MR. HUME'S TABLES OF THE PUBLIC EXPENDITURE, AND OF HIS PROPOSED REDUCTIONS. ARMY (exclusive of Ordnance.) Great Britain and Ireland in 1792, £.2,331,149; in 1820, £.8,926,424; difference, £.6,595,275. Difference of estimates £.163,498 less in 1821 than in 1820. Note. The number in 1792 are put down at the Establishment, but it was deficient several thousand men. In 1821, the actual numbers are entered. The number of Household Troops (exclusive of Officers)— Increase 4,966 more than in 1792. If 60,000 men were put into 75 regiments of 800 men each, instead of 93 regiments of 650 each, a saving of £.211,025 would be effected. Veteran Officers 247, transferred at an expense of £.13,870 a year, or £.166,440 at 12 years purchase. First Commissions 1,105, of which 508 given away, £.29,464 a year, or £.353,568 at 12 years purchase. In 5 years 313 Ensigns, placed on half-pay, in some years of which 130 in same day. Payment of Foreign half-pay £.17,662 from 1816 to 1820. Military College expense begun in 1801 at £.3,859 a year, but in 5 years from 1816 to 1820, £.115,280, and only 160 cadets, £.720 10s. each. Promotions. Cornets, &c. to Majors, 1,442,553; only 315, or 1 in 74 There were 411 brought from the half-pay to full-pay, or 1 in 24. In 1821 there are 9,037 Officers on half-pay, at an expense of £.812,577 75. In the Artillery 118 Officers on half-pay, only 38 brought on full pay in 5 years, and 62 First Commissions. In the Marines 768 half-pay Officers, of which 142 were brought from half to foll pay; only 3 promotions, and only 1 First Commission in 6 years! Engineers, 50 half-pay Officers, and 62 First Commissions in 6 years. Superannuation List of Civil Establishments, in 1816............... £.17,964 40,197 22,233 increase. In 1792—Barracks.....£.13,350 I. and 1821... £.260,500 £197,500 F. Average Expenditure, per Annual Finance Accounts for four years past...£.1,447,206 Gratuities in 1792, £. 2,324; in 1813, £.9,628; and 1821, £.30,000. The gratuities of the Ordnance from 1807 to 1815, nine years inclusive of war, was............ £.49,248 And in peace, from 1816 to 1821 inclusive, a period of 6 years......... 168,226 118,978 more in 6 years of peace than in 9 of extended war, exclusive of the increased allowance to those on the pensioned list; making near £. 150,000 more in 6 years of peace than in 9 of war. NAVY. Expense of the Navy in 1792.... 1,985,482 more in 1821 £.4,397,304 Estimate...... 1821...... ................. 6,382,786 In 3 years, 1791, 1792, 1793.. £. 1,119,363) £.2,269,582 more in 1821 than 1793 Ditto 1819, 1820, 1821.. 3,382,590 Number of Ships At sea and In 1821, No. 538 rated 123 sloops,and S in ordinary. In 1792, No. 278 rated Building 16 ships rated At sea and 163 sloops,and S in ordinary Building 30 ships rated More in 1821 than in 1792...... 260 rated, 14 ditto building, 40 sloops. Total expense in 7 years, from 1815 to 1821, both inclusive, for £.17,702,258 building and repairing ships, &c.......... Expense of Salaries in the Dock-yards, including Pembroke More for the salaries of officers £. 22,441 than for pay of men. Improvements in Dock-yards In three years, 1791, 1792, and 1793... £. 166,900 S £. 1,195,846 more in the last Ditto 1819, 1821, and 1820... 1,362,746 than in the former 3 years. In 11 years, from 1811 to 1821, expended for works in Dock-yards......£. 4,264,598 Wanted to complete.......... 1,254,648 Comparative Abstract of the Expense of the ARMY, NAVY, and ORDNANCE of Great Britain and Ireland, in 1792 and 1821. Great Brit. Army Ordinary £.1,814,000 Great Brit. Army Ordinary £.7,941,513 Ireland 984,911 516,349 Ireland N. B. The total unredeemed debt of the country, funded and unfunded, is increased from £. 244,405,021, in 1792, to an annual charge for interest of £. 9,534,267. On the 5th January 1820, £. 836,946,923 at a charge of £.31,252,612 (exclusive of the Sinking Fund). Comparative Abstract of the ESTIMATES voted for the ARMY, NAVY' and ORDNANCE, in the last five years, viz. from 1817 to 1821. Showing that the Estimates for 1821 are larger than any of the four preceding years except 1820. Abstract of the actual EXPENDITURE of the United Kingdom for the following years, ending the 31st December (from the annual Finance Accounts). £.68,710,503 In 1817...... In 1819 ......... £. 69,448,399 An Account of the INTEREST on the FUNDED Debt of the United Kingdom, and of the Exchequer and Treasury Bills: and the Charges of Management for the years (Exclusive of the amount paid to the commissioners of the Sinking Fund.) VOL. LXIII. U REDUCTIONS proposed by Mr. Hume, and others, in the ESTIMATES this Session. To reduce 20,000 men, household troops and colonies By reducing 93 regiments of 650 men, to 75 regiments of 800 each Barracks, England Ireland Commissariat, England and Ireland Military Staff, Great Britain and Colonies.... Irish Staff... £. 80,000 40,000 120,000 115,000 £. 105,943, to reduce 10,943 Ditto, Scotland Navy establishments £. 1,225,629 one-fourth of £.925,629.. £.251,407 In the miscellaneous items of £.2,444,100, might be saved 250,000 To be saved in the collection of the revenue. 1,050,000 Total reduction.. 4,288,361 Taxes proposed to be repealed, on the reductions being made, in order to afford immediate relief to the country. Annual produce for the year ending the 5th April 1821. And leave a surplus of one million, exclusive of the surplus of four millions stated by the Chancellor of the Exchequer. |