The budget opened. Or, an answer to a pamphlet [by Sir Robert Walpole] intitled, A letter from a member of Parliament to his friends in the country, concerning the duties of wine and tobacco / [Anon].

  • Bath, William Pulteney, Earl of, 1684-1764.
Date:
1733
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Credit: The budget opened. Or, an answer to a pamphlet [by Sir Robert Walpole] intitled, A letter from a member of Parliament to his friends in the country, concerning the duties of wine and tobacco / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    eluding Scotland, and the Officers employed there, with all the additional Clerks and Warehoufe* tnehy on Account of Tea, Wine and Tobacco, in both Kingdoms, They will certainly amount to a very large Number. Let usfuppofe them only to be 500- can fuch an hereafe, added to the 600 raifed lafl Year, on Account of the Salt Ditty, and the vail Multitude fubfi fling before, be thought of no Danger? May not all thefe Offices be gi« ven to the Sons, Servants, or Dependents of those Persons, whom a Minijier too often finds it his Interefi to oblige? And does not This tend to abridge and undermine the Freedom of thofe Jffiem* Mies, which is the only Support of our Liberties and Confutation ? ‘ But what Security can the Publick have, if your Project fhould take Effect, that you will raife no more than 150 of thefe new Troops? May you not inliffc what Numbers you pleafe, even ad In- Jinitum, if you find it neccfiary for the Support of your MeafurCs? Who can controul you, when the Scheme is eflablifhed, if the united Voice of the 'whole Kingdom cannot controul you at prefent? As to the Warehoufes, which you acknowledge to be a Part of your Scheme, I fhall only obferve that it is exactly another charitable Corporation Project. The Goods of the Merchants, it feemo, are to be depolited, like common Pledges, in your Honour s Lumber Houfes, under the Inflection and Gate of fuch an honeit Steward, as John Thowp~ feu. But I am really weary of following you through tills Labyrinth of Inconiiflency and Folly. I fhall therefore conclude with a few' ihort Reflections upon the whole. Arijioth