Star.
London, England, 1806-09-26 00:00:00

DONCASTER. SEPT. 23.

This place fermi to contend ala magnificence of
equipages and fathion, with our metropolis. The
pretence of tht Palace has attraaed every body far
and near. Thdt Royal Highneffes went to the Conrfe
in Lord Ferawiterast's carriage, accompanied by his
Lordthip sad Lard.Das ei 'forme. In the Stand his
Royal Highoefs *novel fed with every one, and his
arrival was marked with the greateß refpea and de-
light. The (port was very good, though the day was
not fo fine as yellerday.
The Mayor and Corporation were received by his
Royal Highncfs, and addrefed their Prince in terms
the moll loyal t and his Royal H ighnefs, with the great.
elf condekenfion, returned an appropriate anincr.

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We underlined that Government hare reihhtejt
that on no confider:dins. whatever will Buenas Ares
be tenured at a Peace. This is as it ought to be.
Bo aaaaa ra =cue Rate titer Rate to his domi.
Diens in Europe, and pew models the Government
of others, and when treating for Peace with thofe
with whom he is at war, he lays, fuch and lush
countries have been declared " integral parts of the
French Empire," and loch and fuch other States
have exereifed their unqueßionable right of Legifa•
sing for thensfelves, and therefore cannot be em.
braced among the palms under difeaffirm I—Ufe his
•wn weapons—Keep all you acquire by the war, and
tell him, that if he wants any part of it, he mull
take it.

A paragraph has appeared in lime of the Papers,
Rating that Jom soon, the fmnggler, was outlawed
on Monday, for not making his appearance under a
tommiffinn of Bankruptcy. We think there midi be
tome millake i this. If we are rightly informed, he
was proclaimed July Bth, at which time, by dire-aim
of his fuperiors, he was in Rochelle Harbour. and it
is undertiond that he will farrender and be examined
as loon as his duty will permit him.
About twelve o'clock, on Monday night, a toot
alarming and tremendous fire broke out in the
brewery of Meffre. W. Boer and Ca. of Newcaalc.
which has alone very confiderable damage to that
extenfive concern. Upwards of Imo bulbela of malt,
betides hops, rec. have been dellroyed and • great
part of the buildings reduced to ruins. Happily, by
the exertions of the inhabitants, the large Ruck of
ale and other liquors was fared ; and the buildings
sod Rock, we are glad to fay, are infured to an
amount which will nearly cover the whole.

We are very forry to Rate that Mr. BAN tire ii, of
Drury lane Theatre, has met with a very ferious ac.
cidcnt. Whillt out Shooting nn Wednefday with a
friend in the neighbourhood of Southall. a few miles
from town, his gun Surfi, by which accident his hand
was dreadfully lacerated, three of his fingers were torn
off, and the thumb much wounded. Surgical ann.
since was immediately procured, and about 5 o'clock
in the afternoon be was conveyed to his hoof, in
Gower.flreet, where a furgeon was called in. It was
at firli feared that amputation at the wrin would be
necelTary, but hopes are Since entertained that fueh
an operation may be avoided. The fowling piece
ufed on this accation by Mr. BANWISTIII belonged to
the late Mr. Into, the Comedian. Mr. Minium"
had exchanged it in the courfe of the morning fer one
ufed by hi. friend, but not liking the latter he re-1
quelled to have his own returned, and on the fecund
fire afterwards the accident above gated happened.

MILIT4Rr istp.wr.

SICOND REPORT OF Tl4l COMMISSIONERS OF
' MILITARY INQUIRY.

