The
States-General have more. And that commonwealth looks nearer her
penny than ours needs to do.
"For the revenue of this nation, besides that of her
industry, it -- amounts, as has been shown, to ?10,000,000; and
the salaries in the whole come not to ?300,000 a year. The beauty
they will add to the commonwealth will be exceeding great, and
the people will delight in this beauty of their commonwealth; the
encouragement they will give to the study of the public being
very progitable, the accommodation they will afford to your
magistrates very honorable and easy. And the sum, when it or
twice as much was spent in bunting and housekeeping, was never
any grievance to the people. I am ashamed to stand huckling upon
this point; it is sordid. Your magistrates are rather to be
provided with further accommodations. For what if there should be
sickness? whither will you have them to remove? And this city in
the soundest times, for the heat of the year, is no wholesome
abode: have a care of their healths to whom you commit your own.
I would have the Senate and the people, except they see cause to
the contrary, every first of June to remove into the country air
for the space of three months. You are better fitted with
summer-houses for them than if you had built them to that
purpose.
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