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is however taken into this account for ſavings in conſequence of theſe contracts having been put an end to as they were of uncertain amount;— nor for the loſs avoided by the Tranſport Board now purchaſing ſtores, inſtead of favored individuals.
Here it is proper, however, we ſhould bring to account the actual ſavings made in the departments now under the direction of the Tranſport Boards to which we before generally referred,—
| Since the buſineſs of the Priſoners of War has been placed under the direction of the Commiſſoners for Tranſports, fifteen depots at home, and four abroad, have been ſuppreſſed; by which a diminution of annual expence has been effected of at leaſt | £14,000 |
| The Commiſſioners reduced the price of the rations of the priſoners of war, in 1796, from 8¾d. to 6½d. a day, at which it has continued, notwithſtanding the increaſed price of proviſions chiefly by a partial ſubſtitution of ſalt fiſh for the ſame quantity of beef; which, for the number of priſoners before the arrival of thoſe from Walcheren, would be annually[1] | 161,000 |
| 000,000 | |
| Carried over, | £175,000 |
- ↑ That the priſoners of war have not ſfuffered in their health By the change of the ration is evident, as they are now as healthy as they have been at any time. When' this account was received in Sept. 1809, there were confined at Norman-Croſs 6000, of whom only ſeven were ſick. Would to God there were only the ſame proportion of Britiſh priſoners in France on the ſick liſt!
