-----------+----+------------+-------------------------+------------+- | | | Debt contracted. | | | | +-------------------------+ | Population.| | Raised by | | | Total Debt | | | Taxes. | Funded. | Unfunded. | contracted.| -----------+----+------------+------------+------------+------------+- 17,750,000 |1813| £68,748,363| £52,118,722| £55,478,938|£107,597,660| 17,900,000 |1814| 71,134,503| 39,692,536| 53,841,731| 92,934,267| 18,150,000 |1815| 72,210,512| 50,964,366| 46,968,138| 97,932,501| | +------------+------------+------------+------------+- In 3 years,| |£212,093,378|£142,175,624|£156,288,807|£298,464,428| -----------+----+------------+------------+------------+------------+- --+------------ | Total | Payments | into the | Exchequer. --+------------ |£176,346,023 | 164,068,770 | 170,143,016 --+------------ |£510,557,809 --+------------ If any one supposes these figures are inaccurate, or this statement exaggerated, we beg to say they are not our own. They are copied _literatim_ from Porter's _Parliamentary Tables_, vol. i. p. 1; and we beg to refer to that gentleman at the Board of Trade, to whom, on account of his well-known accuracy, the Chancellor refers for all his statistical facts, for an explanation of these, we admit, astounding ones.