GENERAL HISTORY. [119 



CHAPITER XI. 



Affairs of the Netherlands. — Finances. — Debate in tliK States on Print- 

 ing Speeches. — Si/steni of Weights and Measures. — Sacred Alliance. — 

 Ecclesiastical Affairs. — Restriction on the Press. — Treaty with Algiers. 

 Discussions respecting Commerce and Manufactures. — King's Speech 

 at Brussels on the Finances. — Treaty between the Netherlands and 

 Hanover. — Fortifications on the Frontiers. — Debate on Exportation of 

 Corn, and proposed Law. 



NONE of the European go- no political considerations can be 

 vernments burdened by the more important than those which 

 enormous expenses of the late relate to the means of remedy- 

 general war, appear to have ap- ingthe evils every where pressing 

 plied with more steadiness and upon the public finances, we trust 

 wisdom the principles of order and we shall not be charged \\dth 

 economy, for extricating them- filling a piige uselessly by tran- 

 selves from financial difficulties, scribing a part of the budget 

 than the new kingdom of the presented on the ^9th of Decem- 

 Netherlands; in the practice of ber last to the second chamber 

 which laudable policy, the cha- of the States -general of the Ne- 

 racter of the Sovereign happily therlands, by Mr. Six Van Otter- 

 concurred with that of the nation, leek, minister of finance. 

 As in the present state of things. 



The amount of the expenditure for 1816, he estimated as 



follows : — 



Royal Household 2,600,000 florins 



High Colleges — (expenses of the Chambers, &c.) 1,220,000 

 Department of the Secretary of State - - 330,000 



Department for Foreign Affairs - - - 890,000 



Home Department ----- 2,300,000 

 Department of Justice - - - - 4,000,000 



Department of the Reformed and other Religious 



SVorship, that of the Roman Catholics excepted 1,010,000 

 Department of the Roman Catholic Worship 1,600,000 



Department of Education, Arts, and Sciences 1,000,000 



Department of Finance . _ - - 23,500,000 



Naval Sei-vice - 6,150,000 



War Department 29,000,000 



Sea and River Dykes and other Public Works 5,000,000 



Department of Commerce and Colonies - 2,550,000 



Unforeseen Expenses . _ _ _ 650,000 



Total 80,000,000 



(N. B.— A Florin is equal to 20d.) 



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