It is humbly offered by some uninterested persons that the laying a greater duty on low-wines, or spirits drawn from melasses than on other spirits, or the total prohibition thereof (which will certainly be the effect) will be of a bad consequence to the nation for the following reasons This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B09306 of text N9669 in the English Short Title Catalog. Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 3KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 B09306 Wing I1083A ESTC N9669 ocm 62369335

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 eng Distilling industries -- Law and legislation -- England -- Early works to 1800. Alcoholic beverages -- Law and legislation -- England -- Early works to 1800. Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1689-1702 -- Sources. Broadsides -- England -- 17th century. eebo It is humbly offered, by some uninterested persons, that the laying a greater duty on low-wines, or spirits drawn from melasses than on other spirits, n/a 1736 1 510 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2014-04 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2014-07 Sampled and proofread 2014-07 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2015-03 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
It is Humbly Offered , by some Uninterested Persons , That the laying a greater Duty on Low-Wines , or Spirits drawn from Melasses than on other Spirits , or the total Prohibition thereof ( which will certainly be the Effect ) will be of a bad Consequence to the Nation , for the following Reasons .

I. BRANDY or Fine Spirits being only to be drawn from the Fruit of the Vine or the Sugar-Cane , viz. Sugar or Melasses ; the former being Discouraged by the Prohibition of all Foreign-Brandy , the latter ought to be Incouraged , because nothing else will make Brandy that will Equalize that of France .

II . As to Wine and Fruit that is Imported , it is a very small Quantity that is Distilled ; for no Man designedly brings in that which is bad : wherefore the Prohibiting the Distilling thereof , will be of great Loss to the Merchant : For at this present , there 's some Quantity here which is not worth Freight and Customs ; and will be less worth if Distilling is forbid .

III . Therefore , In case a larger Duty is design'd to be laid on Fine Spirits drawn from Melasses , &c. than Foul Spirits drawn from Corn ; The Only Easy and Advantageous Way is , by an Additional-Duty on all Melasses to be paid at the Custom-House , which will absolutely prevent any Disputes which may be between the Excise-Officers and the Distillers about the Quality of the Spirits , and will Save to the King about 20000 l. per Annum , which will be drawn back from the Customs on Unpurged Sugars Exported : For if Melasses be so Burthened that it cannot be Distilled here , the Refiners and Distillers Trade must fall ; and consequently Unpurged Sugars must be Exported to be Worked abroad .

IV . If therefore we intend totally to prevent the Importation of French or Foreign Brandy , we must Encourage the Manufactury of that of equal Goodness here ; which will be a great Advantage to the Nation , by Employing our own People , and will keep our Money in the Nation ; which hath been , and may be sent to France for Purchasing the Growth of that Kingdom .

V. The Discouraging the Refiners and Distillers Trade here , will be of a very bad Consequence to our Plantations ( whose Burthen already is very great ) and Encourage the Plantations of our Neighbours : For they are at liberty to give us what they please for our Unpurged Sugars , if we cannot Work them here ; and so will consequently lessen our Shipping that are usually Employed to our Islands .

VI . This Discouraging of our Plantations will have a great Influence on Ireland , from whence they are Annually Supplied with Beef , Pork , and all sorts of Provisions in great Quantities ; and also may be some Prejudice to the Guiny-Trade .