The British nation a history / by George MWrong . ^K Pitt dV.^O-lSOfi). THE ERA OP THE FRENCH REVOLUTION 499. ^> almost swamping it with new peers : no less than onehundred creations or promotions were due to him, and hefrankly said that every one with £10,000 a year ought tobe a peer. Pitt reformed many political abuses. He in-troduced a better system of keeping and auditing the pub-lic accounts. For instance, the customs duties were sointricate that almost no one under-stood them, and in the customs werenearly two hundred sinecures, ex-tracting from the Treasury some£45,000 a ye
The British nation a history / by George MWrong . ^K Pitt dV.^O-lSOfi). THE ERA OP THE FRENCH REVOLUTION 499. ^> almost swamping it with new peers : no less than onehundred creations or promotions were due to him, and hefrankly said that every one with £10,000 a year ought tobe a peer. Pitt reformed many political abuses. He in-troduced a better system of keeping and auditing the pub-lic accounts. For instance, the customs duties were sointricate that almost no one under-stood them, and in the customs werenearly two hundred sinecures, ex-tracting from the Treasury some£45,000 a year. Pitt swept awaythese abuses, and vastly improvedand simplified the daily business ofgovernment. Under him at last dis-appeared direct parliamentary cor-ruption, as practised by Walpoleand by George III. But for im-provements that caused keen oppo-sition Pitt had little taste : thoughhe spoke against the slave-trade, he made no seriouseffort to end it; he was conscious of the brutalized con-dition of masses of the population, but is the author ofno great social reforms. The heroism of self-sacrificewas not in
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