John Beresford, efq. purse-bearer to the lord chancellor Right honourable John Fofter, fpeaker of the house of commons Henry Alexander, efq. chairman of the committees of supply and ways and means Sir G. Fitzgerald Hill, bart. clerk of the houfe Edward Cooke, efq. clerk of the house in reverfion John M'Clintock and Wm. F. M'Clintock, efqrs. ferjeants at arms, including 1001. on the civil lift Ed. Trefham, clerk affistant G. F. Winftanley, and Jonath. Rogers, committee clerks, each Dr. Ellis, fuperin. engroffing clerk C. H. Tandy, engroffing clerk T. Richardfon, affift. ditto £14 11 4 4 11 0 5083 3 4 500 0 0 2263 13 2 500 0 0 1200 0 0 594 6 10 250 0 0 Wm. Ratferry, clerk in the chief clerk's office, clerk of the minutes, and clerk of the fees H. Coddington, efq. dep. ferjeant at arms James Corry, efq. clerk of the journals and records John Smith, affiftant ditto R. Connor, attending clerk Mr. Hume, clerk of the brief G. Dunleavy, meffenger R. Burnside and R. Fleming, back door-keeper 398 7 0 150 0 0 470 0 0 350 O 0 L. Dunlevy, R. Grace, R. Garland, E. Byrne, D. Brenan, H. Gahan, J. Brown, A. Carton, P. Ferrall, J. Morley, G. Shirley, M. Dalton, and J. King, each J. Banen, ditto. W. Brown, distributor of votes Sarah Connor, houfe-keeper 36 0 0 51 18 6 130 0 0 401 13 2 John Kennedy, and John Walker, front door-keepers, each 168 4 9 Lord Viscount Glentworth, clerk of the crown and ha naper T. Bourchier, dep. ditto John Beresford, efq. purfe-bearer to the lord chancellor YEAR... 1796-from Michaelmas An Account of Gold coined at his Majefty's Mint, from Michaelmas 1796 to the prefent Time; diftinguishing the Quantity coined in each year. Return to an Order of the House of Commons, for An Account of the Amount of the Public funded Debt of the Kingdom, at the following Periods: viz. at the Beginning of the Years 1700, 1710, 1720, 1730, 1740, 1750, 1760, 1765, 1770, 1775, 1780, 1785, 1790, 1791, 1792, 1793, 1794, 1795, 1796, 1797, 1798, 1799, and 1800. The Books of the Exchequer not being found to contain Accounts of the public debt for the years 1700, 1710, or 1720, the above is therefore the best return that can be made to the order of the house of com mons. Exchequer, 29th December, 1800. L2 James Fifher, AR An Account of the Amount of Dank of England Notes in Circulation, on an Average of every three Months, from the 25th Day of March, 1797, in the Years 1797, 1798, 1799, and 1800; diftinguishing the Amount of Notes below the Value of Five Pounds. Amount of Bank of England Notes of Five Pounds each, and upwards: Amount of Bank of England Notes of Two Pounds and One Pound each. N. B. The amount of notes for the last quarter, in the year 1800, can only be made out to the 6th instead of the 25th of December. Bank of England, 15th December, 1800. Wm. Walton, Acct. Gen. Refolutions moved by Mr. Pitt, and carried in the House of Commons, 28th July, 1800. 1. That the amount of the public funded debt was, on the 5th of January, 1786, 238,231,2487. exclufive of long and fhort annuities, and annuities for lives, to the amount of 1,373,550. That, on the 1ft of February, 1793, ftock to the amount of 10,242,1001. had been purchased by the commiffioners for redeeming the national debt; and annuities to the amount of 79,8801. had fallen in, and had been carried to their account; reducing the actual amount of the debt, on the 5th of January, 1793, to 227,989,1487. and the annuities to 1,293,6701.; and that on the 1ft of February, 1800, ftock to the amount of 32,404,8457. had been purchased by the commiffioners for redeeming the national debt; and annuities to the amount of 119,880. had fallen in, and been carried to their account, reducing the actual amount of debt exifting before the war, on 1ft February, 1800, to 205,826,4031. and the annuities to 1,253,6701. 2. That the amount of the public funded debt created fince the 1ft of February, 1793, (including the amount to be created by fums borrowed in the prefent feffion of parHament, and exclufive of 7,502,6331. 3 per cent. flock, and 230,000l. per annum annuities, created by the advances to the emperor of Germany), was on the 1ft of February, 1800, 257,787,7921. exclufive of long annuities to the amount of 253,2061. per annum; of which 15,315,000%. is on account of Ireland, and 56,445,000l. is provided for by the tax on income, leaving a permanent debt of 186,027,7927. charged on Great Britain; and that on the 1ft of February, 1800, 12,328,4491. had been purchased by the commiffioners for redeeming the national debt; reducing the faid permanent debt created fince the 5th of Jan. 1793, to 173,699,3437. exclufive of long annuities to the amount of 283,2061. per annum, after deducting the annuities payable by Ireland. 