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 Brought forward                        £13286   0   0

Licences for various privileges           300   0   0

Lieutenant Demanget £150, for four years                                     600   0   0

One-third of 1800 prisoners at Valenciennes were permitted to work in town, on paying 10 sols a-day for one year, producing £3912: 10s.; then 5 sols for one year £1965: 5s       5868  15   0 £20054 15   0

Calculating the robberies at the ten other depôts, each only at one-twentieth of that sum, amounts to                 10027   7   6 £30082  2   6

Nor need the reader be sceptical upon this enormous amount: a highly esteemed friend has submitted my calculation of the separate items to a very distinguished officer, whose situation rendered him fully competent to judge; his opinion is, that it is rather under, than over, the mark; though such calculations, from their very nature, cannot be strictly accurate.

I could, however, adduce a multitude of facts in corroboration of their probable accuracy, but when the fate of those in