THE RISE AND PROGRESS OF THE FUNDING SYSTEM EXPLAINED ;

With Observations on the National Resources for the beneficial Employment of a redundant
Population, and for rewarding the Military and Naval Officers, Soldiers, and Seamen,
for their Services to their Country during the late War.

ILLUSTRATED BY

COPIOUS STATISTICAL TABLES,

CONSTRUCTED ON A NEW PLAN,

AND EXHIBITING A COLLECTED VIEW OF THE DIFFERENT SUBJECTS DISCUSSED IN THIS WORK.

H. Bryer, Printer,

Bridge-street, Blackfriars, London.

ADVERTISEMENT.

EARLY in the month of November last, when the Composition of the text of this Work first commenced, the Tables were nearly completed, including the captured, as well as the British colonies then in the possession of the Crown. In its progress, many of these Tables were printed before the war, which had so long afflicted Europe, assumed a new and more favourable aspect, and had happily terminated in a treaty of peace restoring the general tranquillity, after twenty years of tyranny and devastation, which had disorganized the general system of Continental Europe.

The cession of various colonies to the Sovereigns of France, Holland, and Denmark, will of course diminish the population stated in page 7, of the text, and in the statistical Table in page 47, as amounting to 61,157,433 souls, which must be considered as now reduced to 59,655,725; thus yielding up to the belligerents a population estimated at 1,501,708, with colonies valued upon the whole at £87,707,130 sterling.

These cessions, necessary in themselves, and politically wise with a view to the future tranquillity of Europe, still appear in the Tables as a mark of British liberality; but they are not noticed in the text, which is confined intirely to what relates