392 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1S13. 



Army. 2nd. By an exceeding in the army grant 



EeUmRteoftheCom- £. principaJly arising from the charge of the dis- 

 Amoojitioted" !.".'." B,gi:r',(»ji embodied mihtia, which, having been formerly 



Difference.. fT^H P^«V^ed for by a charge upon the growing 



produce of the land tax, and paid by the re- 

 ceiver-general, was not included in the esti- 

 mate stated by your Committee in their fourth Report ; and from an 

 increase in the amount of the half-pay and Chelsea allowances. 



Suvy. 3d. By an exceeding in the navy grant, 



i^atcoftheCom- £. chiefly owing to the expense of certain naval 



Amount voted*!.*."! 6i43o!Boo vrorks at Plymouth, Sheerness, and some other 



Difference.. £7^^ ?f ^^'^^ principal dock-yards; upon wliich your 



Committee have stated their opinion m their 



eighth Report. 



Ordnance. 4th. By an exceeding in the ordnance 



i:5timatcoftheCom. £. grant, chiefly occasioned bv the increased 



•nunc 1,150,000 ^11 ^ •'^j , / . ,■ r 



Amount voted .... 1,245,600 allowance to the ordnance tor supplies fur- 

 Diffen=nce.... ^^^ "'f ^^^ ^y that department to the navy; the 

 nature ot which is pointed out by your Com- 

 mittee in their ninth Report. 

 6th. By an excess of the miscellaneous grants, to the extent of 

 83,200/. 



And, lastly ; — By the extraordinary charges specified in the margin, 



including the payment of 400,000/. to the court 



^fu^n^^.°!.ZT.^^^ dym ^^ ^P^^"' ^" pursuance of the convention with 



Payment to Spain.... 400^000 that powcr, relative to the abolition of the 



jiiiuaw ciliiegra^tl 78,058 slave trade. These various items of increase 



^andhul^st J form altogether an amount of 2,872,606, by 



£.737,744 ^hich the expenditure of the year 1818 may 



be expected to exceed the sura M'ithin which 



your Committee, at the time when their fourth Report was drawn up, 

 had hoped it might have been limited. 



Sinking Fund of Fnnd- £. Of tliis amount of the probable expenditure 



D^ of'"Exdi*e*u" "'^'^^'^^ ^^^ *^^^ current year, there will be applied, for 

 Bills..... ''...T." 560,000 the reduction of thenationaldebt, 15,392,467/.; 

 this being deducted from the total sum, would 

 '- — '—^ — leave 52,697,014/., as the real expenditure, 

 agreeing very nearly with the total income, which, as estimated by 

 your Committee in their fourth Report, would amount to 52,505,364/. 

 Your Committee having thus laid before the House their view of 

 the income and expenditure of the last and of the present year, and 

 having explained the grounds upon which they are led to entertain 

 a confident belief that their estimate of the revenue of the United 

 Kingdom, presented in the last session (which has hitherto been jus- 

 tified by the actual receipts), will, on the average of the current and 

 future years, be at least fully reahzed ; it now only remains for them, 

 in order to fulfil the instructions of the House, to present such a 

 view, as they are enabled at the present time to form, of the pro- 

 bable 



