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London, England, 1812-09-02 00:00:00

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WELLINGerCIiq ANTiArZetORY.
, Where Tprmes rolls his blue rneandting wave,
t foUght the bravest of th' heroic brave; •
I There Albion's sons the bays of triumph gaited,
And War.xtrio•ron the height of fame atrain'd;
Undaunted warriors, in the arms of Death,
Proclained their triumph with their latese'bresfili. ,
Raise, then, your songs, ye Bards!, and fill the sky
With shouts of " W I Lt.'s:Grow and Vi crier r •
• No more shall Gallia prostrate Nations spurn,
No more whole Kingdoms shall her pride o'erturn—.
Ni snore o'er Spain extend her direful sway,
•Or high its air her tow'ring Eagles play:
.Gallia has fan on Salamanca's plain,
• Blasted her povei, and curs'd her murth'roos reign,
Conte then, ye Nations, fill the echoing sky
• With cries of " WILLINOTON and VICTORY'."
Lo ! line on line, the martial squidrons wheel,
Each warrior lifts aloft the vengeful steel,
• And poud'rous cannons roll their thund'ring peel!
• Lo! where the Chieftains, foot to foot, oppose,
AAA: bind to hand, in dublotri centen close;
• --e--s
liCsaasoser retreats, his croups confus'dly fiy,
And yield to" W/LLINGTON and VICTORY!~
Britons, rejoice ! yours is this glorious day,
Theecthe rewards your gallant toils o'erpay !
Peaie shall extend her olive-circl'd wand,
Add pour her blessings on Hispania's strand;
E'en now commences her auspicious reign,
Andlialainanca's honours bloom amain—
E'en now her future glories I desity.,
The fruits of " Wria.ne °Ton and VICTOILY
Hail, honour'd Chieftain, England's guardian Son,
Long may'at thou wear what thou'st so nobly won !
Long Salamanca'iluurels croon thy brows,
And gallant feats each British virtue rouse t
Then tune the lyre, musicians, fill the sky
With notes of " WXLLINOTON and Vicroav

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PUBLIC EXPENDITURE.

!of Lord Tynawurr, es.Fiest-Comnassioner : his son,
Mr. Curet, being the Treasurer. The Barracks were
a ier a iatthe 'crated
those from the
eßaota.
Brdricttfa
in,
anWorks,dthea nßdoai nr
cdor-
t of
rks.vas arranged. in .some degree on a_different
essablidtment; but Lord TiiRAWLEY and Mr. Ctivra
cased tito have any connection with either of the
branches. : - " ie.i. ,

