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DEFICIENCIES.

To pay off exchequer bills of laft feffions
The like for a further fum of deficiencies
To make good to the finking fund deficiencies of an-
nuities, granted by 31 Geo. II. for 1758 to 5th
July 1786

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The like by 18 Geo. III. for 1778 to 10th October 1786

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The like by 19 Geo. III. for 1779 to 5th July 1786 The like by 20 Geo. III. for 1780 to 10th October 1786

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The like by 22 Geo. III. for 1782 to 5th July 1786-
The like by 23 Geo. III. for 1783 to 10th October
1786
The like by 24 and 25 Geo. III. for 1784 and 1785
to 5th July 1786

For deficiencies and lofs by repeal of duties on tea, by 24 and 25 Geo. III. in 1784 and 1785, to 5th April 1786

For deficiencies of grants for 1786

Total of deficiencies

Recapitulation of the Supplies.

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Ways and Means for raifing the above Supplies, granted to his Majefty for

the Year 1787.

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Savings from the army in 1785 and 1786
Out of furplus in exchequer for land forces in 1785
Surplus of the finking fund remaining in the ex-
chequer, 5th April 1787

By lottery of 50,000 tickets, at 151. 2s. 9 d. each,
500,000l. in prizes, charged on the fupplies for
this year, to be paid at the bank 1ft December'
1788

Total ways and means
Total fupplies

Excess of ways and means.

NEW TAXES in 1787.

Additional duty on geneva imported.

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Ditto on licences to deal in fpirituous liquors. And
A duty of excife on French glafs imported.

STATE

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PAPERS.

His Majesty's most gracious Speech to both Houses of Parliament, on the opening of the fourth Seffion of the Jixteenth Parliament of Great Britain, on Tuesday the 23d of January, 1787.

"I

My Lords, and Gentlemen, HAVE particular fatisfaction in acquainting you, that fince I last met you in parliament, the tranquillity of Europe has remained uninterrupted, and that all foreign powers continue to exprefs their friendly difpofition to this country.

"I have concluded a treaty of navigation and commerce with the Moft Chriftian king, a copy of which fhall be laid before I must reyou. commend it to you to take fuch measures as you fhall judge proper for carrying it into effect; and I truft you will find that the provifions contained in it are calculated for the encouragement of induftry and the extenfion of lawful commerce in both countries, and by promoting a beneficial intercourfe between our refpective fubjects, appear likely to give additional permanence to the bleffings of peace. I fhall keep the fame falutary objects in view in the commercial arrangements which I am negociating with other powers.

"I have alfo given directions for laying before you a copy of a con

vention agreed upon between me and the Catholic king, for carrying into effect the fixth article of the laft treaty of peace.

Gentlemen of the House of Com

mons,

"I have ordered the estimates for the prefent year to be laid before you; and I have the fullest reliance on your readiness to make due provifion for the feveral branches of the public fervice.

"The ftate of the revenue will, I am perfuaded, continue to engage your conftant attention, as being effentially connected with the national credit, and the profperity and fafety of my dominions.

My Lords, and Gentlemen,

"A plan has been formed, by my direction, for tranfporting a number of convicts, in order to remove the inconvenience which arose from the crowded, ftate of the gaols in different parts of the kingdom; and you will, 1 doubt not, take fuch farther measures as may be neceffary for this purpose.

"I trust you will be able this feffion to carry into effect regulations for the eafe of the merchants, and for fimplifying the public accounts in the various branches of the revenue; and rely upon the uniform continuance of your exertions in purfuit of fuch objects as

may

may tend ftill farther to improve the national resources, and to promote and confirm the welfare and happiness of my people."

The humble Address of the Right Honourable the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, in Parliament affembled, to his Majefty, for the foregoing Speech from the Throne.

Die Martis 23° Januarii 1787.

Moft Gracious Sovereign,

E, your majefty's moft

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"We return your majesty our hearty thanks for your goodness in directing the treaty of navigation and commerce with the Moft Chriftian king, and the convention with

W dutiful and loyal fubjects, his Catholic majefty, to be laid be

the lords fpiritual and temporal in parliament affembled, beg leave to return your majetty our humble thanks for your gracious fpeech from

the throne.

