in the year ending the 5th of Jan. 1803, was 212,2031.; and in the year ending the 5th of Jan. 1809, 235,6941. (34.) That the number of Irish vessels which entered inwards in Ireland, in the year ending 5th Jan. 1803, was 1,408; their tonnage, 98,101; and their men, 7,001 :Of British vessels, 5,826; their tonnage, 535,819; and their men, 31,805 :-And the number of foreign vessels, 366; their tonnage 58,560; and their men, 3,791. That in the year ending the 5th Jan. 1809, the number of Irish vessels which entered inwards was ,583; their tonnage, 111,614; and heir men, 7,485 :-The number of British vessels, 7,189; their tonnage, 696,403; and their men, 38,426-And the number of foreign vessels, 159; their tonnage, 25,356; and their men 1,580. (35.) That the total amount of the public expenditure of Great Britain, exclusive of the charge of loan raised for the service of Ireland, for ten years ending the 5th of Jan. 1803, comprising the whole period of the war terminated by the peace of Amiens, may be stated at about 503,378,5401.; whereof 178,520,4541. arose from the charge of the public funded and unfunded debt, and 324,858,0861. from all other services; and that about 251,909,9531. was raised by the ordinary revenue and incidental payments of different kinds, about 32,679,0001. by extraordinary war taxes, 220,095,6071. by additions to the public funded debt, 3,000,0001. by an advance from the bank without interest, in consideration of the renewel of the charter, and an advance of 3,000,0001. from the bank in 1798, of which 1,500,000l. was repaid in 1803. (36.)-That the total amount of the public expenditure of Great Britain, exclusive of the charge of loans raised for the service of Ireland, for six years ending the 5th Jan. 1809, being the six first years of the present war, may be stated at about 395,945,5991.; whereof 166,445,052. arose from the charge of the public funded and unfunded debt, and 229,701,6471. from all other services; and that about 224,403,222. has been raised by the ordinary revenue and incidental payments of va rious kinds, 92,240,000l. by extraor dinary war taxes, 81,168,4181. by additions to the public funded debt, and 3,500,0001, by an advance without interest from the bank. (37.)-That if the sum raised by war taxes previously to the peace of Amiens, had been added to the loans of each year, and raised at the same rate at which such loans were actually raised in each year respectively, a further charge would have been incurred, of 48,678,000l. capital stock, and 1,850,000l. annual charge to be raised by permanent taxes. (38.)-That if the sum raised by war taxes during the first six years of the present war, had been added to the loan of each year, and raised at the same rate at which such loans were actually raised in each year, a further charge would have been incurred, of 132,969,000l. capital stock, and 6,755,000l. annual charge to be raised by permanent taxes. No. II. List of Public Acts passed in the List of Public Acts passed in the Third Session of the Fourth Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, 49th of George III. CAP. 1. An act for continuing to his majesty certain duties on malt, sugar, tobacco, and snuff, in Great Britain; and on pensions, offices, and personal estates in England, for the service of the year 1809. 2. An act for raising the sum of 10,500,000l. by exchequer bills, for the service of Great Britain, for the year 1809. 3. An act for raising the sum of 1,500,0001. by exchequer bills, for the service of Great Britain, for the year 1809. 4. An act to allow a certain proportion of the militia of Great Britain to enlist voluntarily into the regular forces. 5. An act to allow a certain proportion of the militia in Ireland voluntarily to enlist into his majesty's regular forces. 6. An act for the relief of prisoners in custody for non-payment of money pursuant to orders of courts of equity. 7. An act to prohibit the distillation of spirits from corn or grain, in the united kingdom, for a limited time. 8. An act to suspend the importation of British or Irish made spirits into Great Britain or Ireland respectively, until the 1st of June, 1809. 9. An act to grant bounties on the importation of flax seed into Ireland from Great Britain, until the 8th day of April, 1809; and to amend the laws for the regulation of the linen manufacture in Ireland, so far as relates to importers of flax seed. 10. An act to continue so much of an act of the 47th year of his present majesty, as allows a bounty upon double-refined sugar exported, until the 25th of March, 1811; and so much of the same act as allows a bounty on raw sugar exported until the 25th of March, 1810. 11. An act for further continuing, until the 25th of March, 1810, certain bounties and drawbacks on the exportation of sugar from Great Britain; and for suspending the countervailing duties and bounties on sugar, when the duties imposed by an act of the 46th year of his present majesty shall be suspended. 12. An act for punishing mutiny and desertion ; and for the better payment of the army and their quarters. 