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Statement of the National Debt of Great Britain -at Midsummer, 1806. 



Consolidated 5 per cent, annuities 

 5 per cent, annuities, 1797 and 1802 

 Consolidated 4 per cent, annuities 

 Reduced 3 per cent, annuities 

 Consolidated 3 per cent, annuities 

 Deferred 3 per cent, annuities . 



3 per cent, annuities, 1726 1,000,000 



Bank of England 11,686,800 



South Sea Stock 3,662,784 



Old South Sea annuities 11,907,470 



New South Sea annuities 8,494,830 



Capital. 

 L. s. d. 



46,674,742 1 8 

 2,406,132 13 3 

 49,725,084 17 

 164,705,570 6 

 406,116,201 18 

 1,740,625 



10 



South Sea an.nuities, 1751 1,919,600 



Value of the long annuities 21,245,36716 



Ditto of the short annuities 211,519 12 10 



Ditto of the life annuities 279,074 7 6 



Annuities with survivorship, 1765 . . 18,000 



Tontine annuities, 1789 239,428 4 3 



Funded debt L 732,033,231 11 



Navy, Victualling, and Transport debt 6,000,000 



Exchequer bills 12,000,000 



Ditto for the bank charter 3,000,000 



Ordnance debt, Treasury bills, &c. . . 3,000,000 



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Total funded and unfunded debt L 756,033,231 11 5 

 Redeemed by the commissioners . . 117,581,858 



Interest and Management. 



L. s. d. 



. 2,354,740 14 9 



121,389 7 10 

 . 2,011,379 13. 7 

 . 5,015,284 12 3 

 . 12,366,238 6 11 



30,450 

 ... 356,502 3 5 



. 735,974 13 11 



. . 58,667 15 6 

 . 1,151,510 9 1$ 

 423,039 5 9 

 55,814 17 6 

 540 

 v 19,952 7.0J 



L 24,701,484 7 6| 



630,000 



. 25,331,484 7 6f 

 . 3,316,252 14 9 



Total unredeemed debt 



L 638,451,373 11 5 . L 22,015,231 12 9| 



The capital redeemed by the Commis- 

 sioners, for the reduction of the national 

 debt, is given as it stood on the 1st of 

 February, 1807, their accounts being 

 made up to that period. 



The statement is exclusive of the capi- 

 tal of Imperial 3 per cent, annuities, be- 

 ing 7,502,633/. 6s. 8d. ; the dividends on 

 which, amounting to 225,079Z. per an- 

 num, and likewise the annuities for 25 

 years of 230,000/. per annum, have be- 

 come as regular a charge upon the con- 

 solidated fund as any part of the debt of 

 Great Britain. 



For the terms on which the public 

 debts have been contracted, see LOAKS. 

 For the particulars of the different funds 

 of which they consist, and the mode of 

 transacting business therein, see FUNDS. 



DEBTS and credits, in military affairs. 

 Every captain of a troop or company in 

 the British service is directed to give in a 

 monthly statement of the debts and 

 Credits of his men ; and it is the duty of 

 every commanding officer to examine 

 each list, and to see that no injustice or 

 irregularity has been countenanced or 

 overlooked in this business. 



DECAGON, in geometry, a plane fi- 

 gure with ten sides and ten angles : it is 

 called a regular decagon, when all the 

 sides and angles are equal. 



If we suppose the radius of a circle to 



be r, then willv/^K r,or \X~5~- 1 x 



iT~ 



r, be the side of a decagon inscribed in 

 that circle. Again, supposing the side 

 of a decagon to be 1, the area thereof 

 will be 8.69 ; whence, as 1 to 8.68, so is 

 the square of the side of any given deca- 

 gon to the area of that decagon. 



DECAGYNIA, in botany, the name of 

 an order, or secondary division, in the 

 class Decandria, of the sexual method, 

 consisting of plants whose flowers are 

 furnished with ten stamina, and the same 

 number of styles. Neurada and Ameri- 

 can night-shade furnish examples. 



DECALOGUE, the ten precepts or 

 commandments delivered by God to 

 Moses, after engraving them on two ta- 

 bles of stone. 



DECANDRIA, in botany, the name of 

 the tenth ciass in Linnseus's system, con- 

 sisting of plants, whose flowers, as the 



