The war was expensive.

The best economy had not perhaps been used.

But I must observe, that war and economy are things not easily reconciled; and that the attempt of leaning towards parsimony in such a state may be the worst management, and in the end the worst economy in the world, hazarding the total loss of all the charge incurred, and of everything along with it.
But _cui bono_ all this detail of our debt?
Has the author given a single light towards any material reduction of it?
Not a glimmering.

We shall see in its place what sort of thing he proposes.

But before he commences his operations, in order to scare the public imagination, he raises by art magic a thick mist before our eyes, through which glare the most ghastly and horrible phantoms: Hunc igitur terrorem animi tenebrasque necesse est.
Non radii solis, neque lucida tela diei Discutiant, sed naturae species ratioque.
Let us therefore calmly, if we can for the fright into which he has put us, appreciate those dreadful and deformed gorgons and hydras, which inhabit the joyless regions of an imagination fruitful in nothing but the production of monsters.
His whole representation, is founded on the supposed operation of our debt, upon our manufactures, and our trade.