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London, England, 1818-06-11 00:00:00

FINAITE.
ELEVENTH REPORT FROM THE SF.T.ECT COM.
HITTEIL OF FINANCE -MHO

INCOIIE ANI)

Ordered, by the Melt of Common; to be potato',
May ts, Idle.

The Select Committee appointed to logithe Into and Mate
the leseorne and Expenditure of the United Kingdom, for
the Year ended the 9th of January, INII ; and also to eon.
*Oder and state the probable Income sa,l Expenditure foe
far as the same can now be estimated) for the Years ending
the bib of 'armory, I*l9, sod the sth of loons. y, HIM
respectively, and to repot the same, together with their
ohs,' ea lions the►eupon, lime 10 time, to the Howse;
mulatto le ruusider chat farther measures niay be adopted
fur the relief of the country from say part of the said Es-
proditore, *Morel detriment to the public interest...

Having laid before the House in their Fourth
Repo& presented in the last Session, a view of the
public income and expenditure fur the year ended
the Sib January, 1817, distiognished under the
prine+ml heads; and likewise, eis Estimate of
the probable income end expenditure for the year
1817 and 1818; and having since had under their
consideration the Accounts presented iu the present
Session, relating to the actual receipt and expen-
diture of the year 1817 ; proceed to lay before the
Muse the result of these documents with reference
to their Estimate of last year. in order that the
!louse may thereby be enabled to perceive bow far
the opinions of the Committee upon this very im-
portant subject have beers justified hitherto by the
event, end to judge in whet degree the expectations
' which they expressed its their Report above re-
ferred to, may, at the present period, appear likely
to be ultitnetely realised.
lu proceeding to this examination sod comps.
risen, your Committee wish to call to the recol-
lection of the Home the difficulties which they
experienced, : s they stated in that Report, in
forming the Estimate required upon the actual
state of the revenue, as exhibited in the ac-
counts of the latest year then before them, owing
to the very peculiar circuinstatires by which the
produce of that year (18161 bad been impaired;
several of which, even at the time when your
Committee were considering the subject, were still
in operation. It was for thia purpose deemed ex-
pedient to have recourse to the accounts of the three
latest antecedent years not affected by these cer-
cumPtatices, viz. 1812, 1813, and 1814 ; the ave.
rage of which three years, when divested of all aug-
meutations and dimmutions occasioned by alter-
ations iu the rate of duties, was found to correspond
very nearly with the average of the two years 1915
and 1816, taken upon the same principle; the year
1813 having yielded a very large, and the year
1816, a proportionably reduced. produce--and
your Committee further remind the House, that
after having assumed those averages as a fair basis
fur their Estimate, and hati..g thereby arrived at
the resi,:t which they presented to the House,
they expressed distinctly their 1, wish to be clearly
understood as not stating a confident opinion,
that the Estimate thus fratned would be rea.
lised within the (then) present year. For though
they saw, 011 the one hand, reason to expect that
the receipts of the Exchequer might (when the
charge which they anticipated took place) he
swelled, in the first instance, somewhat beyond the
actual increase of consumption, by the replenish-
ment, in the hands of the dealers, of the average
stocks of their respective trades (which storks, they
had reason to believe, had been greatly reduced);
yet, considering how much of the year most have
elapsed before tie relief to be expected from the
ensuing harvest could he felt, together with other
eircunistences which might operate to delay the ex-
pected improvement, they deemed it safer to pre-
sent a less sanguine view, and to assume, that even
with the uid of the arrears of the Property Tax, to
the Prnount of 2,800,000 f. the average receipts of
the (then) present and next ensuing years might not
exceed the limits of their Estimate."

Your Committee having thus referred to the
opinions which they entertained last year. and to the
principal considerations whereby the views which
they then took of the subject were influenced, are
now eliabltd to state, that the progress of the re-
venue up to the present time, has justified those
views, and veinal ample meant for anticipating,
within the curreut nur, the fulfilment of their ex-
pectation..
It will be apparent, indeed, from the following
comparative statements, that the Committee were
fully warranted, as well in the doubt. which they
entertained with respect to an immediate improve-
ment of tile revenue, as in the confident hope
which they expressed of its accelerated return to
that state (at least) of productiveness from which it
had suddenly declined, whenever the peculiar
causes which had occasioned the decline should
have ceased to operate.
Your Committee now proceed to skew
- teal produce of the - e in the ended

also fill the ditch.; sod when these obstacles are
removed, the rear advance over their bodies, ren-
dering it impossible for any part of thu►. before in
retreat, if rvrg go well inclined; they ore thus left
no alternative between death and victory; the liv-
ing passing with perfect indifference over the suf-
focated biiilles of their companions, the jmiirmy is
pursued without troy intermission.
Two or three days after the first passage utl er
bother, equally large, and rumpled lay the !Mille
destructive antreinility fellow iii their step., devour-
ing the bark ■ud branches of those very trees ri hit+
their predecessors hail already ►tsipt of leaves and
fruit. " For they coverall the face of the whole
earth, so that the laud was darkened; and they did
eat every herb of the laud, and as the fruit of the
trees which the hail had left: and there remained
not any green thing in the trees, or in the !writs of
the field, through all the land of Egypt"—
x. IS.

