ABSTRACT
IN 1815, when taxation in this country reached the zenith at the conclusion of the great war with France, the population of the United Kingdom, if we allow rather more than eleven millions for England, two for Scotland, and six for Ireland, numbered between nineteen and twenty millions. The national debt amounted to about eight hundred and sixty millions, which, if we take the population at twenty millions, would be 43/. per head; and the annual charge of the debt was about thirty-twQ millions.
