Excerpt from On the Debt of the Nation: Compared With Its Revenue; And the Impossibility of Carrying on the War Without Public Oeconomy Therefore a clear arrangement of the public accounts, as fhall fhew the expendi ture of the revenues, fhould be annually laid before Parliament; that the Commons might be able to fatisfy the people, whether the grants of the preceding feflion had been faithfully applied to thofe fpecific ufes, for which the money had been afked and given. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.