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And lively linnets fing: Conveys the numerous strains : Let poor dull rhymers rack their brains, Baith young and aul', While mountain daifies deck our plains His death wi' far mair grief we learn, O curfe the fallows did him learn But let us not, as chatt'riug fools, As bright a genius death has torn What news could mak' us mair forlorn, Than" Robin's dead?" The It fparkles o'er the fhallows, and behold Where o'er its furface wheels with reflefs fpeed Yon gloffy infeat, on the fand below THE WATER-CRESS GIRL. I ne'er my ftore to market bring How the swift fhadow flies. The ftream is But blithely cry young water-creffes. pure, In folitude, and many a healthful herb wave: But paffing on amid the haunts of man, "Till finks the fun beneath the sky, There's none more bleft,-knows lefs diftreffes, Than Neil, who cries young water-creffes. SUBSTANCE of the REPORT of the SELECT COMMITTEE of the HOUSE of COMMONS on the Finances. I.-The Public Funded Debt. The total amount of the Public Debts, as they ftood upon the 5th of January 1793, appears to have be.n in Funded Capital £235,231,249 $ 24 And £.9,325,866 4 3 And the total of the Annual Interest and Charge of the Public And the total of the Annual Intereft and Charges upon the above The total Funded Capital of the Public Debt was therefore, upon And the total Annual intereft and Charge of the Public Funded 88,840,122 14 3,181,623 15 8 327,071,370 19 2 12,507,489 17 114 Your Committee think it neceffary further to state, that, in order to fhew correctly the complete Amount of the Annual Charge, the fum of 1,000,000l. iffued to the Commiffioners for reducing the National Debt, fhould be added to the interefts and Charges of the Debt exifting on the 5th of January 1793 : And that a further annual fum, in refpect to the 11. per cent. per ann. on Capital, funded fince the 5th of January 1793, payable to the faid Commiffioners, amounting to 923,1541. 195. 4d. should be added alfo to the intereft and Charges of the debt created fince that period. Thefe being taken together, viz. and added to the former fum, viz. the total Annual Charge of the Public Funded Debt, including the Sums applicable to the Reduction thereof, as it flood upon the 5th of January 1797, was £1,923,154 19 4 12,507,439 17 11 14,430,644 17 3 Your Committee also beg leave to obferve, that neither the amount of the stock created by funding certain Navy, Victualling, Tranfport, and Exchequer Bills, in the course of the prefent Seffion, nor by the Loan of Eighteen Millions for the fervice of the year 1797, are noticed in this statement; as they neither are, nor by the Course of the Ea hequer could be, included in the Account made up to the period marked out by the inftructions to your Committee. It appears, however, that the Capital Steck, created by funding the The Loan £. 21,575,774 Total The total of the Annual Intereft and Charges, and 11. per cent. upon the above additional debt, amounts to £. 41,825,774 0 £. 2,151,250 I Your Committee, in concluding this part of their inquiries, think it right to obferre upon the total of the capital Stock fo created, and fo conftituting the public Funded Debt; First, That its amount is not to be confidered as if it could only be extinguished by a redemption at par; inafmuch as the progreffive reduction of the National Debt, by the prefat Sinking Fund, conftantly operates, by buying up the debt according to the current price of Stocks; the effect of which they have entered into more fully in a fubfequent part of this Report. adly, That the Funded Capital of the Public Debt includes in it the the amount of the capital purchased by the Commiffioners for reducing the National Debt. And, 3dly, That the annual charge upon the Public, by way of intereft, and annuities for terms, includes in it the interest of the Stock purchased by the Commiffioners, and alfɔ of the annuities which have expired. Your Committee think it also proper to ftate here, that by Stat. 35 G. III. c. 93. provifion was made for guaranteeing the payment of the dividends on a loan of 4,600,000l. on account of the Emperor; under the authority of which Statute there has been created In Capital Stock, 3. per cents. And in Annuities for 25 years, from the 1st of May 1794 Taxes. £3,833,333 68 230,000 O The Committee proceed first to ftate the produce of each of the four years, preceding the 5th of January 1797, or the permanent takes, which exifted previous to the 5th of January 1793. Upon 340 Upon the result of their examination, the Committee find the actual average produce of the permanent taxes for thefe four years, to be about without adding the deficiency occafioned by the ftoppage of dif tilleries.. The Select Committee of 1791, eftimated the probable produce of the permanent taxes to be From this fum must be deducted the average produce of the taxes Your Committee have the fatisfaction of obferving, that the actual produce of the fame taxes, on the average of the four years of war, (without making any allowance for the ftoppage of the distilleries) exceeds the estimate formed in 1791, by above and is below their average produce in the four preceding years of peace only by 50,000 Your Committee have next proceeded to examine the produce of the feveral taxes provided for defraying the encreafed charges of the Public Debt, from the 6th of January 1793a to the 8th of January 1797; diftinguishing the produce of each year. Upon this examination they find, that the Duties continued in 1793 produced, In 1793 3795 £247,638 о That the Duties continued and impofed in 1794 produced, In 1795 £. 618,040 13 4 1,373,000 9 7 £. 694,644 9 And they find that the Duties impofed in 1796, had produced on the 5th of January 24 1797, In flating the produce of these feveral Taxes, your Committee think it neceffary to obferve, that the produce of new duties within the first year of their being impofed, can feldom afford correct means of eftimating their real productiveness. In fome inftances, the first year has been more productive than fubfequent years; bat, in general the first year has been lefs productive; the collection of moit dutics not taking place before a confiderable part of the current year had elapfed, and a confiderable part of the produce of the fraction of the current year not being paid into the Exchequer till after the termination of that year, and the modes of collection not being brought at their beginning to their greatest degree of efficacy, an accurate estimate of it cannot be made from the amount of its produce which appears upon the Exchequer Account. Your Committee were, however, defirous of examining how far the produce of the Taxes impofed in the first years of the war, of which alone, at prefent, your Committee have been enabled to form any adequate judgment, appears fufficient to defray the charges of fuch part of the public debt as has been funded during the fame period. For this purpose they have locked to the year most diftant from their commencement, as affording, for the reasons above given, the beft means to judge of their productiveness. In 1793, they find that the annual charge upon the Public on accoant of the intereft, management, and 11. per cent. upon the debt funded in 1793, was The produce of the duties anfwerable for this charge was, in the year 1796, only But your Committee think it their duty to obferve, that this produce must have been materially affected by the floppage of the diftilleries, which prevailed from June 1795, to November 1796. In |