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i T BISH; Contractor for thfpresent it;ch but Sm AI
• Lott, ry, of Only 8,000 Tickets, respectfully renslitis the
Public, that the *hob of this popular Lottery will be drawn on
'Tuesday nPit, the 18th instant, coutaloisig
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2 - of - 4,000
4 - of - 1,000

i It is twofer to remark, that in the small Lotttry which drew
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Town demand; the highest Prize In that Lottery was £16,000,
in this there are o Prizes of ..C:..0,000, &c ; the necestity
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BISH Solt! and shared In the October, Novernher, and the
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£3OO, at hit truly fortunate Offices,
4, CORM-ILL, and 9, CHARING-CROSS. •

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Mr. WHITBREAD said, that lie had many ob-
jections which went to the principle and not to the
details, and therefore be could not preclude himself
from offering those objections in CA proper stage
upon the second readint. The Bill had in fact been
so well ahered by the Right Hon. Gentleman from
the drape in which it had ribsisted for four years, that
it might altruist be considered a new Bill, and that
objections might now be fairly Made co its principle.
Mr. Secretary RYDER replied, tNk if there could
be any debate on the second reading, be wield with
to postpone it till Thursday s!'nnight, In Wet that
a Noble Lord (Lord Castlereagh) whofe prcence
he much wished upon a question of deaf nattily, might
be in his place. Chat Noble Lord would now Le
prevented froin attendlng,. a domestic alliiction
which had recently happened. He should therefore
now fix fur Friday the motion w;.ich he had rim; to
give ajtice
joa DITERCOL'itPIe.
Sir JOHN NEWPORT rap's to complain of a
violation of a law, which was of most hayortant iota.
rag to Great Britain and.lrelanl. By the Coln Inter-
course Bill, vesselt from either ports of the United
. Kingdom, might put into the puts of the other.
without paying duties or th'e troub'e of entries at the
Customhouse. At the pot t of Bi istol, however. they
' had frequently refuted the admiss;on of corn-vet.?“
from Ireland, inertly on the ground of that: o..ing
Russia mats and boards in the vesPels to prat !: ,11.!
corn. He had no ddubt but that the Treasu y,
application, would have set the matter right ; bu:
thought the Corn Intercourse Law was cit such vital
importance to bet's countries, that it was better to
mention it in Parliament.
Mr. W. POLE said, that he had never heard the
coinplaint before the Right Hon. Gentleman states'
it this night. There could be no wish in the CUSVMI-
- Officers of Bristol to prevent the introduction
of Irish corn, but they might lie ve supposed that sonic
smuggling was carried on by those vessel;. tie
should, however, make it his business to enquire into
the subject ; and be made no doabt but that there
would be found to be no difficulty in renved)itig any
mistake upon this point.

MARINE CORPS. . •
Mr. HUTCHINSON rose, to call the attention of
the House to the situation of the Royal Marine corps.
H's present motion should be for papers, on which he
might perhaps move, on a future day, an address to
the Prince Regent, praying hit Royal Highness to
take the state (.1 this corp 3 into his consideration. If
the Right Hon. Gentleman at the head of the Ad-
miralty would signify any disposition in the Govern-
ment, to give to this meritorious corps the redress
they conceived themselves entitled to, he should
gladly withdraw his motion. The circumstances of
the marine corps were, as he believed, but little known
either to the House or the country, althoogh their
merits were beyond all question. What he begged
leave to suggest, was, that they ought td be• put on
an equal footing, both as to emolument and rank.
with the other branches of the service. The matinee
were one-fourth of our naval force, and amounted to
35,000 men. The merits of this corps were equal to
those of any other de.cription of our force, and yeg
it was their peculiar misfortune to be considered hid
ferior to the rest. The highest offices in the corps
Were filled, not by marine offices, but by oflicorti'
of the navy: There was a General of marines,
Lieutenant-General, a Major-General, and Colonels,
all officers of the navy having other etnolumente
whereas the highest 'situation an officer in the
marines could arrive.at, was inferior both in tank
and emohiment to those offices thtfs held by °S-
eers of the navy.. There were four divisions of the
marine force, stationed at Portsmouth, Plymouths
Woolwich. and Chatham.
~ The situation of Com-
mandant of one of thou &vinous was emit* b..


