... by these sales is uncertain; but it could not be near one million eight hundred thousand pounds, the sum assigned by some writers.[*] * Mr. Carte, in his vindication of the Answer to the Bystander, ... pleasure*[**missing period] By his want of secrecy and constancy, he destroyed his character in public life; by his contempt of order and economy, he dissipated his private fortune; by riot and debauchery, ... power might be maintained, partly by the supplies which on other pretences would previously be obtained from parliament; partly by subsidies from France; partly by captures, which might easily...