£• s. d.
Extraordinary taxes granted by the Hates — 30,416 10 0
The brandy, being a regale —■> — 4 LS4I 10 0
The pofl office — — — 19,000 0 0
Stamped paper — — — — 12,250 0 0
Tythes on com — — — 19,500 0 0
Ditto on iron, copper, filver, allum, brim--
Hone, vitriol, mines, and lime furnaces — 16,812 10 0
The royal lottery — — — W S 0 0 0
And above twenty or thirty other fmaller articles, which amount
however to about £ . 500,000.
The expences were regulated in 1773 to anfwer exaitly the
revenues; but they have ever exceeded them, and there is a,
confiderable annual deficiency, which has not hitherto been made
up otherwife than by loans or anticipations, and mull oblige
the king to call the Hates, in order to find means to extinguilh
that increafing debt, by any new refources which may make the
revenues more adequate to the expences *.
The average expences amount to 4,753,126 rix-dollars, or
£ . 1,188,281. 10 s.
* T h e diet o f 1788 granted a loan houfe ren ts ; eight p er cent, on all places
towards liquidating the debt occafioned from ten rix-dollars, or 2/. 10 s. to 100
b y the annual deficiency, gave fupplies for rix-dollars, or 25 /. per a n n .; on titles ;
carrying on the war, and laid on addi- and three copper dollars, or on
tional ta x e s ; namely, fix per cent, on each window-light*
The
The chief articles of expenditure in the year 1 7 8 4 , were.
£■ S . d .
j . The king’s court, including that of the
queen - 7 8 , 7 5 6 1 0 0
2. The military, viz. the garrifon regiments,
the militia not included 7 0 , 3 3 6 5 0
3 . Ammunition for ditto - 2 6 , 7 9 1 *5 0
4. Clothing ditto - -*• 2 4 ,5 0 0 0 0
5. The artillery - 1 6 , 5 4 8 1 0 0
6 . The navy, the new buildings included 1 x 8 , 1 3 8 1 0 0
7 . The fortrefles and engineers - 1 9 , 7 0 1 0 0
8. The gallies, &c. being feparate from the
navy - - 2 5 , 6 9 9 1 0 0
9. Towards the expences of the king’s travels 5 0 ,0 0 0 0 0
1 0 . Ships new building, extra 35>3l6 10 a
u . Annual fum of extraordinaries left to the
king’s own difpofition, according to the
form of government - 2 5 ,0 0 0 0 0
AmongH numerous fmaller articles that make up the reil o f
£.1,188,281. 1 or. the whole of the expences, I note the
following;
£• j * d\
1. Drotningholm - _ 5 , 1 2 9 10 0
2. The prince royal » - . 2 , 7 0 0 0 0
P 2 3 The