per Diem. 337 12 6 155. 60. 115. 6. 839 10 No. V. Statement of the expence of a regiment of British dragoons in canton ments in the Vizier's dominions, including arrears payable in England, and every fixed contingency. Subsistence. Per Annum. £. s. d. 1 Lieutenant-colonel commanding 18s. 6d. 2 Majors 565 15 4 Captains i Captain Lieutenant 75. 127 15 19 Lieutenants 7s. 1,533 8 Cornets Os. 876 24 Serjeants 15. 9d. 766 10 24 Corporals 15. 23d. 529 5 6 Trumpeters 2d. 127 15 6 Hautboys 15. 6d. 164 5 414 Privates lod. 6,296 5 i Adjutant 82 6 Quarter-Masters gs. 4380 1 Surgeon 4s. 164 5 2 Assistant Surgeons 273 5 Annual allowances to the commandant, regimental pay Master, and Captains of troops 469 15 Arrears 1,192 7 6 SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO 45. 6d. 2 75. 6d. £. 12) 14,783 7 6 1 Lieut-col. comBrought down 9,855 90 manding 750 600 40 1,510 00 2 Majors 450 1,020 00 2,040 00 4 Captains 180 90 2 5 3 455 5 3 1,809 50 i Captain Lieut. 180 180 90 6 11 456 11 o 12 Lieutenants 120 306 11 03,680 40 8 Cornets 90 90 245 15 1 1,967 88 24 Serjeants 8 8 266 8 24 Corporals 11 4 10 271 4 6 Trumpeters 1 12 10 70 13 O 414 Privates 1 11 o 11 4,577 11 6 i Acting Chaplain 60 791 40 1 Adjutant 120 469 14 2 1 Riding-master, effective 60 152 оо 6 Qu rter-Master 60 30/ 150 0 900 оо 1 Surgeon 180 155.180 60 705 10 8 2 Asst. Surgeons - 1201 601 300 600 оо 1 Regimental Pay Master 6 Farriers 9 54 24 Doolies 30 7200 468 Syces 4 1,872 0 468 Grass Cutters 3 8 1,638 Allowance for Stationery, repairs of arms and accoutrements 3000 Allowance for shoeing, horse-cloths, physic, &c. 936 od (Continued.) 65 54 оо (Continued.) Sonaut rupees Per annum sonaut rupees mated to last seven years, annual expence years, annual expence Exercising ammunition, and petty stores, ditto Actual expence of erecting barracks for the men, and mess bunga loe for the officers, sonaut rupees 1,28,972, estimated to last ten years, annual expence New lines, the same as for a regiment of infantry or cavalry, sonaut rupees 62,000, estimated to last ten years, annual ex pence Standards and targets, annual expence Prime cost of 474 horses for non-commissioned officers, privates, and farriers, sonaut rupees 189,600, estimated to last ten years, First cost of saddles and bridles, sonaut rupees 26 per set, esti mated to last three years, annual expence Making and watering patties, per annum Quilts for non-commissioned and privates of the regiment, per an. Estimated amount of off-reckonings, payable to the colonel of the regiment The first cost of camp equipage for a regiment of British dragoons amounts to sicca rupees 27,695,10,1, or sonaut rupees 28,943, 3, estimated to last two years, aonnal expence Allowance of women and children, estimated at the average of about 15 of the former, and 30 of the latter, annual expence The average price of grain for a regiment of cavalry in the vizier's dominions may be estimated 1 rupee. 4 annas per maundah, at which rate the annnal expence for grain for the 27th regiment of dragoons would be annual expence, Sonaut rupees 561,023 13 10 (Signed) Military Auditor General's office, 30th March, 1801. J. SALMOND, M.A.G. No. VI. Statement of the annual expences of the independent regiments of Hindostanee cavalry in cantonments in the Vizier's dominions. Occasionally with horses cast from those J. SALMOND, No. 7. Charges for extra bullocks and extra grain in the Vizier's dominions, from 1st November, 1798, to 31st October, 1799. To N. B. Edmonstone, Esq. secretary demand upon his excellency for arrears to government. Secret Department. Sir, Para. 1. I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the ad instant, with its enclosures. 2. Having in compliance with the orders of his excellency the most noble the governor-general in council, completed the calculation of arrears due by the vizier, down to the end of last month, upon the principles of the accounts transmitted to me, a statement of the same was furnished to his excellency on the 13th instant, and a demand on him in the name of his excellency the most noble the governor-general in council, for the immediate payment of the amount. 3. Although no formal demand was, at any period prior to the 23d of last month, made upon the vizier for the payment of the expences incurred by the company in protecting his excellency's dominions, when the threatened invasion of Zemaun Shah rendered it necessary to augment the British force in Oude, yet a translation of the statement transmitted to me in the secretary's letter of the 10th of October, 1799, was, in consequence of a desire expressed by the vizier to be furnished with the statement alluded to in the governorgeneral's letter to him of the 26th September, 1799, presented to his excellency in the November following As this statement exhibited a sum of something above seventeen lacks of rupees, and as I had casually mentioned that sum in a late requisition for the payment of the arrears, I found it necessary, on the present occasion, to enter into an explanation of the principles upon which the calculation is formed, in order to account for the difference between the former and the presen_ statement. 