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 of 2425000l.for penions and inecure employments at home and abroad, is between three farthings and one penny in the pound. By the extinction, therefore, of all niecures and penions, a peron paying taxes to the amount of 50l a-year would ave about 4s. Such a aving we are far from thinking hould be treated as trifling or inignificant; it would ill become the author to do o: on the other hand, how infinitely hort would this fall of the expectation that has been held out?

But if from the total um received from inecure places and penions, deductions were made of uch as have been given as rewards for public ervices, the amount would be very greatly reduced; penions to foreign miniters, in particular, whoe appointments are hardly, in any intance, uifficient for their maintenance.

The penion lit alo contains proviion for the branches of noble and repectable families fallen into decay; this i however an exertion of national generoity, if not of jutice, which the mot crupulous œconomit will hardly conider as improper. Something mut certainly be allowed for mere favor; but