A statistical display of the finances, navigation and commerce of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

  • Marshall, John, 1783-1841.
Date:
[1833?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A statistical display of the finances, navigation and commerce of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    A STATISTICAL DISPLAY OF THE FINANCES, NAVIGATION AND COMMERCE OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OF IHrttaftt air'd UtrelawU, Being a Digest of all the Accounts and Papers relating thereto, diffused through more than 600 Volumes of Journals, Reports, and Papers presented to Parliament since 1799, exhibiting the Revenue in all its various branches of RECEIPT AND EXPENDITURE In each Year since the commencement of the War in 1793 ; The Value of the Exports to, and Imports from, each different part of the World in each year since 1693; The Value of each Article Exported and Imported in each year since 1813 ; And the Quantity thereof, in Weight, Measure, or Tale, in each year since 1826 ; WITH A COMPLETE VIEW OF THE RISE AND ANNUAL PROGRESS OF THE National 'Debt, ginning ,ifun&t anH ^foreign ?i,oans, So arranged as to show the effect which the Great Money Operations have had upon the Commercial transactions of the Country, and the relative degree and extent, and advantage or disadvantage, resulting from its intercourse with each different part of the World, affording a Solution to the Problem, or THE BALANCE OF TRADE AND EXCHANGES; Containing also a complete view of the Corn Trade, showing the Quantity of Grain and Flour Exported and Imported, and the annual average price thereof, in each year since 1699; The Quantity of each kind imported from each different part of the World, and the annual average price of all the great articles of PRODUCTION and COMMERCE in each Year since 1780, Sfc. 3*c. Spc. Every line a lesson—every page a history. “ Statistics are, to Political and Social Economy, what Comparative Anatomy is to Physiology, or Comparative Jurisprudence to Legislation. It is by them alone that the relative well-being of societies can be determined, the effect of all civil institutions be ascertained, and the working of moral and physical causes among men be observed and distinguished with the necessary degree of accuracy.”