4000l. per annum, for every 100 families, including equally both rich and poor, which far exceeds the proportionable revenue, I believe, of any kingdom on earth; for indeed, the fame means are not practicable in any country or nation, unless the most excellent fyftem of Frankpledge be previously established, which I must frequently repeat. But, for the fake of comparison, let us apply this scheme to the computed average number of taxable houses or families in England and Wales. The one million families (as they are commmonly eftimated) would raise, by merely taking on themselves the very moderate and equal burthen of only a 5th part of their most ordinary labour, estimated at the low rate of one fhilling per day, together with the additional tax on pride, and the easy levy on profitable occupations, with the due increase of the whole profit, when applied to the cultivation of public land, would annum. raise (I fay) at the rate of 39061. for every hundred families, before calculated, the amazing revenue of 39 millions, and 60 thousands of pounds fterling, per If I am questioned on the poffibility of raising a fum fo enormously great, that it far exceeds the whole annual produce of all our accumulated taxes, customs, and other means of revenue, I muft confefs, that I am at a lofs how even to fatisfy my own doubts about it; and that I know not what reasons to affign for fuch an incredible accumulation of wealth, arifing from fo trifling a burthen laid upon the people, unless it may be attributed to the effectual employment of all the labouring poor; and of others capable of labour, and alfo to the effectual means which the propofition feems to promise of rendering that general employment of ordinary labour profitable, not only in the circulation of the indentures as bills and cash; but also in the increase 5 which which may be naturally expected from the actual labour, when applied to the earth. But there are other advantages attending the proposal, which are no yet reckoned. The previous re-establishment of frankpledge, without which the raising of fuch an increafed revenue could not be practicable, would, at the fame time, render abfolutely unnecessary the greatest part of our most expensive establishments both civil and military. So that, upon the whole the gain might fairly be estimated at nearly triple the effective, or neat amount of all the other devifeable" Ways and Means, &c. &c." * That this is not an exaggerated statement of our publick burthens, will be allowed, I believe, by all parties. I wish they were equally agreed in opinion about the neceffary remedy! GRANVILLE SHARP. Old Jewry, 3d July, 1786. ADDITIONAL REGULATIONS, Proposed for the intended New Settlement of SIERRA LEONA. S it will be expedient for the welfare of the new Settlement, that at least four perfons of liberal education fhould be employed in each hundred families, to register eftates as well as judicial determinations, and keep an exact account of all public debts, receipts and expenditures, in the books of each hundred; being alfo fuch perfons as may be capable of readily acquiring by study, fome general knowledge of the common law of England, that they may be prepared, on all occafions, to give proper information and advice to the hundreders, beadboroughs, and others who N probably probably may not have had the opportu nity of acquiring that kind of knowledge; it is propofed, that fufficient falaries in days work fhall be paid to all perfons fo employed in the public fervice and that they may not hold these offices of profit on a precarious or base tenure, it is alfo propofed that they shall be elected to hold their refpective offices on the fame terms, as law officers in England; viz. " quamdiu fe bene gesse rint"—" as long as they shall behave "themselves well:" that is, until they are actually convicted by " due process of "the law," of fome notorious malverfation or difhonefty, whereby they incur a legal incapacity for their offices by ceafing to be " good and true men.”— "Boni et legales homines."-And yet, as it might be dangerous to the new Settlement to permit men to hold offices of confiderable profit without annual reelection, if they were permitted at the fame |