The Connecticut Courant And Hartford Weekly Intelligencer

LONDON, March 21.

An abstract of the naval and military estimates for the year 1704, taken from the records of Parliament, when Godolphin was Lord High Treasurer, Prince George of Denmark, Lord High Admiral, and the victorious and immortal John Duke of Marlborough, Commander in Chief; when the campaign was carried on in Spain, Portugal, the Low Countries on the Rhine, and the Danube; when our fleets were victorious in the West Indies, the narrow seas, and on the ocean, and when the lines of Schellenberg were forced; and the power, fame and military strength of the French monarch, then aiming at universal empire, was nearly annihilated at Blenheim and Hochstedt, it appears that the grant for the navy amounted to £2,693,135
For guards and garrisons, 357,000
For men in the Low Countries, and subsidies to the King of Denmark, Landgrave of Hesse Cassel, and Elector of Treves, 933,344
To troops of augmentation serving in the Low Countries, and subsidy to the King of Portugal, 504,661
Ordnance for the land service, 153,000
Total £4,641,140

Lord North's budget for the year 1775, when the campaign was carried on at Boston neck, Bunker's hill, Mystic river, Charlestown, Lexington, Concord and Boston common, a circuit of 87 furlongs, 4,886,651

By the above estimate it appears, that the glorious campaign of 1775, cost us more than the ever memorable victories gained in the year 1704, though we had an army of fifty thousand men in the Low Countries and in Germany; sixteen thousand men serving in Portugal; forty thousand seamen; and that we traversed with our armies the kingdoms of Spain and Portugal, great part of the Empire, Flanders, and part of the dominions of France, while we defended our own coasts against all attacks, and spread terror through those of our enemies. The pay of our seamen and soldiers was the same at both periods. Add to these, we had a pretender to the throne, Scotland was disunited and disaffected, and a fourth part of the people even in England were zealously attached to the Stuart family.

There have been killed from Sept. to January last, for the use of the navy, at London, Portsmouth, Plymouth, and Dover, for sea stores and harbour meat, eight thousand oxen, and eighteen thousand hogs, besides a large quantity of sheep.