The Sun.
London, England, 1811-09-05 00:00:00

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reseits s. . not appear eetirely satisfactory, or
shalt estu be found nere.ifier to b.: in sum* parthiu-.
lars-reiceurate. Soule ditieretice, incleed,,is nattv;
rally to .be - expected froin.the mode of so tement,
winch has been usually in practice, of cum:ding
the Home transaCtions of one year wi, h. tire Foreign
trans Idiotic rat the year preceding, upon the la-est.:nip.
nen that, to the whole petiod, ..tho conion,ents
from India and China of one year might be realized .
in Ehglat4l in the next.
Hitting otlerecl these preliminary remarks, your
Committee protect to the branch of their examine-
lion, which Ith natarally th tirst obje4 of attention;.,
:riareely; the sources from clience,funds were de-
. -rivett.,by; which the excess of the polbical charge
'nzyund the ainotnu of the revenues was liquidated,
and by which means were totted for defray itig the
commercial cliarge4, perchasilc inVestinents for
consignment tb Europe, and providing fur the
olier demands• and expenses of an extraordinary
nature, that have arisen dttritig the p.4iod tiedtr re-
view, or may be tAere conc.sely d..,cri~-ed as the
extraordinary reteilA atid-disbursenrut of India,
from the year- 179,4 .3 to the year 1908'.9 inclusive.
. Your Committee think it proper, how,. • er, before
'hey enter on this examination, to otfyr some ex-
planatory rt,nat.kS :upon the nature of those re-
ceipts and clisbi.i'senseots whiCh they are led to '
term extraordinary. The necessity •of this pre-
caution is miggesie3 from a refetenCe to a branch
of the accounts presented to the'House annually by
the Court.,,ot Directors of the East India C 011)..
pany, entitled, " Abstracts of dr.: Account of
" the Receipts and Diibursemeliis of the P.resi-
" dencies of Bengal, Madrat,s and Bombay,"- te.
spectively, which ptrport to be. an abstract view
of tile. entire receipt and' dishurtcraent of each
of the Preside tides, for the year in question. These
aCCGUIItS "comprise, in each instance, he ordinary
tedtipts from the tenitories; and extraordihary .1 ~.
Leipis of evyry description, whether from money
raised by loan in ledia, supplies . from .gurone, by .
sales of goods and stores; contygonients of. bullion, *
cash for bills of England, -supplies Item one
Presidency to the otter; and, ...in fat, are sup.,
pobed to inc:iide tire cash receipts cr every des
scription. 'pre disbursement side of the account
she As, in like manner, every cash expenditure,
whether ,in det'raying the ordinary charges of
the governments, or the extricrdi .ary expenses,
as payment of interest on the 'Jae, liquidation of
the principal of the debt; advances for the-purposcs
of cuumtrce, or in suri,ly 'of ether presidencies nr
settletnents ; also, various other charge, which are
incurred from year to year. These accounts, in
faa, form the basis of all
.the others immediately'
relating to India, which are presented at the same
time, but are ne,:essatily digested and arranged,
and cimpared with the general books of account by
the Auditor of Indian Accounts, in older to strew
distinctly the direst revenues and charges of India. '
Fro) this arlustmenti your Committee are given
to uriders,:ind, that many items of disbursement,
and some of receipts stated as extriordinar) in these
anstrads, are thrown into the accounts, froin which
tite' result which has been 'denominated " Ordinary
It, ceipt ' and • Charge," has seen 'drawn upon the
present occasion. This expianstitm is censidered
by 'yonr-Certitriittee to he nece4ary,.to.obviate any
misunderstanding of the AppliCatitl6 of the knit
extraordinary, a Lich they have-round conientent to
use; apprel.ehding that a referet,ce ro the,. *sec ,unis
,
theinselyes eiight,",witheet spelt en,:lanatiou,kad
to some eontnsidn. It ii+i. fliert-t,,r, t,) be observed,
that in bun the receipt .anti disbursement now
sheave under the term exti'aor,.';,, ry, this sums
taken are, .-I course, totally and entirely exclusive
of what has teen inserted in the waterneut No. 6,
in the Appendix of the last R port, from whieb the,
result of oidinary revenue) 14 charges has been
drawn.

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