neath that of the- offices which he had before men-
tioned, as having I een held, by navy officers. The
promotion also went on so slow in the marines, that
it was fourteen years before a subaltern arrived to the
rank of Captain, and thirty years before he came to
be a field officer. It must be a mortifying thing to
marine of to see Admirals and Generals who en-
tered the service long atter them. If their situation
was compared with that of the navy, it was much in-
ferior, as they could never rise so high as naval officers.
It was the same If compared with the line and the ar-
tillery; and upon garrison duty, an old mai ine officer I
might see himself commanded by a junior officer 'of
militia. They never were placed upon the Staff :
neither bad the Serjeant of Marines the same al-
lowance at Greenwich, that the Serjeant of the line
had at Chelsea. As to the privates in the army, they
were allowed, in computing their pensions, three years
service for every two years spent in the East or West
Indies. 'I his was not the case with the Marines.—
His great object was, that a corps equal in merit to
any other should be equally treated, both as to rank
and emolument. - He concluded by moving for the
copy of a memorial presented to the Admiralty in
1810, by the Field Officers of the Marines, as well as
the copy of a letter from Colonel Trench, to the First
Lord of the Admiralty upon this subject.
Mr. YORKE agreed with the Honourable Gentle-
man in every thing he said in praise of the Marine I
Corps, but he could n9t see the necessity for agreeing
to this motion. The Marines were part of the navy,
and after they had passed the post of Captain, they
were in a sort of sinecure retirement. As to their '
not being admitted to garrison places on shore, it was
an old regulation, and one that oughtsnot in a hurry
to be departed from. Captains in the line rise by
purchase, this they could not do in the Marines, which
night account for the disparity of promotion. That
the principal commands in the Marine Service were
conferred on naval officers, he conceived, was easily
accounted for, from the circumstance that their actual
service was usually, if not always, at sea, at which
times they were commanded by naval officers. The
Honourable Gentleman was probably not aware that
the.question as to the allowance to Marine Officers
had been under the consideration of the Admiralty,
in the year 1809, when a considerable addition was
made to their-emoluments and advantages. He
. was convinced, therefore, that the officers of the
• Marine Corps in general were well satisfied with
their situation. The first Officers of the Marines
had more pay than a Major-General on the Staff,
and so in proportion. The Right Honourable Gen-
tleman therefore thought that he had a right to
complain, that the Honourable Gentleman had, with
so little ground on which to stand, come to a com-
parison and chaffering on such trifling things as .ss.
here or there. On shore, he contended, that the Ma-
rines, in proportion to their numbers, were better
supplied with officers than the artillery or any other
corps. They had a Colonel, two Lieutenaht-Colonels,
and four Majors, for each division of 1000 men.—
The services of the artillery, he contended, were more
important, and attended with more risk : but even
on a comparison with them it would be found that
. there was here very little difference in point of time
as to the period of service required for rising in rank
• by the officers in each. As to allowances ost beard
of ship, prite•money, &c. he conceived, they would
be found- to be fully adequate. As to Greenwich
• Hospital, the officers in this corps had exactly the
same advantage as was possessed by officers in the
navy, except as to the holding of offices in the Go-
vernment of the House itself. It had been said, that
the corps in question was not entitled to the Alvan-
,
taqes granted in the year 1806,• to the army serving
in the East and West Indies. It was to be-observed,
however, that they were not to be considered as sol-
diers serving on shore ; at sea their service was com-
paratively healthy. The Right Hon. Gentleman de-
clared, that he had entered into this question with a
zealous desire to afford relief wherever he should find
it to be wanted ; but finding that a full inquiry had
been made into it three years ago, when the subject
underwent the fullest investigation, and considerable '
additional allowances had been made, he did not
find that he was now bound to take up the question.
He never recollected of any case being brought be-
fore the House so little entiled to consideration.
Sir EDWARD BULLER declared, that he had
never heard k insinuated that the Marine Corps had i
any peculiar ground of complaint.
Mr. GRENFELL said, that might ,be so ;—but
still his Honourable Friend, as an iniiividual, might
b convinced they had ground of complaint ; if that
were so, he hoped he would persevere in his motion,
and would not suffer the door to be shut on the pre-
sent discussion.
Mr. ROBINSON declared, that as to any idea
which the Honourable Member might entertain as to
prejudices existing in the Admiralty Board, either
against the Honourable Gentleman, or any measure
recommended by him—such an idea was wholly un-
founded. - -
Mr. HUTCHINSON replied, declaring that he !
had felt himself impelled by an imperious duty to
call the attention of the Admirsity to the degraaedi
Militar y state OF the Marine Corps, .-and to the super- i
cession in rank of the Officers of that Corps, by which
they were not allowed to share in the g irrison duty,
which, he conceived, was a great slur on the corps.
It was no answer to tell him that the Officers in this
corps did not purchase their commissions. The Artil-
lery Officers di i not purchase their commissions ; and
in the army, many of the officers did not purchase their
Fonunissions. The artillery service was as 17 to 31, in
comparison wth that of the corps of marines ; and
there were not 20 Captains in the whole army with
ne irly the same length of service as the Marine Cap-
tains. The statementof the First Lord of the Admiralty
which the H• use had just heard, would be received
with surprixe, not to say with indignation ; and the
Right Honourable Gentleman would shcrtly find that
there were things connected with the Corps of Royal
bilaiines which were at this moment well worthy of
his most serious and anxious attention. He had called
the attention of the House to a grave case. He knew
that he was correct in saying that there were feelings
in the corps of Marines whiclainow required to be at-
tended to. In submitting this question to the House,
lie had only discharged an imperious public duty.
Mr. YORKE explained ; after which the question
was put on Mr. Hutchinson's fit st Motion, which was
negatived without a division; and the second motion
,be agreed to withd, 4W.

