EXPENDITURE of England consists chiefly in interest of debt, 233.-- Cannot by any economy be much reduced in time of peace. ib.
EXPORTS, chart shewing, 213.
EXTERNAL causes of decline, cannot be prevented altogether by internal arrangements, but their effect greatly diminished, 173.-- More simple than the internal causes, 175.-- Envy and enmity, ib.-- Opinion of Mr. Burke, 176, 177, 178.-- Causes arising from poor nations having the advantage over rich in all dealings, 179.-- High value of money in poorer nations, 182.-- Conclusion of exterior causes, 184 to 187.
F.
FALL. See Decline.
FINANCES. See Revenue.
FINE arts do not flourish in a very wealthy country, 113.-- Very different as to their improvement, from the mechanic arts.
FLANDERS enriched by manufactures, 3, 46.-- The discovery of a bettar =sic= method of curing herrings by the Dutch is hurtful to it, 47.
FLORENCE served as a refuge for the nobles of Rome, when the city was taken by the Goths, 44.
FOOD. See Animal Food and Corn.