cxxvi ( Ireland.) SUPPLEMENT to the Nintli Report of the [ Appendix, Under this l'eafoning, which appears to be conclufive, I confefs 1 cannot feel that there is any ground for altering the directions contained in the Minute, and 1 therefore lend it back to you in its original ltate, accompanied by Mr. Marsden's letter. If, upon making up the Accounts indeed, therfe should still appear to be a furnlus, after indemnifying the public purfe to the fulleft extent, now that the whole of the compenfation arrangements mutt be confidered at an end, as Government certainly had it not in con-- temptation lo increafe the Revenue by a source of this sort; 1 ftiouid be inclined, upon a proper application from thofe who might think they possessted an intereft in it, to recom- mend that this furplus fliould be appropriated to the use of such of them as had merited this indulgence; but this prefuppofcs that the surplus is at the dispofal of Government, and may hereafter form a queftion, upon which it will rest with others to decide. I fhall to- morrow write lo Lord O'Neill upon the subject of Mr. Armit's Statement, which came enclosed to me under his Lordship's cover. ( Signed) CLANCARTY. ( B.) No. i. AN ACCOUNT of the Incomes of the Clerks of the Roads, as returned by them, on the average of the three years ending 5th January 1801. Produce. Leinster Road 47 Quires 19 Papers - <£. 849 1 4 Connaught Road 29 6 523 6 o North Road - 24- 3" - - - " 408 10 o Munfter Road 21- 10- - - - - 378 o 6 £. 2,158 17 10 ( B.) No. 2. - I was Principal The Examination of Mr. WILLIAM MATURIN ; taken on Oath, 23d of Decem- ber 1S09; the 15th March, the 3d, 13th, and 16th of April 1810. Din you hold any and what fituation lately in the General Post- Office ?- of the Paid Letter Office, and Clerk of the Munster Road. How long had you been in the employment of the General Poft- Office— Forty- seven years previous to my dismissal in November 1809. Do you recollect the application made by the Clerks of the Roads, in 1802, for compen- fation, 011 account of the diminished circulation of Irish Newspapers, in confequence, as it was then alleged, of the Union ?— I joined with the other Clerks of the Roads in making that application. Did you at that time make any and what Return of the amount of your annual income or profit, derived from the circulation of Newspapers, as Clerk of the Munfter Road?— 1 made two fuch Returns, the one ftating the amount of the profits of my Road for the years ending 5th January 1801, and 1802 ; and the other ftating their amount, on an average of the three years ending 5th January 1801. By this latter Return my annual net profits amounted to =£. 378. 6s. Have you the Books of Accounts or Documents from which you made up this latter Return?— I have no Books of Accounts relating to my Road, earlier than the middle of the year 1800; but I have lately found a Paper that appears to contain Extracts of receipts and payments on account of the Munfter Road, for the three years ending 5th January 1801, and to have been used by me at the time I made the Return referred to, and which enables me to state, that in framing such Return, I deducted from the amount of my grofs receipts the sums actually paid for Newspapers to Printers, together with <£. 50. a- year for manage- ment, and that 1 returned the balance, or the net receipts, after having taken the average thereof as the amount ot my annual profits. Did you make up the Account correcftly, according to that principle?— I have no doubt of it, and am confirmed therein by its appearing that blanks were left in the Paper I have delivered in for the sums paid to the Printer of The Evening Poft, as if I did not then know their amount, though 1 must afterwards have afcertained it in order to complete my Return, and by my finding upon applying, fince I dil'covered the Paper already mentioned, to Mr. Gilbert, who kept the Accounts of the fales of The Evening Post, that tiie furns actually paid by me to the Editor thereof, in the three years 011 which the average was formed, together with the fums ftated to have been paid to other Printers, and the expences of management, as already mentioned, being deducted from the gross receipts, the average of the net receipts in fuch three years, is only 2s. 3 d. ftiort of the average fum returned. in.