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Part II
Upon the whole, the measure appears to be
one of those by which Government there is has much to
gain, and nothing at all to lose. If the proposed
Annuities are sold upon terms in any
the least degree more advantageous than the old,
it is so much gained and gained to both
parties — gained on all sides: if they are not
sold to any such advantage they will not be
sold at all. That experimensium is an
advice in favour of which there is much — and
against it nothing to be said.