Remarks on the Commutation Act
Subtitle: Addressed to the people of England..
Series: Making of the Modern World
Publisher: Printed for T. Becket, in Pall-Mall
Published: 1785
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 81
Subjects: Tea; Taxation; Windows; Great Britain; East India Company
Notes: 8vo: [A]1 B-L⁴ [M1]. -- Below imprint: (Price One Shilling and Six-pence.)

Pitt's Commutation Act sought to reduce tea smuggling by repealing the duties on tea in exchange for an additional tax on windows. This argues, with biting humor, that the East India Company was advantaged, the public oppressed by the act and that Party historically has heavily influenced revenue regulations, drawing a parallel between the influence of the supporters of the South Sea scheme on Commons and the present India Company supporters' influence; strongly anti-Pitt.

Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 13057.

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