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 its ervants:- it is the advantage, and ought to be the condition, of a fair, open, and liberal reward for public ervice, through all its gradations, to uperede every other ource of remuneration. The firt is an encouragement to honet and honorable merit in the performance of that ervice with zeal and fidelity; the lat has an evident tendency to taint the purity of office, and to turn into other channels than thoe of the public interet the exertions of its officers. Nor is it poible for any ervant of the public to impoe too trict a guard upon himelf againt deriving the mallet advantage from his ituation by any indirect means whatever.

It has been hewn how far there is a ground for the call for further retrenchments, and the extent to which the utmot poible tretch of thee would lighten the burthens of the people. It is, in truth,, one of thoe clamours where loudnes is ubtituted for force, but of which the found is much more powerful than the jutice. The retrenchments which have been uggeted on more ober grounds, though occaionally by perons not the mot converant either with the reources or the neceary expenditure of the tate, have been of two kinds; either of mere œconomy.