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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1825 Excerpt: ... finance. Evil, resulting from the Want of a fixed Money-Standard, iy reducing all Ttaes fifty per cent.--especially, at affecting iht Rights, the Coinfurts, unit the Moral Habits of the Poor I "The first rule of philosophising ought to be, not to seek a second cause, when that which you have already arrived at is sufficient to account for any given phenomenon." A LETTER To Tub EARL or LIVERPOOL. London, March 22, 1819. My Lord, Tub concluding paragraph of my late treatise of "English Finance," contains a short extract from the speech of my Lord Castlereagh in the House of Commons on the 7th of February (1817), in which his Lordship is represented to have expressed himself in these terms: "I assure the gn"tlemen opposite, that the servants of the crown are eo for "from wishing to avoid inquiry that they court investigation. "They are ready to receive and turn to the best advantage nil "the lights upon this interesting subject llittt can be supplied g "for they consider it their highest pride and glory to do "every thing in their power tnfind out the best system for the "administration of the Finances of the country." In the course of the last three years (during which, my labours, in respect of this highly complex and difficult subject, have been intense and unremitting) I have had the honor of submitting to his Majesty's Ministers, through the regular post, the following proofs of my application: 1st, a pamphlet published early in 1816, entitled " The Crisis," or a letter to the right honorable Nicholas Vansittart, Chancellor of the Exchequer. 2. A "Second Letter" to the same, published in the same year. 3. A "TniRn Letter " to ditto, published in 1817; in which some trifling errors in the first were partly rejected or explained. I then published a " Brief ...
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