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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<HEAD>The <HI>CASE</HI> of the Company of <HI>DISTILLERS</HI> of <HI>London,</HI> in reference to a Bill, Intituled, A Bill for incourag|ing the Di&s;tilling of Brandy from Corn, and for laying &s;everal Duties upon <HI>Low Wines.</HI></HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">Which Bill will in Reality prevent the Di&s;tilling of <HI>Brandy</HI> from <HI>Corn,</HI> Dimini&s;h the Kings Revenue, and Ruin the Trade of <HI>Di&s;tilling</HI> in <HI>England,</HI> and &s;et up the &s;ame in Foreign Parts.</HEAD>
<P>THIS Bill &s;eems to be de&s;igned for the Con&s;umption of Corn, and by the Title it is intimated, as if it were intended for encrea&s;ing Their Maje|&s;ties Revenue, whereas in Truth it will hinder the Con&s;umption of Corn, as well as le&s;&s;en the Revenue, and will be of advantage to no Per&s;on in <HI>England,</HI> &s;ave &s;uch as are Importers of <HI>French</HI> Brandy, of which Brandy there is now in <HI>London</HI> about 4000 Peeces; and if a great Duty be laid on the Materials which the Di&s;tillers u&s;e for making <HI>Engli&s;h Brandy,</HI> they will in effect be prohibited the u&s;e of &s;uch Materials, And the price of <HI>Brandy</HI> which is already advanced from 30 <HI>l.</HI> to 60 <HI>l.</HI> a Tun will ri&s;e much higher.</P>
<P><HI>Note,</HI> That <HI>French Brandy</HI> is now but 8 <HI>l.</HI> a Ton in <HI>France,</HI> and if the Impo&s;ition by this Bill de&s;igned, be laid on the Materials now u&s;ed in <HI>England,</HI> 'twill make <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">he <HI>French</HI> Traders run all manner of Hazards to bring in <HI>French Brandy</HI> for &s;o v<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> a Profit, and no Indu&s;try or Integrity of the Officers will be able to keep it out.</P>
<P>Spirits or <HI>Brandy</HI> made from Corn is not &s;o palateable or grateful to the Sto|mach as <HI>Brandy</HI> made from <HI>Molo&s;&s;es</HI> or <HI>Sugar,</HI> whereas <HI>Brandy</HI> made from <HI>Mo|la&s;&s;es</HI> or <HI>Sugar</HI> almo&s;t equals Foreign <HI>Brandy,</HI> and con&s;equently brings down the Price of it; and by the Di&s;tillers Skill in mingling <HI>Brandy</HI> made from <HI>Molo&s;&s;es</HI> with Spirits made from Corn, they have occa&s;ioned the &s;ale and con&s;umption in Kind of &s;everal thou&s;and Ton of <HI>Brandy</HI> made from Corn which otherwi&s;e could not have been con&s;umed in kind, and therefore the Importers of Foreign <HI>Brandy</HI> have u&s;ed all Indu&s;try to prohibit the <HI>Di&s;tillers</HI> the u&s;e of <HI>Molo&s;&s;es,</HI> and if this Bill pa&s;s 8 <HI>d.</HI> a Gallon is thereby intended to be laid on Low Wines extracted from <HI>Molo&s;&s;es,</HI> which with the Duty already thereon will amount to 23 <HI>l.</HI> a Ton upon the Spirit, which is &s;o great a Duty that the <HI>Distillers</HI> cannot u&s;e it, and then the Importers of Foreign <HI>Brandy</HI> have their Ends, but Their Maje&s;ties and the Nation will be injured for that the Revenue and the con&s;umption of Malted Corn will thereby be le&s;&s;ened.</P>
<P>The <HI>Di&s;tillers</HI> do now u&s;e many Thou&s;and Quarters of Corn in a Year, and do make as good <HI>Brandy</HI> from Corn as can be made by any Per&s;on what&s;oever, and if they had incouragement could make much greater quantities than can be con|&s;umed here and in Foreign Parts, yet this Bill layes open the Trade to every un|skilful pretender; which will put Their Maje&s;ties to much greater Expence in Col|lecting the Duty and incourage the making a bad Commodity for the makers pro|fit, who are under no regulation or puni&s;hment if they &s;o do. The Con&s;equence whereof will be the preventing the con&s;umption of Corn, and ruin the <HI>Di&s;tillers,</HI> who&s;e Company fir&s;t invented the making of <HI>Spirits</HI> from Corn, and who for the&s;e many years pa&s;t have born a proportionable part of the Expence nece&s;&s;ary for the &s;upport of the Honour and Government of the City, and are now increa&s;ed with their Apprentices and Servants to be very numerous.</P>
<P>The Duty laid on Spirits made from <HI>Mollo&s;&s;es</HI> by this Bill is &s;o great that it can|not be u&s;ed here, therefore the Merchants will be forced to &s;end their <HI>Mollo&s;&s;es</HI> to <HI>Holland,</HI> where it is made partly into Sugar by Refiners and Sugar-Bakers, and partly Di&s;tilled; and both tho&s;e Trades were till lately either not known, or rarely practiced there, but are &s;ince grown con&s;iderable; and if this Bill pa&s;&s;es, will both be much advanced, and the <HI>Dutch</HI> will not only in Foreign parts under-&s;ell us, but by Ve&s;&s;els laid near our Harbors for that purpo&s;e, &s;upply all our Outward|bound Ships with the Spirits made of <HI>Mollo&s;&s;es</HI> as cheap or cheaper than we can with Spirits made of Corn, <HI>tho' that be much wor&s;e than what is made of Mola&s;&s;es,</HI> becau&s;e we pay a great Duty and they none.</P>
<P>There are &s;everal other parts of this Bill which tend not only to the De&s;truction of the <HI>Di&s;tillers</HI> Trade, but of Their Maje&s;ties Plantations, and the le&s;&s;ening Their Maje&s;ties Revenue, and will promote the Intere&s;t of Foreigners, and other Mi&s;|chiefs which the <HI>Di&s;tillers</HI> are ready to make appear if they may be permitted to be heard thereunto.</P>
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