§ Return ordered "of the Revenues, Expenditures, and Deficits of the European States, where practicable, showing for the last and current fiscal years, especially the annual cost of land armaments in the several States as compared with the annual deficits of the several States (including both ordinary and extraordinary expenditure) and the sum of the interest annually due from the several States on account of the loans made to them by Great Britain."—[Colonel Wedgwood.]