." The annual teeming; !tom the 25th of March,
1796,t0the 19th of October, 1808, were then out-
standing, and not delFvered io for audit; and the
sums of money issued, to the Treasurer on account,
during that period, appear 'from the 12th Report of
Commissioners. on Fees, Gratuities, &c. p. 7. to
amount to £1,835,234."
It appears farther, sitst.from the year 1803 up to
the Ist of July of the present year, almost incessant
applications have been made to Lord Tvitawtre, to
bring this account to audit ; old hitherto without ef-
fect, except, indeed., it was presented on the Ist of
July, the last period of extension mentioned in the
Report. This is the conclusion of the Report on
this subject:
" It appears that on an application from Lord TY..
R AWLEY, for farther time' to' take up these accounts,
the period was farther extended by Mr. Secretary'
Pins, to the 24th of June following.
4"fhis prolongation, however, appears tohave been
quite unavailing; for on the 27th August, Mr. POLE,.
stating the Report of .the Comptroller of Army Ac-
counts of the sth of August, that they are still out-
standing ; and observing, that sufficient time had
been already granted for their production, 'required
that they be furnished without further`delay.
" On the 6th of September, 1810, periodical
reports were directed to be made on the Ist and I4th
of every month, from two Clerks of the Barrack
Office, of the progress made in repairing these ac-
counts, •which, it appears, was carrying on under their
management : Lord, TernawLEy was apprised of
thesoonstructions, and was again required, the 13th
of October, to use every possible exertion for the
prompt preparation of these accounts.
All.these communications, however, -failed in
their object ; for, on the 23d of February, 1811, Mr.
POLE wrote, .that the Lord Lieutenant was not infor-
med that any effectual progress was made towards its
accomplishment—that he did not feel himself justified
in permitting any farther delay, and directed the com-
pletion and delivery before the 2d of April following.
44 The order s for reports from the Clerics employed
were renewed on the 22d of March, 1811.
" Another prolongation of the time if delivery to
the 24th of August, 1811, in consequence of the death
of Mr. CoulatsAy, one of these Clerks, and an urgent
applicatiOn,of LOrci TY li AIV LEY thereupon, was gran-
ted' by a letter of the 22d of May ; but Sir EDWARD
LlTYLEHALltilleCOMpllied. if, by an observation from
the Lord Lieutenant respecting the importance and
magnitude of 'the account, the ptolonged period of
more than seven years since it should have been fur-
nished, the repeated assurances made, and latitude in
. point of time repeatedly afforded, and the consequent
expectation that they would have been forthcoming
at a much earlier date ; and directed that this far-
ther extension should be considered as cinclusive.
46 The continued torbearance of the Irish Govern-
ment appears to have again failed of its effect ; for,
on the 29th of October, 1811, the Crown Solicitor
was directed to call on the Attorney General for his
opinion as to measures fir compelling the parties re-
sponsible to produce these accounts for final settle-
ment ; and in a schedule of papers accompany ug
that order, several letters and .1 eports are specified,
copies of which ale transmitted to your Committee.
" Lord TYRAWLEY was apprised of these instruc-
tions to the Crown Solicitor, in a very full and expli-
cit letter, detailing the grounds on which the measure
was at last resorted to : and it appearing to your
Committee, from one of the papers before them, un-
der the hand .41 Mr. HUGHES, the accountant, (No.
,27. in 1338.) that the whole remainder of accounts
are promised to be furnished by the Ist of July. 1812,
they forbear to do m re at present than to impress
uponihe attention of the House, and of the Execu-
tive Government of Ireland, the necessity of atten-
ding to the performance of. this agreement ; and in
default thereof, they venture to express their.confi-
dentexpectation,that no farther delay will be suffered
to impede the issuing of such legal process, as may
compel the delivery of the accounts, and the payment
of whatever balances may be due to to the public."
But the most monstrous of all, is what follows :-
-Lord TY RAWLEY receive: an allowance, a: late liarrach
Master General, of £2OOO a;year. Mr. CUFFE'S allow-
ance, as late Treasurer of the Barrack Department,
was £4OO a-year, until the time of his death, which
happened lately. Both these allowances have been
paid out of a grant annually voted by Parliament
along with the Military Estimates."
Mr. Cktrossit.v's case follows, and is the last in the
Report. This man is a defaulter to the amount of
nearly £BO,OOO.

