of paying for loch articles as are fup-
plied ; at which time cath or bills OIL be given to
you, as the nature of the circumbanaes may require.
That no lofs may arife to theltublic in any cafe
where articles may be (tripped for any diltant place,
you mull, in all cafes, infure the fame, taking care
that the premiums can be proved to be as low as the
general rate of infurance at the time, and by the
molt refpatable underwriters. As the fupplie, for
Barracks are called fur in the moll unexpetted man•
nor, and the fervice sot admitting of delay, you mull,
when any order may be given to cone& any articles,
have the fame properly limed till difpofed of; and
that no lofs may arife from any accident by file, the
fame mull be infured by you to the amount of tire
value, eating the terms to me for my conllderation.
When any articles are to be fent from hence, you
will employ fuck packer as than be approved by me,
to whom you will give the moil liri& directions not
to allow any article of a bad or infoffizient quality
to be received ; and in cafe any fuel, article (hall be
fent to any Barrack, the Barrack Mailer, or perfon
appointed to receive and intpea the fame, will have
infiralions to return them to you; and no charge
will be a!lOv:ed for the original cult, or any expence
that may attend the fame.
In the courfe of conduiling the bufinefs, there will
be many circurnitances which still require more par-
ticular explanation and arrangement, but which will
of neceffir.y be made. the fulajed of further initiate-
Lion. lam only to add, that the rate of Commiffion
muff depend upon the nature of the bulinef,, the
experce in conduaing the fame, and the extent of
the fupplies, which, though I tray fettle according
to my judgment of the circurnltances, as they appear
in the fir.t instance to (hike me, yet mull eventually
depend upon what, on a more full deliberation, I
may think more adequate to the fervice.
I ant to requelt you will inform me whether you
are willing to Undertake the bufinefs on the terms
above mentioned ; and, as one carticular realOn for
my adopting thiN.mode is founded on the experience
I have bad of the necellity of employing a pelf n

_ . . .. .
I who will give up his time and atterttion to the boll-
nefs, and not fubjed me to the Iniallell &I-appoint-
ment, I beg you will into, m vie whether y,,tl are
affined I fhall not meet with dilappointsnent, which,
in a cafe like the fupply of Barracks, are attended
with the moll ferious cmfequenccs. I am, &c.
(Signed; ot.. DF LANCET.
A. %%iron. Efq. B M. Gen.
Letter :tutu Au:at.% wpitit DAVISON, Frq to Major General Ds
LAt‘CEr.
Sri. 1-lAllptir•Attet, Jae. 10, 1795.
I have received your letter, dated December 28,
relative to the (applies that may be required for the
fervice of your dtpaitmenr, and dcfiting to know if
I will take upon me the fur nilhing thereof.
Being fenlible, that this communication is a mark
of your confideoce; I Leg leave, in aufwer thereto,
to inform you, that my bottle is difpnfed to under-
take the bulinefs on die footing which you liate, of '
an Agent upon Commitliou.
Coufideting that the nectlftry fnpplies of the aid.
titles for Barrack, will be erenfive, and that the
calls for them will be very confides able and One x peaed,
and that the nature of the fervice is loch as to render
a difappointment of the moll ferions confequcnce, it
will be DeCeirAfy for me, in order to furnith the fame
with all requifite certainty and difpatch, at the lame
time keeping in view the utmoll economy in the ex-
penditure, to adopt preparatory meafrit es that will
attach great relponfibility to niyfelf: and it will be
neceffary that I receive fufficient authority, in due
time, to fecure fupplics for the probable exigencies
of the Barrack 1).11).4Ln-rent, more eipecially with
a efpea to filch articles as are liable to titian Atm in
price, in order not to expofe the public to inconve.
itiences and circurnflances.often aiding in a hate or
fpeculative market—arid, as ILE/ft articles may be
required to be fent to different barracks, it will be
ai(n regoljr for me to have a written_order (as you
mention) to fore as my voucher for fo difpoling of
the articles provided, which I Iliall be ready to pro-
duce, if requited ; but I mull beg leave to obferve,
that where any fupplics may be called for very in•
flantaneoufly, and that 1 may have finnifhed the
fame upon verbal Hiders (as I have often experienced
in hulloes of magnitude at its outlet), in filch cases
I (hall, if no written order is given, confider myfelf
jutlified by the liaternents or teturns that I m ry fob.
iequently make thereof to.your office, and by the re-
ceipts of the perfons to whom the articles are con•
ligned, fuch documents being proofs of the ofti:ial
authority for the meafure. I !hall always produce
' to you bills of parcels—and, with my accounts, fur.
milli you with receipts from the perfons of whom put--
chafes may have been made, as alfo certificates that
the prices charged for the articles do not exceed the
rates of the market at the time of purchafe. It will
I I be right, however, that the latter be called far within
a moderate time from the date thereof ; for you
mull be aware, that to obtain fetch proofs at a vet y
future period, would be attended with the greatelt
difficulty, if not an utter impollibility. The demands
therefore, for fuel' certificates as may be requifite,
fhould be made to me in due time, though they do
not appear to be very neceffary, except it may be for
the information of others, as you will always, pre
vious to any purchafe, be made acquainted with the
/mice", and all other circumfiances, to detet mine
you with refpe&to the extent and true value thereof
I mull alto remark, that 'raviolis inconficierahle
articles tiled in barracks, are not ruled by milrket
prices, buj may vary amonglt the few holders, in
proportion as they may be fcaree wheu fuddenly de-
manded, and particulaily with regard to utenCd3 Or

