But the consequences were visible and ruinous; for by this means navy-bills grew to be forty _per cent_.

discount, and upwards; and almost every kind of stores, bought by the navy and victualling offices, cost the government double rates, and sometimes more: so that the public hath directly lost several millions upon this one article, without any sort of necessity, that I could ever hear assigned by the ablest vindicators of that party.
[Footnote 9: "Of millions" in original.

"Of -- -- millions" in 1775.
[W.S.J.]] [Footnote 10: See "The Examiner," No.

45, and note in vol.ix.of this edition, p.295.

[W.S.J.]] In this oppressed and entangled state was the kingdom, with relation to its debts, when the Queen removed the Earl of Godolphin from his office, and put it into commission, of which the present treasurer was one.