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 Ch. 8. millions and three quarters, interet of the national debt, and the two millions and a quarter produced from the inking fund, make up the even millions and three quarters per annum, neat money, which were before tated to be the annual produce of our perpetual taxes; beides the immene, though uncertain, ums ariing from the annual taxes on land and malt, but which, at an average, may be calculated at more than two millions and a quarter; and, added to the preceding um, make the clear produce of the taxes, excluive of the charge of collecting, which are raied yearly on the people of this country, amount to upwards of ten millions terling.

expenes defrayed by the civil lit are thoe that in any hape relate to civil government; as, the expenes of the houhold; all alaries to officers of tate, to the judges, and every of the king's ervants; the appointments to foreign embaadors; the maintenance of the queen and royal family; the king's private expenes, or privy pure; and other very numerous outgoings, as ecret ervice money, penions, and other bounties: which ometimes have o far exceeded the revenues appointed for that purpoe, that application has been made to parliament to dicharge the debts contracted on the civil lit; as particularly in 1724, when one million was granted for that purpoe by the tatute 11 Geo. I. c. 17.

civil lit is indeed properly the whole of the king's revenue in his own ditinct capacity; the ret being rather the revenue of the public, or it's creditors, though collected, and ditributed again, in the name and by the officers of the crown: it now tanding in the ame place, as the hereditary income did formerly; and, as that has gradually diminihed, the parliamentary appointments have encreaed. The whole revenue of queen Elizabeth did not amount to more than 600000𝑙. a year : that of king Charles I was 800000𝑙. and the revenue voted for king Charles II was 1200000𝑙. though complaints were made Rh