Star.
London, England, 1807-01-27 00:00:00

YARMOUTH, JAN. 26.

Ifefterday after port arrived the ASTREA frigate,
from Copenhagen ; and NORFOLK armed fliip, from
the Wefiward : by the fussier we have received the
melancholy filtration fhe was in on her paGge with
Lord Hurearasors and Suite, during the gale : the
loft her main and mizenmall, and made r 3 feet water
in an hour, they were obliged to throw overboard
all her guns except (even, and every one on board
except his Lordfhip, were obliged to go to the pump.
After the gale hie Lordfhip embarked on board the
Svartaow, which landed him in perfee health—the
Sratraow afterward encounteted a revere gale, in
which the carried away all her mafts, and threw all
her guns overboard. She is fafe arrived at Riga.
FROM LLOYD'S LIST. • -

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CRAW!!! ND , JAN 24—Pared by the Scipio,Rancl ; RoyalYeo •
matt, Was; and the Alexander, Dodds, from Sunman' ; George,
Pryce; and the ffabella, Barr, teem Dconerera.—Saihd the (Num
Hoby, for the Cape of Good Hope ; and the Tarleton, Jackfon.
for Madeira.
The Minerva, Strati., froM Memel to Hull, i.loft
on the coal% of Norway, with feveral others.
The Sally, MORTIMIR, from Barbados for Liver-
pool, was captured on the nth into. recaptured on
the Irk and is arrived at Padllow in &firers.

DISTURNANCI AT COvINT•GARDIOI
Laftnight, in the fecond fcene of the Pantomime,
and while the younger Botocas and Mifs SIARLE
were on the Rage, a perfon in the two frilling gallery
threw a glafs bottle, fuppofed to be aimed at Mr.
Bot.ocwa, jun.; it fell near the Orcheffra, and le-
'turfy wounded in the head a Gentleman in the pit ;
a great quantity of blood gated from the wound—
he was immediately carried out for furgical affittance.
The honfe was thrown into a great confufion, and the
cry of Manager refounded from all parts of the The-
atre. Gat MA D! came forward, and after f.me time
had elapfed, he obtained a hearing. He Rated, that
the Manager was not in the Houle, but a proper
Officer was fent up into the gallery to endeavour to
find not the offender. Shortly afterwards, FALLS?,
with two of the Bow-flreet Officers, appeared in the
gallery, and in the name of the Proprietors, offered a
reward of so guineas to any one who would difcover
the perfon who had thrown the bottle. He was im-
mediately pointed out, and was, by the Officers, car-
ried to Bow-Rreet. Mr. FALLS? begged that the
perfons who faw the man throw the bottle wolrld, at
the dole of the performance. Rap and give their
names to appear as evidences againff him. The per-
formance thvn proceeded. We have not heard the
name of the perfon who committed this abominable
outrage) aor the name of the unfortunate (offerer.

THIRD REPORT OF TAB COMMISSIoNERS
OF MILITARY lAZUIRT.

OFFICE OF THE BARRACK MASTER GENERAL.
STORRS •ND euenies.
(Concluded from the STAR or Friday htt )

When George Richard Walker aded as Mr. Da-
vifon's agent, he received two and a half per cent.
Commiffion on an agreed valuation of 655. per dial
dron on all the coals meafured into the B trracks
He had thus an intereft on the qnantity delivered
in. It was during this period that the great increafe
on the cargoes we have before noticed appeared.
We mutt remark, that Mr. Davifon think, George
Richard Walker was a proper perfon to certify the
prices of coals, becaufe he was largely concerned in
the coal trade ; and that Mr. Wilkinfon believes
" Mr. Davifon's agents, and the perfons of whom he
bought the coals, as competent to certify the prices,
or more In, titan any other perfons."
Having, in confequence of wh a appeared from an
infpedion of the three invoices of coals delivered at
Guernfey and Jerfey, required from Mr. Davifon
lime other invoices of coals delivered at the out ports
into the barrack fibres, we were informed by him
that no others could be found ; brit frame hills of par-
cels of coals purchafed by him at Brighton, Deal,
and Dover, were fent to us, which, from the Barrack
Mallet's receipts in our poffeffian, appeared to have
b en delivered to the barracks at the two former places.
The circumftances of fome of there tranfallions are
of a very fingular nature, and we have feleded two
or three of them as deferving particular notice.
On the 23ct January, 1799, Mr. Hargraves, a
coal merchant of Brighthelmltone, delivered at the
barracks there fixty chaldron of coals on account of
Mr. Davifon, for which he charges Mm 465. per
chaldron, and draws a bill for the amount (1381.) at
forty da) s. The certificate of the price (which Mr.
Davifon fent to the Barrack Office as the v,ucher for
his charge) is figned by this very Mr. Hargraves,
and Rates the price of coals to the inhabitant* on
that day to be 58i. per chaldron, and that the car-
riage to the barracks is two fhillings per chaldron
more, making tcgether fixty fhillings, and giving
therefore to Mr. Davifon a net profit of fourteen
fhillings per chaldron.
Mr. Davifon, when clerked to explain this tranfac•
tion, referred us to his clerk, Mr. Daniel Wilkinfon,
who eudeavoured to explain it on a fuppofiti 3n that
this particular quantity of coals was part of a larger
quantity purchafed fome time previous to the 23d of
January. and contraled to be paid for when deli-
vered ; for that there were fome contraas or agree-
memo with Mr. Hargraves for coals to be delivered
at the barracks at Brighton.
At our defue frame of thefe were produced ; from
'them it appeared, that there were at times agreements
between Mr. Davifon and Mr. Hargraves for the fup-
ply of coals to the barracks at Itipulated prices, but
there was none produced to us for the period alluded
to. And in the fame year we find that the prices
charged by Mr. Hargraves for coals delivered at the
barracks,.on Mr. Davifon's account, vary in almoll
every inltance in the months of May, June, and July;
from whence we infer that Mr. Davifon had not at
that time any contra& with Mr. Hargraves fur coals
at a fixed price. We mull obferve, that the certifi-
cates of the prices of thefe Taft coals are not tigned by
Mr. Hargraves, and that they do not give to Mr.
Davifon fo great a profit as that which we have par-
ticularized.

