[APPENDIX III.]
TABLE OF THE INCOME AND EXPENDITURE OF THE ROYAL INSTITUTION TO 1814
OMITTING SHILLINGS AND PENCE.

INCOME.
YearProprietorsLife
Subscribers
Annual
Subscribers
Miscellaneous
Ground Rents,
Dividends, &c.
Grand
Total
£££££
17995,827  514   376,379
18008,0472,280  71911,047
18012,323  363  456  3313,474
18021,417  5031,003   752,999
18031,134  2451,624  5123,516
1804  808  4372,271  2483,765
18051,837  3873,845  4346,504
18061,134  1262,691  1904,141
18071,426   131,560
1808  1261,615  1381,880
1809[41]  2791,778  2892,347
1810  8121,7232,3344,869
18111,7311,869  7194,319
1812  9132,172  2443,329
1813  5841,978  5423,104
1814  7101,7631,9374,410
EXPENDITURE.
YearHouseLecturesLibraryPrintingWorkshopSurplus,
Funds,
Exchequer
Bills,
Given to the
Library, &c.
Grand
Total
££££ £££
17995,147 151845,777
18004,193  802174216  14,47110,115
18014,868  8122693767087,078
18025,113  8442553445027,059
18031,6671,014250478326  1573,894
18041,777  872210181118  4203,579
18051,9991,096287193320  8134,710
18061,7391,493464384  47[42]1,8055,935
18071,8161,4514402583,967
18081,8341,128422993,484
18091,9051,326420375Debts, 2,068
1810  562  4992203752,5244,180
18111,796  8863221571,7844,945
18121,080  5331901721,1653,140
1813  872  7832221501,1753,202
18141,322  7273521801,8704,451

FOOTNOTES:

[1] The following unpublished letter from General Howe to General Washington, written from Philadelphia in 1776, shows what the tyranny of the committees and people was:

‘You are not ignorant that numbers even of the most respectable gentlemen in America have been torn from their families, confined in gaols, and their property confiscated; that many of those in this city, whose religious tenets secured them from suspicion of entertaining designs of hostility, have been ignominiously imprisoned, and without even the colour of a judicial proceeding, banished from their tenderest connections into the remotest part of another province. Nor can it be unknown to you that many have suffered death from tortures inflicted by the unrelenting populace under the eye of usurped yet passive authority; that some have been dragged to trial for their loyalty and, in cruel mockery of law, condemned and executed; that others are now perishing in loathsome dungeons, and that penal edicts are daily issuing against all who hesitate to disavow, by a solemn oath, the allegiance they owe and wish to pay to their sovereign.’

General Howe shows the exasperation of the Royalists also. He says:

‘Members of committees, collectors of arbitrary fines, &c., oppressors of the peaceable inhabitants, have been seized by the exasperated inhabitants of different parts of the country and delivered into my hands.’