But when all these resources have been counted up, we cannot but see the gulf of a great yearly deficit.

The unhappy truth is that from the middle of 1769, when we find him applying to Garrick for the loan of a thousand pounds, down to 1794, when the king gave him a pension, Burke was never free from the harassing strain of debts and want of money.

It has been stated with good show of authority, that his obligations to Lord Rockingham amounted to not less than thirty thousand pounds.

When that nobleman died (1782), with a generosity which is not the less honourable to him for having been so richly earned by the faithful friend who was the object of it, he left instructions to his executors that all Burke's bonds should be destroyed.
We may indeed wish from the bottom of our hearts that all this had been otherwise.

But those who press it as a reproach against Burke's memory, may be justly reminded that when Pitt died, after drawing the pay of a minister for twenty years, he left debts to the amount of forty thousand pounds.