quien has justly observed, in his Esprit des Loix, cent. cent. do. 5 per cent. Total Irish debt payable in cent. G. B. Britain. 30,238,875 00 00 3,254 375 00 00 50,094,000 00 00 8 Debt of IRELAND payable in Great Britain. that wherever there is a place for two persons to live Consolidated annuities, 3 per comfortably, a marriage will certainly ensue: parti. cular laws, therefore, to encourage the propagation Reduced annuities, 3 per cent. of the human species, are not only superfluous, but Consolidated annuities, 4 per destructive of the happiness of the people. The exact proportion which marriages bear with deaths is Ditto strongly exemplified in Holland. Crome and Sussmilch, two statistical writers, of acknowledged accuracy, have estimated the average proportion of marriages to inhabitants as 1 to 108, and by the same calculation the mortality as 1 to 36. But in certain Dutch villages it appeared from the registers that Debt of the EMPEROR OF GERMANY, payable in Great the proportion of marriages was 1 to 64, a number which Sussmilch endeavored to account for by the Consolidated annuities, 3 per various trades and means of getting a livelihood in Holland; but this extraordinary deviation from the men proportion is more correctly solved by the same register, by which it appeared that the mortality was 1 to 22 instead of being in the usual proDebt of IRELAND payable in Dublin. portion of 1 in 36. This increased number of mar 3 per cent. per annum riages, therefore, produced no increase of popula 4 per cent. tion, being occasioned merely by the vacancies which death had created in employments, whereby a family might be supported. A further illustration of the subject will be found upon recollecting the contrast exhibited in the state of Norway. In that country the mortality was stated to be 1 in 48, and the marriages only 1 in 130. Thus it will be seen that an exact relative PROPORTION is maintained. [TO BE CONTINUED.] British Statistics. NATIONAL DEBT-EXPENDITURE-TAXATION National Debt. When queen Anne came to the throne in 1701, the debt was When George I. came to the throne in 1714 When George II. came to the throne in 1727 When George III. came to the throne in 1760 At the close of the American war the debt was (1784) At the close of the war against "revolutionary France" (1801) January 5, 1810 £16,394,702 7,502,633 6 Total funded debt of G. B. 735,611,762 8 117 5 per cent. Total Irish debt, payable in Total funded debt of G. B. and Ireland, January 1, 189, 6,630,962 17 1 227,600 0 0 12,875,450 11 3 19,783,023 8 4 755,395,775 17 33 Unfunded debt of GREAT BRITAIN and IRELAND. Exchequer bills, Treasury bills, Army, barracks, ordnance,navy, civil list advances Total Irish unfunded debt TOTAL BRITISH DEBT, Janua- £40,093,200 The present amount of the national debt is variously stated by different writers. It is somewhere be54,145,362 ween 830 and 850 millions of pounds; a "handful of 52,092,235 millions," to use the appropriate and significant words if a member of the house of commons, is of no great 146,632,844 consequence--one way or the other, As the greater part of the debt bears only three 257,213,043 per cent. per annum, and £100 of its stock will proluce no more thin from 60 to £65 in money, the Bri579,911,447 tish financial writers estimate its real amount to be bout 500 millions, because (say toy) it might be pur 811,393,082 chased for that sum in cash. The following facts will explain to the reader why such great quantities of stock have been created at such low rates of interest. In 1806, the British governm. nt borrowed 18 mil-lions of money-but the stock created by it was exactly £29,880,00; thus-they gave £7 stock, 3 per cent. reduced; £70, 3 per cent. consols.; and 410, 5 per cent navy; making £150 stock for £100 money besides, there was £2,880, 00 more stuck created than Whether this w.s the money produced, at this rute. bonus to the len lers, we are unable to say-the facts ire as stated. Again-in 1808, £10,500,000 were raised-for cre ry £100, the lenders agreed to take £118 36. in the 4 per cents-making a stock of £12,408,475, and so bearing a real interest of nearly 5 per cent. besides the usual discounts and premiums. The foregoing may serve to give a general ea e the nature of the British funds. But we do not pre tend to understand the subject mau cly, o: Co 678,015,119 2 34 prehend clearly, the financial operations of this go vernment. They are surrounded by mystery; and completely known only to the few who "gamble" in them. The annexed explanation of terms will assist the reader to feel the monied pulse of the nation, on seeing the price of stooks quoted in the newspapers: DESCRIPTION OF THE PUBLIC FUNDS. Navy five per cent. annuities, produced from about fifty millions of stock, partly formed out of navy bills, converted, in 1784, into a stock bearing interest at five per cent. whence the name. Four per cent. consolidated annuities, produced from the same quantity of stock as the last, bearing interest at four per cent. as the title indicates; these annuities are called consols. or consolidated, from the stock having been formed by the consolidation of several debts of government. Navy bills are merely bills of exchange, drawn at 90 days date, and are given by the commissioners of the navy for the amount of supplies, for the use of that department, and the interest upon those amount to three per cent. per diem. India bonds are issued by the East India company, and bear interest at 5 per cent. per annum, Omnium is a term denoting the different stocks formed by a loan, while any part of the loan remains unpaid. For example, suppose 20 millions of money were to be raised, and for every 2.100 in money, are to be given 1.100 stock in the 3 per cents. 