Average of these four years, of the first seven years, 15,009,000, 12,854,000, Excess in favor of the last four over the first seven years. L. 2,155,000, Net produce of new and additional duties imposed each year since the 5th January, 1793 to 5th January, The ordinary revenue of Ireland in 1803, was £3,314,293 5,201,684 Giving an increase in seven years of 1,887,391 The public Revenue for Great-Britain for the year 1810 is, of permanent taxes, and annual duties, The total net produce of the permanent taxes in the year ending 5th January, 1803, was, (including £715,323, paid for bounties on corn and rice imported in 1802 On 5th January, 1811, including permanent taxes and annual duties 28,246,681 40,976,075 Giving an increase in seven years of £12,729,394 The net produce of the war-taxes from 1st. Janu ary 1804, to 1st January, 1811. The increased amount of the property-tax could not have taken place, unless the yearly accumulation of capital by the British people had increased in the proportion of nine-tenths of national property to onetenth of the tax; the property-tax amounting to onetenth of the net income of the individuals who pay its full sum; that is, all those who have net-incomes above £200 per annum; the tax gradually lessening to a twentieth on all incomes below £200, down to £60, a year; under which no income is liable to it. The increased amount of the excise also is a proof of the increase of national wealth, because it is a tax laid altogether upon consumption; as a brief detail of the nature of this impost will demonstrate. The excise is an inland duty-imposed on commodities of general consumption; paid either on the consumption itself, or on the retail-sale which immediately precedes it. The commodities subject to excise-duties are, auctions, beer, bricks and tiles, candles, cocoa, coffee, cider and perry, glass, hides, hops, licenses, beer and ale-licenses, malt, mead, paper, printed goods, salt, soap, spirits British and foreign, starch, sweets, tea, tobacco, snuff, verjuice, vinegar, wine and wire. In the year 1787 the various duties which had been imposed at different times were consolidated, and some regulations made by which the produce of the revenue was increased, and the expense of collecting it much diminished. The duties of the excise are divided into the permanent consolidated duties, the temporary war-taxes, and the annual duties, which last consist of the old annual malt-duty, an additional malt-duty, and some duties on tobacco and snuff, and which are now granted annually in lieu of the land-tax since that is sold off. The gross actual receipt in money from the excise in the years ending 5th April, 1807, 1808, 1809, 1810, was as follows: The net produce of the assessed taxes, comprising inland duties on windows, inhabited houses, male servants, carriages, &c. riding-horses, horses and mules, dogs, horse-dealers, hair-powder, armorial bearings, ten per cent. on assessed taxes, and consolidated assessed taxes, for the years ending 5th April, 1807, 1808, 1809, 1810. The net produce of permanent taxes and annual duties for the years ending 5th April, 1807, 1808, 1809, 1810, was The net produce of stamps for three years ending 5th April, 1807, 1808, 1809, 1810, was The income and surplus of the consolidated fund, although stated before, are properly to be inserted here, because the increase of its income and surplus is always a proof of the yearly augmentation of the national capital, its income being made up of the consolidated customs and excise, stamps, incidents, surplus and arrears of taxes and duties, payment and repayment of monies by treasurers, collectors, &c. its charge being the payment of the interest, man |