74] ANNUAL REGISTER, 1813. 



SEPARATE CHARGE. £. 



Loyalty Loan 71,836 



Interest on Exchequer Bills 1,800,000 



Ditto on Debentures 40,000 



Grant to Sinking Fund in respect 



to Exchequer Bills unprovided 260,000 



Vote of Credit 1812 3,000,000 



5,271,836 



77,337,475 

 Deduct Irish proportion of 



e£.72,065,639 8,478,310 



Ditto Civil List and Consolidated 



Fund 173,223 



8,651,533 



Total on account of England... 68,685,942 



WAYS AND MEANS. 



Annual Duties 3,000,000 



Surplus Consolidated Fund 500,000 



War Taxes 21,000,000 



Lottery 200,000 



Exchequer Bills funded 15,775,800 



Debentures 799,300 



Vote of Credit 6,000,000 



NavalStores(Englishproportionofi'601,908) 531,096 



Loan 21,000,000 



,£.68,806,196 



He had already apprised the 

 committee, that he would acquaint 

 them with the motives which had 

 induced him to take the surplus of 

 the consolidated fund at so low as 

 500,000^. The committee was 

 aware that there had been last 

 year a deficit in the revenue of 

 1,500,000/. which, together with 

 the additional charges laid on that 

 fund last session, had occasioned a 

 deficiency of 3,281,000/. in the 

 surplus of the consolidated fund, 

 as estimated for the year ending 

 the 5th of April, 1813. This de- 

 ficit bad been principally felt iii 



the malt and excise duties, where 

 it had amounted to between two 

 and three millions ; and the other 

 branches of revenue must have 

 been proportionally prosperous in 

 order to cover it in so great a 

 degree. This was principally the 

 case in respect to the war taxes ; 

 and the committee must be aware 

 that great improvement might also 

 be expected in the collection of 

 duties recently laid,as they became 

 better understood, and better regu- 

 lations framed to collect them. It 

 should be observed, besides, that 

 the deficit on the articles to which 



