Brought over 78,984 1 3 Portable houfe for the governor Old canvas fupplied from Portsmouth dock-yard, for 130 0 1,429 15 5. 286 17 4 69 0 9 118 104 881 6 6 Hearths, coppers, &c. for the ufe of the fettlement Pay and disbursements of the agent to the transports employed on this service This expence has been incurred upon the firft expedition, 'and is all paid. Charge of cloathing, victualling, and tranfporting Paid already upon account 4,269 18 9 81,899 11 6 3.454 3 2 7,724 I 11 Charge of the Juftinian, hired in Nov. 1789, for Freight for two years, the time calcu lated for the performance of those fervices out and home 7,389 o o: 5,000 Deduct what may be expected to be Pay and disbursements of the two agents who went out in the Lady Juliana and Juftinian 2,389 0 0 1,500 0 Carried over £. 93,511 14 5 Charge Nature of the Expences. Brought over Charge of victualling, cloathing, and tranfport- Paid upon account to Mr. Whitlock The total expence cannot be known until the fervice is over, and the accounts are fettled; but it is eftimated that what will remain due upon the above two agreements will not probably be less than f.. 5. d. 17,463 3-9 30,100, 0 47,563 3 9 Amount. £. s. d. 93,511-14 The expence incurred on His Majefty's fhips fent on fervice to New South Wales, is eftimated to be as under, viz. On the Sirius £. S. d. 45,183 o Supply tender 17,283 22,924 N. B. In the preceding account, the charges incurred for the transport of 200 convicts from Ireland are included. An Account of the Quantity and Coft of the Provifions and 600 tons of provifions fhipped in June and July 1789 -- £. 5. d. 12,084 8 6 300 tons Implements, &c. comprehending im Off discounts Amount of bills drawn by Governor Phillip and Commiffary Miller on the Lords of the Treasury for fundry provifions, ftores, and neceffaries, for the use of the settlement In the foregoing account is included the coft of 12 months provifions, clothing, ftores, &c. for 200 convicts from Ireland, after their arrival. An Account of the Charge and Expence of the Civil and Petition of John Horne Tooke, Efq. to the honourable the commons of Great Britain in parliament affembled. To the honourable the commons of Great Britain in parliament affembled. The petition of John Horne Tooke, Efq. Sheweth, TH HAT your petitioner now is, and at the time of the laft election for Weftminster was, an elector for Weftminfter, and a candidate to represent the said city and liberty in the prefent parliament. That in the faid 'city and liberty there are 17,291 householders rated in the parith books unreprefented in parliament, and without the means of being reprefented therein, although, by direct and indirect taxation, they contribute to the revenue of the flate very confiderably more than thofe who fend 100 members to parliament. That at each of the three laft elections for Weltminfter, (viz. in 1784, in 1788, and in 1790,) notoriously deliberate outrage, and purpofely armed violence was ufed, and at each of thofe elections murder was committed that for thefe paft outrages, as if there were no attorney general, no government, and no legiflature in the land, not the leaft redress has been obtained, not the leaft punishment, nor even the leaft cenfure inflicted, nor has any remedy whatever been appointed or attempted, to prevent a repetition of fimilar outrages in future that, at the election for Weftminster, in 1784, a fcrutiny 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 houfe of commons wag continued till the third of March, 1785, when a very fmall comparative progrefs having been made, (viz. through the fmall parish of St. Anne, and not entirely through St. Martin's, leaving totally untouched the parishes of St. George, St. James, St. Margaret, St. John, St. Paul Covent-garden, St. Mary le Strand, St. Clement, and St. Martin le Grand,) the faid fcrutiny was, by the direction or approbation of the houfe of commons, relinquished without effect, after having lafted ten months, and with an expence to Sir Cecil Wray of many thousand pounds more than appears by fome late proceedings in chancery to be the allowed average price of a perpetual feat in the houfe of commons, where feats for legiflation are as notoriously rented and bought as the ftandings for cattle at a fair. That on the election for Weftmintter in 1788, there being an abfolute and experienced impoffibility of determining the choice of the electors by a fcrutiny before the returning officer, a petition against the return was prefented to the then houfe of commons, by lord Hood, and another petition alfo againft the return was prefented by certain electors of Weftminfter, and a committee was in confequence appointed, which commenced its proceedings on Friday, April the 3d, 1789, and continued till June the 18th, 1789, when the committee, (as able and refpectable as ever werefworn to try and determine the matter of any petition) on their oaths, "Refolved, that from the progrefs which the committee have hitherto been enabled to make fince the commencement of their proceeding, as well as from an at tentive |