Compendium of finance : containing an account of the origin, progress, and present state, of the public debts, revenue, expenditure, national banks and currencies, of France, Russia, Prussia, the Netherlands, Austria, Naples, Spain, Portugal, Denmark, Norway, Hanover, and other German states, U.S. of America, Buenos Ayres, Columbia, and Chili, and shewing the nature of the different public securities, with the manner of making investments therein : also an historical sketch of the national debt of the British Empire /