THE DEBT OF THE WHIG ADMINISTRATION TO THE PEOPLE.
Amount of capital in trust for the People, measured by the total numerical amount of the Population. 24,000,00) Proved Abuses and their estimated re- lation to the amount of the capital.
The Irish Church Establish- ment 1,000,000 The Tithe System in Eng- land 750,000 English Church Abuses 750,000 Dissenting Disabilities 750,000 The State of the Criminal Law and the Dearness of Justice 1,500,000 Municipal Corporations 500,000 Poor Laws 1,500,000 Aristocratical or Unequal Taxation 6,000,000 Restrictions on Commerce 3,000,000 A large Standing Army in time of peace, and the control of that Army by Anti-Reformers 375,000 Septennial Act 3,000,000
Law of Libel and the unex- pired part of the Six Acts, Foreign Enlistment and Alien Acts, Unrevised Pension List, Incapacity and Toryism of our Fo- reign Ambassadors, and many " unernime ated "
Grievances 4, i75,000 24,000,000
Such is a detailed e ;position of the debtor side of the account, as it appeared to us. When the first good practical measure shall .41 'be effected—after a good bill .shall 'nave been honoured by the King—we shall have something to place on the credit side.
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