The Sun.
London, England, 1824-02-18 00:00:00

balance of public money remaining in the Ex-
chequer on the sth of January, 1823 ; the
amount of money raised by additions to the
funded or unfunded debt in the year ended sth
January, /824 ; the money applied towards the
redemption of the funded, or for paying off the
unfunded debt, within the same period ; and the
money remaining in the Exchequer on the sth
of January, 1824. This document is made up
according to the present form of the public ac-
counts, and takes the shape of a balance sheet ;
so that the whole income and expenditure of the
country meet the eye at once. This is a sasisfac-
tory mode of statement for the public at large ;
and a review of this paper affords a gratifying
picture of the rising wealth and resources of this
great country. The income for the year, paid
into the Exchequer, amounts to the sum of
57,672,9991. Bs. 4kd. This large amount in-
cludes—besides the produce of Customs, Excise;
Stamps, Taxes, and the Post-Office, with the
other comparatively minor assessments-766,6661.
131. 4d., money received in repayment of the
Loan due by Austria, and paid by the
late Contractors here into the Treasury, and
another large sum of 4,675,0001. paid by
the .Trustees of Military and Naval Pensions,
after deducting 175,0001. included in the re-
mains in the Exchequer of the sth January,
1823—which sum goes to the discharge of what
is tecnically termed, in Parliament, the dead
weight for the year; while, on the expenditure
side of the balance-sheet, the country is charged
only on this account with a sum of 2,800,000/.
Long Annuities, into which the decreasing charges
under this head have, by a resolution of the Legis-
lature, been commuted : these annuities remain al-
most perpetual ; while, in 10 years,the dead weight
of the Naval and Military Pensions, by the
deaths of individuals now receiving them, will be
lessened one half ; and, in ten years more, sink
into almost nothing. The total amount of the
expenditure on the balance sheet amounts to
50,962,0141. 17s. 11,1 d.; the increase, as we
before stated, to 57,672,9991. Bs. 4fd., leaving
a surplus of 6,710,9841. 10s. 54-d. paid into the
Exchequer above the expenditure of the coun-
try, applicable to the Sinking Fund, and a re-
duction of taxation beside of near two millions,
affording, in prospect, a most important relief to
the country. This paper exhibits, in a most sa-
tisfactory view, the rapidly increasing resources
of the Empire. Their is now an actual Sinking
Fund, really applicable to the reduction of
the National Debt, which, if peace should
last for some years to come, must make a most
serious inroad on this great, and once al-
most hopless, incumbrance. Each coming year
must also witness new diminutions of the public
burthens ; while our resources are, at the same
time, progressively increasing, and the finances
of the country acquiring confirmed strength and
stability. This is a most gratifying and cheering
prospect; a striking contrast to the gloom and
despondency that, some few years since, settled
over Great Britain, and carried such universal
depression in its train. That such a state of things
may long endure, the country each year increas-
ing in prosperity and rising in resources, is our
sincerest wish. Content, confidence, and national
happiness must all follow with it.