Statistics. 
A TABLE 
Sh-ewing the progressive increase of the taxation, expenditure and 
national debt of Great Britain, from the accession of queen 
Anne, 1702, to the 5th of January, 1810. Also the amount of 
debt redeemed from the first operation of the redemption acL 
1786, to the first of February, 1810. Together with the amount 
of all the loans from 1776 to 1810. 
1702, Death of Williara HI, accession of Anne 
1714 Death of Anne, accession of George I. 
1727 Death of Geo> I. accession of Geo. IT. 
1760 Death of Geo. II. accession of Geo. III. 
1784 After the close of the American war^ 
and at the commencement of Mr. C 
Pitt’s administration, j 
1802 After the dose of the last war com-'l 
monly called the French revolution C 
war, j. 
1810 5th January, 
1 Taxation. 
Rxpendit. 
Debt. 
1/4,212,353' 
/ 5,610,987 
1 16,394, 7fi2 
6,762,643 
6.633,581 
54,145,363 
6,522,540 
5,441,257 
52,092,235 
1 8,744,682 
24,456,940 
146,682,814 
;i3,300,921 
1 
21,657,609 
257,213,043 
136,728,971 
61,278,018 
579,931,447 
170,240,226 
82,027,283 
811,898,081 
Tlie national funded debt 761,1 17,455/. 18s. 0-|rf. Unfunded 
debt^ 50,780,625f. 14s. 5<i. Redeemed debt^ 163,679,089/. Janu^ 
ary 5, 1810. 
The funding system commenced 1696, eighth year of Wil- 
liam III, The first monies raised were laid as duties on salt and 
stamps, to the amount of two millions. At the death of William 
III. whose reign was one continued scene of warfare, the debt 
amounted to 16,3 94,702/. At the death of Anne, 1714, whose 
feign, the last year excepted, was war, the debt had increased more 
than three fold, being 54,145,3.63/, At the death of Qeorge I, 
1727, the debt had decreased more than two millions, being at 
that period 52,092,235. At the death of George II. 1760, a period 
^f thirty three years from the death of George I. in which two 
wars had taken place, the debt had nearly doubled, being 146,- 
682,814/.’ In 1784, after the close of the American war, and at 
the commencement of Mr. Pitt’s first administration, a period qf 
twenty four years from the accession of George III. the debt almost 
doubled itself, being 257,213,043./. At the close, of the year 1802, 
the termination of the French revolution war, a period of eigh^ 
teen years, the debt had more than doubled itself by sixty-five 
millions, being 579,931,447/. From the close of the year 1802, to 
the beginning of the year 1810, a period of seven years only, the 
debt had increased two hundred and thirty -two millions, the whole 
amount of the national debt, funded and tmfunded, on the 5th 
J anuary , 1 8 1 0? being 8 U , 8 9 8 ,0 8 1 7 
