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STATE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS IN MAY. 
C Containing oficial and autkentéc Documents. 
a — 
GREAT BRITAIN. 
BSTRACT of the Estimates of 
+i & the Expences of the British Army 
for the year 1807, presented to the House | 
of Commons on the 14th of ida 
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Guards, Garrisons, &c. £-4,054,623 B00 
Forces in the Plantations, 
CSA RE i Soe BR erin le Se 2,609,145 13 9 
India Forces. 82 e220. SB2397 — Os)-0 
Troops and Companies for 
Feecriutine ditto... o>’. 25,214 10 0O 
PIGIBS ALTER 5 rane alla as 
General and Staff officers. . 
EHinbodied Militia and Fen- 
277,243 0 10 
6 
Stoke ntantry coe SO 9S Se oe 5 
0: 
4 
190,529 17. 
Contingencies for ditto... 62.153 17 
Cloathing for ditto. t:.-. 457,227 16 
Fall pay to Supernumary 
Ofaree! one eS 54,518 11 0O 
Public Departments... - 2215209 18°. 
Ailowance to Innkeepers, 
Wee, Weis Lae en LG AG7 203 3 14 
Hi ulf pay and Military Al- ; 
ts Wahees. . fe Sree” ADD Ot OF AT: 
Ditto American Forces... 44,000 Q 0 
Ditto Scotch Brigade.... “~ 150 0 O 
In-Pensioners of Chelsea 2 
and Kilmainham Hospi- i 
RAE oe cite Seer ee, wees at eae Tors 
Out-Pensioners of ditto... 835,785 7 8 
Widows Pensions £.i.2.- 43,959 7 “6 
Bolus cteer Corps. 222 22 1,490,501 4 8 
Wbreten Corps? so. 222s). 832,540 On 
Royal Military College... 29,175 5 10 
Royal Military Asylum.. 21,227 8 4 
Allowances to retiied and ia 
‘ officiating Chaplains... 18,208 15 11° 
Hospital Expences (Ireland) 
Barrack Department (Tre- 
ROW sere Le ~ ere 
Compassionate List.....- 
18,461 10 10 
459,450 12 6 
14,743,343 12 4 
Dedacting the India Forces 532,397 0 0 
es 
‘Total £14,160,951 12 4 
The Gazette of the 5th of May contains 
copies of dispatcies from Sir J. Duck-’ 
worth 1, tO Lord Collingwood, relative to 
the aifairs at the Dar as V8 on the 19th. 
and 27th of February, and 3d of March; 
of which the following are the par ticu= 
lars :— 
_Rsyal George, withaut the Dardanelles, March 6. 
« My born, 
Together with this letter, I tr ansmit to 
your Lordship two letters of the 21st and 28th. 
ult. the former of which will have informed 
you oi my arrival with the squadron near Con- 
Stantinople, and the latter of an unlucky at- 
44,000 0 0 
tempt, in which the marines and boats’ crews 
of the Canopus, Royal George, Windsor Cas 
tle, and Standard, had been engaged. 
It is now my duty to acquaint your Lord- 
ship with the result of the resolation which, 
for the reasons I have already detailed, I had 
adopted of forcing the passage of the Darda- 
nelles. My letter of the @1st is dated at an- 
chor eight miles from Constantinople, the 
wind not admitting of a nearer approach3 
but the Endymion | which had been sent am. 
head with a flag of truce at the request of the: 
ambassador, was enabled to anchor within four. 
miles. Had it been then in our power, we 
should then have takea our station off the 
town immediately; but asthat could net be, 
done from the rapidity of the current, I was 
rather pleased than otherwise with the posi, 
tion we had been forced to take ; for in the 
conferences between Mr. Arbuthnot, and the. 
Captain Pacha, of the particulars of which 
your Lordship is in possession, it was premised 
by Mr. A. that even wien the squadron had 
arrived before Constantinople, the door te pa- 
cification should remain open, and that he 
would be willing to negociate on terms of 
equality and justice, In consideration of this 
promise, and, asit would convince the Porte 
of. his Majesty’s earnest desire. to preserve 
peace as well as to possess her ministers witha 
coniidence of the sincerity of our professions, 
if was the opinion of Mr A. in whichI con- 
curred, that it was fortunate we had anchered 
ata little distance irom the capital, as a near- 
‘er approach might have given cause for suspi- 
cion and alarm, and have cut off the prospect 
ef an amicable adjustment of the differeaces 
which had arisen. 
At noon of the 2ist, Ysak Bey, a minister 
of the Porte, came off; from whose expres- 
sions Mr. Arbuthnot thought it impossble not 
to believe, that inthe head of the govern-, 
ment (for in the present instance, every cir-, 
cumstance proved that, between him* and the 
armed populace, a great distinction is to be 
made) there really éxisted a sincere desire for 
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peace 5 and the negotiation was carried on, as. | 
will appear by the ‘documents traasmitied te 
your Lordship, till the 27th; but. froma the: 
moment of our anchorage till we weighed, on 
the morning of the ist of March, such was the. 
unfortunate siate of the wegther, that it was, 
not at any time in cur pewer to have occupied 
a situatidn which would have enabled the 
Squadron to commence offensive operations 
against Constantinople. On Suntay the 22d 
alone, for a few hours, the breeze was suffi- 
cient to have stemmed tne current where we 
were placed; butsuch was the rapidity on 
shore where the Eudymion was at anchor, that 
Capt. Capel thought it very doubttul whether 
the squadron could have obtained an ancho- 
rage, though it had been held in preparative 
readiness 
