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 ¬tired) on the former it may amount to above two hundred times that sum, and on the latter to nearly three hundred, as the highest duty on the first may be fifteen thousand, and on the last above twenty thousand pounds, without taking into the account a proportion of the property transmitted, which in some cases amounts to a tenth. ¬" This is the most grievous of all our burthens. — The justest government may have occasion to resort to a moderate dutv on alienations and transmissions of all descriptions of property, but it ought to advance with the most cautious and even trembling steps. — A mighty nation in its public character should scorn to sit like a vulture over departing breath. ¬(t It may appear perhaps ungrateful to a country that embraced my beloved parents and myself in the hour of our peril and distress, that I should have exposed her difficulties in the manner I have done ; but I appeal for my motives to the Great Searcher of hearts. — It is ¬of ¬