Can we go to War upon the Old System? a broadside dated c1816

Anonymous: Can we go to War upon the Old System?
Read the Answer in a Table of our Wars since the Revolution in the Year 1688; Shewing the Sums expended during each War, and the Progress of our Taxes and National Debt.
 
Fifth Edition. London: G. Hyde & Co., 61 Fleet Street, [c. 1816].
 
Broadside, 280 × 380 mm, printed within a decorative border, set in tabular form. Old folds, small tear to lower margin, light toning and handling, but a good example.
 
A statistical broadside comparing Britain’s major wars from the Revolution of 1688 through the defeat of Napoleon in 1815, listing for each conflict the duration, enemies and allies, principal battles, peace settlements, and, most strikingly, the sums raised by taxation and loans, total expenditure, average annual cost, and the growth of the national debt. The concluding text argues that “the system of loans has reached its height” and questions whether the nation can again sustain war under the existing financial order.
 
Issued shortly after Waterloo, and here in a fifth edition, when the burden of war finance, high taxation, and the funded debt were matters of intense public controversy.