350 
«¢ Total income of the Consoli- 
dated fund, in the present year, 
ending 5th of January 1804, 
unless increased hy more new 
taxes - 
«« Deduct total annual charge 
ate this fund, as the said 
charge is stated at the foot of 
the preceding official account 25,590,864 
30,565,518 
*¢ Actual surplus of the Consoli- 
dated fund for this present _ 
year, ending 5th Janury 1804 4,974,654 
_—- 
«¢ This statement, sir, is fair, clear, and 
correct. Every thing that you can possibly 
ask is allowed. I have taken your own 
figures, and by those very figures I have pro- 
duced a result, which incontestibly proves 
the deception contained in your ways and 
means laid before parliament on the 10th 
December. In those ways and means for 
defraying the expenses of the army, navy, 
ordnance, and miscéllanies for the present 
year, ending 5th Jan. 1804, you took eredit 
HISTORY, POLITICS, AND STATISTICS. 
for 6,500,000]., as the surplus of the Con 
solidated fund during the present year; and, 
unless your accounts now laid before parlia- 
ment are false, or, unless you augment the 
income of the fund by new taxes imposed 
this year, I have proved, that the said sur- 
plus will amount to no more than 4,974,6541. 
asum which falls 1,525,346). short, not only 
of your estimate of the surplus, but of the 
credit which you took on account thereof, 
in your ways and means of the 10th De- 
cember last. To this point, sir, I wish to 
hold you.” 
The postscript contains an amusing 
detection of those tricks of office, by 
which accounts, made up for the public 
eye, are swelled in conspicuous places. 
The sum of 20,1701. was taken from 
1801, and included in 1802, in order ¢o 
turn the corner of the million, as Mr. Cob- 
bett phrases it, and to increase the round 
number from 26 to 27 millions. 
Art. XLIX. The Day of Alarm: being a progressive View of the Spirit and Designs 
of the leading Men in I'rance, Sc. 8vo. pp. 178. 
IN order to give a specimen of the 
argumentative character of this writer, 
we will extract a page or two. 
« Full of that arrozant confidence which 
prompts them to assert the most palpable 
falsehoods, these shameless apologists have 
thought proper to recordin lamentable strains 
what they denominate the massacre of Co- 
penhagen. Who that knew not the real 
truth and nature of the event, to which they 
have allixed so shocking an idea, would not 
beled to imagine, that, in violation of trea- 
ties, and that against the common faith which 
ought to subsist between nations, and on 
which a peaceable and friendly neighbour 
depended for his security, Great Britain rush- 
ed upon him unaware, and shed his blood 
without mercy? Who that knew it not, 
would think that France, having succeeded 
by its intrigues in forming a combination of 
the three northern powers against Great- 
Britain, a British fleet sailed to the Baltic, 
and destroyed the Danish navy at Copen- 
hagen, dad would probably have done the 
same to the navies of Sweden and of Russia, 
had thev not had recourse to a treaty, which 
pitt an end to the hopes of France trom that 
quarter ? ' 
«© When individuals take up the pen in 
Aefence of public measures, it is requisite to 
warn them, that without a strict adherence 
to truth, they will certainly injure the cause 
in which they are engaged. So infamous a 
petversion of facts as that above cited, is a 
Notorious sample of French duplicity, and 
want of the commonest honesty ; and ought 
to put upon his guard every man who seeks 
for information. ‘Theaudacity of the French 
knows no bounds in these matters. It costs 
them nothing to invent the most atrocious, 
as well as the grossest forgeries. ‘Thus they 
have lately ascribed’ to British malice and 
rancour, the assasination of their two depu- 
ties at the negociations of Radstadt, and have 
had the impudence to extend the like execra- 
ble insinuations to some of the vilest and 
most horrid events during the war. 
«© Happily for the British character, it is 
of itselfa sufficient refutation of such abo- 
minable calumnies: they are believed no 
where, and the French have been universally 
branded as liars. But they are not to be 
daunted in the career of falsities upon which 
they have lately entered: they seem to think 
it in their power to distort the most authen- 
tic facts, for the purpose of deceiving nations, 
and preventing them from forming just con- 
ceptions of the politics and transactions of 
France. They represent the wisest states- 
men in the various courts of Europe, as uni- 
formly of opinion, that the many alliances 
that have been formed with Great-Britain, 
have constantly proved pernicious to them, 
and serviceable only to Great-Britain.” 
Here is much declamation, but not 
the slightest attempt to apologise for 
the attack on Copenhagen. The authof 
would do well to read Seidelin’s account 
of the engagement. The Dane’s bro- 
ken English will amuse him; and he 
may perhaps begin to suspect that both 
the projection and the conduct of the 
enterprise are to incur the eventual cen- 
sure of history. 
