There are a number of commissaries, assistants and other followers, hired and employed in disbursing the weekly rations and pay in divers garrisons, who by their frauds, estimates of leakage, and other sinister practices, swindle the Company of a considerable amount. The greater part of this could be saved, were the soldiers there paid in money, as we have more fully submitted to the XIX., and as would have been put into practice had not it been for the revolt and the cessation of the Company's incomes and domains in Brazil. But should the soldiers' wages and board be embodied in one sum, this could, in time, be diminished, and the soldiers receiving their

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pay in cash, could go at their pleasure, to market, in the cheapest manner, and have less to complain of than now. What farther relates to Retrenchment in Brazil and the other conquests, must be particularly recommended to and enjoined on the supreme government and the directors of said districts, who, being on the spot, can attend better to all such matters which they ought, of themselves, to introduce, as by instruction they are obliged to do, and are personally bound to answer specially for all that is intrusted to them.

Third jjoiiit -- Of the Trade. Trade. Comiug HOW to the third point of trade and commerce ; the Company ought either to carry it on itself or allow private persons to prosecute it, since serious and lengthy disputes have arisen on the subject among the Chambers to the sensible deterioration of the Company. 'Twere well an end were at once put to these disputes, yet with such circumspection that, the trade being regulated for the present according to the actual condition of the conquests, might, in case of essential change therein, be hereafter modified according to the urgency of affairs.