448 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1810. 



master's account have received an 

 attentive and accurate investiga- 

 tion : and it further appears from 

 a document produced by the 

 Navy-board, that iew of the ac- 

 counts in the office of Bills and 

 Accounts are in arrear, and none 

 greatly so ; and that the balances 

 of none of them are so large as to 

 excite suspicion. 



The Honourable George Villiers 

 was appointed paymaster of ma- 

 rines by the Board of Admiralty, 

 the 1 9tli of March, 1792, and re-ap- 

 pointed as paymaster and inspec- 

 tor, the 9th of May, 1803; with par- 

 ticular directions as to the mode 

 in which his department was to be 

 conducted, enjoining him to make 

 frequent visits to the difterentdivi- 

 sions and stations of marines, from 

 the want or neglectof which,great 



abuses had prevailed. His salary 

 was raised by that warrant to 

 1,000^. clear of all deductions, with 

 an allowance of 530/. for his clerks, 

 190/. for house-rent, &c. and a fur- 

 ther allowance for travelling ex- 

 penses actually incurred. No ex- 

 amination as to the state of his ac- 

 counts, which remained unsettled 

 for seven years at the period of 

 this re-appointment, appears to 

 have taken place, nor was the 

 amount of his balance known or 

 inquired into ; which is now ascer- 

 tained to have been, at the end of 

 1802, 177,84.7/. 



His accounts, which had been 

 passed with tolerable regularityand 

 expedition in 1794- and 1795, fell 

 into great arrear in the subsequent 

 years, both as to the time of deli- 

 very and the settlement of them. 



Mr. Villiers Account, 



Dates. 



Received. 



Jan. 10 to Dec. 31 1792. . '20th Sept. 1793. 



For the year 1793. 



1794.. 



1795.. 



1796.. 



1797.. 



• 1798.. 



■ 1799.. 



1800.. 



1801.. 



1802.. 



1803.. 



1804.. 



Not known 

 28th July, 1795., 

 ,26th April, 1797. 

 Not known . . . , 

 7th July, 1805.. 

 Not known . . . , 

 23rd Dec. 1806.. 

 22nd Aug. 1807- ■ 

 24th Oct. 1808., 

 21st Feb. 1809.. 

 llthApril,1809.. 

 14th Aug. 1809., 



Passed. 



31st Dec. 1794. 



Ditto 



31st Dec. 1795 

 9th Dec. 

 4th Nov. 

 6th July, 

 6th Dec. 

 20thApril, 1607. 

 24th Oct. 1808. 

 24th April, 1809. 

 24th July, 1809.. 



Ditto 



6th Oct 



1802. 

 1805. 

 1806. 

 1806. 



From the time that annual ac- 

 counts ceased to be delivered with 

 punctuality, additional opportuni- 

 ties were aft'orded for an improper 

 accumulationofmoneyinhis hands, 

 the increase of which became al- 

 most continually progressive ; and 



the commissioners of the navy, 

 whose duty it was to call for and 

 enforce the regular production of 

 those accounts, neglected to do so. 

 It is however in evidence before 

 yourcomraittee,thatthelatecomp- 

 troller of the navy frequently re- 



