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Commissioners of the Treasury, to 

 signify to them our intention of 

 paying, in aid of the general ser- 

 vices of the year, and in quarterly 

 payments, one-third of the nett pro- 

 fits arising from the salary and fees 

 of our respective Tellerships of the 

 Exchequer. 



We propose, and intend, to con- 

 tinue this voluntary contribution 

 for ."vnd during the present war, 

 and . commence it from and after 

 the present quarter ending on the 

 5th of January next. 

 We have the honour to be, 

 Sir, 

 Your obed. humble servants, 

 (Signed) Nugent Buckingham, 

 Camden. 



To the Right Hon. the Chancellor 

 of the Exchequer, &c. 



(Copy). No. 5. 

 Th Marquisses Buckingham and 



Camden to the Chancellor of 



the Exchequer. 



Exchequer, Dec. Wth, 1812. 



Sir ; — As it is understood, from 

 the discussions that have taken 

 place in the House of Commons, 

 on the subject of the public re- 

 venues, that the expenses of the 

 ensuing year will probably exceed 

 those of the present, we think it 

 right, in explanation of the letter 

 which we had the honour of ad- 

 dressing to you on the 21ot of 

 November last, to slate to you, 

 for the information of the Lords 

 Commissioners of the Treasury, 

 that if in any year during the 

 present war, the nett profits of 

 the several fees and salaries re- 

 ceived in our offices in the Exche- 

 quer, should exceed those of the 

 current year, it is our intention, 

 in every such year, to pay, as our 

 voluntary contribution to the pub- 

 lic, in addition to the one-third of 



our profits as stated in that letter, 

 the whole of such excess beyond 

 the nett receipts of the present 

 year. 

 We have the honour to be. 

 Sir, 

 Your obed. humble servants, 

 (Signed) Nugent Buckingham, 

 Camden. 



To the Right Hon. the Chancellor 

 of the Exchequer, &c. 



14. At the mill of Elrick, near 

 Edinburgh, the miller, of the name 

 of Walker, his wife, and a child, 

 were all found dead in their sleep- 

 ing apartment. The preceding 

 evening, in a small bed-room in 

 which they slept, a quantity of 

 wet shellings of oats had been put 

 on the fire, for the purpose of pre- 

 serving it (luring the night ; and the 

 smoke thereby occasioned, spread- 

 ing through the room, it is sup- 

 posed proved fatal to this unfortu- 

 nate famil}'. 



15. There is now at Mr. Sheriff 

 Blades's, on Ludgate Hill, a set of 

 Chandeliers, which has been or- 

 dered for his Highness the Nabob, 

 Secunder Tale Behauder, Subahdar 

 of the Dekan ; and nothing that 

 was ever seen from Germany, Ve- 

 nice, or France, can bear a compa- 

 rison with it for richness, elegance, 

 or magnitude. The principal chan- 

 delier is, we understand, eleven 

 feet long, and four feel and a half 

 in diameter, with thirty lamps in 

 three circles ; it weighs five cwt. 

 and is valued at 1,000 guineas. 

 This is considered as the finest 

 piece of workmanship hitherto 

 produced in England, and decided- 

 ly superior to the celebrated one, 

 sent as a present some years since, 

 to the Grand Seignor by his Ma- 

 jesty. Tv.o others, of fixtcen 

 lamps each, and of equal taste, 



with 



