An Inquiry, but Not a Parliamentary Inquiry
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Excerpt from An Inquiry, but Not a Parliamentary Inquiry: Into the Past and Present Abuses of the Irish Revenue, and Into the Plunder of the Irish Patronage Nothing more usually surprises the reader of history than the facility with which every corrupt government can substitute one system of peculation for another, as soon as they discover that the old is too flagrant to be any loner defended, or connived at. We regard with wonder the stupidity of a people, who, when they clamorously insist upon the reformation of abuses, can be satisfied with the grossest cheat, merely because it is new; can think fraud and corruption happily corrected, the moment they have changed their form; and, while past experience should make them look with the greatest distrust upon every measure originating with the dishonest conductors of their affairs, can yet hail every change, however palpably fraudulent, as a sincere effort to rectify existing abuses. All readers have one common feeling of disgust and resentment at the impositions recorded in history; the apathy of the public no less than the iniquity of their servants provokes our censure, but they are few who reflect, while they feel indignation at the injustice with which past ages were oppressed, that they live in times which are to be a subject of perhaps greater wonder and pity to posterity. While almost every department of the public concerns of Ireland has been at all times conducted with a total disregard of principle, or public utility, the Excise, and Revenue management have been lately, by an act of the Legislature, made an object of public attention, and the abuses therein partially laid open, and subjected, apparently, to all the rigour of reform. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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