1825.} 
eal affairs, we feel it the more imperiously 
our duty to remind the British people of 
the tremulous and adventitious ground on 
which they stand; a position questionable 
and doubtful, from the clearest and most 
unobscured view that can be taken of it, 
and rendered perilous and alarming by the 
density of the illusion, by which it is over- 
spread. 
What, let it be asked, are the advantages 
which the people of Great Britain are to 
deriye from the recognition of the Sove- 
reignty of the several States, into which 
South America is now divided? We are 
aware that the answer will be ;—a vast in- 
crease in the consumption of British manu- 
factures. But, let it be asked again, what 
advantage, to the nation collectively, is to 
accrue from this? Has not the consumption 
of the products of the labour of the Bri- 
tish people progressively increased in every 
part of the world, during the last thirty 
years ? And have not their privation and dis- 
tress progressively increased in the same 
proportion? And what is there, in South 
America, to render the consumption there, 
advantageous to the people of Great Britain 
now, more than it was in 1807-8; or, than 
it is in other parts of the world? It is not 
that we are opposed to the increased con- 
sumption of British commodities over every 
part of the globe, to the utmost extent of 
the physical and scientific powers of pro- 
duction. All that we wish, in this respect, 
is to see such just and salutary regulations 
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devised and enacted (of course we do not 
mean intermeddling restraints), as are ne- 
cessary to render the interchange reciprocal 
and advantageous to all. 
We shall, however, forbear (for this time) 
from extending our observations upon this 
part of the subject ; ; and refer our readers to 
a series of statistical illustrations, commer- 
cial and financial, inserted in the supple- 
mentary number of our preceding volume 
(the fifty- eighth) ; to the analytical view of 
the occupation and situation of the popula- 
tion of Great Britain, inserted in the same ; 
and also, to the statement of the income 
and expenditure of the government, in each 
year since 1792, prefixed to the number of 
our Magazine for March last: all of which 
it will be necessary to hold in view, that a 
right understanding may be formed of the 
complicated and singularly involved relations 
of the several interests of society, and of the 
whole, separately and collectively, with the 
world at large. 
The proceeds of the three great branches 
of revenue, excise, stamps and post-oflice, in 
each of the seven years 1817—1823, will be 
found in the series of statements referred to, 
with a fullness and minuteness of detail and 
intelligibility never before exhibited; in 
relation to which we shall now state the 
proceeds of the several branches of revenue 
for the year 1824, contrasted. with 1823, as 
exhibited, by the government, on the Sth of 
January, and since copied into all the daily 
and other periodical prints. 
ABSTRACT of the Net Propuce of the REVENUE of GREAT BRITAIN, in the 
Years ending 5th January 1824, and 5th January 1825. 
Year ending Year ending 
January 5, 1824. | January 5, 1825. 
£. 
Customs . - - = ae has - - | 10, 406, 430 10,239,739 
ages = ek = a ET De Re a osaceett St amass 
Stamps - - - - - - - = “4 653862, "620 6,753,096 
Land and Assessed Taxes - as - - - 6,188,877 4,922,070 
Post Office - = - - - = - - | 1,387,000 1,444,000 
Duty on Pensions - = - = - 61,357 61,374 
Hackney Coaches and Peete, - = - - 53,880 57,716 
Crown Lands - ~ = 966 966 
Small Branches of the eur: s Hereditary Revenue - 4,275 4,606 
Surplus Fees, Regulated Public Offices ~- - 39,717 39,887 
Torat Ordinary Revenue - - | 48,461,587 | 48,636,737 
Repayment by Austria - - - - - - 766,667 1,733,333 
Interest and other Monies - = - - - 250,147 176,022 
Torat Revenue - = - - - | 49,478,401 50,546,092 
Applied as Consolidated Fund - - - - | 45,962,903 | 47,525,260 : 
To pay off the ene ae Bills chaeee on the 
Annual Duties - - | 3,000,562 3,006,012 
Applied as part. of the Ways and Means of the 
Year - - - 514,936 14,820 
TOTAL - - - - - £)\ 49,478,401 | 50,546,092 
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