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nised forms of security, or that if a new mode or form of 

 security should be required for the convenience of society, 

 the resource and ingenuity of the country would be found 

 equal to such purpose, without, as at present, bearing 

 down and destroying the interests of the agricultural 

 orders and lowering and distressing every other active and 

 real interest of this great, and otherwise, most powerful 

 comnumity. 



The Reviewer also repeats the objection previously 

 urged by him, that a remainder of 350 millions of debt 

 would continue after the proposed measure should have 

 been carried into effect. 



In repeating this objection the Reviewer appears not to 

 regard the consideration urged by the Author, that in 

 the event of the 3 per cent, and other lower annuities 

 being paid off, not at the par of 100/., b«il at a market rate 

 of price, the sum of 350 millions, supposed to remain 

 unliquidated, might be very sensibly reduced ; that the 

 whole of the property to be remitted to the United King- 

 dom fioin the IJritish J)ependencie8, and all British pro- 

 perty to be received from Foreign coimtries, wotdd be the 

 separate and additional subject of contribution ; that an 

 increase of revenue might be expected from die repression 

 oi illicit trade ; and that die decreasing dividends on stock, 

 with a revenue (after being reduced to a certain low stand- 

 ard) not decreasing, but probably greatly increasing with 

 the increasing exertions of llie country, would constitute 

 an cjjativc Sinking I'und for the fuial >ubj<'(ti()n and 

 rxtinclion of the Debt. 



