State of the public debts, and of the annual interest and benefits paid for them; as they will stand on the 5th of January, 1783. Likewise, As they will stand (if the War continues) on the 5th of January, 1784. To which the attention of the public is humbly requested, before they decide as to peace or war together with some thoughts on the extent to which the state may be benefited by oeconomy; and a few reflections on the conduct and merit of the parties contending for power. By John Earl of Stair. Sixth edition. To which is now first added, a postscript, In Answer to a postscript addressed to the Earl of Stair, by the Author of ̀̀a Defence of the Earl of Shelburne.''

Date:

[1783]