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That at a time when the increafe of Public Debt, attended v/ith a decreafc of the Britilh empire, manifeftly required the utmoft oeco - nomy in the management of the Revenues of the Crown, we cannot behold, wi [houta {lo - nilhment and inJignatlon, a profufion in your Majefty'sminiftcrs, which the grcateft profp* - riiy of our affairs could fcarccly excufe.

The speeches of Iohn Wilkes, one of the knights of the shire for the county of Middlesex, in the Parliament appointed to meet at Westminster the 29.th day of November 1774, to the prorogation the 6.th day of June 1777 1777