1.50 stock in the 4 per cents. and 6s. 34. per cent. in the long annuities; then if any person engage to advance 10,000 in money, upon paying the first instalment, Three per cent. reduced annuities, produced by (for the money is usually advanced at the rate of about about 170 millions of stock formed from several 10 per cent. per month, until the whole is paid) he debts, that originally bore a higher rate of interest, will receive three receipts, which separately contain but which, on various conditions, has been reduc-an engagement to answer to the person possessing ed to the rate which the name of the stocks ex-them 10,000 stock in the three per cents. 7.5,000 press. Three per cent, consolidated annuities produced by above four hundred millions of stock, in part formed by the consolidation of several stocks, bearing interest at three per cent. N. B. When the word consols. is indefinitely used it is always understood to mean these annuities. Three per cent, imperial annuities, produced by above eight millions of stock created by loans to the emperor of Germany, with the security of the interest being paid by the government of this country, whenever the emperor should fail in his engagement, Five per cent. Irish annuities, produced by about two millions of stock formed by loans for the use of Ireland, before the union. stock in the four per cents, and 4.31 10s. in the long annuities, upon the whole of the instalments being paid, at or before the appointed time--While these three receipts are sold together, and before the whole of the instalments have been paid they are cal led omnium, as they are made up of all, or of several of the stocks. Script is a term given to each of the receipts of the omnium, they are sold separately; thus, in the foregoing supposition, if the receipt containing the engagement to transfer the 2.10,000 in the 3 per cent. be sold without the other two receipts, this would be called a sale of script. Immediately the whole of the instalments upon any script is paid, the transfer of the stock is made to the person who holds it, and there is usually a discount allowed for any prompt Bank stock, is a capital of nearly 12 millions with which the company of the bank has accommodated payment. N. B. When the stock created by any loan is formgovernment with various loans, and with which they carry on the banking business, purchase bullion, &c, ed in only one sort of stock, there is, properly speakThe dividends on bank stock are now ten per cent.;ing, no omnium; though, then by a misnomer, the so that the profits of the company are near twelve script receipt is called by that name. hundred thousand pounds per annum. India stock, forms the trading capital of the East India company; this stack (consisting of six millions) produces an annual dividend of 10 per cent. South sea stock and annuities consist of, or are produced from a capital of nearly twenty millions. The greatest part of this is lent to government, for which the company receive three per cent. but from the increase of other profits, the dividend to the proprietors is 34 per cent. The terminable annuities are, Bank long annuities, so called from the annual payment being from their origin made payable at the bank, and from their being granted for a greater length of time, than other terminable annuities.These annuities extend to the beginning of the year 1806, and the annual payments are about eleven hundred thousand pounds. The prices of the stocks, &c. are exhibited in the lists that are published, in this manner: The value of any perpetual annuity, thus: Three per cent. consols. 63 1-8, 64 3-4, 1 2. Signifies that the value of 1100 stock of these annuities sold on the day this price is given, for 1.63 2s. 6d. in money at the beginning of the market, that this stock rose to 164 15s. and left off at 1.64 10s. The value of any terminable annuity, thus: Bank Long Annuities, 16 3 8, 16 1-16. Signifying that any annual payment of these annuities was worth 16 3-8 years purchase at the beginning an 1 left off at 16 1-16 years purchase at the end of the market. thus: pr. The value of either exchequer bills, or In lia bonds, 2 discount. This signifies that every 100 in exchequer bills Imperial short annuities, formed in the same man: bore a premium of 2s. at the beginning which adner, and upon the same conditions, as the imperial vanced to 4s. at the end of that day; and that every three per cent. annuities; they extend to May, 1809100 in India bonds, sold at first at 1s. premium and Besides the permanent loans to government, which afterwards sold at 28. discount. have created the perpetual and terminable annuities, various sums have been raised from time to time, as femporary loans, on what are called exchequer bills, from being made payable at the treasury or the exchequer. Exchequer bills are issued for different hundre Is or thousand of pounds, an 1 bear an interest of 34] per cent. per diem, from the day of their date to the time when they are advertised to be paid off a The value of ommium is expressed thus, And signifies that every 1.100 of omnium, sold at NATIONAL EXPENDITURE. When queen Anns came to the throne, 1701, the whole annual expenditure, including the interest on 11 national debt, was 5,610,987 peace When George I. came to the throne (1714) just after queen Anne had been at war 11 years When George II. came to the throne, 1727, When George III. came to the throne, 1760 At the end of the American war, and beginning of Pitt's administration, 1784 At the latter end of the war against "revolutionary France," 1801 For the year 1809 1810 TAXATION. When queen Anne came to the throne in 1701, the yearly amount of taxes was 5,441,248 peace. 