GENERAL 
HISTORY. [39 
Brought forward. eevee . £89,725,926 
Deduct Irish Proportion of Joint 
$107,094 Ditto Civil 
Charge........ Panes 
seeoetseceeese 29,572,814 
List and Consoli- 
dated unl cepeentevsereecctaceeees 188,000 
And there remained to be borne by England............£.79,968,112 
The vote of credit intended to 
be proposed this year was to the 
extent of 6,000,000/., and would 
be made good in the usual way, 
by an issue of exchequer bills to 
the same amount. Anxious, how- 
ever, that there should not be too 
great a pressure on these securi- 
ties, he should propose a reduc- 
tion of three millions from those 
voted last year, besides the re- 
payment of 5,000,000/., issued on 
the last vote of credit; by these 
means the sum paid off would be 
equal to that which it might be 
necessary to issue in the course 
of the present year. When it was 
foreseen that an expenditure to 
the immense amount which had 
now become necessary, must be 
provided for in the course of the 
present session, an important con- 
sideration arose, whether it would 
be better that an extraordinary 
exertion should be made to raise 
an unusually large proportion of 
the supplies within the year, or 
whether it would be preferable to 
call on the public only for what 
they had been accustomed to pay 
in former years, and raise what 
remained wanting by means of a 
Joan. Much might be said in fa- 
vour of either course. For his 
own part, he had no hesitation in 
declaring, that if he had consider- 
ed it probable that a similar ex- 
penditure would benecessary in fu- 
ture years, he would at once, what- 
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ever thehazardmightbe,havemade 
an appeal to the spirit and magna- 
nimity of the country; and from 
such an appeal he was sure the 
country would not have shrunk. 
From the feeling which had 
been manifested in consequence 
of the recent events, he was sa- 
tisfied that those measures, which 
the wisdom of parliament might 
think necessary to the honour and 
security of the country, would be 
cheerfully submitted to. But 
thinking as he did, that an expen- 
diture to the amount of that of 
the present year, was not likely 
again to recur, even if the war 
should continue on the present 
scale, which was what he could 
not anticipate, he had thought it 
wiser to have recourse to no other 
means than those which it had 
been usual for parliament to adopt 
on former occasions. However 
large the demand which had in 
consequence been made on the 
credit of the country, he saw no 
reason to regret this resolution.— 
The right hon. gentleman now 
proceeded to state the ways and 
means which would be, in the 
opinion of his majesty’s ministers, 
the fittest to meet the supplies 
which had been voted. He took 
the annual duties at 3,000,000/. ; 
the surplus of the consolidated 
fund he also took at 3,000,0U0/. 
It would be satisfactory to the 
House to learn the grounds on 
