328 



ANNUAL REGISTER, 1817. 



pedition as the difficulty of inves- 

 tigating accounts which have re- 

 mained so long unexamined will 

 permit. 



The hours of attendance are 

 stated to be fron) 10 to 4, as they 

 are in the Pay Office. 



The number of persons employ- 

 ed in examining accounts in the 

 War Office, and the charges aris- 

 ing therefiom, in the several years 

 from ISl.S to IS 17, appear by an- 

 nexed papers. 



MEDICINES, &c. 



The charge of medicines and 

 surgical materials in Great Britain 

 and Ireland amounted, for the year 

 1816, to 60,2661. which is reduced 

 in the current year to 26,4661. 



VOLUNTEEIt CORPS. 



p. 25. (No. 5.) 



Your committee would not have 

 thought it requisite to miike any 

 remark on the estimate for pay 

 and contingent allowances to vo- 

 lunteer corps of yeomanry, were 

 they not desirous of bearing their 

 testimony to the great utility and 

 importance of that species of force, 

 for the maintenance of order and 

 protection of property ; supported 

 as it is by a comparatively small 

 expense, and calculated to keep 

 alive the ancient spirit of the na- 

 tion, in the quarter where It is 

 most desirable and most useful. 

 They, therefore, highly approve of 

 the addition of ]/. to each indivi- 

 dual of this body, the allowances 

 having been previously reduced 

 from 4/. a year to 21. 



TROOP3 IN FRANCE. 



It does not appear to your com- 

 mittee that their duty calls on them 



to enter into any detail respecting 

 the army stationed in France. 



The estimate points ont a dimi- 

 nution of tlie expense : the num- 

 ber of this army will soon be re- 

 duced by a fifth, viz. from 30,000 

 to '24,000 men ; and it is under- 

 stood tnat all practicable retrench- 

 ments are now making in every 

 thing not essential to the well- 

 being of the troops. 



Your conunittee have great sa- 

 tisfaction in stating, that no part 

 of the charges of this force have 

 hitherto fallen on this counti y ; 

 and they are enabled to add a 

 confident and well-grounded ex- 

 pectation, that the whole will 

 continue to be defrayed out of the 

 sums c«)ntributed by the Govern- 

 ment of France, according to the 

 provisions of the Treaty of Paris, 

 of 20th of November, 181.'); in 

 addition to the 1.^ millions of 

 francs (1,000,000/. sterling) re- 

 cently bestowed by His Koyal 

 Highness the Prince Regent on 

 the gallant army which con- 

 quered at Waterloo, and captured 

 Paris. 



REGIMENTS IN THE EAST INDIES. 



The troops serving within the 

 territorial possessions of the East 

 India Company do not fall under 

 the consideration of your commit- 

 tee, as the whole exjiense is borne 

 by the company ; but, with regard 

 to the recruiting service, for which 

 a charge appears in the estimates 

 of 17>y24/. clearly inadequate to 

 cover the expenses, it appears 

 that an arrangement has been 

 made for the payment ; and the 

 computed charge for recruits trans- 

 ferred to the Company's service, 

 from the year 1799 to ISl.'i, is 

 credited to government iu the ac- 

 count 



