178 TRAVELS IN 
From the ill Odi. 1797 to the 30th Sept. 179&, 
they were - - i?. 322,512 7 5 
I ft ditto 1798 to ditto 1799 - 360,312 o o 
I ft ditto 179910 ditto i8oo - 369,596 o o 
I ft ditto 1800 to ditto 1 80 1 - 450,713 2 4 
And it is here not unworthy of notice, that from the moment 
of the preliminaries of peace being known they fell, the laft 
year's produce, being only 
From ift 0£t. i8oi to 30th Sept 1802 - 389,901 6 o 
And in the following year, as far of it as T%as expired, they 
were ftill lefs produdive. 
In this ftate of progreffive Improvement, under the Brltifti 
Government, without a fmgle additional tax being laid, but on 
the contrary, fome taken off, and others modified, arrears of 
land-rent remitted and again accumulating, I think, without 
any danger of exaggeration, we might reckon upon a net annual 
revenue of half a million rix dollars, or one hundred thoufand 
pounds currency; The annual average expenditure, including 
falaries and contingencies of departments, with the neceflary re- 
pairs of public works and buildings, were, under the admini- 
ftrations of Lord Macartney and Lieutenant-General Dundas, at 
the moft about 300,000 rix dollars or 60,000 /. Suppofe then 
the contingencies and extraordinaries of the army to be 30,000/. 
the whole fum required would be 90,000/. or 450,000 rix 
dollars, the exad amount of the colonial revenue at the clofe of 
the year 1801. 
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