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afterwards experienced a considerable increase, and from the 
first year of Lord Macartney's administration they rose gra- 
dually as follows ; 
From the 1st Oct. 1797 to the 30th Sept. 1798, 
they were - - - jR. d. 322,512 7 5 
1st ditto 1798 to ditto 1799 - 360,312 0 0 
1st ditto 1799 to ditto 1800 - 369,596 0 0 
1st ditto 1800 to ditto 1801 - 450,713 2 4 
And it is here not unworthy of notice, that from the mo- 
ment of the preliminaries of peace being known they fell, 
the last year's produce being only 
Prom 1st Oct. 1801 to 30th Sept. 1802 - 389,901 6 0 
And in the following year, as far of it as was expired, they 
were still less productive. 
In their state of progressive improvement under the British 
Government, without a single additional tax being laid but, 
on the contrary, some taken off and others modified, arrears 
of land-rent remitted and again accumulating, I think that 
under the British flag we might, without any danger of ex- 
aggeration, reckon upon a net annual revenue of half a 
million rixdoUars, or one hundred thousand pounds currency. 
The annual average expenditure, including salaries and con- 
tingencies of departments, with the necessary repairs of public 
works and buildings, were, under the administrations of Lord 
Macartney and Lieutenant-General Dundas, at the most 
