1810.] 
Richard observes: To impute to me or to the 
navy, under the name of delay, the loss of 
time which was passed by me in constant so- 
licitude, and by the men in unremitting toil, 
is not what I should have expected from lord 
Chatham.” He concludes with saying: **Con- 
cerning lord Chatham’s opinions I have now 
ceased to be solicitous; but Lam, and ever shall 
be, sincerely anxious that your lordships 
should not see cause to regret the confidence 
DEPARTMENTS. 
Paymaster of the Forces . 
Secretary at War A e 
Commissary General . . 
Storekeeper General : ’ 
Medical A ° ° 
Ordnance ° ‘ ° 
Barracks . ° . 
Navy . “ee Bh3: e 
Victualling é " 4 
Transports . : : 
Secretary of State (Colonial and War) 
Incidents in and near London. 
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with which you have been pleased to honor 
me upon this occasion.” 
An account of the total extraordinary ex- 
pense, so far as the same can be made up, of 
the late expedition to the Scheldt, distin- 
guishing the charge incurred by the occupa 
tion of the island of Walcheren, after the reo 
turn of the troops from Seuth Peveland, and 
the other positions on the Scheldt :=» 
Total extraordina- 
expence of the 
late expedition 
to the Scheldr. 
Sa tlre 
2962 0 0 
12,902 |..7.-.0 
146,146 2 8 
46,479 8 3 
9,850 12 0 
73,589 8 9 
9,436 13 7 
64,202 16 10 
184,781 13 11 
280,966 10 0 
2,957.17 7 
834,275 10 7 
In the army estimates for the year 1810, 
the amount of the land forces, including 
various miscellaneous services, is 207,089. 
Regiments inthe East Indies, 50,547. ‘Troops 
and companies for recruiting ditto, 509. Em- 
bodied militia, 109,571. Foreign corps, 
28,953: makingatotal of 378,381; from which, 
if there be deducted 30,547, the amount of 
the regiments in the East Indies, there will 
remain a force of 340,835 to be proviced for. 
OF these the expence of the portion for Eng- 
land is 12,295,216/. 1s. 1d.3 and for Ire- 
land 5,063,884/. 3s. 8d. making a total 
ef 15,287,100/. 5s, 4d. 
The amount of the assessed taxes in Scot- 
land for 1808, is 379.7437. which exceeds 
that of 1800 by 237,707/. 
The quantity of foreign corn and flour ime 
ported into Great Britain from the 10th of 
October 1809, to the 5th of January follow 
ing, is 217,546 quarters of grain, and 72,755 
cwt. of meal and flour. 
The aggregate quantity of corn and flour 
imported into Great Britain in 1809, is 
1,482,758 quarters ofthe former, and 565,938 
cwt. of the latter; of which were imported 
from Ireland, 853,556 quarters of corn, and 
74,993 cwt. of flour; and fromall other coun- 
tries 629,292 quarters of the former, and 
490,945 cwt. of the latter. j 
FS aa SE SAE RG LIT ATO TE I ALP 
Le WEEE RTL ARE LO  ET TO, 
INCIDENTS, MARRIAGES, anv DEATHS, IN AND NEAR LONDON: 
With Biographical Memoirs of distinguished Characters recently deceased. 
ae ae 
Ta Court of Common Council held onWed- 
nesday, March 14th, the committee of city 
Jands ptesented a report and plans for the: 
removal of Smithfield market. A long de- 
bate took place, and on a division there were 
for the removal 79, against it 765 so that it 
was carried to remove the market toa field 
between Sadler’s Wells and Islington; a 
change cn which the inhabitants of the me- 
tropolis may be congratulated. 
On Tuesday, March 13th, at half-past one 
@ clock in the morning, a fire broke out ia 
the house of Mr. Noyes, sadler, in Duke~ 
street, Aldgate, which was first ciscovered by 
the watchman going his rounds, and on his 
giving the alarm, Mrs. Noyes, who slept in 
the third story, with difficulty escaped to the 
top of the house, and from thence into a 
window of the next house; but a servante 
maid who was following her, and a child, the 
grand-daughter of Mr. Noyes, were both en. 
gulphed in the flames, and perished. 
The same morning, at three o’clock, a fire 
broke out at a tallow-chandler’s shop, in 
Holles- 
