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fiat' and satisfactory point of comparison hefiireen one period •
and anoiNr, the amount of charge which the country had
actually to pay.

.'Jhe (Tharp of Interest and Management of the
Funded Debt, as it stood on the sth January,
1023 . . . . .C2R,123,000
Op the sth January, 1820 . . . `✓7,117,003

Difference

1,006,000'

The Intrrest of Exchetpter fills outstanding,
January 5, 1823 . . . . 1,100,00
January 5, 1826 • , • • 13420,004

Difference .

280,0014
Taking those two descriptions of charge together, the reduction
would amount to 1,339,000/.
The charge of the Funded And Unfunded Debt, ,
on the 6th January, 1823 . . . £29,286,000'
On the 6th January, 1026 • • 27,946,000

Giving the difference of 1,33.9".
Now it was nothing at all, in his view of the case, whether this
reduction had been accomplished by the Sinking Fund, or by
the reduction ,of interest, or by any other means. Substantially
the burdens of the country bad been diminished to this ainoun‘.
And it was surely a subject of the, warmest congratulation that
this had been accomplished, Whilst in the mean timei`eyery thing
had been done to keep up and even to increase all the materiat
elements of maternal greatness and power, whilst much
had been effected to improve the internal conveniences and or»
naments of the country, whilst something had been spared'to,
provide proper edifices for the duties bf religion, and something
also for the encouragement of the Arts. If doing alt this, they
had also erected a considerable reduction of debt, they had
surely done something towards the fulfilment Oftheir duty, and
they need not, he thought, be ashamed to meet their conatitut,
cuts, in whatever part of the country they were to be found.::::—
But there was another part of the public charge to which h
would now advert--he meant the expence of the ' collktion, of,
the Revenue. Against this charge he had always been disPos4.,

yr wage an unrelenting war.
The exponee collection in 1818
In 1025 .

,E4,256:006
3402,0t10.::

Shewing a diminution of half 3
Considering that there was a great deal to do, in accomplisi
ing such an object as this, it could not be done all at once:L.l.;
They had many prejudices and interests, and deep-rooted

habits to encounter. He could not give a stronger proof of
this than %vat had been recently Published in the northeili
part of the Island.—(Hear, bear !)—The amalgamation of the
revenue of the two parts of the kingdom, and the consetpteiat
abOlition of the Scotch Boards of Excise and Customs, had,
been, described to the Scotsman as offensive to his dignity,:and
subversive of his rights.—(llear, hear I)—This reminded him
of the beautiful passage with which our greatest Poet had made
the youthful and enthuhiastic Mari Antony wind up his oratioji
over the body of Ctesat— . .
" 0 what a fall VW there my countrymen,
Then you and I and all of us fell-down,
Whilst bloody treason flourished over Us."
(I,olltl eticerrl—Why this appeal *all adt more passionait,
than that recently made to the people of Scotland, on the fault
tragedy of the abolition of two' petty provincial fiscal depart..
mints. When he afterwaKds niet his Noble Friend, the First
Lord of the Atnirahy, he had been ashamed to hold up his head,
till at last he recollected that he himself had some claim' to

Scottish blood. When he thought of Scotland—of the gpniva
of her illustrious of Poets—the curious and valuable disiove,
ries of her profound philosophers—of the accuracy, elegance,
and rekvartth at her historians—of her intellectual demi.
nion over, the regions both of fancy and of truth—when he. call,
ccl te'rnind the atchievements of an Abercrombie, a Moore,
a Lyrietlork, Will llopetoun--when he recollected that last
year he, by a wily act of juy,tice, moved for a Montottent
to the memory of .Duncan—he never dreamed that the hon-
our of Scotland was in be tarnished by the transfer of BOatti
of Customs or rotcise ricrilts her border.— (Loud and'
peated•' Chetrs.)-:.11 the Excise 11101 never mcddte wltylef
Whiskey, or thi l'ortieins with her 'Ceritiocrett,
still lit:veiled enough of which to be Proud, 4iid 11i3tte-
'rialti of hottest pride she would steretain riot withttantiittg the
degrading' tendency of English
If he had 'been rurally a Scetchroan he w"lit httve.been:too
Frond to admit that the dignlty,,9t ‘s"tinmi could be "P*4,4