FRANCE. PECUNIARY INDEMNITY. An Account of the Sums received from France in respect of the Pecuniary Indemnity payable under the Convention No. 5, of the 15th of November, 1815; and of the Appropriation thereof : The total Sum received by his Majesty's Government, in pursuance of this Convention, and of the several Arrangements subsequently made, was 125,228,482 f. 42 c., which, at the Exchange of 25 f. 29 c., the average rate of Romittance to this Country, was....... By Interest, &c. upon the Money received beyond the Amount paid by way of Discount upon anticipated Payments, Commission upon Negociations, &c... £. S. d. 4,951,699 11 7 71,473 4.9 £5,023,172 16 41 £. S. d. 166,890 16 5 By Payment on account of proportions of the Remitted to Lisbon, to discharge outstanding Paid as Prize Money to the Army By the Expenses of the Office of the Com- 19,211 4 9 9,971 10 5 98,853 6 04 1,000,000 0 0 23,527 1 81 By Amount paid for the use of the Army in By Payment on account of Supplies 1822, tion of his Claims, in respect of Property belonging to him, sequestrated at the beginning of the War by the British Government By Amount paid M. Martin, towards the Indemnification of Proprietors of Property at St. Domingo, for the sequestration of their Property during the occupation of that Island, by the British Forces. .......... By Amount paid the French East India Com- By Payments on account of his Majesty's By Amount paid on account of the Expenses By Balance 1,529,765 2 8 500,000 0 0 15,634 19 3 99,331 4 7 3,400 0 0 60,000 0 0 22,733 19 8 1,000 0 0 138,238 0 2 3,358 9 7 £4,960,986 17 1 *This Balance is liable to the payment of a further sum, on account of the Subsidiary Force of Brunswick; as also of a further sum, as Indemnification to the Proprietors of Property in St. Domingo, the amount of which cannot at present be acJ. C. HERRIES. curately ascertained. Whitehall Treasury Chambers, June 25, 1823. 7487 SIR-Having perused in your Paper, Captain BRENTON'S Letter to you of the 30th ultimo, I must deny ever having had "private" correspondence with him. any The confidential communication alluded to was drawn from me by the use he made of Lord ST. VINCENT'S name; his "protest" should have been against himself, as his Lordship's Executors have shewn. Captain BRENTON's Letter, without date, is to be seen at Mr. MONTAGU'S, No. 43, Lincoln's-in-fields: it will be found precisely as I have stated. He does say (and with great reason) that he deserved my censure; the negative" would have made nonsense of that part of his letter, and never was intended to be there. If his word is not "tame," and which word he made use of to Sir JOHN GORE, this passage is also incorrect; all who have seen the letter, so read the word. I freely acknowledge the mistake in the date of my first letter, which may be attributed as such to age, and the feverish state in which my mind has been so long kept. This mistake carries no importance with it, any more than does the “place" I wrote from; it is enough that this letter came to the author's lands BEFORE he got into his carriage, and I believe Charlesstreet, Berkeley-square, is not much out of the way to Carlton Palace. My first letter to the Author of the Naval History should have induced an honourable man to have paused a little before he, placed such a production in the hands of his Sovereign; but, Sir, he was met in the anti-room at the Palace, by Sir JOHN GORE and my sons, and fully informed by them also that his book contained injurious reflections on my character; yet he presented it, and having so done, his seeing the documents which my letter referred to was of no moment. The deed was done, the poisoned dagger was planted, and the Author went out of town to ponder on it. It was not until the 25th of April (as he correctly states), that Captain BRENTON called in Charles-street; Sir JOHN GORE was then ill in bed, and 1, as was very natural, too indignant to admit of an interview with my calumniator. In the street near to his house, he acknowledged to Captain JOHN MONTAGU, that the printing my refutation was unavoidable, as he had presented his book to the KING, which he then confessed was an act of infatuation and madness, or words to that effect. I know not where the "restraint" is to be found, that the Author of the calumny says he has put on his pen; it most certainly is not to be found in his book ;-his assertion that Lord CHATHAM and the Board expressed some displeasure at the conduct of the Rear-Admiral, and ordered or permitted him to strike his flag," cannot be so considered; and which, when he wrote it, he knew to be untrue, as did the person to whom his sister read it. But as the Author has told the Public that he will speak the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, I will take leave of him for the present, with this observation only, that if he had adopted this most excellent and honourable rule in his first volume, he would have saved me and my family many a bitter pang. 1 am, Sir, your very humble servant, GEORGE MONTAGU. Stowell Lodge, Pewsey, Wills, July 3, 1823. |