Excerpt from An Appeal to the Landholders: Concerning the Reasonableness and General Benefit of an Excise Upon Tobacco and Wine To frulirate the Cure of thefe Frauds, the Re lief of all the Gentlemen and Land-owners ln' Great Britain is to be pol'tponed and prevented; or, in the belt Light, you arid yours mult be condemned to groan under a Tax upon your Eftates for ever, all for this important Confide ration, that an Excifeman may not enter the Shop of a Tobacconilt, or the Cellar of a Vint ner. For this petty, this unequal Immunity to their Goods and Warehoufes, your Lands mul't always continue afl'effed and exhaufied. For, the whole Tenour of their Outcries, of their Combinations and Applications, infers a Necef lity of holding you under a certain and {teddy Tax, that they may pay theirs, or not pay it, as they pleafe. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.