The stocks examined and compared, or, A guide to purchasers in the public funds : containing an account of the different funds, from the times of their creation to the year 1802 : including the Imperial and Irish annuities, transferrable at the Bank of England, and the stock of public companies : with useful and extensive tables, illustrated by observations and examples : including a new table for shewing the comparative value of deferred stock, for every half-year, until the interest commences : also, statements of the national debt, and an account of the present plan for liquidating the same