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 national exitence. The other branch of aving, that by which the ame ervices may be performed at a cheaper rate, deerves the mot erious invetigation, and, it is hoped, has undergone the mot anxious conideration, in order to the attainment of that laudable end. But the retrenchments hould leave the ubtantial objects of the expenditure in as full efficient vigour as before; otherwie the afety of the country would be endangered, at a moment when the torm beats furiouly againt it, and the ruins of other political fabrics are een all around us.

The remaining ubject of animadverion or complaint, the jutice of which has alo been examined in the foregoing pages, the increae of the Influence of the Crown, is a topic to which the jealouy of a free country like ours is always dipofed to liten, with prepoeion in favor of the affirmative; yet, from the celebrated motion of Mr. Dunning downwards, the complaints of this influence, although they have been found to be greatly exaggerated, have been patiently invetigated, and effetual means of reform have been adopted.

The greatly increaed revenue, and all the other augmented and accumulated buinefs of the tate, have