Notices^ 
481 
British Revenue. An official account laid before the house 
of commons, states the amount of the net produce of the perma^ 
nent taxes in Great Britain for the year ending the 25th of Octo- 
ber, 1812, at 38,743,428/. 16s. 8|i/. ; and for the year ending the 
25th of October, 1813, at 37,833,366/. 12s. l|^c/, ; being a deficiency 
of about 900,000/. The same account states the total amount of 
the net produce of the war taxes, for the year, ending the 25th 
January, 1812, at 21,822^532/. 14s. lO^f/. ; and for the year endipg 
the 25th October, 1813, at 22,740,568/. 4s, 0-^^/.; being an increase 
to about the amount of the deficiency in the permanent taxes.^ 
Thus the net produce of the public revenue of Great Britain, for 
the year ending the 25th of October, 1813, is 60,573,934/. 16s. 2d, 
To 60,573,934/. add the poor rate 6,452,656 the amount will 
be 67,026,590/. sterling levied on the country, beside tythes and 
other ecclesiastical sources of taxation. 
In 18 12, the income tax was considered as somewhat short of 
13 million, including arrearages due. At ten per cent, this would 
be levied on an estimated income of 130 millions. Hence, on the 
average, every man in Great Britain, pays one half at least, of his 
income in taxes. I do not want to be perpetually harping on fo- 
reign commerce, and the wars it induces, but surely it v/ell de» 
serves to be considered, how much of this enormous taxation can 
fairly be imputed, directly or indirectly to that source. 
I meant in the present volume to have given an account of 
French statistics. I shall remit that, till the publication of Mr. I. 
T. Naylor’s book. 
So of the United States statistics, I shall be able to give a bette.r 
view of this subject, after the recess of congress and our state le^ 
gislatures. 
Dyeing. My booksellers hasten to inform me, that a transla- 
tion of Berthollet on dyeing is about to be published. Also a new 
edition of Dr. Bancroft’s book on that subject. No one has done 
so much to elucidate the theory of dyeing as Berthollet and his son. 
Dr. Bancroft’s experiments, though principally made (at least 
in his first volume) to extend the sale of his quercetron bark 
(the bark of the black oak quercus nigra) are of importance. 
1 expect something from the new edition. I think all persons 
interested in the art of dyeing, will purchase both books, But 
when I come to that article, which I may probably treat of earlier 
than I at first intended, I shall endeavour to make it the interest of 
persons cpncern^d in the art of dyeing to purchase also the Empo- 
