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cellor of the exchequer's) com- 

 munications, and of making any 

 farther observations that the im- 

 portance of the subject might 

 seem to require. NotwithstancUng 

 therefore, the absence of the ac- 

 counts to which he had alluded, 

 he thought it proper to make a 

 general statement of the financial 

 situation of the country. — It must 

 be recollected that the sums for 

 nearly all the operations of the 

 year had already been voted, so 

 that he could now state the 

 amount of the supply and the 

 ways and means of the year, with 

 but few exceptions. The com- 

 mittee Avere aware that they had 

 already voted the navy estimates, 

 the army estimates (with the 

 exception of the barracks, the 

 commissariat, and the extraordi- 

 naries) and the ordnance esti- 

 mates ; and a considerable pro- 

 gress had been made in the mis- 

 cellaneous estimates, although 

 some items still remained to be 

 granted. By referring to the 

 votes, the committee would find 

 the sums that had already been 

 granted. The sum intended for 

 the army extraordinaries was 

 1,400,000/. ; the particulars of 

 wliich would on a future day be 

 submitted to the committee. The 

 votes which had already passed 

 for the armj-^, added to this sum 

 which it was proposed to vote 

 for the extraordinaries, would 

 make a total for the army in the 

 present year (exclusively of the 

 troops in France) of 8,970,000/. 

 Last year the vote for the army 

 ^ad been 9,412,373/. In both 

 cases were included the expenses 

 of the disembodied militia, which 

 had not been voted last year 

 until a late period of the session, 



but in this had been added to ti»e 

 general vote for army services in 

 the committee. The sum voted 

 for the navy last year was 

 7,596,022/. In the present year 

 it was 6,456,800/. The expense 

 of ordnance in the present year, 

 including the naval ordnance, 

 which had formerly been voted 

 under the head of navy, but which 

 he thought best to refer to tlie 

 general head of ordnance, was 

 1,245,600/. Last year it was 

 1,270,690/. The miscellaneous 

 estimates in the present year 

 were 1,720,000/. ; in which how- 

 ever he of course did not include 

 the sum of 1,000,000/. granted 

 for the building of new churches 

 and chapels. He had thought it 

 best not to include that sum in 

 the accounts of the year, as 

 exchequer bills were to be issued 

 for the specific purpose of pro- 

 viding for it. In the miscellaneous 

 estimates, however, was included 

 the vote of 100,000/. for the 

 augmentation of small livings. 

 Last 3'ear the miscellaneous esti- 

 mates amounted to 1,795,000/. — 

 The total of the supply, there- 

 fore, under the various heads 

 which he had enumerated was 

 18,392,400/. Last year it had 

 been 20,074,091/. — To this sum 

 of 18,392,400/. were to be added 

 2,000,000/. for the interest of 

 exchequer bills, and a sinking 

 fund on them of 560,000/. ; 

 making the grand total of supply 

 20,952,400/. Thatfor the last year 

 was 22,304,091/.— He thought it 

 very probable that in consequence 

 of the arrangement that had been 

 made for funding a large propor- 

 tion of the outstanding exche- 

 quer bills, there might be a saving 

 upon the interest ; but it must be 

 recollected 



