[70] See book i. chap. 8.
[71] Memoires concernant les Droits, &c., p. 210, 211.
[72] Le Reformateur
[73] Though the duties directly imposed upon proof spirits amount only to 2s. 6d. per gallon, these, added to the duties upon the low wines, from which they are distilled, amount to 3s. 102⁄3d. Both low wines and proof spirits are, to prevent frauds, now rated according to what they gauge in the wash.
[74] The neat production of that year, after deducting all expenses and allowances, amounted to L.4,975,652 : 19 : 6.
[75] Memoires concernant les Droits, &c. tom. 1, p. 45
[76] See Examen des Reflections Politiques sut les Finances.
[77] See James Postlethwaite's History of the Public Revenue.
[78] It has proved more expensive than any one of our former wars, and has involved us in an additional debt of more than one hundred millions. During a profound peace of eleven years, little more than ten millions of debt was paid; during a war of seven years, more than one hundred millions was contracted.
[79] See Du Cange Glossary, voce Moneta; the Benedictine Edition.