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 OBSERVATIONS

RESPECTING

THE PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND THE INFLUENCE OF THE CROWN,

HE right allowed to every rank of the people to dicus points in the public conduct of their rulers, and to the repreentatives of the people, when called upon by the voice of their contituents, or prompted by their own enfe of duty, to intitute enquiries into uch conduct has always been reckoned among the bleings of the Britih Contitution. Certain parts of the management of public affairs are peculiarly obnoxious to uch enquiry; and the wholeome as well as habitual jealouy of both the people, and their repreentatives, watches over thoe who are entruted with it with a pirit of crutiny, which though occaionally inconvenient and ome- timesB