1823. with the Committee, &c. July 29. By nett proceeds of sales this day, as per account. 6966 £943 18 £ 244 5 5 Cr. £244 5 5 £244 5 5 Members of the Committee. W. W. WALSH, THOS. PICKSTOCK, Honduras, April 19th, 1823. COLONEL HALL continued. I now beg to offer my account of advances only, against the Poyais Government to the amount of 586 dollars, 95 cents, not at all including my pay, &c. &c. I also offer another account, shewing the settlement of the monies coming into my hands from the sales; and if I had not paid any thing to the respectable settlers, and the advances, and supposing I had received the whole £943 18s. 9d., Jamaica currency, the amount of sales of stores, &c., the Poyais Government would still owe me £279 1s. 11d.: as it at present stands, they are indebted to me £477 8s. 2d. as per account now handed in. March 13. Paid one canoe and five men, from Patook to Black River..... 19. Paid for sails for a dorey, or canoe..... April 8. Paid Mr. Munay amount of cash borrow- Paid four natives for landing gunpowder 21. Paid for fresh provisions at four different times 29 50 11 16 14 1 8 20 26. Paid three Mosquito men for conducting 1824. Brought forward...... 27. Paid for a horse from Cratez to Cape Gra cias à Dios.... 28. Paid Louis a Caraib for superintending May 8. To entertaining the King of Mosquito ....... at 8 50 each.... Dols. Cents. 176 70 3 12 42 50 202 50 0 July. Paid the hire of five Mosquito men for .... 36 25 Paid one bolt Osnaburghs to Mr. Os- 2 ..... 478 95 Total advance for Government. Due to me from Major General M'Gregor. 648 95 By cash returned by Mr. Booth, on account of Government.. One barrel beef 14 17 14 2 15 62 586 95 H. HALL. To 298 days' pay as Lieutenant Governor of To one pipe brandy, sold by order of the To loss of baggage, &c. at Black River and To amount of passage-money from England to By cash received from sale of stores, (Jamaica currency).... 0 0 Balance due to me. 139 5 8 85 12 0 ... 35 0 0 30 0 0 To amount of my claims on the Poyaisian Govern ment Do. Freight of Stores, &c. from Black River to Had the proceeds of stores sold at Belize been appropriated to reimburse my advances, pay, &c. a balance would still remain due to me of £279 1s. 11d. as per the above statement. COLONEL HALL then proceeded. H. HALL. The stores and provisions were much deteriorated, from the want of store-room or shelter, the people having refused to work at the huts ordered to be erected, unless their stipulated wages were paid up. With this I could not comply, no specie being in the accountant's possession, and Poyaisian bank notes, of which we had plenty, not being current in the country. Of the cargo of the Honduras packet, I do not imagine that one-fourth was received, Captain Hedgcock having detained the greater part of the stores and provisions, to satisfy claims alleged against Sir Gregor M'Gregor, as head of the government, and of that of the Kinnersley Castle, I think not more than one-half. I here produce two papers to shew the irregularity in the landing the same. I was absent when |