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CHARGE.

Permanent Debt.
Terminable Annuities
Interest on Exchequer Bills issued to meet the charge on the Consolidated Fund
Sinking Fund
The Civil List
Other charges on the Consolidated Fund, including Civil Government Services formerly pail out of the Civil List, o► the Heredi-
tary Revenues of the Crown

Total Charge.........

The Surplus ............. .

The Amount of Exchequer Bills issued to meet the charge on the Consolidated Fun
growing produce of that Fund for the Quarter ended sth April, 1836, (exclusive of
The Amount issued in the Quarter ended sth July, 18.36, in part of the sums grant
' for Supply Services
ced Fund Itled July 5, 1836

id for the Quarter ended, and paid off out of the
f 300,004. paid off out of th • Sinking Fund)
ted by Psrliament out of the Consolidated Fund

.11 The Surpliis Of the Consolidate
I The probable amount of Exchequer Bills required to meet the charge on the Cons,

Quarter en,

undated Fund, Quarter ended July 5, 1536

but a 'very indifferent politician. He relates facts
exactly as they occurred, and his dates, as far as they
extend, are less liable to cavil than Scaliger's chrono-
logy of the world ; but he frequently mistakes their
causes, and assumes as their consequences the results
of measures with which they had but a very remote
connection. He frequently assumes important facts
on insufficient data—as when he tells us, on the
authority of a Russian Officer, that Europe had m►s-
taken the character of Catherine 11. of Russia ! As-
suming Europe to be mistaken, what an authority for
the fact ?

The Work is dedicated, by permission, to our
Gracious Sovereign, whose portrait forms the frontis-
piece. Prefixed to the Second Number are hand-
some portraits of Admiral Lord Duncan and Admiral
Earl Howe. The tabular part of the Work has been
drawn up from official documents, communicated to
the Author by the Government. In justice to the
Author, as well as to our readers, we extract the fol-
lowing account of the " Glorious First of June,"
1794, as a fair specimen of " Brenton's Naval His-
tory of Great Britain"