4. Accompanying I do myself the honour of transmitting to you, in English and Persian, copies of my address to the vizier on the subject, with the copies of the statement In both languages. The additions made to the account, transmitted in your letter of the 2d instant, are a continuation of the charges on account of his Majesty's 27th regiment of dragoons, of the Hindostanee regiment of cavalry, and of the Benjarries, from the 1st of November, 709, to the end of March, 1861, amounting to eleven lacks are thousand three hundred and sixty-nine rupees, making the whole thirty-eight lacks thirteen thousand five hundred and ninety rupees. I have the honour to be, &c. &c. Lucknow, (Signed) Resident, Lucknow. April 16th, 1801. A true copy. N. B. EDMONSTONE. To the Vizier Dated 28 of Zeekaud, 1215 Haje. or 13th April, 1801. In a letter which I did myself the honour of addressing to your excellency, on the 5th of Zeekaud, I acquainted your excellency that a statement of the arrears chargeable to your excellency on account of the extra troops in Oude was preparing in the proper office in Cal cutta. This statement having been transmitted to me, by order of his excellency the most noble the governor general, I now do myself the honour of enclosing a translation of it in the Persian language, by which your excellency will observe, that the amount due by your excellency is thirty-eight lacks thirteen thousand five hundred and ninety rupees, two annas, and half a pice. In order that your excellency may thoroughly comprehend the enclosed account, I beg leave to state to you the principles upon which it is framed;the largest number of troops of different descriptions, which, according to the 7th article of the treaty, is to be maintained in Oude at the expence of the company, is thirteen thousand men: and if at any time there be an excess to that number, the expence of such excess is to be defrayed by your excellency. In the month of November, 1798, the force in Oude, in consequence of the threatened invasion of Zemaun Shah, was considerably augmented above the greatest number defined; part of the excess was in a few months withdrawn, and a portion was necessarily detained for the protection of your excellency's dominions. The expence of 13,000 men, with the necessary equipments of ordnance, &c. being set apart as a charge to be borne by the company, the expence attending the excess of troops bove that number, with their necessary equipments, is charged to your excellency, every corps for the actual period it was serving in Oude. The The corps for which the charges are made, are exclusive of the additional troops recently arrived for the protection of Oude; and as the expence is calculated up to the end of March, 1801, the cause of the difference between the present statement and the estimate which I formerly furnished to your excellency, will be obvious to your excellency's comprehension. Having thus furnished your excellency with the statement of the arrears due by your excellency to the company, and explained the principles upon which it has been prepared, I now, in conformity to the orders which I have received, call upon your excellency, in the name of his excellency the most noble the marquis Wellesley, governor-general, for the immediate payment of the money. (Signed) W. SCOTT, Resident, Lucknow. 1st Nov. 1798, to the end of October, 1799 One regiment native infantry, from 1st November, 1798, 3,61,668 3 3,71,284 0 18,55,807 109F to 15th March, 1799 2,38,683 o One regiment of native infantry, from the 1st November, 1798, to the 31st May, 1799 One regiment European dragoons, from 1st November, 1798, to the 31st March, 1801, at 5,61,023. 10. 9. per annum, is for two years and five months The Hindoostanee regiment, from 1st November, 1798, to the 31st March, 1801,at 1,86,060.9. per annum, for two years and five months Extra bullocks, from 1st of November, 1798, to 31st October, 1799 Benjarree bullocks, from 1st November, 1798, to the 4.49,646 59 1,10,555 3 31st March, 1801 - 1,39,632 o O (Signed) 38,13,590 2 of W. SCOTT, Resident, Lucknow, A true copy. N. B. EDMONSTONE, Copy. To the Vizier. Written the 5th of April, 1801, I have had the honour to receive your excellency's letter (recapitulating that received 14th March). The general spirit and tenor of this communication from your excellency have excited my serious concern; your excellency's conduct on this important occasion has been as unexpected as it has been evidently incompatible with your approved character for wisdom, prudence, and attachment to the company. The magnitude of the questions discussed in my last address to your excellency, the alarming facts |