-population animal and vegetable, 171-Dr. Adam Clarke, 171

Sir James Steuart, 172-Mr. Burke, 173-duty of Govern-

ment, 175—charities public and private in Britain, 176-particu-

larly to foreigners, 177-patriotic fund, 180-decrease of crime

in Britain, 181-number of offenders and paupers in the six law-

circuits of England, 183-number of criminals from 1749 to

1805, 184-Northern counties of England, 185-causes of dimi-

nished crime in England, 186-rare criminality in Scotland, 187-

-Lord Justice Clerk, 188-coal-mines of Britain, 189—of Je-

mappes, 189-price of English coals on Continental Europe, 190

-particularly in Denmark, 190—taxes in Britain now less heavy

than in 1700, 191-British West-India trade, 191-low interest

of money, and high price of land in Britain, 192—the reverse in

France, 192-difference in price of proprietor and government-

land in France, 192-why low interest raises price of land and

conversely, 192-when specie denotes poverty, and paper-money

denotes wealth, 193-in France, 194-Britain, 194-the United

States, 194-British North-American colonies, 194-in Russia,

195—in Algiers, 195-progressive value of land in Britain, 196

-its purchase-money in the beginning of the 17th century, 196

-of the 18th and 19th centuries, 197-progressive personal

wealth in Britain, 197-in 1600, 197-in 1698, 197-in 1800, 198

-total British property real and personal in 1810, 198-total

national income, 199—increase of capital and income in the 18th

century, 199-taxable income of Britain, 200-proportion of pub-

lic expenditure and taxable income, 201-increased productive-

ness of taxes, 202-imports and exports in 1784---1805, 202-

revenue of post-office in 1700, 1800, 1810, 203-net produce of

permanent taxes imposed before 1792, 204-since 1792 to 1811,

205—revenue of Ireland in 1803---1810, 206—of Great-Britain

in 1810, 206—net produce of permanent taxes in 1803---1810, 206

--of war-taxes from 1804 to 1811, 207--increased value of proper-

ty-tax, 207---of excise, 207---its revenue in 1807-8-9-10, 208---

net produce of assessed taxes in 1807-8-9-10, 209---of permanent

taxes and annual duties for 1807-8-9-10, 209---of stamps for 1808

-9-10, 209---income and surplus of consolidated fund for 1803-4-5

-6-7-8-9-10, 210-of customs for 1807-8-9-10, 210-proportion of

British public revenue paid by the whole annual trade of the

United States, 211--speech of his Britannic Majesty on the 21st

June, 1810, 212-great internal improvements in Britain, 213--

the foundation of all national wealth and power, 214-duty of

government, 214--rapid improvement in England, Ireland, Scot-

land, and Wales, 215--inclosure-acts from 1700 to 1810, 216——

inland navigation from 1750 to 1800, 217——Mr. Gallatin, 218——

The Caledonian Canal, 219--inland navigation of Ireland, 220--

multiplication of roads and bridges, 221-particularly in the

Scottish Highlands, 222--expired and expiring laws in England,

222-evils of lotteries, 223--public expenditure and conduct of

public business in British empire,223-acts of Parliament pass-

ed in 1807-8-9-10, 224-THE NATIONAL DEBT of Britain,

225-policy of sponging it, 226-its extent, 226-effects of not

paying it, on Britain, 227---on other nations, 228---its real amount,

229--how lessened by depreciation in money-value, 229---its no-

minal and real amount in 1809, 230---difference between sterling

money and debt-capital, 232-terms of loans in 1806-7-8-9, 233

--cause of difference between sterling money and debt-capital,

234-nature of the public funds in Britain, 234--aggregate fund,

235-South-sea fund, 235—general fund, 235—sinking fund, 236

-encroachments thereon, 237-Mr. Pitt, 238-consolidated fund,

240-sinking fund of 1786, or old S. F. 240-its operation for

100 years, 240--new sinking fund of 1792, 241-their income

how arising, 241-all British national debts reduced to annuities,

242-Lord Henry Petty's plan of finance in 1807, 243-Mr.

Perceval's annuity-sinking fund in 1808, 245-dates when the
sinking funds redeem the whole national debt, 247-error of Mr.
Rose and the British commissioners of finance, in not distin-
guishing the different qualities of the debt-capital and sinking-
fund income, 250-public debt incurred and redeemed from
1716 to 1786, 251---from 1786 to 1806, by old and new sinking-

