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a particular occasion, a service of 

 glass, in the month of January, 

 1807, to be sent by the plaintiff to 

 his apartments in Kensington pa- 

 lace, which he considered and in- 

 tended to have been sent upon hire. 

 He had also ordered from the plain- 

 tiff a service of cut glass on pur- 

 chase, but never had seen any part 

 of it. Whether any of the glass 

 sent on hire was intended to com- 

 plete the order for purchase, he 

 could not tell ; but he certainly con- 

 ceived the glass sent to him on the 

 21 st January, 1807, as on hire. 

 His royal highness was then shown 

 a bill of parcels ; but, on interro- 

 gation, he could not state that it 

 specified any of the articles sent to 

 the palace. 



Two servants of Mr. Collins 

 proved that they had been sent 

 down to the palace to take care 

 of the glass while there ; that it 

 was never out of their sight, save 

 during dinner ; and after the enter- 

 tainment it was given back to their 

 care, and conveyed to Mr. Collins's 

 house : and they considered it as 

 only hired to the duke. They could 

 not speak positively as to the value. 

 They, however, proved that one of 

 the vases in the service was valued 

 at five hundred guineas. 



The defence alleged was, that, a 

 delivery of the glass at the duke's 

 residence having been proved, it 

 constituted a property in his royal 

 highness, and its return to the 

 plaintiff, merely for the purpose of 

 completing his royal highness's 

 order. 



Sir James Mansfield summed up 

 the evidence for the jury, who 

 directly found a verdict for the 

 plaintiff, subject, however, to an 

 award. 



25. Finance. — The total amount 



of the public expenditure of Great 

 Britain, exclusive of the charge of 

 loans raisedfortheserviceoflreland, 

 for ten years ending the 5th of Jan. 

 1803, comprising the whole period 

 of the war terminated by the peace 

 of Amiens, is about 503,378,54-0/. 

 whereof 178,520,454/. arose from 

 the charge of the public funded and 

 unfunded debt, and 324,858,086/. 

 from all other services ; and about 

 241,909,953/. was raised by the 

 ordinary revenue and incidental 

 payments of different kinds ; about 

 32,679,000/. by extraordinary war 

 taxes, 220,095,607/. by additions to 

 the public funded debt, 3,000,000/. 

 by an advance from the Bank with- 

 out interest, in consideration of the 

 renewal of the charter, and an ad- 

 vance of three millions from the 

 Bank in 1798, of which 1,500,000/. 

 was paid in 1803. 



The total amount of the public 

 expenditure of Great Britain exclu- 

 sive of the charge of loans raised for 

 the service of Ireland, for six years, 

 ending the 5th of January, 1809, 

 being the six first years of the pre- 

 sent war, is about 395,915,599/., 

 whereof 166,445,052/. arose from 

 the charge of public funded and un- 

 funded debt, and 229,701,647/. 

 from all other services; and that 

 about 224,403,222/. has been raised 

 by the ordinary revenue and inci- 

 dental payments of various kinds ; 

 92,240,000/. by extraordinary war 

 taxes; 81,168,412/. by additions 

 to the public funded debt ; and 

 3,500,000/. by an advance without 

 interest from the Bank. 



Small Livings.— According to 

 the official returns laid before the 

 House of Commons, it appears that 

 the number of livings under the 

 value of 150/. per annum, in Eng- 

 land and Wales, is 3,291 ; out of 



these 