" The fog on the 30th and 31st of May having separated
the fleets, kept the British Admiral in much anxious sus-
pense; at length the sun rose on the glorious Ist of June:
it was Sunday; the weather was more moderate and the sea
smoother than they had been on the preceding days. In the
interval between the 28th and the Ist of June, a ship of the
line had joined the French fleet, and replaced the Revolu-
tionaire, making their number twenty-six, and leaving ours
twenty-five. At half-past seven Lord Howe directed his
people by a general signal to have their breakfasts. About
half-past eight, A. M. his own fleet was formed in such com.
pact and excellent order, that as he looked to the right and
left, to starboard and to port, his ships were in a perfect line
parallel to the enemy, with the wind S. by W. on the larboard
quarter, renning north-west under their single reefed topsails
at the rate of five miles an hour. The French fleet about
two miles to the westward, waiting the attack with great ap-
parent resolution ; this is the first instance on record of the
-French waiting for a general action upon comparatively equal
terms; and their ships not being all commanded by naval
officers, I am confirmed in the opinion that the threat of the
guillotine had much share in fixing the enemy's line, and that
many heeds would have fallen on the return of their fleet to
Brobt hut for the timely fate of Robespierre: this 1 sar on
the authority of Admiral Villaret.
" The signal No. 39 had been made and answered ; its
purport was, that, having the weather gage of the enemy,
the Admiral means to pass between the ships of their line and
engage them to leeward; or being to leeward, to run through
and engage them to windward ;' but it is added in sk note,
the different captains and commanders, not being able to effect
this intention, are at liberty to act as circumstances may re-
quire.' Fhis was an excuse for a fault before it was com-
mitted : the explanation was useless to a good officer, and
fatal to a had one : it disconcerted the plan so ably laid down
by the. Admiral, and left him, with the bravest of his fol-
lowers, to bear the heat of the battle. Those who nobly
disdained to avail themselves of this indulgence, and
passed
through the line, proved that with them every Z!ons id erati on
vanished before the honour and safety e• their king and
country.
" When the hostile fleets were 'ln tile position just de-
scribed, and not many minutes previous to the action, Lord
Howe, turning to Bowen the master, said, I now shut up
my signal-book, and 1 treat I shall have no occasion to re -
open it to-day.' This was the language of an officer con-
fiding in the valour of his captains ; and determined, after
haviug obtained a proper situation for commencing the action,
to do his own duty, and to set an example to his followers.
The words wore scarcely spoken before one of bis ships, on
his larboard beam, brought-to, in direct disobedience to the
signal which enjoined him to run through the line and engage
his opponent to leeward : it is true, he had a discretionary
power, but only in the event of his finding- it impossible to
execute the intention of the signal, and not otherwise. This
conduct was both mortifying and alarming. The firing had
begun ; the signal was immediately thrown nut for the ship
to make sail, but it was not oboyedi and this, I am sorry to
say, was not the ouly insterme of tea isconduct which occurred
in the battit, elf the jst of June. At fifty-two minutes past
not the Queen Charlotte opened her fire ; some British ships
went through the line and engaged to leeward, and one or
two fell an hoard of their opponents, and continued to engage
them. In going down to the enemy some of our ships had
been much disabled from their fire, particularly the Queen
Charlotte, the Queen, the Brunswick, and others. Lord
Howe walked on the front of the poop, attended by Sir
Roger Curtis the captain of the fleet, Sir Andrew Douglas
the captain of the ship, and the signal officers : the men were
falling fast round them, which the veteran Admiral beheld
with perraot composure and without returning a shot. At
length, after much persuasion, he consented that they should
fire from the man, and quarter deck guns only, meaning to
reserve the middle and lower decks for closer action. The
officers, at those batteries, hearing the firing over their heads,
supposed they were at liberty to begin, and gave the whole
broad-side, re-loading however with great celerity. The
Montagne was still the object of the British Admiral, the
largest, perhaps the finest, ship at that time in the world.
Lord Howe desired Bowen to lay him as close along-side of
her e's lie could c Bowen, a steady, brave, and determined
seaman, knew his duty and did it : he conducted the ship so
close under the stern of the Montagne, that the fly of the tri-
coloured ensign brushed the main and mizen shrouds of the
Queen Charlotte as she poured her larboard broadside into
her opponent's starboard quarter. The Montagne does not
appear to have been prepared for action on that side ; her
ports were down, and it was some time before she returned a
gun : the effect upon this unfortunate ship was the loss of
three hundred men killed and wounded ; so Admiral Villaret
assured me himself when we talked the battle over in our
voyage home from Martinique. Jean Bon St. Andre, the re-
presentative of the people, was standing near the French Ad-
miral when the firing began ; but he instantly disappeared,
and remained in the cockpit during the rest of the action. At
this moment the Jacobin, seconda-stern of the Montwene,
either by accident or design, ran so close up under the lee of
his Admiral that there was not room for the Queen Charlotte
to take the position intended by Lord Howe on the lee beam of
his opponent; and in consequence of this failure the Queen
Charlotte's helm was kept a-port, and she passed between
the stern of the Jacobin and head of her second* raking them
both at the same time: the Jacobin then media sail, and the
Queen Charlotte immediately came to the wind on the lar-
board tack to engage the Montagne, in doing which her fore-
topmast fell over the side. The French Admiral instantly
taking advantage of this accident, moved off, leaving the
Queen Charlotte engaged with the two ships second and third
a-stern of the Montagne. At ten minutes past ono the action
had ended with the centre, and Villaret made sail to leeward
to join his disabled ships, lint the firing did not entirely cease
till four o'clock 3 When the French Admiral having collected
his 011114, hve sea of which were dismastcd, stood to the
northseast, leaving Lord Howe master of the field of battle
with seven sail of prizes, one of which foundered before the
prisoners could be removed: two hundred and eietllq Alen
tlq
were all that could be saved out of seven h"CLA,. oh which
she began the action ; the rest veto Ofecieedrewned.. There
was no cry of Tee se iaisely stated in ihP Mtn-
•
tefitol:l. irerich Golour4 were strnek. and the sank
delYe v; nth the English jack oyer the ReickAll4all Aag, The
heats. nh' the British fleet; yp.ry ActiVti to saving the men,
who 11%4m-11.1i* nleecy this ship was named Le Vengeur,
and was the same that had engaged the Brunswick."

THE SCOTTISH MONTHLY IVA GAZINE.
11(-441444 and Craddock.
Till:. is the second Number of a very promising pe-
riodical ; but as it only reached our office on the 4th,
we are prevented from entering into a critical analysis of

its contents. Publishers have only themselves to blame
for much that may appear neglect on our part. Seeing
the great trouble which we take with Monthly and
Quarterly periodicals, it is not unreasonable that we
should expect to have them forwarded to us on the
day of publication at the latest. We trust this hint
will be taken by more than our Glasgow friends.
There is a time for everything, aid the first of the
month is the time, and the only time, lin. Magazine
notices.

SCOTT S PROSE WORKS. Vol. XXVII.
Cadell, _Edinburgh, 1836.
Contains a continuation of the popular « Tales of
My Grandfather," embellished with two skilful en-
gravings, one of Calais, the other of Rouen, executed
by Richardson and Horsburgh, from designs furnished
by Turner.

LIBRARY OF THE GRACES. No I.
Cookes, London, 1836.

This is a first Number, and like all first I,:iumbers, as
full of promises as a Parliamentary Candidate. It is got
up with skill and care .all ti);:n,gsconsidered—and the
literary department is "superior to the ordinary average of
Lady periodic his. If it goes on as well as it has begun,
it ca".7lot fail to be successful.

CABINET CYCLOPJEDIA—VoL. 80.
Longman, London, 1836.

This volume forms the third of the Rev. Mr.
Thirlwall's History of Greece, commencing with the
period of the Athenian maritime ascendancy, and
terminating with the Sicilian expedition and the sur-
render of Nicias. The work is gracefully, *and above
all, impartially written, and in this respect is far
superior to Mitford's History=whose treatment of
Demosthenes must ever remain a blot on his character
as a temperate, fair-dealing annalist.