Star.
London, England, 1830-03-25 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR.

SIR,—A few weeks ago, you had the patriotism and
boldness to publish, in the STAR, an account of the
wasteful expenditure of the public money, more par-
ticularly that belonging to the ordnance department.
The attention of the public on that occasion was directed
to the ten millions expended by the Honourable Board,
during the war, on the heights of Chatham, Dover, and
the Martello towns on the coast. You are well aware—
and so is the country by this time—that these ten mil-
lions would have been fully as beneficially employed in
adding a fifth wheel to every "four-wheeled carriage"
in the United Kingdoms.
The grand stand which ministers, and their system-
seated supporters, now make, is founded on the extraor-
dinary argument that the estimates for the present year
are lower, or as low, as they were in 1792 or 1796.
Without going into the comparative and relative condi-
tion of the country in 1792 and 1830—without touching
on the existing distresses after fifteen years of peace,
or on our prosperous state in the days gone bye—without
going into the proof that it has been by the foul blunders
of an incapable Ministry, that we have become so pow-
erless and destitute as we are—l shall content myself
at present with disproving the ground-work of your
placemen's present argument. The very interest of our
enormous debt, of KIND HUNDRID sinuous—being
about thirty-three millions—is more at this moment than
the whole of our revenue was in those days ; and again
after fifteen years of peace, we are told that the Army,
Navy, Ordnance, and every other department, are brought
down to the lowest possible scale, consistent with the safety
and stability of the State ; nay more—that we expend less
than we did in 1792 or 1796. This is the statement—

the argument--of our rulers ! Now, for mine ; and,
though an humble individual, let the public judge be-
tween us. That I may prove myself clear, and statisti-
cally correct, I shall, on this occasion, confine myself to
a particular department.
I have before me—having a good right—the Ordnance
Estimates for 1830. From these, it is clearly perceivable
that although wheat, meat, and indeed all descriptions of
farm produce, are a shade lower than in 1792, yet the
Estimates run thus :

A Master-General
Lieutenant-General
Surveyor-Genera1......... 1,200 do.
Clerk of the Ordnance 1,900 do.
Principal Storekeeper
Clerk of the Deliveries
Treasurer 1,540 do.
Secretary to Master-General ...... 1,200 do.
Secretary to the Board

There is a pretty little list for the contemplation of
the country• ! Are there not any TWO decent men
in the country who would undertake the job for half—
nay a third—of the money ? Is there any real friend
of his country that can look upon so disgraceful an esti-
mate, without feelings of contempt and dissatisfaction ?
IMore particularly when it is known that eight out of the
nine actually form a part of that legislature which votes
away what are called the " SUPPLIES for the current
I year." Was it so in 1792 or 1796 ? Let the Cusx-
: CELLOR of the EXCHEQUER answer.

You must not be uninformed, in this very place, about
a circumstance which many, perhaps, may not In:aware
of. SD HENRY CLINTON, while MASTER-GENERAL
of the Ordnance, was absent in Portugal nearly two
years as Commander-in-chief—receiving, all the time,
allowances for both o, acs ! A motion, to be sure,
was made for the abolition of the latter ; but it met
with precisely the same fate as all other motions
for retrenchment have met. You may firmly rely
upon this fact—that during peace, and particularly at
present, two, or three'at most, efficient officers are quits
competent to all the affairs of the Ordnance department
in two hoses a day : indeed, I can go further, and state
without fear of contradiction—except in the House of
Commons—that not even one man in the lint before you
can be found at his post at any hour of the day, for at
least five months in the year ! In this sweeping sentence,
I do not confine myself to the Board Officers now enu-
merated : I include some of those gentlemen denomina-
ted clerks, storekeepers, &c, and beg to notice, by the
way, that while many a gallant naval officer—many a
broken limbed tar—many a man who has faced the ene-
mies of his country at the mouth of the musket aid the
cannon, and senselessly—as it now proves—exposed
himself to every clime- -pines away his last breath,
with a broken constitution, " unable to dig and ashamed
to beg," on the paltry sum of ss. or 6s. a day
--these civilians—these lawless coxcombs, who batten
on the treasure acquired by the life's blood of their fel-
lows, who never had a foot on the deck of a man-of-
war, and who are fit only to tread on a Brussels carpet,
are reaping the labours of the hard fought battle for the
salvation of the country.
But I have not yet done—indeed scarcely begun—
with the comparative statements of 1792 and 1830:
these I shall dispose of in a *fay that cannot be denied—
no—not by Mr. Gout.ituan himself—and which
may have even escaped the financial acumen of Mr.
Hume 1 The subjoined statement, showing the full pay
and allowances in 1792, and the full pay and allowances
in 1821 and subsequent years, will fully demonstrate the

