Treasury. Thus, by following the course of Nature, and not the purposes of politics, or the accumulated patchwork of occasional accommodation, this vast, expensive department may be methodized, its service proportioned to its necessities, and its payments subjected to the inspection of the superior minister of finance, who is to judge of it on the result of the total collective exigencies of the state. This last is a reigning principle through my whole plan; and it is a principle which I hope may hereafter be applied to other plans. By these regulations taken together, besides the three subordinate treasuries in the lesser principalities, five other subordinate treasuries are suppressed. There is taken away the whole _establishment of detail_ in the household: the _treasurer_; the _comptroller_ (for a comptroller is hardly necessary where there is no treasurer); the _cofferer of the household_; the _treasurer of the chamber_; the _master of the household_; the whole _board of green cloth_;--and a vast number of subordinate offices in the department of the _steward of the household_,--the whole establishment of the _great wardrobe_,--the _removing wardrobe_,--the _jewel office_,--the _robes_,--the _Board of Works_,--almost the whole charge of the _civil branch_ of the _Board of Ordnance_, are taken away. All these arrangements together will be found to relieve the nation from a vast weight of influence, without distressing, but rather by forwarding every public service. When something of this kind is done, then the public may begin to breathe. Under other governments, a question of expense is only a question of economy, and it is nothing more: with us, in every question of expense there is always a mixture of constitutional considerations.