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( 3 ) ence. And what, let me add, can we possibly think of you (whom fame represents as one of our state-physicians) when you very seriously tell us, that the present high price of provisions (the political malady under which we now labour) is owing, in a great measure, to the increase of our taxes, which you yourself have contributed to augment, which you still help to keep up, and out of which you receive the profits, and, what is more, the perquisites of your place.

Indeed, the price of provisions must always be high, and the people of consequence be miserably oppressed, while the expences of government are so enormously great; and enormously great they must ever continue to be, while you, Sir, and such as you (I mean, Sir, no personal reflection; for I believe you are just as deserving as the generality of your brethren) I say, Sir, while you, or any other, enjoy places of such