Reasons humbly offer'd to the Honble. House of Commons for translating the duty of excise from mault-drinks to mault, whereby may be advanced to the Crown above twenty millions for carrying on the war against France together with some brief notes and observations on the laws and administrations in relation to that duty and the partiality and inequality thereof / by Robert Murray ...

THE ensuing ••••per has no other Design in it, than to Remove a Par∣tial, and to Introduce an Impartial, DUTY; to Serve the KING, to Raise a great Revenue, and yet to Ease the People; which seems to be the Joynt Interest of the whole Nation; and to Obviate a Material Ob∣jection, viz. That this Alteration will neither affect Land, nor Landed-Men, nor the Tenant, nor Farmers, nor Maulsters, nor Brewers, (as such;) nor any but the Consumptioner; nor is the Maulster further Obliged, than to make due Entries of what he Makes, and to Pay as he Sells; by which means, it is plain, that he is no further Accountable than as a Collector; who Pays nothing, but what he first Receives: Nor do I, hereby, mean to Interfere with what the Honourable HOUSE have or shall determine, for the Service of the ensuing Year; But; if this Humble Ten∣der, of Mine, should meet with His Majesties Royal APPROBATION in Parliament, it might take Place, after the Taxes of the present Sessions; and humbly Submit what Service it may be to the KING, how much it must needs Animate the KING's Allies, and Discourage His Enemies, to see a Provision made to Supply the Occasions of the War, for so many Years to come, by a M••••••••••d so little burthen-some, or rather indeed so very Easy to the People; as will appear by what follows.