Excerpt from The National Debt in Its True Colours: With Plans for Its Extinction by Honest Means Government itself has in some measure assisted the. Delusion, which prevails on this subject; for even the term, Com nussroners for the Redemption of the Na tional Debt, implies, that the nation is in debt to the amount of the nominal sum, Which goes under that name. They are in fact commissioners for the purchase of annuities granted by the nation to certain individuals or their representatives.' This distinction is of more importance than per sons are at first apt to imagine. 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.