1. For Interest, &c. on the Permanent Debt of Great Britain, unredeemed VI. Other Payments in Anticipation (E) Bounties for Fisheries, Manufactures, Corn, &c... Militia and Deserters Warran.s. 000 395,975 2 27,700 O 172,874 2 706 1,472,403 11 95 109,693 6 [ VII. Navy (F), Wages of Officers and Seamen Ilalf Pay to Sea Officers, and Bounty to Chaplains Wages to his Majesty's Dock and Rope Yards... General Services-Building of Ships, Purchase of Stores of every description, Repairing of Ships, Purchase of Ships taken from the Enemy, Head Money, &c.. Bills of Exchange, Impress, Salaries, Pensions, &c. 2,721,000 291,000 918,000 596,549 5 I The Victualling Department... ... Transport ditto, for Transports, Prisoners of War, Sick and Wound ed Seamen. X. Loans, Remittances, and Advances to other Countries (I), viz. Deduct Loan, &c. for Ireland... Deduct for Interest, &c. on Portuguese Loan This includes the sum of £.425,175 0 3 for Interest, &c. paid on Imperial Loans PUBLIC FUNDED DEBT. PUBLIC FUNDED DEBT OF GREAT BRITAIN, as the same stood on the 1st of February, 1812. Charges of Management.... Annuities fallen in, or dead; Grants of Parliament, and 1 per cent. on Annual Grants. Total CHARGE for DEBT payable in GREAT BRITAIN 1,540,257 19 14 234,254 3 9 13,084,274 3 11 35,608.615 1 5 UNFUNDED DEBT. An Account of the UNFUNDED DEBT and DEMANDS OUTSTANDING on the 5th Day of January, 1812. Miscellaneous Services TREASURY: Warrants for Army Services.. ... Amount Outstanding. Treasury Bills accepted previous to and on the 5th January 1812, due subsequent to that day .... 1,143,138 1+ 1,710,969 2 FOREIGN STATE PAPERS. Speech addressed hy his royal high ness the Prince Royal of Sweden to the King, upon his Majesty's resu ing the government of the kingdom, on the 7th of January, 1812. Sire, My most ardent wishes have been fulfilled. The re-established health of your Majesty gain enables you to resume the government of the kingdom. I can appeal to your own heart, to judge of the delightful emotion mine experiences in replacing in the hands of your Majesty an authority, the prolonged exercise of which has constantly kept before me the danger which threatened your days. Notwithstanding the daily reports which I have submitted to your Majesty, both respecting the exterior and interior situation of the state, I, nevertheless, consider it my duty to profit by the present occasion, so important for me, upon all accounts, to present your Majesty with a rapid sketch of them. When your Majesty decided upon embracing the continental policy, and declaring war against Great Britain, Sweden had got clear of an unfortunate contest; her wounds were still bleeding; it was necessary for her to make new sacrifices, at a moment even when she lost one of the principal branches of her public revenues; the whole of that produced by the customs being nearly annihilated. In defiance of the insulated situ ation of Sweden, she has performe ed, for the interest of the common cause, all that could be expected from a people faithful to their engagements; more than 2,000,000 of rix-dollars have been expended in recruiting the army, and placing in a state of defence the coasts of our islands, our fortresses, and our fleets. I will not conceal from your Majesty. that our commerce has been reduced to a simple coasting trade from port to port, and has greatly suffered from this state of war. Privateers, under friendly flags, against which it would have been injurious to have adopted measures of safety and precaution, have taken advantage of our confidence in treaties, to capture, one after another, nearly fifty of our merchantmen, but at last, Sire, your flotilla received orders to protect the Swedish flag, and the just commerce of your subjects, against piracies which could neither be authorised nor avowed by any government. The Danish cruizers have given much cause for complaint on our part; but lie evil decreases daily, and every thing leads us to think the lawinl commerce of Sweden will not be any longer disturbed by them, and that the relations of good neighbourhood will be more and more strengthened. The cruizers under the French flag have given an unlimited extension to their letters of marque; the injuries which they have done us have been the object of our complaints. The justice and loyalty of his Majesty the Emperor of the French have guaranteed their redress. The protections given by friend- |