11 INTEREST. Annuities for Lives, or Charges of Total Debt of Great Britainable in Gr6 726,738,842 7 64 25,166,815 16 45 1,303,250 14 53 245,350 14 15 129,583 68 28,826 9 9 3,852 10 2 6 159 7 10 3,194,966 5 230,000 26,865 13 54 28,613,726 14 941,662,834 776,214,892 9 0 26,754,457 17 5 1,662,324 6 93 278,189 103,498 13 4,420 00 TOTAL CHARGE for DEBT, payable in Great Britain. 772,764,937 9 0 26,650,959 4 5월 1,657,904 6 9 278,189 Deduct Life Annuities payable at the Bank Amount applicable to the Reduction of the EXCHEQUER, 18th of March, 1817. 2 34 3 11,651,468 6 34 42,206,218 4 5 1,859,778 11 84 (Repeated Column.) TOTAL ANNUAL .... .... Ireland, Great .. 103,032,750 Britain... Ditto to Prince Regent of Portugal. In the Names of the Commissioners for the Transferred to the Commissioners by pur- 7,502,633 6 8 225,079 1,859,268 17 4本 3,449,955 Add Annuities payable at the Exchequer, Unclaimed for three years, at 5th Jan. 1817..... 28,838 7 13,648,003 17 11 225,254 13 13,422,749 411 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 (Repeated Column.) Total Debt of Great Britain.. Ireland, payable in Great TOTAL CAPITALS. ANNUAL Annuities for Lives, or for Terms of Years. Charges of Annual or other Sums payable to the Commis sioners by Sundry Acts of Parliament. TOTAL of ..726,738,842 7 64 25,166,815 16 41,303,250 14 5 245,350 14 14 10,545,190 6 5 37,260,607 11 5 103,032,750 0 O 3,194,966 5 129,583 6 28,826 9 9 1,039,584 19 9 .... Ditto to Prince Regent of Portugal. payable in Ditto.. Loans to the Emperor of Germany, payable in Ditto.... 4,392,961 1 34 7,502,633 6 8 895,522 7 9 225,079 0 O 230,000 O O 3,852 10 6 159 7.10 30,000 O In the Names of the Commissioners for the Transferred to the Commissioners by pur- TOTAL CHARGE for DEBT, payable 838,169,748 1 114 28,613,726 14 91,662,834 1 1 278,189 2 311,651,468 6 33 42,206,218 4 5 61,954,855 12 11 1,859,268 17 4 509 14 4 1,859,778 11 8 3,449,955 Add Annuities payable at the Exchequer, Unclaimed for three years, at 5th Jan. 1817...... Deduct Life Annuities payable at the Bank of England... Amount applicable to the Reduction of the Debt payable in Great Britain... EXCHEQUER, 18th of March, 1817. WM. ROSE HAWORTH. 28,838 7 о 13,648,003 17 11 225,254 13 An Account of the UNFUNDED DEBT and DEMANDS OUTSTANDING on the 5th Day of January, 1817. .... Amount Outstanding. 11,650,300 33,000,000 UNFUNDED DEBT. £. 1,487,743 7 ** 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. It 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. 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 bene, volence 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 |