truth of the affair, and the falsity of the minister's argu-
ment:—

FuU.pay & Full-pay &
Allowances Allowances

in 1792 in 1821-30
to the Board of Ordnance £ 510 0 .. • • .21,200',40
Chief to the Surveyor General 437 0 ... • 1,100 0
Auistant to do. 200 0 ....• 1,800 0
Chief Clerk to Clerk of Ordnance 300 0 .• • • 1,000 0
Chief Clerk to Principal Storekeeper 200 0 •• • • :750 0
Do. to Clerk of Deliveries 200 0 .. • • 750 0
DO. to Treasury 200 0 ... • 750 0
Do. to Board of Ordnance 200 0 ... • 900 0
Storekeeper at Woolwich 180 0 .• • • 700 0
Clerk of Survey at do. 100 0 .• • • 360 0
Deputy Storekeeper 80 0 •••• 980 0
Storekeeper at Rlymouth 140 0 ... • 750 0
Deputy Storekeeper 100 0 —. • 389 0
Storekeeper at Waltham Abbey 180 0 •• • • 625 0
Deputy, or Clerk of Cheque 90 0 ... • 304 0
Storekeeper at Gibraltar 182 10 ... • 000 0
Clerk of Survey 109 10 344 0
Deputy Storekeeper 91 5 290 0
Storekeeper at Faversham 150 0 .... • 350 0
I may mention, by the way, that the last specified Fa-
versham !gentleman is afarnser residing near that town !
The list now given you refers only to the live—the living
stock—the existing pillars, or rather caterpillars : now
let us take a specimen of the dead stock, and compare
the full pay of 1792, with the half pay of 1821, as it
stood at that time, and subsequent years, to this day :
Pall pay la Retired allowance
1792. 1821, and since.
Chief Clerk of the Ordnance ......2300.... .2900
Ditto of Deliveries
Ditto of Principal Storekeeper 200 . 477
Plymouth Storekeeper
Sheerness ditto.
Waltham Abbey ditto.
Dover ditto
Faversham Storekeeper
Poetstnouth Clerk of Survey
Plymouth ditto
Gravesend Clerk of Cheque ....... 95 10s.. ...
Sheerness ditto BO
Woolwich; Chief Clerk Laboratory 200.. ... 4OO
And as for the Tower Clerks, I know not well how to
describe their condition : there is one at £355 ; one at
£458: one at £320 ; one at £421; and one at £330.
Besides all this abomination and profligacy, there is not
a man of them—the Clerks at the Tower, the Store-
keepers, Clerks of Surveys, Deputy Storekeepers at
Woolwich, Plymouth, Portsmouth,Waltbam Abbey, Pur-
fleet, &c. &c.—that have not elegant houses, free of
taxes, and an allowance for a servant, all at the public
expense ! It may be observed, en passant, that the full
pay per diem of a Colonel of Artillery is £1 6s. 3d; of
a Lieutenant Colonel, Ist Class, 18s. Id ; 2d Class,
16s. Old. The inferences from this incontrovertible

statement, I leave the public to draw : as far as relates
to you, it is merely a matter" between you and the Post!'
In the course of a few days, I shall touch upon some other
of our public establishments, when you shall see whether
the country would not have been benefitted more by a
clean sweep of some of them, than trifling away with three
farthings on a pint of beer.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
London, Mara 24, 1830. SCR UTA TOR.
• The Plymouth storekeeper, to the great comfort of the Go►ern.
ment generally, and the public in particular, is in the enjoyment
of excellent health : he has been receiving his 5771. per annum,
retired alkorinsee, for twenty.five yews Row much longer the
country is to be burdened with him, don only knows. It is to be
hoped—though the comforts of the man almost forbid the hope—
that the song of the Royal Psalmist shall not be verified Forty
years long, have I been grieved w•ilh this generation!"

