The National Register. — London, England, 1813-06-13 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER. IMPEIII.4I. P., 'A.II LN7: HOUSE OF LORDS. WECINESDAY AND THURSDAY No business of impoi unto; uctial ed. FRIDAY, JUVE 11 TREATY WWI SWEDEN. The Earl IrvEn root presented by command of the Prince Regent, a copy of the Treaty of. Concert and Subsidy between England ►►t'd Sweden, a,,d moved that tl►e same be taken under consideration on Thursday nest, and the Lords summoned. •JUINfE 13; amounting to 5.101,291 h Linder the -head of Miscellaneous Ser vices, there were a clisige of '45;)0,0001.: the subsidies to Sicily and Portugal amounted to '2,400,1001.: besides which, there were I' ) wilts to the East India Company, for expenses defrayed by them in naval and military services in the East, to the amomit of 2,000,0001. The Supplies which !wind now enumerated comprised the whole of the joint charge, with the exception of the Vote, of Credit. He thought, that under all the circumstances of the country, the Committee wound think it right that large pecuniary means should be placed at the disposal of Goverment ; he hat', therefore, to propose, as the Vote of Credit for England, the suns Of 6,000,0001., and for Ireland 200,0001. The whole, then, of thi joint charge for the two countries amounted to 72,055,6:3A. The various items of the separate charge amounted to 5,‘.:7 I,eool. making the joint charge altogether 77.:e37,4751. From this was to be de ducted the Irish proportion of 72 065.6391., and the Oil) List, and for Consolidated Fund, t 734'131., making an amoua: of 8.651,3331., leaving. a total for Great Britain of 6i,68.5,0-131. Not the least of the difficulties in the calculations arose from the state of the re ceipts last year. With respect to the Consolidated Fund. however, he should propose a vote of 500,0001. The War Taxes Lad not nu ; tiergone the same changes with other branches of the revenue, a d and he should take his estimate of them at 21,000.0 0;. 'foe Lot tery he should take at 200,0001 which was something less !le,; he estimate of last year. fly the two Acts for tile tiwdi. g t f Ex. chequer Bilk, 3,773,5001. had been funded ; and it was pros posed to replace them, for ivhich lw should take crradit suose i queutly in proviling for the Ways and ,gleans 600,000 r, i,ad b een raked by Debentures, and he should propose at' erpe:l amount, v% loch, on the whole, would leave aim increase of Exchequer Bills of two millions. The necessity of increasing Exchequer Bills to t; millions would be perceived by the House; and he now took the matter on the most moderate calculation, so as to bring within the year, the unfunded Exchequer bills to the same amount as they weie at last year. On the head of Old Naval Stores, separate accounts were prepared : in this partietilar, behind had a fair claim to re muneration and repayment. The English proportion was 531X61. ; List year the total was 601,''081. The important remaining allude was the lot.a . just eontrac:•al tor, which was to the amount of 21,000,0001. for Engbeal. The total of the Ways and Means was 68,806,1961. 'the items of the dilfrrent branches, to be provided fur were—for the NLivy, exclusive of ordnance sea sort ice, '20,515,0111. ; far the Ar'ny, including. hayricks and commissariat, 15,7'27,9.30. ; the same for Ireland, :3,198,6061.; Extroadioaries for Engiatal i , 9,500,0001., and 101.111 , 1;nel, 2c0,0001. ; unprovided of the same last year, 4,!:62,7971 ; Ortlea , ce. including Ireland, 5401,2941. ; cellanceus service, 2,50o,0001.; Vote of Credit for Englund, 6,000,e0a1. ; and or Ireland, :00,0001.: for Sicily, 4e0,0!;01., for Portugal, 2,000,0001. ; and 2,000,0001. for the• East India Compaoy. Thee slims make up a total joint charge of 72,065,6391. lie had next to come to the separate charges, which ranged themselves under the heads—of the Loyalty Loan, which was 171.8:361.; t f interest on Exchequer Bills. 1,800,0001. ; on Debentures 40,0001.; of the Grant to the sinking, fund rut pccting Exchequer Bills uopro vided for, ‘.60,0;;0l ; and the Vote of Credit in 1812, the amount of which was 3,000,0001. These different heads made 5,271,836 J. so that the whole was 7 7,337,a7.5!. From them,'however, were to he deducted the Irish proportion of the 72.065,63 A w hich was 8,178,310. and for the Civil List and Consolidated Fund 17.i,'2.231. making 8,651,5331. This soon, deducted from the joint charge, left the amount for England, 68,685,9421. The Ways and Means he would submit were—the annual Duties, 3,000,000:. ; the Surplus of the Consolidated Fund, 500,0001.; the War Taxes, €21.000,0001. ; the Lottery, 200,0001.; Exchequer Bills fondled, I 5.775,80 a ; De bentures, 799,3001.; the Vote of Credit, for 6,090.0001. ; time Eng lish proportion of 001,9081. of Old Naval Stores, being r , :31,0961.; and finally, the loan 0 . 