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national exiſtence. The other branch of ſaving, that by which the ſame ſervices may be performed at a cheaper rate, deſerves the moſt ſerious inveſtigation, and, it is hoped, has undergone the moſt anxious conſideration, in order to the attainment of that laudable end. But the retrenchments ſhould leave the ſubſtantial objects of the expenditure in as full efficient vigour as before; otherwiſe the ſafety of the country would be endangered, at a moment when the ſtorm beats furiouſly againſt it, and the ruins of other political fabrics are ſeen all around us.
The remaining ſubject of animadverſion or complaint, the juſtice of which has alſo been examined in the foregoing pages, the increaſe of the Influence of the Crown, is a topic to which the jealouſy of a free country like ours is always diſpofed to liſten, with prepoſſeſſion in favor of the affirmative; yet, from the celebrated motion of Mr. Dunning downwards, the complaints of this influence, although they have been found to be greatly exaggerated, have been patiently inveſtigated, and effetual means of reform have been adopted.
The greatly increaſed revenue, and all the other augmented and accumulated buſinefs of the ſtate,
