... been a reduction of nine persons since 1821. Several departments have been added to the Treasury, such as the audit of the civil list and the auditing of the Colonial accounts, and other mat• tees of that kind, with which business persons to perform it ...

... institutions be elaborated by a nation which ! was struggling in perpetual commotions., and raging with the chronic fever of civil strife. The first step, therefore, towards any improvements that have a chance of being permanent is gradually felt to be i ...