Papers read before the statistical section of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, at its meeting in Edinburgh, August, 1850 /

An Enquiry as to the practicability and policy of reducing the duties on malt and beer : and encreasing those on British spirits : with suggestions for an equitable adjustment of the land tax.
Published: (1830)

A letter from a member of Parliament to his friends in the country, concerning the duties on wine and tobacco.
by: Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745

The genuine thoughts of a merchant : shewing, that in all the libels, remonstrances, and pretended letters against a new method of levying the duties on tobacco and wine, there is not so much as one word worth answering.
by: Merchant

A candid answer to a Letter from a member of Parliament to his friends in the country, concerning the duties on wine and tobacco.

An appeal to the landholders concerning the reasonableness and general benefit of an excise upon tobacco and wine.

An appeal to the landholders concerning the reasonableness and general benefit of an excise upon tobacco and wine.

Considerations humbly offered in support of the proposition, that the duties to be paid by the corn-distillers will not, in any degree, prevent the common and excessive use of gin.
Published: (1760)

Considerations occasion'd by an act of this present session of Parliament to prevent the excessive use of spirituous liquors : by laying an additional duty thereon, and to encourage the exportation of British-made spirits.
Published: (1760)

An affecting story /
by: Logan, William, 1813-1879
Published: (1845)

Evidence on drunkenness : presented to the House of Commons /
Published: (1834)

The landed interest consider'd : being serious advice to gentlemen, yeomen, farmers, and others, concerned in the ensuing election /
by: Yeoman of Kent

Further considerations humbly offered in support of the proposition, that the duties to be paid by the corn-distillers will not, in any degree, prevent the common and excessive use of gin.
Published: (1760)

An impartial inquiry into the benefits and damages arising to the nation from the present very great use of low-priced spirituous liquors : with proper estimates thereupon, and some considerations humbly offered for preventing the introduction of foreign spirits not paying the duties /
by: Tucker, Josiah, 1712-1799

A vindication of the conduct of the ministry : in the scheme of the excise on wine and tobacco, proposed last sessions of Parliament ; with a general examination of the reasons which determined the said ministry to it, the consequences and events it would have had ; also the motives which engaged the ministry to lay it aside ; with the objections of those political writers who oppose the government ; and reflections on other faults imputed to the ministry ; likewise the natural inferences which may be drawn from every particular fact ; and from the whole in general.

Facts for the consideration of the Christian and philanthropist.

Drink, temperance and legislation /
by: Shadwell, Arthur, 1854-1936
Published: (1915)

The moderate use of intoxicating drinks : being the substance of a lecture delivered at a meeting of the Isle of Thanet Temperance Society /
by: Courtney, A. (Abraham)
Published: (1840)

A friendly admonition to the drinkers of gin, brandy, and other distilled spirituous liquors : with an humble representation of the necessity of restraining a vice so destructive of the industry, morals, health, and lives of the people : to which are added, in an appendix, directions ... to such as may be desirous to break off that ... habit of drinking drams /
by: Hales, Stephen, 1677-1761

The case of the merchants, and others, of the city of Bristol, trading to the British colonies in America.
Published: (1736)

The case of the sugar-trade : with regard to the duties intended to be laid on all spirituous liquors, sold by retail.
Published: (1736)

A supplement to the impartial enquiry into the present state of the British distillery : in answer to the second edition of a pamphlet, intitiled, Spirituous liquors, the bane of the nation : wherein the notorious untruths and scandalous inventions introduced in this pamphlet are fully detected and exposed, and the landed interest is truly stated, and recommended to the serious consideration of all true lovers of their country.

Alcohol, politics and social policy /
by: Baggott, Rob
Published: (1990)

On the wine system of Great Britain /
by: Dunlop, John, 1789-1868
Published: (1831)

An address to an eminent person upon an important subject.

The charge of J---- P---- to the grand jury of M------x, on Saturday May 22. 1736.
Published: (1738)

A proposal to raise 500,000 pounds a year : by reducing the duties, and altering the laws relating to the retalers of spirituous liquors.
Published: (1741)

Observations on retail spirit licenses, and excessive dram-drinking : with hints for the improvement of poor-laws and suppression of vagrancy, in a letter to Lord Melbourne, February, 1834.
by: Philanthropist
Published: (1834)

The number of alehouses shewn to be extremely pernicious to the publick : in a letter to a member of Parliament /
by: R. C. (V. of S. in Kent)

Drink and the Victorians ; the temperance question in England, 1815-1872 /
by: Harrison, Brian, 1937-
Published: (1971)

An impartial enquiry into the present state of the British distillery : plainly demonstrating the evil consequences of imposing any additional duties on British spirits.

An impartial enquiry into the present state of the British distillery : plainly demonstrating the evil consequences of imposing any additional duties on British spirits ...

On the wine trade & wine duties : a lecture, delivered at King's College, London, February 26th, 1866 /
by: Levi, Leone, 1921-1888
Published: (1866)

The farmer restored, or, The landed interest preserved : most humbly offered to the consideration of the Right Honourable the House of Commons.

Proposals to raise four millions at 3 per cent. or, 570,000 pounds a year : to pay off the money borrow'd on the pot-act, soap, candles, &c. and for paying off the said four millions within eight years without any additional tax : and for raising twenty-thousand effective men, that will serve His Majesty without pay until Great-Britain shall be invaded by foreigners /
by: Officer of the stamp-duties

A letter to a friend in the country, in relation to the new law concerning spirituous liquors.

Directions for the freeholders and farmers : relative to the late act for laying a new duty on cyder and perry.
Published: (1763)