Filled with an anxious concern for whatever regards
the welfare of our Sovereign, it is impossible, in considering the
miserable circumstances into which he has been brought, that this
obvious topic should be entirely passed over. There is an opinion
universal, that these revenues produce something not inconsiderable,
clear of all charges and establishments. This produce the people do
not believe to be hoarded, nor perceive to be spent. It is
accounted for in the only manner it can, by supposing that it is
drawn away, for the support of that Court faction, which, whilst it
distresses the nation, impoverishes the Prince in every one of his
resources. I once more caution the reader, that I do not urge this
consideration concerning the foreign revenue, as if I supposed we
had a direct right to examine into the expenditure of any part of
it; but solely for the purpose of showing how little this system of
Favouritism has been advantageous to the Monarch himself; which,
without magnificence, has sunk him into a state of unnatural
poverty; at the same time that he possessed every means of
affluence, from ample revenues, both in this country and in other
parts of his dominions.
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