l^tal nett Produce of the Permanent and Annual Taxes constituting the Ordinary Public 
Revemie of Great Britain, and of the additional Taxes imposed during the continu- 
ance of War, for one Year, ending the 5th of January, 1808. 
ORDINARY REVENtlESi 
Customs 
Excise (including the annual duties) 
Stamps 
Land and Assessed Taxes 
Post Office 
6d. in the Pound on Pensions, &Ci 
is. in the Pound on Pensions, &C; 
Hackney Coaches 
Hawkers and Pedlarsi 
Small branches of the Hereditary Revenue 
Permanent and Annual Duties... .... 
War taxes. 
Arrears of Income Duty 
Arrears under Aid and Contribution Act... 
£. 
d. 
t, 462, 380 
4 
10| 
17,896,145 
14 
2 
4,458,738 
14 
Oi 
7,073,530 
10 
1,277,538 
11 
tl,353 
0 
62,685 
5 
8 
26,455 
5^ 
10,325 
9 
5 
91,422 
14 
7i 
38,430,575 
7 
10 
2,730,792 
14 
6,273,570 
18 
101 
9,864,189 
4 
10 
23,072 
19 
0 
2,888 
11 
57,325,089 
16 
Notwithstanding the sum annually drawn 
from the public in taxes has been raised to 
the above vast amount, it is still thought 
necessary to have recourse to the profit of 
lotteries, which, with the permanent and 
annual duties above stated, and a few small 
incidental receipts, forms the total public 
income in time of peace. In years of war, 
it is almost invariably found necessary to 
raise a large additional sum by way of loan, 
which, being added to the debt previously 
existing, it becomes necessary to augment 
the revenue appropriated to the payment 
of the interest thereon by the imposition of 
new taxes. 
The nett produce of the several branches, 
after the payment of certain bounties, pen- 
sions, and other . charges, is paid into the 
Exchequer' to be applied to the services to 
which it is appropriated, ITie public ac- 
counts at the Exchequer, both of the reve- 
nue and expenditure, were, till within a 
few years, kept in a peculiar character in 
use no where else, and which, in the course 
of time, had become so unintelligible, even 
to the officers themselves, that it was usual 
to write all high numbers in common figures 
under the characters. It is a curious cir- 
cumstance, that this obscure species of 
arithmetic was defective in having no cha* 
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racters to express high numbers, as millions, 
so far were the framers of it from having 
any idea of the amount to which the public 
revenue was to be extended- 
reverberation, in chemistry, de- 
notes a kind of circulation of ihe flame by 
means of a reverberatory, or the return of 
the flame from the top of the furnace back 
to the bottom, chiefly used in calcination. 
Reverberation is of two kinds: the first 
with a close fire, that is, a reverberatory 
furnace, where the flame has no Vent at 
top, being covered with a dome or capital, 
which repels its action back on the matter 
or the vessel that Contains it, with increased 
vehemence. After this manner is refining, 
the distillation of acids, spirits, &c. per- 
formed. Reverberation with an open fire 
is that performed in a furnace or reverbera- 
tory, whose registers are all open, used in 
calcination, &c. See next article. 
REVERBERATORY, or Reverbera- 
ting FURNACE, a chemical furnace built 
close all around, and covered at the top 
witli a capital of brick or tiles, so as not to 
give any vent to the heat or flame, but to 
determine it to reverberate or turn back 
from the brick-work with new force upon 
the matter placed at bottom. When tlie 
fire has no vent or passage at top, it is 
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