Excerpt from The History of the Public Revenue of the British Empire, Vol. 3: Containing an Account of the Public Income and Expenditure From the Remotest Periods Recorded in History, to Michaelmas 1802, With an Account of the Revenue of Scotland and Ireland, and an Analysis of the Sources of Public Revenue in General You know well that I have principally ployed my leifure hours, 1n carrying on vari ous ufeful 1nquiries, connected with finance. 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.