100 
fum authorifed to be borrowed for 
the making thofe canals and navi- 
gations, was in the firft four years 
“2,377,2001. and in the laft period of 
four years 7,415,1001. 
But the demand of money for 
public expences abroad, more par- 
ticularly applies to the prefent fub- 
je&: The loan made to the Empe- 
ror in the year 1795 of 4,¢00,000I. 
—the fubfidies paid to foreign 
princes—the money remitted tor 
the pay of Britifh troops, or foreign 
troops in Britifh pay, while this 
kingdom had an army on the Con- 
tinent; and the advances made to 
the court of Vienna; together with 
the money fent to the Weft Indies 
and the Cape of Good Hope, for 
the pay of Britifh troops there; if 
they did not all together draw Bri- 
tifh coin out of the country, in any 
great amount, muft at leaft have 
prevented that influx of» coin or 
bullion which, in confequence of a 
favourable balance of commerce, 
would have otherwife fupplied the 
circulation of the kingdom. Mr. 
Boyd, however, in his evidence 
ftates, that in remitting the impe- 
rial loan, as well as the late advances 
to the Emperor, he never fent any 
Britifh coin out of the kingdom 
(which could not indeed legally be 
done); and that in remitting the faid 
loan, he fent in foreign coin or bul- 
lion to the amount only of about 
1,200,0001. That the remainder 
of the loan, and the whole of the 
advances were remitted in bills of 
exchange. It is obvious, however, 
that the drains occafioned by ex- 
penditure abroad for the purpofes 
before mentioned (large as the a- 
mount of them may have been) are 
nothing more than what has hap- 
pened in all former wars, in which 
the government of Great Britain 
APPEN DEX TO 
has found it effential for its interefts 
to maintain armies on the European 
Continent, or at any great diftance 
from the kingdom. 
It appears by an account inferted 
in this report, that all the remit~ 
tances made for the fervices of the 
war in the Weft Indies, on the 
Continent of Europe, in the ifland of 
Corfica, and other diftant parts of the 
world, amounted, during the four 
laft years, to 33,510,779]. Os. 72d. 
It appears by another account 
inferted in this report, which has 
diftinguifhed the fums expended on 
the European Continent, from what 
were expended in other diftant parts 
of the world, that the total of the 
money expended on the Continent 
of Europe during the faid four 
years, including the Imperial loan 
and the advances made to the Empe- 
ror, amounted to 14,988,4221. 9s.83d 
It appears, laftly, by a third ac- 
count inferted in this report, that 
the fums paid for all forts of mili+ 
tary fervices on the Continent dur- 
ing the war ending in 1763, a- 
mounted to 20,626,9971. Os. 7d. 
To the fums fent, during the 
prefent war, to the European Con- 
tinent, and to the Weft Indies, and 
the Cape of Good Hope, for mili- 
tary purpofes, fhould be added the 
fums drawn for by the command- 
ers of our fleets on foreign fervice, 
in every part of the world. 
It appears, on the other hand, 
by the accounts of the value of the 
imports and exports for the laft 
twenty years, produced by Mr. Ir- 
ving, infpector-general of imports 
and exports, that the demand for 
cath to be fent abroad, for the pur- 
pofes before mentioned, was great- 
ly compenfated by a very large ba- 
lance of commerce in favour of 
this kingdom, greater than was 
ever 
