A vindication of the conduct of the Ministry, in the scheme of the excise on wine and tobacco, proposed last sessions of Parliament. With a general examination of the reasons which determined the said ministry to it; the consequences and events it would have had.

Date:
1734
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A vindication of the conduct of the Ministry, in the scheme of the excise on wine and tobacco, proposed last sessions of Parliament. With a general examination of the reasons which determined the said ministry to it; the consequences and events it would have had. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    («) ties might have been payed. This is done in a Minute, and then the Offices- goes away. What harm could this have done to the honeft Merchant? Why, none at all, if his Books are regular : None then but the unfair Trader can dread it, because he can conceal none of the Goods ini his Houle by Permit, and that what is brought there in a clandeftine Manner muft be eahly ch(covered: But let him trade fairly, and he will find the Benefit of it • for inftead of this trifling Vifit, or Search (which, however, is abfolutely neceflary] he will reap infinite Advantages by it, as I lhafl fhew in the Sequel. Some People have endeavoured to give this Search a mo ft redicu- lous Extenlion, faying, Jt 'was to be made by Night, as 'well as by Day, which is very falfe, as ap¬ pears from the Practice ; for thele Searches are made in the Day-time,