The Budget

Excerpt from The Budget: Inscribed to the Man, Who Thinks Himself Minister
I observe that the administration has condescended, by an advertisement in the public papers, to explain the Budget to the meanest capacity; I suppose they are so proud of their performances, that they think the like was never done before; and to be sure the wonders of the Budget must needs make the ignorant stare, and admire the transcendent talents of the ministry, who have advertised such miracles. That the administration should submit to so humiliating a condescension, to catch at a little popular applause from the ignorant, is not surprising; when it is considered how very low they are fallen in the public esteem; but really they should at least have confined themselves within the bounds of truth. To say that they have paid off a great deal of the debt contracted in the late war, is a mis-representation; that the establishment of the army is less than after the last peace, is not true; that the sinking fund has been encreased 391,000l. by the smuggling cutters upon 1,400,000l. of tea, is false, inconnstent, and impossible.
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