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a public treasury well filled; and all this had
been done by the Dutch Governor Jansens,
without a shilling from the mother country for
several years, and while the trade of the colony
had been intercepted; yet that colony was
a constant drain on this country. In Ceylon
a was was carried on, which would, from
its commencement, cost the country one million
and a half. That morning advices had been
received from Lower Canada, that the
House of Assembly had refused to vote
the supplies proposed to them, stateing
that the internal improvement of the Province
is the first duty of the Legislature, and that
"that duty will be most efficiently performed
in reducing the overgrown bulk of the Civil
List of the Province, the progress of which, in
every species of public improvement, seems
to have been tardy, in the direct proportion of
the speed with which the expences have accumulated."
He was happy that the Assembly had done so; if they had not, the expenditure
of which they complained would
have destroyed all independance, and not a
word against the Government would have
been heard, except through the mouths of a
"factious Opposition".

Identifier: | JB/109/103/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 109.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	109	Main Headings
Folio number	103	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	Collectanea	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner		Watermarks	[[watermarks::I&M [Prince of Wales feathers] 1818]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1818
Notes public		ID Number	35758
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