A
LETTER
TO
SIR CHARLES BINGHAM, BART.,
ON THE
IRISH ABSENTEE TAX.
OCTOBER 30, 1773.
NOTE.
From authentic documents found with the copy of this Letter among Mr. Burke's papers, it appears that in the year 1773 a project of imposing a tax upon all proprietors of landed estates in Ireland, whose ordinary residence should be in Great Britain, had been adopted and avowed by his Majesty's ministers at that time. A remonstrance against this measure, as highly unjust and impolitic, was presented to the ministers by several of the principal Irish absentees, and the project was subsequently abandoned.