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Political Affairs in January. 
[Feb. 1, 
An ACCOUNT of the Propuce of the Excise Duties of Great BRITAIN, in 
the Years ending 5th January 1824, and 5th January 1825; shewing the 
Increase or Decrease. 
once ending «| sanaary 5, 1005. |. - Merease. | Decrease. 
2. z. &. &. 
Auctions - - * = 221,950 280,642 58,692 a 
Beer - - = 2,999,575 3,011,895 12,320 — 
Bricks and Tiles - 390,632 467,724 77,092 —_— 
Candles - - - - 379,676 392,929 13,253 a 
Coffee and Cocoa < - 419,073 406,842 = Baie ee = 12,236 
Cider and Perry - - 45,752 40,326 SP ar 5,426 
Glass = - = - 4°74,'724 537,675 62,951 = 
Hides and Skins aks 326,277 357,252 30,975 —_ 
Hops = - - = 47,240 72,593 25,353 — 
Licences - - - - 744,963 656,280 ea ae 88,683 
Malt 3 - 2 -| 2,990,728 3,435,769 445,041 —_— 
Paper - = - = 547,027 605,179 58,152 — 
Pepper - = - = 147,921 159,287 11,366 — 
Printed Goods - = . 560,511 598,513 38,002 —_ 
Salt - - - - = 446,489 199,486 mittse reas 247,083 
Soap = =) = -| 1,105,566 1,097,770 hime 7,796 
Spirits, British - - - 2,723,615 2,976,473 251,858 _ 
Foreign - - | 2,369,709 2,679,761 310,052 — 
Starch - - - - 65,728 61,447 pe RR wy MeL 45281 
Stone Bottles - 3,088 3,101 13 — 
Sweets’ - - - 11,922 10,124 ge See 1,798 
Tea - - - ; - | -3,373,587 3,382,435 8,848 — 
Tobacco and Snuff - - | 2,463,640 2,584,829 121,189 _ 
Vinegar - - - - 47,765 44,798 eS es 2,967 
Wine = - - - | 1,041,394 1,043,286 1,842 _ 
Wire - - - - 7,906 7,917 ll —_ 
Toran - - &. | 23,956,458 | 25,113,287 1,527,010 370,185 
Deduct Decrease - a 370,185 
Increase on the Year - £&. 1,156,825 
In comparing the above statements of ex- 
cise, stamps and post office, with those be- 
fore adverted to, inserted in the supplement, 
it will be perceived that the above exhibits 
the net amount, whilst the other exhibits 
the gross receipt. 
In 1823, the charges of collection amount- 
ed to £3,23,012, which, with the payments 
to the amount of £1,411,076, are not in- 
cluded in the total receipt for that year; 
and all the exposés of the revenue which 
appear in the newspapers, are exclusive of 
sums, collected. in taxes, to the amount of 
above £4,701),006 per annum in Great Bri- 
tain,and £1,200,000 in Ireland. The remis- 
sion of duties also, in the branches of customs 
and assessed taxes, tends to preclude a just 
comparison, being made of the relative 
amount of taxation in the two years, 1825 
and 1824; and the accounts, in detail which 
do afford a more accurate comparison, 
are not published before June or July: 
last year they were not distributed till 
after Parliament was prorogued. The 
general conclusion, however, which has 
. been drawn by the partizans of the govern- 
ment, and circulated throughout the king- 
dom, by insertion in every newspaper, from 
the amount of the reyenue in 1824, as com- 
pared with the amount in 1823, is as fol- 
lows, viz. Notwithstanding the repeal of 
duties, in 1824, equivalent to more than 
a million; the amount in 1824 exceeds 
that of 1823, (exclusive of the amount cre- 
dited as received from Austria,) upwards of 
£100,000, thereby proving an increase of 
production, to the extent of £1,200,000, and 
that the prosperity and comfort of the peo- 
ple must necessarily be increasing in a cor- 
responding ratio. In answer to all which, 
we shall in the first place shew that there 
is a misrepresentation, in one item alone, 
viz. that of malt in the excise, to the extent 
of at least £340,000; it will be seen, by the 
statement of the excise inserted in the sup- 
plement, that the actual receipt of duty on 
malt in 1823, was £3,508,734, whilst the 
quota of charges of management could not 
exceed £140,000, although the net 
amount represented in the above statement, 
is only £2,990,728. There is, also, some 
misrepresentation with respect to foreign 
spirits, 
