GENERAL HISTORY. 



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year, and of those which would 

 be still required. The first head 

 was that of the army : 9,665,0001. 

 was the amount for military ser- 

 vice already sanctioned by the 

 votes of parliament, from which 

 was to be deducted 1,231,0001. 

 for the troops in Fjance, leaving 

 S, 431,0001., including tlie e.\- 

 j)ense for Ireland. The accounts 

 of the extraordinary expenses of 

 the army for the preceding year 

 had been some time before the 

 House, and a vote to provide for 

 those of IS 16 to the e.vtent of 

 about 1,500,0001. would be spee- 

 dily proposed. The estimates of 

 the commissariat, &c. were about 

 480,0001., from which 75,0001. 

 for the army in France were to 

 be deducted. Taking the chari^es 

 of the barracks at 178,0001., and 

 the storekeeper-general's depart- 

 ment at 50,0001., the whole 

 amount of extraordinary services 

 would be 2,133,0001., and the 

 total expense for the military ser- 

 vice 10,564,0001. For the navy 

 there had been voted altogether 

 10,114,0001., from which there 

 was a deduction to be made of 

 the proceeds from the sales of 

 old stores, which amounted to 

 680,0001., leaving the charge at 

 9,434,0001. Deducting about 

 186,0001. for the ordnance ser- 

 vice in France, the expense of the 

 ordnance department would be, 

 1,696,1 8."jl. The total original 

 vote was 1 ,882,0001. — The pres- 

 sure of public business in tlic 

 House during the course of the 

 present session, had prevented 

 him from producing an account 

 of the miscellaneous services. He 

 pould not just then state their 



amount precisely. He had on a 

 former occasion supposed them at 

 2,000,0001. From what he had 

 learned, he thought they would 

 come to 2,500,0001. or near it. 

 He should therefoie assume it at 

 two million.^ live hundred thou- 

 sand pounds. To meet the India 

 debt, and expenses incurred in 

 India, a vote of 945,0001. Avould 

 be proposed. This was necessary, 

 as the East India Company had 

 made pressing representations for 

 repayment of the sums they had 

 advanced. The advances in ques- 

 tion had been made to foiward 

 those valuable services lately per- 

 formed by our army in India in 

 the conquest of the French and 

 Dutch possessions. The total 

 amount of the claim of the East 

 India Company, including the es- 

 timate of the present year, had 

 been 2,300,0001. Considerable 

 payments had, however, been 

 made by the government to the 

 East India Company, which were 

 to be set against the sum he had 

 mentioned. This done, there ap- 

 peared to remain due to the Com- 

 pany in January last, about a 

 million and a half. A provision 

 had been made for the sum of 

 500,0001. in the vote of credit for 

 the last year, and this deducted 

 from the debt due in January re- 

 duced the sum to be provided for 

 in the present year to 945,0001., 

 which it would be his duty on a 

 future occasion, to bring more 

 particularly luider the considera- 

 tion of the House. The general 

 statement of the supply for the 

 present year, compared with that 

 for the preceding, was as fol- 

 lows : — 



SUPPLY. 