The two other tranfaBions of the fame fort, which
we have feleaed from many others, are of coals de-
livered at Deal barracks in the fame year of 1799.
In the firs, Mr. George Leith, a coal merchant
of Walmer, delivered on the 25th of March, firty-
nine chaldron fix bufhtls, for which he charged 725.
per chaldron, including all eapences. The certificate,
figned by two inhabitants of Deal, Rates the price
of coals on that day to be 9os. per chaldron, and
that the carriage to the barracks is 2s. 6d. per chal-
dron more, making therefore together 925. 6d. per
chaldron, charged by Mr. Davilon to the 13 irrack
Office. and giving him a profit of one pouod and
fixpenee per chaldron, or about thirty pounds per
cent. on the colt price.
In the other inttance, Richard Emerfon end Co.
charged Mr. Davifon forty-five Millings per chal-
dron, and nine (billings and fixpence more for porte-
rage and carriage from Dover to Deal, together
filty•four (billings and fixpence, for lour and a half
chaldron delivered at the Barracks on ,3d April
The certificate is, that the price of coals on that day
to the inhabitants of Deal is three pounds per chal-
dror, and that the pot terage and carriage from
Dover is feventeen (billings and eight pence per chat-
dron more, together feventy-feven 'billings and
eight pence; giving Mi. Davifon, therefore, a com-
pounded profit on the cartiige and on the coals of
one pound three (billings and two pence per chal.
dron, or above forty per cent.
Neither Mr. Davifon, nor his late Clerk, Mr. Da-
niel Wiikinfon, to whom he referred us, attempted
to explain there two IA tranfaaions.
Many of the obfervations which we have before
made on the courfe purfued is fupplying coals to the
Barracks apply to the facts we have jug Rated ; in
addition to there we have to remark, that if no fraud
was praaifed in procuring thofe certificates (a mat-
ter which at this ditlarice of time we could not un-
dertake to afcertain) and the inhabitants were eau-
ally paying the prices certified at the particular dates,
and the advantages Mr. Davifon obtained arofe from
his buying large quantities, and making his agree-
ments at favourable feafons, it 'does not appear to
us but that the late Barrack Maier General might
have obtained nearly the fame advantages.
But there may be a fallacy in thefe certificates, in
refpea u 1 the quality of the coals of which the price
is certified, for that price is probably regulated both
by the quality of the coals and by the quantities pur-
chafed ; the certificate, however, never Rates either
the one or•the other. If, therefore, the coals deli-
vered at the Barracks were of tome inferior quality,
and the inhabitants meant to Rate the price of the
bell coals, a part of the great difference between the
price paid by Mr. Davifon and the prices certified
may be thus accounted for, as another part may be,
on the fuppofition that the inhabitants certified the
price of the fmall quantities they ufually purchafed,
and not the price of the whole cargoes and fnch
large quantities as were delivered at the Barracks.
We examined Mr. Henley, whofe name we have
before mentioned, as tb the difference in price of
cnals of difereat qualities in the port of London—

