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Excerpt from The Revolution of America
The land remained loaded with a higher tax than it ever had been in time of peace. New taxes had been laid on windows and on houfes. Thefe aéts laid a heavy charge on all real cfiate. Wine, plate, cards, dice, all that was regarded as an objeét of lux/ury, or amufement, paid more than could have been thought pofiible. To i'eimburfe itfelf for the facrifice made to the prefervation of the public health, in the prohibition of fpirituous liquors, the treafury had recourfe to malt, beer, cyder, and all the ufual beverages of the people. The fea-ports difpatched nothing to fo reign countries, and received nothing-from them, but what was burthened cruelly with duties, on the import and the export. Liaw materials and workmanfhip were rifen to lo high a price in Great. Britain, that her merchants found themfelves fupplanted in countries where they had never beforeexperienced a competition. The prélits of her commerce, with all parts of the globe, amounted not annually to above two mil lions and a half; and, from this balance in her favour, there mull have been de duéted a million and a half, paid in interef'c to foreigners, on their capitals placed in her public funds.
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