An essay on the publick debts of this kingdom ..To which is subjoined an enquiry into the general convenience of reducing farther the interest of our publick debts below 4 per centper annumIn a letter to a Member of the House of Commons . ich I maybe thought more than once to have of-fended. One is, that I have not everywhere ufed the utmofi Examinefs in fup^pofing, fating, or defcribing the ^ublick^ebts, or the Variations in them. Tothis Fault, as often as I have been guil-ty of it from any other Caufe than mywant of Materials for that purpofe, Ihave been chiefly induced by the Viewsof being
An essay on the publick debts of this kingdom ..To which is subjoined an enquiry into the general convenience of reducing farther the interest of our publick debts below 4 per centper annumIn a letter to a Member of the House of Commons . ich I maybe thought more than once to have of-fended. One is, that I have not everywhere ufed the utmofi Examinefs in fup^pofing, fating, or defcribing the ^ublick^ebts, or the Variations in them. Tothis Fault, as often as I have been guil-ty of it from any other Caufe than mywant of Materials for that purpofe, Ihave been chiefly induced by the Viewsof being thereby more intelligible: Ha-ving pre fumed that it would be betterto omit any fuch ^Degrees of Exacinefsin this refpe^, as was more than fufficient to anfwer the General T>eflgnof this Ejfay, which would at the fameTime render it rnore tedious and per-plexing. I have alfo for ?nuch the fameReafon, been induced to content my felfwith the IJfe of fome JVords in what has viii 7he Preface- has feemed to me to have been theirmore ordinary Acceptation^ when ap-plied to this Snbje^ ; which in a longeror more elaborate Enquiry, / Jhouldhave thought my felf obliged to defineand explain diflincily before I venturedupon the ^fe of AN
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