Excerpt from Additional Facts: Addressed to the Serious Attention of the People of Great Britain, Respecting the Expences of the War, and the State of the National Debt Confidered at the time in which they were incurred as the moft enormous ever fuflained by this country; and that there is not adoubt, if in comparing the American with the feven years war, the expenditure in the former had been fiated to begin with the year 1778, but that the minifierial advocates Of that day would have exclaimed againf't the injuftice Of fuch accounts. The Objee'tion, therefore, to the period at which the comparifon is made to commence in my flatements is totally groundlefs; but were it admitted to the ut molt extent, it would not invalidate the truth of my affertion for if the firft three, or any number of fucceflive years in the pre fent war, be compared with the fame num 'ber of fucceffive years in the American or any other war, it will be found that throughout every period our expences in this war have greatly furpaffed the moi't enormous extrava gance of all former times. 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.