The produce of many of these refolutions cannot now be certainly 2787854 19 11 1110000 0 0 2000000 00 9 9 163558 3 3 170906 2 8 By the first and fecond refolutions of March the 22d 803497 To which if we add, firft, the liquidated provifions made by the committee of supply, as follows: By the fixth and feventh refolutions of March 1ft By the fecond refolution of April 7th Secondly, the net produce of the French prizes taken before the declaration of war, and vested in the crown, but graciously given up by his majefty for the fervice of the public Sum total of the liquidated provifions will be Befides, fomething will probably arife from the third refolution of March the 22d, as all the regiments of militia that were in actual service were difmiffed foon after the 25th of March, 1763; and there will be fome faving upon the 6th refolution of the committee of fupply agreed to December the 6th, as feveral of the reduced officers have already been put upon whole pay, and more may, before the end of the year, if any new vacancies fhould happen. Then, as to the firft refolution of the committee of fupply agreed to January 27th, there is reafon to think that the whole will be faved; for as navy bills fold at 101. per cent. discount, at the end of March, 1764, and the loweft of our 41. per cent annuities then 723758 0 0 7759574 15 7 47011 17 0 fold for above 931. per cent. every man could get at the rate of 3 if not 41. per cent. profit, by converting his navy bills into 41. per cent. annuities, from whence it may be prefumed, that no part, or but a very small part, of the fum granted by this refolution was ever called for. This, indeed, increased our national debt, but it diminished the fum total of the fupplies, and confequently in creafes this redundancy, fo that the whole of what may be produced by the above mentioned duties in the British American colo nies, and by the other unliquidated provifions made by the committee of ways and means, will be fo much money, in hand, and to be difpofed of by the next following feffion. An An Account of all the Public Dehts, at the Receipt of the Exchequer, standing out Jan. 5, 1764, with the annual interest or other charges payable for the same. EXCHEQUER. Annuities for long terms, being the remainder of the original fum contributed and unfub fcribed to the South-fea company Ditto for lives, with the benefit of furvivorship, being the original fum contributed Note, The land tax and duties on malt, being annual grants, are not charged in this account, { EAST INDIA Company. By two acts of parliament 9Will.III. and two other acts 6 and 9 Anne, at 3 per cent. per ann. Annuities at 3 per cent. anno 1744, charged on the furplus of the additional duties on low wines, fpirits, and strong waters BANK of ENGLAND. On their original fund at 31. per cent. from 1 Aug. 1743 Principal debt. Annual intereft, or other charges payable. 1. S. d. 1,836,275 17 102 For cancelling bills 3 Geo. I. Purchafed of the South-fea company 4,000,000 121,898 351 Annuities at 3 per cent. charged on the furplus of the funds for lottery, 1714 Ditto at 3 per cent. charged on the duties on licences for retailing fpirituous liquors fince 986,800 29,604 Ditto at 3 per cent. charged on the finking fund by the acts 25, 28, 29, 32, and 33 George II. 21,127,821 5 1 Ditto at 3 per cent. charged on the duties on offices and penfions, &c. Ditto at 3 per cent. charged on the additional duty on strong beer Ditto at 3. per cent, charged on the finking fund by the act 25 George 11. Ditto at 3 per cent. charged on the faid fund by the act 29 George II. Ditto at 3 per cent. charged on the duties on offices and penfions, by the act 31 Geo. II. by the act 3 George III. by the said act Ditto at 4 per cent. in lottery tickets charged on the said fund 2,800,000 700,000 Ditto at 4 per cent. to fatisfy certain navy bills, &c. charged on the finking fund by the Memorandum. The fubfcribers of 1001. to the lottery 1745, were allowed an annuity for SOUTH-SE A Company. On their capital stock and annuities, 9 George I. Annuities at 3 per cent. anno 1751, charged on the sinking fund ལྦ॰།། 1 STATE PAPERS. Address of both houses of parliament to his majesty, on occasion of the publication of the North Briton, No. 45, presented on Monday the 5th of November, 1763, with his majesty's most gracious answer. Moft gracious fovereign, WEY E your majefty's moft dutiful and faithful fubjects, the lords fpiritual and temporal, and commons, in parliament affembled, having taken into our confideration a late