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ANNUAL REGISTER, 1817. 



1816, these newly acquired pos- 

 sessions bore the proportion of 

 two-thirds to the force employed 

 in the old colonies ; but in the es- 

 timates for the current year, the 

 force in the former is intended lo 

 be 12,600,and in the latter 20,416 J 

 so that the force in the former is 

 relatively somewhat more reduced 

 than in the latter. 



A charge of 5,000/. in the regi- 

 mental contingencies (page 13) for 

 rejiairs at the Horse-guards, in- 

 cludmg the salary of the surveyor, 

 belongs properly to the army ser- 

 vices ; but all expenses of that 

 kind should in future be carried 

 on under the direction of the 

 Board of Works, by which regu- 

 lation the office and salary of a 

 separate surveyor for this depart- 

 ment will be rendered unnecessajy. 

 The present surveyor a])pears to 

 have been appointed by the Se- 

 cretary at \V':ir, and his salary 

 fixed in the manner recommended 

 by tl»e Commissioners of Military 

 Inquiry, in their 8th Report, p. 

 165 and 166. 



STAFF. 



V. 14 (No. 2.) 



The expenses of the staff exhibit 

 a considerable saving. 



The total expense of the staff 

 for Great Britain, as originally 

 estimated in 1816, was . . 66,411 



For li eland, in Irish ciu- 

 rency 48,040 



In the present estimate, 

 it stands for Great Britain at 39, 0*30 



For Ireland, in Irish cur- 

 rency 24,406 



In the staff ujion foreign sta- 

 tions, the reduction seems to be 

 carried to a still greater extent ; 

 and your committee notice with 

 much satisfaction, that the Go- 

 vernors resident at Ceylon and the 

 Cape of Good Hope, and the resi- 



dent Lieutenant-governor at Gi- 

 braltar, are no longer included in 

 the estimate for the staff pay of 

 their military rank, their civil ap- 

 pointments in time of peace being 

 considered adequate to the support 

 of their respective situations. 



Yourcommiitee cannot leave the 

 subject of governments abroad, 

 thus incidentally brought before 

 them, without expressing a wish 

 that some means may be devised 

 for rendering the foreign posses- 

 sions of the Britsh empire more 

 efficient towards defraying the ex- 

 penses of their own military pro- 

 tection, since their value to the 

 parent state must be greatly di- 

 minished by their continuing a 

 lasting drain on its resources. 



The subject here adverted to 

 may well deserve the attention of 

 the House hereafter ; but the 

 papers and information before your 

 Committee are not at present suffi- 

 ciently am])le to afford the means 

 of pursuing such an inquiry, dur- 

 ing the present session, to any 

 useful result ; they content them- 

 selves, therefore, with giving a 

 very short general summary of the 

 documents which the Colonial 

 Office at present affords, so far as 

 relates to the dependencies ac- 

 quired during the late war. 



It appears from these, that the 

 revenue of Malta, with its depen- 

 dencies, for the year 1S15, amount- 

 ed in sterling money to 114,126i. ; 

 and that the expenditure for 1816, 

 consisting principally of whjit are 

 denominated salaries and pensions 

 on fixed establishments, amounted 

 to 60, 1 1 9/. 



The funds in the Ionian islands, 

 under the immediate administra- 

 tion of Great Britain, in July 

 1815, left a favourable balance of 

 20,650/. 



Expenses 



