The National Register.
London, England, 1811-05-26 00:00:00

confirmed by very
• cial means of the empire, •presented in thei exposit-
. lion of the Ways and Means of the year. It is a
proud cousideration for the British empire, that,
• whilst-its armies are prosecuting a career of triumph
over the hitherto victorious legions of the enemy,
=• Its internal resources, in spite of all the tyrannic
• measures resorted to by BUO:SAPA TE to cripple its
• external commerce, exhibit undeniable evidence of

undiminished energy and progresiveimprovement.•
If ever the Tyrant of France could have had.any
plausible ground for flattering himself with the idea
of a successful issue from his Continental System,
it was after the Report of the Bullion Committee
had awakened the fears of the timorous, and
• cited the doubts of -even the most considerate
• amongst ourselves, and when the
.extent of our
• commercial disasters, last autumn, -in the Baltic,
consternatior amongst. our merchants, and

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of expiring power TI :d. vigour
which the increased expenditure of the war is
met iiithout•any addition to internal burthens; nay
Pwith a reduction of internal taxes, will open the
eyes of European Nations to the .real contrast be-
tween the pretended extent of French means and
the actual stability of British finances.
But it is not the circumstanceof an increased ex-
penditure being met without any new taxes, that
constitutes the real ground for self-gratulation and
triumph in. the statement of the CHANCELLOR of the
EXCHEQUER ; it is the demonstration of the inczeis-
ing 'population and wealth of the country, deducible"
from the augmented consumption of all the great.'
articles, which are the great objects of taxation. Notonly have the duties of customs and excise been pro
ressive in their amount, tat the'clitaiseitiei of tea,
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bwine, tobacco, tallow, &G. .etnitu*ed;lave of late:.d
-increased, beyond ffsfwer.exolnpie,. This it
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. • TIC BUDGET. r 1 It is in this view, that we regard thesability to
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carry on this expensive war, without any new taxes,
th. e solid and. unqueitionable proof; of the ex- '
:3ent anditibility 4 :-British resources, developed in except those of regulation and protection for our
the financial. statement of the Csiascauoa cf the colonies and native shipping, for another year, as
in the last degite auspicious and important. At a •
' Excites:Alta, on opening the Budget for the present
time when his own means have more than begun
*ear, afford the best practical answer to the rove=. -
to fail, 'and when he -was daily flattering himself
ries of those who have. shown ,so much diligence
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with the destruction of our finances, it wet he , a
- *nd anxiety to establish,. n °linot only a depreciation of . ;
g mortification to BuoNaphimn. 03' ,Observe
the elating medium, but a consequent declineA
our,resotirces notonly steady but improving., whilst
df the revenue, and the imminent danger of na-
his Own means are every day becoming more limit •
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ed, and every effort to repair them must have the
by f.t speedy recur,rence to cash payments and metal
inevitable effect of precipitating their further de.
: "-- lie circulation. After the teilious and painful sus-
predation. The contrast, too, cannot be lost
pense in whic i the public mild:law been kept, from
upon Europe. The- tnisrep4sentatious a 4ise
the first asitatit3n of -thi 8u11'..-question to the ul-
tin3ate decisiot .0f.P.414014-,00 I Oilii Import of Ft‘fich ?Pe" had impressej, upm eve" Pirt qf
the Cotftinent,. a conviction, .that the sun of liti-
tbo. Baiikmeetvsiiftfie:- it ii it- sottice of unmixed •
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~.- gratification to find; that, no sooner , are our fore ; tish greatness had set with the extinction 4 British
intercourse with the nations of Europe, and that
dispelled by that deoistbiit -limn Our confidence is
its present exertions were only the last' agonies
confirmed by the very favourable view of the finan- nf exnirine power. The unimpaired vigour with

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events would have been sufficient to warrant a ple fact would, in. ordinary times perk. be in _
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- , very sanguine confidence on his part, that the a great degree ascribable to a-proportionate augmen-
loundation of British resources was shaken "; but tation of population; bot during war it can only arise
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fidtece of all that is doubtful in srxpectatio a the consequence of ap increase ofvealth and afilu- - ,
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