Sums annually applicable to the reduction of the national debt, or the income of the Sinking Fund on 1st February, 1809: Dividend on £465,951, transfer red for purchase of life-unnuities at £3 per cent. 13,978 107 6 6 1 Total income of Sinking Fund, £9,898,159 Net income of Sinking Fund for 32,514 12 0 9,865,644 14 1 Annuities fallen in since 22d June, 1802, or that will fall in hereafter; the act of 42d Geo IIId. providing that all annuities falling in after 22d June, 1802, the time of passing the said act, shall not be placed to the account of the commissioners for the reduction of the national debt, nor be continued in the annual charge thereof. Exchequer-annuities 2d-3d Anne expired S. d. 5th April, 1803, 23,369 13 4 Progress made in the redemption of the public debt of Ireland, funded in Great Britain, and payable in London, on 1st February, 1809: 1808, 418,333 11 0 5th July, 1860, 1,047,494 5 4 Income of Sinking Fund for Irish debt payable in Great Britain. Bank long annuities which will expire 5th July, 1860, £91,208 6s. Progress made in redemption of Imperial debt on 1st February 1809. Income of Imperial sinking fund on 1st Feb. 1809. Annuity of £1 per cent. on debt-ca pital created, }£36,693, 34 Bank long annuities which will expire 5th July, 1819. 230,000 0 0 Progress made in the reduction of the public funded debt of Ireland on 5th January 1809. N. B. The money borrowed for Ireland by the Government of Great-Britain is not included in the statement below, because it is settled for in England by the Lords of the Treasury of Ireland, and can only be procured from the commissioners for reducing the national debt of England, under which head it has already just appeared. At the establishment of the sinking fund £100,000 per annuin was granted for the then existing debts, £32,364, 11s. 8d. of which was appropriated to the reduction of the money borrowed for Ireland by the Government of Great-Britain in 1797, and £67,636, 8s. 4d. with £2,250, per annum, expired annuities, which fell in afterwards, was appropriated to the remainder of the debt due by Ireland prior to 1797, without any reference to the |