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London, England, 1818-01-07 00:00:00

and at the auioui.t of 04 loan for r:ie eorsonig year
will be in s'ine oneAsure regulated by the revenue
of the pas►, it may lie of advositsge to state the
produce of the several quarters or die years Miff
and 1817. That we might, by comp:lrwin, endea-
vour to form an ettimate of the real state of our
finances, we therefore present the following

ABSTRACT OF THE NUT REVENUE FOR THE irtAltt
ENDED THE 6TH OF JANUARY. 1817. AND TUC
STU oF JANI,4BV. 1018, DISSINGUISHING THE
SLYEILAI. QLARTERS.

April 5111
July sth ....
October 10th
January Silt, 1817—lb

1616.

L.
15,044,300
13,9142,917
14,502;296
13,831,181

1817

L.
10,533,929
11,552,961
11,623,548
13,667,012

Tula! Net Revenue.... I 57,360,691 47,277,00

Here then appears a deficiency in the total net
Revenue of the year just closed, as compared
with that of the year preceding, of tio less thou
10,0434441.; but this, we are aware, has arisen ins
great degree front the cessation of war duties, as
before mentioned. There is, however, another
point of view in which we cannot avoid remarking
the unfavourable aspect of the total atnount of the
year, and that is, in comparing it with the estimate
of the probable amount of the revenue for the year,
as submitted to the House of Commons by the
Finance Committee. This is the more important,
as this estimate of the Committee formed the basis
or partial justification of the scale of expenditure
laid down by the Government for the ensuing and
subsequent years.

The Estimate of the probable amount
of the Net Revenue for the year 1617. E.
by the FiNance Committer, was 52,f005,344
Actual receipts

Difference 5,227,914
In this estimate, too. the Committee had not in-
serted the emus remai ee i e to he received upon the
assessments of the Mope, ty Tax, and of which the
amount outstanding on the fitil of January, 1817,
was computed at 2,800,000!., while in the amount
of the actual receipts is included the tun) of
1,268,458/. under the head of arrears of the wine
tax.

In this general review of the state of our f►uaucea
we are not conscious of being influenced by. any
consideration distinct from u desire to give to the
Public a fair and candid statement; we " nothing
extenuate, nor aught set down in malice." lVe
should lament as much u the most devoted ad-
herents of the Ministent aliy deficiency iu the
revenue, if the amount were to be taken as a just
eke-Owl of national prosperity. We, however,
look upon every shilling produced by taxes *3
burden on the people, indiyettsable, indeed, to a
certain degree, but no more a proof of their ability
to support it, than the imposing of it is u !woof of
humanity or ability iu the CHANCELLOR of the
EXCHEQUER. The actual amount of money ex-
acted in the year is enor►uous, and if contemplated
aid) feelings of juNtice, generosity, or even of
snuud policy, ought to lie ►wade the limit of Mi-
nisterial indulgence in military pomp or civil
extravagotiee.

We have received Paris Papers of Friday and
Saturday last. Those of Friday contain au abstract
of the discussion. in the Chan►ber of Peers, on the
Liberty of the Prei.s.

The five per Cents. are 641. SO e.—Batik Ac-
tions, 1,455 f.

An important doe ttttt rut respecting the Slave
Trade is given in another part of our raper. It is
o Decree of the King of SPAIN, prohibiting his sub-
jects from trading in .h►rrs on the coast of Africa,
North of the l.ine,all4l iesiricting the dnration of the
trut: south ry' the Line, on the same coast, to two
years nod live insitiths, from the date of the decree.

We give this day the Dutch account of the late
insurrection in Java. It has been pui►lished in
the Dutch Papers, with a view to rescue the Dutch
Government in that island from the imputation of
having contributed to this effect by their itiliu.
inanity sind oppression. We may, however, venture
to assert. that it would not have happened nutter the
liberal and paternal admiuistratio►► of Sir THom As