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Total of Dhurra 4000

Kurreen is upwards of fifty years of age, Khoosal Koowar forty, and Namdar Khan thirty years of age.

Dost Mahomed stands next in consequence to Cheetoo, and the first in rauk of the Sindia Shahee Leaders; being the son of Herroo, to whose command he succeeded in 1814. The Force under Dost Mahomed who lately has seldom passed south of the Nerbuddah, may comprize about 2500 good Horse, and 6000 of all descriptions. He has five Guns, aud about 800 matchlock men, called two Battalions.

HOLKAR SHahee.

The Pindarrees in thisClass are very inferior in strength, and consequence. They are said to look up to Cheetoo, near whose Districts their Cantonments are situated, having no leader who professes a general authority over them; and they scarcely go out on plundering expeditions but in conjunction with Cheetoo's parties. The principal Commanders of the Holkar Shahee Pindarrees are Kadir Buksh, Tookoo Jamidar, Sahib Khan, and his young brother, Bahauder Khan.

Kadir Buksh Takoo, and Sahib Khan, were lately seized and confined by Bunthem Beg, Holkar's principal Officer of Artillery. The Chiefs have been negociating with Holkar's Government for their release for which they have agreed to pay 50,000 Rupees. These Chiefs were released in November 1814,

Total 9200

21000

In estimating the extent of mischief they can do in the country which may be the scene of their ravages no distinction should be made as to good Horse or middling. The very lowest of them being those who Considered commit the greatest excesses. therefore as predatory Horse, the most moderate calculation will allow them

20,000 men.

The Nerbuddah in general rises in the middle of June, it is seldom fordable before November, and may be considered a natural barrier against the inroads of the Pindarrees to the southward, for five months in the year: that is, from the beginning of June to the end of October:-The Pindarrees seldom cross the river after May, though it be fordable, for their retreat might possibly be intercepted by its swelling suddenly after the first rains in the beginning of June.

NATIONAL BUDGET.

We have repeatedly called the attention of our readers to the principles of Representative Government, which are daily becoming better known, and more general, throughout Europe; to these we owe the communications which form the present article. Had they not been addressed to public bodies of the legislature, they had never appeared. Perhaps we could have wished that some more respectable term than that of Budget,—a mere tinker's term -a term used originally in mere derision, in the British House of Commons-had been current and adopted. It has, how ever, this recommendation; it strongly marks the country from whence the term

The Flag of this party is made of alter-(and practice) was taken: for, surely, no nate stripes of white and blue cloth. Those of Kadir Buksh and Tookoo are striped red and white.

other language in Europe than our own could have furnished this (now) sfatesmanlike appellation.

On comparing these documents, the reader will perceive, that the French Budget has not realized former estimates, but demands additional supplies:-that is to say, the country whose commerce is smallest in proportion to its productions, is not getting forwards in its cash accounts. Now, this is nothing wonderful; and always has been the case with France.

The principle of gathering the tares with all simplicity, and from the land, has been favourite with French financiers :-to what effect?

The Budget of the kingdom of the Netherlands shews a contrary result: that is to say, the estimated expences are expected to decrease; the resources of the state are expected to increase. In other words, the commerce of this country bears a greater proportion to its productions, than that of France does; and the taxes taken from the circulation of wealth, are more productive, cæteris paribus.

As to the American Budget, it seems to us to be made the best of. We doubt, whether strangers can form a correct judg. ment on it, till the national Bank gets into motion. It seems to be clear enough that America had desperate difficulties to strug gle against, and still has, and is likely to have, for some time, a memento of the cost attending her subjection to the yoke of a despot, who would have sacrificed the human race to accomplish one of his purposes.

FRENCH BUDGET.

The Minister stated the total results of the budgets of 1814, 1815, and 1816, as foldows:

1. Their produceup to the 1st of August last, amounted, taking it in round numbers, to 1 milliard, 728,827,335 fr.

2. That on these same budgets a possible realization may be expected of 432,225,281 fr.

3. That the positive resources of these three services, amount to 2 milliards, 161,052,616 fr.

4. That the payments effected amount to 1 milliard, 753,686,858 fr.

5. That those to be made, setting aside 41,101,089 classed under the head of arrears, amount to 490,416,908 fr.

6. That these money expences, forming a total of 2 milliards, 244,108,767 fr. re

quire a double supplementary fund of 83,051,151 fr.

This last sum fell to be made good in the budget of 1817.

The budget of receipts for 1817 cannot be the same as for 1816. It must be larger, because, independently of the wants of its own service, it must make good portions of the deficits of 1814, 1815, and 1816: and because it is burdened, conformably to the conventions of the 20th of November, with 30 millions, from which the budget of 1816 was relieved.

