14 3,194,966 5 28,826 9 1,039,584 19 93 726,738,842 764 25,166,815 16 4 1,303,250 14 54 245,350 14 .. 103,032,750 Loans to the Emperor of Germany, payable in Ditto... Ditto to Prince Regent of Portugal. payable in Ditto... In the Names of the Commissioners for the Reduction of the Debt...... 7,502,633 6 8 129,583 6 8 230,000 3,852 10 9 6 159 7 10 2 10,545,190 6 5 37,260,607 11 14 278,189 3 11,651,468 6 34 42,206,218 45 225,079 895,522 7 9 26,865 13 5 838,169,748 1 114 28,613,726 14 94 1,662,834 1 61,954,855 12 11 1,859,268 17 44 509 14 4 26,754,457 17 5 1,662,324 6 94 278,189 103,498 13 .... .... in Great Britain ...........772,764,937 9 0월 26,650,959 454 1,657,904 694 278,189 Total Dent of Great Beltag of Portugal, payable in 1 H Hy " 1 11 1 11 1月1 Ireland, juny able in (Great Britain *** * * Happine of Germany, payable to In the Namen od Duc Comonta 401 11 Transbond to the Commising purchaserant, Ann par ant to Act 48 Cow 14. 14 1491339953 19 475,890 Total, css@ 014-345,684, 15 148383,707,682 1.174.079 14 148,164.974 16 63 74.919.405 5 1134,882,348 18 01,058,503 5 of Great Bripayable in Gre 726,738,842 764 25,166,815 16 4 1,303,250 14 54 245,350 14 Ditto to Prince Regent of Portugal. payable in Ditto... Britain.... Loans to the Emperor of Germany, payable in Ditto. 103,032,750 3,194,966 5 7,502,633 6 8 895,522 7 9 838,169,748 1114 61,954,855 12 11 776,214,892 9 0 225,079 In the Names of the Commissioners for the Reduction of the Debt... Transferred to the Commissioners by pur- TOTAL CHARGE for DEBT, payable .. 3,449,955 26,865 13 54 28,613,726 14 1,859,268 17 44 26,754,457 17 5 1,662,324 6 93 278,189 103,498 13 ......£ 772,764,937 9 0 126,650,959 4 5 1,657,904 694 278,189 Add Annuities payable at the Exchequer, Unclaimed for three years, at 5th Jan. 1817...... 3 11,651,468 6 34 42,206,218 45 1,859,778 1184 3 13,511,246 17 11 42,206,218 4 54 3 13,619,165 10 11 42,206,218 4 50 .... Ireland, Total Debt in Great Britain Deduct Life Annuities payable at the Bank Amount applicable to the Reduction of the EXCHEQUER, 18th of March, 1817. WM. ROSE HAWORTH. 28,838 7 13,648,003 17 11 225,254 13 13,422,749 41 UNFUNDED DEBT. An Account of the UNFUNDED DEBT and DEMANDS OUTSTANDING on the 5th Day of January, 1817. 50,047,088 13 PARLIAMENTARY REPORTS. The Select Committee of the House of Commons appointed to consider of the Poor Laws, and to report their Observations thereupon from time to time to the House, have, pursuant to the Order of the House, considered the same accordingly, and agreed to the following Report. YOUR Committee have forborne to avail themselves of the permission to report their observations from time to time to the House, from the persuasion that they could not do justice to so extensive and intricate a subject, by presenting it in detached parts before they had the means of taking a deliberate view of the whole; and not seeing it probable that they could recommend any such alteration of the existing laws as would afford immediate relief in those cases of severe and urgent pressure, which can scarcely be deemed to have arisen out of the ordinary operation of this system, they could not feel themselves justified in offering any suggestions hastily to the House on questions of acknowledged difficulty, enhanced in a high degree by the circumstances of the times, and on which they cannot but recollect, that the remedial efforts of the most able and enlightened men have practically failed. In bringing under the view of the House the whole of this system of laws, they feel it unnecessary to refer minutely to the statutes which passed antecedent to the reign of Queen Elizabeth. It may be sufficient to state, that they were generally directed to the relief of the impotent poor, by the contributions of the church and the alms of the charitable, and to the suppression of vagrancy and idleness; for while permission to solicit support from private benevolence was given to those who were disabled by age or infirmity, it became probably extremely difficult to repress the same practice in others, who" as long as they might live by begging, did refuse to labour, giving themselves to idleness and vice." Enactments the most harsh were therefore provided against "strong beggars, persons whole and mighty in body;" and the relentless rigour of these laws, which was consummated in the first year of Edward VI. visited the offence of vagrancy with the barbarous penalties of slavery, mutilations, and death. And although these severities were somewhat relaxed, even before the expiration of that short reign, yet they |