13. An act for the more effectually preventing the forging of bank notes, bank bills of exchange, and bank post bills, and the negociation of forged and counterfeited bank notes, bank bills of exchange, and bank post bills, of the governor and company of the bank of Ireland. 14. An act for repealing an act of the Parliament of Scotland, relative to child murder; and for making other provisions in lieu thereof. 15. An act to indemnify such persons in the united kingdom as have omitted to qualify themselves for offices and employments, and for extending the times limited for those purposes respectively, until the 25th of March, 1810; and to permit such persons in Great Britain as have omitted to make and file affidavits of the execution of indentures of clerks to attornies and solicitors, to make and file the same on or before the 1st day of Hilary Term, 1810. 16. An act to allow the importation of rum and other spirits from the island of Bermuda into the province of Lower Canada, without payment of duty, on the same terms and conditions as such importation may be made directly from his majesty's sugar colonies in the West Indies. 17. An act to authorise his majesty, during the present war, to make regulations respecting the trade and commerce to and from the Cape of Good Hope. 18. An act for continuing until the 25th day of March, 1814, several acts for the free importation of cochineal and indigo; and until the 25th of March, 1819, an act of the 46th year of his present majesty, to permit the exportation of wool from the British plantations in America. 19. An act for the regulation of his majesty's royal marine forces while on shore. 20. An act to make perpetual several laws relating to the encouragement of the silk manufactures; to the allowing the importation of rape seed, and other seeds used for extracting oil, whenever the prices of middling British rape seed shall be above a certain limit; to the encou raging the growth of coffee in his majesty's plantations in America; and for amending and making perpetual several laws relating to the preventing the clandestine running of goods, and the danger of infection thereby; and to the allowing the importation of seal skins cured with foreign salt free of duty. 21. An act for granting annuities to discharge certain exchequer bills. 22. An act for allowing the importation and exportation of certain goods and commodities into and from the port of Falmouth, in the island of Jamaica. 23. An act for further continuing until the 25th of March, 1810, an act made in the 39th year of his present majesty, for prohibiting the exportation from and permitting the importation to Great Britain of corn; and for allowing the importation of other articles of provision without payment of duty. 24. An act for charging with duty spent wash, re-distilled in Great Britain. 25. An act to permit, until the 25th of March, 1811, the importation of tobacco into Great Britain, from any place whatever. 26. An act for allowing until the 25th of March, 1810, the importation of certain fish from parts of the coast of his majesty's North American colonies; and for granting a bounty thereon. 27. An act for establishing courts of judicature in the island of Newfoundland and the islands adjacent; and for re-annexing part of the coast of Labrador and the islands lying on the said coast to the government of Newfoundland. 28. An act to enable the clerks of the king's coroner and attorney in the Court of King's Bench to be admitted as attornies. 29. An act for the appropriation of 20,0001. out of the consolidated fund of Ireland, toward the encou ragement of the saving of flax seed for sowing in Ireland. 30. An act to continue until the 25th of March, 1810, certain acts for regulating the drawbacks and boun ties on the exportation of sugar from Ireland, and for warehousing in Ireland rum or spirits of the British sugar plantations. 31. An act to continue until the 25th day of March, 1810, an act of the 41st year of his present majesty, for prohibiting the exportation from Ireland, and for permitting the inportation into Ireland, duty free, of corn, and other provisions. 32. An act for continuing and ma king perpetual several duties of Is. 6d., repealed by an act of the last session of Parliament, on offices and employments of profit, and on annuities, pensions, and stipends, and there by granted for one year to the 25th of March, 1809. 33. An act to grant an excise duty on spirits made or distilled from sugar in Ireland, during the prohibition of distillation from corn or grain there, in lieu of the excise duty now chargeable thereon, and to allow a drawback on the export thereof to foreign parts. 34. An act to permit the registry at Malta of ships taken as prize. 35. An act for the more convenient payment of pensions to widows of officers of the navy. 36. An act to amend an act made in the 45th year of his present majesty, for amending and rendering more effectual an act of the Parliament of Ireland, for erecting and establishing public infirmaries or hospitals. 37. An act for increasing the rates of subsistence to be paid to innkeepers and others on quartering soldiers. 38. An act for further continuing until the 25th of July, 1811, an act made in the 33d year of his present Majesty, for rendering the payment of creditors more equal and expeditious in Scotland. 