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( 24 ) through which the riches of the public have flowed" (you ought to have added, and still continue to flow) "in such torrents into the pockets of private men," and by diminishing, in almost every particular, the expences of government. But how, you will ask, are these expences to be diminished? You yourself, Sir, have, in some measure, pointed out the method: you say, it is by narrowing those channels, through which the riches of the public have flowed in such torrents into the pockets of private men; that is, as you seem to explain it, of merchants, contractors, brokers, and stock-jobbers: and I add, it is by narrowing those channels through which the riches of the public have flowed, and still continue to flow, in such torrents into the pockets of those whom, perhaps, Sir, you would call public men, I mean ministers, placemen, pensioners, and all the numerous train of court-dependents.

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