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rigid attention of Ministers to the system of finance, 

 little hopes arc to be entertained, that a permission 

 to malt grain for cattle will be obtained, unless it can be 

 made an objecfl of immediate taxation. 



Such considerations are permitted too frequently to 

 counter-balance or weigh down other objefls of much 

 greater national importance; which, if properly fostered 

 and cherished in their infancy, might become resources 

 of national revenue. 



These remarks will be confined to the malt-tax, the salt- 

 tax, and the coal-tax, although there arc many ethers which 

 tend to repress and cramp the exertions of individuals, 

 and to limit the extension of several valuable branches of 

 manufacture, and of which, were it not for these restraints, 

 an unrivalled monopoly would be secured to this country 

 in most of the foreign markets. By the plans now 

 proposed, the revenue will not suffer ; on the contrary, it 

 will receive a considerable increase. The Author hopes 

 that Government and individuals will candidly and de- 

 liberately weigh what he has to propose, in his new 

 assumed capacity of a Revenue OfTiccr, or Suggcstcr of 



F. e 1 Taxes, 



