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 taonal taxes, to the amount of very near 44,000,000l. are collected by an addition of 934 officers, almot the whole of whom are in the inferior claes; and that, while the revenue has been augmented in a ixfold proportion, the officers employed in the management and collection of it have been increaed only one- tenth in number. But if the cutoms are with- drawn from the account, as they hould be in form- ing a comparion of this fort, becaue a very large proportion of the officers in that department have been added to afford accommodation to the trade of the country, rendered indipenably neceary by the immene increae of it, the comparion would then tand thus:

It hould be oberved alo that, in the department of the Aeed Taxes, the additional officers have been appointed as well for the improvement of the old duties, as for the collection of the new, Hitherto we have conidered the effect of the new taxes with reference only to influence; let us now examine