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Title:  The political tracts and speeches: of Edmund Burke, Esq. Member of Parliament for the city of Bristol.
Author: Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797.
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defray between them, in the proportion of £. 200.000 by the colonies, and £. 100.000 by Ireland."SUCH is the whole of this mighty scheme. Take his reduced estimate, and his further reductions, and his resources all together, and the result will be: He will certainly lower the provision made for the navy. He will cut off largely (God knows what or how) from the army and ordnance extra|ordinaries. He may be expected to cut off more. He hopes that the deficiencies on land and malt will be less than usual; and he hopes that America and Ireland might be induced to take off £. 300.000 of our annual charges.IF any one of these Hopes, Mights, Insinua|tions, Expectations, and Inducements, should fail him, there will be a formidable gaping breach in his whole project. If all of them should fail, he has left the nation without a glimmering of hope in this thick night of terrors which he has thought fit to spread about us. If every one of them, which, attended with success, would signify any thing to our revenue, can have no effect but to add to our distractions and dangers, we shall be if possible in a still worse condition from his projects of cure than he represents us from our original dis|orders.BEFORE we examine into the consequence of these schemes, and the probability of these savings, let us suppose them all real and all safe, and then see what it is they amount to, and how he reasons on them: 0