THE LATE FATAL DUEL.
ADJOURNED INQUEST.

Dont.tw, Maims 23.—Yesterday, the triorresammessed on the
inquest of Mr. O'Grady assembled at the at Portobello.
The following witnesses were examined :
Rev. Wm. N. Manly sworn-1 am curate of St. Peter's; I did
not knew Standish Starner O'Grady till I was called to attend him
in my professional capacity on Thursday evening; he was lying in'
bed wounded; 1 had a conversation with him touching his death ;
on speaking to him of the nature of the offence of which he
had beenilty of against (lon be said, that from the nature
of the insult he had received be
Captain Smith, he °cosi-
delvd that according to the accustomed laws of society, be could
hardly do otherwise than what he had done; be went out in com-
pliance with such usage, but he had no intention whatever of in.
piing Captain Smith; after some conversation on the subject of
religion, asked him did he perfectly and freely forgive Cap-
tain Smith for having injured him ? He said, that after the Insult
Captain Smith had given him in the street, he did not think Cap-
tain Smith would have fired on him; be said he did not consider it
honourable in Captain Smith to fire; he did not say he discharged
his own pistol ; but he told me he had never seen a duel fought be.
fore, and that to his sight he was covered by Captain Smith's pistol
a minute before Ise was fired at ; this conversation arose out of my
speakinon the subject of fully forgiving Capt. Smith ; that if he con. he sidered fully forgave him, it would be necessary to shew that he had
done so, and that if possible he should before a person authorised—.
a magistrate—state something favourable to Smith, for that very
often unfavourable reports were circulated of persons who had come
off uninjured • he said he did not wish to make any such 'cleposi.
tion, as under'his present circumstances be should wish to state no.
thing but4the truth, and he could state nothing favourable to Capt.
Smith ; he said he would wish the subject to be forgotten when he
was gone, and that his parents should not prosecute; be fully and
freely forgave Captain Smith, and would not, if he could, exchange
I situations with him = this all occurred on Thursday ; when I saw
him on Friday we had no conversation oo this subject at all ' • he
desired me to make that communication to his parents, and that he
was fully resigned to his situation; I did not learn from Mr.
O'Grady who it was sent the message.
Mr. Kildahl here entered the room, and hoped that indulgence
would be given to Captain Smith, to allow them a few minutes till
counsel came. He (Mr. K.) wss acting here for Captain Smith,
who wished the entire case to be examined into.