funds before and after their consolidation, 251---debt-capital,

redemption and difference from 1794 to 1807, 252---debt-capital

redeemed in 1807, 253---in 1808, 253---in 1809, 254---income of

sinking fund on 1st February, 1809, 255---debt-capital of Ireland

redeemed in 1809, 256---of Imperial debt, 257---debt-capital of

Great-Britain redeemed in 1810, 260---income of sinking fund in

1810, 261---loan in 1810, 261---mode in which the sinking funds

liquidate the national debt, 261---rapidity with which the sink-

ing funds gain upon the whole debt-capital, 265—with one-third

more speed than is allowed by Mr. Rose on the finance-commit-

tee, 267-resolutions on finance 20th June, 1809, 268-public

debt of Great-Britain in 1803....1809-funded and unfunded, re-

deemed and unredeemed, 269-variations in the public debt

between 1803 and 1809, 271-the thirteenth resolution examin-

ed, and proved to under-rate the force of the sinking-fund by one-

third 273-the basis of the new sinking fund of 1792 is one and

one-third, not one per cent. per annum on all the debt-capital

created since 1792, 275-distinction taken by Lord Henry Petty

in 1807, 278-public debt of Ireland, funded and unfunded, re-

deemed and unredeemed in 1803....1809, 279-variations of debt

between 1803 and 1809, 280-the thirtieth resolution examined

and found erroneous in like manner as the thirteenth, 280---

commerce of Ireland in 1803....1809, 281---total public expendi-

ture of Great-Britain from 1793 to 1803, 282---total ways and

means, 282---do. from 1803 to 1810, 282---loans saved by war-

taxes, 283---Britain gains more annually by the depreciation of

money-value on the whole debt than she adds to the debt by loans,

283---Mr. Huskisson, 284---wisdom and policy of the funding sys-

tem, 285---Lord Lauderdale, 285---Edinburgh Review, 285---no
capital let loose by sinking funds, 286---real operation of sinking-

funds, 288---public debt does not burden posterity, 290---does not

destroy national capital without producing an equivalent, 292---

three only modes of providing for national expenditure, 295---

of which the funding system best, 296---the proper fund of taxa-

tion, 296---best employment of national capital, 297---in the pub-

lic funds, 297---great political benefits of the funding system, 298

-it strengthens government, 299---taxation a stimulus to national

industry, 300---stock-holders the supporters of government, 301

---national evils of liquidating, the public debt, 302---by reducing

the influence of the executive, 302---by diminishing the attach-

ment of the people, 302--by deranging the prices of commodities,

303---Edinburgh Review, 303---Mr. Burke, 304---banpruptcy of

Britain, 304---effects of her destruction on the world, 305---on

the United States, 306---population of Britain, nominal and real,

307---recent increase, 308---effective population, 309---in Britain,

309---Russia, 309---United States, 310---France, 310---slaughter

in sea-fights, 311---battle of the Nile, 311---the most industrious

people fight best, 312---different employment of British and

French population, 312---M. Peron's dynameter, 313---relative.

bodily strength of British and Fench, 314---causes of British

naval superiority, 314---juggler and British sailor, 315---dif-

ferent process in British and French fighting, 315---Dr. Trot-

ter's account of British seamen, 316---British gun-powder

superior to the French, 317---British soldiers, 317---at

Fontenoy, 317-and elsewhere, 318-Britain does not exert her

full strength, 318-Mr. Burke, 318-Edinburgh Annual Regis-

ter, 318-British armies in the Spanish and Portuguese Penin-

sula, 319-Lord Wellington, 319-army afloat, 320-Britain now

more powerful positively and relatively, than ever, 320-her duty

now, 321-present state of the British army and navy, 322-no

talent in Britain? 322--not enough mind in her government,

322-Edinburgh Review, 322-process of trained genius, 323-

never so much general talent in Britain as now, 324-Edinburgh

Annual Register, 324-vast proportion of talent in the British

government, 325-less talent necessary in an old than a new go-

vernment, 326-evil of using all the mind of a country in its go-

vernment, 327-Lord Chatham, 327-Buonaparte, 328-great

demand for talent in Britain, 328-talent cannot flourish but in

extensive governments and systems, 329-effects of despotism

in exciting talent, 329---of democracy in destroying it, 329---ne-

eessity of fixing talent by the ascendency of property, 330---

French revolution, 331---Mr. Brougham, 331---constant supply of

talent in extensive systems, 332---feeble ambassadors of Britain

to these United States, 333---Mr. Jackson, 333---the national

policy of the United States different from that of all other nations

ancient and modern, 334---superiority of French over British

ambassadors, 335--vanity the moving-spring of action in govern-

ments as well as individuals, 335---why France pleases secondary

nations more than Britain does, 336--- maxims of Cecil, Lord

Burghley, 337---why residents in a secondary see more than

those in a primary nation, 337---American embargo, 337-.-M.

Gentz, 338---necessity of able British minister residing in the

United States, 338---importance of ambassadors, 339---difficulty

of inducing them in Britain to come out to the United States,

340-how to be done, 342---why French better than British di-

plomacy, 342---Mr. Stephen, 342---great negligence of Britain in

her foreign relations, 343---in not influencing foreign presses,

343---which done most extensively by France, 343---saying of M.

