TrHyEr GH ROW LCL E. 
6. A fam, upon account, for 
95. 
Brought forward JL. 26,890,398 11 8 
making temporary ad- 
vances by way of loan, for the fervice of the Em- 
yeror 2 
The following articles were ftated by the Chancellor 
500,000 0 0 
of the Exchequer as part of the fupply for the year 
1797, viz. 
7. Deficiency of land and malt 
8. Commiffioners for national debt 
350,000 0 0 
- 200,000 @ O 
Add to thefea vote of credit, which your Committee 
are informed is intended to be propofed 
ment - - 
e 
The repayments to the Bank of 
1,023,0001. ftated by the Chancellor 
of the Exchequer, as part of the 
fupply for 1797, are omitted here, 
as having been included in the fum 
of 1,154,000l. ftated to be a part of 
the unfunded debt of the Exche- 
quer, not fufficiently provided. for 
on the 5th of January, 1797. 
V.—Weays and Means. 
Your Committee find that the 
ways and means already propofed 
for the year 1797, confift of 
Articles voted ; viz. 
Land and malt - 2,750,000 
Loan - - 18,000,000 
Surplus of grants ~ 420,000 
: 21,170,000 
And of articles efti- 
mated; viz. 
Growing produce of 
the confolidated fund f !%979:000 
Exchequer bills —- 5,500,000 
Lottery - - 200,000 
' Total. - 27,945,000 
VI.—Reduction of Public Debt. 
Your Committee have further 
proceeded to ftate an account of 
the progrefs that has been made 
im the reduction of the public debt 
fince the 5th of July, 1789, of the 
to parlia- 
2,500,000 0 O 
L. 30,440,398 11 & 
fums now annually applicable there- 
to, and of the further progrefs which 
may be expected to be made, as far 
as the fame can be at prefent afcer- 
tained, in the reduction of the debt 
now exifting. Your Committee 
have great fatisfaction upon this 
fubject, in contemplating the large 
means which are now annually em- 
ployed for the reduction of the 
public debt, and the confiderable 
progrefs which has been already 
made towards that important end. 
The annual fum now applicable to 
that purpefe, appears to amount 
to - L. 3,359,799 6, 2 
The capital ftock purchafed by the 
application of the feveral fums, 
appears to have been, on the 16th 
of March,1797L.23,334,200 0 0 
The further progrefs to be made 
in the reduction of the debt has 
been calculated, by order of the 
commiflioners, according to the 
operation of the annual million, 
the intereft of the ftock redeemed 
by it, the amount of expired and 
unclaimed annuities, and an annual 
fum of two hundred thoufand 
pounds in aid of this fund, granted 
by parliament, as applied to the 
reduction of the debt which exifted 
before the war, and confidered as 
then amounting to the fum of two 
hundred and forty millions. ~ 
Thefe 