'furniture, to be made of any gives Piften• flrength
or quality, in sty limited time ; under fuch csrcum-
flances, it would be in vain to etlablilh the current
price of fuch articles ; but any proof that can bs ob-
tained in this inflance, I Ball be ready to bring
forward.
In 'regard to drawing funds, I (hall have it in view
only to apply for filch amount as I can flare to be
•required, lo as to anfwer the payments Mall have to
make, and to cover me, in due time, againfl any en-
gagements I may be under in that relpea.
I (ball duly obferve your infiruaions as to infuring
the amount of articles in all cafes where they may be
fent by lea, which I (hell take care to effect as low
as the current rates of infurance doing at the time
by reputed good Underwriters, of whom I [hall
always endeavour to make a proper choice, and due
intimation thereof (hall be given to yon, if required.
As the fervice of your department will nut admit
of any delay in furnilhing the fupplies as wanted,
whenl in order to guard againfl any impediment or
difappointment, many of the articles in general ufe,
which would require confiderable time to have made
of the proper patterns and fixer, thould be ordered to
be limed in readinefs, until the fame can be delivered
over to the perfons of the Barrack Department, At
the places whey! they may be required, I (ball infure
then'', as you direct, front lire, in the mod moderate
way, at a value that I may find the flock on hand
generally average, obferving, that it may be at times
more and at times leis than the fum infirred, flaring,
however, to you what ileps I take therein, in order
that no eipence may be incurred without your know.
ledge and approbation.
I (hall adhere to your diteetions in employing a
proper packer, and will in a few days name one to
you, who, I trull, will meet your approbation, and in
giving him pofitive orders not to receive any articles
that he may find of bad or infufficient quality ; and
lin cafe any loch fhall be fent to any Barracks, and
1 that after doe and impartial infpeetion held thereon,
they Hull be fo deemed, I (hall be willing to receive
the fame back, and fubmit to the lofs that may arife
therefrom ; provided always, that loch articles be
found unfound or of igufficient quality when deli-
vered into the Barracks, and that the damage or un-
ferviceablenefs thereof may not have arifen through
any ca rualt its not depending on the perfons employed
by me.
Alter frilly deliberating upon every circumflance
that may attend futrtilhing the fupplies in quellion ;
that the extent and punauality to be obferved therein
will require my bottle to be devoted to the bufinefs,
ahich, from its mintnenefs, in every meafure, will
Irender a continued application abfolutely necetfary—
that a refponlibility will be attached to it in proportion
to the magnitock of the concern, and confidering
how far I :ran looked upon accountable in various
points of view ; I confi,ier a commitliun of two and
.1 lit per c:.n:. up, n the whole amount (inelnding
all rer centages on making infuranceg, recovering
lotfr.s. averages, &c. and replacing all damaged nr
nnterviceahle articles delivered to Barracks within
Great Britain) to he compenfation for executing the
bulirefs, which I mean and intend (hall he Zorzafik
the tole emolument that I (hall derive therefrom,
and whereof proper teltimony than be always forth-
. corning, when required.
In fine, allow toe further to add, that confidering
the very great :run to be repofed in me, as ariling
from your favourable opinion and confi&ncc, I. (hall
confider mylell bound to 3a as much with a view to
your perfonal hunoto and credit, as to any p, flible
advantages that I might peifonally deferve, and than
therefine in all matters oioer ve the ltrieted punttua•
lily, eccnomy, and intevity.
I have, &c. (Signed) Atte. Davtson.
Major-Gentral de Lancey, Bar:aek-Maltcr General.
_

