Civil expence of Government...... 500,000L. Army............................. 500,000 Navy............................. 500,000 ---------- 1,500,000L. And even this sum is fifteen times greater than the expences of government are in America; and it is also greater than the whole peace establishment of England amounted to about an hundred years ago. So much has the weight and oppression of taxes increased since the Revolution, and especially since the year 1714. 1 At Paine's trial, Chapman, the printer, in answer to fa question of the Solicitor General, said: "I made him three separate offers in the different stages of the work; the first, I believe, was a hundred guineas, the second five hundred, and the last was a thousand."--_Editor_. 2 Error. See also ante, and in vol. ii., p. 435. Washington had retracted his original announcement, and received his salary regularly.--_Editor_. To shew that the sum of 500,000L. is sufficient to defray all civil expences of government, I have, in that work, annexed the following estimate for any country of the same extent as England.-- In the first place, three hundred Representatives, fairly elected, are sufficient for all the purposes to which Legislation can apply, and preferable to a larger number. If, then, an allowance, at the rate of 500L. per annum be made to every Representative, deducting for non-attendance, the expence, if the whole number attended six months each year, would be.......75,000L. The Official Departments could not possibly exceed the following number, with the salaries annexed, viz.: [ILLUSTRATION: Table] Three offices at 10,000L. each 30,000 Ten ditto at 5,000 u 50,000 Twenty ditto at 2,000 u 40,000 Forty ditto at 1,000 it 40,000 Two hundred ditto at 500 u 100,000 Three hundred ditto at 200 u 60,000 Five hundred ditto at 100 u 50,000 Seven hundred ditto at 75 it 52,500 497,500L. If a nation chose, it might deduct four per cent, from all the offices, and make one of twenty thousand pounds per annum, and style the person who should fill it, King or Madjesty, (1) or give him any other title. Taking, however, this sum of one million and a half, as an abundant supply for all the expences of government under any form whatever, there will remain a surplus of nearly six millions and a half out of the present taxes, after paying the interest of the national debt; and I have shewn in the Second Part of _Rights of Man_, what appears to me, the best mode of applying the surplus money; for I am now speaking of expences and savings, and not of systems of government.