Professor Leone Levi, in an article in the ry manner, ent of the reign of William and Mary, lebt amounted to the comparatival; During her rei sion occurred, in 1714, the Earopesn turmoils continued during the reign of the Georges, and by the time of the access. sion of George TIL the debt had grown to £102,814,000. With the close of the 18th century, the French Revolution, like an earthquake, shook the whole foundation of European politics, and in 1820, on the acoes-sion of George IV., the National Debt of the United Kingdom reached th of £834,900,000.. From that time the capital sum of the Natioval Debt receded from its highest point. On the accession of Queen Victoria, in 1837, the debt amounted to £787,539,000, and at this moment, after many years of comparative peace, the ox pital of the debt is still as high a8 £778,000,000, requiring an annual charge of £27,000,000 for interest and annniti The finance results of war to Franco are mitted on the g of the debt. The ate per
debt of France, which, in 1715, amounted to £124,000.000, was arbitrarily' reduced, in 1716, to £80,000,000. The Revolution created funded debt was only d thereby to £96,000,000, but even of this, however, only one-third was allowed to stand in 1798, or £32,000,000. The First Empire increased the atnount of the debt to £70,600,000. But this was doubled on the Restoration, and in 1830 it amounted to £141,000.000. The reign of Louis Philippe was not marked by any great war, yet on its close, in 1848, the debt was.£182,000,000,
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