Sections 1 INTERSPERSED WITH MISCELLANEOUS OBSERVATIONS In contemplating a subject that embraces with… 2 It lies not in any natural defect in the principles of civilisation, but in preventing those… 3 In this view of the case, we have two distinct characters of government; the one the civil… 4 Every kind of destruction or embarrassment serves to lessen the quantity, and it matters but… 5 The regular markets had been destroyed, the channels of trade broken up, the high road of… 6 There is no otherwise a balance on foreign than on domestic commerce. 7 France and England are the only two countries in Europe where a reformation in government… 8 It is the nature of compassion to associate with misfortune. 9 But charters and corporations have a more extensive evil effect than what relates merely to… 10 As one of the Houses of the English Parliament is, in a great measure, made up of elections… 11 Notwithstanding taxes have increased and multiplied upon every article of common… 12 It is no use to say that taxes are first proposed in the House of Commons; for as the other… 13 If a house of legislation is to be composed of men of one class, for the purpose of… 14 In stating these matters, I speak an open and disinterested language, dictated by no passion… 15 It has been customary to call the crown the executive power, and the custom is continued,… 16 Let us now review the remaining three hundred years: Annual amount of taxes at: 500 years… 17 Since the year 1788, upwards of one million new taxes have been laid on, besides the produce… 18 Taking it for granted that an alliance may be formed between England, France, and America… 19 As to the offices of which any civil government may be composed, it matters but little by… 20 The official departments cannot reasonably exceed the following number, with the salaries… 21 In the first place, then, the poor-rates are a direct tax which every house-keeper feels,… 22 Admitting England to contain seven millions of souls; if one-fifth thereof are of that class… 23 At fifty, though the mental faculties of man are in full vigour, and his judgment better… 24 To pay to every such person of the age of fifty years, and until he shall arrive at the age… 25 Suppose, then, four hundred thousand children to be in this condition, which is a greater… 26 These circumstances which are the general cause of the little thefts and pilferings that… 27 Fifthly, Donation of twenty shillings each for fifty thousand births. 28 A part of the army will remain, at least for some years, and also of the navy, for which a… 29 Among the taxes most heavily felt is the commutation tax. 30 The foregoing table shows the progression per pound on every progressive thousand. 31 As an instance of its screening itself, it is only necessary to look back to the first… 32 N.B. 33 Several laws are in existence for regulating and limiting work-men's wages. 34 13. 35 There now remains only the national debt to be considered. 36 It is unpleasant to see character throw itself away. 37 There will then remain only the national debt as a subject of discontent; and in order to… 38 The time is not very distant when England will laugh at itself for sending to Holland,… 39 I presume, that though all the people of England pay taxes, not an hundredth part of them… 40 Admitting, therefore, the probability of such a connection, I will state some matters by… 41 But any war is harvest to such governments, however ruinous it may be to a nation. 42 Will any man say, in the present excess of taxation, falling so heavily on the poor, that a… 43 But as religion is very improperly made a political machine, and the reality of it is… 44 I have now gone through the whole of the subject, at least, as far as it appears to me at…
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