[3] Briavionne, v. 2, p. 474.
[4] White’s Belgic Revolution, vol. i. p. 94.
[5] L’Industrie en Belgique, v. 2, p. 378.
[6] A copy of the original paper will be found in the appendix to this volume.
[7] The cottons of all other countries were excluded from Java and the other Dutch colonies by ad valorem duty of twenty-five per cent.
[8] “Travaux publics en Belgique,” a comprehensive document just published in Brussels, by M. Nothomb, minister of public works, with copious details upon the railroads. A very able paper, by Mr. Rawson, in the proceedings of the Statistical Society of London, contains also ample information regarding them.
[9] M. Briavionne, v. ii. p. 445.
[10] Vol. 2, p. 262.
[11] About 53lbs. less than an English ton.
[12] A memorandum given me by Count d’Hane, shows the cost of a cargo of coals for the university of Ghent, in the present year (1840) as follows:—