The budget proposed for 1817, is ....... .......................... 1,008,294,957 That for 1816 was ... 839, 595,666

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The King and his august family make, in 1817, the same sacrifice to the state as in to the wants of the state. A portion of it 1816. Five millions are given up by them is devoted to the extinction of a debt analogous to that of which the law of the 21st of Dec. 1814, authorizes the payment. The surplus is destined to procure aliment to labour, relief to the poor, and encouragements to the arts.

We bring over to 1817 a sum of 10 millions not received in 1816, on the appropriation made to that service of sums still owing which arise from communal property sold, from woods alienated, and from discounts.

We take under the head of taxes a revenue of 759 millions; so that with the 10

millions left us by 1816, and the 5 millions arising from the civil list, our returns cannot exceed 774 millions.

We maintain the land-tax on the same footing as in 1816. We know how much it requires alleviation, especially after the unfavourable season. which so many provinces have experienced: but the wants of the State are imperious.

We must supply the place, for 1817, of various resources which could not be extended beyond 1816; such, for instance, as securities (cautionnemens) which produced more than 50 millions. Necessity has not left us au option between revenues tried, certain, and speculative and doubtful products. It appears to us that the tax on persons and moveables, with that on doors and windows, could bear with least inconvenience a temporary augmentation. We hope to obtain 14 millions from this in

crease.

The customs and salt promise in 1817, to realize the inmatets of 1816(75 millions). Registration and domaius gives us hopes of

raising 156 millions. The posts, lotteries, saltworks of the east, and accidental receipts, estimated at 29 millions in the budget of 1816, afford us ground to expect only 20 millions in 1817.

We propose, though with regret, the provisional continuance of the drawback of 18 millions on public salaries. It is in many cases attended with the inconvenience of lowering the salary below the merit of services; but the functionaries will still resign themselves to this sacrifice, while they see those which necessity imposes on other classes of citizens.

After all, gentlemen, there is a great interval between 74 millions and 1 milliard 8 millions 294,957 francs. This interval can only be cleared with the aid of credit, it alone can supply the deficiency of taxation, and procure us by means of confidence and the attraction of a legitimate interest, those capital sums which we have neither the right nor the power to exact. The future will come to the aid of the present. Our children, being to enjoy the deliverance which we purchase, will not reproach us for having bequeathed the lightest portion of our sacrifices-the pay

ment of interest of which we have furnished the capitals.

Credit is not to be obtained by resorting to dark courses: if requires the light for its excitement. We will not dissemble, then, that in the 4 years which separate us from the 1st Jan. 1821, we shall be under the necessity of appealing to the unemployed capitals in France and in Europe for a loan of from 7 to 800 millions, and constituting ourselves debtors for the interests to a proportional amount. We ask, for 1817, the power of selling 30 millions of inscriptions the negociation of which will procure us the means of raising our resources to the scale of our wants.

We now present a view of the expenses. The interest of the public debt take it at 151 millions, as an increase of 26 millions, on the sum entered in the budget of last year. This increase comprises.

The War Ministry is that of which the service is the most expensive and most complicated. The sum of one hundred and eighty millions, fixed in the last budget, was found even beforehand insufficient. This department has shown, that it cannot lower its demands for 1817 below 212. millions. Besides an army to be reconstituted in all its branches, it has the charge of pay of retreat, half pay, &c. for an army disbanded, and the fragments of preceding armies since 1792. These remains of a gigantic military force cost still 64 millions. There only remains there

fore 148 millions for the active army, comprising the King's military household, the royal guards, and the gendarmerie.

This sum will not appear too large, when we consider, that the pay of the troops, their subsistence and forage, absorb about 100 millions; that 7 other millions are devoted to expenses of clothing, and especially to remounts become indispensable; and that the artillery, engineers, and military beds alone require 19 millions.

The navy, which has been so long neglected, will require great supplies to enable it to rise from its perishing state, and merely to place it in a capacity to protect our commerce, our fisheries, and to form seamen and officers. It had for 1816, 48 millions; it confines itself in 1817 to asking 2,570,000 fr. additional.

NETHERLANDS BUDGET.

Brussels, Nov. 8.

The following is an extract of the speech delivered by the Minister of Finance to the second Chamber of the States General, in their sitting of the 5th of November :—

"High and Mighty Lords-It is under as favourable auspices as when I presented the budget for 1816, that I now again have the honour to appear before you for a similar purpose. The elevated price of our public funds is a proof of the high degree of confidence which our finances enjoy in public opinion: and the propositions which I have now to submit to you, in the name of the King, must increase that confidence.

"The law of the 11th Feb. last, which fixed the estimate of the wants of the state for the present year, stated them at 82 millions of florins. The law which I am charged to propose to you this day, for regulating the expences of the year 1817, does not exceed the sum of 73,400,000 florius. [A florin is about 1s. Sd. sterling.] The estimates for the different heads of expense are as follow:

Florins.

