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 an account of the nett produce of all the taxes, from 1774 to 1782, that a judgment might be formed whether, among other caues of diminution, the old taxes might have been aeed by thoe im poed within the period; which they printed in their Appendix, "imagining it might be atifactory to the Houe; "from which account no man living could form the remotet judgment on the ubject, without taking indefatigable pains, and then not without official aitance for the purpoe tated; as different heads of one revenue were o blended with thoe of others, as to render it difficult to ditinguih to which each head belonged. But, what is till more remarkable, the amount of all the duties in the everal years was not ummed up, o as even to hew what the produce of the whole revenue was in any one year. If that imple operation had been performed, it would have been dicovered that, at the cloe of that war, the income of the country was only 1,755,000l. a-year higher than at its commencement, although the addition to the charge upon it was 4,864,000l. on which the committee did not make the lightet oberva-