OBSERVATIONS
RESPECTING
THE PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND THE
INFLUENCE OF THE CROWN,
THE right allowed to every rank of the people to diſcuſs points in the public conduct of their rulers, and to the repreſentatives of the people, when called upon by the voice of their conſtituents, or prompted by their own ſenfe of duty, to inſtitute enquiries into ſuch conduct has always been reckoned among the bleſſings of the Britiſh Conſtitution. Certain parts of the management of public affairs are peculiarly obnoxious to ſuch enquiry; and the wholeſome as well as habitual jealouſy of both the people, and their repreſentatives, watches over thoſe who are entruſted with it with a ſpirit of ſcrutiny, which though occaſionally inconvenient and ſome-
times
B
