GENERAL HISTORY. 



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CHAPTER Xlir. 



The Budget, English and Irish. 



ON June 13th, the House hav- 

 ing resolved itself into a Com- 

 mittee of Ways and Means, 



The Chancellor of the Exche- 

 quer said, that he rose for the 

 purpose of submitting, for the con- 

 sideration and approbation of the 

 House, the terms of the loan which 

 had been that day contracted for. 

 From the unavoidable absence of 

 many members of that House, 

 it was his intention to postpone, 

 to a future opportunity, a great 

 part of what he intended to say 

 on the subject of the supplies and 

 the ways and means, generally 

 known by the appellation of the 

 Budget. He would, therefore, 

 confine himself to a brief state- 

 ment of the supplies already 

 granted, what remained to be 

 voted, the ways and means to de- 

 fray tliose charges, and the terms 

 on which the loan had been con- 

 tracted for. The house would 



recollect that many items still re- 

 mained to be provided for, among 

 which were the army estimates, 

 and also the sums necessary to 

 defray the ordnance service, which 

 would absorb a considerable por- 

 tion of the ways and means of 

 the year. The war taxes, amount- 

 ing to 21,000,000/. might be con- 

 sidered as applicable to these two 

 purposes — and he would state, in 

 detail, the ways and means by 

 which the remaining charges were 

 to be met. By adopting this 

 course of proceeding, he would 

 bring under the consideration of 

 the committee the supplies which 

 had been granted, together with 

 those that still might be wanting ; 

 and next, the ways and means, 

 before they came to the consi- 

 deration of the loan. The right 

 hon. gentleman then proceeded 

 to state the different heads of 

 supply as follow : 



SUPPLIES. 



Navy, (exclusive of Ordnance 

 Sea Service) which had been 

 completely voted 



The sum voted for this, last year, 

 was 20,575,011/. ; there was 

 therefore a balance in favour of 

 this year, 1,788,502/. 



Army (including Ireland), with 

 Barracks and Commissariat, of 

 which a part yet remained to 

 be provided ,•,•«• • • 



18,786,509 



18,l':i,l73 



