173 



REVENUE, 



Averagcof ten years, 834,673 Average of ten years, 965,198 



Ditto of the former period, 8 34,6 7 3 



Increafe, 130,525 



ifeut this revenue, confiderable as it is, has not been equal 

 to the national' expenditure. In the feffions of 1 759, there was 

 a furplus in the treafury of 65,774!. yet in the following one 

 a confiderable debt was contracted, as will be feen by the pro- 

 grefs of the incumbrance. 



1. 



Year 1761 223,438 National debt. 

 1763 - 521,161 ditto. 

 1765 508,874 ditto. 

 1767 581,964 ditto. 

 1769 628,883 ditto. 

 1771 789,569 ditto. 

 1773 ^.999,686 ditto. 

 ! 775 976,117 ditto. 

 *777 $825,426 ditto. 

 779 ' 1,062,597 ditto. 



Suppofe the revenue a million, it is about a fixth part of the 

 land rents of the kingdom. If there are three million of fouls 

 in Ireland, they pay exaclly 6s. 8d. a head. It appeared be- 

 fore 



* ddiiilifnal duties laid. 

 f Stamps ditto. 



J This does not agree iuiih the Jiate in vol. 17 of the journals, 

 V)r ths following year. 



Ettrafted from thf national accounts laid befsrs parliament 



