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 but when the intances are clearly improper (and if is not meant to contend there are no uch), they are at leat open to public animadverion; as they are now regularly laid before parliament, and printed from time to time, which certainly affords a coniderable, if not an effectual, check againt abue. If we look to official incomes, it will be found they are, in mot caes, barely equal to the mode- rate, and even the neceary expences of the parties; in many intances they are actually inuffi- cient for thee. May we not then venture to ak, whether it is reaonable, or whether it would be politic, that uch perons hould, after pending a great part of their lives with indutry, zeal and fidelity, in the dicharge of truts and public duties, be left afterwards without reward of any fort, and their families entirely without proviion?

It would hardly be wife, on reflexion, to etablih a principle which would have a tendency at leat to exclude from the fervice of their country Men likely to be ueful to it. Great numbers of thoe who engage in trade and manufacture (than whom none are held in higher etimation by