A Letter on Finance, and on National Defence: Addressed to Those Who Are Inclined to Despond at the Present Posture of Public Affairs (Classic Reprint)
A Letter on Finance, and on National Defence: Addressed to Those Who Are Inclined to Despond at the Present Posture of Public Affairs (Classic Reprint)
Excerpt from A Letter on Finance, and on National Defence: Addressed to Those Who Are Inclined to Despond at the Present Posture of Public Affairs Murmur and difcontent having produced timidity: our intefiine foes to peace and civil' tranquility have Joyfully feized the opportu' nity of encreafmg the latter by exciting the 'former with all the deep mouthed 'thunder of difafi'e???iion and treafon. This attack on the'feelings and pa ions of the credulous has afi'umed a variety of fhapes accordlng to the apparent exigence and ...
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Excerpt from A Letter on Finance, and on National Defence: Addressed to Those Who Are Inclined to Despond at the Present Posture of Public Affairs Murmur and difcontent having produced timidity: our intefiine foes to peace and civil' tranquility have Joyfully feized the opportu' nity of encreafmg the latter by exciting the 'former with all the deep mouthed 'thunder of difafi'e???iion and treafon. This attack on the'feelings and pa ions of the credulous has afi'umed a variety of fhapes accordlng to the apparent exigence and complexion of Daffairs. We have rapidly advanced from the mild the generous, the philanthmpic attempt of abolifhrng the ave trade, through the pro pofed repeal of the teft act, and a parlia mentary reform, till we have long finc'e happily arrived at the grand climax of: trea fonable oratory, and the walls ofalmoft every petty. Alehoufe have re-echoed the traitorous difcontent of fome abandoned emifi'ary t6 the caufe, not merely of civil commotion, but of one, if pofiible, infinitely more wicked - the premo tiori of the Views and hopes of a people who, after having been for ages the declared, the na tural enemy of Britain have, after annihilating every thing like order and public faith among themfelves, fuddenly hurii forth as the de termined foe of every principle: under which[3. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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