Star.
London, England, 1821-01-15 00:00:00

SUPPLIES.

Army - - - £9,422,000 Annual Malt - £3,000,000
Navy - - - 6,586,700 Excise Duties con-
Ordnance - - - 1,204,600 tinued - - - 2,500,000
Dliseellaneous - 2,100,000 Lottery - - 240,000
Interest on niche- Old Stores - 260,000
quer Bills - - 1,000,000
Sinking Fund on do. 410,000

46,000,000

20,723,500
6,000,000

Deficient - XI-1,723,3W
Such is the deficiency of the Revenue to meet the
Supplies or Charges. We will now estimate the No-
minal Sinking Fund of the year at 017,000, from
which, if we deduct the deficiency of Annual Re-1
venue (to meet the Supplies), we shall hod the Actual
Sinking Fund for the year ending sth January,lB2l,
to be about £2,277,000. Had the statemeuts we havoj
alluded to been regularly :nade every Quarter, we.,
should have been able to have put before the Public
an accurate account of the Real Sinking Fund, but.
for want of these we have been obliged to assume,l

Ist, That the Consolidated Fund for the year has no!
-su; plus ; 2dly, That the amount of Duties, Lottery,;
and Old Stores, have not .exceeded the Minister's
estimate ; and, 3dly, That the Nominal Sinking Fund
is A.:17,000. NVe, therefore, have ti observe, that the
sum of 1:2,277,000 (which, under these circumstances,
we have estimated to be the real Sinking Find), will be
increased or decreased according as the Consolidated
Fund, Annual Duties, and Naminal Sinking Fund
riay actually be more or less than we Lave assumed
them to be. The accurate statement of these Ac-
counts must of course be deferred until after the
meeting of Parliament, unless the Secretaries of the
Treasury may choose to publish them previously.
We shall conclude by merely reminding the Pub-
lic, that they must not look for an increase on the No-
minal SinkiPg Fund for the year 1821, Mr. VA NSIT•
TA irr having effectually stopped its increase by charg-
ing it annually with the interest of loans rai ed in
1820, amounting to nearly 1:1,450,000. Therefore,
should the Revenue fall off, the Real Sinking Fund
this year (1821) will be less than that of last, unless
a decrease in Expenditure should take place corres-
ponding with the decrease of Revenue.
We can assure our Readers our object is to put be-
fore them a correct statement, and we wish the ac-
counts were all published, as they ounlit to be, to en-
able us so to do; but as soon as official documents
come before us, we shall lay before the Public a very
accurate statement, which, we fear, will not prove
our finances to be in a more satisfactory state than we
have now estimated them to be.

Funded Debt, Jau. 5, 1820, unredeemed .0794,980,481 17 91
Unfunded ditto altogether, except Debt due
on Consolidated Fund - - - - 37,501,656 14 7
Debt due to the Ilauk on Consolidated Fond,
sth January, 18510

- 8,377,601 16 3

• Total - £840,859,739 871
.Take these totals altogether, the Public Debt
stands re:laced but little up to the sth Jan. 1821.
The actual reduction being only to the extent of the
Real Sinking Fund, amounting to between two and
three millions.

• £45,879,9.58. 10s. 10d. is not funded, but if it was, at £7O
per cent. it would add to the Funded Debt 65 millions, and'
would nuke the total debt of the country in stock about 880
millions, for which we have a Real Sinking Fund of between
two and three millions.—Alferning Chronicle.

As a woodman who lives at the Hook and Hatchet
public-house, near Chatham, was eating his dinner in
a neighbouring shaw, during one of the late very
severe days, a robin perched upon his knee, and ac-
tually pecked the bread which he held in his hand.