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 œconomy, uppoing the ervices to be indipenable; or of policy, uppoing the ervices to be needles The lat, it is obvious, ought at all times to be weighed carefully; and with a ober and deliberate judgment.

On the more extenive conideration repecting the charges to be incurred for the great branches of the public ervice, whatever trong opinions the author entertains on the ubject, it is not meant to enter into any detail here, as it would not be ueful, on his ole authority, to do o: he will content himelf with repeating an obervation he has made in public; and often endeavoured to enforce in private, that no new or additional expence hould be incurred in any department, without the previous knowledge and entire approbation of the miniter, who is reponfible for the due management of the finances of the country, and for keeping down the expenditure in every department. An invariable adherence to that principle mut always be of the very utmot importance: but above all in times like the preent, when our war-etablihment of every fort is not only the intrument of our national glory, but the means of our national afety, the proviion for our national