Star.
London, England, 1819-04-28 00:00:00

Uterus of Mgt Plaided Deb* Unredeemed X 29,5411,845
Debt P
of Flailed Debt. and Want of
Debt Mound

. . 15,59141119

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444,140,854
1,180,692

Odest Chaps as the Cansolidateel Food, brio&
beg ittio,oce grassed to hie Once the Duke at
Wellington, b Act S 4 Geo. 111. cap. 161
Total Fund
Interest and Saint Peed of Unfunded Debt -
ennues.
‘11,600000
4,436,731
1,191,000

1,469,274
47,400,900
.840M00

Army - -
Ordnance -•
Na)
- -
- -

r'7Bl

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Minelinens Serfdom - . 1,251,501

Total probable Expenditure for 1119 5087,779,1182
The charge upon the Consolidated Fund in respect
to the Civil List, will be somewhat reduced in con-
sequence oPthe death of her late Majesty, and of the
Act lately passed, intituled, ~ An Act for the further I
regulation of his Majesty's Household, and the Care
of Royal Person during the continuance of his in-
disposition r which circumstances have been adverted
to by your Committee in framing their estimate; and
it appears to them, that under all these circumstances;
the charge upon the Consolidated Fu.id must be
stated, with reference to the debt as it at present
stands, and to the payment to the Duke of Welling-
ton,
at £47,400,000.
It will be observed, that your Committee have not
taken into their consideration any increased expense
which may arise out of the manner in wnich provi-
sion may be made for meeting the Supplies of the
present year, or for the expense which may attend
any measure which may be taken with a view of
reducing any part of the Unfunded Debt. But
no considerable additional expense will be incurred
by the latter operation, to whatever extent it may be
carried, as the whole expense will be the difference
between the interest at present paid on theAjnfunded
Debt, and the interest which may be paid. in the
event of its being converted into a Funded Debt. It
is therefore not necessary to advert more pFticularly
to any measure of this description; but with respect
to the difference between the Expenditure and Re-
venue, your Commktee must observe, that if this
difference, which cannot be estimated' at less than
£13.000,000, is made up either by an increase of the
Funded or Unfunded Debt, it will probably occasion
an additional Annual Expense, in the shape of Inte-
rest, to the extent of from £500,000 to 1:000,000, ex-
clusive of any Sinking Fund which may be assigned
for the redemption of this Debt ; of which interest,
there will probabl become payable M the courseask*
year i 819, about I. 800,000; and this sum being
to the aforementioned eXpenditnre of J.:61,179
will will make a total expenditure of £68.079
which will, however, be included for Sinking had
towards the redemption of Debt, about 016,064000.1
leaving the actual expenditure, exclusive of Sinking
Fund, at £53018,800, which, contrasted Veit k a Re-
VallUe of •C 51400010001. will •give. a surplus.of le-

venue really applicable to thnextinction of Debtcifi
EL9si,eou.
Yoiii4Coininittne-do ntit Mit* it nosailey, in sub=
;Mittlngio the 'Hai's* t h*M'of the tarobable, ex-
Pencli4ird'of the gn444Xiogdo* for the. year 1820,
to do more than to notice generaily some heads of
charge which 'occur in- theTAtrnates of the present
year,which will • probably not recur at allOr not to
the 'same extent, in the year 1820, and also some
other.expenses which will probably occur in the w=
year, to a greater extent than in the present. The
heads to which your Committee particularly allude
as not likely to occur in the next year, are the fol-
lowing, vix.
The payments to be made, in the present year,
to complete the charge of the last year, in
respect of the debt then treated.......... ..... X 115,454 0 0
The charge of the Funded Debt, by the aspi-
ration of the Imperial Annuities, the last
divi-
dend on which will he paid on the sth July,

1819 230,000 0 0
The sum to be issued to his Grace the Duke of

Wellington, in the present year,. under the
Act 54 Geo. cap.l6l 150,000 0 6
In the Army—Expense of Reduction 803.000 0 0
In the Ordnance—Ditt0..
In the Wavy—A probable Saving under the
heads of Army Provisions and Transports,
as a great part of the garrisons abroad will be
relieved in the present year, in consequence
of the reduction of the army lOO,OOO 0 0
Probable decrease in the Half-pay, Pensions,
Su. in the coarse of the year 1820; the total
amount of allowances of this descliptinn
being now £4,324,956 OO,OOO 0 0
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Total probable saving of expenditure, £868,452 0 0
And the items which will occurto a larger extent in the next

than in the present year, are as follows:
By the diffethnee between the total :mount of
the interest upon any debt which may be
• created in the present year, and the sum
which will be actually paid in this year £oo,ooo 0 0
By an addition to the Army Estimates, two of
the Regiments returning from India being
provided for in the Estimates for 1819, from
the 95th of August only, thp difference be-
tween that sum and the totarexpence for one
year, must therefore be provided.... ......r: 30,000 0 0
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Total probable addition to the eipeediturip- "50,000 0 0
—Which being deducted from the probable saving
would leave a balance of about £.538,452, and would