J. W. Carroll sworn-1 am en apothecary ; I knew Mr. O'Grady
perfectly well about twenty years • I last saw him on Friday, at a
quarter past one in the day, in Portobello barracks ; his father sent
me to see him ; O'Grady shook me by the hand, and said, Cat.
roll, you are come to bury me. (The witness here burst into leant )
I saw he was wounded, but 1 did not examine him ; he said Cspt.
Smith had wounded him; I entered into no conversation with him,
because I thought it would be injurious to him; whatever
he raid was said without its being elicited from him. He told
me what he felt, and described his sensations when he was
hit. The word, he said, was " ready"—" fire." On the
word " ready " Captain Smith raised his pistol, and at the word
" fire," he tired ; he said he thought the word " ready" was to put
them on their guard ; but that at the word "ready," Captain Smith
raised his pistol, and at the word "fire" he fired; but that he (Mr.
O'Grady) was not aware whether he had fired or not, and that al.
though the situation he was in was a very perilous one, he would
not exchange it with Captain Smith ; he said he did not wish for a
prosecution, as the feelings on Cap sin Smith's mind must be a suf.
ficient punishment; from what poor Mr. O'Grady said, the impres-
sion on my mind was, that he was off his guard when he was hit.
I never heard such an expression as that Captain Smith fired before
his time; what be said w.ot, that Captain Smith ought not to have
fired at him ; Mr. O'Orsdy said, he considered he was not to raise
his pistol till the weed " fire;" he positively told me he dld!not
raise his
M. Dolan, Esq.—l was not acquainted with Mr. O'Grady, but
I knew his person; on Wednesday, Patrick's day, I was on my
way from Menden-square, and nearly at the corner of Frederick.
street, when I heard some severe striking; I saw Mr. O'Grady
struck; I saw the progress and the conclusion of the affair; I ran
forward and found a gentleman in officer's clothes beating Mr.
O'Grady with his gig whip; the officer had left his gig I suppose;
there was another officer in the gig ; the gentleman who struck wore a
blue frock cat; the beating he gave was a very severe one; I saw
repeated and most severe striking • Mr. O'Grady did not
offer any ratistance, but kept his 'hone in check all the
time; when the officer was tired, I suppose, heating him, he retired
to his gig; he gave Mr. 011tady a doses blows ; Mr. O'Grady'
rode up to the gig to ask the ollietr's name ; the officer gave his
name Captain-1301th, of the 11111 t" he gave no card. I suppose
that the reason for Mr. O'Grady titling up to the gig, was to send a
challenge.
J. Tonikins, a coachman—tone Captain )lacnamara and Mr.
O'Grady to the ground the Moral% after Patrick's day. Bifore
they got out of the earthy, they woe some time on the hanks of
the canal ; I them up beluga the gates of this barrack and
Rathminee.bride Car* Naebelhora desired me to drive to
Richmond barrackst I did nut do era, I went round by the Del.
phin'e.bern turnpike end the Int Midge on the canal (Rialto-