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From him we learn, that there are many curt! of
coals brought to the port of London; that he has
known the difference of price as high as twenty Milo
lings, but that it is ufually about twelve fhillings per
chaldr on. " What in the port of London are called
Belt Coals," he lays, " come from NeWCAIIIe, none
from Sunderland, and that the difference in price
between belt coals and good Sunderland coals is
about five fhillings per chaldron."
Mr. Davifirn's undertaking, in his letter of the IA
Apia 1795, is to fupply the belt coals ; an expel
Pion, the import of which we fuppofed he mutt have I
been well acquainted with at the time ; hut in his
examination he lays it meant " coals acceptable to ,
the troops." This explanation we cannot admit, for
good Sunderland coals, and other coals of inf.:dor
quality to belt coals, might not have been thought
infufficient by the troops in barracks, but the p:ices
of them might he very different from the prices of
thole certified. It would be very difficult, perhaps
impradicable, to afcertain at this time what was the
real quality of the coals delivered at 'the Barracks,
and of thofe of which the price is cer tiCed ; bar if in
any inflances this can be alcertained, it %: wild be
deferving of confideration, whether Mr. Divifon
owght not to‘refund the differences which he has re-
ceived, beyond what he ought t• have tectised, in
the price of that coals, by means of the certificates
proctored by hitufelf.
We have now gone through the whole which has
attrafted our attention on an tolpedion of Mr. Davi-
fon's half yearly accounts, and the acco.'panying
vouchers, rind the documents, futniflied us by Mr.
Davifon, which it will be noticed are few and partial.
It was impoffible for us to alcerain the Ws to the
public, or the gain to Mr. Davifon, through the im-
providence of the late Barrack, Matter General in
the bargain made with him, and the inattentirm of the
Barrack Office to the proceedings whiltt the fupply
of coals was going on. But in office to Mr. Davi-
fon we ought to lay, as we have already laid on
fubjed of his fupply of Barrack Articles on Commit:
lion, that we do not find, but that at all times the
Barrack Mallets were fatisfied with the coals which
were delivered to them, or that the Barracks were
ever in want of coals, although at times great bodies
of troops were unexpededly fent to them, and efpe-
cially in the fall of the year 1799, when a very large
force of Ruffian troops were suddenly ordered to
Guernfey and the adjacent Wands.
And we mutt add a part of Mr. Davifon's anfwer
to one of our queftions, 4, Whatever advantage re-
fulted to me from Englifh Commiflions for coals, I
had none whatever at any time upon thole fupplies
to the Barracks in Scotland. Thole coals were not
fupplied on certificated prices, nor on commiflion ; I
only charged the prime colt and expences." We
have extracted from Mr. Davifon's accounts the
amount of his charges for coals fupplied in the year
5799, (the accounts for which year had been pat ti.
cularly examined by us) and we find that the amount
is one hundred and (even thoufand fix hundred and
twenty nine pounds, of which firm one thoufand five
hundred and thirty pounds is the charge for coals,
fupplied to the Barracks in Scotland in that year.
Whiff} we were put firing this enquiry, the refult
'of which, v ith the obfervations arifing on it, we
hive detailed In much at length, the circumtiance of
a profectition at the Old Bailey of George Richard
Walker (whole name has been mentioned) for the
forgery of a will, brought to our notice, that in the
year I Box fome abufes in the fupply of coals had been
al:edged, and had been made the lubjed of fume in-
velligation ; we in confequence procured from the
Treafury and frotn the Barrack Office all the docu-
ments relating to the Wind's.
From there we learn, that on the Seth of June, in
that year, a perfon of the name of Robert Ellington
addreffed a letter to the Lords of the Treafury,
which profelfed to charge peculations and frauds in
the fupply of coals to a great extent in the ill Ands of
Guernfey, Jerfey, and Alderney, and the eallern dif-
triCt of England. He accufes, he Pays, ,r Alexander
Davifon, Efq and one Walker, and their &pendant
confederates in the frauds, and General de Lancey
alfo of conniving at, and attempting to fupprcfs en
quiry into the frauds, and he has no doubt hut that
thefe peculations will be Muld to have exitted up to
the clear amount of 15oapool.
This letter, it appears, was fent by the Treafury to
Mr. Yorke, the then Secretary at War, defiring that
the matter of it fhnuld be inveftigated, and the refult
Rated to their Lurdfhipi ; the Secretary at War
tranfmitted it, on the loth Auguß, 18oz, to Lieute-
nant General De Lance'', then Barrack Mailer Ge•
neral, and &fired, " That he would caufe the Me-
ta enquiry to be made into the feveral matters (et
forth in it, and that he would furnifh the Secretary
at War with a particular ftatement of the proceed-
ings that should be had thereupon, in order that he
might make his Report to the Treafury."
From the correspondence which patted upon the
fubjea between the Secretary at War and Lieutenant
General De Lancey, we coiled that the requited in
velligation was not proceeded on with much aftivity,
or in the way that it was expated by the Secretary
at War it would have been. On the z4th June, 1803,
however, the Secretary at War was enabled ro make
his' Report on the fubjed to the Treafury ; in this,
AO noting that he had tranfmitted to their Lord-
(hips the cr.rrefpundence which had paid on the !m-
-ailers, he lays, " That the refult is not entirely fatif-
faaory to him : for that, although thF crirreftnefs of
the prices of coals in the Auld of Gueenfey (which
was the only plate to which the enquiries had been'
direded) was confirmed by the certificates lately ob-
tained, yet he could not confider that the certificates
originally produced by Mr. Davifon, being figned by
one at lead of the perfons concerned with him in the
fupply, were of the defcription which, according to
the terms of his agreement with the Barrack Depart-
ment, he limpid have brought forward as vouchers
in fupport of his charges ;" he adds, '0 That he mull
at the fame time Rate it as his opinion, that he fees
no ground whatever for Mr. Ediogton's allegations
refpeding the connivance of Lieutenant General De
Lancey in any Rage of thebufinefs."
We have thought it neceffirry to feleit for the Ap-
pendix the three papers only, the fubllance of which
we have jug Rated : for, although we agreed with
the Secretary at War in the opinion which he formed
on the evidence before him, we thought it neceffary,
with the means we had, to examine in detail into all
the matters alledgcd in the letter of Robert Eding-
ton to the Treafury, as well as into thofe alto contain-
ad in another paper of his, fent to us from the Bar-

Date of
Delivery.

1799

May 22
June 17
July 4
Aug. z
Scpt 16
16
Nov.; a
a
Dec. 6
tt
t 9
23

Jan. 1
Fcb. 13
March 18
May so
June to
July so
Aug 6
Sept. 30
17
OR. 18
Nov. 13
30
Dec. 24

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tack °free, fume fuppofed inattention to.sehich eft
paper was the caufe of his letter to the Treafury.
Muth of our examination of Meths. Davifun and
Wilkinfun, it sill be ken, refer to matters connefted
with the chlrges mentioned in Robert Edington's
letter ; and we particularly examined all the ac-
counts and vouchers relating to the period to which
he alludes, and many of our obfervations are founded
on the inhumation= which we thus contact:l. We
might have had Robert Edington before us, but we
fund his allegations 'hewed fuch a want of know.
leJgc of the real date of the tranfaltions of the pe-
riod, and he had to untruly reprefented many mat-
ters, that we thought, under the circumilances in
which he flood, we might well juliify the omitting's,
examine him, for lie wac hind& a party in the for-
gery of which George Iti,..;ratd Walker was clitvic-
ted, having been admitted an evidence for the Crown.

