text:  We shall not dwell upon this great _temporary_ measure which in one year has poured upwards of _five millions_ into the exhausted exchequer further than to say that as soon as ever it was known among the monied classes that the Minister environed as he was with financial difficulties would risk any amount of popular odium rather than add to the permanent burdens of the country or permit the ruinous continuance of an excess of expenditure over revenue