The Sun.
London, England, 1804-07-11 00:00:00

ESTIMATE, 1803-4.

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Receipt for Sale of Company's 'Goods..
, 6,598,496
GLNL,4AL It ICSULT.—The receipt tram the saie
of Goods, being calculated at a larger amount than ~
last year, #lin the expectation stated of a re-issue ! '
of Bonds, paid in the Suppry for ludia and China, . being taken on a smaller scale' and the liquidation
of the I.),:bt to the Bank nor being reckoned upon, •
the !Mance on the ist of March, alos, is estimated . t
to ha i4l Awvt.s4 r imW th. ...a m ht
' T'.. ' 157,t34
DEB: S .1T 110,11 E, 7'..<1
On the Ma March,to,' tBp3, • - - , 4,773,686
On the Ist of March, I , - 4,756,865,

Increase

14,97§

ASSETS- AT HOME.
On the ist March, 1803,
On the tet.March, 1604,

171440,593
- t 9,058.736

Increase 1,712g,143

Decluilink the I ncresse of Debts, from the Assets, the
improvement olthe Hume Concern in the year is .4713,164

CHINA AND ST. HELENA.
Balance in Chinalast year:in-favour • 91,434
lialake at China, ,14 the pre4tit Ac.
counts, mainst -240,900

Decrease' at China 352,314
Balance at St. Helena, on 3oth. Sept.
ant, in favour - 78,845
Ditto, at ditto,. on 30th Septem-
ber, tboz, in f4vour - 105094"

Increase at St. Helena .26,346

Net Decrease at China and St. Helena. 325,081
CENERAI COMPARISON of DEBTS and ASSETS.;
I ncrease.of Debts in India - 1,214►841
Increase of Debts at Home 14'979

Total Increase of Debts
Increase of Assets in India 557,240
Increase of Assets at Home 1,725,1-13
2,285,333

1,2:9,82i

Dedua net Decrease of Balance at. China
and St. Helena -

325,933

Net Increase of Assets

T,959t396

'The net Improveinent of the year in this view.
719,57 s
appears io be ' - - -
From this sum should be deduaed the Amount of
Cargoes arrived .in India, previous to the 3oth
`April, 18°3, and included in the Quick Stocks
'
Owe, which formed part of the capes afloat,
outward, in.the Assets at Homo

The remainder is
Which may be considered as still liable to farther
adjustments When the final arrangement orate
• claims of die Company upon Government, as
stated in the Home Assets, shall be completed.

417,000

312857)

This statement ,being concluded, the Noble Lord
begged leave, before he sat down, to make it• few
general observations. 1-1; wished to call the attention}
of the CoMmiteee to the Estimates which he bad
brought forward fot 11502-,3. lie had -t hen expressed his
sanguine conviCtion, not only that the Public would
receive a. partkipatian of 500,0001. but
,that the
,company, in addition to this contribution to the Pub.
tics would be aide :to establish a Sinking Fund.for the
extindion of their debt, to t 4 amount of two millions
a year. When he had made this declaratiOnt it
,was
but fair to keep in mind that the circumstances then
exiSting, were very different indeed from those in
which the Country is now plat.ed.. It was in the
contemplation of the continuance of Peace, that, he
could only look forward to Ole fulfilment of hi: ea.
pectat ions. But to show
.thae he had iwtproceetied
on, light •or trivial. gropnds, lie adverted to the
estimates which he had laid down, .and cohtrasted
them with the real amoiri of the Revenues anti
charges. The estimate of the Revenue was twelve
lions hix hundred 411 d nine ty.three thousand. pounds,
Wilma the actual amount of theel(erl9,e Was Si'. it-