39. An act for making compensation to the proprietors of such lands and hereditaments as have been purchased for better securing his Majesty's docks, ships, and stores at Ports. mouth; and for extending the lines and works at Dover; in pursuance of an act made in the 46th year of his present Majesty. 40. An act to amend and render more effectual an act, passed in the last session of parliament, for enabling his Majesty to establish a permanent local militia force, under certain restrictions, for the defence of the realm. 41. An act to amend an act made in the 48th year of his present Majesty, to provide that British ships captured by the enemy becoming the property of British subjects, shall not be entitled to the privilege of British ships. 42. An act for better regulating the public records of Scotland. 43. An act for regulating the mode in which the average price of brown or Muscovado sugar, exclusive of the duty thereon, is to be ascertained under the provisions of an act passed in the 46th year of his present Majesty. 44. An act to permit goods brought in as prize, and restored by the court of Admiralty, or which have been seized as droits, and so restored, to be sold or transferred within this kingdom, without paying the homeconsumption duty. 45. An act for more conveniently paying of allowances on the compassionate list of the navy, and of half pay to officers of the royal marines. 46. An act to authorise the principal officers of the customs in the British colonies and plantations in America and the West Indies, to examine witnesses on oath. 47. An act to permit certain articles, the growth, production, or manufacture of Europe, to be laden and shipped on board ships arriving with British North American produce, and fish taken by settlers in the British North American colonies, at any port of Europe, in order to be exported to the principal ports in the British colonies and plantations in North America. 48. An act to amend and render more effectual an act, passed in the last session of Parliament, for enabling his Majesty to establish a permanent local militia force in Scotland, under certain restrictions, for the defence of the realm. 49. An act to authorise his Majesty to permit, until the 25th of March, 1812, any goods and commodities to be imported into and exported from Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, in any ship or vessel whatsoever. 50. An act to amend so much of an act made in the 37th year of his present Majesty, for granting to his Majesty certain stamp duties, as relates to the limitation according to which the discount of newspapers is regulated. 51. An act to continue until the 1st of August, 1810, and amend certain acts for appointing commissioners to inquire into the fees, gratuities, perquisites, and emoluments received in several public offices in Ireland; to examine into any abuses which may exist in the same, and into the mode of receiving, collecting, issuing, and accounting for public money in Ireland. 52. An act for raising the sum of 6,000,0001. by exchequer bills, for the service of Great Britain, for the year 1809. 53. An act for completing the militia of Great Britain. 54. An act for the relief of certain insolvent debtors in Ireland. 55. An act for rectifying mistakes in the names of the commissioners appointed by an act of the last session of parliament, for appointing commissioners for carrying into execution an act of this session of Parliament for granting to his Majesty a duty on pensions and offices in England, and an act made in the 38th year of his present Majesty, for granting an aid to his Majesty by a land-tax to be raised in Great Bri tain for the service of the year 1798, and for appointing other commissioners, together with those named in the first-mentioned act, to put in execution an act of this session of Parlia ment for continuing to his Majesty certain duties on malt, sugar, tobacco, and snuff, in Great Britain, and on pensions, offices, and personal estates in England, for the service of the year 1809, also the said act made in the 38th year of his present Majesty; and for indemnifying such persons as have acted as commissioners for executing the said acts. 56. An act for completing the militia of Ireland. 57. An act for improving the quality of beer in Ireland, by further preventing the use of unmalted corn, or of any deleterious or unwholesome ingredients therein, and for the better securing the collection of the malt duties in Ireland. 58. An act to explain and render more effectual an act, passed in the Parliament of Ireland in the 36th year of his present Majesty's reign, for the encouragement and relief of friendly societies. 59. An act to permit the trade between Great Britain and the United States of America to be carried on in ships or vessels belonging to the inhabitants of the said states. 60. An act for allowing the importation from any port in Europe, or Africa, of goods or commodities the growth or produce of any country, until six months after the ratification of a definitive treaty of peace. 61. An act for making sugar and coffee of Martinique and Mariegalante liable to duty on importation as |