STATE PAPERS. 



325 



Expenses are stated in this re- 

 turn as being incurred in the 

 island of Zante, by buildingamole, 

 by the continuation of an aqueduct, 

 and in tiie making roads. 



The revenues of the Mauritius 

 for the year 1814, including those 

 of the isle of Bourbon (since re- 

 stored to France by the treaty of 

 peace) gave 206,860/. ; and the 

 charges for the same islands 

 amounted to 119,900/. 



There being no later return for 

 the Mauritius, in the Colonial 

 Office, it will be proper that orders 

 should be sent out to the go- 

 vernor of this, as well as of every 

 other foreign possession, to render 

 more accurate information with 

 regard to the several lieads of 

 income and charge in each re- 

 spectively. 



The military expenditure of the 

 islands of Mauritius, Bourbon, 

 and their dependencies, for the 

 same year, IS 14, amounted to 

 186,912/. 



The revenue, and other receipts, 

 of the island of Ceylon, during 

 the year 181.5, including also a 

 balance in hand, amounted to 

 640,444/. and the expenditure to 

 647,848/., a very large proportion 

 of which expenditure was incurred 

 for the military establishments of 

 the island, the whole of which, 

 with the exception of the King's 

 pay of the European troops, is 

 defrayed out of the civil revenue. 

 The native troops, at the period 

 of this return, are stated to have 

 amounted to about 5,000 rank 

 and file. 



The revenue of the Cape of 

 Good Hope, for the year 1815, 

 was '229,495/., and the expenditure 

 f34,8J2/., including the pay of f^ 

 native corps. 



Total Staff in Great Britain, 

 Jersey, Guernsey, and Ireland : 

 Appointments in the years 1815, 

 217—1816, 111— and 1817, 100. 

 Foreign Staff in 1815, [329 ; iu 

 1816, 141 ; in 1817, Ul. 



PUBLIC DEPARTMENTS. 



The detailed particidars of the 

 public departments, printed by 

 order of the House in the present 

 session (No. 73.) led to an in- 

 quiry into the necessity of keeping 

 the office of Commander-in-Chief 

 at its full establishment, under the 

 circumstances of so large a reduc- 

 tion in the numbers of the army : in 

 which it ajjpeared to your commit- 

 tee, that no decrease of business in 

 that office has yet taken place, the 

 multiplicity of conespondence, of 

 applications and references, having 

 been, in fact, for the present, 

 materially augmented. Some re- 

 trenchment may reasonably be ex- 

 pected in the number of persons em- 

 ployed, whenever this temporary 

 pressure of business shall cease, 

 and when the military establish- 

 ments shall have been settled upon 

 the basis of a permanent peace. 



The salary of the Secretary of 

 the Commander-in-Chief was fix- 

 ed, in conformity to those of the 

 Under Secretaries of State, at 

 2,000/. with an augmentation of 

 one- fourth after three years of 

 seivice ; which your committee 

 submit to the House as being too 

 rapid a scale of advani e to be fol- 

 lowed in any future appointment 

 in any of those departments. And 

 they furtiier submit, as an im- 

 provement in tliis arrangement, 

 that the augmented rate of allow- 

 ance shoidd not commence till 

 after the expiration of seven years' 

 service. 



PEPART- 



