Can mr King’s report in his dispatch No. 57. Dec. 10. 97. be seen? The question is whether it was worth £50. sterl. every person who undertakes to expend money for secret service, must take on themselves the risk of being approved or not by the government, on view of the nature of the service, which can only be judged on a knolege of what it was. this kind of expenditure is susceptible of such abuse, that a strict eye should be kept on it.