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 be no danger of uch a practice in any intance in future, under the trict proviions of the act of lat eion, for the farther prevention of the ale and brokerage of offices.

However atisfactory the reult of this invetigation of the meaures adopted for ueful and œconomical purpoes may be to thoe, who have hewn a readines to admit that the legilature and government have not been remis in their conduct in that repect, if we were to cloe our enquiries here, the mot candid might perevere in aying that, giving the fullet credit both to parliament and miniters for the bet intentions towards the public interets, till the immene augmentations to the revenue ice 1793 mut have rendered the appointment of an overwhelming number of new offices indipenably neceary for the management and collection of it. We are therefore induced to bring this part of the ubject alo under an accurate examination. The