"Permit us to exprefs to your majesty the eagernefs with which we take the earliest opportunity offered to us of joining the unanimous voice of our fellow fubjects, in congratulating your majefty on the late pro. vidential interpofition of the Almighty in the prefervation of a life fo valuable to your people. We acknowledge, with reverence and gratitude, the divine goodness, in averting the calamity with which we were threatened. We join in the general admiration of those virtues which compofe your majesty's character; and humbly beg leave to affure your majefty, that we are happy in teftifying the fhare we take in the loyal and affectionate attachment to your facred perfon, which pervades the breafts of your majefty's fubjects in every part of your dominions.

"It is with moft fincere concern that we condole with your majefty upon the lofs which you have fuf

fore us; and we beg leave to affure your majefty, that, in confidering meafures of fo important and interefting a nature, we shall be happy to find in them a tendency to give an additional permanency to the bleffings of peace, the encourage. ment of industry, and the extenfion. of lawful commerce between your majefty's fubjects and those of the Moft Chriftian king, and that we fhall with pleasure concur in any regulations calculated to infure thofe falutary purposes.

"We learn, with great fatisfaction, that your majefty has taken measures for the tranfportation of a number of convicts, and for removing the inconveniences which arife from the crowded state of the gaols; and we beg your majefty will be affured that we fhall be ready to concur in fuch farther provifions as may be found neceffary for this purpose.

"We fhall with the fame readinefs co-operate in whatever regulations may appear to be proper for the ease of the merchants, and for the fimplifying the public accounts, in the various branches of

the

the revenue; and your majefty may depend upon our beft and fteadieft exertions in purfuit of fuch measures as may tend till farther to improve the national refources, and to promote and confirm what has ever been the first object of the parental care and attention of your majefty, the welfare and happiness of your people."

and affectionaté attachment to your facred perfon, which are deeply rooted in the hearts of all your majefty's fubjects.

We condole with your majefty on the unfortunate death of that moft illuftrious and excellent princefs, your majesty's aunt, the Princefs Amelia

"It is with great fatisfaction we learn that the tranquillity of Europe

His Majefty's most gracious Anfwer. remains uninterrupted; and that

My Lords,

"Your expreffions of affectionate attachment to my perfon and government, as well as your affurances of proceeding to the confideration of the important objects, which I have recommended to you, give me the greatest fatisfaction."

The bumble Address of the House of Commons to the King, for the foregoing Speech from the Throne, January 25, 1787.

Moft Gracious Sovereign,

W

E, your majefty's moft dutiful and loyal fubjects, the commons of Great Britain in parliament affembled, beg leave to return your majefty our humble thanks for your most gracious fpeech from the throne; and to take the earliest opportunity of offering to your majelly, in our own name, and in that of all the commons of Great Britain, our moft hearty congratulations on the prefervation of a life fo justly dear to your people. We entertain a juft fenfe of the peculiar favour of Providence, in averting the danger to which we were expofed, and rendering it only the occafion of manifefting, in the fulleft manner, thofe fentiments of duty

your majefty continues to receive aflurances from all foreign powers of their friendly difpofition towards this country.

"We are fenfible of your majefty's goodness in having directed the treaty of commerce and navigation with the Moft Chriftian king, and the convention agreed upon with the Catholic king, to be laid before us. Both-thefe events, particularly a meafure fo important and extenfive as a commercial arrangement between this country and France, muft be highly intere. ing to us and our conflituents; and it will afford us the trueft fatisfaction to concur in any measure calculated for the encouragement of induftry, and the extenfion of lawful commerce, and which, by promoting a beneficial intercourfe between the two countries, fhall appear likely to give additional permanence to the bleffings of peace.

Your majefty may at all times rely on our readinefs to make due provifion for the several branches of the public fervice; and the state of the revenue, fo nearly connected with the national credit and the fafety and profperity of your majefty's dominions, will continue to engage our unremitting attention.

"We fhall not fail to take fuch measures as may be neceffary for

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