ABSTRACT
How many times were we told, that it required but one more campaign; one more; only one more vigorous campaign, to put an end to the war; to destroy, to annihilate, for ever, the resources of France. Alas! those resources have not been destroyed. ey have increased in a fearful degree; while we have accumulated hundreds of millions of Debt in the attempt. How many writers have attered us, from time to time, with the hope, nay, the certainty (if we would but persevere) of triumphing over the French by the means of our riches! To how many of these deceivers have we been so foolish as to listen! It is this credulity, which has led to the present state of things; and, unless we shake it o at once, and resolve to look our dangers in the face, we shall, I greatly fear, experience that fate which our deceivers
told us would be experienced by our enemy. Pitt, it is well known, grew into favour with the nation in consequence of his promises and his plans to pay-o the National Debt; and, this same Pitt, who found that Debt 257 millions, le it upwards of 600 millions, aer having, for twenty years, had the full power of managing all the resources of the nation; aer having, for nearly the whole of that time, had the support of three fourths, if not more, of the Members of the House of Commons; aer having, of course, adopted whatever measures he thought proper, during the whole of that time. He found the Debt two hundred and y odd millions, and he le it six hundred and y odd. is was what was done for England by that Pitt, whose own private debts the people had to pay, besides the expense of a monument to his memory! is is what every man in England should bear constantly in mind.
