GENERAL HISTORY. 



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799,300/. or to take the next round 

 sum 800,000/. It was intended to 

 make up that deficiency by issuing 

 3,000,000/. more of exchequer 

 bills, which would make the 

 amount of those in circulation, 

 equal to what it was last year. He 

 trusted that the committee would 

 not accuse him of increasing the 

 unfunded debt unnecessarily and 

 without limit; but when it was 

 considered how low he had taken 

 the surplus of the consolidated fund, 

 it might be reasonably expected 

 that it would produce considerably 

 more, which would tend of course 

 to reduce the unfunded debt ; 

 and in consideration of that cir- 

 cumstance, he trusted that the 

 money market would experience 

 no inconvenience from leaving the 

 amount of exchequer bills the 

 same as last year. 



The next article of the ways and 

 means, which had been for the 



first time introduced into it last 

 year, was the sale of old naval 

 stores. On this subject his right 

 hon. friend, the chancellor of the 

 exchequer for Ireland, had repre- 

 sented to him that Ireland was in 

 justice entitled to her share of the 

 produce of those sales. That claim 

 he had admitted ; and the amount 

 of naval stores sold being this year 

 601,908/., would leave for the ser- 

 vice of England, after deducting 

 the Irish proportion, 531,096/. 

 The ways and means to meet the 

 current expenses of the year,would 

 be completed by the loan of 

 21,000,000/. he had contracted, 

 forming a total of 68,806,196/. 

 leaving over and above the supplies 

 a sum of 120,254/. 



The right hon. gentleman then 

 recapitulated the different items of 

 the supplies and ways and means 

 in the following order : 



SUPPLIES. 

 Navy, exclusive of Ordnance Sea £ 



Service 20,575,011 



Army (including Barracks and 



Commissariat) 15,727,931 



Ditto Ireland 3,198,606 



: 18,926,537 



Extraordinaries 



England 9,500,000 



Ireland 200,000 



9,700,000 



Unprovided ditto last year 4,662,797 



Ordnance (including Ireland) 3,101,294 



Miscellaneous 2,500,000 



Vote of Credit 



England 6,000,000 



Ireland 200,000 



6,200,000 



Sicily 400,000 



Portugal 2,000,000 



India Company „ 2,000,000 



Joint charge ... 72,063,639 



