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[ED: Softcover], [PU: Cambridge Scholars Publishing], Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Art. III.?Partictilarites ft Observations sur les Minis- tres des Finances de France les plus cilebres, depuis 1660 jusqu'cn 1791. ALondres: Chez Dulau et Co. Soho-Square, 1812, 8vo. ON opening this work the first thing which struck us was an epistle dedicatory to the manes of William Pitt. This compliment is said to be paid to the departed shade of that gentleman, because he carried the science of-Jl- nance farther than any of his predecessors. If the author had said that he taxed the people of this country to a greater amount than had ever been done by any of the ministers that went before him, and that he left but little to do in this way by those who came after him, he would have stated what would have been strictly true, and what few even of those, who are most captious, would be disposed to controvert. But, when the writer panegyrizes Mr. Pitt for having enlarged the boundaries of financial science, we must confess ourselves ignorant of his deserts. What new principle of finance did Mr. Pitt disclose ?, What truth in political economy did he make known, which was not known before ? There are different modes of estimating financial ability but, perhaps, the following may suffice, which is the mere suggestion of common sense without any mixture of subtlety or refinement. As far as finance is confined to the different methods of taxatic,, he appears to be an able financier, who canv raise a tax of any given amount with the smallest expence and the greatest advantage or, in other words, with most profit to the government for whose use the tax is designed, and the least loss to the public, by whom it is paid. If, for instance, a tax were wanted to the amount of a million, we should think him a better financier, who should raise this sum at the expense of twenty-five thou...Versandfertig in 6-10 Tagen, [SC: 0.00]<