ited States--25.

"10th. Claims disallowed and withdrawn--313.

"11th. Loyal British subjects who appear to have relief by the Treaty of
Peace, but state the impossibility of procuring it--4.

"Mr. Pitt proposed to pay classes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, whose liquidated
losses did not amount to more than L10,000 each, the full amount of
their losses; and if they should exceed the sum of L10,000, to deduct
the sum of ten per cent. from excess only of L10,000, provided such
losses did not exceed L35,000; and if they exceeded L35,000, then
fifteen per cent. from the excess of L10,000, and not above L50,000; and
if they exceeded L50,000, then to deduct twenty per cent. from the
excess of L10,000; and which principle, he informed the Committee, he
meant to follow in every other class.

"With regard to the 4th and 8th classes, viz., of loyal British subjects
and loyal British proprietors resident in Great Britain during the war,
he did not mean to propose any deduction from the losses under L10,000;
but from the losses which amounted from L10,000 to L50,000 he proposed a
deduction of twenty per cent. should be made; and a further deduction
from those losses amounting to above L50,000, and a still further
deduction of seventy per cent. from those from L50,000 to L200,000; and
so on in proportion.

"He next considered the case of those Loyalists whose losses
principally, if not solely, arose from their loss of office or
profession, by which they had been deprived of their livelihood, or
means of support, both for themselves or families. These persons were
distinct from those who had been in trade or other branches of business,
or gained their livelihood by their manual labour. Though these losses
were not of so substantial a nature as those who lost property real or
personal, yet they could not be easily reinstated in the same lucrative
professions which they had enjoyed--civil employment, in the law, in the
Church, or in physic--and therefore he thought them entitled to a
liberal compensation. But as they were not precluded from exercising
their industry and talents in this country, he proposed that all those
persons who were reported by Commissioners to have lost incomes not
exceeding L400 _per annum_, should receive pensions at the rate of L50
_per cent._ of such income, and L40 _per cent._ for every L100 above
L400 per annum; where the value did not exceed L1,500 _per annum_, L30
_per cent._ for every L100 per annum exceedin