Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . -, every citizen at the mercy of an informer,the labourer driven to live on roots, and the Englishman reducedto French slavery and sabots. No slavery, no excise, nowooden shoes, was the current shibboleth. The soldiers weretold their tobacco would rise to a prohibitive price; the colonels. EXCISE A\D SERVITUDE, 1733.{From a contemporary satirical print.) reported that the regiments were ripe for mutiny. Even
Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . -, every citizen at the mercy of an informer,the labourer driven to live on roots, and the Englishman reducedto French slavery and sabots. No slavery, no excise, nowooden shoes, was the current shibboleth. The soldiers weretold their tobacco would rise to a prohibitive price; the colonels. EXCISE A\D SERVITUDE, 1733.{From a contemporary satirical print.) reported that the regiments were ripe for mutiny. Even thecorporation of London was, or pretended to be, as frantic as themob, and attempted to intimidate Parliament. Pamphlets andpetitions poured forth against that monster the excise. Invain Walpole pointed out in the House that under the presentsystem both the planters and the honest traders were halfruined ; that while the gross tax on tobacco was £754,000, itsnet produce was only £161,000 ; that one-third of the tobaccoimported was known to escape the dut}. In vain he reasonedthat there was already an excise to the amount of over 164 THE AGE OF WALPOLE. [1714^1742 £3,000,000 a year working quite smootlil\-; that the dreadedarmy of othcials Avould amount to 12G, all told ; that the rightof search was to be more limited than that already exercisedunder the customs laws; that his plan would make Londonpractically a free port and the central market of the
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