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Or, we may, perhaps, be able to come still nearer the 
truth, by taking the total expenditure of the whole seven 
^^ears, thus : 
Amount of bills drawn by the Deputy Pay- 
master General for paper and specie, 
for the pay and subsistence of the non- 
commissioned officers and privates, and 
for the extraordinaries of the army for 
seven years, - - - 1,045,814 14 I 
Specie imported and bought (about) - 111,000 0 0 
Clothing and contingent expences at the 
rate as above specified per year, - 196,935 12 2 
Full pay of the commissioned officers of six 
regiments, as above, for seven years, 305,674 2 8 
Ordnance department for seven years, 129,757 0 4 
Total amount L. 1,789,181 9 a 
which total amount, divided by seven, gives 255,597/. 7;?. 
for the annual average expence incurred in the military de- 
partment at the Cape of Good Hope. But it would be the 
height of absurdity to say, that even this sum, moderate as it 
is, was an additional expence to Government in consequence 
of the capture of this settlement ; since it is not only com- 
posed of the expences of maintaining the garrison, and the 
contingencies and extraordinaries of the army, but it in- 
cludes, likewise, the pay, the subsistence, and the clothing 
of an army of five thousand men. Now as these troops must 
hiave been fed, clothed, and paid in any other place, as well 
