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œconomy, ſuppoſing the ſervices to be indiſpenſable; or of policy, ſuppoſing the ſervices to be needleſs The laſt, it is obvious, ought at all times to be weighed carefully; and with a ſober and deliberate judgment.
On the more extenſive conſideration reſpecting the charges to be incurred for the great branches of the public ſervice, whatever ſtrong opinions the author entertains on the ſubject, it is not meant to enter into any detail here, as it would not be uſeful, on his ſole authority, to do ſo: he will content himſelf with repeating an obſervation he has made in public; and often endeavoured to enforce in private, that no new or additional expence ſhould be incurred in any department, without the previous knowledge and entire approbation of the miniſter, who is reſponfible for the due management of the finances of the country, and for keeping down the expenditure in every department. An invariable adherence to that principle muſt always be of the very utmoſt importance: but above all in times like the preſent, when our war-eſtabliſhment of every fort is not only the inſtrument of our national glory, but the means of our national ſafety, the proviſion for our
