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Show I 78 3 lilctermimtion of their Value, though even below other Employment, than in that of a L of T , is fubmitted to their Confideration, who are the Judges of Merit, and the Diipenfers of its Rewards. lil‘ll‘ Coll. The litnftuiue Genius of one of. the fli/Ii~flfitct.r'.~ rum Vxlritets, brings to my Mind the liable, of the Boy and the lien that laid Golden Eggs. He is not content to wait for the lncreale of the Pit/Nit .1'Crt‘r/2rzt", by that gradual )roeefi; and Circulation oil'roperty, which L1H Attention to the commercial lnterel'ts 0‘." the Nation hath cllsblithed, but is at once retreating away the lin'rbryo, which, in due For a Realon, which the above Opinion fuggefis, l {hall liabjoin an Ellimate of the Duties upon Tobacco confumed in Great»Britain, and of the Pro- tit to the Planter on that Tobacco.-----The intelligent Reader will not apprehend it to be my .Meztning, that the Planter pays out of his Pocket till the Duties laid on Tobacco, or be at a Lots to Time, might be matured into Fullnels fSi.:e and infer, that the Ellimate has been made with no, Vigour; without ever relltfling, thu when the other View, than to obviate the Principle others by Ben is dcilroyeti by his Violence, ther: 7il be no: more Comm Eons. .....__. Thu 1" julliiies this Oblet‘\'ation------~ their Writings feem to adopt. 133mm: The old Sublidy is One Penny per Pound, per Cent deducted. " lf'we have from the Colonies their _ . 'i 2 ready, we only have it: I\H " ys he} by ' ‘rade, sud not by_ 'l‘axes-7 and litrel y it is not the hunt: Thing, whether the ‘Weslth be brought into the. Public Cofl‘ers by Taxes, or coming in by Trude, flows into the Pockets of Individuals, and, by augmenting his Influence with his lVealth, err-- ables the Merchant tollplunge us into new Wars 5 All the other Duties are Seven Fence, and one Third per Pound, 15 per Cent dedut‘ted. An Hoglhesd of Tobacco, at an Average, contains 952 lb. The whole Duties therefore, ~ ~ The Amount of the whole if. '27: I4 : o Duties on 30,000 Hog-5,5. 831,000: 00: 0 iheads, is ‘ and new Debts for his Advantage ll." The full clear Proceeds of an lloglhead of T0~ The Man who thinks the Gains of the Mer- bacco, reckoning 952 ii) in each lloglhend, has chant are dangerous, and that the Welfare. of the not, on an Average for form: Years pant, exceeded .t l. T wherefore,0n 30,000 l‘loglheads, the Planters hdztnufztfttlrers, the Landholders, i296. doth not depend upon the Trade and Navigation of GreatBritain, is very confif'tcntly an Advocate for a Meafure which hath a direct Tendency to check. them -, but whether this Opinion, and very confident Conduét might not be more lex‘viceable in .tme 3' The Oleefitsns 1- the Taxation, &r confidcred. other f See before, 9. 76. The attentive Reader will ()EC‘rvc, that the nctt l-‘mceetls of a lloglhead of Tobacco, :it an Aver" 316, are 4/. and the 'l‘axes 3/.--, together, 2/.~-anre, i‘lowmuth per Cent does the 'l‘urt :nnount to. with It raises hon: the two wretched Tobstco Column, 3/. out of every 7 r. .9‘ Hr- d haw deplorable mull their Circmnilinces appear, when t‘ eit volt. Deb: to the Khmer-Country, and the annual l'limhcn ml their «:ivzl liiizzbliihments are added to the Ellimnte? In thcle two Colonies there are upwards cf $0,090 'l'sxitblts. W7C |