100,000 families, at L7 per family per annum              700,000

  104,000 families, at L5 per family per annum              520,000

  And instead of ten shillings per head for the education

    of other children, to allow fifty shillings per family

    for that purpose to fifty thousand families             250,000

                                                         ----------

                                                         L2,770,000

    140,000 aged persons as before                        1,120,000

                                                         ----------

                                                         L3,890,000

  This arrangement amounts to the same sum as stated in this work,
Part II, line number 1068, including the L250,000 for education; but
it provides (including the aged people) for four hundred and four
thousand families, which is almost one third of an the families in
England.

  40. I know it is the opinion of many of the most enlightened
characters in France (there always will be those who see further
into events than others), not only among the general mass of citizens,
but of many of the principal members of the former National
Assembly, that the monarchical plan will not continue many years in
that country. They have found out, that as wisdom cannot be made
hereditary, power ought not; and that, for a man to merit a million
sterling a year from a nation, he ought to have a mind capable of
comprehending from an atom to a universe, which, if he had, he would
be above receiving the pay. But they wished not to appear to lead
the nation faster than its own reason and interest dictated. In all
the conversations where I have been present upon this subject, the
idea always was, that when such a time, from the general opinion of
the nation, shall arrive, that the honourable and liberal method would
be, to make a handsome present in fee simple to the person, whoever he
may be, that shall then be in the monarchical office, and for him to
retire to the enjoyment of private life, possessing his share of
general rights and privileges, and to be no more accountable to the
public for his time and his conduct than any other citizen.

  41. The gentleman who signed the address and declaration as chairman
of the meeting, Mr. Horne Tooke, being generally supposed to be the
person who drew it up, and having spoken much in commendation of it,
has been jocularly accused of praising his own work. To free him
from this embarrassment, and to save him the repeated trouble of
mentioning the author, as he has not failed to do, I make no
hesitation in saying, that as the opportunity of benefiting by the
French Revolution easily occurred to me, I drew up the publication
in question, and showed it to him and some other gentlemen, who, fully
approving it, held a meeting for the purpose of making it public,
and subscribed to the amount of fifty guineas to defray the expense of
advertising. I believe there are at this time, in England, a greater
number of men acting on disinterested principles, and determined to
look into the nature and practices of government themselves, and not
blindly trust, as has hitherto been the case, either to government
generally, or to parliaments, or to parliamentary opposition, than
at any former period. Had this been done a century ago, corruption and
taxation had not arrived to the height they are now at.

                           -THE END-
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