• TEANLPOATATION TO NEW SOrTit WALES.
Sir S. ROMILLY rose, to move for the appoint.
ment of a Committee to enquire into the effects of the
system of transporting convicts to New South Wales;
and in doing so, hp should only detain the House a
very short time, as he understood that his motion was
not likely to be opposed. He would beg leave to ob-
serve, however, tbat.as connected with the subject of
transportation, two important objects of enquiry
would naturally conic under the attention of the Com-
mittee ; one was, as to the effects which transportation
produced on the convicts; and the other, as to the na-
ture of the punishment which was thus inflicted upon
them, and their situation when removed to that co-
lony. At a period when the Legislature were almost
every Session under the necessity of passing Acts of
Parliament, denouncing the punishment of transpor-
tation on offenders, it became more th an ever necessary
to enquire into its effects. He did not mean to throw
any reflection on the mode of distributing justice, but
he wished merely that the public should have some
information by which it would be judged whether
transportation was a punishment advantageous to
society? The only information which the country
had on the subject, was from a work of a Mr.
Collins, and another of a Mr. Mann ; but this was
not authentic. All the information that ever was
laid before the House, with respect to New South
Wales, was a correspondence between Governor
Phillips and the Secretary of State in 179'2, although i
this mode of punishment was tried at first as a mere
experiment ; and differed in every sense from trans.; 1
portation to the colonies of America, which was in,'
use previously to 1778. He then moved, that a Com-
mittee be appointed to inquire into the manner of exe-
cuting sentences of transportation to New South
Wales, and into the effects resulting therefrom.
The Motion was put and carried, the Committee
nominated, and three appointed to be a quorum.
Sir SAMUEL ROMILLY gave notice, that be
would move to-morrow for a revival of the Commit-
tee of last. Sesssion, for enquiring into the situation of
parish apprentices.—Adjoerned.

