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	Amount of No. of	Revenue. Officers.
In the Poſt-office the revenue paid nett into the Exchequer, and the number of officers in 1808, excluſive of letter- carriers	£1,076,000	339
Do. in 1783	148,000	155
ar}|Leaving an increaſe of	£928,000	184
Total Increaſe of Revenue and officers.
Exciſe	£ 17,462,000	60
Taxes	[1] 16,231,000	175
Cuſtoms	5,422,000	867
Stamps	[1] 3,786,000	143
Poſt-office .	928,000	184
	£ 43,829,000	1,429
Deduct the whole Salt eſtabliſhment		495
		934

Theſe are the great branches of the public revenue; to the ſmaller ones no addition has been made at all worthy of notice, either as to increaſe in the amount, or to the number of officers employed in the collection of them.

The reſult of this careſul and attentive inveſtigation appears to be, on the moft unſavorable way of making the compariſon, that addi-

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1. Theſe charges of collections include poundage as well as ſalaries ; by far the greateſt part of the former is paid to perſons not holding offices under government.