( Ireland.) xcr To the Honourable The KNIGHTS, CITIZENS, and BURGESSES, in PARLIAMENT affembled. SUPPLEMENT TO THE NINTH REPORT ofthe Commiffioners appointed to enquire into the Fees, Gratuities, Perquifites, and Emoluments, which are, or have been lately, received in certain Public Offices in Ireland; and alfo to examine into any Abufes which may exift in the fame, and into the prefent mode of Receiving, Colleding, Ifluing, and Accounting for, Public Money in Ireland;— AND, to inveftigate and examine into all Balances and Arrears appearing, by the Public Accounts of Ireland, to be due unto His Majefty, for or on account of any Sums received for His ufe, and remaining or alledged to remain unpaid; and to fettle and afcertain the fame; & c. Ordered, by The House of Commons, to be printed, 20 June 1810. GENERAL POST- OFFICE. AT the clofe of our Report on the Poll Office, we intimated our intention of examining into the frauds aliedged to have been committed by the Clerks of the Roads; as foon therefore as we had finifhed the inveftigation of the current arrears of Excife, we proceeded with that Enquiry. From the feveral documents relating to thie fubjeft with which we have been furniflied, we find that the fraud imputed to thefe Officers confifts in their not having truly ac- counted for the profits derived from the exercife of their privilege of circulating Newspapers as they were required to do, when Government agreed to grant them compenfation for the amount of their deficiency, and in the confequent receipt of large fums out ofthe Revenue to which it is confidered by the Poftmafter Gene- ral " that they had no juft claim. In order fully to comprehend the grounds upon which this charge has been made, and how far the Public is entitled to be reim- burfed the fums or any part of them paid to the Clerks, it will be neceffary to ftate more particularly than we have had hitherto occafion to do, the arrange- ment made by Government with them in 1802. It appears, that in that year, the Clerks of the Connaught, North and Munffer Roads, addreffed a Memorial to the Postmaster General, stating, That in confe- Appendix ( A) N » quence of the Union, the circulation of Irish Newspapers, on the emoluments derived from which the value cf their employments depended, had been con- fiderab'y diminiflied; and that they apprehended they would be reduced by the continued operation ofthe fame caufe to comparative indigence, and claiming a fixed annual allowance as a compenfation for such decrease of income. Tins was fupported bv the following Statement of the Circulation of Papers through each Road, and of the profits derived therefrom in the years 1800 and 1801, re- fpeftively, the amount of which in the latter year appears to have been confider- ablv diminilhed. „ 3> 66. bb 18009