MILITARY ENQUIRY.
EXTRACT FROM TILE SEVENTEENTH VEPORT.

Our enquiries respecting the Accounts of the Mili-
rtary Corps in the pay of the Ordnance, have been
directed to the situation of the Agents or Paymasters
of these corps ; to the course observed in issuing
money to them ; to the mode of distributing it, and
accounting for its expenditure ; and to the nature as
well as the actual state of the examination of these
accounts. But we shall bring forward in this place,
such particulars only of the information which we
have obtained, as may serve to shew the general
conduct of the Ordnance Department in this branch
of their concerns, or which may lead to any observa-
tions on that conduct. We shall state these particu-
lars in each of the Agencies separately, premising,
however, that the Agents of all the Ordnance Mili-
tary Corps, are in the appointment of the Master-
General, and are removable at his pleasure.
The most considerable of these agents are Messrs.
Greenwood and Cox, for they have the agency of the
Royal Regiment of Artillery, (including the Horse
Brigade, Invalid Battalion, and Medical Staff of that
regiment,) of the Foreign Artillery, and of the
Ar-
tily.attached to the German Legion, of the Corps
of Royal En,ineers, of the lite* Military Artificers,
and of the Royal Military Surveyors and Drafts-
men. They give security to the amount of £lO,OOO
as Agents of the Artillery, and of 41,000 as Agents
lof the Corps of Engineers. They have two pence in
the pound on the full pay of the non-commissioned
officers and privates of the Artillery, according to
the establishment of the regiment, and the same on
the establishment of the Royal Military Artificers,
whether these different corps are complete or not ;
and two pence in the pound also on the pay of the
Officers of all the corps of which they are Agents ;
but the poundage on the pay of the Officers of these
corps, above the rank of subaltern, is not charged
to the public. They have the Luther allowances of
£l5O per annum for paying the Half-pay and Pen-
sioners of the Artillery, of £lOO per annum for pay-
ing the incidents of that corps, and £lOO per annum
for paying the incidents of the Royal Military Arti-
ficers. None of this pay, or of these allowances, is
specially issued to the Agents, but the amount is
charged by them in their several periodical ac-
counts.

The money for the service 0 the Royal Regiment
of Artillery, is obtained by the Agents in different
ways, according to the stations of the companies be-
longing to the regiment. The subsistenCe for such
as are stationed in Great Britain, Gibraltar, the Me-
diterranean and Madeira, and for such as are serving
in Spain and Portugal, is issued to the Agents
monthly, according to distributions made up by them
from the returns of the stations received from the
Adjutants of each battalion of the regiment, and
which are delivered to die Board of Ordnance about
the latter end of each year for the year ensuing. We
find that the amount of this issue is not regulated by
any returns of the effective numbers, but is accood-
ing to the numbers borne on the full establishment
ofi the regiment ; and that no statements of the sums
received, and of those actually disbursed by the
Agents for this particular service, are ever laid be.
fore the Board, although they are in the habit, it is
said, of giving in half-yearly statements of their re-
ceipts, and of the disbursements, as nearly as they
can be estimated from the returns of effective num-
bers received from the Deputy. Adjutant General's
office. The subsistence for the companies of Artil-
lery at other stations abroad, is issued on Bills of Ex-
change drawn on the Agents by the Ordnance Store-
keepers or acting Paymasters at the several stations,
after the bills have been transmitted to the Board by
the Agents, with an application for an issue to the
amount of them. Mr. Drewry who has the superin-
tendence of this branch of Messrs. Greeawood and
Cox's agency, apprehends that the Board has no
means of checking the amount of such Bids, or, in
other words, of regulating the sums to be issued t'
the Storekeepers, &c. abroad, except through the in-
formation. to be communicated from the Agents ; yet
the Agedts do not at the time that they make these
applications to the Board, add any statement or cer.
tificate chewing that the amount was properly drawn
for, for they consider, it is said, the words •' Certi-
fied," or ,6 Approved," which are put on each Bill
by the Officer commanding. at the station, as suffi-
cient to justify the application. ^ It is added, how-
ever; that the Agents have wade representations tv

