civ ( Ireland.) SUPPLEMENT to the Ninth Report of the [ Poft- Office.] The Roads confifted then as at prefent of four in number, and were divided as fol- lows, viz.: The Leinster and moft valuable Road was pofleffed by the Secretary, and his income, from the exercife of his privilege, was fixed at £. 849. 1. 4. per annum. The Connaught Road was then in the hands of the late Henry Harrifon, now poffeffed by William Dunlevy, Esq. and its annual profits fecured to ,£. 523. 6A-. The North Road by James Twigg, Esq. and its profits fixed at £. 408. 10 s. The Munster Road, by William Maturin, Efq. who had an income l'ecured to him of ,£. 378. os. 6( 1. a- year. Under this regulation of Government, which thus liberall}' fecured t> the Clerks of the Roads what they acknowledged as their incomes, it was alio eftab. ilhed, tnac in proportion as the circulation of any one Road would extend its ftandard average, the overplus of profit ibould be divided, according to their individual proportions, among the remaining Roads, and thereby diminilh the fum which, under the circumftance of a general deficit, the Poft- - Otiicc Treafurcr would have been called upon to make good. Upon this principle the Roads, I beg to ftate, have been fuppofed to have been fince managed ; and under the Government Regulation, the Returns from the Clerks of the Roads, and the Sums they have refpedtiveiy received from the Revenue, between the 5th January 1S03, and the 5th January 1809, have been as followeth, viz. LEINSTER ROAD. CONNAUGHT ROAD. Thus it will appear to your Lordfhips, that fince the year in which the coinpenfation was granted, the al! edged diminilhed reduction in the profits of the different Roads, has required and obtained payments amounting in the whole to the fum of £. 3,539- o. c. from which if deducted the l'ums refunded as the overplus of the Leinfter Road, and diftributed among the remaining three, the fuppofed deficiency actually required demands upon the Revenue in the fum of £. 3,224. 16. 8. From the nature of the profits themfelves arifing from thefe privileges, the mode of their management and collection, and, above all, from the refpedtability of the perfons exercifing them, it has never been deemed neceffary to eftablifh any more fatisfacftory check upon their annual amount, than their own immediate certificate, which has ever been received conclufive of their corredtnefs; neither did Government, in adjufting and directing the mode to be obferved in preparing the annual receipts from the profits on the Papers, fuggeft, much lefs point out for adoption, a more authentic Return, nor have either the Boards of Accounts or Enquiry, in their examination of the proceedings of the Poft Office department, and of this