A. D.

1763

Brought over,

towards defraying the charge of the pay of the militia of that part of Great Britain called England, when unembodied, and of the cloathing of the part of the faid militia then unembodied, for one year, beginning the twenty-fifth of March 1762, as fhall remain in the receipt of the Exchequer, after the faid charges are fatisfied.

IV. That there be raised by loans or exchequer bills to be charged upon the first aids to be granted in the next feffion; and fuch exchequer bills, if not difcharged, with intereft thereupon, on, or before the fifth of April 1764, to be exchanged, and received in payment in fuch manner as exchequer bills have ufually been exchanged and received in payment,

That an act, made in the fixth year of his late Majefty King George II. entitled, An Act for the better fecuring and encouraging the Trade to his Majesty's Sugar Colonies in America; which was to continue in force for five years, to be computed from the twenty-fourth day of June 1733, and to the end of the then next feffion of Parliament, and which, by feveral fubfequent acts, made in the eleventh, nineteenth, twentyfixth, twenty-ninth, and thirty-first years of the reign of his faid late Majesty, and an act, made in the first year of the reign of his prefent Majefty, was further continued until the twenty-ninth day of September 1763, and from thence to the end of the then next feffion of Parliament, be further continued, with amendments, until the twenty-ninth of September 1764, and from thence to the end of the then next feffion of Parliament.

That an act, made in the twenty-first year of the reign of his late Majefty King George II. entitled, An A&t for encouraging the making of Indigo in the British plantations in America; which was to continue in force for seven years, from the twenty-fifth of March 1749, and from thence to the end of the then next feffion of Parliament, and which, by an act, made in the twenty-eighth year of the reign of his faid late Majefty, was further continued until the twenty-fifth of March 1763, and from thence to the end of the then next feffion of Parliament, be further continued, with amendments, until the twenty-fifth of March 1770, and from thence to the end of the then next feffion of Parliament.

Total fum provided for by this feffion,

Provifions exceed the grants in the fum of

£. S. d.

2,047,120 9 6

1,800,000 0

3,847,120 9 6

14,199,375 16 o

577,335 1 71

Befides what may arise from the said third resolution of the committee of ways and means agreed to on the nineteenth of March; therefore fome of the grants, or provifions, made by this feffion, must be extremely deficient, if it should be found neceffary hereafter to grant any thing for making good the deficiency of the grants for 1763.

VOL. IV.

D

The

A. D.

1763

The debt of his Majesty's navy, as it stood on the thirty-first of December, 1762, was as follows, viz.

Wear and tear, ordinary and transports,

Seamens wages,

Victualling debt,

Sick and wounded, &c.

£. s. d 3,034,394 I 5

3,223,297 15 1,329,321 9 3

503,616 15 31

As alfo the money that remained to come in of the fupplies of the year,

1,771,517 6 11

1,267,900 10 10

An account of all the public debts, at the receipt of the Exchequer, standing out at the fifth of January, 1763, with the annual intereft or other charges payable for the fame.

Ditto for two lives, with the benefit of furvivorfhip, being the original fum contributed,

Ditto for two and three lives, being the fum re-
maining after what is fallen in by deaths,
Exchequer bills made out for intereft of old debts,
Note,-The land taxes and duties on malt, being
annual grants, are not charged in this account,
nor the one million charged on the deductions
of fix-pence per pound on penfions, nor the
one million five hundred thoufand pounds to-
wards paying off the navy debt, &c. in 1762,
nor the fum of one million charged on the
fupplies of the year 1763.

EAST INDIA COMPANY.
By two acts of Parliament, of the ninth of Wil-
liam III. and two other acts of the fixth and ninth
of Anne, at three pounds per cent. per annum,
Annuities at three pounds per cent. of 1744,
clrarged on the furplus of the additional duties on
low wines, fpirits, and strong waters,

