1808.] 
Grenadier Battalion-Captain Robertfon, 
aft native infantry, killed ; Licutenant Do. 
Levingftone, 21ftregt. N. 1. and —— M¢Car- 
thy, rrthregt. N. [. wounded flighily. 
rf Batt. 9th N. [.—Capt. S. Brown and 
Lieut. Sneyd, killed; Captains Matthews 
and Frafer, wounded flightly ; Lieut. Rol- 
land, dangeroufly. 
rf Batt. 23d [nfantry—Lieut. T. Brook, 
wounded flightly. 
rit Batt. 27th.N. I.—Capt. Perkins and 
Litut. Duntterville, wounded feverely 5 Lieut. 
Corbet, flightly 
2d Batt. 27th N. I.—Lieut. M‘Leod, ‘kill- 
ed; Lieut, Dennis, wounded feverely ; Lieut. 
Denty, flightly 5; Enfign Betch, flightly. 
Engineers—Enfign Jones, killed; Enfign 
Fordyce, wounded flightly. 
Pioneers~=Lieut. Swinton, wounded fe- 
verely; Lieut. Anderfon, flightly; Lieut. 
Ramfay, feverely. (This officer is fince re- 
ported to have died of his wounds.) 
Doing duty with the Pioneer’s Corps— 
Lieut. Defue, rf battalion 23d N.I. killed; 
Lieut. Wilkie, 1ft batt. gth N. I. wounded 
feverely. 
Artillery—Lieut. W. M‘Quhal, wounded. 
GREAT BRITAIN. 
Tn the course of the month the follow. 
ing Petitions of the Corporation of Lon- 
don, were presented by the Sheriffs to 
beth Houses of Parliament :— 
Zo the Honourable the Commons of the United 
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in 
Purhament affembled. 
The Humble Petition of the Lord Mayor, 
Aldermen, acd Commons, of the City of 
London, in Common Council affembled, 
Sheweth, That your petitioners have, 
_ during a long courfe of public events, praduc- 
tive of fo many calamities, patiently fubmit- 
~ ted to unexampled burthens, and are {till rea- 
dy “agers fuch farther facrifices as may be 
neceflary for maintaining the honour and in- 
dependence of the realm. 
That thefe burthens have been confider- 
ably augmented by grofs abufes in the ma- 
nagement and expenditure of the public mo- 
ney, and by a profufion of finecure places and 
' penfions, which have not only greatly added 
to the fufferings of the people, but created a 
pernicious and dangerous influence, corrupting 
and undermining the pare and free principles 
of the Britith confticution. 
That after the enormous abufes brought to 
light by the various Commiflions of Inquiry, 
it is a matter of deep concern to your petition- 
ers, that the offenders thereby difcovered have 
not been brought to juftice, and thofe who fo 
grofsly milapplied the public money have hi- 
therto efcaped with impunity. 
Your petitioners did therefore rely upon 
“Parliament that fpeedy and effe€tual meafures 
would have been adopted to reform fuch abu- 
fes, and deteét and punifh the offenders in fu- 
ture, 
Monrupy Mac, No. 170. 
State of Public Affairs in April. 
354 
That your petitioners viewed with much 
fatisfaction the foundation of a Committee of 
Finance, and hailed the introdu€tion into your 
Honourable Houfe of a Bill to prevent the 
granting of Places in Reverfion, as the firf 
ftep towards thefe falutary reformations, They 
beheld with increafed fatisfa€tion the mea- 
fures taken by your Honourable Houfe, both 
during the late and prefent feffion of Parlia- 
ment, to carry the fame into effe&. 
That it was with grief and difappointment: 
they obferved the views and intentions of 
your Honourable Houfe unhappily fruftrated 5 
and they have too much reafon to apprehend, 
that the defeat of this meafure has arifen from 
that baneful and predominating influence, 
which fuch abufes muft neceffarily create, 
and which this Bill was intended to correct. 
That it appears to your petitioners at all 
times effential, that rigid economy fhould be 
obferved in the expenditure of the public mo- 
ney, and that no places or penfions fhould be 
beftowed but for real public fervices; more 
particularly fo at the prefent moment, when 
it is decjared, ** that this country is at the 
very crifis of its fate,’ and the people are 
called upon for fuch unexampled facrifices 
and exertions. They beg farther to fuggett 
to your Honourable Houfe the ferious confe- 
quences likely to refult, thould a difpofition 
be evinced by either Branch of the legiflature, 
at a period fo awful and momentous, not to 
participate with the people in their dangers, 
facrifices, and privations. They therdfore 
pray your Honourable Houfe, not to relax im 
your endeavours in carrying fo neceflary and 
beneficial a meafure into effeét, and caufing 
inquiries to be made into the receipt, manage- 
ment, and expenditure of the public money, 
adopting meafures which may effectually 
guard againft fuch abufes in future, and for 
abolifhing all unneceflary places and penfions, 
as well in reverfion as otherwife, as the bef 
means of confolidating the ftrength of the eme 
pire, and calling forth the united energies and 
exertions of the people, at a time fo neceflary 
for the fafety and fecurity of nis Majefty’s 
dominions. 
To the Right Honourable the Lords Spiritual and 
Temporal, in Parliament affembled: 
The Humble Petition of the Lord Mayor, 
Aldermen, and Commons, of the City of 
London, in Common Council affembled, 
Sheweth, (after a repetition of the firft 
five paragraphs in the Commons’ Petition, 
That it is with grief and difappointment 
that they obferved the views and intentions 
of their reprefentatives in Parliament unhap- 
pily fruftrated by your Lordfhips® rejection of 
this neceflary and falutary meafure; depriving 
the people, while labouring under fuch accu- 
mulated difficulties, of all hope of feeing any 
progrefs made in remedying fuch great and — 
acknowledged evils. / 
That they beg mof ferioufly to imprefs - 
upon your Right Honourable Hovfe, at a 
3.4 
time > 
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