Add MS 89036/1/23

Document numbering continues from Add MS 89036/1/22.

• 107. Draft Regimental Order (13 November 1803). Three Battalions of Cinque Port Volunteers to 'assemble within the Cinque Ports on Permanent Pay and Duty for the space of three Weeks for the Protection of the Coast against Invasion'.
• 108. Draft document [1803] related to item 107.
• 109-110. Revenue estimations (8 January 1802).
• 111. Table showing payments (Revenue, Stamps, Post Office) into the Exchequer of Ireland. January to August 1802.
• 112. Notes [1802] on the Act of Settlement.
• 113. Further notes [1802] regarding Ireland, beginning: 'Connection with Ireland and its Happiness'.
• 114. Further notes [1802] on Ireland, beginning: 'No pledge before the Union'.
• 115. Minutes of Cabinet, 2 February [1802], beginning: 'Catholic Question - to be opposed'.
• 116. Endorsed: 'Finance 1802'. Revenue and Expense accounts. In the hand of George Rose.
• 117-117(i). Further notes by George Rose on budgetary matters.
• 118. Note 'For Mr. Pitt / Feb. 19 1801' (?Grenville). Pension entitlement, listing several individuals.
• 119. Finance notes headed 'Grants 1801'. Various amounts listed, including for Navy, Army, Portugal, Ordnance.
• 120-121. Notes by hand reporting (resignation) speech by Pitt [25 March 1801].
• 122-141. Continuation of Pitt's speech. Printed source, cuttings adhered to backing sheets.
• 142. ITEM MISSING: Finance notes (8 April 1801) regarding Treasury loans and Sinking Fund.
• 143. Notes (25 February 1801) on various crimes (treason, robbery) beginning 'Inquiry respecting Patrick Brady - Transported'.
• 144-146. Notes in Pitt's hand (24 October 1801) on Sinking Fund and National Debt.
• 147-147(ii). Draft paper (1800) concerning the possibility of peace negotiatons between the Court of Vienna and France. Endorsed in pencil on the verso of 147(ii) as by Grenville.
• 148. Finance notes [1800].
• 149. Details (totals) of West Indies imports and exports. Dated 1799.
• 150-150(ii). Draft on raising 140,000 men 'to act on the side of Switzerland in the Course of the next year'. [1799].
• 151-151(ii). Notes entitled 'Land Tax'. [?1798]
• 152. Notes on income tax, beginning: 'Repeal assessment of last yr, and grant new duties of [one tenth] on every description of Income herein enumerated'. [?1798].
• 153. Totals for Subsidies Extraordinaires, 1793-1798.
• 154. Finance notes: 'Disposition Papers (from Parliamentary Register)'. Endorsed: 'War Expenditure from 1793 to 1798'.
• 155-155(i). Draft orders relating to invasion, dated September 1796.
• 156. Finance notes listing sums to be raised (e.g. by Exchequer Bills, by subscription). Dated 12 November 1796.
• 157. Working notes identifying those entitled to relief from taxation. [?1798].
• 158. Finance notes, dated 20 April 1797.
• 159-159(i). Draft on the 'State of Military Establishments' (1791), arguing for their reduction at a time of peace.
• 160. 'On the right of visiting ships in the Ganges'. Dated 18 July 1786.
• 161-161(i). Endorsed: 'Copy. Message to the Prince of Wales, Queens House, March 13th 1785'. The document is a copied letter from George III, stating that the Prince of Wales 'should not quit the Kingdom without my express Leave, together with a Recommendation of some Plan for Payment of His debts by a Reserve out of his Revenue'. With amendments in another hand (?George III).
• 161(ii)-161(iii). George III to the Prince of Wales, 29 March 1785. Retained draft copy, endorsed: 'Draft from the Chancellor'. Letter begins: 'the P. of W. is sufficiently aware that His Letter of the 14 Mar is by no means a satisfactory or suitable answer to my proposal of the 13th.'

The remaining documents in the file are fragments and miscellaneous items that do not have a Public Record Office number:

• Statement to the House of Commons that negotiations between 'His Majesty and some of the Powers of the Continent, have not yet been brought to such a Point as to enable His Majesty to lay the result of them before the House'. Not dated.
• Three columns of figures with no title or indication of reference. Annotated in pencil: 'Mr Pitt's figures'.
• Two columns of names (Peers, Ministers): one dated 'Saturday June 16', the other 'Sunday June 18'.
• Brief note of names and ranks - appears to relate to patronage and advancement.
• Fragment (previously damaged with text missing, now conserved) on conferring the Ribbon of the Order of St. Patrick on the E[arl] of (?)Albemarle. Other names mentioned. Stamped 'Public Record Office' on the verso.
• Fragment (conserved) with much text missing, beginning 'My Lord'. Stamped 'Public Record Office' on the verso.
• A list of five names under the heading 'Council on Saturday': Hawkesbury, Addington,Chancellor, Duke of Portland, and Lord Walsingham. On the other side of the sheet is a fragment of text.