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CHAP. IV. 
Prelimmary Observations.—Committee of the House of Commons on thé 
Supply and Ways and Means.—General Statement of the Finance, by the 
Chancellor of the Exchequer.—Four Millions granted from the Excess 
of the consolidated Fund, towards the Supply.—Petitions from the Ship- 
owners, against the Tonnage Duty—Ordered to lie on the Table.—Bilt 
Jor appointing Naval Commissioners, for the Purpose of Enquiry into 
Naval Abuses—Debate thereon.—Further Debate on the second Reading. 
—And, on the third Reading—carried.—Debate in the Lords on the 
Malt Duty Bill—Speeches of Earl Spencer—Lord Pelham—Earl of 
Carlisle—Lords Limerick—Grenville—The Lord Chancellor.—Read a 
Jirst Time.—Debate on the second Reading.—Speeches of Earls Spencer 
—Suffolk—The Lord Chancellor—Earl of Carlislk—Darnley—Lord 
Hobart—The Duke of Norfoik— Lords Grenville—Pelham—and Minto. 
—Bill committed and passed.—Naval Commission Bill passed in the 
Lords.— Observations. —Christmas Recess. 
HE unexampled demand in 
time of peace, of supplies for 
an immense augmentation, both in 
the marine and military depart- 
ments; made it more than ordi- 
narily necessary for ministers to 
come forward, with a comprehen- 
sive, and, if possible, satisfactory 
statement, not only of the supply 
for the year, and the ways and means 
of providing for it; but also a ge- 
neral review of the whole financial 
system; accordingly, the day after 
the preceding debate, December 
the 10th, the chancellor of the ex- 
chequer moved the order of the 
day, for the house to resolve itself 
into a committee, for those pur- 
poses ; which being read and agreed 
to, he moved that the amount of 
the produce of the permanent taxes 
for 1802, be referred to the said 
eommittee; which being ordered, 
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the house resolving itselfinto a com+ 
mittee of the whole house, then 
entered into a statement of the sup- 
ply for the year, and the mode by ~ 
which he intended to raise it. He _— 
first observed that he was induced 
to bring forward the motion, of 
which he had given notice, for 
granting to his majesty a sum on 
the growing produce of the consoli- 
dated fund, at a season of the year 
earlier than usual, by the very sa« 
tisfactory circumstance of the ex- 
traordinary produce of the revenue, 
during the last halfyear. It would 
be recollected that four millions 
and a half had been voted on the 
credit of the consolidated fund for 
one year to the 5th of April next; 
of thatsum no less than 3,800,000]. _ 
had been realized on the 10th of — 
October last; and there was little 
doubt, that on the conclusion of 
the 
