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Show (64) to it, pay for foreign Principal. Brought over , £,. 1 26,698,701 Interelt. [. 4,542,430 Long annuity for 99 years [761"- The value ofthis annuity is in the nce, See. and it will be evident that the whole expericc of tlri I: unhappy year mnlt be enormous.--But I expect that care will be taken to hide it, by funding as llt'r'lC as poliible, and that for this reafon it will not be known in its lull magni tude, till it cornucto appear another year under the articles CF Navy debt, extramtlfi naries of the army, tranl‘por: bills, ordnance deben tures, Etc. lllulfill‘, g .. A L L E Y about 25 I years purchafe, but the remaining term is really worth 27 years purchafe UNFUNDED DEBT, confilt- troops, and all the extraordinary e‘rpences of our increafed Navy and Army, tranfport lcrric c, recruhing; lcrvlce, ordna up a vall: unfunded debt, which may beat down all public credit. 6,702,750 ingof Excheq. Bills(1,250,oool.) Navy debt (1,850,0001.) and Ci- Stat: :31" My NATIONAL ACCOUNT in 177 . ANNUAL vil Lil‘t debt, l‘uppofcd 500,000]. INCOME. The interelt is reckoned at no more than 2;]151'a'7rt. 3,600,000 90,000 Total ofthe National Debtin 1 775, 137,001,45 I 4,880,685 l have given the Navy Drét as it was about a year ago. It mull be now greatly increafed, ----- The Ciwi/Lifl Deét has been given by guels. It is generally acknowledged not to be lets that: the lam I have fpecified ; and it is alfo expected, that the Civil Lil‘i income will be raifed to 900,000l. per annum.-----l n 1769 the firm of 513,511]. was granted by parliament towards dilu charging the arrears and debts then due on the Civil Lift. By an act of the lirlt of George II. the Civil Lill was made up 800,0001. whenever, in any year, the duties and ":pptopriated to it fell fhort of that firm. The clear revenues; produce of ‘zhele duties for 33 years, or from Midfummer 1727, to Midlum~ zner iféo, was, according to a particular account in my lion, 20,182,9811. 17s. 6d. or 795,242].])rrmm. They poflet'l fellfhort, therefore, taking one year with another, mare than they exceeded. ------- In 174.7 they had been deficient for {even years together; and the whole deficiency amounted to 456,733}. 16s.--which, in conformity to the act 1 have mentioned, was made good to his majelty out of the {upplies for that year- ------ In 1729 alfo, r 17,000 1. was granted out ofthe fupplies for the lilce realonn-r This is all the money, received by his late maje ly from par-filament, Cusroms in ENGLAND, being the medi um of the payments into the Exchequer, for 3 years, ending in 1773 __ __ Amount ofthe EXCISES in ENGLAND, including the malt tax, being the medium of 3 years; ending in I" ‘ --- - -- Land Tax at 33. -- ~- -- SALT Dunes, being the medium of the years 1765 and 1766 - -~ -Duties on Stamps, Cards, Dice, Advertilements, Bonds, Leafes, Indentures, News-Papers, Ali-nanaclts, Sac. -- -- -- -- Duties On houfes and windows, being the medium of 3 years ending in 1771 - -- -Pelt Ollice, Seizures, Wine Licences, C‘oaches, '"E Tcnths oFthe Clergy, &e. Hackney-- EXCISlLS in SCOTLAND, being the medium of 3 was ending in 1773 - -- -- CUSTJMS in SCOTLAND, being the medium of 3 years endingin I773 - -~ -- inland taxes in SeaTLAnD, deduc'lion of (id. in the pound on all Petitions, salaries, Ste. cai'nal rere- towards {upporting his houlhold and the dignit y of his C‘l\il gotermnent; 0r810,74.91.}7er £77272.~---I have thought proper to l nucs, l'uch as the duties on Gun] Seneca, Ameri - are this matter {0 particularly here, becaufe accoun ts grotsly n tong have been given ofit. claw-There are little articles, and I have {oppo- The amount of the National Debt, it has appear ed, was lall; year whole revenue ten millions [057‘ am. tho' it is almoi‘c certain they cannot produce {0 much -- -- 137 millions. The great deficiencies oflall year, added to the extraordinary expences of the prefent year, will increa le confiderably. Drawing out, embodying, and maintainin this debt litia in the lat": war, coll the nation near halfa millio g the mi.n fer nun. We cannot reckon upon a lefs expence in doing this now. Add to can revenue, {ale of lands in the ceded lflands, fed them to amount to as much as will make the Total 22"3'3.) "‘9 [721033000 I "" There branches or the revenue produced in 1754., :to,2+3l. I do not know how much they have produced lately 5 but I believe I h:.'.' hu efzimated them at the highclt. |