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1,800,000

1,200,000

adopted which were practicable, consistently with the external relations and defence of the kingdom, and its internal administration and welfare. At the same time he will not omit this opportunity of repeating the assurance, that whatever means of reduction and retrenchment may 24,750,000 be suggested by time and experience, shall 5,00,0000 be anxiously adopted and carried into 28,000,000 effect."

4,500,000

1,259,457
813,763

Total 73,400,000 "In the greater part of these branches of expenditure diminutions have taken place since last year; in some of them very considerable ones: and there still remains sufficient security that with the specified sums the regular service of the country will be sufficiently covered.

"Four branches of expenditure have, how ever undergone some increase. The increase of 90,000f. in that of the reformed and other religious worships, and of 202,00f. in that of the Catholic worship, have originated from that tender regard for the situation of the Clergy, of which his Majesty has recently given a proof, by grauting a gratification of 30fl. to each of the ecclesiastics, to the number of 2,800, whose pensions were reduced a third by the former government, and who had reached the age of sixty years on the 1st October last.

The Minister then proceeded to take a view of the ways and means of providing for this expenditure. These were the land-tax, the tax on persons and moveables on doors and windows, the indirect taxes on consumption, and the produce of the new tariff on imports and exports. He calculated that from all these sources the income of the state for the ensuing year would amount to 78,700,0008., thus sufficiently covering the expenditure.

AMERICAN BUDGET.

In the details of the Treasury Department (which have been rendered. beyoud all former experience, intricate and perplexing, by the necessities of the war, the inadequacy of the revenue during the war, the depression of public credit, and the failure of national currency), a laborious and systematic perseverance has led to the most beneficial results.

4. The amount of the funded debt has, operation of funding treasury notes; and on the one hand, been augmented by the The increase of 200,000l. in the deon the other hand, it has been reduced by partment of education, the arts and sciences the quarterly reimbursements of the prin is necessary for the purpose of covering the cipal of the old stock, as well as by purexpenses of the new colleges and athe-chases. The aggregate amount of the pubnæums to be erected in the southern pro-lic debt, funded and floating, was stated vinces, and to make further provision for on the 12th of February, 1816the support of inferior schools. To be the sum of But, on the 1st of January, 1817, (the floating debt being extinguished, and additional reimbursements of the principal of the old stock being effect

"The increase in the department of finance and public debt has mounted from 23,550,000l. to 24,750,000, although, in fact, the real disbursements of this department are principally increased by a sum of 420,000l. to cover the expences of the new coinage during the next year. The re-ed) the whole amount of mainder of the increase has been occa- the public debt will, prosioned by various expences incurred by his bably, not exceed the sum Majesty, for the purpose of iutroducing of greater order and regularity into the details of this brauch of the administration. "Upon the whole, however, your Ex-duction, between the 12th cellencies will perceive, that the expendi- of February, 1816; and ture of the state for the ensuing year is di- the 1st of January, 1817, minished to the amount of 8,600,000f. of public debt bearing inBut his Majesty is convinced that all the terest, amounting to the 'reductions and diminutions have been sum of

Making a general re

123,630,692 96

109,748,272 11

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for the sum taken from the surplus of the
appropriation of 1815, for the sinking fund
(1,854,762 62), and the whole is ready to
be paid, upon demand, at the treasury.
2. SKETCH OF THE ACTUAL RECEIPTS AP
THE TREASRRY FOR 1816.
1st. The cash balance
in the treasury (excluding
of course, the item of trea-
sury notes) on the 1st Jan-
uary, 1816, was

2d. The receipts at the
treasury from the customs,
during the first 7 months
of 1816 (from the 1st of Ja-
nuary to the 1st of August)
without any allowance for
debentures on drawback,
which may be estimated
at 1,829,564 33, amounted

to

6,298,652 26

.... 21,354,743 74

3d. The direct tax including the assumed quotas of New York, Ohio, South Carolina, and Georgia, for the direct tax of 1816, has produced the sum of

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4th. The internal duties

-S2,475,503 93 | have produced the sum of

26,332,174 89 Making an unexpended balance of the annual appropriation on the 1st of August, 1816, of .

5th. Postage and incidental receipts..........................................

6th. Sales of public
lands (excluding the sum

26,332,174 39 of 211,440 50, received in
the Mississippi territory,
and payable to Georgia...

................................... 5,143,129 04

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3,864,000 00

127,025 38

676,710 40

36,035,995 46

9,790,825 21

45,825,920 67

19,876,710 40

Making the gross annual receipts at the treasury, for the year 1816, about the sum of ................................. 65,702,631 97 S

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