118 STATISTICS. 



National Debt of Great Britain. 



1816. Total amount of the funded debt 816,911,000 

 Unfunded debt 47,912,000 



864,823,000 



1823. Total amount of funded debt 796,539,000 

 Unfunded debt 45,526,000 



842,065,000* 



Total apparent reduction since 1816, 24,766,000; 

 but the actual reduction was 35,000,000. 



Dutch National Debt, 1822. 



Florins, 2s. 

 Deferred debt, on which no interest \ , 1 Q , nnrk n 



is paid } 1,131,000,137 



Active debt, bearing interest . . . 510,000,000 

 Belgian debt 34,466,816 



Total . 1,675,466,953 



Or nearly 170,000,000 sterling. 



The expenses of the finance department (including 

 25,000,000 Rhenish florins, about 2s. value, the 

 interest of the national debt) was 7,500,000 per 

 annum. 



The French National Debt. 



The annual interest of the French national debt on 

 the 1st Sept. 1821, was 263,900,284 francs, about 

 11,500,000. 



* In 1822 this amount was said to have stood in the names of 

 280,000 persons. 



