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ture, calculated to turn the attention of the people 

 to some objects which are too much overlooked, 

 but which greatly tend to retard the prosperity 

 and improvement of his country. In doing this, I 

 hope you Ihall find me at all times candid and im- 

 partial, totally regardlefs of men, and only atten- 

 tive to the measures that tend to promote the wel- 

 fare of the people, or to retard the prosperity of 

 this country. 



I have two reasons for offering these lucubra- 

 tions under the title I have afsumed. The first is 

 because in consequence of the businefs of an inform- 

 er, having been confined merely to that of aiding 

 the revenue officers against the subject, the term has 

 fallen into reproach, and the efsential duties that be- 

 long to it have been neglected. I wilh to free it from 

 this obloquy by bringing it back to its original 

 standard, that of informing the people so as to ena- 

 ble them to withstand the unjust encroachments of 

 Revenue officers, when they extend their power to ob- 

 jects that are subversive of the purposes for which 

 they were created ; and I hope so to conduct my 

 self in the discharge of this duty as to fhow that 

 it is an useful, a respectable office, and a necefsary 

 imployment. 



The second reason for this title is, that it is evi- 

 dent, members of parliament are often misled in 

 regard to things of this nature, by the false repre- 

 sentations of ministers, and their satellites, whose 

 study it must ever be to encrease their own power, 

 by dcprefsing that of the people ; and as these genr 

 .4lcri)cn have often much need of information with 



