Compendium of Finance

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Excerpt from Compendium of Finance: Containing an Account of the Origin, Progress, and Present State, of the Public Debts, Revenue, Expenditure, National Banks and Currencies, France, Russia, Prussia, the Netherlands, Austria, Naples, Spain, Portugal, Denmark, Norway, Hanover, and Other GerIt has been endeavoured to make amends for the °defi ciency in the text in the following pages, by the highly useful and interesting official Documents, by which the par ticulars here presented are authenticated, they furnish some of the most valuable accounts, with respect to the general situation and financial resources of the principal commercial nations and being thus collected into one volume, will admit of that easy reference, which is always desirable on points of so great importance. The Documents respecting France are ample, and might, perhaps, have been usefully curtailed, but as they are, they will be found to present a complete epitome of the general state of that kingdom at the time of the restoration of the Bourbon family, and will also a¿'ord materials for history subsequent to that period.In as far as regards the more recent finance operations of the several States, the following narrative is founded upon the oficial reports of the respective governments, and which will be found amongst the Documents, but where it has been necessary to trace their origin to more remote periods, recourse has been bad to the works most in estimation on the subjects treated upon, comparing the accounts they contained with official information, and as a work of the present description partakes more of the nature of a com pilation than of an original composition, such extracts as seemed best calculated to convey the necessary information have been freely resorted to.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.