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PUBLIC EXPENDITURE.

1. For Interest, &c. on the Permanent Debt of Great Britain, unredeemed; including Annuties for Lives and Terms of Years, &c. (App. A. 1. 2.)

II. Interest on Exchequer Bills (B.....

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VI. Other Payments in Anticipation of the Exchequer Receipts; (E) viz. Bounties for Fisheries, Manufactures, Corn, &c.. Pensions on the Hereditary Revenue.

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Deduct the Amount of Remittances and Advances to other Countries,

inclu led in Appendix I..

41,503 9 5

11,334,907 10 5,774, 85 5 54 4,852,074 3 3

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Deduct Sums, which although included in this Account, form no part of the Expenditure of Great Britain; viz.

Interest, 1. per Cent. and Management on Portuguese Loan, per

Loan, &c. for Ireland

Act 49 Geo. 3, C. 71

Sinking Fund on Loan to the East India Company.

£. S. d.

1,475,632 11 2 121,917 16

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231.91 16 10

739,879 7 7

267,759 7 51

10,007 17 5

1.500,000 O O

*This includes the sum of 413,699l. 10s. 6d. for Interest, &c. paid on Imperial Loans.

PUBLIC FUNDED DEBT.

An Account of the PUBLIC FUNDED DEBT OF GREAT BRITAIN, as the same stood on the 1st of February, 1815,

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11,480,049 14

35,413,807 18 74

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Annual or other Sums payable to the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt,

22,391,877 19 11 1,303.585 14 53

238,294 10 O

by sundry Acts of Parliament.

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Total of Annual Expense

UNFUNDED DEBT.

An Account of the UNFUNDED DEBT and DEMANDS OUTSTANDING on the 5th Day of January, 1815.

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FOREIGN STATE PAPERS.

Convention between Great Britain and the United Netherlands, signed at London on the 13th of August 1814.

Article I. Great Britain agrecs to restore the Dutch Colonies, with the exception of the Cape of Good Hope, Demerara, Essequibo, and Berbice, to be disposed of in a Supplementary Convention.

2 and 3. Great Britain cedes to the Netherlands the Island of Banca, in the Eastern Seas, in exchange for Cochin and its dependencies, on the coast of Malabar. The places and forts in the respective settlements to be exchanged in the state in which they were at the signing of the present Convention.

4. Grants the same privileges to the subjects of the Netherlands in British India as are granted to the most favoured nations. No forts to be erected in the Dutch settlements which are within the limits of the British Sovereignty in India, and only the number of troops necessary for the maintenance of police to be maintained.

5. The places to be restored on the American Continent to be given up within three months; those beyond the Cape of Good Hope within six, from the date of the Convention.

6. No persons in the places to

be restored to be questioned for their former political opinions.

7. The natives and aliens in the countries in which a change of sovereignty takes place are allowed six years for the disposal of their property, and retiring if they think fit.

8. The Sovereign of the Netherlands engages to prohibit all his subjects, in the most effectual manner, and by the most solemn laws, from taking any share whatsoever in that inhuman traffic, the Slave Trade.

9. Stipulates for the ratification within three weeks, or sooner if possible.

The first additional article stipulates, that to provide for the defence and incorporation of the Belgic provinces with Holland, and also a compensation in virtue of the 9th article of the treaty of Paris, for the cessions made by Sweden, which Holland should furnish, Great Britain engages to defray the following charges:

1st, The payment of one million sterling to Sweden, in satisfaction of the claims aforesaid, and in pursuance of a Convention executed with his Swedish Majesty's Plenipotentiary to that effect.

2dly. The advance of two millions sterling, to be applied in concert with the Prince Sovereign

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