Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1802-09-30

when coppared with Others, was of no
Importance.
The committee fay, that thele buildings
have (" been carried on IN manner highly
expenhye, and are yet in an unhnlihed
fa.e." Ifitwas intended that it fhould be
anderfood, that more money hcs drfn ex
pended Than 1855 neeeDay, conhdering t6e
exfsataud/oldiy ettbe buildings, then it is
certain haAy opinion has been exprefed,
without acquiring due information. II the
fuggeit .onis, that the material, decorations
or zvorkmag@ip, qvere too esRJ, then 1t
is anfwered, that the Buildings are brick
aruttures, and an appeal is made to the
pubic, on companion with buildings
erected by the different aates, or by the
city of Philadelphia, or by incorporated
companies, whether the deGgn was unfuit-
able. II is true that the qvbole dsfgu has
net been completed, but this idea IS not
communicated by the exPrefion that tbis
pile Of buildings Is yet IN an ugfnj@ea
fate. The public underitand tina, the ex
pendltures hitherto made are zlelslf; Ter
The fenfss of the people Of Philadelphia,
and its vicinity, decide on the correctness
OF this imprsDfow.
The committee fay, that the expence
has been betrayed Z" cut Of the apqropri
ations heretofore made, for the quarter
matter department." lhall not attempt
TO reconcile this anertion with their fri
declaration, !" that the appropriations foI
the army have been confdercd as conili
tuting bus one general fund.-" But pro
coed TO remark, that the oblerva.ion ap
pears TO Imply an opinion that the fund
appropriated for the 7aaytsrmgftr de
3a,tmeat could not lawfully De spplieo
tor erecting neeeVayy uaga&tnes. Win
iueh mer, as on reflection na,nta;n THIS
opinion, it will be in vain 10 reaion re.
fpstting the meafureS Of the former admi-
niRration; as the opiaion will Prove, that
there remains no common iource from
which arguments can be deduced. In
additionally it has been conGdered as a
primary duty Of the quartermafsr's de
par'ment, 10 9y0vide all magazines, BY
purcbaJs, lsgls or s0tber7vJf, as J90uld b.
deemed exb-a,eut: this was the eRabllhed
principle, during the revolutionary war,
and every fubiequent regulation and In
arution, with which am acquainted, has
proceeded on tie fame idea. Il cannot
furely have been imagined, that /5eeiff
apparatus, for d1f1ua items 0! expence
in the quartcrmafei's department. were
necenary if not, the expeoce has been
betrayed cut Of the p,opsr fana, even up
on tie principles agamfd BY The committee.
There IS an aiul!on to the loans nego-
cia5ed for the pubic, at an intereft Of
eight per cent for ten years, which cannot
be milunderfood. Thele are faid by the
committee to have been obtained at
high rate of interef." MIR. Galla,in
has not thought it unadvileable, in an OF
fetal report, to repreient the interef as
" ex0r6itant." | ihall at all times be
ready to explain the reafons Of NY con
duct, when required; but to indirect i'm
putaticns from any quarter, it mutt lie
(uficient to oblerve, that this fubjett has
been fully conGdered by committee OF
equal authority with the committee CT
inveaigation, the members of which with
the concurrence Of Mr.. Nicholfon, unani-
mouily reported, that they faw no rea
ion TO doubt thar thele loans were negoci
ared upon the bea terms which could be
procured, and with laudable view to
The public interef."
9th. The next fubjea relates to the az
plication Of mo ey, .or purpofes Of a con-
hdeft;al nature, In the war and navy de-
partmenrs, upon which the committee ex-
prsfs their opinion in the foil wing terms
" The committee tey leave likewiie 70
refer to an important principle formerly
f-rtled by the executive, and actually