3. That the total amount of the permanent funded debt charged on Great Britain, after deducting the fum of 44,733,2941. redeemed by, and the annuities fallen into, the commiffioners, was, on the 1ft of February, 1800, 379,525,000l. together with fhort annuities to the amount of 549,1307. and long annuities to the amount of 987,9477. after deducting the annuities provided for by Ireland. 4. That the fum annually applicable to the reduction of the national debt, in pursuance of the act paffed in 1786, was 1,000,000%. being about 1-238th part of the capital of the permanent debt then exifting; and for 1793 was 1,427,1437. being about 1-160th part of the permanent debt existing in 1793, and may for the year 1800 be estimated at 4,730,000l. being about 1-82d part of the permanent debt exifting in 1800. 5. That the annual charge incurred on account of the permanent debt, on the 5th of January, 1786, was 9,297,000l. before any fund was created applicable to the reduction of the debt, and on the 5th January, 1793, was 10,325,0007. including 1,000,000l. applicable to the reduction of the debt. 6. That the annual charge incurred on account of the permanent debt created fince the 5th of JaL 3 nuary, nuary, 1793, (including 314,000l. permanent intereft and charge on loan of the prefent feffion), amounts to 8,582, 1297. per annum, of which 6,684,4097. is for intereft, annuity, and charges of management, and 1,897,9604. applicable to the reduc tion of debt; and that a farther charge of 497,7351. per annum is guaranteed by parliament, in default of payment of the intereft of certain loans by his majesty the emperor of Germany. 7. That the outstanding demands on the 5th of January, 1793, amounted to 1,327,1127.; and on the 5th of January, 1800, to 2,890,7917.; the whole of which have been provided for, part thereof in the former feffion of parliament, and the remainder in the prefent feffion. 8. That the unfunded debt (exclufive of the anticipation in the ufual form on certain duties annually voted) on the 5th of January, 1793, amounted to 8,925,4221. and on the 5th of January, 1800, to 14,406,288.; of which 1,911,000. was provided for in the prefent feffion of parliament, leaving an unfunded debt of 12,492,2887. which increase of 3,566,8661. beyond the amount of the unfunded debt on the 5th of January, 1793, is occafioned chiefly from an addition of 1,000,000l. exchequer bills, and of an additional navy debt arifing from increafed demands during the war, and bearing no intereft. 9. That the net produce of the permanent taxes exifting on the 5th of January, 1784, then amounted to 10,194,2597. and that taxes were afterwards impofed to defray the expenfes of the war ending in 1783, amounting in 1786, to 938,000. making together 11,132,000. 10. That the net produce of the permanent taxes exifting previous to the year 1794, adding thereto about 938,0001. imposed, as above flated, in 1784 and 1785, and 137,000l. arifing from the confolidation act, and from duties impofed in 1789, was, in the year ending the 5th of January, 1793, 14,284,000.; on the 5th of January, 1791, 13,941,000/.; on the 5th of January, 1795, 13,858,000l.; on the 5th of Jan. 1796, 13,557,000l.; Onl the 5th of January, 1797, 14,292,000.; on the 5th of January, 1798, 13,332,000l.; on the 5th of January, 1799, 14,275,000l.; and on the 5th of July, 1800, 15,432,2541.; which laft fum, after deducting the duties arifing from the confolidation act, and thofe impofed in 1789, exceeds the net produce of the permanent taxes on the 5th of January, 1784, together with that of the taxes impofed in 1784 and 1785, by 4,163,254. 11. That the actual net produce of the taxes impofed fince the 5th of January, 1793, amounted in the year ending the 5th of July, 1800, to 8,177,100.; and that, on part of thefe taxes, the produce of one year has not yet been received, and only 113,7761. of thofe impofed in the prefent year, eftimated at $50,000 12. That the total value of all imports into Great Britain, in the year ending the 5th of January, 1784, was 13,122,2351.; and on an average of fix years, ending the 5th of Jan. 1784, was 11,690,8291.; that the total value of all imports into Great Britain, in the year ending the 5th of January, 1793, was 19,659,3587; and on an average of fix years, ending the 5th of January, 1793, was 18,685,390.; that the total value of all imports |