258 . Statistics. 
Michaelmas ir98to5th Jan. 1799 10,232,969 16 9 
1799 57,434,677 7 3 
1800 ...... . 58,630,216 8 4|- 
1801 75,743,475 4 10 
1802 68,563,718 4 2^ 
1803 ....... 55,821,209 10 0% 
1804 64,947,614 4 5| 
1805 81,167,978 4 5^ 
1806 79,736,321 6 8 
1807 81,102,138 10 10| 
2808 . 82,225,110 10 7 
1809 . 93,192,742 10 8 
1810 97,948,034 O 1| 
CONSOLIDATED FUND : WAR TAXES. 
During the war in which Great Britain has been engaged with 
ihe French republic and the French empire, the then existing, and 
{:ertain other new taxes, were considered by Mr. Pitt as need- 
ful to be permanently continued on the people, to answer the pub- 
lic necessities ; but certain other taxes which the supposed tem- 
porary exigencies of the war called for, were laid, on the expec- 
tation that when the war ceased, these taxes would cease also : 
the first class of taxes, were formed into one fund called the conso- 
lidated fund ; and consisted of the customs, the excise, the assess 
sed taxes, the land tax. Sec. which forming one class of income, is 
exclusively appropriated to certain payments, of which the divi- 
dends, or interest of the national debt is the chief and heaviest 
charge : If this fund yields more than sufficient to satisfy the de- 
mands charged upon it, the excess is brought forward in the bud- 
get of the next year, under the head of “ surplus of the consolidated 
fund” as part of the ways and means of raising the supplies wanted 
for the year. If not, then the deficiency takes its place, not among 
tjie Ways and Means, but among the Supplies,^ The consolidated 
fund for 1810 produced 42,286,152/ 18s \\d. and charges Were 
35,296,313/ 10s 9d. leaving a surplus of 6,979,7391 8s 2d. The 
same fund up to 5 January, 1812, produced but 40,917,135/ 18s 4d. 
The charges were 36,801,993/ 18s 9d. leaving a surplus of 
4,115,841/ I9s 6d. The decrease was in the customs. 
The other taxes v/hich were laid on for the support of the war, 
under a promise of being temporary, and to be taken off when 
the war is ended (that is ad grsecas calendas) are called the war 
taxes. These consist of additional customs, excise, property tax, _ 
In 18U they produced 22,393,063/ 13s 5d. 
