HISTORY OF EUROPE. 
eccasions might arise, even ina com- 
paratively free country, when men 
might be driven to the necessity of 
resistance. 
Mr. Bragge’s amendment, on, a 
division of the house, was carried 
by 185 against 104. 
If the minister gained a_ victory: 
over opposition, onthe present oc- 
casion, they had an opportunity of 
triumphing, in their turn, a few 
months afterwards, in, the verifica- 
tion of what was so positively pre- 
dicted by Mr. Grey and Mr. Fox, 
that enormous as the burden of 
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was, yet another million would be 
wanted,’ On the twenty-sixth of 
April, the chancellor of the exche- 
‘quer demanded a farther supply. 
He stated the purposes for which 
this was necessary, and the means 
by which it was proposed to be . 
raised. The) aggregate of. what 
had already been voted, and what 
he proposed to be now voted, for 
the public service, or, in other 
words, of his two budgets, amounted 
to 42,786,000/.* 
He proposed, at the same time, 
a farther lean of two millions, if 
more than two millions of taxes sanctioned by parliament, to the 
* The whole of t he supplies for 1797 : £. 
Navy . ° 5 . : 12,661,000 
Army . . . 6,600,000 
Army extraordinaries, or out-standing debts * . 3,387,000 
Treasury-bills and army-warrants ri A 2,088,000 
Army extraordinaries, for 1797 . . ° 4,000,000 
Ordnance : : . 1,623,000 
Ordnance extraordinaries, and barracks + 787,000 
. Miscellaneous services, including the relief of emigrant priests 929,000 
Advances to the merchants of Grenada aD ae . 600,000 
Amperial loau . . «= 500,000 
Annual addition to the: sinking fund 6 2 A 200,000 
Deficiency of land and malt + 850,000 
Repayment to the bank for advance to the consolidated fand ‘of 1795 1,054,000 
Ditto for 1796 . 1,370,000 
Farther deficiencies of land and malt 4 - ‘ 900,000 
Deficiency of the consolidated fund 2,177,000 
To discharge exchequer-bills, issued on the credit of the consolidated 
fund for 1796 : iy . “ 1,110,000 
Vote of credit for 1797 . ° . a 2,500,000 
42,786,000 
NEW TAXES, 
_ Tax on property, transiersed by private contract, at 4d. per pound 170,000 
Copies of deeds to be given in evidence, to be stampt ‘ ° 40,000 
On the probates of wills, above 3001. «! 40,000 
An additional duty of 14d. upon the stamps of each newspaper + 114,000 
‘Increased duty on advertisements : ASH ae é, 20,000 
_ Onattorney’s certificates ‘ F ie 15,000 
On ornamental plate 30,000 
_, Duty equal to the tolls on all carriages passing the turnpikes . 450,000 
On bills of exchange 3 t " 5 40,000 
qnsurance from fire 35,000 
Omitted in the sum mentioned on the produce of the stamps on pani of , 
deeds 4 ‘ A : “ 10,000 
Total of the new taxes 1,284,000 
emperor. 