make the expenditure for 1820 aboUt 07,541.430.
Your Committee have not, in the estimate for this
latter year, made any allusion to the additional ex-
pense which would be incurred, if the difference be-
tween the income and the expenditure were provided
by any addition to the funded or unfunded debt ;
nor have they adverted to the increase which will
naturally take place in the same time to the income
of the present Sinking Fund, if it accumulates with-
out the interest of any new loans being charged
thereon : These circumstances will occasion no great
variation in the result of the general account, which;
in either event will exhibit a balance of income,
above the expenditure of about 0,519,652 (exclusive,,
kowever of the, expenditure of the Sinking Fund it-1
self ;) neither have your Committee noticed any
charge which may arise in respect of the Exchecuer
Bills to the amount of £1,100,000, appropriated or!
intended to be appropriated to the building of
Churches, because no charge has yet been incurredl
on account of this grant, and it is.at present uncer-i
Lain when and to what amount say disbursement
upon this account may occur.
Tour Committee think it their duty to call the at-
tention of the House to the important fact, that a
very considerable part of the present revenue, namely,
excise duties, to the amount of about 0,500,080 per
annum, have been granted by Parliament, only to the
sth.JUly, 1821. 11tn-revenue is charged upon thine
articles of consumption most subject to illicit trade,
land it must depend upon the continued Success of
the measures which have been taken to repress this)
traffic, whether this revenue can be supported beyond'
that time, either with justice to the fair. tradet or ad.
vantage to the revenue: but your Committee have
already observed, in a former part of this Report,
that the reventie upon the articles subject to these
duties has increased and improved in common with
the revenue charged upon other articles 'with excise
duties, and therefore, at present at least, there does
not appear to be any reason for repealing them, or
suffering them to expire, upon the ground that the
duties upon these articles cannot be maintained at
their present rate; while it must be recollected, that
should they either be repealed or suffered to expire,
that deficiency.of revenue must be supplied by some
other means.--elpril 5, 1819.
ARMY.

SECOND REPORT PROM THE SELECT COMMIT-
' TEE ON FINANCE.=ISI9.•
The Select Committee appointed to inquire into
and state the Income and Eipenditure of 'the United
I Kingdom for the Year ended the sth of January,
1819: and also -to consider and state the probable
Incemt and Expenditure (so far as the same can now
be estimated), for the year ending the sth of. Ja-
nuary, 1820, and to report the same,. together with
their observations thereupon, from time to time, tol
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she House; and also to consider what further mean
cures may be adopted for the relief of the 'country
from any part of the said Expenditure, without de-
triment to the public interest, have proceeded, to
examine the Army Estimates of the current year; to
compare them with the Estimates of 1818, and to
ascertain how far the suggestions contained in the
s of former Committees have been complied
72:1.rt They proceed, first, to the examination of the
Division comprised under the head of Class 1.
For the reasons given in a fcrmer Report upon the
Army Estimates, (Report 11, 1817,) the Committee
avoid giviog,any opinion upon the numerical amount
of the Army. They cannot, however, omit availing
themselves of thil opportunity of congratulating the,
House, that the state of affairs in Europe continues
to preserve such an appearance of tranquillity as to
have enabled the Government to withdraw the Bri-
tish Troops, which had been employed under the,
Treaty of Paris of 1515 itt the occupation of a por-
tion of the French ten itory. This measure has led
*retreat diniinution.df the military farce; a slum-
iser.oftneo, equal in untosstao the whole army re-
turned from Franaro has beentaither reduced or is
now under orders for reductor* Of the Home Force,
voted in the Enisnatts of ketlear, a reduction of
9,142 rank and Ile bassinet place ; which measures
will ultimately effect a diminution of force amount-
ing. to 54,118 Officers and.mem •
For the better elucidafron.Of this part of their Re-
port, the Committee subjoin the Annexed Returns :
• The first is a Return Of th :weber of. •Non-Com-

elorti October IMitontionotiotto 26:631 men.
second contaitis.a statement of the Regimental
Reduction; in Men and Horses, elected or ia Pro-
gress ; by which it appears that the reduction will
ultimately amount to 31,916 Rank and File and
4499 Horses ; leaving the intended Peace Establish-
ment of the Army, etchnive of the Regiments of
Cavalry and Infantry serving in the East Indies; as
follows :--
Cavalry 8,P54
Foot Guards ' 540
Infantry 33,080

