The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1806-07-08
LONDON, Mav 9.


A'udiug to the fir(t report from tie cor,.
miilioners of military enquiry, Lord HrSey
PETTY, in the HNufe of Commons r.a-rday
announced that arrangements had been made.
which he hoped would enaIe him before the
end OF the rreient ft.iion of Parliament, to have
tne public &C counts of the country fully brouprt
up: and as the prominent evil tn viii N h;e
hr't attention would hc directed, n,m.,v. the
great f"ta'cation in the Department o. the pub
&c officer in the military ehahlifhment, (the bar
rack department, to which the f,f report of
the military commifioners Inherited in the Chr
,zsr OF the 25th ult rolates,) would be con, eie
y met by that arrangement, he had onlv 10 AZ
!ire me Houie, that 70 foon as the arr neemer,,
mould be completed, not A r.nment bauld re
ioft IN proceeding 10 the necefarv rneaf!ires for
recovering the very large balance which vas
due to the public in the quarter to which, he al
luded.
Weeive his rra'phv's nnirinrrs credit fo- tb.
prompti'uie with WHICH they frem determined
tn apply remedy to the evi.-Wt. hoDs ,hev
VII apply it not only with prornptituJe bur
WIN vlsonr and impsriiaiitv. At the fame
,'ne we tru's they will make forne arrangements
NY watch thoie entrufed with public money
may be able 70 obtain gnietntfor their accounts.
as foon as they have proved thofe accounts to
I've right, and delivered 10 the proper docn-
ments and vouchers. 1t is known that at nre-
fent long period NUT eiapfe before the mof
honet and upright public accountant can Oh
tain his 9HiefaJ-a circumhance of Comfortable
Inconvenience 10 him in his private affairs, and
one which NAV, and probably has. sifo ONE
rated to the injury of the public, in this wav.
The knowledge that man who has paid in i'm
medately all his balances and given IN his
vouchers, has not been able for years to obtain
his 7NiefnJ, may induce another public account
L Il IL. 4
the diihonef intention of defrauding the pub-
lie, but with the view and hope of ouicken;no
the examination of his accounts and the oh.
tanning his qnisfa. Here the public fiitain 4
ois by being kept 70 long out of the money be.
longing TO them.
Another meafiire, however, adopted by Nj
nihers, is of a very different manner from the
one to which we have alluded. II is promoted
that the fines levied for the non-execution of
the provifons OF the additional defence aa 11aIl
Nc refunded. Againf that proposition Mr..
Banks arguments are trong and irreGfible. II
will tend in our opinion as bounty upon
want of cxertion and activity. ANY future op-
petition may, the lat did, oppofe fytemati.
calIy every meaiure Of government, exclaim as
they did for the laft twenty years, that we were
on the eve of ruin and Destruction, and aGsrt.
agaInt this or that ACT, that it is abfoIutely i'm
pollibe to be carried into execution, and mu(t
be repealed. The pariil,es may believe them,
and b. negle6tng to carry it into execution,
may incur large penalties and fines, in the belief
that the ACT will be repealed, and that if repeal.
| ed, they fhall, as is now propofed with refped
| TO the defence act, be releafed from the penal.
ties to which they have rendered. tbemrelyes La
| bic,
His Swediifi majeRy, worthy Of his great an
celtor Outlaws, bas followed up his acts of vi.
gour and decihon againf Prunia by a fpirited
| declaration, in which he dcfies the power
whit he depicts the meannefs and duplcity Of
| the court OF Berlin. lie frares the cnndrA IN