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 ¬languish, and money bad every where disap- peared. — In such a state of a nation it is need- less to say that its revenue must suffer; yet the common remedy by an increased taxation must needs be desperate when the people are already sinking under their present burthens. — It is a maxim in the medical world, that many distempers may be said to be cured when their causes are ascertained ; but the wisest men among us are lost in amazement, and I cannot therefore help pausing here, to ask you what course would be pursued by England if she were in similar distress? — what, I pray you, can be the source of this sudden prostration of our happy condition, and what is the re- medy?" ¬" You have given me," I said, " no materials for answering your questions, and I must first put several to you; but perplex me no more by any appeals to England; my understanding is quite bewildered by referring to a state of things so dissimilar. ¬i 4 " To ¬