24,456,940 war. of Bonaparte; the wife of the latter, it is presumed 61,278,218 war. £4,212,353 When George I. came to the throne in 1714 6,762,643 When George 11. came to the throne, 1727 6,522,540 monarchy in 1809: When George III. came to the Provinces. German square miles. Population. throne, 1760 8,744,682 Lithuania 315 376,578 After the end of the American Eastern Prussia 386 454,734 war, 1784 13,300,921 Western Prussia 343 367,067 At the close of the war against "revolutionary France," 1801, Pomerania 442 490,106 36,720,071 The New Marche 2091 265,714 For the year 1809 70,240,229 ElectoralMarche, country of Magdeburg on the right 416 708,992 Silesia 668 1,896,359 1810 (nett revenue) 70,235,792 The sinking fund to be noticed hereafter. Kingdom of Sicily. The German mile is rather more than four Las Viseaynas, or the Basque Girls. CHRISTIAN AUGUSTUS FISCHER. Translated from From a PICTURE OF MADRID, taken on the spot. By the German. An unexpected, but very important change, has miles English. lately taken place in the foreign policy of this kingdom. Sicily has long been the subsidiary and ally of Great Britain, who, by her fleets and armies have undoubtedly preserved it from the French; though, perhaps, with a view to secure the real sovereignty La corta! la corta! To court! to court! is the of the country to themselves, or preserve an impor. tint depot for their trade in the Levant, &c. The latter end of July last the queen issued a proclama-device of all the country girls in Biscay. They fortion ordering all the English travellers to quit the sake their native mountains in great numbers, and capital, Palermo, without delay, "in consequence of hasten to the fine and matchless city of Madrid. their having interfered too much with the government Here they are sure of getting places, as on account of the country"-it the same time several princes of their cleanliness and industry they are usually [Sicily is full of them] were seized "for having con preferred to all others. Most of them arrive in spired against their sovereign, and for apply.ng for spring and autumn. They commonly make the the assistance of Great Britain so withstand the legal journey with the muleteer and carrier from Bilboa, authority." The queen has declared she will be in-who packs them like a bale of goods, two by two, on a mule. They are also distinguished by their depan lent of the English, and that she will not ac cept any further pecuniary aid from them. At this long tresses, parti colored handkerchiefs on their critical juncture, lord William Bentinck, the British heads, yellow jackets, and red striped petticoats, minister, arrived at Palermo; he was politely re-such a girl finds a place in a few days, and a few ceived, but speedily returned home on ascertain- weeks afterwards she is seen walking about in a One re- Spanish cloak, muntilu and a basquina, or Spanish ing the unfriendly disposition of the court. port stated that the British forces were withdrawn, upper petticoat, like a lady of fashion. The Basque girls are handsome, their graceful and that the queen was left at perfect liberty concerns in her own way" shape, lovely complexion, and captivating vivacity, They under"to manage her own but another account says, that in a full assembly render them extremely attractive. of the cabinet ministers, at which the prince regentstand the art of emptying men's pockets, without presided, held at London on the 5th October, it was little capital, without having committed any inresolved immediately to seize on the island, and dis-granting them any favor; and usually amass & discretion. possess the "legitimate" authorities. Lord William Bentinck left England shortly after to make new efforts on behalf of his government with the Sici lian court. " Incredible as it may appear, it is however trite, with a few exceptions, all a Basque girl thinks pf, The change is thus accounted for the queen of is to lay by something, which having done, she There she is sure of finding a bridegroom Sicily (who, though the king is living, appears to gily hies back to her mountains with the latte direct all the concerns of the government) is aant treasure. to the emperor of Germany, who is father-in-law for whom she preserves all a maiden can give Population of the United States. Having published (in the 13th number of the Register) four views of the population of the several states of the United States, we now proceed to give a comparative view of the different counties of the several states, by the enumeration of 1790, 1800 and 1810. State of Wermont. 378,787 416,393 422,845 465,303 1573,746|| 472,040 Total in Massachusetts, 1700,745 NOTE-The difference between the totals and the amount of free white males, the slaves being deducted, shews the number of those denominated "all other free persons, except Indians not taxed,” meaning free people of color. To shew the whole progress of this people, as well as the increase or decrease of slaves, two distinct and comprehensive tables will be added. Since the census of 1790 many new counties have been formed in several of the states-unable to ascertain, clearly, of what older counties they are composed, to aid local calculations, we have nevertheless distinguished those formed between 1790 and 1800 by inserting them in italic; and those established between 1809 and 1810 by printing them in SMALL CAPITALS. |