STATISTICS. 117 



Portugal 12,000,000 (a) 



Prussia, in 1819 24,000,000 (6) 



Russia (roubles 1,000,000,000) (c) 



Bavaria 9,000,500 (d) 



Wurtemburgh 3,000,000 



Saxony 4,000,000 



Hanover 3,000,000 



Switzerland 2,000,000 (e) 



Naples . 18,000,000 



The Papal Dominions .... 19,000,000 (/) 



Tuscany 5,000,000 



Sardinia and Savoy 1,650,000 



Sweden, 1819 1,380,000 



Norway (g) 



Greece, 1825 2,800,000 



East India Company's debt . . 30,000,000 



Netherlands (Holland and Belgium) 170,000,000 (A) 



Great Britain 842,000,000 



loans made by the Cortes are not included in the above state- 

 ment. 



(a) Besides 2,000,000 circulating paper of the government. 

 (6) A portion of this has since been paid off. 



(c) Of this amount 600,000,000 of roubles consist of a depre- 

 ciated paper-currency, not worth one-fourth part of its nominal 

 value. 



(d) Besides the above, several of the provinces that were inde- 

 pendent states have their respective debts, all guaranteed by the 

 king. 



(e) Switzerland has properly no national debt belonging to the 

 Union, but each of the cantons have national debts, the amount 

 of which is kept secret, but the whole is supposed to amount to 

 about 2,000,000 sterling. 



(/) Including the paper-money issued by the former Popes. 



(g) The interest of the national debt of Norway is said to be 

 only 10,000 per annum. 



(h) Of this, above five-eighths pay no interest. See Dutch 

 National Debt. 