21,0'a0,0001. making altogether the sum of 68,806,1961. The Honse was aware of the deficiency of 1,500,0001, last year, in the revenue, which chiefly arose in the articles of malt, beer, and spirits. It was clear, notwithstanding, that the other branches of revenue were not diminished. There were al ways some irregularities in collection during the first years of new duties, whiclsbad been the case respecting the Excise and Customs, and rice versa with the War Taxes ; but those irregnlarities and, dill ticnities were in a little time removed, and matters ran into Clear regular channels. Particular circumstancex.had occurred which' had occasioned some embarrassments,, but.. he had good reason to.. ...hope, that the causes of them would cease to exist in the present year.. The estimate of the Consolidated Fund lie had taken on the ► . average of three years preceding the last.: that of the War Taxes, he had made on taw average.ot 18(19, 1810, 1811 ; all the others d the three last years. The estimate of the produce el the Conioli. .572 VENT' LATION. Lord D►nrqr.ry addressed their Lordships, pursuant to- notice, on the subject of making the Housc more convenient by the means of ventilation. The Noble Lord intimated that be had made enquiry, end the result was, that Dr. Davy's plan, which promised the most advantage, had been misapplied. orininal design was, •to make holes in the cieling and other parts of the House, to let out warm nir. There were pipes which led to . lire at the top of the House, and what ,ever air was necessary to make that lire burn, would be drawn from the Lordship, without entetiog into a minute explanation of the plait, propose•!, that the ntext time the llouse•is crowded in conse quence of a debate, orders shall Le given to make us large aft e as piay be capable of performing the operation of drawing away 'he warm air. Their Lordships, he would he able by that experiment to judge of the effect. Ills I.ord•hip made no motion on the subleet, and orders, were given, as wn understand, to inakn the lire according to Lord Darnley's direction.--Adjourned to Monday. HOUSE OF COMMONS. NVEDNESD 1Y AND THURSDAY Nothing wort,. rem &Lug took place. Titiuty, Jll\E 11. Upon the motion of Calunel P,,ti.mr,u, it resolution that 84,1 M. be granted to Me. Palmer to answer his claims, was made in a Committee of Supply. The CHANck.t.mtit of the Excnvcuzrt observed that it was his determination to oppose it in a further J taw. The it port was or dered to be brought up on Monday. Mr. Palmer's per centage Bill was ordered to he committed on Tuesday uext. TREATY WITH SWEDEN. Lord CAITLER E 1;1 pursu, n ►ce of the order of the Prince Regent, brought up and presented a Copy of the Treaty witl► Sweden. _ His Lordship then moved, - that certain provi,ions of the said Treaty be referied . to the committee of Supply on Wednesday. Air. WHITBREAD said, that just bt fine the Noble Lord brought up those Papers. it was his intention to give notice of a motion *filch had considerable reference to the subject which was now pro posed for discussion on IVednesday. It was, how ever, of a more comprehensive nature; and he now gave notice, that on Tuesday the ‘29111 of June, lie would bring forward a motion with regard to our relations with Foreign Powers generally ; win o, also, he should bring the subject of peace distinctly under ie consideration of the Nouse. _ _ BuDGET. The House then went into a Committee of Ways and Means. '1 be CHANcELLoR of the EXCHEQUER then rose to submit to the Committ2e,.the terms on which, the late !Await:id been contracted, nod at the same time, to take a short view of the general financial situation of the country. In doing so, he should first state the total amount of The Supplies which had been voted for the service of the year; and next, the Ways and Means provided for covering those supplies. On the general magnitude of the supply oldie year ; .and un the political circumstances by which it was occasioned, he should not enter into any observations at present. •I he Supplies voted for the _Navy, exclusive of Ordnance Sea service, amounted to 90,57.50111. : the Supplies for the Army, including Barracks and Commissariat, and also inchtsive of Ire land, were 18,9'20371.: the Extraordinaries of the Army and Navy, unwonted for Englaticigind-Ireland,•to 9,700,0001.: of these the stun of five millions had already been voted, and he should have to propose a vote of tour millions and a half in the Committee of . Supply, on Wednesday, to make op the whole of th e above amount. There were also unprovided for EXI raordinaries of last year, to the 'mount of - 4,662,7071. The next head of charge was .toe Ordnance, 116 i