falfe, fcandalous, and feditious libel, intituled, The North Briton, No. 45, think it our indifpenfable duty to exprefs our furprize and indignation at finding, that neither the public nor private virtues which fo eminently intitle your majesty to the highest veneration, as well as to the most grateful and loyal attachment of all your fubjects, nor the gracious expreffions of your tender care and affection for your people, in your majefty's fpeech from the throne at the end of the laft feffion of parliament, which has been thus infamoufly traduced, should have been fufficient to ecure your majefty from fo in lent and unexampled an indignity Such, in sed, has been your majefty's uniform adherence to the principles of our happy conftitution, and fuch the uninterrupted harmony and good correfpondence between your majefty and your parliament, that it is no wonder to fee that the fame audacious hand, which hath dared thus grofsly to affront your majefty, fhould, at the fame time, violate the other facred regards prefcribed by the laws and conftitution of this country; afperfing and calumniating every branch of the legislature, and endeavouring to excite, amongst all ranks of your majefty's fubjects, fuch a spirit of difcord and difobedience, as could end in nothing but the total fubverfion of all lawful government. Permit us alfo to exprefs to your majefty our firm perfuafion and just confidence, that this moft extravagant and outrageous attempt will prove as impotent as it is wicked; that, instead of answering those purposes for which it appears to have been calculated, it will, on the contrary, ferve to excite in your faithful fubjects the abhorrence of fuch dangerous practices, to unite them more firmly in their zealous attachment to your majesty's person and government, and in a due reverence for the authority of the legislature; and laftly, that in confequence of your majesty's directions to profecute the authors of this infamous libel, it will bring fuch punishment upon those who fhall be found guilty of fo atrocious a crime, as the laws of their country have prefcribed, and as the public juftice and fafety fhall demand. His His majesty's most gracious anfwer. My lords and gentlemen, "The very affectionate zeal, which you exprefs for the vindication of my honour, and your declared refolution to fupport the authority of parliament, cannot fail of being extremely grateful to me. It has been hitherto, and it always fhall be, my care to regulate my conduct according to the principles of the conftitution. I will not, therefore, be wanting in carrying the laws into execution, against all who fhall prefume to violate any of those principles; and in this refolution I doubt not of receiving the hearty concurrence and fupport both of my parliament and my people." The lords protest relating to the privilege of parliament, in the case of writing and publishing seditious libels. THE Die Martis, 29 Novembris, 1763. HE order of the day for refuming the adjourned confideration of the report of the conference with the commons on Friday laft being read; The third refolution of the commons was read, as follows: "Refolved by the commons in parliament affembled, That privilege of parliament does not extend to the cafe of writing and publishing feditious libels, nor ought to be allowed to obftruct the ordinary courfe of the laws, in the fpeedy and effectual profecution of fo heinous and dangerous an offence." And it being moved to agree with the commons in the said refolution; The fame was objected to. Af ter long debate thereupon, The queftion was put, Whether to agree with the commons in the faid refolution? It was refolved in the affirma. tive. Diffentient, Because we cannot hear without the utmoft concern and aftonishment, a doctrine advanced now, for the firft time in this house, which we apprehend to be new, dangerous, and unwarrantable, viz. That the perfonal privilege of both houfes of parliament has never held, and ought not to hold, in the cafe of any criminal profecution whatsoever; by which, all the records of parliament, all hiftory, all the authorities of the graveft and fobereft judges, are entirely refcinded; and the fundamental principles of the conftitution, with regard to the independence of parliament, torn up and buried under the ruins of our most established rights. We are at a lofs to conceive, with what view fuch a facrifice fhould be propofed, unless to amplify, in effect, the jurifdiction of the inferior, by annihilating the ancient immunities of this fuperior |