etween England, France, and America, and that the expences of
government in England may be put back to one million and a half, viz.:

Civil expence of Government...... 500,000L.
Army............................. 500,000
Navy............................. 500,000
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1,500,000L.

And even this sum is fifteen times greater than the expences of
government are in America; and it is also greater than the whole peace
establishment of England amounted to about an hundred years ago. So much
has the weight and oppression of taxes increased since the Revolution,
and especially since the year 1714.

1 At Paine's trial, Chapman, the printer, in answer to fa
question of the Solicitor General, said: "I made him three
separate offers in the different stages of the work; the
first, I believe, was a hundred guineas, the second five
hundred, and the last was a thousand."--_Editor_.

2 Error. See also ante, and in vol. ii., p. 435.
Washington had retracted his original announcement, and
received his salary regularly.--_Editor_.

To shew that the sum of 500,000L. is sufficient to defray all civil
expences of government, I have, in that work, annexed the following
estimate for any country of the same extent as England.--

In the first place, three hundred Representatives, fairly elected, are
sufficient for all the purposes to which Legislation can apply, and
preferable to a larger number.

If, then, an allowance, at the rate of 500L. per annum be made to every
Representative, deducting for non-attendance, the expence, if the whole
number attended six months each year, would be.......75,000L.

The Official Departments could not possibly exceed the following number,
with the salaries annexed, viz.:

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Three offices at
10,000L.
each
30,000

Ten ditto at
5,000
u
50,000

Twenty ditto at
2,000
u
40,000

Forty ditto at
1,000
it
40,000

Two hundred ditto at
500
u
100,000

Three hundred ditto at 200
u
60,000

Five hundred ditto at
100
u
50,000

Seven hundred ditto at 75
it
52,500

497,500L.

If a nation chose, it might deduct four per cent, from all the offices,
and make one of twenty thousand pounds per annum, and style the person
who should fill it, King or Madjesty, (1) or give him any other title.

Taking, however