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Soblecittent to the conviCtion of George 'Richard
Walker, a paper, figned b 1 him, was communicated
t r us by the Secretary for the Home Depa, tmeot, in
viiich, under different heads, is riven an ettimate of
the lodes to the public in Guernfey, and the adjacent
iflands, by abide. in the litpply and iffue of coals and
other articles ut Barrack experolature. On an infitec-
lion of this paper it appealed that the ttatements in
it were very lo"fely made, in moll of them it could
not be weer itined what was the nature of the abufe
intended tc be dated, r,or by whom it O•as commit-
ted, riot how tire risk% were to be ellahlithed. Some
names of perfuns were indeed mentioned at the end
of the paper, who, it was paid, could prove the faits,
but it was not dated what Nets they could prove,
nor where thofe petfons could be found. We had
heard of two or three of chore named, but they were
nototioufly unfit to he examined by us en filch as
enquiry. George Richard Walker kerns to have
been confcious of tittle deficiencies in his Raiment,
and therefore pointed out that it would be neceffary
he himfelf !hoot.' be aflidant in the enquiry ; but he
intimated that the condition of giving his affiftance
was that he lhould obtain a refpite. It appeared to
'us therefore on the whole that this was the effort of a
man endeavouring to ward off his fate ; for if any
application on the part of the public was made to
him for information, he hoped perhaps that whether
he gave any or not, the humanity of thofe who ap-
plied would interfere in his behalf. We in coats.
quence declined to have any communication with
him. But having learnt, after his execution, that a
book of his was in the poffefficn of his mother, in
which he had Paid would be found fome proof of the
matter alledged in his paper, we procured a fight of
it ; it is intitled a " Wade Book ;" but is in truth 4
Ledger, containing Debtor and Creditor Accounts
with variou. perfons, and amongft others with Mr.
Davifon. We could find nothing of the kind which
Walker had faid was in it. The only ufe therefore
we could make of it was to notice fome of the prices
charged by Walker to Mr. Davifon for the coals de-
livered at the Barracks in Guernfey and Jerfey. Mr.
Davtfon's half yearly accounts (hewed the price he
had charged to the Barrack Office for the fame coals.
The following Itatements of thefe different prices
corroborates one of the obfervations which we have
beford made—for, if Mr. Davifon could obtain the
coals at the rate he paid Walker for them, why could
not the Barrack Office, by a fimilar mode of purcha.
ling, have laved fome part at lead of the price paid
to Mr. Davirm.
The following i. a ctatemea
Barracks iia Goco,fry and
the prices paid by Mr.Davh
by him to the Barrack

of the Deliveries of Coals to the
ferfey in the year 1799 ; faewfog
an to Mr. Walker, and thofe charged
and allowed per Certificate s
Price apppearing Price charged
in by Mr.Davifon,
Walker's journal per Certificate.
Per Chaldroa.
55$

qtjant!ty.

GUERNSEY.
Cb.Bajb. orßrft.
13.8 is 5,700

194 16 7,001
92 3 3,315
170 0 6,120
54 26 1,973
103 30 3 810
138 32 5,000
153 2 5,510
75 0 2.7 X
104 6 3.750
115 10 4,150
9S 35 3,455
JERSEY.
36 22 1,318
194 16 7,000
361 4 13P00
97 8 3,500
166 24 6,000
83 12 3,000
2.28 8 8.000
388 32 14,000
52 Is 1,184
:66 24 Coco
225 0 B,too
177 9 9981
136 0 4,896

SS
SS
65
65
6S
65
6s
74
74
74
74
So
86
86
SS
SS
SS
SS
65
not in Walker's
Ledger
65
65
74
74

?bend

EISO 4
68
65 o
75 7
75 7
90 3
90 3
90 3
90 3
93 3
y 0 3

9) 4
90 4
90 4
74 4
74 4
74 4
74 4
74 4
74 4
93 3
90 3
93 1
90 3

Whatever may be our impreffion, the precedin;
obfervation is the only one we think ourfelves julb-
fied in making from the information obtained either
from Edington's or Walker's papers.—But we can-
not difmifs the fubjea without noticing, that a Gen-
tleman of the proteffion of the law, who had teen
Walker's paper, and had communicated withliim on
the matters contained in it, under a wifh to ferve
him, if he could,have made any difcoveries ufeful to
the public, told us, that he viewed the paper in the
fame light that we did, and that he law no reafon to
fuppofe Walker's ftatement -could be fupported.
The fupply of Coals, under the agreement con-
tained in Mr. Daviton't letter of 13th April, 1795,
ended on :4th June in the year aoz, from that time
to June t 603 they were furnifhed by contraa at ftipu-
, lated pi ices by different perfons ; but Mr. Davifon
MI tuff:jibed by far the greate(l part. Public no.
tice was indeed given for tenders to be fent to the
Barrack Office, and many were fent, but Mr. Davifon
having had an opportunity of feting thole tenders,
he was enabled to propofe lower terms of fupplying
the coals than thole offered by others, and the loweft
offers were in all cafes accepted. Lieutenant Colonel
Mackenzie, from whom we got this information, has
no means of afcertaining whether this new mode of
fupply was more advantageous than the former was,
but he thinks it was more fatibfadory to the public,
for he believes that fomething which had been oh.
ferved of Mr. Davifon's having the fupply before,
determined the late Barrack bkiter General to try
the method of open contra&
We have been very particular in our enquiries,
whether under the direftion of the Barrack Office
there were any peri,xlical or eftablilbed occafional
examinations into the quality and quantity of articles
t rare over.

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life and in (lore, with which a Barrack Mailer is
charged in the b-oks of the office. We were furprifed
to learn, that there was nn general regulation in this
refpeil. Sr'metimes fpecial orders are given for that
purpofe to the Affillant Barrack Maass General of
the Diltri9, on the death or removal of a Barrack
Mailer, or when a fulpicion has been entertained of
miler-matt& ; but otherwife no examination is ever
made. A Barrack Maaer, on his firfl coming to a
Barrack, it mull be loppaed, will, for his own fecu-
rity, take fuel► an acccunt, becaufe he will be other-
wife charged with the whole with which his predecellrr
flood charged ; and the Barrack Mailer of Croydon
Hates to us, that he has himfelf taken fuch an account
every half year, and has at the fame time examined
into the condition of the articles in (lore.
The reafon given for this omiffion, which we think
a defed in the fyflem, is the trouble and great length
of time which the taking of inch an examination
and account, it is fuppnled, would require; but this
reafon feems not to be well founded. If the A(lillant
Barrack Mailer General of the Diflriel, or other
perfon appointed by the Barrack Office,was furnifhA
with the Barrack Mailer's Store Account, and the

ankles not in ufe were regularly parcelled and
arranged in the (lore zooms, we do int fee but that
fuck an account and ex minatiou might he very ex-

peditiontly taken, efpecially as the articles in ufe are
afcertained precifely by the number of rooms, and
number of men in each barrack. This taking of
flock (which fhould be periodical, becaufe being
forefeen it might be concluded with greater cafe)
would form a more regular fecurity for the integrity
of the Barrack Matters than any that is at prefent in
sire. and might fon-rein:es prevent further decay in
articles u hen in a perilliing (late, or by producing in
earlier Pale, obtain a better price for them.
There ought to be no extra expence incurred for
this examination, for it fhnuld be part of the ordinary
bofinefs of the Affiflant Barrack Mailers General of
Diflrifts, and part of the duty for which they receive
their pay.
The PROVIDING of BARRACK SUPPLIES, from the
time Lieutenant General HEWETT has leen Bar-
rack Mailer General. _ _ _

