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high to continué, unleſs under a more violent monopoly than at preſent exiſts. the brewer to receive from the publi- can 32s for the barrel; in this ſum, 5s 4d is about 17 per cent. The returns in the trade are not flow; about every two months, fix times 17 per cent.‘amounts to 102 per cent, per annum 5; which repreſents the preſent profit on the circulating ſock of a porter brewery.

XLVIIL If the propoſed equalization of duty took place, it would cheapen porter(2) ſeven farthings per gallon. If the old price were charged, even this would evidently make too great æ prôft. If the brewers have calculated the ſtrength of their monopoly with any accuracy, about 14 per cent. more will be taken off the price when the monopoly is aboliſhed(2)av E Bis 1s nine farthings farther redu@tion. Sixteen fartbings per gal- lóñ is a halfpenny per pint cheaper than at preſent; thus, in caſe of the propoſed meaſure, porter will be bought at three- halfpence per pint.

XLIX. But a much greater benefit which might be expected, would be the eſtabliſhment of table-beer breweries, where all might chuſe their beverage according to their taſte. At preſent, the operation of the duty,(explained before$. 27,) compels all to driñk porter, or to abſtain from malt-liquor.‘There is no doubt but that a beverage, ſufficiently ſtrong, may be made for one penny per pint; allowing the retailer a profit of one penny on ſeven-pence per gallon. When all private brewery was done away, every country town, almoſt every village, would enſure ſufficient trade for a ſmall brewery, and the peaſant’s family might exchange their fallacious(s) tea for an invigorating beverage. Thoſe who at preſent brew at home, by reſerving a few of their caſks, might renew their ſtock oftener, and atleſs expence,(7) and, with the precaution of taking in their new beer immediately after fermentation was completed, might avoid the conſtant flac- neſs of the bottom of racked beer. Thus alſo a large quantity of

culated more highly on the ſtrength of their monopoly. Be it as. it may, it

cannot be impregnable to the meaſure of granting licences to all Proper ap- licants.

4(9) On four barrels of porter, the preſent duty is 36s 9d; the propoſed

malt duty would be 22s 10d; a ſubtraction of 3s 6d per barrel, equal to 5# farthings per gallon.‘And as the brewer would not then have the duty

to advance, I ſuppoſe that circumſtance might lower it to ſeven farthings.

(7) Leaving them the uſual profits of moſt trades; 3 per cent. every two months îs 18 per cent. per annum on théir circulating ſtock; their fixed ſtock might reduce their annual profits to 12 per cent.

(5) The ſuppoſed good qualities of tea are, in reality, merely fimilarto thole sf tobacco: by neutralizing the galtric liquor, it dulls the cravings of the appétite, and deludes the ſtomach with an artificial ſatiety.

(#) Tt is rendered doubtful in S. 45, whether the private brewery is at all Profitable: if not, evidently the alleviation of duty which would make brewer’s beer abſolutely cheaper, muſt alſo render it relatively cheaper than is at preſent home-brewed-beer.