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National Debt

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Money borrowed by the Government, on the security of the taxes, which are pledged to the lenders for the payment of interest.

The National Debt in William III.’s reign was £15,730,439.

At the commencement of the American war, £128,583,635.

At the close thereof, £249,851,628.

At the close of the French war, £840,850,491.

Cancelled between 1817 and 1854, £85,538,790.

Created by Crimean war, £68,623,199.

In 1866, £802,842,949.

In 1872 it was £792,740,000.

In 1875 it was £714,797,715.

In 1879 it was £702,430,594.

In 1892 it was £677,679,571.

In 1893 it was £671,042,842.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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