L Public Income of Great Britain for the year ended 5th January, 1809. ORDINARY REVENUES. Net produce applicable to national objects, and to payments into the exchequer. Total permanent & annual taxes, £.39,826,739 16 8 Total small branches of heredi Public Income of Ireland, for the year ended 5th of January, 1809. Total of ordinary revenues, Total extraordinary resources, Net produce applicable to national objects, and to payments into the exchequer. L.5,921,670 3 5 252,891 9 63 Net produce applicable to national objects, and to payments into the exchequer. Total, independent of loans, Loans paid into the exchequer in £.6,174,561 13 02 the year ended 5th Jan. 1809, 5,389,728 0 4 Public Income of Great-Britain for the year ended 5th January, 1810. Total permanent and annual re Total, independent of loans, 70,235,792 18 4 Loans paid into the exchequer, including £.2,300,000 for ser vice of Ireland, Grand Total, 13,498,621 17 83 £.83,856,614 16 1 7,510,700 00 0 0 Amount of exchequer-bills issued between 5th Jan. 1809, and 5th Jan. 1810, and not redeemed within that period, The cost of collecting this public income amounted in 1797, on the gross receipt, to £. s. d. per cent. Customs, Excise, Stamps, Taxes, 626 4 17 7 3 12 5 In the post-office a large part of the expense incurred is for the conveyance of letters by land and sea. On the whole revenue, as increased since 1797, and under the change of management of a part of it, the expense of collection, in 1805, was reduced to Now, in 1810, Britain collects an additional (that is, added since 1783), revenue of forty-four millions sterling, at a cost of rather less than two per cent. In the taxes there is scarcely any variation, as the poundage is uniform. To these charges nothing is to be added for defalcations by remittances, or for failure of collectors, receivers, &c. &c. as there have not been losses in the public revenue to the amount of more than nine hundred pounds sterling, (nearly all of which has been lost by letter-carriers, &c.) in the whole, from these or other causes, during some years past. Compare this statement with the cost of collecting the public revenue in France, which amounts, according to Mr. Walsh's calculation, " Letter," &c. p. 149, to twenty per cent. at least; and probably Mr. Walsh has under-rated it. I have been informed, by what appeared to be good authority, (an intelligent general officer in the French service) that the average cost of collecting the public revenue in France now amounts to full one-third of the gross receipt: that is, thirty-three and a third per cent. fraud and peculation being qualities inseparably attendant upon all the officers, primary and subordinate, of Napoleon's extensive empire. The Income of the consolidated Fund of Great-Britain for the year ended the 5th Jan. 1806. This income, which is reserved for the payment of the interest, management and reduction of the public debt, the civil list, pensions, bounties, &c. consists of consolidated customs, excise, and stamps, of incidents, surplus-duties and taxes, arrears of duties and taxes, monies paid and repaid by collectors, treasurers, &c. &c. Its total income in the year ended 5th January, 1806, amounted to L.33,035,501 7 114 The charge upon this income, consisting of payments made to support the civil list, the courts of justice, the mint, salaries and allowances to sundry civil officers, pensions and bounties, and to discharge the interest, management and reduction of the public debt, for the year ended 5th of January, 1806, amounted to 30,188,407 69 Leaving a surplus of unappropriated income amounting to £.2,847,094 1 2 The Income of the consolidated Fund of GreatBritain in the year ended 5th of January, 1807, amounted to The charge to Leaving a surplus of, L.34,762,527 15 10 30,945,513 17 4 £.3,817,013 18 6 The Income of the consolidated Fund of GreatBritain for the year ended 5th January, 1808, was L.36,483,053 7 11 The charge was, Leaving a surplus of, 32,643,738 12 9 L.3,839,314 15 1 The Income of the consolidated Fund of G. Britain for the year ended 5th Jan. 1809, was, The Income of the consolidated Fund of Ireland for the year ended 5th January, 1808, and consisting of balance on the consolidated Fund remaining in the Exchequer on the 5th January, 1807, of custom and excise-duties, stamp-duties, post-office revenue, duty on wrought plate, poundage-fee, pell-fee, repayments, gain by exchange, loans, exchequer-bills, and profit of lotteries, amounted to, L.8,644,999 12 04 The charge for the same year, including payment of interest and management of Irish public debt, debentures, exchequer-bills, lottery-prizes, inland navigations, improvements, repayments, civil list, pensions, permanent Parliament payments, military purposes, vote of credit, and annual grants, amounted to, 8,346,884 2 10 Leaving a surplus of £. 298,115 9 9 24 The Income of the consolidated Fund of Ireland |