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 having been etablihed for the officers, in lieu of fees, as oberved in the note in the preceding page, by which the revenue has, beyond all doubt, profited to a much larger amount than the expence incurred: and it may be tated, with perfect cer tainty, that the additional charge in the department of Aeed Taxes has been much more than compenated by the increae of the revenue from the exertions of the new officers.

The charge of managing the whole revenue of the kingdom appears now annually in the accounts laid before parliament, an attention to which will convince any one who has conidered the ubject extenively, that there is not a country in Europe where the taxes are collected at o moderate an expence as in this : it may indeed be quetioned whether that