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Show (62) A the greateit part of the public debt ; in confequence of which, agreeable to Lord Shelburne's ideas, fome of our worl‘t taxes might be taken off, and the Colonies would receive our manu- P P E N factures cheaper, ; our paper-currency might be refirained; our whole force would be free to meet at any time foreign danger ; Bank, South Sea and India Houfes the influence of the crown would be reduced; our parliament would become more independent; and the kingdom might, See the particulars in an account perhaps, be refiored to a fituation of permanent fafety and profperity. To conclude.~--An important revolution in aflairs of this kingdom {eems to be approaching. If ruin is not to be our Deduét 424,5001. Confolidated Annuities, 246,300]. Reduced; 161,6501. Old S. S. Annuities, and 43,350]. making in all a million of the tution.--For my own part 5 if this is not to be the confequence of any future changes in the miniftry, and the {yfiem of corruption, lately {0 much improved, is to go on; I think it totally indifferent to the kingdom who are in, or who are ml: of power. X. by R. Helm, at the Stock Exchange, correéted for Jan. 5,1775. meafures adopted. At that period, an opportunity (never per- haps to be recovered, if loft) will offer itfelf for ferving eflentially t/ai: country, as well as A'werz‘ca ; by putting the national debt into a fixed courfe of payment; by lubjeéting to new re~ «gulations, the adminifltration of the finances; and eflabliflling I was, in Jan. 1775, 125,056,4_54l. lot, all that has been lately done niuit be undone, and new meafures for exterminating corruption and relloring the c0nlti~ D flmaum‘ of HM National Debt at Mdfummer, I775. Principal. Interefl. The amount of the capitals at the Annuities 1751, 3per cents, paid offin 1775 ; and the remainder will be Annuities for 99, 96, and 89 years, ,5. 124,056,454 granted in King William's time. Suppofing 18 years to come of theie Annuities, their value will be (reckoning interei't at 3:- per (6711)] 3g-years purchafe, or nearly. Annuities for lives, with benefit of furvivorihip, in King William's time, fuppofed worth four years purchafe.~--N. B. The benefit of furvivorfhip is to be continued till theAnnuities are reduced to Seven, and they are not yet reduced to this number - - - Annuities on lives, with benefit of furvivorlhip, granted Anno 1765, valued at 20 years purchafe - Annuities for two or three lives, granted in 1693. Alfo Annuities on fi-ngle lives, 1745, 1746, 1747. The original amount of thefe Annuities, taken all together, was near 130,0001. They are now reduced by deaths to about 80,0001. APPENDI'X. I have valued them at 10 years purchafe - - - Total ,5. 800,000 80,000 176,698,701 4,542,430 Long |