ISNNINT OF TNa RRRRR Clt OFFICa.
F..llowing the order of Inquiry propofed in one
6ra Report on the Barrack Department, we proceed
to report on the ERablithment of the Barrack Office;
the mode of procuring and of Wiring Barrack limes
and fupplies, will form the (Ojai of our Third Re-
port, which is very nearly completed. With Mix&
to the building branch, it has already employed a
very confideralile portion of our time, and we had
made fuch pr refs in our inquiries, that we were in
expectation of having had our Report on it in equal
forwardnefs with the prefent $ but our attention has
been recently drawn to feveral circumnances of Cu&
kient importance to lead as to a much more minute
examination of revere' particulars in the mode of ex•
muting this part of the pity of the office, than we
had at 6ra conceived necelrary. The confequence
has been, that we do not feel ourfelves prepared, at
prefent, to fubmit our obfervations on this branch to
the Legillaturs $ but we troll, that it will hereafter
appear, that our time has no been employed on us-
important °Nees.
Havinc, in our Firß Report, given a brief hillory
of the origin of the Barrack Department, we Mall
commence with a (hutment of the eftablithment, as
reported by the Seletl Committee on Finance, in
1797, recapitulate the heads of their report, of the ex-
pencesin falsities, extra allowances, and contingencies
at that period, and then Rare what were the eflablills-
meat and office expences exifling in June, 1805, a
few months after Lieutenant General De Lance, had
retired from the charge of conduaing the barrack
concerns, and when the eflablifhinent had undergone
little if any change.

NUMMI/ DIJTIIII—, AND seemeiss, OF rill OFFICUS
OF Tilt &&&&& CIL DA & CAT.
The eflabliflunent of the Barrack Office, in 1796,
as reported by the Selea Committee of the Houk of
Commons on Finance, confiag 1, exclufive of refident
Bernick Mailers, and other Inferior Wharfs of " a
Barrack Mager General, with two clerks under him;
one Depu Barrack Mallet General ; Afflflant
Barrack Mailer General, for (applies, with three
clerks ; one Accountant' with five clerks ; one Af•l
6Rent Barrack Mallet General, for infpeetion of
Barracks ; and fix other Afflnant Barrack Mailers
General, for fuperintending and infpeaing barracks
in different diarlas : there were alto five clerks for
the general bulinefit of the office : for the building
branch, one Afflflant Barrack Mailer General, one
checking clerk, and (even other clerks ; two archi.
teas and fnrveyors ; two allinant ditto, and two
clerks; four krvants in the office; one A.fillant
Barrack Mater General is North Britain, with two
atfifiants and two clerks; one agent (or treaftrrer) for
the general &roles ; and three other Affillant Bar-
rack Mailers General, to adrift in general duties, and
in vifiting and infpeaing barracks occalionally."—
And the (Aeries and extra pay of auk different offi
cers, for the year 1796, amounted, as (fated in their
Report, to 9521t1. 575. ad.
This ellabli ment was ennfulered by that Com-
mittee to Rand on a very large and estenfive kale;
but It has fence that pc:in& been confidesably in
created, both in the number of its officers, and in
the amount of their falaries, efpecially to a:oft who
hold the hither filtration, in the department, as will
appear from the fubfequent Ilaternentv. In June t RoSt
the eflablifhment confined as follows; one Barrack
Mailer General, one Deputy Barrack Mailer Gene-
ral, four principal Militant Barrack Meters Gene-
ral, including one for North Britain ; 6fleen AlER-
ant Barrack Mailers General for different dinrias
(including one at Gibraltar, and one vacancy) and
one tetra affilant ; one infpeetor of Bores, one ac-
countant,lone ;anent accountant, and four clerks in
the Accountant's Department ; ten clerks in thegene.
ral office (including one vacancy), one infpeaor of re-
turns, nine clerks fur returns of fore., Sec. (includ•
ing one vacancy), one clerk for the care of deeds,
funeraels, &c.; two architeas and furveyors, two at-
Slant Purveyors, including one for North Britain,
one checking clerk, thirteen clerks in the building
department (including two vacancies) one principal
clerk, and five clerks in the office at Edinburgh, one
law clerk, one office keeper, one neceffary woman,
and five mangers and porters, whofe fabrics (in-
cluding thole of five vacancies, Rated at four hun-
dred and feventy-feveo pounds) amounted to lives.
teen thoufand two hundred and forty (even pounds,
eighteen (billings. In the quarterly book of March,
806, from which an annual account has been made
I out, and is hereafter inhaled, the falaries are fated
to be at int rate of nineteen thonfancl three hundred
and twenty nine pounds four fkillings and ten-pence
per annum; the latter increafe is occationed, partly
by the augmentation of falary to tome of the junior
clerks, and partly by the necellity of forming a dif-
tina department, confining of an accountant and
three clerks, for the tole objet of arranging the late
Barrack Mailer General's official accounts.

