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whether there is any perſon poſſeſſing very extenſive property whoſe receipts are managed with ſuch œconomy as the public income of Great Britain.
Theſe ſtatements will be found intelligible, it is hoped, even to perſons who are the leaſt converſant with ſubjects of this kind; and they are made in ſuch a manner as to afford the eaſieſt: means of detection, if any unintentional error ſhall have eſcaped the diligence of the author. If their accuracy ſhall ſtand the teſt of the cloſeſt ſcrutiny, ought any one, in future, to indulge himſelf, for the fake of popularity, or from any other motive, in making declamations, either in or out of parliament, about the increaſed and increaſing influence, of which we have frequently heard ſo much of late [1], and the
- ↑ Nearly the greateſt number of civil employments, held by members of parliament during pleaſure, appears to have been in 1769, when Mr. Dunning was Solicitor-General, during the adminiſtration of His Grace the Duke of Grafton; to which no objection then occurred to that gentleman, or his friend: but, tired with a long oppoſition, at the end of an unſucceſsful war,
that publication, the ſame obſervation may be repeated, with one exception only of any importance, in the caſe of a collector of exciſe; a great part of whoſe balance however has been recovered, and the whole may be. In any event the ſum in danger appears to be under £10,000.
