Of the effects of taxation in England........229

CHAP. IV.

Of the national debt and sinking fund. -- Advantages and disadvantages of both. -- Errors committed in calculating their effects. -- Causes of error. -- Mode proposed for preventing future increase....................234

CHAP. V.

Of taxes for the maintenance of the poor. -- Their enormous increase. -- The cause. -- Comparison between those of England and Scotland. -- Simple, easy, and humane mode of reducing them..............247

CHAP. VI.

Causes of decline, peculiar to England.................... 257

CHAP. VII.

Circumstances peculiar to England, and favourable to it............. 261

CHAP. VIII.