^ xxx ( Ireland.) SUPPLEMENT to the Ninth Report of the [ Appendix,' fcribcrs for Newspapers, or require payments in advance?— The principle upon which the Leinfter Road has been managed for the laft eight or ten years, was generally that of advanced payments, but Come credits were given, particularly upon Papers lent to England. " Were losses incurred in the bit ten years on account of the credit fo given ?—' There were some losses on the Papers lent to England; but the total amount of the'. r produce being from £. 100. to £. 150. per annum, of courfe the loiles incurred thereon couid not have been material. Is the Clerk of a Road fubjeft to any and what lofi'es exclufive of bad debts?— Loffes are incurred by the Clerks of the Roads, in confequence of their continuing to forward Newspapers to Subscribers after the expiration of their fubfcriptions. This ariles partly from a deli re not only not to dilbblige Correfpondents, who, if their Papers were flopped, might be thereby induced to difcontmue their fubfcriptions, and frequently alfo from overiight. Lolfes arc alfo incurred by more Papers being ordered, in the hurry of bufinefs, from the Printers than may be required for the night's difpatch. What might be the annual amount of the loiles in the Leinfter Road, by not flopping Papcp on the expiration of Subfcribers r— I cannot al'certaiu the amount, as there was 110 Account kept of the Papers circulated after fubfcriptions ceafed, or how long that circulation continued, but i ( hould i'uppofe it muft have been confiderable from the extenlive circulation of the Leinster Road, and its numerous Correfpondents ; but f do not think, however, it would have amounted to three quire per night. What might be the annual amount of loffes in the Leinftcr Road by ordering more Papers than wanted for the night's iffue ?— Probably 011 an average from 12 to 15 Papers per night. What is the amount of grofs profit per annum arifing from a Newspaper circulated three times a week ?—£. 1. 6. 8. In what manner did you afcertain the number of Papers which you returned each year, fubl'equent to the arrangement of 1802, as the circulation of the Leinfter Road r— The circulation of Papers being then principally confined to the General Poit Nights, the calculations of profits in the original Returns, claiming the compenfation fubmitted to the Postmaster General in 1802, were made upon a fuppofed if! ue of Papers upon three nights in each week ; but as there were then fix Day Papers iffued, the mode then adopted was, and it has always been adhered to in the fubfequent Returns, to take the iffue of two nights ( a general and bye night) of the higheft circulation combined as the iffue of one night, and also in the like manner to take the iffue of two other fuch nights of the loweft circulations as the issue of one other night, and to give the average of thofe combined numbers as the iffue of the Roads for three nights a week throughout the year. I11 what manner did you proceed to lelect thefe days ?— By an examination of a book, in which was entered the quantity of Papers got from the Printers and difpatched each day. Do the books which you produced to us, as containing the Accounts of the Leinfter Road for the three years ending the 5th January 1801, and for the feven years ending the 5th January 1809, and from which the receipts and payments on account of the Leinftcr Road during the above periods refpe& ively have been extracted, contain the juft and true amount of your receipt and expenditure for Newspapers as Manager of the Leinfter Road in each year to which the Accounts herein ftated refer?— To the belt of my recollection and belief they do, fave any cafual error or omiflion which in the hurry of bufinels might have occurred. Do you know of any fum or fums of money other than is fet forth in the Accounts above mentioned, having been received within the refpeftive periods thereof for the circulation of Newspapers in the Leinfter Road, cither by the Clerk of the Road himfelf, or by any other perfon for him, or do you believe that any fuch fum or fums of money have been to received? *— I do not. Were the fums received entered in thefe books as they were received, or were they transferred to them from other books ?— The fums received by myfelf were at once entered in thei'e books ; but the fums received by my Clerk were firft entered in a day book, and from thence tranferred into the above books ; and to the beft of my knowledge and belief the transfer was truly made. By whom were the orders given for the number of Newspapers requifite for each night iffued ?— By the Clerk generally. Did you by any and what means check the Printers' Accounts before you paid them ?— The Clerk ul'ually examined and checked the Printers' bills, and on his reporting to me that they were correct f paid tiiem. Have you any reaion to believe that the Printers overcharged in their Accounts ?— 1 have not. Do you know, or have you any reafon to believe, that Papers have been frequently taken up within the periods of thei'e Accounts, and circulated 111 the name of. the Clerk of the Leinfter Road, without the receipts for fuch Papers having been accounted for to him :— 1 do not believe there was any fuch fraudulent circulation. How then can you account for your receipts during the three years ending January 1801, and the feven years ending January 1809, being fo confidei'ably fliort of; what fhould have been derived from the number of Papers paid for to the Printers during the above periods refpeftively ?— I cannot account for it. Do you recollect having any converfation with Sir John Lees as to the mode of making up the Account of the profits of the Lemfter Road, on tire average of the three years en- Jing