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Show 378 Comparyim of Great Britain and welfare. Hume their frequent errors in policy; and hence the wearinefs at public councils, and backwardnefs in going to them, the conflant unwillingnefs to engage in any meafure that requires thought and confideration; and the readinefs for poilponing every new propofition; Which poll:poning is therefore the only part of buhnefs that they come to be expert in, an expertnefs produced neceflhrily by fo much daily practice. Whereas in America, men bred to clofe employment in their private all-airs, attend with cafe to thofe of the public, when engaged in them, and nothing fails through negligence. . . 3. Reipeétingflugtz/z'z‘y; the manner of hung in flmericzz is more fimple and lefs expenfive than that in England : plain tables, plain clothing, and plain furniture in houfes prevail, with few car- riages of pleafure; there, an expenfive appearance hurts credit, and is avoided: inEng/mzd, it is often afllimcd to gain credit, and continued to ruin.- Refpeéting pun/[c affairs, the difference is {till greater. in Eng/and, the falaries of oliicers, and emoluments of oflice, are enormous. The king has a million lterling per annum, and yet cannot maintain his family free of debt: Secretaries of State, Lords of Treafury, Admiralty, &C. have vaf'c appointments : An Auditor of theExchequer has fixpence in the pound, or a fortieth part of all the public money expended by the nation;_ f0 that, when a war coils forty millions, one million is paid to him: An Infped‘ftor of the Mint, in the hit new coinage, received as his fee 65,0091.fierlmg [AZ FLT.) .zf/x‘)t'/‘ti‘rl ES to Cit-ll} i 1‘7"" 1 x. titular; per annum: To all which rim-{m l l'crxice tilcllr {Juntlci‘ncn can rende r ll :3 ' o_v:1i1‘:j,rri‘:cazis equivalent. i All this is 3"," pcopic; vno arc <17) arched l7" taxes 7‘ and thereby rcndczhii his able to coziljri: payi'acn: oi" neceili' If: national debts. in/ /u[/ "1 talaries, where incidpcniible, are extremelr 3021'but niucn of the public bulincfs is done': Mills: The moment of {erving the public ably nudism» fully, IS deemed fui'licicnt. Pull/[r jaw: I'C'll‘" exilts there, and has great effects. ifl-léll')'l‘ll]:l" it is univerfally deemed a non-entitv , and whoever,- pretends to it, is laughed at as a fool, or fulbeéted as a knave. The committees of congrefs Iwhich form the board of war, the board of itircaf iiry the board of foreign affairs, the naval board, that for accounts, &c. all attend the bulinefs of their re- fpee‘tive funétions, without any falary or emolu ment whatever; though they {pend in it much more of their time than any Lord ofTreafury or Admiralty in England can fpare, from his amufernent s. --A Britiih minif'ter lately computed, that the whole expence of theAmericans, in their def/g0- vernment, over three millions ofpeople, amou nted to but 70,000 1. Prerling; and drew from thence a conclufion, that they ought to be taxed, until their expence was equal in proportion to thatw hich 1t coils Britain to govern eight millions. He had no idea of a contrary concluflon ; that if three mil- lions may be well governed for 70,0001. eight millions may be as well governed for three times that film 5 and that therefore the expence of his C cc 2 Own |