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dilapidated state of our finances, the state 

 of the nation her debt, her revenue, her 

 expenditure, her resources as well as our 

 present unwholesome system of taxation; 

 and your petitioner, with his faculties un- 

 impaired, and the same zeal to serve his 

 country as he had when he first put his 

 foot on board of a man of war, is prepared 

 to prove before any Committee your Ho- 

 nourable House shall appoint, upon certain 

 returns being produced, that such a reve- 

 nue can be raised from the present mode 

 of travelling as shall surpass all others in 

 its efficiency, its safety, its equality, its 

 justice, and its policy ; and that, too, 

 without any interference with vested 

 rights. 



"And here your petitioner cannot but 

 remind your Honourable House, that in 

 cases where great changes have been 

 wrought, care has always been taken of 

 vested rights such as with the Muni- 

 cipal Reform Bill, which provides com- 



