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By taking these sums together, namely, 
Profit on bills drawn - L. 115,719 3 1 
on specie imported - 16^224 13 3 
on copper money - 4,000 0 0 
on paper money circulated 17,500 0 0 
We have L. 153,443 16 
which may be considered as a clear gain to the government,, 
(independent of the saving on each ration,) and, conse- 
quently, a lessening of the expenditure that was occasioned 
at the Cape of Good Hope. 
As this expenditure has publicly been declared of such 
enormous magnitude as to overbalance all the advantages re« 
suiting from the possession of the settlement, and we have 
already seen how important these advantages are, when con- 
sidered only in one point of view, it may not be amiss to 
point out, in as correct a mamier as the nature of the subject 
will admit, the exact sum expended in any one year, in, the 
military department, at the Cape of Good Hope. The year 
I shall take is from May 1797 to May 1798, when the gar» 
rison was stFongest ; consisting of 
TheSthl T - ,f r» 
, > iiiffht Dragoons. 
28thi ^ 
The 84th"j 
86th I T p , 
)- Inlantry 
91st I 
Scotch Brigade j" 
