SHOP TAX, OR NO SHOP TAX?

FOR to that plain Question is the present Contest reduced. The Expences of LORD HOOD's Election are at this Moment de-frayed from the Pockets of the SHOPKEEPERS of Westminister, whose Support he has the Confidence to ficit, furrounded by LORDS OF THE TREASURY, LORDS OF THE ADMIRALTY, PLACE-MEN, &c. &c. who have joined in impofing and maintaining that oppreſſive and unjuſt Tax. The Members of Parliament who ſupport LORD JOHN TOWNSHEND, have voted againſt the TAX, and pledge themselves to vote FOR THE REPEAL OF IT. Every SHOPKEEPER, who gives his Vote for LORD HOOD, Votes for the eternal Continuance of that TAX we all join in reprobating; ſtill more than that, every SHOPKEEPER who withholds his Vote from LORD JOHN TOWNSHEND, virtually gives his Support to it, by diminifhing the Probability of ever procuring the REPEAL. The Question is, therefore, as far as Shopkeepers are immediately concerned, not between the contending Parties, who differ upon Political Points in general, but between the OPPOSERS, and the SUPPORTERS of the SHOP-TAX. Let us Weigh the ſingle Vote of the Minifterial Candidate, againſt the powerful Intereft of Mr. FOX, and his Friends. Let the Conduct of the Canvaffers for LORD HOOD, be compared with that of the Members of the Houſe of Commons canvassing for his Opponent. Let the real, ſteady, and perſevering Enemies of that INI-QUITOUS TAX now ſtand forward, and let the MINISTER who impoſed it ſeel that the FREE CONSTITUTION of this Country has armed thofe, who are wickedly and tyrannically oppreſſed, with Power to reſent that Injury, and by a ſpirited Exertion of their Rights, to procure themselves Redrefs! Theſe muſt be the Sentiments and Feelings of every ſtedfaſt

ENEMY TO THE SHOP TAX.