We now come to that period when the adminiftra-
tion of the barrack concerns was transferred from Lie-
utenant General 1)e Lancey to Lieutenant General
Hewett. On this occafi...n the procuring of all kinds
of barrack (ores was removed from the Barrack De-
partment to the Commiffary General. This change,
with many others that took place at the fame time,
made it neceffary to iffue a new Warrant for the Re.
gulation of Barracks, dated on the 7th February,
xBos, but until the Warrant received his Majetly's
fignature, the Barrack Mailer General atted under
a minute of the Treafury, which was the foundation
of thy regulations afterwards contained in the War-
rant.
By the loth and r tth articles of that treafury mi-
nute, dated the 6th November tBO4, it was di;thed
that barrack fupplies of every defcription, as well
furniture as awes, than be provided by the Com•
rniffary General on the requilition of the Barrack
Mafia: General, tut that the Barrack Mailers who
received them fhould account for their application
and expenditure, according to the regulations and
forms eaablifhed by the Barrack Mailer General.
The Articles in the King's Warrant, applicable to
the prefent fubjeCt, are the Bth, 9th, loth, It th, and
ath. By the Bth the Barrack Mailer General was
direeted to tranfmit to the Treafury a lilt of fuck ar-
ticles as had ufually, and mutt neceirarily be provid-
ed in the metropolis, with a fchedule of the quantities
wanted for the fervice of the current year ; and frmi•
tar tequifitions were to be made at the commence-
ment of each enfuing year ; on the receipt of which
it was Rated, that the Commifrary General would be
diretled to advertife for tenders for fupplying by
contra& the articles to be provided in the metropolis,
and alfo for fupplying the fuel, light, and firaw,
walnut at each refpeCtive Barrack.
And the Barrack Mallet General was informed
that there would be a covenant in the contraet to
oblige the -ContraCtor to fubmit the articles provided
in the metropolis to the examination of an Infpeator
of barrack Mores, who was to rejeCt all loch as were
not conformable to patterns furnithed by the Barrack
Mailer General ; and that there would be an' ther
covenant inferted in tke contra&, binding the Con•
traelor to keep the articles in (tore for a per lad not
exceeding one year from the examination, at his own
expence and rilk, and to deliver them according to
the orders of the Barrack Matter General.
By the 9.h Article it was further direfted that an
Intpator Ihould be appointed, who was to take cog-
tizance of all conirafts for the fupply of articles pro-
vided in the metropolis, to infpiet them, and to at-
tend to the delivery of them, and to keep an account
of all Flores furnifhed, and of their application, for
which he was to he refponfible to the Barrack Mailer
General, and the Barrack Mailer General was to give
him Inch further inaruCtions as he might think ne-

ctifary.
By the loth Article it was ditefted that all other
barrack tlores, ntenfils, and, necefrariss, which had
been before purchafed in the neighbourhood of the
refpeftive barracks under the direfli,,n of the Bartack
Mailer General, were to be procured as before.
By the t tth Article it was direfted, that the Bar-
rack Mailer Ihould be intlruaed to infpeft and exa-
mine the articles fent from the metropolis, as to their
quality and quantity, and to fend duplicates of their
receipts to the Barrack Office, and to account fur the
expenditure according to the regulations.
And by the t 2tll Article it was, latily, direfted,
that when any limes, furniture, See. were reported by
the Barrack Mailers to be unfit for fervice, the Bar-
tack Mailer General fhonld apply to the Officer com-
manding the troops on the (pot, to dire& a furvey of
them, and for that purpofc to appoint an Officer, not
below the rank of a Field Officer, and filch other as
)re fhould think fir, who with another perfon, to be
maimed by the Comrniffary General, were to examine
the articles. If on loch examination the articles were
condemned, it was dirseed that they fhculd he fold
by the Commifi:try General, and that the price of
them thould he by him carried to the credit of the
public.
We learn that, in einfequence of there new regu-
lations, Barrack Mailer General now makes a re-
quilition to the ne.ifury for the amount of the ilores
arid fuppliec which he calculates may he wanted in
the tour fe of the year ; that the Coramilfary General,
on receiving direatuni Inm the proceeds

