awed by' authority, uninfluenced by any petty vanity or time-serving
servility, will stand forth the uncompromising champions of public ri.,;hts, and declared enemies of abuses under every tbrm, whether of en- croachments on the legislative rights of the people, or of profligate expen- diture of their means, or sieecure appointments, or salaries disproper- tioned to the present condition of the esdeny, verging on the very brinkof general bankruptcy. These era considerations which, the present awful aspect of the times calls, not only upon all legislators, but all a i- zens, to entertain and seriously to discuss. On their conduct on this (se casion may probably depend their future safety or ruin. The polities of Europe are at this moment highly interestieg; butt to us, individually, tae politics of our own little republie are infinitely more so. What con- solation will it afford to us to hear of kingdoms in the Old World, who, having. broken time sceptre of despotism, have nobly asserted their just right to free and cheap governments. it' we, in this small distant settle- ment, continue oppressed by legislative abuses and financial extravas genre, and became, in consequence, reduced to time worst of all slavery— the tyre:shed dependence of beggary ? Time was in this colony, wheat the profits on private advents:rut; were so liberal as to render the extrii vagaluee of public expenditure a matter of minor importance. Butt now, when tlesie may be deemed fortunate whose earnings suffice to meet their daily outlays, time harder' of puidic expenditure presses bard upon the very necessaries of life. Such weuld be the ease even were the ex- penditure most frugal ; but what. shall we say of an expenditure which has gone en increasing with reckless anal unfeeling indifference in in- verse proportion to the ganturel prosperity, which has been doubled within those few unfortunate yeara which have witnessed time decay of more than hell' our resources ? These are the subjects to which we shall shortly deem it our duty to draw the attention of time public in detail, unless we find our labours fortunately anticipated by others better quali- fied for the undertaking. In the mean time, we shall content ourselves. with thr:nvieg out these few preliminary hints, and await the results of the last week's secret deliberations of our legislators."
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