To the commiffioners appointed to enquire into the loffes of the American loyalists For the relief of the American loyalists loyalty To the fecretary of the commiffioners of the American loyalifts For money iffued pursuant to addresses 6,000 o 9,000 10,000 178,750 0 55,000 O 3,888 4 12,259 9 31,299 10 Total Miscellaneous Services 511,509 5 5 DEFICIENCIES. MARCH 20. To the finking fund for the monies paid out of it to make good the deficiencies of the duties granted for repealing the duties on tea, to July 5, 1785 To make good the deficiency of the fund for the payment of annuities granted towards the fupply in 1758 To ditto for 1778 To ditto for 1779 To ditto for 1780 To ditto for 1783 To ditto for 1784 MAY 15. To make good the deficiencies of the grants in 1785 127,131 3 2 WAYS and MEANS for raising the above Supplies granted to his Ma jefty for the year 1786. FEBRUARY 10. Land-tax for 1786 Malt duty 2,000,000 750,000 0 O MARCH Surplus of the deduction of 6d. in the pound on all Ditto of the two-fevenths excise falaries, &c. Ditto of the wine duties Ditto of the glass duties Ditto of the duties on vellum, &c. Prizes O 500,000 O A lottery, 50,000 tickets, at 131. 15s. 6d. a ticket Surplus of monies granted for the army, &c. in 1784 Army favings and stoppages in 1785 To be applied out of the finking fund JUNE 20. Exchequer bills - 2,600,000 O a Surplus of monies voted for Chelsea penfioners in 1785 21,568 13 22 An authentic and correct Lift of the NATIONAL DEBT, to the 5th of STATE PAPER S. His Majefty's most gracious Speech to both Houses of Parliament, on the opening of the Third Seffion of the Sixteenth Parliament of Great Britain, 24th January 1786. My Lords and Gentlemen, INCE I laft met you in parliaSINC ment, the difputes which appeared to threaten an interruption to the tranquillity of Europe have been brought to an amicable conclufion; and I continue to receive from foreign powers the ftrongest affurances of their friendly difpofition towards this country. At home, my fubjects experience the growing bleffings of peace in the extenfion of trade, the improvement of the revenue, and the increase of the public credit of the make any farther progress in that falutary work. Gentlemen of the House of I have ordered the estimates for the prefent year to be laid before you it is my earnest wish to enforce œconomy in every departbe equally ready to make fuch proment; and you will, I am perfuaded, vifion as may be neceffary for the public fervice, and particularly for maintaining our naval ftrength on. the most secure and refpectable footing. Above all, let me recomof a fixed plan for the reduction of commend to you the establishment the national debt. The flourishing ftate of the revenue will, I truft, enable you to effect this important measure, with little addition to the public burdens. My Lords and Gentlemen, The vigour and resources of the country, fo fully manifefted in its prefent fituation, will encourage you in continuing to give your utmost attention to every subject of national concern; particularly to the confideration of fuch measures as may be neceffary, in order to give farther fecurity to the revenue, and to promote and extend, as far as poffible, the trade and general induftry of my subjects. The The humble Addrefs of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, in Parliament affembled, to the King, for the foregoing Speech, January 25, 1786. WE E your majefty's most dutiful and loyal fubjects, the lords fpiritual and temporal, in parliament affembled, beg leave to return your majesty our humble thanks for your majesty's moft gracious fpeech from the throne. We affure your majefty, that impreffed with the fulleft conviction of the bleffings which refult from a ftate of general peace, it affords us great fatisfaction to be informed, that the difputes which appeared to threaten an interruption to the tranquillity of Europe have been brought to an amicable conclufion; and that your majefty continues to receive from foreign powers the ftrongest affurances of their friendly difpofition towards this country. We affure your majesty, that earneftly interested in whatever may contribute to the ftrength and fplendour of the nation, and the wealth of your majefty's fubjects, we cannot but be deeply fenfible of the advantages which must be derived from the extenfion of trade, the improvement of the revenue, and the increase of the public credit. We affure your majefty, that the promotion of the common intereft and profperity of all your majefty's fubjects, was the object of those refolutions which we humbly laid before your majefty in the laft feffion of parliament, as the foundation of a permanent and equitable adjuftment of the commercial intercourfe between Great Britain and Ireland; but no effectual ftep having been taken in confequence of them by the parliament of Ireland, the progrefs of that measure, however falutary, cannot properly become the fubject of our prefent confideration. We humbly intreat your majef ty to be perfuaded, that the vigour and refources of the country, which, with heart-felt fatisfaction, we obferve are fo fully manifefted in its prefent fituation, cannot fail to excite a still more active attention to the important objects of national concern which your majesty is pleafed to recommend to our confideration; and particularly to fuch meafures as may be neceffary to give farther fecurity to the revenue, and to promote and extend, as far as poffible, the general industry of our country. His Majefty's most gracious Anfwer. |