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with astonishment all men who knew the 

 actual condition of the country. In 

 sober truth, the quai-terly average of the 

 CUSTOMS in 1814, was 2,621,725/.; and 

 in 1815, 2,764,730/.; of the excise in 



INCOME. 



Custom!! 



Ditto — war duties made permanent 



Excise 



Stamps 



Incidents, &c. . . 



Siiiplus annual duties 



Exciu'ijiier fees , 



Interest, Ireland 



War taxas 



JRtservcd out of annuity to Prince of Wal 



Exchequer, &c. . 

 Bank dividencis 

 Redemption national debt 

 Civil list . 



Affairs in October, 



3(^9 



1814, was 6,286,250/.; and in 1815, 

 6,640,.500/. ; and of thfc stamps, in 1814, 

 was 1,399,500/.; and in 1815, was 

 1,466,250/. 



.^ll,234;34r 12 Oi 10,460,290 5 5^ 



1815. I 1316; 



. £ 266,335 6 9| 266,33ii! 6 9| 



5,405,454 5 11^! 5,000,425 1 l| 



Pensions, <Scc. 



Surplus 



a,856,79l 6 8 

 257,000 



139,211 7 7 



2,856*246 15 1 

 257,000 O 

 Estimated <il 

 169,995 16 i\i 



8,924,789 6 llj 8,550,000 

 2,309,558 5 o|, 1,010,290 5 h^ 



11,234,317 15J 0i|l0,460,290 5 -b^ 



1815. I 1816. 



Amount iif war-taxes . . <£'3,2'.'3,661 15 3§ 4,220,140 18 4^ 



Deduct war-taxes cat ried to Consolidated Fund 781,762 9 2 



WAR TAXES, 



War-taxes for the public service 



Amoimt of duties annually voted to pay off"! 



3,000,000 Exchequer Bills 

 .South Sea Duty 

 4f per Cent. . 



SOl'TH AMEHICA. 



The news and sitiintioi^ of the con- 

 tendinjr armies on tlie Spanish main is, 

 according to the Royalists, :is follows: — 



J. That Bolivar landed on llie Kith July 

 at Ocuniare with 600 men, and dispatched 

 Col. Souhlette with 300, who occupied La 

 Cabrera, near Valencia ; but, deceived by 

 an account that Gen. Morales was at the 

 latter place with 7('u0 mvn,he fell back 

 upon Ocuinare. On his retreat he was 

 ■ltackp<l by 500 Spanifh troops, and lost 

 in killed and wounded 200 men, at'ter a 

 desperate action. 



2. Bolivar then dispatched his reserve 

 of 300 men, with such as escaped, to fnim 

 a junction witb Gen. .Sir Gregor M'Gre- 

 gor, at Choioni, on the same coast Of Ca- 

 raccas ; and M'Gregor, when ihfe last ac- 

 •counlj lelit him, was at Turnu'ro, in the 

 vallics of Aragua, with 800 men, on his 

 • ay to join Gen. Sara-^a, (wLp occupied^ 



V^uHTUkf Mas. No. w96. 



with a body of cavalry. Villa de Cura,) 

 and to act against CaraccSs. 



3. Generals Piar, Roxas, and Monacias, 

 had concentrated their torces, *nd beaten 

 the Spanish General Lopez, near El Tigre. 

 They were marching npon Cumanawitha 

 body of from 1500 to 2000 men. 



4. Generals Santiaao, Marino, and 

 Bermudez, had marche<lfrom Giiirla, alon* 

 the coast upon the same point, 400 men. 



5. Gen. Cedeno, who occupied great 

 part of Guavima, and pressed hard upou 

 the capital with 1000, or 1500, was ia 

 ciinnuunicaiion with an army from Santa 

 F6 of 5000 men, commamled by Gen. 

 Jtoldcz, that had taken Bariuas, and was 

 aciin^ on the river Apcara. 



6. Arismcndi continued the blockade of 

 the Spaniards in the castle of Pampatar, 

 ill Maifjarita, who are now laid to be re- 

 duced to threat distress. 



7. Admiral Urion is stiperior to the Spa» 

 niards, aiid blockades tU« whole coa.xr. 



ali 1N<S1BEMS, 



