THE EXCHEQUER JOB.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR.
SIR—The people of this empire will ultimately be greatly benefited by your repeated exposures of theGovernment abuses, in all matters of profligate waste. It is very true, all the wishes of the people cannot be realized at once ; but if the present Chancellor of the Exchequer is unwilling " to turn over a new leaf," he must be compelled. It is not very material whether the management of a new Exchequer is on the scale you proposed, or 3,0001. additional, as recommended by the Commissioners appointed two years since to investigate the Public Accounts : but it is material that the House of Commons should put an end to the gross and foul job of Tellers. And there are many such nuisances as the Exchequer Job, which must, and speedily too, be wholly removed. Those friends to the poor who would promote a just Property-tax, must be active in exposing and putting an end to every
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