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 was unlimited there certainly was an inlfuence hardly at all perceptible except to the minite er betowing thoe favors, or countenancing thoe abues, and to the parties who profited by them. None of thoe, however, continue to exit; and, with the exception of Crown livings, every man who looks into the Court Ivalendar will be nearly as well informed of what the miniter has to dipofe of as thoe mot immediately in his confidence. What he does dipoe of is contantly publihed in the papers of the day.

Among other advantages derived from the labours of the Committees of Finance, the public is accurately informed of the burthens upon it, and bow every part of its income is dipofed of. Hence we are enabled to tate, with preciion, the charge incurred by penions and inecure employments, and to compare that with the whole of the revenue, which it appears to be deirable hould be done, as many well-intentioned perons have taken an impreion, that if all thoe were put an end to, the public might be relieved from a coniderable proportion of its burthens. In