1821 Feb y 21

Rid Yourselves

'.1. Interests concerned.

According to the documents above brought to view in the Introduction,

the expenditure belonging to this head will not be much of any thing superior to the

whole of the expenditure employed upon really necessary and naturally useful purposes

But the welfare of the individuals of whom that class is composed

from as large a portion of the welfare of the whole state as the welfare of the same

number of individuals taken from any other class: and, to those whose situations

stand visibly exhibited upon the list of of offices, requires to be added all such

individuals belonging to any other productive classes, in so far as their subsistence

is in such sort dependent upon the consumption of those concurring classes, that,

upon the cessation of such consumption, their means of subsistence would alter

altogether, or to a degree more or less considerable, be extinct.

Of this counter demand, by which in this particular instance the

demand for retrenchment is opposed and limited, the application, it is to be

observed, reaches no further than to the present occupants of the situation in

question, with the addition of such expectants whose grounds of expectation as to

acquisition are as firm as are the grounds of expectation as to retention are in the

case of the possessors. The consequence is - that supposing the plea admitted, the

list, of the portions of expenditure susceptible of defalcation, will be reduced to

such offices as shall successively become vacant by the death of the present

possessors with the correspondent list if any such there be of expectants, as above

described.