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out of twenty is two much to beftow on tea. My fpeculation 
takes in the whole, in a national view, and confiders what mif- 
chiefs it creates in general : but I have heard private perfons, 
in very eafy circumftances, complain that tea is become a bur- 
then, and that they wifhed to throw it off their fhoulders, if 
they knew how to do it without fuffering greater inconve- 
niences. 
I compute that we confume in great Britain five millions 
of pounds weight of tea, of which I reckon two millions to be 
run in upon us. 
Suppofe then five millions; the loweft price we may compute 
is two fhillings and fix pence, and the higheft twenty Shillings 
the pound. The greateft part of what is legally imported coft 
four to ten {Killings, let us fix it at five {Killings, 
and it amounts to — — — ,£1,250,000; 
We have lately imported between 72,000 and' 
85.000 hogfheads of fugar annually, out of which 
25.000 hogfheads are fuppofed to be expended with 
tea; thefe at twelve hundred weight each make 
thirty-three million fix hundred thoufand pounds 
weight, allowing a quarter part for what is loft in 
refining part of this quantity (obferving that moft 
of the common people drink raw brown fugar) it 
is reduced to 25,200,000 pounds, (being about five 
pounds of fugar to one of tea) of which three fourths 
being computed at four pence, and one fourth at 
eight pence, it makes — — ■ — — — — £ 525,000 
This. 