in making the neceffary eontraels for pro ding loch
artichs as are tifoally procured in the metropolis, as
well as for provioing feel, light, and (haw ; and that
an Infpeltor has been appointed to examine in the Con-
manes warehoule the articles provided in London.
Thefe tall articles are not paid for by the Commit=
fary General till alter they have been infpeeted by the
proper Officer, and a certificate comes to him from
the Barrack Office that they are conformable to
pattern.
The articles of fuel, tight and thaw for palliaffes,
which are generally provided in the neighbourhood
of the different barracks, are paid for quarterly, by
bills at thirty days light, drawn on the Commiffary
General by the Barrack Mailers, in favour of the
Contraelors.
To thee hills are annexed the Contraetor's own
account, with a certificate of the Barrack Mailer,
who draws the bill, that the quantities charged in the
account have been received by him, and that the ar-
ticles are conformable to the contracts. Thefe are
the vouchers on which the payment is made.
For the information of the Barrack Mailers, copies
of the contrads are fent to every Barrack Matter, and
fuch parts of them as relate to the quality of the arti-
cles are printed and iluck up in every barrack. We
have given in the appendix two of the forms of theft
contraCts, becaufe we think them well contidered, and
containing very proper provilions.
It may be expected that in carrying into execution
fo important a change in the fyltem of fupplying bar-
rack times and furniture, fome embarralfments and
difappointment may at furl occur, and that a very
accurate comparifon of the merits of the former and
of the prefent fyilems cannot yet be made.
It is intended, by the examination of the articles
provided in the metropolis, that the Barrack Mailer
General firould know what quantity of articles is in
(tore ready for ufe, and to afcertain whether the
quality of them is conformable to the Barrack Office
pattern. And In far the examination and reports of
the Infpeetor, fent to the Barrack Office, may anfwer
the put pole of his apviatment : But there is no fe-
curity except the bond of the Contractor, that the
quantity intpeeted fhall he forthcoming, when wanted,
and that after the intpeeticn the artic,es than not be
changed.
The proper fecurity again t fuch inconveniences,
would, no doubt, be the taking the articles into the
immediate cullody of the Barrack Office ; but to this
the great additional e %pence of warehoufes, and of the
neceffary Officers, teems to be A fufficient objeelion.
The Infpeetor endeavours to guard against a change
of fome of the articles which he has examined,lbed.
ding for intlance, by !tamping (lime mark on them ;
but he thinks it would be of little ufe to mark the
articles made of wood and iron, from the cafe with
which any mark on fuch articles could be imitated.
It is a further fecurity againtt a change of the arti-
cles of bedding, that prefently after the examination
the Infpeelor fen is them off to the packer to be packed.
And with regard to the other articles provided
in town, if the Infpeetor is attentive in putting
his fe.tl on fome one of each kind fent to the dif-
ferent Barracks, and the Barrack Mailers are arid
in comparing the others of the kind with fuch
Pealed pattern (which are timed to be parts of the
fyflem) it will afford a reafonable fatisfaetion, that
articles of inferior quality at Iva have not been tub•
filmed for thofe which were examined and approv-
ed by the Infpeetor ; and it is more probable, that
the articles at prefent ofcd in the Barrack's will be all
of fimilar quality, than they were when Mr Davifon
fupplied them on commiffion, at which time there
was very feldom any previous infpeerion of the arti-
cles in tows, as it was left to the judgment of the
refpeEtive Barrack Mailers to report their fitnefs for
the fervice.

In refpeet of receiving at the Barracks the Rores
provided in town, andoi charging the Barrack Ma flers
with them, it appears that no Ilores, &c. are lent
from town, but by the orders of the Barrack Office,
and that on receiving them the Barrack Mailers ac.
knowledge their receipt to the Contraftor and to the
Barrack Office; it may be prelumed, therefore, that
filch Mores are not fent to the different Barracks till
it ia judged by the Office that they are wanted, and
that the Barrack Malterb are charged with them in
due time.

But in the fupply of Fuel, Light, and Straw, for
Palliaifes,we learn that thereareno fpecial requilitions
mole to the Commilfary General from the Barrack
Office, in confequence of applications from the Barrack
Mattersof their wat trig fuc'i articles,but thole are pro-
cured from the Contra&ors by the different Barrack
Matters at their own difercion, regulated indeed in
refpeet to Coals and Candles by thenotice given them
from the Barrack Office of the quantities allotted to
their Barracks for the year, and by their being in.
ilrufted to have 6 months confumption of Coals on
hand on the tft November in each year.
It is Bated, that the Barrack Mailers fhould, im.
mediately on receiving thefe hit articles, make their
report to the Barrack Office of the quality and quan-
tity, in the fame manner as they do of th fent
from London, but that no regifler is kept of filch
returns in the Office, and it is thought fuch a regiller
would be of no tile.

It appears to us however, that thofe returns would
be fully fufficient in charge the Barrack Mailers with
the quantities fpecified in them, although they may
not afcertain the quantities aClually delivered at the
Barracks by the Contractors.
There, no doubt, would be heft afcertained by the
Certificates and Accounts annexed to the Bills drawn
by the Barrack Mailers on the Commiffary General,
which we have before noti,...ed, but tt.ofe mull remain
with the Commiffary General, as vouchers for his
payments.
It was intended, we learn, from the examinations
of the late Commiffary General, and of his chief
managing Clerk for the fupply of Barracks, Mr. Ed-
ward Saunders, that accounts of thefe papers fhould
be fent to the Barrack Office as foon after every quar-
ter as the bills drawn in the quarter had come in—
bot at the latter end of the Taft year, when Mr. Saun-
ders was examined, no filch account had been fent
to the Barrack Office, and we find, from an infpec-
tion of the accounts, that none were fent till the 14th
February left. Others have been line received, ttat.
ing the payments made for Coals and Candles be.
twcen rit January 1806, and a4th March IEIO6, and
fry Straw between the ift January and 3otli April
left—bet thole are for deliveries of articles made in
the lilt year, lonic of which were as far back as
April aBoj.

Till thefe aeenuals, therefore, were feat, the Bar-
rack Officer had no other means of afccrtaining the
quantities of Fuel, Light, and Straw, received by
the Barrack Mailers in the tall year, than their re-
turns, which it was thought ufelefs to regider.
To obviate this difficulty in checking the ?attack
Mailer's Store Account, a circular letter was fent to
them from the Barrack Office, on the 13th of June
1806, directing them to call upon the Cuntraaors
on the 24th June and 24th December in each year,
, for a Ratement, ligned by them, of the grofs quan-
tity of Coals, Candles, acd Straw, delivered in the
preceding half year to the refpeelive Barracks, with
a Certificate annexed, that it is the whole quantity
delivered within the half year which the Contraaors
mean to demand payment for, and the Barrack Ma-
ilers are required to withhold payment till fuck a ter•
tified Ratement is given to them.
There will pro`iably be fume difficulty it enforcing,
a aria adherence to thefe direaions, for they
im-
pofe on the Contratior a condition not contained in
the contraas made with them, and it may be alto ob.
ferved, that the Barrack Office will have no previous
notice of the wants of the Barrack Matters, and that
till thefe half yearly ftatements of the Contraltors
come in, it will not have the means which are thought
fufficient to charge the Barrack Mailers with the
quantities received. The objet may be better ob-
i tained perhaps if the courfe was neatly the fame as
is followed in the fupply of articles fent from the me-
tropolis ; we would recommend, therefore, that the
Barrack Matters be diretled to apply to the Office,
when they want any ofthe articles of Fuel or Light,
aad notice being then given to the CommilTary Ge-
neral of the quantity which it is thought fit should be
fupplied to the refpalive Barracks, that orders to the
Contraaors Ihould are from the Commitfary Gene-
ral, to furnith the fupply required—and further that
the Barrack Mallets be enjoined to fend to the Bar-
rack Office a receipt in duplicate, as fuon as the ar-
ticles have been received, and have been examined
by them—the other receipt being fent to the Com-
many General, would be the voucher on which he
I might with fafety make his payments to the Con.
traaors.