II lying continued this predatory warfare for
nearly a month, and laid waste the %%bole country,
they reach their natural growth : this is the signal
for their undergoing a partial metamorphosis, by
changing their coat ; an operation which is effected
by fislug themselves on bushes or racks, and it dors
not require inure than ten ns i ttt des hi-Ime they ate
enabled to appear in their new dress; lymv, lii a short
interval after this iu a state of languor, the heat
of the MO soon gives fresh vigour to their wings,
by removing the humidify, and they are mice mole
restored to their original activity. Taking a higher
flight, their numbers darken the air, while the
sound of their wings is heard for . rural miles.
The unchangeable steadiness with which this singu-
lar tribe act in concert dining their irruption,
seems to imply a regular direction, rather than its
being the mere effect of instinct.
‘Vbenever a country is condemned to the above
terrible visitation, nothing can exceed the alarm
created amongst the inhabitants, awl with good
reason, for woe to the district over which they pass !
All is destroyed in little more than the space of
an hour they do not suffer even a leaf or blade
of •grass to remain, destroying every appear-
ance of vegetation. During their short stay, they
have all the inquietude and instability of hunger :
wild as the country they inhabit, it is impossible
for any our to get near them. Often, a tide follow-
ing their dilatory course, they push on too far,
and are precipitated into the sea at other
times a sudden north wind &Alto) a them by
millions, when the country is immediately covered
fur many miles by their putrid bodies, which is fre-
quently the source of pestilential diseases. 'I
have also, upon more than one occasion, when highly
favoured by the weather, found their way to the
coast of France, Spain, and Italy.—(LiteraryGuz.)

IROM 71IE LONDON GAZETTE.

MILITARY PROMOTIONS.

War.Offica, May 30, 1801.

3d Regiment of Dragoon Gnat-dr—Lieutenant Charlra Frost,

to be Captain of s Troup, by purchase, vice Nathaniel
Storey, who retires—dated May 14, 1818.
711. Regiment of Light Dragoons—William Inge, Gent. to he
Cornet, by purchase, vice Seymour, pro ttttt ted in the 2516
Light Dcagoons--dalesl as above.
17th ditto--Lieutenant IVillism 'Falvey Hawl•y Fisk, from
halfpay of the Ist Dragons' Guards, to he Lieutenant, vice
Robert Coulihard, who exchanger—dated May 7, 1818.
1916 ditto--Cornet and Adjutant William Glanville to have

the rank of Lieutenant—dated as alio% e.
261 ditto—Lieutenant Men Goon Collin*, from the 3tl
%Vett Wilts Regoneut, to be Lieuteuaut, rice Dowd, who
exehatirea—dated an shove.
25th thito—Lienieursit Raymoml Williams to be Captain of

a iroup, by purchase, vice Dalrymple, who retarcs—elated
3lay 14,1818.
Comet Frederick Sr ymoor. from the 7111 Licht Dragoons, to
be Lieutenaut, by purchase, vice %Villianoi—elat.d as
above.

Ist Regiment of Filut—Lieutenant Willonetby Cartes, Gnm
thebalryay of the Reiman'', lo he lieutenant. vlce

srph Jeffries, Kho escbauges receiving the ditrereisee—
datiol as above.
John Temple, (keit. to be Ensign, by porclisse, vice Cole-
man, %those appointment has nut IskLu plats—dated as
above.

7.h.ditio--littstenstit Frederick
_Brownlow, from the 431

Foot, to lie Lieutsmaut, vice 31taglier, w Isu t xril.tages—
dated as above.
1.208 dittu—Easiga Julies Write. from the hslf.itsy of dip
Regiment, tube Ensign, vise %%illiam R. De, tan, a lat t

rhangea—olatetl as save.
2411. ditto—Duncan Munro, Gent. to he nixie'', by par.
chase, rice Dun biggest, promoted its the 1941 Punt--thittil
May 7, 1818.
Edward Ccrjast Spencer, Gent. In he Enttizn, Ise purchase,
vice Netterville, promutrtl—dated May 11, lain,
2dtb tlitto--17.oisign Hobert Mantrell,frons the itisti.imy of the
1941 h Foot, to he Ensign, vice John I,..lhvaril lit "one, alio
exchanges receiving the tliffelenee—ilaisfl as above.
3711. ditto---,..usign John Ileothain, hunt the half-pay of the
52J Foot, to he Ensign, vice Robert lions, wlto exchanges
--dated as ~lore.
39th ditto—llrrvet Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Miles to he

Licriewool-Colowel, without
lbltt.

May 7,

Brevet Major Thomas F.vana to be \Nur, vice Macs—dated
as above.