From a mural of thefe letters it will appear that
the mausgement of this trudt important c ncern was
left very much to Mr. Davif •n'• clifcre,ion ; and we
cannot five' that the Barrack Office made ufe of any
check is afcertain the reafonablenef, of the pikes of
the articles provided by him. Mr . Davifod however,
informs us, that he had alm .ft 'daily communications
with tie barrack Office relpating the proceedings ;
that no purchafe was made by him without fume in.
ti tnation from the Office of the articles being wanted,
although he did not always wait for a Ipecial order
for the put pole ; that he had patterns with which to
compare -‘fhe articles, and he kept as near to them
as poffible. He did not procure the articles, he fit's,
by open contra& but he got them where they could
be had, in the cheapelt a.,cl ma expeditious manner.
He did riot annex to the Bills of Parcels Certificates
of the reafonablenef. and tairnefs of the prices, be•
cable he lays, they were not required of him, and if
they had, it would, from the magnitude of the con-
cern, have been alma impoffible to have obtained
them; but that lie tried every means of afcertaining
that the prices charged by the tradefmen were the
lowell at which articles of the required quality could
be had, by fending into the markets for information
on the fubjth.
The articles have, on tome occartons, been infpeEt•
ed previous to their being fent off, by a perfon on
the part of the Barrack Office ; but it teems that
the Barrack Office trufted, in general, (Old), to the
fubfequent infpeflion of the articles, and report
which was made concerning them by the different
Barrack Mailers on their taking them into their
times. By Lieutenant General De Lancey's letter
to Mr. Davifon, it appears, that the fufficiency of the
quality of the articles of bedding at lealt, was intended
to rest on the judgment of the Packer, who, although
employed by Mr. Davifon, was to be approved of by
Lieutenant General De Lancey. Mr. Lodge, who
was the Packer employed, (peaks of fame inftances
of bedding fent to him, on which an abatement in
price was made by the tradeimen, in confequence of
his reprefentation of the inferiority of their quality
and Mr. Davifon acknowledges that the preffure of
the butinefs made it fometimes neceffary to accept
fupplies of a quality rather inferior to thole generally
in ufe, but lays,• that he gave credit in his accounts
with the Barrack Office for all abatements made on
the tradefrnen's bills. The evidence before us does
nut, however, jaify an inference that fuch an infe-
riority was common, or that in thisrefpea the-public
has any caufe for complaint.
Whether the manner in which the money con.
cerns were tranfatied between the late Barrack Mat
ter General and Mr. Davifon is to be viewed in the
fame light, is now to be confidered. la Lieutenant
General De Lancey's letter it appears to have been
exprefily Rated, " that Mr. Davifon OtOuld not call

fo. money until the fame amid be due acectding is
tx
the culikomary modes of paying for loch articles a,
were fupplied, at xhich time calk or bills would
given him as the nature of citcumfiances might re,
quire." Mr. Davifon was therefore to be fur/lifted
with cafh or bills in time to make his payments, but
not until they were wanted for that purport. And ie
this way it Items that Mr. Davifon moll have under.
flood the Barrack Meter General's letter. ' For I,e
Ways, that he obtained money by drawing bills or. the
Barrack Killer General, n from one to four months
date, and that the dates of the acceptances were in.
tended generally to meet hia payments.
The times of making his payments to the trader.
men were not to be afeertained by us, without re.
Terence to the books of More with whom he dealt,
which would have occupied more time than we could
devote to the examination. We learn, however, front
Mr. Davifun, that although at firfl his mode of par.
ing his trade-men was very irregular, yet, for tit
lilt five years of his being employed under the BAT
rack Office, their accounts were fettled every fir
months, which he confiders as equivalent to thro
months credit.

