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