the Board as to the propriety of accepting and pay-
ing such Bilk, when they have appeared considerably
to exceed the amount required fir the payment of
subsistence at the station at which they are drawn.
It is stated further that the Agents are considered re-
sponsible for the rate of Exchange at which these
Bills are drawn, as well as for their amount ; yet it
appears that they take no steps to ascertain the correct-
ness of the rate before they apply to the Board for an
issue to pay them ; and that when they are making
out their annual accounts, which include the accounts
of these Foreign Storekeepers and Paymasters, they
rely for the correctness of the rate stated in them, on
the affidavits of the Storekeepers, &c. annexed, s, de-
daring, that no premium or emolument whatever,
either directly or indirectly, has been received for
or on account of the Bills drawn by them on the
Agents of the Royal Regiment of Artillery, but such
only for which credit has been given in the said ac-
counts current."

The issues to the Agents on account of the regulai
ted allowances, such as extra bread and meat, 6cc.
are made quarterly, on applications founded, as to
their amount, upon the disbursements of the preceding
period ; and half-yearly statements are given in,
shewing the amount of the receipts and disburse-
ments on this account withiu the period, and the ba-
lance. The issues for the incidents for the home ser-
vice are made in the same manner. The allowanem
and incidents for the companies of artillery abroad,
do not pass through the hands of these agents, but
are issued by the Board direct to the Storekeepers or
Paymasters at the several stations. The subsistence
for the invalid battalion is issued monthly, together
with the subsistence of the companies of the march-
ing battalions at home ; but the issues for the pay-
ment of half-pay, retired pay, and pensions, are made
quarterly, 'upon application, accompanied with state-
,
mentsiof the numbers of pensioners, and the names
of the half-pay and retired officers, with the rates of
! pensions and allowances per diem. The issues on
account of the recruiting service of the artillery are
made on statements of receipts and disbursements,
shewing the balance. It must be observed however I
of these last issues, that they include subsistence mo-
ney for the recruits, and therefore as. the issues under
the distributions before spoken of ale made accord-
ing to the full establishment of the companies, that
so far as respects the number of reeruits,• there is a
double issue of subsistence to the agent. The pay
and allowances of the artillery of the German Le-
gion are the same as those of the British artillery,
and are issued in the same manner. The foreign ar-
tillery have also the same pay and allowances, but
the money is issued for that part of this corps which
is stationed in Great Britain, generally on applica-
tions made half-yearly, and for the other part of it,
which is stationed in the West Indies, on the bills of
resident storekeepers. The money for the detach-,
ments of the artillery stationed in Ireland is issu-
ed from the funds of that country to a Deputy
of Messrs. Greenwood and Cox, in Dublin. The
extra allowance of ten shillings per diem, which the
Field Officers of the artillery commanding in the se-
veral military districts of Great Britain and Ireland
receive, is usually issued twice in that year ; it is paid
to them by the special orders of the Board for each
payment, and is charged in the account of incidents.
—lt will appear from the foregoing statement, that
the Board has the means of judging correctly on the
propriety of the issues for the several services alluded
to,. except in the cases of the bills drawn by the store-
keepers and paymasters abroad, and of the subsis-
tence which is described to be issued under monthly
distributions, formed on the full establishments of the
companies of artillery. It would be more satit.fac-
tory, we think, with respect to the first of these ex-
cepted cases, if the agents were instructed in all their
applications for authority to accept the bills, to cer-
tify that the amounts are not greater, in their opi-
nion, than the services at the stations from which
they are drawn require, and that the bills are nego-
ciated, according to the enquiries which they have
made, at the most favourable rate of exchange of
the place and date. This measure seems to be
the more expedient, because it is considered by Mr.
Drewry that the agents are not responsible for the
balances in the hands of the store-keepers and acting
paymasters abroad, as these officers are not appoint-
ed by them ; and because it is not in the agent's
power to prevent them from drawing for more mo-
ney than may be necessary.
The second exception made, because the subsis-
tence is issued on the full establishment every month,
according to distributions delivered in previously to
the commencement of each year, without any perio-
dical information of the amount actually disbursed
I for this service ; for the statements which the agents
are said to deliver into the Board half-yearly shew
only what it is calculated has been disbursed. There
may be cash balances, therefore, in the hands of the
agents beyond what the Board of Ordnance might
probably intend should remain with them. We learn
in fact, that these balances, on the 31st of December
in each year from 1804 to 1809, and or. the 30th
April, 1810, a few days previously to our examina-
tion of Mr. Drewry, had been very considerable,
particularly those on the 31st of December, 1809,
and on the 30th of April, 1810, the first being fifty.
six thousand two hundred and seventy-eight pounds,
and the second fifty-one thousand seven hundred and
sixty pounds. It was stated, hoe ever, that there
were estimated claims on these last balances, includ-
ing pay undrawn by officers, and sums occasionally
lodged by officers of the regiment, to the amount on
that of 1809, of fifty thousand pounds, and on that
of 1810, of forty-five thousand. pounds. It is never-
theless evident that a more strict attention should be
given to the subject of the issues to the agents, than
seems to have been practisedi for we find that bills I
to the amount of ten thousand pounds, part of the
estimated claims on the balance of 1809, and of
twenty-seven thousand pounds, including the former
ten thousand pounds, on that of 1610, were calculated
to be due for the pay of the artillery in Portugal,
but which had not made their appearance on the
11th of May, 1810." This information was not'
communicated to the Ordnance, however, until
morning of the examination of Mr. Drewry, and.
therefore, as one means of preventing the unneces.
nary accumulation of cash balances in the Arne
hands, we would recommend that the subsisting@
should not be issued under monthly distributions foe
any of the companies of artillery serving out
Great Britain, nor until after the bills drawn for it have
been preseated at the Agents', and have been sang-