The contingent expences of the Bat-rick Office have
;smeared in fimilar proportion with the (Aeries. For
the year ending December, 1796, there amounted, as
appeers by the Report of the &lea Committee, to
(even hundred and ninety pnunda five 'billings and
eleven pence, and the travelling allowspets and es-
pence., for the (Arne period, to two thoofand (even
hundred and forty pounds five Wiling' and eleven
pence. But, for the year ending December, r 800,
the contingent expences are Rated at three thonfand
and fir pounds thirteen (Wings and twopence, ex-
clufive of one hundred pounds extra pay to the law
clerk, and one hundred and five pounds twelve (Ml-
lings to the clerks for extra work ; and travelling al-
lowances and expences, for the fame period, at three
thoufend and eighty eight pounds thirteen thillings
and two pence ; and it as to be remarked, that in the
flatespent of 5796, the rum of two thoufand fever)
hundred and kitty pounds five Chilling, and eleven
pence, includes the travelling expences and contin-
gencies of the Barrack Maßer General, but that the
flatement for tBo.e. is exclufive of both, a circum•
Rance which we mall have occafien to apti oe again,
in a flibkquent part of this Report. For the year
ending December, 1 Bop the firß entire year of th•
prefent Barrack Mailer General's adminißration of
the b k concerns, the expences contingent, as
well as thofe arcing from travelling allowances and
expences, are Rated to be four thouland fix hundred
and fixty•two pounds nine !billings and fixpence, a

Cum barely three-fourths of the expenditure of the
preceding year, notwithAanding that the ex pence.
of the Barrack Mailer General arc included in vie
accounts.
Althnitgh the cnntingent expenoes of the Barrack
Office, for 1804., are Rated to be three thoufand and
tic pounds thiriee2 IhiWogs and two pence, we ap-
prehend this is not a co:street Ratement of their
amount. and for the following reafons : in the ac-
count of the merit' receipt and expenditure of the
department annexed to our Firlt kiport, is an item
of charge for contingencies. confuting of office enable
liffiment, travelling expences. kc. amounting in the
total to 256,1491. to.. 4cl. io elucidation of which, an
account was, at our respite, ferniffied by the B snack
Mallet General, detailing the particular amount of
the (event !scads of charge for each year. an abllrafit
of which still be found is our Appendix (No. g.)—
We had before called for a (ewes account 14 the
contingent ezpeoces of the Barrack Office for the Ic.
veral years fucceeding 1796, in conformity with that
furnifbed to the Select Commitree on Finance, and
were furprized, on collecting the items into one ah.
Arad, (fee Appendix, No. a.) t And that the fame
heads of charge, produced, in the UFO abltrafts, 'ern
different refill(' ; the expences "(coals and candles.
for intiance, are wholly omitted for feveral years in
Or. Ara abftrad, end the charge for furniture and re-
pairs varies much in each of them. This dive.fity
nappears to arife from the incomplete Rate of the Bar.
reek Office books. and the castle is explained by the
late Affidant Accountant. From his examination,
we learn, ;hat, for the fatisfaetion of the late Barrack
Mailer General, and to obviate the great inconve-
nience toiling from the imperfect Rate of the books
the Affillant accountant had for feveral years pall
made nut an annual flatement of the application of
all monies acted to the Barrack Mailer General, at.
ranging the payments in fume inflames, under the
head of the fervice for which they were made, and
charging them, in other inflances, to an account with
the party to whom the money was Hilted ; from the
books in which theft annual Aatements of the Affißact
Accountant were kept, the general accounts of ex-
penditure, as anneded to our Fit ft Report were, wit
are informed, extraded ; and as the balances in each
year remaining unexpended by the &sternest, agreed,
as is Rated, with the balance in the hands of the
Theurer at the refpettive periods. ?bele books mutt
noceffarily account for the expenditure of all the
money in a general way ; but that they may not ea-
hibit a corted Aatement of the perpofes to which
money has been applied, the following obStevations
will (efficiently thew : We have before Mated, that
no charge appears in the account of contingencies.
he. as ertrafted from thefe books, for coals and
candles for the office, although in the other account
of contingent ezpences of the Barrack Office, the
amount is confiderable. The fad is, that coals and
candles ware fupplied to the Office by the Agent for
Supplies, in the fame manner as to a Barrack, and
the amount iscluded.in his general account t in the
account of contingencies, therefore, as weeded from
the bo,ks we have mentioned, too charge of this Cott
appears, bemire the fervice was not fpecifically paid
fnr, but is included under the bead of bedding, fur-
niture, coals, and candles, he. and the fame bet pi.
fibly applies to furniture and repairs. if performed by
perfons having other concerns with the Barrack Ds-
partment. The account of the contingent espences
of the Barrack Office was intended to remedy th-lt
omillions, by colleting fr3m the different accounts
of the tradefmen and others, larch items as might be
confidered contingent espences of the Office. We
have no radon to fufped any intentional incorrednefs
in this account, but the mode of its formation ren-
ders it liable to error.