! bridge); Captain Macnamara desired use to pull up there; be der
sired me to drive over the bridge; be asked me which way I :16::
gig would come; I mid by the amble road; I then saw a
vehicle driving up furiessly ; I could tat tell whether it was a gigs
a ear; I saw two gentlemen walk down over the bridge, in coloured
clothes, and coming towards me ; one of the gentlemen carried a
parcel with some cloth around it; Captain Mammon desired me
to open the coach don when the gentlemen were coming up ; he
then inked me to lend him my box coat, which I gave him, and be
took something like a pistol-case out of the carriage, which he car-
ried into the field; Captain Maassames and Captain Markham went
into the held and measured the grimed ; they continued in
the field for ten minutes; the other two gentlemen went into the
&id by a sigma! hens a bendkambid which was gives in the field ;
Captain Smith gist went in, for Mr. O'Grad was in the carriage
and he could not get the door open y, and he said to me,
" Coachman, open the door and let me out ; Caplan Smith bad
continued walking up and down outside the ditch; he was a minute
in the field before Mr. O'Grady ; Captain Smith then went up to
his second and he stood beside him, and Mr. O'Grady went up to
his second and stood beside him; then I saw the seconds move off
from them ; I saw Captain Smith level his pistol first; I ay first,
bemuse he was the only one that I did see level a pistol; I saw
Captain Smith lire ; I then saw Mr. O'Grady fall en his side;
he then fell flat and then rose with the support of his elbows;
afterwards the mamas went down to where Mr. O'Grady was
lying, and stood a minute or so ; the three men, who
were standing, went over to where Mr. O'Grady was lying, tied
stood over hhn about a minute or near to it ; Captain Smith then
walked away for about a few perches, and he then ran dU he cone
near to the read, then walked up leisurely ; then leaned his
hands on a wall that was close to him, and be raised his hands
twice, and said "oh ! oh !" he went away, and I saw no inure
of him ; the doctor who accompanied Captain Smith went into
the field ; Captain Mc:Damara beckoned to me from the field,
and I went into it, and the men on the road tarried Mr. O'Grady
out, and carried him into the carriage; I beard Capt. Msenantara in
the carriage, ask Mr. O'th'ady the hour, when It was • quarter to six.
I did not hear the seconds shout; I saw Captain Maammara step
the ground ; there might have been two shots fired, but I beard but
one; they might be firing at the same tine; I saw the fire from
one, and haM the sound, but I did not see the fire from the other ;
if I maw one I could the Other ; I did not see Mr. O'Grady present
his pistol ; Captain Macnamara carried the pistols off the held, and
put them into the carriage ; they were put into Capt. /duns:nate',
apartments in the barracks, that is, the two eases I took out ; Capt.
Smith's doctor was in sight of the duel; he was over upon the need,
and when Mr. O'Grady fell, he went into the geld; there was no
signal given to him; some man belonging to Capt. Mac:samara de.
sired me to come here ; the doctor, but so other man, went into the
field; when he went into the field, I heard Mr. O'Grady complain.
ing that his thigh was broken ; he begged to be laid down on the
by the i men, who bad him in their arms ; I did not hear ffrn Od'Orady complain of unfair play; when the word was Owl,
I heard the sound of it, but not the word itself; I could not say
who gave the word; I cannot say how long Captain Smith had his
pistol up before he fired, but I suppose he had it up about* second;
I never saw Mr. O'Grady rise his pistol at all; not stir out of his
position till he fell.
John Burke: I reside in Golden-bridge; I am a ear-driver;
the morning after Patrick's-day, a servant came before six, for me
to go up to Hichmond.barracks ; Captains Mark= and Smith,
came out; they had a small parcel, with a big cost rolled about it;
to drive through the barrack-square, to the upper gate opposite the
canal ; they told me to drive away, and when we came to the canal
brid we stopped ; they got out upon seeing the carriage, and Capt.
Mthisni took the parcel out ; they went down to the other gentleman,
and when they met, Capt. Alamo:mare and Capt. Markham went offthe
road, into the field, and Capt. Smith kept walking up and down the
beck read; they measured the ground, and hoisted up a whits
handkerchief for the others to come into the ground; Mr. O'Grady
was in the carriage, and be called out to the coachman to open the
dear ; when be went into the field, the seconds placed diem on the
ground, then handed them their pistols; they took them and dis-
charged both pistols; haw the firing on both sides; there was firing
from both pistols; the two pistols were discharged; I saw the smoke
on both sides • Mr. O'Grady fell, and Mr. Smith went over to him;
Dlr. O'Grady Motioned with his hand to him tog* sway; I then drove
Capt. Smith beck to the barracks; both gentlemen raised their pistols
at the same time, and discharged them at the same time ; 1 could
not say which went off first or last; I do not believe what the last
witness has said, for I saw both pistols go of at the same time ;
Capt. Smith when he was India car going back, lamented greatly ;
besaid be was very sorry for it, and he was crying along ; I knew
the man on the ground to be Capt. Smith.
R. Maensmera, Esq..—l am a surgeon ; I saw Mr. O'Grady,
but not prnibau to his being wounded ; I was sent for professionally
by Mr. Macnamara; I saw Mr. O'Grady on Thursday morning,
the 18th ; be was lying on state, and complained of a good deal of
pain; be had a gun.shot wound in the lower pert of his belly, ID
the right side • I examined him and found the ball on the opposite
side of the body above the left hip; it was evident under the skin
la that situation, and on consultation with the surgeon of the
Bth Hussars, Mr. Bradenock, and Assistant Surgeon Ore,
was determined to remove the ball, which Surgeon Brade.
nock did ; we declared the nature of the wound, after timid-
nation on the right side, to be severely dangerous; I men-
tioned the nature of the wound to Mr. Maataniara, who evinced
considerable anxiety on the subject; at the same time I examined a
case of pistols which I found in Mr. Macnamers's bed.room, one of
which had marks of having been recently discharged • the Surgeon.
General told me he had been with Mr. O'Grady when he
died ; Mr. O'Grsdy repeatedly said, that he did not expect that
Captain Smith would have fired at him ; he assigned no rea.
son ; be said he would not fire at Captain Smith, had he (Cap.
tan Smith) been in. his situation, for 1,0001.; I asked him,
Did he fire at Captain Smith? and he said he could not ex.
aedy say he fired in the direction in which Captain Smith was ; but
the impression be left on my mind was, that he had fired ; he said
distinedv he did not mean to have done Captain Smith any ir.
jury whin he fired ; I examined the body after death, and found
;hat the bullet penetrated the cavity of the belly, wounded
the intestines, and perforated the haunch-bone on the eft
side ; you may say broke the haunch.bone perforating it ; he bled
to death in consequence of a wound of one of the arteries of the
intestines ; the wound was caused by the passage of the ball ;
the ball was a large one fora pistol bullet ; I would wish to say
O'Grady expressed a desire to see his friends, particularly_ his bro.
they, with a view to prevent a prosecution ; I examined Mr.
O'Grady's face; there were certainly no marks of violence upon it ;
if horsewhipped across the face it would be likely that there would
be a mark according to the severity of the blew ; O'Grady said he
understood the word was to have been " ready," " fire," and that
the gentleman who gave the word, gave it in this way, " are you
ready, gentlemen," at which word his antagonist raised his pistol ;
that Mr. O'Grady seeing him do so, raised up his own pistol, and
then that he felt himself immediately after hit ; he thought he
knocked the left leg from under him ; and he felt a sensation 'hub.
Jar to what a man would who struck his elbow accidentally Realest
the table; be did not say be thought there was an unfair advantage
taken of him.

