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your Committee have incidentally investigate the matter, and to 



observed that charitable funds, report upon it, yet they should 



connected with education, are deem themselves wanting in their 



not alone liable to great abuses, duty were they not to give this 



Equal negligence and malversa- notice of so important a subject, 



tion appears to have prevailed in accidentally forced upon their 



all other charities; and although attention, 

 your Committee have no autho- 3rd June, 1818. 

 rity, by their instruction, to 



ELEVENTH REPORT 



FROM THE 



SELECT COMMITTEE ON FINANCE. 



INCOME AND EXPENDITURE. — Ordered by the House of Commons, 

 to be printed, 25th May 1818. 



The Select Committee appointed to inquire into and state the 

 Income mid Expenditure of the United Kingdom, for the year 

 ended the 5th of January 1818 ; and also to consider and state the 

 probable Income and Expenditure (so far as the same can nolo be 

 estimated J, for the years ending the 5th of January 1819 and 

 the 5th of January 1820 respectively, aud to report the same, 

 together with their observations thereupon, from time to time, to the 

 House ; and also to consider "what farther measures may be adopted 

 for the relief of the country from any part (f the said Expenditure, 

 •without detriment to the public interest:—" 



Having laid before the House in their Fourth Report, presented 

 in the last session, a view of the public Income and Expenditure for 

 the year ended the 5th of January 1817, distinguished under the 

 principal heads ; and likewise, an Estimate of the probable Income 

 and Expenditure for the years 1817 and 1818; and having since 

 had under their consideration the accounts presented in the present 

 session, relating to the actual Receipt and Expenditure of the year 

 1817 ; proceed to lay before the House the result of these documents 

 with reference to their Estimate of last year, in order that the House 

 may thereby be enabled to perceive how far the opinions of the 

 Committee upon this very important subject have been justified 

 hitherto by the event, and to judge in what degree the expectations 

 which they expressed in their Report above referred to, may, at the 

 present period, appear likely to be ultimately realised. 



In proceeding to this examination and comparison, your Com- 

 mittee 



