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 immene charge to the public, with the attendant accumulations of patronage to the miniter by the management of new taxes? Leat of all hould any one declaim on the imperceptible influence, which has been ometimes much dwelt on. While the practice of making cloe loans was in ue, which afforded opportunities of gratifying long lits of private friends ecretly; and beneficial contracts were made with members of parliament, or their friends, from favor only, to a great amount; and o long, too, as leaes of the landed property of the Crown were renewed from time to time, on terms of great advantage to the leees, and of los to the Crown; while accountants or their repreentatives were permitted to retain, with impunity, large balances of the public money in their hands for their own emolument; and while home ecret ervice money was