We believe that people ar...
'Ve believe that people are nowv beginning to cry out against the assessed taxes, and their continuance, at a pe- riod of thc session when the plan of finance is in a great degree settled. They sliould have expressed their feelings sooner; and we have no doubt that a financial scheme, more in accordance with those feelings, and also witb the most obvious principles of political economy, would then have been conceded. The apeparenit apathy of the public to their own interests led Ministers to suppose, or at least allowed them to affect the belief, that sufficienit alleviation had been granted under the most oppressive heads of taxa- tion. The only chance of redIress now to be found, is in the abolition of the WVindsor grant; and we hope that great ex- ertions will be made for that purpose. Under any cir- cumstances, the sum of three hundred thousand pounds should not be lavished on this inidefinite project, till after the removal of the assessed t2xes. Probably the late indisposition of His MIAJESTY, greatly to be lamented in other respects, may tend to rescue the nation from the loss of this money; for how can the KiNG, who was unable to go through the forms of a Drawing-room,find health and strength to direct architec- tural improvements or alterations uponI so large a scale? And if His MAJESTY iS not present, and does not preside over the works, how can he be sure that they will be exe- cuted to his taste ? To us, indeed, it seems an unwise, as we are sure it is a most unusual proceeding, iR one who is advanced in years, to attempt altering the family mansion for others of whomn he knows nothing ; and whose very first acts may be to undlo, at a great cost, that which has at a great cost been done. We are most anxious, both for the sake of the tranquillity of His MAJESTY'S future life, and for the sake also of the public ease, that this job be not now commenced.