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( 21 ) have flowed in such torrents into the pockets of private men. The only point now to be settled between us is, what we are to understand by those channels, through which the riches of the public have flowed into the pockets of private men: and these, I am afraid, you would confine to the channels through which they have flowed into the pockets of merchants, contractors, brokers, and stock-jobbers; whereas I would extend them likewise to the channels through which they have flowed into the pockets of ministers and statesmen, placemen and pensioners, and all the endless train of court-dependents.

But here again we are stopped in the threshold; for we can never, it seems, go long in the same road. You say, "how far these measures," that is, the narrowing of those channels through which the riches of the public have flowed in such torrents into the pockets of private men (for all the other œconomical measures you