. 
upon 
544 ; 
two years back, for a Royal Military 
Afylum for Soldier’s Children, at Chelfea, 
thereby to enable them to double the ori- 
ginal number, which was five hundred. 
‘After fome- obfervations from various 
Members, the refolutions were feverally 
agreed to. 
The Houfe having refolved itfelf into 
a Committee of Supply, on the roth of 
June, the Chancellor of the Exchequer 
rofe and ftated the extreme reluctance he 
felt upon the prefent occafion, to apply to 
the Houle for a Vote of Credit, by Ex- 
chequer Bills, to fuch an amount as 
2,000,0001. He enumerated the many 
caufes that obliged him thereto; particu- 
\Jarly the Northern Confederacy, and the 
confequent additional expence in the naval 
department and cther contingencies. As 
far as he was able toafcertain an eftimate, 
the account would ftand thus: viz. For 
the viétualling fervice, 694,480l.; tranfport 
222,2711.3 navy, 769:9201. 5 making i 
the whole, a total of 1,685,67:11. The 
Houle would therefore ice the neceffity of 
making up the grant of two millions. 
Mr. Jones obferved, that the mifconduét 
of the late Adminiftration had involved 
the country in thefe manitold difficulties. 
Mr. Tierney felt himfelf highly plealed 
with the candour and parliamentary man- 
ner in which this Vote of Credit was 
moved for, but complained that feveral 
items of expenditure were omitted. This 
brought on a long and tedious converfation 
the difcretionary power Minifiers 
obtained by general Votes of Credit, in- 
ftead of fpecific eftimates, in which the 
Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Sreele, 
Mr. Tierney, and Mr. Grey bore their 
parts 5. at Jength Mr. Addington proceed- 
ed to move the following articles of Sup- 
ty: commiffioners for liquidating the 
national debt, , 200,0001.; Britifh Mu- 
feum, 3000}. ;' chairman of commitrees 
f Lords, 2,500]. ; Levant- 
in the Houfe ot | 
company, 50001. 5 Exchequer-bils for 
the fervice of 1800 and 1801, 9,500,000). 5 
fams voted on addrefies, 10,%gx1. 5 audit- 
ing public accounts, 8271.3 purchafe of 
houles for the new Marfhallea, 5281.5 to 
Arthur Young, Efq. for experiments on 
grafs-land, 80ol.; the Sierra Leone com- 
pany, 4,000. ; extraordinaries of the ar- 
; and Irifh extraordimaries, 
my, 2,500,9col. 
600,0001. Mr. Addington agreed to 
poftpone the other Articles of, Supply, and 
the Ways and Means till Friday. 
The order of the day was read on the 
1 sth of June, for the Houfe to refolve itfelf 
snto 2 Committee of Ways and Means. 
Whe Chancellor of the Exchequer moved, 
State of Public Afairs in Funs, iors 
[July re 
that a variety of accounts relating to the 
diftribution and appropriation of pubiic 
money, be referred to the faid Comaiictee. 
The Speaker having left the Chair, Mr, 
Addingten proceeded to ftate that the 
amount for the Supply for the fervice of 
the year, including the 2.17ths for Ireland,, 
was 43,668,715l.3; to meet which, the, 
Ways and Means were as follow: Malt,. 
fugar, and tobacco, 2,750,000l. 3 lottery,, 
201,000!.; Ican, 2,509,0001. ; furplus of 
the confolidated fund, 3,100,000]. 3 un- 
iffued grants to the Emperor, 433,000l. 5 
ditto to the Elector of Bavaria, 65,0001. 3 
vote of credit, 2,000,0col. 5 income-tax, 
4,000,c001 5° exports. and imports, 
1,200,0001. He then went into a variety 
of calculations, te fhew the inadequacy of 
fome eftimates and the probable jurplufage 
of others ; in which intricate maze he was 
‘clofely followed by Mr. Tierney, to. whom _ 
Mr. Steele replied. Mr. Addington then 
moved, that it is the opinion of this Com- 
mittee, that the fum of four millions, arif- 
ing from the incom. -tax, be granted to- 
wards the Supply voted to his Majefty, 
over and abave the fum appl.cable to the, 
payment of the interett of the loan. AI 
ter fome obfervations from Mr. Tierney, 
relative to a onus allowed to Ireland un- 
der the aét of Union, Mr. Addington pro- 
pofed his refoiutions as toliow: From 
the income-tax of the year, 4,000,cool. ;. 
convey-tax, 1,200,cool.; coniolidated 
fund, 3,100,000l. ; remaining in the Ex- 
chequer, of fums voted to the Emperor of ._ 
Germany, 433,c001.; to the Elector of 
Bavaria, 65,6381.; furplus of grants, 
65,0001. 3 intereft of the land-tax, to he 
paid by inftalments, 50,0001. 5 remaining 
in the Exchequer, 4,080l.; contiibutiens 
for lotteries, 8,280]. ; loan on, Exchequer- 
bills, 2,000,c00!.;  Exchequer-bills, . 
3,500,0001.3 ditto, 3,000,0001.5 ditto, 
3,000,0col. ; whch were feveraily voted, 
He then propoied, as a part of the Ways 
and Means, that a duty of rl. 41s. per 
dozen be impofed on playing-cards im- 
ported, and 2s. 6d. per pack on thofe im- 
ported from Ireland. Agreed to, and the 
refulutions ordered to be reported on Wed-_ 
neiday. 
Mr. Tierney rofe on the 17th of June, in 
purfuance of the notice which he had given. 
on a former day, to move certain refolu- 
tions refpecting tie income, debt, and ex- 
penditure of the country. He thought 
them neceflary for the intermation of the , 
country with refpe&t to the flate of its : 
finances, and that the public might higvea | 
diftinct view of the rate of expence likely 
to be incurred; he would firft ftate the 
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