John Bruwne—l reside in Thomasuatreet ; I saw the hone-
whipping on Wednesday, 17th March; the hote.e.a hipping took
place in Nassau-street, about three o'clock in the afternoon ; I saw
the tint blow given by a gentlemen in the garb of an officer, whom
I afterwards learned to be a Captain Smith, of the 32d; there were
several blows given ; the gentleman who war riding was the person
struck ; it was Mr. O'Grady ; there were from seven to ten stripes
given of a large gig whip, and inflicted with great violence ; the
gentleman mewed to give the fuU power of his arms to the blows;
I am not aware of any muse tor the quarrel ; I saw a cab about
seven yards before me ; the horse was suddenly drawn up ; I saw
an officer jump out; when he came within reach of Mt. O'Grady,
be laid on liim just in that passionate way that a matt would beat
a restive horse; he ran very quickly after 111 r. O'Oeady ; 31r.
O'Grady, after being struck, walked back hik horse to the gig, and
had but two words with Captain Smith; Mr. O'Grady then rude
quietly up Dawson-street ; I saw the same officers drive back again,
as if making a circuit of the place.
The Coroner, Mr. Paisley, said he should be obliged to adjourn
the inquest to to-morrow morning.lll.
111 r. O'Grady's remains were removed this merning, at five o'clock,
to be interred en the family burial ground in the county Limerick.

- -- --
NEW FARRINGDON MARKET, Masco 25
Prkes per Ik. to the agouti:aver :
Baer—Finest Roasting, 614. to 7d. Ditto Boiling. 41J. Fqual
quantity of each, 544. Rump Steaks, Id. Rump ut Reel. 4. Haef
Ste.ks, 64. Wyman Murrom—Leg. 74. to 744. liatineb. Sid.
to 7d. Sditik, lad. Neck. ss. Bram, 444. Veal—Ley, 7d.
to 7;41 Vreast, 744. fillet, 84 Loin, sod. Shoulder, Sd. Lana,
94d. to 10d. Peas, 544. to 71d.
SMITHFIELD, MARCH 7. .
C TTTTT AT mamma :
Beasts.. 443 I slur,' ...... .............. .. 130
Sheep and Lambs 4,460 . Pip
Reef 5. 64 to 36 104 Vral ....... ..3. 0•1 to is 04
1 Mutton 4. Oti 4. 64 Pork Ss 64 4s ed
Lomb
Hay (par 10 4). £3 0.. to £5 0.. Ck.ver, £5 10s. to £5 5..
Straw, £2 Si. to AV 11/..

.NEWGATE AND LRADEWIIALL, Maumee 85.
By the Catease.—Per atone of 8114
Beef
Mottos

ST. JAMES'S FIAT-MARKET. Mascot CS.
Coarse Heavy Lowland 3ileadow Hay, kills. to do 13s Maid
Old ditto, arti Ids. to .C 3. Fine Upland Meadow and Rye Grass
Hay, £4 Os. to in Os. Clover Hay. £3 136. to £5 Ss. Oat
Straw, CS toile& Wheat Straw, 411 Is. to Al to.. pi load of
311 grislier%