The oldest controversies are hauled out of the dust with which time and neglect had covered them.

Arguments ten times repeated, a thousand times answered before, are here repeated again.

Public accounts formerly printed and reprinted revolve once more, and find their old station in this sober meridian.

All the commonplace lamentations upon the decay of trade, the increase of taxes, and the high price of labor and provisions, are here retailed again and again in the same tone with which they have drawled through columns of Gazetteers and Advertisers for a century together.

Paradoxes which affront common sense, and uninteresting barren truths which generate no conclusion, are thrown in to augment unwieldy bulk, without adding anything to weight.