vi PREFACE. 



of precaution. How soon any considerable reduc- 

 tion of the national taxation can be ventured upon 

 by ministers is a doubtful point ; but it seems gene- 

 rally agreed, that a continuance of expenditure on 

 the scale of the latter years of the war, would prove 

 a severer trial to public credit than it has ever un- 

 dergone. 



CONTENTS. 