tioned by the Board, in the same manner as is prat 1
tised at present with respect to the pay of the anii.
lery serving in America and the East and West ht.
dies. Mr. Drewry admitted that the cash balances
in the Agents' hands arose almost exclusively from
the issues under the distributions, and that he saw no
objection to the course which we have recommended
for better regulating these issues.
The money for the artillery serving out of Great
IBritain, is issued by the Agents to_the Store.keepele
and Actin Paymasters, in the manner before men,
tioned. 'These officers used to receive a poundage
' from the public on the money distributed to them,
but in 1809, this allowance was abolished, and aix
addition was made to their salaries in lieu of it..,
The subsistence and regulated allowances of the at.
tillery serving in Great Britain, are issued to the,cap.
tains or officers commanding companies or detach.
meats, according to monthly abstracts which they
transmitted to the agents. All the commissioned of.
ficers have separate. accounts with the agents for the
money thus issued to them, and are Mowed two
pence in the pound on the disbursements. The The.
ney under the head of Incidents is not issued by the
agents without the special authority of the Board fry;
each item.

The Storekeepers and acting Paymuters abroad
transmit to the Agents half-yearly abstract of di,
bursements, accompanied with the necessary voucher,,
and half-yearly accounts curtent, showing also Ulf.
amount of such disbursements, and the laps drum
and money received within the period, and the
or loss by exchange on the bills drawn. Theeetsl'ir,
regulation fixing tile time in which these accousteare
to be transmitted, but these officers are directed t,
transmit them as soon as they conveniently caa alter
the termination of each half-year, and it is bury

