GENERAL HISTORY. 
subsidiary engagements. Onac- 
count of the supplementary con- 
vention of Chaumont (he was 
* mot sure the sum he was about to 
name was quite correct, as the 
accounts were not finally made 
up, but he was satisfied it would 
prove nearly accurate), there was 
a charge of 370,000/. To com- 
plete the subsidies granted to 
Austria under former treaties, a 
sum of 400,000/. was necessary. 
This arose partly from the cir- 
cumstance of some stores which 
were intended to be delivered for 
the Austrian service, having been 
otherwise employed; and of some 
other stores having been charged 
in the subsidiary account which 
it had been agreed to omit, and 
the value of which in both cases 
was consequently to be made up 
in money. The greater part of 
this sum had already been paid, 
and the account had been laid be- 
fore the House. He had stated 
the bills of credit voted by parlia- 
ment, to amount to 1,650,000/. 
There remained the sum of about 
200,000/. to be made good to 
complete the two millions and a 
half, which we were bound to 
provide by the treaty, together 
with the interest due; but for 
this sum he should not propose 
any vote in the present session, as 
its amount could not exactly be 
ascertained, depending on the 
course of exchange. There was 
also due to Russia, on engage- 
ments contracted during the 
former war, the sum of about 
530,000/.; 100,000/. had been 
: i to Spain, and 200,000/. to 
ortugal, on a similar account ; 
and a sum was also due to Hano- 
ver. He considered himself as 
justified in stating the supplies 
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for these services, the accounts of 
which were under the examina- 
tion of the House, to amount te 
about 3,300,000/.; which, with 
1,000,000/. voted as a compensa- 
tion to Sweden for the cession of 
Guadaloupe, made a charge of 
4,500,000/. for foreign expendi- 
ture; of which, about 4,000,000%. 
would be payable within the year, 
in addition to the 5,000,000/. 
voted as subsidies to the three 
great powers, Austria, Russia, 
and Prussia. The total amount 
therefore of the charge for foreign 
payments, including bills of cre- 
dit, was 9,000,000/. He should 
have besides to propose to parlia- 
ment a vote, to make good to the 
army which had fought under lord 
Wellington the amount of the 
value of stores captured by them 
in different fortresses. This charge 
not being altogether of an ordi- 
nary nature, would require some 
explanation ; but he trusted that, 
though considerable in its amount, 
it would be received with favour, 
in consideration for what that 
army had achieved for the glory 
and advantage of their country. 
On the reduction of a fortress an 
estimate was commonly made of 
the value of the stores captured, 
which were applied to the public 
service, and afterwards accounted 
for to the captors. During the 
war in the Peninsula, the account 
had been kept in the usual man- 
ner, but no payment had yet been 
made; and from the extent of the 
service performed in the course of 
a war which had continued for 
seven years, this charge formed a 
considerable item; it was esti- 
mated at eight hundred thousand 
pounds: to this the sum of one 
hundred and forty-two thousand 
