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It seems, probable that the High Officers- of the Crown will he-relieved from the contribution of 10 pier cent. u,pon 'tleir 'salaries, which wvas levied d-liring tile wvar aud at a period -of much public distress. Without entering into the nerits of this proposition, we ramst veinture to- correct. a mistake into which several gentlemein have fallen. . They ,assert. .the -inisters of the rwn lo bebut ill paid for their ,services; always, in their imagination,- limiting thlat pay to the bare salazies of' tbeTIinisters tliemselves. Now tl'is ;would be a correct inode of reasoning', if wihenl Ministers had -taken: tlheir own. salaries out of the public funds, they threw down all the other: patronage of the Crown as na- ,tiqnal prizes- to be assigned. wvithout favour- or- partiality, to the niost able andindustrious men, of the countryt But .the fact is, ,that after Mlinisters. have thus takeai each 'his om pay -from :the public- stock, they all dip very deeply into the residue for tlleir relatives-their sons, their daughters, anl1 daughters' husbands-their- lbrotherq, eousizi's, rzmphaws, and niece;s; nor do t)iey often give .any thing even to their dependejits tillafter. ll 'themr, kindred is seved; and- if-they ever -do -give. any tig vf 'importancto an unrelatddepciident theet not_wuy all Lil .s wnch as-n miagew,poitio 1tm os goni young womani. ofthir -; their fami6 soth- 7 . d " . . -