"

BURDETT

We must be free or die, who speak the tongue
Which MILTON held. In every thing we are sprung

Engraved for the Extraonlinary Black Book from Originals by Percy Roberts.

PUBLISHED BY, EFFINGHAM WILSON, ROYAL EXCHANGE.

LONDON, 12" MARCH, 1832.

That SHAKSPEARE Spake; the faith and morals hold
Of Earth's first blood, have titles manifold.__"

THE

BLACK BOOK:

AN EXPOSITION OF ABUSES

IN

CHURCH AND STATE,

COURTS OF LAW,

MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS,

AND

Public Companies;

WITH A PRECIS OF

PRÉCIS

THE HOUSE OF COMMONS,

PAST, PRESENT, AND TO COME.

A New Edition,

Greatly enlarged and corrected.

BY THE ORIGINAL EDITOR.

WITH

AN APPE N D I X.

LONDON:

PUBLISHED BY

EFFINGHAM WILSON, ROYAL EXCHANGE.

MDCCCXXXV.

ADVERTISEMENT TO THE NEW EDITION.

THE rapid sale of a large impression of The Black Book has speedily afforded an opportunity for again subjecting it to severe revision, and this it has undergone in every department. Besides improving the arrangement, the Lists of Places, Pensions, and Pluralists have been carefully corrected, and the illustrative notes revised. The reductions in salaries and allowances, the settlement of the Civil List, and other economical arrangements of Ministers, either actually effected, or in contemplation, have been noticed.

Besides correction, many parts have been greatly enlarged, as those on the Church, Legal Sinecures, the Bank of England, and East-India Company; in the former a section has been added on the Numbers, Wealth, and Educational Efficiency of the Dissenters; and in the last have been comprised the chief facts and considerations involved in the approaching renewal of the charters of these two powerful associations. In addition, several new chapters have been introduced on subjects of immediate national interest; one on the Origin and Present State of CORPORATIONS IN CITIES AND Towns, and on COMPANIES, GUILDS AND FRATERNITIES: these form branches of the ancient institutions of the country, and an account of them was essential to the completeness of our work. A chapter has been added on the Principles of Finance, Abuses in the Government Expenditure, and the Workings of Taxation. Also a Précis of the HOUSE OF COMMONS, Past, Present, and to Come; with details illustrative of the Reform Bill, and the present state of parties and opinions.