We have noticed there circumilances in Come de-
tail, tucarde, though the fatal on which oar °brava-
lions have asifen are of thensfelves of (mall Import.
ante, yet the examination of them, as far as it has
gone, leads directly to the cmsclufions that other er-
rors of Rill greater importance may calf! in the gene.ral account of the expenditure of the Barrack De-
partment, as inferted in our firlt Report, fo far as
relates to the claltfication of expence.
Other items of the general accounts above allode4
to, and alto of the abltraaed accounts, awaiting
our attention, we deemed it proper to have them ex-
plained. There were certain funs credited made: the
head of balances, over.paymenu, oatmeal fold, and
oats fupplied in North Britain, 41te. and other rums
debited under the beads of mifeellaneons, Itationary,
furniture, kg. It would be difficult to exhibit an
abtlraa of there fnms; and, as Ilse explanations given
by the Barrack Office thew the nature of them, we
mull refer to the examination of the accountant on
this fubjea for the particulars.
One of the items of the general account is for
lodging money to officers, amounting to the lag year
to twenty-five tboufand pounds. It is Rated to us,
that there is no written document direaing the Bar-
rack Office to pay this allowance, and the prcfent
Barrack Mager General is very anxious to be relieved
from making theft payments. He obferves, that part
of this expeuce is for the lodging of Volunteer Offi•
cm on permsnept duty. We think with him, that
this part of the payment Mould be feparated from
that paid to regulars and militia, and charged to the
account of the Volunt penditure I the remainder
of theft payments, cunfidering the nature of the fen.
vice for which they are made, cannot, we think, fo
properly appear in the accounts of any other nice
as in thofe under the direltion of the Barrack Mallet
General.
We (hall now defcribe the duties of the leveret
officers in the department, in which divifion c.l our
Report, to avoid prolixity, we mean to confine our.
(elves to a general outline of the duty of the princi-
pal officers, referring for a more particular detail, to
, the different Itatements and examinations, which will
be found in the Appendix.—(To k "mimed )

DitURY-LANS TII t —The Comedy of the WO
44m, the Donee of the Fair Cinema, and the Fatah
of the Virgin Urietafirel, went off lad night whit great
rdat ; but nAhing new prefeuted itfclf for critical obi
let vat

The capture of BueT Ayres has turned out $
mod honourable and fitable ipe.utati,,o to oat
brave Soldiers and Satin . The sett Adventure wig
be uncle:cal:en by the Votaries of Dame Forme. *lto
will ennlrnnec el:, Golden Gifts on the tsth of nut
rn,-.1.0), and ttili ptelent the fum of Ten Thoesfasok
Pounds to the itc..,ehr of the Frt dr awn righwo

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