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but when the inſtances are clearly improper (and if is not meant to contend there are no ſuch), they are at leaſt open to public animadverſion; as they are now regularly laid before parliament, and printed from time to time, which certainly affords a conſiderable, if not an effectual, check againſt abuſe.
If we look to official incomes, it will be found they are, in moſt caſes, barely equal to the mode- rate, and even the neceſſary expences of the parties; in many inſtances they are actually inſuffi- cient for theſe. May we not then venture to aſk, whether it is reaſonable, or whether it would be politic, that ſuch perſons ſhould, after ſpending a great part of their lives with induſtry, zeal and fidelity, in the diſcharge of truſts and public duties, be left afterwards without reward of any fort, and their families entirely without proviſion?
It would hardly be wife, on reflexion, to eſtabliſh a principle which would have a tendency at leaſt to exclude from the fervice of their country Men likely to be uſeful to it. Great numbers of thoſe who engage in trade and manufacture (than whom none are held in higher eſtimation
