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<HEAD>The Ca&s;e of the Refiners of <HI>England,</HI> with reference to Forreign Imported Molo&s;&s;oes, a Duty intended to be laid on the Spirits drawn from our own Molo&s;&s;oes.</HEAD>
<P>REfining of Sugars has been a very Ancient Art and My&s;tery in this Kingdom, and has (by former Encouragements from the Government) been always e&s;teemed very profitable thereunto; In that this Trade gives a livelihood not only to great numbers of menial Servants therein employed, but to &s;ome thou|&s;ands of Subjects, who in their re&s;pective Callings have their dependance there|on, whereby they have occa&s;ion'd the Expence of at lea&s;t Fifty Thou&s;and Pounds <HI>per Annum</HI> in this Kingdom.</P>
<P>And great E&s;tates have been expended, in erecting many large Sugar-works in this Kingdom for that purpo&s;e.</P>
<P>Va&s;t quantities of Coals are con&s;umed in this Trade, when in full work, which pays a great Duty.</P>
<P>And not only by the imploy of Shipping in the Coal Trade, but the increa&s;e of our Shipping in the Plantation Trade, by Importing Brown Sugars, our Navigation, the Strength and Glory of this Kingdom is much encouraged.</P>
<P>The <HI>French</HI> and <HI>Dutch</HI> being &s;en&s;ible hereof, have mo&s;t &s;tudiou&s;ly promoted this Trade within them&s;elves, and con&s;equently our di&s;couraging thereof will tend to the tran&s;planting of it.</P>
<P>But of late years it has very unhappily lain under great di&s;couragements in this Kingdom, partly by the va&s;t and increa&s;ing Importation of wrought Sugars from our own Plantations, and partly al&s;o by the great advantage which the Forreign Buyer has had of the Home Refiner; for the whole Duty upon unpurged Sugars is three Shillings and ten pence <HI>per</HI> hundred, out of which, the Forreign Buyer draws back three Shillings and a penny, and leaves the King po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed but of Nine pence. The Refiners of this Kingdom Expending Annually in their u&s;ual Working about Fifteen Thou&s;and Tuns of unpurg'd Sugars, which at 3 <HI>s.</HI> 10 <HI>d. per</HI> Hundred, pays the King Fifty Seven Thou&s;and Five Hundred Pounds; but if the &s;aid Fifteen Thou&s;and Tuns of Brown Sugars be Exported (by rea&s;on of the di&s;courage|ment given to the working of them here) they draw back Forty Six Thou|&s;and Two Hundred and Fifty Pounds, <NOTE PLACE="marg">57500. 46250. 11250.</NOTE> and leaves the King po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed only but of Eleven Thou&s;and Two Hundred and Fifty Pounds, and were Incourage|ment given to this Trade, the Revenue would grow up with it; whereby our own Plantation Sugars are wrought cheaper in Forreign parts, than they can be by the Home Refiner; which has &s;o di&s;couraged this Trade in this Kingdom, that the ge|nerality of the Refiners have been nece&s;&s;itated greatly to abate their works; and had not the price of Molo&s;&s;oes, commonly called Treakle, yielded them &s;ome &s;mall Encouragement, they mu&s;t have wholly declined their Trades.</P>
<P>But &s;o great are the quantities of Molo&s;&s;oes, which are now daily Imported into this Kingdom from Forreign parts, that the generality of the Refiners are forced wholly to de&s;i&s;t their working, and can have no rational hope of reviving their works; unle&s;s &s;ome proportional Additional Duty be laid upon Forreign Imported Molo&s;&s;oes, and Encouragement given to the Di&s;tillers Con&s;umption of our own Molo&s;&s;oes: It being a Commodity of &s;o great u&s;e to the Di&s;tiller, in making palatable the Spirits drawn from Corn, and other Engli&s;h Materials, to &s;upply this Kingdom, in the room and &s;tead of French Brandies, that the Di&s;tiller cannot Draw &s;o Clean a Spirit from our own Corn to Imitate Brandy without the help thereof.</P>
<P>This Commodity not being (as &s;ome have very weakly apprehended) the Dro&s;s, Filth, Scum, and Dregs of Sugar, but the clean, pure, and clear part of the Sugar, which through weakne&s;s will not come to Grain, and be Imbodied, and is to all in|tents as whole&s;om as the Sugar from which it comes, as can be made appear.</P>
<P>Whereupon it is mo&s;t Humbly hoped that nothing will be determined, by the Honourable the Commons of <HI>England</HI> now A&s;&s;embled in Parliament, in Prejudice and Ruin of this Antient Trade, by charging a greater Duty upon Spirits drawn from our own Molo&s;&s;oes than upon Spirits drawn from Corn; the Encouraging of the Expence of Molo&s;&s;oes being the only true way to Encourage the Expence of Corn in Di&s;tilling; and thereby to &s;ecure both the Revenue to the Crown, and Incouragement to the farmer.</P>
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