This applies to the articles provided on commiGs
for coals, as will be frets hereafter, were fold by him.
fell to the Barrack Office. The ufual credit, there.
fore, on this article, viz. a wholefale credit, if hefold
them on the terms o 4 a wholefale dealer, according te
his undertaking (to be noticed bye and bye), or I
retail credit, if he fold them at the price the inhabi•
tants were paying at the time, fhuuld have beengivea
by him to the Barrack Office, io Ins requifitions fat
money.
We do not, however, find that at any time Mr.
Davifon gave tbs Barrack Office a ftatement cf the
particular engagements he was under, from which
the late Barrack Matter General might have judged
of the propriety of advancing him caffi or bills at.
cording to the limitations prescribed in the letter al.
laded to. But it appears that he made his requifi.
lions for money on the foundation of eftimates prt.
pared by himfelf- •
Thefe eftimates were generally given in halt
yearly. They begin, for the molt part, with eating
a fum fnppofed to be due on the account ending the
half year preceding.
But on reference to fome of thefe accoun%
(which, from the circumnance about to be Dated,
could not have been delivered, we prefume, till after
the eflimates had been given in), we find thefe fup.
pofed balances greatly to exceed thefe Dated in the
accounts to be due. Thus, in an eitimate delivered
Both December, 1798, the balance due to Mr. Davi.
vifon on the a4th of June preceding is Dated to be
about thirty-eight thoufand pounds ; on reference,
however, to the account, this balance appears to be
only (even thoufand three hundred and Werra
pounds (even (billings, and, in the eftimate delivered
27th April, 1799, the balance due to him on the
24th of December preceding, is Rated to be about
twenty eight thoufand ponds. The half year's ac•
counts, however, (late this fum to be thirteen thou.
land fix hundred and ter:nty-nine pounds. The IL
timates then Hate the colt of the articles provided
and providing, and of thole which it is calculated
may be wanted for the periods for which the ens-
mates are made. He debits himfelf its there e artnates
with the cath and acceptances received on account
fence the preceding eairna,e ; but he does not Rate
how the earls account hands between the Barrack
M.dter Genes al and himielf, or what monies have
been actually paid by him at the time for the articles
provided, and therefore the balance of call), on either
tide, does not appear ; a circumftance for which Mr.
Davifon accounts by laying, that filch Itatement was
tronecelrary, as the Barrack Office had at all times
the means of afcertainhlg thele balances as well as
he ilad bimfelf.

Mr. Stanbank, however, fags, that the Office had
not the means of knowing what thefe balances were,
till Mr. Davifon's half yearly accounts were fent in,
which was not in general the cafe until nearly is
months after the dates to which they were made up;
but the precife periods of their being received at the
Office he cannot now' afcertain.

It is obvious that this mode of advancing money
to Mr. Davifoo, on eltimates fo incoitaily and
loofely made, and which did not includes tiatemr

of the balances in Mr. Davifon's hands, might give
him a command of money, contrary to the hmitati
contained in Lieutenant General De Lancey'b letter,
and in fad, on an examination of thole half yearly
accounts, we find that at many periods, very large
turns have been prematurely advanced to him.
Thi,, we think, will be evident from the paper
given in the Appendix, the matter of which bas
been extraaecl from Mr. Davifutes bail' yearly
accounts.