30,401 15 8 280,863 14 8

A. D.

Principal debt.
£.95,478,026 14 2

Annual Intereft, &c. 3,240,310 17 9%

Brought over,

to forty-five thousand pounds, but is now redu-
ced by lives fallen in, to thirty-feven thousand
two hundred and ninety-eight pounds ten fhil-
lings; and the fubfcribers for one hundred pounds
for three per cent. annuities of 1757, were allowed
an annuity for one life of one pound two fhillings
and fix-pence, which amounted to thirty-three
thousand seven hundred and fifty pounds, but is
now reduced by lives fallen in, to thirty-two
thousand five hundred and eighty-five pounds
feventeen fhillings and fix-pence; and the sub-
fcribers of one hundred pounds for three per cent.
annuities of 1761, were allowed an annuity for
ninety-nine years of one pound two fhillings and
fix-pence, amounting, with the charges of ma-
nagement, to the Bank of England, to one hun-
dred and thirty thousand and fifty-three pounds
ten fhillings and three-pence; which annuities
are an increase of the annual intereft, but cannot
be added to the public debt, as no money was ad-
vanced for the fame: and the contributors to
twelve millions, for the fervice of the year 1762,
were entitled to an annuity of one per cent. per
annum, to continue for ninety-eight years, and
then to cease; which, with the charges of manage-
ment to the Bank of England, amount to the fum
of one hundred and twenty-one thoufand fix
hundred and eighty-feven pounds ten fhillings,
SOUTH SEA COMPANY.

On their capital ftock and annuities of the ninth
of George I.

Annuities at three pound per cent. of ged on the finking fund,

1751, char

According to the bills of mortality of London for this year, the christenings and burials were

A. D.

1763

The general hiftorian would be induced, in this place, to exercise the pleafing power of recapitulatory observation.-He would, as it were, officially enumerate the leading events of the late important period, direct the attention of his reader to their immediate contingencies, and perhaps take a prophetic flight into the region of futurity, and bring their more remote confequences to his confideration. A comparative view of the different nations who had lately formed thofe grand alliances, beneath whofe powerful struggles all Europe trembled, from the commencement of the war, to the conclufion of peace, would occupy his attention, and employ his pen. As a Briton, he would trace, with no common ardour, the career of British glory in every quarter of the globe, and dwell with the most exulting triumph on the punished perfidy and blafted ambition of the House of Bourbon.

But though we may feel all the glowing enthufiafm with which the remembrance of fuch a glorious period muft naturally inspire every patriotic bofom, we must content ourselves with fulfilling the duty affigned us to perform, and perfevere in that path which is traced out for us. The plume of glory, and the laurel of victory, muft yield, in our page, to the horn of plenty, which is the offspring of commerce. It is our office to trace public profperity through the exertions of national industry, directed by commercial genius, instead of looking for it in the more ftriking, but lefs happy progrefs of war and conqueft.

We may however obferve, that peace now extended itself over every part of Europe; and the late belligerent nations began to confider of the different means they respectively poffeffed of healing the wounds they had received during the late war. To the north, Ruffia fettled, in the most amicable manner, her difpute with Denmark concerning the dutchy of Holstein; and, to the fouth, the King of Sardinia obtained a confirmation of that part of the treaty of Aix la Chapelle, which established his reverfionary title to Placentia, on failure of the male line of the Infant Don Philip, or in cafe that Prince or his iffue fhould fucceed to the crowns of his family.

The Corficans, indeed, must form a little hoftile groupe in our picture of peace; they were ftill ftruggling for their liberties against their tyrannic mafters, the Genoefe;-and we cannot help remarking in this place, the neceffity which will oblige us to record in another,—that they ftruggled in vain.

The fucceffes of the late war had now added a large extent of territory to the British empire; and the national trade confequently poffeffed a variety of new objects, and claimed many additional regulations, to direct that internal energy with which an unparalleled feries of fucceffes feemed to have infpired it. This, therefore, may be confidered as an important epocha in the commerce of our country; and as that compact, refiftlefs union of its parts began very foon to difcover fymptoms of feparation, we fhall now offer, as an interefting and very important part of commercial history, a regular statement of every fifth year of the imports and exports of the trade of Great Britain, during the courfe of the current century to the year 1763; as a kind of scale, by which the progrefs of our national trade may be clearly measured, and its variations. generally compared.

The following Tables, which contain this useful and ready information, are taken from the annual accounts given in to the House of Commons; and may, therefore, be prefumed to poffefs all the accuracy which official care could bestow upon them.

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