We have fpecified in this recommendation the ar
tides of Fue! and Light only, becaufe it would be in.
convcnient, we underhand, from the want of proper
places for depofiting Straw in many of the Barracks,
and from the injury which it might receive, that a
(tore of this article fhould be provided—in refpect
to the fuppiy of this article, therefore, we recom
mend that it be ordered from the Contradors by the
Barrack Makers as it has hitherto been, but that the
Contradors fhould make out two half yearly =or- nts
figned by thcmfelves, to be delivered to the Barrack
Mailers, one of which, certified by the Barrack Ma-
iler, thluld be annexed to the bill drawn on the Com
miffary General, and the other, certified, in the fame
manner, lhould be fent to the Barrack Office.

Should this plan, or Tome other fimilar to it. be
adopted, it will be neceifart to make a fmall altera-
tion in the Contrails for Fuel and Light, by leaving
out the words by which the Contraaors engage to
deliver thole articles on notice from the Barrack Ma-
llers—and in the Contrail for Straw, by reigniting
two accounts from the Contradors, and in covenant-
ing for half yearly intlead of quarterly payments.
The lanes to the troops in Barracks are under the
fame regulations now as they were under the late
Barrack Mailer General, and the mode of checking
thofe Mies is the fame ; bur, as a further check, the
prefent Barrack Matter General, in July 1805, di-
rated that the Barrack Matters and others having
accounts with the office, thould, at the foot of their
half yearly accounts, annex an affidavit made before
a Magiflrate, declaring that the parties have not
received any advantage whatever from the purchafe
or due of any articles, and that the feveral turns of
money charged in the account have been aatially
paid, without any &dation, to the perfons dated
to have received the fame.

We have been particular in our enquiries whether
under the prcfent fyllim the public is benefited either
direelly in the price of the articles fupplied, or indi-
rally by the diminution of the expence of the ma-
nagement of this hr auch of the Barrack expenditure.
But, owing to the recentnefs of the adoption of the
fyflem, we have not been able to coiled evidence fuf-
ficient, on which to give a decided opinion. Li ap-
pears that fome inconvenience was (attained in the
lall year, owing to articles being wanted in the inter-
val between Mr. Davrfon's ceafing to fupply them and
the time when the contraelors made their firft deli-
very, and alto to one of the contraftors failing in his
engagement.
The Barrack Mafler of Croydon has told us, that
articles from London appear to be of equal quality
with thofe fupplied under the old fyflem ; and Lieu-
tenant Colonel Frederick Pays, that in general he be-
lieves the prices paid by the Commiffary General are
lower than thofe ufed to be paid by the Barrack office.
Looking no further therefore into the circumflances
of the prefent fyflem, than into that of the (applies
provided in the metropolis, it might be fairly con-
cluded, that the change will be advantageous to the
public. But there are other very material conlidera
tions to be attended to, betides thole of the quality
of the articles, and of the price paid for them ;
contingent expences, including the ellablifbment and
expence of management, the requifite attention to
the whole concern, and the different opportunities for
fraud and impofition in both fyffems, fhould be confi.
dered before a comparative opinion on their refpec-
tive merits can be formed.

The contingent expences of the former fyflem, in-
cluding the management, make items in Mr.Daviem's
bills. They comprize his per centagc of two and a
half per cent. amounting on an average to
0 o per Ann
Warehoufe, Infuranee, Clerks, Porters,
Stamps, making a charge per annum
of above rto o o

Both together being upwards of per ann. a„sto o o
The contingent expence of the prefent fyflem,
including the eilablithment, are,
An larpeetor at tss per diem £ 273 15 0
Oac Clerk in Comminry General's Office
at IC'. per diem az to o
And two others at ss. each as to o

Makirg the whole menet& 638 15 o per ikon.
A ftving therefore atifes to the public, on this head
alone of about 1,5001. per annum; and the calcula-
tion of the prefent expense includes the fvpply of
coals, which the other does not.

