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 amounts to about 400,000l. And this augmentation of revenue is accompanied by a material deprivation of influence, as above alluded to, which the miniter formerly derived from the power he exercied over the property of the Sovereign. To what an extent that might be available to him, fome judgment may be formed by oberving, that of the perons holding Crown leaes when the act was paed, upwards of eighty were members of one or the other Houe of Parliament; and it is hardly neceary to add that, in the caes of other leees, the parties, who might have the means of doing o, would naturally reort to olicitations of friends for obtaining the miniter's favor. The profit from this arrangement is already, as tated above, annually 59,611l.

There remains till one other head of expence and influence, that has been retrained within the period on which we have been oberving: we allude to the Home Secret Service, limited now to 3 10,000l.