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Statistics. 
THE BUDGET. 
So called from the Minister’s Bag of papers, nece^sUry to etii - 
cidate his calculations on the annual statement (Expose as the 
French call it) of the national finance. The Budget consists of 
two parts, viz. The Supplies, or sums wanted for the year; 
and The Ways and Means, or the s6urces from whence those 
sums are to be procured. The supplies consist of the sums want- 
ed for the navy, the army, the ordnance, the payment of divi- 
dends or interest on the national debt, the expences of the Civil 
list, (which include the expences of the Royal family. Judicature, 
Ambassadors, and Royal pensions) and miscellaneous services. 
The ways and means are, the consolidated fund, the war taxes, 
and loans, when necessary. To meet the interest of the newloansj 
the Budget contains also the new taxes proposed for the purpose, 
with remarks on the principle of the tax, and calculations on its 
probable amount from known data. To illustrate this I will give 
the Budget for 1811, which contains much important fact, and 
a summary of the Budget of 1812. 
IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. 
HOUSE OF COMMONS, MAY 17, 1811. 
THE BUDGET. 
The Hoilse having resolved itself into a committee of ways and 
means. 
The Chancellor of the Exchequer rose to open the Budget for 
the present year. He began l)y observing, that having that morn - 
ing concluded a contract, subject to the approbation of parliament, 
for the loan for the service of the present year, on terms which he 
trusted, under all the circumstances of the case, the committee 
would consider to be highly advantageous to the public, he should 
proceed to submit to them the details of that contract. But before 
he did this he conceived that it would be necessary for him to 
state, with as much clearness as he possibly could, the various 
sums which the house had already voted for the supply of the pre- 
sent year, and the ways and means to which in his judgment they 
ought to resort for the purpose of meeting those sums. The sUp* 
plies which had been voted were as follow ~ 
