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 To what extent, or in what manner, it may be proper to pres further retrenchments, the Author has not the remotet intention of offering aim opinion: his view has been clearly explained and he truts the tatements will bring to the recollection of his readers what has been done for the attainment of objects of high importance, and of deep interet to the public, by hewing the preent tate of patronage and influence, compared with what it was in antecedent periods which have been poken of as "good times" about which he is peruaded much miconception prevails at this day, even among reaonable and candid men. The opinion already alluded to, as prevailing to a certain extent, that if inecures and penions were entirely uppreed, the burthens of the country would be intantly lightened to a great amount, and by ome entertained, that they would, in that cae, be removed altogether, renders it neceary that a comparion hould be made of the before-mentioned total, large as it is, with the amount of the taxes raied upon the people.

The whole revenue of Great Britain is more than 60,000,000l. a-year; the charge on which, of