486 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1810. 



Abstract. 



1st Head <£3,6S8 



2nd 8,969 



3rd 68,983 



• — 81,580 



4lh 19,955 



5lh 11,818 



The sum of 81,580/. being the 

 amount of savings under the 1st, 

 2nd, and 3rd heads of the foregoing 

 abstract, would therefore accrue 

 to the public in proportion as the 

 several offices enumerated under 

 those heads might fall in. And this 

 sum, togetherwith whatever saving 

 might accrue from regulations 

 under the ^th head, would be to 

 be placed against the expence of 

 any fund which parliament shall 

 have instituted in pursuance of the 

 resolution of the House ♦* for 

 enabling his majesty duly to re- 

 compense the faithful discharge of 

 high and effective civil offices." 

 20th June, 1810. 



VII. Extmctsyrom Papers laid be- 

 fore the House of Commons, re- 

 lativeto the East India Company, 



The East India Company's re- 

 ceipts for sales of goods from 

 March 1st, 1803, to March 1st 

 1806, fell short of the receipts in 

 the three years immediately pre- 

 ceding 3,268,671^. This was owing 



to the reduction of the prices of 

 India goods in the home market, a 

 consequence ofthe state of Europe, 

 and by large importations to Lon- 

 don through the medium of pri- 

 vate merchants. 



Thesaleamount of Indiagoods : 

 1798-9 stood at . .£4,667,295 

 1805-6 reduced to 2,254,899 

 1806-7 fell to.... 1,472,074. 



1807-S 1,309,080 



1808-9 1,191,213 



The unsold goods in their ware- 

 houses in London on the first of 

 March, 1808, and expected in the 

 course of the season, at prime cost, 

 amounted to 7,148,440/. valued 

 at the selling price at 13,086,305^. 

 The India debt, according to the 

 best estimate that can be formed 

 of its amount on the first of May, 

 1808, stood at 31,895,000/. 



There had been, on the whole, 

 no diminution of civil and military 

 expenditures to compensateforthe 

 heavier charge of interest; but on 

 the contrary, while the revenues 

 had from different acquisitions and 

 annexations, been greatly enhanc- 

 ed, the expenditure kept pace with 

 the increase and had even outrun 

 it; so that although when in 1793-4* 

 the revenues were only eight mil- 

 lions per annum, there was a sur- 

 plus of 1,600,000/. now that the 