Total - - 69,794
The Committee add a comparison of the total
numbers voted in the Estimates of 1817, 1818, and
1819, respectively; from which it appears that the
total numerical force reduced since the vote of 1817,
when the present orders are carried into effect, will
amount to 55,802 Officers, Non-commissioned Offi-
cers and Privates.
The Committee next present the-charge of his Ma-
jesty's Land Forces serving at home and abroad, ex-
clusive of the Forces serving in Frant.-:', for 1818,
and exclusive of the Force serving in the territorial
Possessions.of the East India Company for the years
ending 25th Dec. 1818, and 25th Dec. 1819 The
charge to k provided for in 1818, amounted to—
• - : • 13,277.374 10 8
In 1819, to C5.008,7'14 '
By which it appears that a diminution (alibis
head.of.Estimates has taken place, in favoUr cf 16 9,
amounting to £268,660 19 8
The-Committee also subjoin a Statement sheering
the cfgerence befween the total amount of Estimate;
voted for the ordinary services of the Army for 1S I
and the amount of the same Estimates for 1819, from
which it appears that an increase of charge amount-
ing to £88,834. 18s. sd. has taken place.
The Committee have thought it proper on this
part of the subject, to make a more general conic a.
rison of the estimates of 1818 and 1810, sofas to em-
brace the whole of the sums charged in the Army
Estimates, whether provided for by this country or
not, in order to thew the true measure of Reduction
which has taken place. This comparison is annexed,
together with a calculation of the probable amount
of the charge of the Army for the year ending 25th
December, 1820. From this it appears that the total
diminution in the amount of the charges contained
in the Estimates, and which is the tiva measure of
the reductions effected in our military e,tablishments
in the course of the year 1818, is 7C3,3181. 12s. 11 d.
But a; the charge of the troops in India is de-
frayed by the India Company, and that of the Army
in France was paid out of the French canttibatie-a.;,
it is necessary to leave out of the calculation bi.th the
saving en the latter and the increase on the former,
to arrive at the difference in the amount of the sum
to be provided by Parliament ; which being done,
the actual increase which remains to be provided for
is I:88,512.1s. 11d.
But in the total charge for 1819, are included, as
the charge for reductions in 1819, £203,251 11 s.
This charge will become a saving in the year 1820,
as compared with 1818, and should therefore be set
against the increase in 1819, so as to leave a saving
in 1820, as compared with 1818, of E 114,74,2 9t. 1 d.
But this saving will be subject to tome dedUctionion
account of the half-pay of the Officers and the Chel-
'iia Pentions of the men, who will be reduced when
the force for which the sum of £203'254. 11s.•• is
taken, is wholly 3isbanded. , This charge;' filf, the
whole year, would amount to T.51,300a bitti.'4Ang
include,: in the Estimates of the current.eAr,l.Bl9,
feuthe last six months, tfie additional expense in
1820, will only be half that amount, viz. L18;8::0.
The clear saving in Ino, will therefore be, 1:88,092
9s. ld. .
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The total nun to be voted in let 9, is
Deduct saving

iter.582,802 111 3
116,093 1

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The probable charge in 1820 will be 186,416.713 3 i
The Committee .next advert to the State of Ex-
penses on account of Recruiting for the ye.sr 1819 ;
and ,on• this brad they find a diminution of charge
upon the United Kingdom, in 1819, as tompated
with 1818, admunting to £2,119. 15s. 94.
For the Charge of-Depots for Regiments on Fo-
reign Service, the Committee remark a small reduc-
tion of -eharge under every head of these Establish-
ments, amounting to a total of £1,904. Bd.
Under the head of Regimental and other Coritio-
racks. the Committee report a reduction of Charge
in the Estimate of 1819, as compared with that of
1818, 'of £7,888. 12s:
In the charge for General and Staff Officers, and
Officers of the Hospitals serving with his Majesty's
Forces in Great Britain, Ireland, and on Foreign•Sta-
dons, (excepting India,) the Committee state; that
there is an increase of £2486 Is. 9d.
The Committer having observed an increase of
estimate for the Medical Establishments
.epon Fo-
reign Station's for the cuiVeet year, as welt'. Fit }pm,
have not .omitted to inquire into the 444 :bt.':su::l
increase; and they have been asssund• that it has
arisen front the strong and ergeat representations of
his Majesty'r.Governors of severe) Colonies to thb
Governtnent at home `that adaitlolhal icM as:i'sr-
ance was ahsolately.necessarY, and that thehbalth of
his Majesty's troops must fall a• sacrifice to the wain of
attendance, if these representations were not acceded to.
The increase has consequentlyheen ordered, to which
the Committee give theft full approbatlon. It Lat
the same time observed that this charge for addi-
tional medical assistance is to a certain degree to be
attributed to the reductions of the Regimental Medi-
cal Staff ; formerly the. Medical Stiff attached to
each Regiment of Infantry, consisted of one Survon
and two Assistant Surgeons ; the second Assistant-
. Surgeon is now reduced.
• In the Estimate of the charge of the allowances to
the principal Officers of the several Public Depal t-
ments, the Committee observe an increase of charge
under this head of £8,681. 19s. Sd.
The Committee have annexed a comparison of the
charge of the War Office as it stood in 1814 and as
it stands for 1819, from which it appeals that Rv-
dactioat have been made in the Department for Cur-
seat business, as compared with whatit was in 16i4,
which would haveproduced weaving of near nineteen
thousand pootrnds had no arrear eoisted; that npcn
F
the whole
and Arrear, an actnal Redaction of 0,1,23 has been
(acted and that of the present charge of the War
'Office, £97,890 only is for the Current Business, and
C 18,121 is on account of the .4arear. The first

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