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<HEAD>The CASE of M^R^. JAMES TREFUSIS, Of the County of Cornwal Gent.</HEAD>
<P>THAT The &s;aid <HI>Trefu&s;is,</HI> having made it his Bu&s;ine&s;s, and Imployed divers Servants in Di&s;tilling and Extracting of Spirits from Corn and Mollo&s;&s;oes, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> and having con&s;iderably Improved him&s;elf in the knowledge of the &s;aid Art, and ob&s;erving how much the Pre&s;ent Government did &s;uffer in the Revenue and Duty chargeable upon Spirits, by the Unskillfulne&s;s and Ill Management of the Officers, who were intru&s;ted to Supervi&s;e and Collect the &s;ame; He the &s;aid <HI>James Trefu&s;is,</HI> in the Month of <HI>Augu&s;t,</HI> in the Fir&s;t Year of His Maje&s;ty's Reign, applyed him&s;elf to a Per&s;on of Quality, and reque&s;ted him to make the Government Acquainted therewith.</P>
<P>THAT thereupon the &s;aid Per&s;on of Quality, the &s;ame month of <HI>Augu&s;t,</HI> Recommended the &s;aid <HI>Trefu&s;is</HI> to the Com|mi&s;&s;ioners of <HI>Exci&s;e,</HI> and the Commi&s;&s;ioners directed the &s;aid <HI>Trefu&s;is,</HI> to reduce what he had Di&s;cour&s;ed them into Writ|ing, which he accordingly did; and demon&s;trated the Quantities and Qualities of <HI>Low Wines</HI> and <HI>Spirits</HI> u&s;ually Extract|ed either from Barley Malt, or Mollo&s;&s;oes.</P>
<P><HI>THAT</HI> Some of the Commi&s;&s;ioners were &s;o well Satisfied, that they declared. <HI>The &s;aid</HI> Treffu&s;&s;is, <HI>had given them the be&s;t and fulle&s;t Information they ever had in that Affair;</HI> but believed the &s;aid <HI>Trefu&s;is</HI>'s Method Impracticable, in re&s;pect the Di&s;tillers would be induced to Indict their Officers, in ca&s;e they &s;hould proceed that way, the then Acts of Parliament being deficient therein: But <HI>Trefu&s;is</HI> having fully &s;atisfied them, that the &s;aid Duty could be no other ways A&s;certained to Ad|vance the Revenue, but by Gauging and taking an Account of all Wash and other Materials, as they &s;hould at all times be found Prepared or Preparing, for the making of <HI>Low Wines,</HI> as well as of all <HI>Low Wines</HI> and <HI>Spirits:</HI> And that the Di&s;tillers &s;hould from time to time give the Officer an account of what was become of &s;uch <HI>Wa&s;h Low Wines</HI> and materials, and the Produce thereof, or otherwi&s;e to &s;tand Charged therewith: And this being Repre&s;ented by the Commi&s;&s;ioners to the Par|liament, a New Act of Parliament pa&s;t to that purpo&s;e the 5th. of <HI>January,</HI> 1690.</P>
<P><HI>THAT</HI> the &s;aid <HI>Trefu&s;is</HI> having been promi&s;ed Preferment for making the &s;aid Di&s;covery (by the &s;aid Commi&s;&s;ioners) Di&s;mi&s;t his Servants, and left his Trade as a Di&s;tiller, and in order to his being In&s;tructed, was fir&s;t brought in a Supernume|rary, and placed to ob&s;erve the working of one Mr. <HI>Woodward</HI> a Di&s;tiller; but the &s;aid <HI>Woodward,</HI> being &s;en&s;ible of the &s;aid <HI>Trefu&s;is</HI> knowledge in that Bu&s;ine&s;s, he would no longer work under <HI>Trefu&s;is</HI>'s In&s;pection, but compounded rather to pay <HI>801. per Month,</HI> which was 4cl. more than he paid before.</P>
<P><HI>THAT</HI> One <HI>Mr. Newman,</HI> the then General Surveyor (Envying <HI>Trefu&s;is</HI> for being the Author of &s;o Great an Improv|ment in that Duty) U&s;ed all po&s;&s;ible means to prevent his being Prefered for his good Service, and therefore Prefered and Introduced the &s;aid Di&s;tiller <HI>[Woodward]</HI> to be one of the General Surveyors of the Di&s;tillery of this City of <HI>London,</HI> al|tho' he was, at that time, Incapable of that Po&s;t; and at the &s;ame time, Mi&s;-repre&s;ented the &s;aid <HI>Trefu&s;is</HI> to the Board, and threatned the Officers, to deter them from Certifying his Ability.</P>
<P><HI>THAT</HI> the &s;aid <HI>Trefu&s;is</HI> being very well In&s;tructed in Gauging and Book-keeping, by the means of Sr. <HI>Henry A&s;bur&s;t</HI> [then one of the Commi&s;&s;ioners] Procured an Examination, and was found Capable of any Imployment in the Exci&s;e; yet neverthele&s;s the &s;aid <HI>Trefu&s;is</HI> obteined but a common Gaugers place; and after three Years in that Po&s;t without pro&s;pect of Pre&s;erment, for his &s;aid good Service, under the then Managers, he gave up his Commi&s;&s;ion.</P>
<P><HI>THAT</HI> the Revenue of that Branch of the Exci&s;e, within the Bills of Mortality, in the Year 1690. before the &s;aid Act was granted, Produced no more but 9942l. 17s. but after the &s;aid Act of Parliament was pa&s;t, the &s;aid Revenue advanced in the Year 1691. to 5770l. 14s. In 1692, it advanced to 19544l. 10s. 6d. which was more then double the Duty it Produced before the &s;aid Act of Parliament was procured; and the &s;ame hath been every year Improving, as will appear by the Books in the Office.</P>
<P><HI>THAT</HI> the &s;aid Mr. <HI>Newman</HI> [for his Unfaithfulne&s;s] and &s;ome others, being removed, the &s;aid <HI>Trefu&s;is</HI> a gain Pe|titioned and obtained a Warrant to be one of the General Surveyors of the Di&s;tillery in the place of the &s;aid Mr. <HI>New|man.</HI> but altho the &s;aid Mr. <HI>Newman</HI> and the &s;aid Mr. <HI>Woodward,</HI> his Partner in that Offiice, had Four Hundred Pounds a Year Sallery, between them [be&s;ides their Incident Charges, which was very con&s;iderable] paid them Quarterly; yet the &s;aid <HI>Treffu&s;&s;is</HI> and Mr. &mdash; his Partner in that Office, are allowed but <HI>80l.</HI> a year each, without any Incident Charges; by which rea&s;on, the &s;aid <HI>Treffu&s;&s;is,</HI> and Mr. &mdash; is out of Pocket in maintaining them&s;elves in that Chargeable Po&s;t; and very far from being a Reward to the &s;aid <HI>Trefu&s;is</HI> for his good Service done to the Government, or to compen&s;ate his leaving his Imployment as a Di&s;tiller, which have proved very detrimental to his Family.</P>
<P><HI>THE</HI> &s;aid <HI>Trfeu&s;is</HI> therefore hopes that either the Sallery &s;hall be Augmented, and the Incident Charges added to the &s;aid Office, as formerly; or that &s;ome other way may be con&s;idered of, as a Reward for his &s;aid Good Service; the &s;ame having now evidently appeared very Beneficial to the Publick.</P>
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