But the advantages would probably appear of much

greater moment, ;r ire take.into the account the np.
portunities offered for fraud and impofiti tn, and the
labour and attention necelTary to guard the public
intereft when articles are ptocured by agency, and
the Prices are to be afcertained by certificates.
In this cafe, the enquiries ought to be whether the
Perfons certifying are refpedable in their lines of life,
and tare acquainted with the fubje° matter of the
certificate ; whether the article therein defcribed
correfponds exattly with the article fuonifhed (faro
in the large.purchafes of the Barrack Office, even a
(*mall variation in the quality would have produced a
confiderable over payment) ; and, laftly, whatever
might be the price certified of an article on a patti.
cular day, the enquiry (hould be, whether it may not
have been canted by peculiar circumftances, fuch as
the contrivance of the agent himfcif, who, if his deal.
inge were extenfive, might often have it in his power
to regulate the price on particular days.
Thefe enquirie euld, no doubt, call far much
attention, and we certainly not made under the for.
mer fyftem : on the contrary, when articles are fup-
plied under a smell conlidered contra°, the price be.
ing fixed, the only neceffary enquiry Is to afcettaitt
that the articles fupplied a: e contormable to patterns,
It was to he prelumed that this change in the fyf.
tem of providing fupplies would 'Live much dimi-
nilhed the labours of the Barrack Office, and that
confequently fame diminution was to be hoped for
in its eftablifhment ; but Lieutenant Colonel Fre.
derick tells us, in his examination, that inliis branch
of the Office, which relates to the management of
the fupplies and limes, the Wind's is increafed in
confequence of the altezatian. Ile aduaits, however,
that this was chiefly owing to the inconvenience of
the interval and failure before defcribed. Yet he
thinks even if fuel' an ire •nvenience (hould not again
occur, that all the perfons in his department will be
ftill fully occupied ; and Mr. Stanbank, the late ac-
countant of the Barrack Office, in whole department
a diminution of labour from the change was chiefly
to be expeEted, did not find that it was diminifhed
during his time ; and he does not think even when
the fyfiem (hall be eftablifhed, that any diminution
in that department will take place but in a (mall de-
gree.
On the whole, our prefent view of this fyflem of
providing Barrack Stores, inclines us to think that it
ought to be continued. It holds out, among other
advantages, the means of checking the original or-
ders for providing the flues, of obtaining them on
the moll economical terms, and of the management
of the fupply being carried on at a lets expenfe than
it ufed to be ; and it relieves the Barrack Mailer
General of much labour and refponfibility ; a mat-
ter of no fmall importance, where the remaining
duties of his office are fo various and extenfive.

It still be requifite, however, that the checks en
the Contra&ors, and on the Barrack Mailers, which
are at prefent in ufe, or which we have recommend.
ed, fhould be aridly and vigilantly enforced.
We think, moreover, that it fhould be conlidered
whether the appointment of a perfon folely for the
purpofe of infpeeing the Stores is neceiTary, as it
Teems that this duty might be excuted by Come one
of the ordinary Officers of the Efiablifhment, with
little or no additional expence.
And, lafily, we recommend that Patterns of all
the Articles furnifbed, Pealed by the Barrack Matter
General, be depollted in all the Barracks, for the ef-
pecial ufe of the Officers who (hall from time to time
command in eachsßarrack. This would enable
them to compare the articles in ufe with the patterns,
and operate as a check on the Ear rack Matters, that
the articles iffued by them are equal in quality at
leaft to thole which ought to have been received by
them. (Signed)
• H. OAKES. (Ls.)
J. DR INKWATER. s.)
SAM. C. COX. 5)
Office of Military Enquiry, GILES TEMPLEMAN. (L. s )
No. 17, Buckingham-Esser., HENRY PETERS. (c. 6.)
Adelphi. CHA. BOSANIVET. s)
24th July tBO6. B. C. STEPHENSON. s.)

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of 1,c;)ol. was fold by SWIFT and Co. No. /T, Paul.
try, and No. rz, Charing Crofs, by whom alfo No.
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fold in a wholelricket to a gentleman who afterwards
divided it into Shares.

The Ticket No. 23,815, as Firft Drawn yefterday,
entitled to Ten Thoufand Pounds, was fold at Meffrs.
HAZARD,BURNIIs and Co.'s Office, Royal Exchange,
in one Fourth, one Eighth, and ten Sixteenth Shares.
fro• 24,490, the Firit Drawn Ticket in the prefent
Lottery, entitled to 20,0201. and No. 846, drawn on
the 22d infant a Prize of 5,0001. were alto fold in
Shares at the above Office. Tickets and Shares con-
tinue on tale, warranted 'indrawn. The Firer! Drawn
on Wednefday, 4th Febi nary, will be entided to
30,0001.

IN profeifing myfelf a regulArly educated MEM.
ber of the ROYAL COLLEGE of SURGEONS in LON-
DON, I think it incumbent on me to fignify, that my Diplotm
from the College of Surgeons, as well as Certificates from the
Holpitals, and, various Profeffors under whom 1 Rudiod Phyfir,
Surgery, and Midwifery, have been for years placed in one of my
Parlours, open to the infpedtion of any one who happens to be
there, or is deftrous of filch examination.

THlRTtarr YZARS I have refigned all other Pra&lce. for the
Study and Treatment of Vexr<&lAL Cora rt..tt es and Deal car
—but it was not till I had experience as an Army Surgeon and Ge•
neral Practitioner, that I thought myfelf juftified in the ScPdiaa
of this peculiar branch. The concentrated force of the human
irtelled, when diredcd to a particular point, mull acquire lupe-
riority within the circle of its own adion,and a long continued fur.
cell', is a decided proof, that my efforts have not been leis beae•
ficial to others than advantageous to myfelf.
The diftrefs and the mifery which arifc from a certain deftrue•
tive habit, fo pernicious to fchoolboys, have been frequently pour-
trayed by the moralifts of the age. But it Is the duty of everl
Practitioner, when called upon, to relieve fuck fufferiag• by Medi.
cal Aififtance ; and it is the acquirement of my exclufive cape.
rience in this line to offer in every fuch cafe a fak and certain re-
, eltabliihment.

In flight cafes of deficiency produced by free living, refidenceiA
warm Climates. or toe much indulgence of feduetive Paißoos, sad
in all recent Venereal Complaints, early application infares i:s im-
mediate cure. But in the moit complicated Cafesof Dill' LITT
accompanied by fever or Diforders of the fyllem ariflng from ne•
gleeted infeEtion; Come perfeverance is Indifpenfably requilite for
the rc-animation of the Conititution and reftorction to health and
vigour.—In all cake with either fez, the molt inviolable fecrecy
oblerved, and the terms of remuneration are plainly Rated on the
firtt interview. MARTIN BREE,
Membsr of tite Royal College of Surgeons in T.oodoes
No. 'ay, Arendsl-ftreet, Strand, near Temple Bar.
Tbere is an additional entrance in Water-ftreet adjoining.--M1
letters from town or country. arc expected to contain a batik Deo'

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