HISTORY OF EUROPE. 



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SUPPLIES, 1810. 



£■ 

 Navy (exclusive of Ordnance 



Sea Service) 1C,238,000 



Anny (incluuing 



Barracks and 



Coroniissarist) 13,9o3,606 



Do. Ireland 2,992,057 



Do. Extraordinaries, 



England 2,750,000 



Ireland 200,000 



Unprovided ditto 



last year 20,337,000 



Ordnance 4,411,000 



MLscellaneous (about) 2,000,000 



Vote of Credit 



England ....3,000.000) 3 ooo 000 



Ireland 200,000 J ■*'^""'""" 



Sicily 400,000 



Portugal 9.'SO,000 



Joint Charge ..£5Q, 566,000 



Separate Charges. 



Loj-alty Loan . . 18,776 



Interest on Ex- 

 chequer Bills 1,600,000 



Exchequer Bills "i.Sl 1,600 



Vote of C redit 3,000,000 



Loan 8,000,000 



=£46,223, 2tl2 



1,618,776 



Total Supplies .. 52,185,000 

 Iiish Proportion 6,106,000 



England . . 46,079,000 

 Irish proportion 



of^50,566,000 5,936,000 

 D'tto Civil List 



& other charges 170,000 6,106,000 



To meet these Supplies the 

 Ways and Means were as follows : 



WAYS AND MEANS. 



£. 



Annual Duties 3,000,000 



Surplus Consolidated Fund, 



1809 2,661,602 



Ditto, 1810 4,400,000 



War Taxes 19,5«0,(M)0 



I.otlery 350,000 



•The Exchequer Bills fund- 

 ed in the present year 

 amount to 8,311,600 



The like amount tobe issued 

 for the service o£ 1810, 

 will be applied 



To discharge Vote 

 of Credit Bills 

 1809 3,000,000 



To\vards the Sup- 

 ply of the year 5,311,600 



8,311,600 



The total of the Ways and 

 Means would afford a surplus of 

 141,202/. above the total amount 

 of the Suppl cs, 



Mr. Perceval then stated mi- 

 nutely the grounds on which he 

 conceived himself to be v/arranted 

 in taking the different items in 

 the Ways and Means at the 

 amount above stated. As to the 

 loan, he had contracted for it that 

 morning, on terms mucii more 

 favourable to the public than had 

 ever been known at any former 

 period. The au.ount of interest 

 on the money borr',:ved was but 

 4'/. \5s. 3d. per cent. ; which was 

 fifteen shillings per cent, below 

 the rate of legal interest. ; and on 

 I!: 3 same terms he had CDntracted 

 for four millions for Ireland. 

 From a brief survey of the manu- 

 factures and commerce of the 

 country, che comparative amount 

 of the exports and imports it dif- 

 ferent periods, the g'Cat public 

 works which were undertaken 

 throughout the country, the great 

 roads, canals, and extensive docks 

 which were every where establish- 



