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was just concluded, it could not 

 be wondered at that part of the 

 l)opulation should be reduced to 

 great distress. 



Notwithstanding the unpleasant 

 circumstances to which he had 

 just refeiied, the means by which 

 he proposed to meet the supjjlies 

 of the year, were, he thought, of 

 a nature perfectly unobjection- 

 able, and amply sufficient. In the 

 usual form, he should first go 

 through the supplies required in 

 the pi'esent year, and then state 

 the ways and means to meet 

 them. 



Army (including 1 ,500,0(X)L for 

 extraordinaries, and exclusive of 

 troops in France,) 9,080,000/. 



For 1816, it would be remem- 

 bered the total sum granted on 

 account of the army, amounted to 

 10,809, 737^. 



The grant last year on account 

 of the navy (exclusive of the grant 

 for the reduction of the navy debt) 

 amounted nearly to l(»,00b,00O/. 

 (It was more exictly stated 

 9,964,195/.) 



In the present year the grant 

 reijuired for the navy was 

 6,000,000/. exclusive of a grant 

 of 1,600,000/. for the reduction 

 of navy debt. 



To the grant of last year a very 

 considerable sum might also be 

 added, as in 1816 there h.id been 

 paid off 2,000,000/. of the navy 

 deht. The sum appropriated to 

 this purpose had been taken from 

 the unapplied money remaining in 

 tlie exchequer fritm the grants of 

 JS15. The whole sum, therefore, 

 which had been applied to the 

 service of the navy in the last year, 

 amounted to nearly l'2,0ii0,000/. 



The ordnance created in thcprc- 

 eeut year a charge of l,'213,QOa'. 



Last year, under the same head, 

 there had been required the sum of 

 l,Gi3,14'2/. Here a reduction had 

 been effected of about 400,000/., 

 being about one fourth of the 

 whole. The miscellaneous ser- 

 vices would call for a supply of 

 1,700,000/. including the sums 

 alieady voted in the j)resent ses- 

 sion. Last year, the same services 

 had required 2,500,000/. In xh'n 

 instance, therefore, a reductitm 

 had been made of 800,000/. Tlie 

 total supply, therefore, that was 

 called for in the present year, ex- 

 clusive of the interest of the fund- 

 ed debt, for the expense of the 

 several establishments for twelve 

 months (not on the peace establish- 

 ment, for he was far from think- 

 ing we had yet arrived at what 

 might properly be so called,) would 

 amount to 18,001,000/., or what, 

 speaking in round numbers, he 

 would call 18,000,000/. It would 

 be remembered, that at the open- 

 ing of the present session, liis no- 

 ble friend had estimated the ex- 

 penditure of the year for the 

 services he had enumerated at 

 18,300,000/. The actual supply 

 called for came below the esti- 

 mated sum by almost 300,000/. 

 Last year, the grants for the same 

 services amounted to 24,887,000/. 

 The reduction effected in the pre- 

 sent year, it would therefore be 

 seen, fell little shortof 7,000.000/., 

 being considerably more than one- 

 fourth, and amounting to very near 

 one-third of the whole. In addition 

 to the 18,000,000/ required for 

 the proper sen'ice of the year, a 

 further provision would be ne- 

 cessary on account of the un- 

 funded debt. In the first instance 

 there was a charge of 1,900,000/. 

 for the inteveat on c.xchequer bills 



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