20 Jan y 1808

Elucidations to Table IX, X, and XI

A natural question here is, whether the number 145, the number expressive of the total amount of the Arrear, accumulated in the 13 years and part of a fourteenth comprized in these official Accounts, delivered in as they were on the 11 th of March 1807, comprized the whole of the number remaining in arrear and waiting to be disposed of at that time? The affirmation seems not improbable but in regards to the amount of the arrear neither that conclusion nor any other can be deduced to a certainty from any information afforded by these Accounts. That in 1793, being the year immediately preceding the commencement of the earliest of the two periods comprized in these Accounts, an arrear existed, is manifest on the face of them. For at the end of 1796, being the 3 d year comprized in them, the Total amount of the arrear accumulated in this period was no more than 15: and in the two next years 1797 and 1798 taken together, we see 24 Appeals disposed of over and above the number presented in those same years: deducting then 15, as being the Arrear formed during this period, there remains 9, a number which must already have been remaining in arrear, at the commencement of this same period. But in addition to these 9, there may have been at the commencement of this period, arrear to any amount: an arrear which if existing will be to be added to 145, the numbers exhibited by the last column of numbers in this Table.