The Congress of the United States have resolved, after long
and stormy debates, to divide the surplus funds in the treasury of the General Government among the several States, in the proportion which each State has contributed. The sum to be apportioned is thirty millions of dollars, about seven millions sterling. Is not this the first instance in the history of nations of taxes being returned to those who paid them ? The financial prosperity which such a transaction indicates, is owing to a really representative government, an industrious population, and an almost unlimited field of production. Let the people of England take advantage of their political knowledge, enormous capital, and extensive colonial possessions ; and the time may arrive, when, after an honest discharge of the National Debt, they may divide the ac- cumulation of surplus income among the several counties.
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