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been progressively increasing, while our colonialEast India possessions add considerably to the greatmass of property which centres in the country. 1st. The value of what is created bythe produce of the land, includingcorn, cattle, horses, sheep, butter,cheese, hay, wood, &;c. &;c. turns out,upon close examination, to exceedin value 95,000,000l. 2d. The produce of mines and minerals 7,000,000 3d. The net produce of manufactures,after deducting the cost of the rawmaterials, at least 90,000,000 4th. The value of food, obtained bythe coast, for horses, from labour 1,000,000 5th. The profit arising from foreigncommerce, and for horses 25,000,000 6th. The money remitted from colo-nial and East India possessions, toindividuals residing in this country,and thereby making a part of thenational income, 4,000,000 Total, 222,000,000l. Such are the resources of the country, by which itis enabled (exclusively of the resources of Scotlandand Ireland) to oppose itself to one of the most power-ful tyrants that ever assailed the liberties of man-kind, or afflicted the nations of Europe.—And, afterall, this income is confined to nine millions of people,in England and Wales; and, high as the taxes are,even including 10 per cent. upon income, they donot exceed 18 per cent. upon the new property annu-ally created; while the national debt in sterlingmoney is not yet much above two years value of thenational income, while the sinking fund, applicable toits reduction, now amounts to twelve millions a year,and from the accumulating operation which it pos-sesses, is daily increasing.