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|93| years ago a supplement of 1000 pounds, which the ministry proposed with great interest for the so esteemed Huskisson, who on account of the overburdening of his meritorious business in the Board of Trade gave up a lucrative post, was rejected by a great majority; as this has also not seldom been the case with proposals for raising the appanages of royal princes, by no means generously measured out in England. In these cases, touching a personality and the feeling of propriety, passion has overcome the lukewarmness for savings otherwise shown by Parliament. – So much is well evident, that no Reform Bill is able directly to remove the causes of the high taxation in England; the example of England and France could even lead to the induction that countries in which the administration of the state is placed in the approval of assemblies elected by the people are the most heavily burdened with levies; in France, where the purpose of the English Reform Bill, to extend the franchise to a more considerable number of citizens, has been carried out to a fairly large extent, the budget of that country was just now compared in French papers to a promising child that makes considerable progress daily. In order to take thorough measures to lessen the oppressive condition of the English administration of the state, one would have to intervene too deeply in the inner constitution of the particular rights; there is no power present to make, given the enormous wealth of private persons, serious arrangements towards a considerable reduction of the immense national debt. The exorbitant costs of the confused administration of justice, which make the way of the courts accessible only to the rich, – the Poor Rate, which a ministry would not be able to introduce in Ireland, where necessity as much as justice demanded it, – the application of the Church’s property, which will be mentioned further, – and many other great
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