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It is sufficiently clear, then, that the interchanges 

 of property within the British Isles, and between 

 the several parts or members of the British Em- 

 pire, and the ease and satisfaction to arise there- 

 from, will be commensurate with the relief of the 

 country from the burthen of fiscal Institutions, 

 and consequently, that the liquidation of the pub- 

 lic DEBT is an object of common and general in- 

 terest, to the British subject. Unless that impedi- 

 ment be removed, the principles upon which the 

 prosperity of the Empire must depend, cannot be 

 successfully reduced to application. 

 • Great Britain never before commanded re- 

 sources so vast. In her soil productive, in her 

 minerals rich, in her ingenuity and industry, un- 

 rivalled ; by her dependencies, combining the four 

 quarters of the globe in one great commercial and 

 maritime empire ; gradually moulding some of her 

 political institutions to new and extraordinary cir- 

 cumstances, she is required by every sound and 

 reasonable motive to remove the cause by which, 

 notwithstanding her riches, her ingenuity and in- 

 dustry, her mighty combination of means, and 

 her political skill and sagacity, she is deeply em- 

 barrassed, and is threatened with an accumulation 

 of di'stress and misery. 



An examination of the principles which aj)ply to 

 the FoKEKJX TitAiiK of the United Kinizdom will 



