72] ANNUAL REGISTER, 1813. 



among the items of supply, a sum 

 of 2,000,000/. to the East India 

 company, for advances made by 

 them to government. 



He had now gone through all 

 the articles of supply already voted, 

 and the committee might naturally 

 expect that he should say some- 

 thing of the vote of credit he was 

 expected to ask before the close 

 of the session. He was sure, that 

 in the present state of Europe, the 

 committee would feel the necessity 

 of arming government with suffi- 

 cient means to enable them to take 

 advantage of the favourable mili- 

 tary and political circumstances 

 which might present themselves. He 

 intendedjin consequence,todemand 

 a vote of credit of 5 or 6,000,000/. 

 for England, and 200,000/. as usual 

 for Ireland. He had not yet made 

 up his mind, as to which of the 

 sums he should ask, his determina- 

 tion depending on a contingency, 

 which was, whether or no a sum of 

 1,100,000/. still unapplied out of 

 the last vote of credit should be 

 disposed of before that period. He 

 would, however, take in account 

 the sum of 6,000,000/.; and this 

 would bring the total of the joint 

 charge forGreatBritain and Ireland 

 to 72,065,639/. There were, be- 

 sides, several separate charges for 

 England. The first was the Loy- 

 alty Loan, the charge of which 

 was 171,836/. making 58,420/. 

 more than last year. The next 

 article of the separate charge was 

 the interest on exchequer bills, 

 amounting to 1,800,000/. or 

 100,000/. more than last year; 

 interest on debentures 40,000/. ; 

 grant to the sinking fund, in 

 respect to exchequer bills unpro- 

 vided, 260,000/. ; and, lastly, the 

 vote of credit of 1812, 3,000,000/. 



The total of the separate charge 

 for England giving a total of 

 5,271,836/. and forming the ag- 

 gregate amount of supply of 

 77,337,475/. Out of this were to 

 be deducted the Irish proportion 

 of the joint charge of 72,065,639/. 

 which was 8,478,310/.; also the 

 Irish proportion of the civil list 

 and consolidated fund, forming 

 together 8,651,533/. to be deduct- 

 ed from the aggregate charge 

 amount, and which would leave 

 68,685,942/. to be provided for by 

 England. 



The right hon. gentleman then 

 briefly detailed the various articles 

 of ways and means by which he 

 proposed to meet that charge. 

 The annual duties he would take 

 at the same amount as last year, 

 namely, 3,000,000/. The surplus 

 of the consolidated fund he would 

 take only at 500,000/. and should, 

 before he sat down, explain his 

 motive for so doing to the commit- 

 tee. The nett and disposable pro- 

 duce of the war taxes he would 

 take at 21,000,000/. and to that 

 amount of their produce was to 

 be added such a portion of those 

 taxes as had been previously appro- 

 priated to the payment of loans. 

 The lottery, he would take at 

 200,000/.; it had, in fact, pro- 

 duced 220,000/. but he should 

 take the nearest round sum. Ex- 

 chequer bills had been funded to 

 the amount of 15,775,800/. and 

 this, of course, constituted a part of 

 the ways and means ; but others 

 had been issued to replace them 

 partly. In funding those exche- 

 quer bills, it had been intended to 

 raise a sum of half the amount by 

 means of debentures ; the attempt 

 had, however, been only partially 

 successful, and had produced only 