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The Twelfth Report of the Committee of Public
Espendithre presents no new peculation or default of
enormous amount, yet it explains the existing condi-
tion of some of the old ones: and in relation to the
, new discoveries which it makes, it may be observed,
' that dishonesty and negligence lose not their charac-
ter when they are evinced only in the waste or frau,
dulent appropriation of small sums; and there is
therefdre, much in this Report, with which the nation
ought to be-acquainted, that the people at large may
be in a condition to estimate truly the merits of the
men who have been engaged in their service.
The Commissioners state in the opening of their
. Report, " that the two sums stated to have been irre-
- golarly and improperly drawn from the Pay Office
in May, 1799, and July, 1800, were paid by Mr.
. Sung in February and April, 1807, with interest
upon both, from the day of their issue to that of the •
eepaymedt." .
Bannow's defalcation in the Navy Pay Office re-
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• lions at about £5OOO ; and himself having ab-
- waded, he has become the subject of an outlawry.
HUNT, the late Treasurer of the Ordnance, remains
;alto
indebted to the publican the amount of £89,877.
The case of the late Mr. FORDYCE, Receiver-G :eteritl
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ise Scotland, is a remarkable one. This person's whisk
!defalcation amounted to about £50,000 ; but the
• ;Ards of the Treasury have ccnte to the singular Se:
1; termination, that his estate should be relieved of .00
meth of this debt as was occasioned by the failure Of
the 'Weise of Messrs. Douglas and Cockburn,
(ausonnting to upwards of £13,000), Mr. FORDYCE
hitVin'g been induced to place his money in that bank
by the recommendation of Lord Rockingham. To
this we have no objection whatever; but common
juste requires, that if FORDYCE'S estate is to be no
lieved from the £13,000, the estate of the Marti*
, of R,ocitteonasr, who made him place the money in
' DOUGLAS and COCKBURN'S bank should be made liable
to that debt.
-;.• 'Upon this, point the Report before us justly ob-
''Serves:" It is to 'be apprehended that this decision,
' may have a tendency to establish a mischievous pre.
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eedent, by holding a public Officer irresponsible for
the agents whom, he employs ; it
.being stated as the
reason for indulgence in Mr. FORDYCE'S case, that be
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lodged the money, not with his own banker, but with
one recommended to him by the Minister from whom
'he received the appointment. Your committee con-
• ceive, that if Mr. FORDYCE distrusted these agents,
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• who were Made most improperly an appendage to the
he ought not to have accepted it; but from
. the moment that he consented to employ them, he
:became fully, and according to every principle of jure
:, tice. responsible for them.'
The Report then goes on to observe : " Another
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- circumstance, not perfectly intelligible to; yottr Corn- ,
wince, is the remission of all charge tor interest, •
. prior to the death of the late Mr. Fotioice, in July, ,
, : 1809. The suffering of large sums to remain in. the Dr. Joni .sop: observes, 44 there are but two destrip-
' hands of accountants, without even charging them dons of persons in the world; the one,aredeiirons to
interest L..
with rrom the time of their quitting office or get what they imagine they want; and the other really
1 : being required to render their accounts and pay dick want shat they are desirous to. get." To meet she
ces, tends to countenance that tardiness which is wishes of both parties, the Wheel of Fortune ;Hems
yl'all cases so detrimental to the public; and to dis- now peculiarly formed, for any one who really matte •
• Courage the early producing and passing of accounts,' 40 or £50,000 may now get it; and every one who
• which your Committee again earnestly desire to im- imagine they want it, has an equal chance.to obtain it,
press upon the House as being the only effective I on Tuesday Morning Next, when a Blank may gain
' mode of enforcing regularity and economy in a large 450,000, as all the Lottery will be drawn on that day.
expenditure." . , i Monday last a fire broke out about nine o'clock, at
The
following is the account of Mr. GOiDiallD'S the Sun, in Cambridge, which threatened the destruc-
defalcation : . tion of that respectable inn and premises. It arose
" Due from Mr. COLDIMID, at the time of from the candle of a Lady's maid of a family setting.
his death, on account of the departments tire to the curtains of her room, which was not got.
of the Paymaster General ,i.. se 7,856 11 3 under until the chief part of the bed and other fusel:.
Treasurer of the Naey......4. . 368,763 1 2
Tsmuor„ of the Ordnance maw o 0 ture of the room was destroyed. ~ .
A Gentleman, while bathing off Whdoesday. et.
TOTAL .•• 4E468,621 15 $ Newhaven, was observed,. on diving, to -remain rather
• 0 Pabl into the Bank of Engtand since Mr. • ,
/longer than usual below watts% The fears of the:,
Goidunta's death, by the Ingectors of his, •
- Estate, an account of the debt due to the- ' ' bystandersheing excited, Mrs Robert Lawrie, per-
Pairmaster-Genergl aOM•e 1 - ' . , hater, Leith, immediately. atripped, swans to the
• Treasurer of the Navy 134,335 14 11. ": ••• . - • place where the body was supposed. to he,. dived,
•) .-1 Irreasurer of theOr& '7 4 breught up and held it bueyant.till a boat came to.
'el.,- -- - 15airm...••...•••,...•.• 48,000 0 0
• , - take it on board. It was afterwards conveyed to
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, • 1rra5....,:..,.... • •aestes,ese s s an adjoining house, where, by the assistance of the'
.-- _. I lit . . ' . r‘""'"""""••""`'' Surgeon of Leith Fort, easpended Animation was
• . • •. Remains due 1 4.238'2" 'll restored. : ....!: .1 u
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'The ease of Lord TERAWLBY is a flagrant one. It , A dead body which wasloand. on-Leith Sands on
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appeal, that " the Barracks and the Board 'of Worlce Sunday se'nnight, has been discovered to be that of
of Ireland fur some years, until the 19th of Octobet, William Bouch, a cattle-dealer, from Long Sutton
,18W;
were under the direction and superaten idance
Lincolnshire. It was interred in Leith Church-yard. '
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