Talleyrand, 344---unpardonable topographic ignorance of British

statesmen and soldiers, 345---contrasted with French intelligence

therein, 345--in Egypt, 346--Spain, 347--Walcheren, 347--Topo-

graphic Cabinet of France, 348--what a proper education for a sol-

dier, 349--different national character in Britain and France, 350---

state of political parties in Britain, 351-the opposition, 352-Cob-

bet, 352-Edinburgh Review, 352-common aim of the two great

parties, 352--Spanish ambassador and English bull-dogs, 353--re-

form in Britain, 354-Lord Henry Petty, 354-Mr. Burke, 355-

exclusion of talent and property form the American Legislatures,

355-what a just representation of the people, 356—what the only

qualification forgovernment, 357--talent should not rise too rapidly,

257-property must have the ascendancy in representation, 357

-or society is destroyed, 358-perpetuity of property necessary,

358-English House of Peers, 358-of Commons, 358-arithme-

tical representation pernicious, 359-that of property alone safe,

359-Edinburgh Review, 360-Human society to be gradually

moulded, 360-French reformers destroyed it, 361-the only just

representation is made up of the natural aristocracy of a coun-

try, 361-English House of Commons, 361-Long Parliament,

362-power and moderation of a just representation, 363-its

perpetual tendency to improvement, 364-the use of a Parlia-

ment, 365-which found in that of Britain, 366-Placemen ought

to sit in the Legislature, 367—great salaries ought to be given to

public officers, 368-recent declarations of the two great leaders

of the opposite political parties in Britain, 370-do parties bene-

fit or injure the commonwealth? 374-Fisher Ames, 275—Wash-

ington, 375-necessity of parties, 376-diffusion of christianity in

Britain, 377-its effects, 377-Lord Nelson's sailors, 378-Bat-

tle of the Nile, 378-national religion of England, 378-time of

the protectorate, 378-of Charles 2d. 379-hypocrisy co-extensive

with true religion, 379-state of France and Britain in 1810, 380

-Buonaparte's blockading decrees, 381-their implied meaning,

382-his speech to General Armstrong, 383-commerce, objec-

tions against, 383-it increases national wealth and power, 384-

its superiority over merely agricultural pursuits, 385-nations of

continental Europe, 386-Britain 386-United States, 386-mu-

tual benefits of trade, 387-M. Talleyrand, 387-balance of p
pow

er, 388-continental and maritime states, 388-M. Brougham's

colonial policy, 389-the barrier-towns, 390-the barrier-treaty,

391-balance of power not lost, 392-monopoly of commerce,

392-centres of exchange, 393-carrying trade of Holland,

393-of United States, 393-commercial character of France,

394 and her dependencies, 395-their naval means, 395-

naval and commercial character and means of Britain, 396-

is her sun set? 397-poise of national power in 1810, 398-in-

fluence of commerce, 398-its restrictions in France and United

States, 399-trade between England and Continental Europe,

400-Imports and exports from 1805 to 1810, 401-British wool-

lens, 402-effects of French blockading decrees, 403-of burn-

ing decrees, 404-trade between France and England in 1810,

405-trade of United States how affected by French and Ameri-

can restrictions, 406-chief supplies from U. S. to Britain, 406

-now furnished elsewhere, 407-imports of cotton into Eng-

land, 407-prices of flour in Jamaica and Philadelphia, 408-

British North American colonies, 409-Quebec entries, 409-

Halifax do. 410-trade between England and U. S. 411-be-

tween England and the rest of America, 411-British West-In-

dia trade, 412-treaty between England and Brazil, 413-trade

of New South Wales, 414-British exports to W. Indies, Asia,

and Africa, 414-increased trade of Ireland 415-Irish linens,

417-aggregate trade of Britain, 418-Silesia linens, 418-

British imports and exports from 1805 to 1810, 419-junction of

United States with France, 420-trade of U. S. 421-causes of

recent mercantile bankruptcy in United States, 421-its effect

on American manufactures, 422-President's Proclamation of

Nov. 2d, 1810, 423-effects of blockading system on France, 433-

exposé of 1808, 423---internal state of France, 424-Letter from

Bourdeaux, 424-fishing-boats 425-Buonaparte's declarations

respecting Spain in 1808-1810, 426-Baron de Geramb's letter

toLord Moira, 427-Spanish hatred, 427-Cadiz, 428-a political

discovery in U. S. 428-state of Holland, 428-fishing boats and

conscription, 429-midnight visits, 429-sponging of national

debt, 429-robbing of hospitals, 430-state of Prussia, 431-

--her finances, 432-love of Buonaparte, 431-state of Austria,

432-of Germany generally, 233—of Hamburgh, 433-new ta-

riff, 433-Spanish paper-money, 434-5-finances and trade of

Russia, 434-her impending revolution, 438-naval education for

British shipwrights, 439-advantages of foreign commerce, 443

-Virginia tobacco, 443--English woollens, 443-unequal profits

of trade, 444—internal state of England, 445--her docks in Lon-

don and elsewhere, 446-prediction of France in 1807, 448-how

fulfilled, 448-saying of M. Talleyrand, 449-Continental block-