This paper contains fix colnmns :—The fecond
thews the colt of the ftores provided at the dates of
the half yearlyaccounts, to be feen in the firft column.
The balances due to Mr. Davifon on the face of thefe
accounts, at the end of each half year, are given is
the third ; but it mutt be remembered, that thefe in-
clude the colt of many articles nut actually paid for
at the date of the account. The balance, when any
is due by Mr. Davifon to the Barrack Mailer Gene-
ral, is Rated in column four. The dates at which

apparent balances due to Mr. Davifim were lignidal
ed, appear in column five. And the excels of

a:cepiances in his hands at the date of the half yearly
account, beyond the amount of thole balances, in
column fix. An examination of the paper, with there
explanations,' will Ihew, that in Mr. Davifim's half
yearly account, ending 24th December, 1795, the
balance in his favyur was forty-eight thnnfand (even
hundred pounds, which was nearly paid in Januar,
following, and that he had acceptances in hand, oa
the Paid a4th December, exceeding, by twenty one
thoufand three hundred p‘unds, the balance before
,gated ; that in the next half year, ending the -
of June, 1796, he had in hand twenty:two
pounds acceptances due in July andAuguli following,
beyond the balance then dated to be due to him; the,
in the year 1797, Mr. Davilon had in hand, on tht
24th of June, acceptances exceeding, by eight thou•
land four hundred pounds, all the services perfoi.
in the fucceeding half year ; and that, at the end 4,
that half year, he was aftually indebted to the Barrack
Matter General ten thoufand four hundred pounds,
and had moreover thirty-eight thoufand pounds atr
ceptances in hand. That in June ant, the '
was againft him thirteen thoufand four
pounds; that the colt of Bores, for the next btu
ycart mooted to forty-eight thoolastd two buncired

t money
ply aad
tatement
ght give
Imitation
P's letters
If yearly
ry Large
n.
to paper
sich bas
E yearly
e fecond
dates of
column,
r of thefe
given is
thefe in.
paid for
when any
er Gene•
which the
liquidate
fs of the
alf yearly
antes, is
with thefe
Im's half
795, the
d levee
January
hand, oe
renty one
ce before
the 24th
thoufand
011 owing,
an; that,
I, on the \
toe
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tfocaemrirti
rht noda :k
den
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olinds as
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hundred
nest half
hundred ll.'

I

THE EVENING STAR.

LONDON.

pounds ; but Mr. Davitc,n having obtained, from the
Barrack Mailer General, acceptances for fifty•rfne
thoufand pounds, (,n the loth of July, the balance
againft him, on the 24th December, was twenty four
thoufand two hundred pounds ; and that ran the 28 h
November preceding, be had got a further iffue
acceptance: to the amount of forty four thoufand
pounds.
It refulted from there iffuer, that. in June, 18oz,
he was indebted to the Barrack Office (ivy eight
thoufand feven hundred pounds ; and this balance, it
appears from the flatement, was not exhaniled until
the renewal of hu fi ilities, in the fpring of 1803, afforded
means for its employment.
We have particularly examined Mr. Davifon and
Mr. Stanbat.k relative to fume of the conchifions we
had cAleEted from there half yearly accounts. Their
explanations are given in the Appendix, and are de.
ferving, in our opinion, of much attention.
This view, therefore, of the money tranfaelions be-
tween the late Barrack Mailer General and Mr.
Davifon, thews, we think, moil diilinetly, that Mr.
Davifon had often very confiderable balances of cafh,
belonging to the Office, in his hands; and in addition,
except in nne or two inflances, the Barrack Mailer
General's negociable acceptances alfcs to a very large
amount.

He'was not entitled, however, to loch advantages,
either according to the nature of the agreement be-1
tween him and the late Barrack Mailer General, or
according to the ufual courfe of Wind's when articles
are furnithed on commiffion ; and therefore we think
that he ought to be accountable to the public for
whatever benefit he may have derived from the caCh
balances in his hands ; and that he fhould be called
upon to Ilate a cath account with the Barrack Office.
In this he fhould lake credit for all payments for
ftnres, at the periods only when they were actually
made, and allow fuch credit on the coals fold by him,
as is the practice with the whole dealers, when felling-1
to inhabitants ; and we think that, upon the face or
fuch an account, intereft fhould be charged on both
fides.—(To be eontinuerl.)

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