Nature of the Expenses. Brought over Portable house for the governor Old canvas supplied from Portsmouth dock-yard, for Hearths, coppers, &c. for the use of the settlement Pay and disbursements of the agent to the transports employed on this service This expense has been incurred upon the first expedition, and is all paid. Charge of cloathing, victualling, and transporting Paid already upon account ..... 4,269 18 0 Estimate of what more may be due, upon the supposition that the ship may have been discharged at port Jackson from the pay of this board, at the end of August last Amount. £. s. d. 78,984 1 3 130 0 0 1,429 15 5 286 17 4 69 0 9 118 10 8 881 6 6 81,899 11 6 5,454 3 2 7,724 1 11 Charge of the Justinian, hired in Nov. 1789, for Freight for two years, the time calcu Deduct what may be expected to be received from the company for freight of the teas she may bring home 7,389 0 0 5,000 0 0 2,389 0 0 There remains the sum of Note.-6231. 2s. part of the sum of 2,3897. being the amount of the expence incurred on account of this ship, according to the above estimate, has been already paid; which leaves a balance due of 1,765/. 18s. Pay and disbursements of the two agents who went out in the Lady Juliana and Justinian 1,500 0 0. Nature of the Expenses. Amount. £. s. d. Brought over 93,511 14 5 Charge of victualling, cloathing, and transporting convicts, according to agreements with Mr. Whitlock, in August 1789, and with Messrs. Camden, Calvert, and King, in November 1790, viz. £. S. d. Paid upon account to Mr. Whitlock... 17,463 3 9 Ditto to Messrs. Camden, Calvert, and The expense incurred on His Majesty's ships sent on service to New South Wales, is estimated to be as under, viz. N.B. In the preceding account, the charges incurred for the An Account of the Quantity and Cost of the Provisions and Stores which have been sent to New South Wales for the maintenance and Support of the Settlements there, as far as the same can be made up. 600 tons of provisions shipped in June and July 1789... £. s. d. 12,034 8.6 300 tons Implements, &c. comprehending im- Off discounts...... Amount of bills drawn by Governor Phillip and Commissary Miller on the Lords of the Treasury for sundry provisions, stores, and necessaries, for the use of the settlement 16,865 2 84 In the foregoing account is included the cost of 12 months provisions, clothing, stores, &c. for 200 convicts from Ireland, after their arrival. An Account of the Charge and Expense of the Civil and Civil establishment to 10th Oct. 1790. £. s. d. £. S. d.. 13,190 17 8 Military Establishment. Pay of marines to 1st Jan. 1791, about 18,784 0 0 From 5th June to 24th December, The charge of the said corps for the year 1790, according to the establishment Total expense of the civil and military establishment, from the commencement thereof in 1787, to the present period 4,751 8 11 6,134 7 8 29,669 16 2 42,860 18 10 Petition of John Horne Tooke, esq. to the honourable the Commons of Great Britain in Parliament as sembled, To the honourable the Commons of Great Britain in Parliament assembled, till the third of March, 1785, when a very small comparative progress having been made (viz. through the small parish of St. Anne, and not entirely through St. Martin's, leaving totally untouched the parishes of St. George, St. James, St. The petition of John Horne Tooke, Margaret, St. John, St. Paul Co Esq. TH Sheweth, THAT your petitioner now is, and at the time of the last election for Westminster was, an elector for Westminster, and a candidate to represent the said city and liberty in the present parliament. That in the said city and liberty there are 17,291 householders rated in the parish books unrepresented in parliament, and without the means of being represented therein, although, by direct and indirect taxation, they contribute to the revenue of the state very considerably more than those who send 100 members to parliament. That at each of the three last elections for Westminster (viz. in 1784, in 1788, and in 1790), notoriously deliberate outrage, and purposely armed violence was used; and at each of those elections murder was committed; that for these past outrages, as if there were no attorney-general, no government, and no legislature in the land, not the least redress has been obtained, not the least punishment, nor even the least censure inflicted, nor has any remedy whatever been appointed or attempted, to prevent a repetition of similar outrages in future; that, at the election for Westminster, in 1784, a scrutiny was demanded on behalf of sir Cecil Wray, which was granted on the 17th of May, 1784, and with the approbation or direction of the then House of Commons was continued vent-garden, St. Mary le Strand, St. Clement, and St. Martin le Grand), the said scrutiny was, by the direction or approbation of the House of Commons, relinquished without effect, after having lasted ten months, and with an expence to sir Cecil Wray of many thousand pounds more than appears by some late proceedings in chancery to be the allowed average price of a perpetual seat in the House of Commons, where seats for legislation are as notoriously rented and bought as the standings for cattle at a fair. That on the election for Westminster in 1788, there being an absolute and experienced impossibility of determining the choice of the electors by a scrutiny before the returning officer, a petition against the return was presented to the then House of Commons, by lord Hood, and another petition also against the return was presented by certain electors of Westminster, and a committee was in consequence appointed, which commenced its proceedings on Friday, April the 3rd, 1789, and continued till June the 18th, 1789, when the committee (as able and respectable as ever were sworn to try and determine the matter of any petition), on their oaths, "Resolved, that from the progress which the committee have hitherto been enabled to make since the commencement of their proceeding, as well as from an attentive |