GENTLEMEN OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS,
I have directed the _estimates for the next fortnight_ to be laid
before you, which, I am happy to inform you, will be amply
sufficient for the exigencies of my _present_ disinterested
advisers.
The unequalled fiscal and arithmetical talents of my Chancellor of
the Exchequer have, by the most rigid economy, succeeded in
reducing the revenue very considerably below the actual expenditure
of the state.
MY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN,
Measures will be speedily submitted to you for carrying out the
admirable plans of my Secretary of State for the Colonial
Department, and the brilliant author of "Don Carlos," for the
prevention of apoplexy among paupers, and the reduction of the
present extravagant dietary of the Unions.
I have the gratification to announce that a commission is in
progress, by which it is proposed by my _non_-patronage Ministers
to call into requisition the talents of several literary
gentlemen--all intimate friends or relations of my deeply erudite
and profoundly philosophic Secretary of State for the Home
Department, and author of "Yes and No," (three vols. Colburn) for
the purpose of extending the knowledge of reading and writing, and
the encouragement of circulating libraries all over the kingdom.
My consistent and uncompromising Secretary of State for the
Colonies, having, since the publication of his spirited "Essays by
a gentleman who has lately left his lodgings," totally changed his
opinions on the subject of the Corn Laws, a measure is in the
course of preparation with a view to the repeal of those laws, and
the continuance in office of my invaluable, tenacious, and
incomparable ministry.
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