that in every case they could be made up within two
months after the period of each account. It is eta.
ted, however, as one of the causes of the delay which
has occurred, as will presently appear in the traaehio„
sion by the agents of the annual accounts of the who
regiment to the Surveyor-General's Office, that dux.
counts from the foreign stations of the artillery area
received until a considerable time at* the periods
' to which they are made up, particularly front Cey.
lon and Canada—the half-yearly accounts from Ilse
.first of these places, owing to the distance, and from
the second, owing to the dispersed state of the dr•
tachments, not being usually received until neart
twelvemonth subsequent to the termination of the pe.
riod. The only steps which have been hitherto take.
to enforce the transmission of these Accounts, have
been for the Agents, when they have thought thnthe
Accounts have not been transmitted within a rearoa.
able time, to apprize the Accountants of the ciao.
stance, and to desire them to transmit the accosts
by the first opportunity after the receipt of their in.
ten. As the regular making up and traumatise
of the Agents' accounts to the Surveyor-Gael%
Office, depend so much on the receipt of thew
counts of the Storekeepers and acting Paymaster;
abroad, it seems that the regulation of the Bonin.
specting the transmission of civil accounts frcn
abroad, should be extended with such variatioatar
may be necessary to the Military accounts ; and that
it shotild be required of the Agents to make poi"
&cal returns to the Board, of those Officers wbnIRN
not forwarded their accounts within the time spa
ci fie d. The Captains and Officers commancfing amp
nies and detachments at home, transmit to theAgests
monthly pay lists, with the muster rolls and odes
vouchers for the regulated allowances, to cover the
sums drawn during the month, and also accents
current half-yearly.
The monies fur the Recruiting service of the As..
tillery, are drawn by the Non-commissioned Olio
of each battalion employed on that service, bum
gulated, as to the amount, by the directions come
nicated to the Agents from the Adjutants olds*
spective battalions. The accounts of the ezpendinat
of this money are made up by the Adjutants. and use
certified by them to the Agents, and by the Cash
manding Officers also of each battalion.
The money for the service of that part of the Coe
man Artillery which is stationed in Great Britilim• is
issued tb the Paymaster belonging to the establisheee
of that corps, who transmits the accounts din*
penditure to Messrs. Greenwood and Co. by what
they are included in the accounts of theirArelleryi
that corps.
The course observed in Messrs. Greenwood ad
Cox's Office, in checking and new-arranging .•
several accounts, is hilly detailed in a paper cuW
nicated by Mr. Drewry, and seems to be well aka.
1 laced to detect errors and double charges.
There is no regulation of the Board &Oil%
within what peri.4 the Agents should deliver I
their annual accounts, and we learn, that duriag tie
first years of Messrs. Cox and Greenwood's AgestY
to the regiment of Artillery, there was no pubis&
exertion in making up and forwarding the ammo
of the Surveyor-General's Office ; but it is Rath
thak since 1805, when the Agents were patticisdi
called on by theßoard to send in their accounts,
exertion has been used to forward thau—sit
seemed to be noticed in May, 1810, as a prod!'
that the accounts under Mr. Drewry's • -
dence to the end of 1806, with the exceptialg
or two heads of disbursements, had been
' and that those of 1807 were in such WNW*
that it was expected they would be given MM.
the end of 1810.
We have already noticed the time elapsed Mille
quent to the periods of the accounts, before that.,
keepess and Paymasters abroad transmit 611.01
counts to the Agents, being mentioned as we d
causes for ties delay on the Agents part—allk
added, that the necessary examination and
meat of them, and of the vouchers, after 2011:
received, and the entering of them in
books, &c. require such a. considerable time, dot„ i!
was doubted by Mr. Drewry whether it wok!
practicable to make them up and to deliverat.ztbell INF
the Surveyor General's Office, without being
two years and a half to three years in are
Mr. Angell, the chief clerk in the Surveyor
rat's Office, says, that they do not look for doe!'
similar accounts in general till after three ymerso7
be gives ale. as the reason for this obserddille. i
dispersion of the companies and detad4g .-
tant parts of the world." As moth
delay in transmitting the Artillery la
Accounts to the Surveyor General's
to be owing so the practice of givinglbli,f
pine, it became as object of our coqulrri '

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