506 
bers. Altogether the number > mem- 
bers returned by corruption and by in- 
fluence was 806, There were also.17 
Boroughs, not containing on the average 
150 voters in each, which- 21 Peers and | 
the Treasury euinuantied: The whole 
Borough. Faction, together with these 17 
Borouyhs, returned 327 English members 
in the House of Commens. (Shame : ! Dis- 
grace !) The English part of the House 
of Commons consisted of 513 members, 
frem which deducting 327, there was a 
balance of 186, colerably uuninfluenced 
men. If therefore these 186 were de- 
ducted from the 327, there was a majorie 
ty of 144 in favour of the Borough-Fac- 
tion. The pensions and places of mem- 
bers actually sitting in the House of 
Commons am unted to 178,0001. 
_ The Chancellor ef the Exchequer in re- 
porting the budget recited the different 
heads of supply and ways and meaus, as 
under; 
SUPPLIES. 
ARs eR cel Pe: 
PONY 5 ie iN, mg chs 21,144,770 
Ordnance for England, 5,273,298 
ireland, 627,877 
—— 5,903,175 
Miscellaneous Grants for 
England Lee ate be 1,173,751 
Miscellanéous Grants for 
Treland 726.249 
1,900,000 
Vote. of Credit for Eng- 
cL, ee 3,000,000 
Vote of Credit for Ireland 300,300 
~~ 3,300,000 
Swedish Subsidy,....,...-..--- 300,000 
Sicilian Ditto, 400,000 
Total Joint Charge 51,954,912 
SEPARATE CHARGES OF GREAT BRITAIN. 
Deficiency of Malt Duty 
SOR GROG 0) in fi38., iis 
Interest onExchequer Bills 
for 1809,.. owaia 22k, 500:000 
Ditto 5, per cents for 1797, 
to be paid off 
60,867 
1,927,078 
Tota! Supplics, 53,861,990 
Deduct frish Proportion of 
‘Supply and Civil List, .. 6,273,966 
"Fotal to be defrayed by 
Great Britain, <..... 
WAYS AND MEANS, 
Daty on Mait and Pensions,.... 3,000,000 
Unappropriated Surplus of the 
consolidated Fund to the Sth 
of April, 1310, 2 
i a ed 
Surplus of Ways aed Means Ge 
47,588, 024 
. 4,000,000 
1808, 4eeece~eece vez se cone 2,757 352 
War anes, coe... ou wwnie tn 49 ,000,000 
“Lottery, Se Sess tease ace asae 500, OCD 
Siateof Pubhie Affuirs in May. 
[June ft, 
Excess of Exchequer Bills of the 
49th of the present reign, after 
reserving a sufficient sum to pay 
off 7,345,2001. issued by the Act 
of the 48th, the remainder having 
been finden eae NN a = nen ; 
Excess of ditto voted during the 
present. Session of Parliament, 
reserving sufficient to pay off 
4,644,100]. issued by an Act of 
the 48th. year of the present 
Reign the remainder having been 
funced, 1,359; 900 
Rephennes Bills on Vote of Credit 5,000, 000 . 
Repayment of part of the sum -ad_ 
‘ 
vanced to Porrugal,.--.....-- 450,008 , 
Loany').2 o's Dee 2 Ps ee 14,000,000 
Total Ways and Means, 47,711,052 
Supplies, >... s:s<03)5 sebieas cae eee 
A ST tet a 
Surplus of Ways and Means, -~ £130,028 
London Gawette Extraordinary, May, of, i 
Dewning street, May 4, 1809, 
A Dispatch of which the following is a 
Copy, was received this: Evening from 
f icuipanileenes althe Right Honour 
able Sir Arthur Wellesley, ‘by Viscount, 
Casilereazh, one of his Majesty’ S Prins 
cipal Secretaries of State. 
Opa to, May 42, 1809. . 
My Lorn! had the honour to apprize 
your ns teen on the 7th instant, taat 1 in-- 
tended thatthe army should march on the 
9th from Coimbra to dispossess the enemy 
of Oporto. 
The advanced guard and the cavalry had ” 
marched on ‘he 7th, and the whole had 
halted on the 8th to aftord time for Maysbat 
Beresford with his coips to arrive upon the 
“Upper Douro. 
The infantry of the army was formed i into 
three divisions for this expedition, of which — 
two, the adyanced-guard, consisting of the 
‘Hanoverian Legion and Brigadier-General R. 
Stewart’s brieade, with a brigade of 6-poun- 
ders, and a brigade of 3-pounders under Lieu- 
tenant-Generai Paget, and the cavalry under 
‘ Lieutenant-General Payne, and the brigade of 
guards; Brigadicr-General Campbell’s and . 
Brigadicr-General brigades of in- 
‘fantry, witha brigade of six. po sunders, under 
Lieutenant-General Sherbrooke, moved by 
the high road ftom Coimbra, to. Oporto, and 
one composed of Major- General Hill’s and 
Brigadier-General Cameron’s brigades of in- ° 
fantry, anda brigade of six-pounders, under 
the coimmand of Miajor- General. Fill, by, the 
road frown Coimbra to Aveiro. 
On the 10th, in the worning,before daylight, 
the cavalry and advanced guard crossed the 
_Vouga with the intsntion to surprise and cut 
_ off four regiments or French cavalry, and a 
battalion of infantry and artillery, cantoned 
Ja Albergaria Nova. Ahn Wy neighbouring: vile 
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