368 
Interest on Debt payable Ja- 
nuary and July.....+5+++£18,529,890 
Interest on Debt payable 2 
April and October-««.+« § 9,677,826 
Total Annual Charge for the 
SEVEN enenONL oliasriu.e 5 28,200,216 
Life Annuities -...s.s08.+-. 410,964 
Exchequer Annuities: ---+-+-- 27,919 
Management ++ -sesseecsece 277,219 
Sinking Fund..+-«seccsesses 15,976,184 
Making, with Interest pay- 
able in Ireland, the aoa? 46,634,750 
Annual Charge for Debt 
Amount of Unfunded Debt oulstanding 
5th of Jan. 1822. 
Exchequer Bills .+.--+++++£31,566,550 
Irish Treasury Bills «+++++++ 1,105,181 
Total -o0«++ee06 32,671,731 
The following Capitals and Long An- 
nuities, the dividends on which have 
remained unclaimed for ten years and 
upwards, are included in the amounts 
standing in the names of the Commis- 
sioners :— 
3 per Cent. Consols .-++..----£131,202 
3 per Cent, Reduced --+-eee-+. 45,665 
3 per Cents. 1726 -eccecessoes 1,641 
4 per Cent. Consols.+.-+++++++2 24,307 
5 per Cent. do.++rcscccccsceese 18,513 
5 per Cents. 1797 and 1802++++++ 6,064 
Imperial Annuities »-.--.+-+065 4,290 
Long Annuities -«+..eccesesees 606 
And the following capital, which has 
been purchased with the unclaimed divi- 
dends, viz.—3 per Cent. Reduced 4.49,4001. 
—Ail which capital sums are subject to 
the claims of the parties entitled thereto. 
The late fmance operation for reducing 
the interest on the 5 per Cent. Stock to 
4 per Cent. has produced anannual saving 
of about 1,100,0001,; and an increase 
in the amount of the debt of about 
7,000,0001. 
If the deficient revenue he made good 
out of the Sinking Fund, about two mil- 
fions and a half will only remain towards 
the redemption of the debt. 
UNITED STATES. 
The following message was, on the 
8th of March, transmitted bythe Pre- 
sident of the United States to the 
House of Representatives, recommend- 
ing the recognition of the South 
American Republics; ‘a measure which 
has since been adopted. 
“In transmitting to the House of Repre- 
sentatives the documents called for by the 
resolution of that House of the 30th of 
January, I ‘consider it my duty to invite 
the attention of Congress to a very impor- 
tant subject, and to communicate the sen- 
timents of the Executive on it, that, should 
Congress entertain similar sentiments, 
there may be such co-operation between 
1 
Political Affairs in April. 
{May f, 
the two departments of the Government, 
as their respective rights and duties may 
require, 
‘The revolutionary movement in the 
Spanish provinces in this hemisphere at- 
tracted the attention, and excited the sym- 
pathy of our fellow-citizens, from its 
commencement. This feeling was natural 
and honourable to them, from causes 
which need not be communicated to you. 
It has been gratifying to all to see the 
general acquiescence which has been ma- 
nifested’ in the policy which’ the consti- 
tuted authorities have deemed it proper to 
pursue, in regard to this contest. As soon 
as the movement assumed such a steady 
and consistent form as to make the suc- 
cess of the provinces probable, the rights 
to which they were entitled by the law of 
nations, -as equal parts to a civil war, were 
extended to them. Each party was ‘per- 
mitted to enter our ports with its public 
and private ships, and to take from them 
every article which was the subject of 
commerce with other nations, Our citi- 
zens also carried on commerce with both 
parties, and the government has protected 
It, with each, in articles not contraband of 
war. Through the whole of this contest, 
the United States have remained neutral, 
and have fulfilled, with the utmost impar- 
tiality, all the obligations incident to that 
character, 
This contest has now reached such a 
stage, and been attended with such deci- 
sive success on the part of the proyinces, 
that it merits the most profound consider- 
ation, whether their right to the rank of 
independent nations, with all the advan- 
tages incident to it, in their intercourse 
with the United States, is not complete. 
Buenos Ayres assumed the rank by a for- 
mal declaration in 1816, and bas enjoyed 
it since 1810, free from invasion by the 
parent country, The provinces composing 
the republic of Columbia, after having 
separately declared their independence, 
were united by a fundamental Jaw of De- 
cember 17, 1819.. A strong Spanish force 
occupied, at that time, certain parts of the 
territory within their limits, and waged a 
destructive war. That force ‘has since 
been repeatedly defeated, and the whole 
of it either made prisoners, or destroyed, 
or expelled from the country, with the 
exception of an inconsiderable portion 
only, which is blockaded in two fortresses, 
The provinces on the Pacific have like- 
wise been very successful. Chili declared 
its independence in 1818, and has since 
enjoyed it undisturbed ; and of late, by the 
assistance of Chili and Buenos Ayres, the 
revolution has extended to Peru, Of the 
movement in Mexico our information is 
less authentic ; but it is, nevertheless, dis- 
tinctly understood, that the new govern- 
ment has declared its independence, and 
that there is now no opposition to it there, 
nor 
