Excerpt from A Letter From a Member of Parliament to His Friend in the Country: Containing, His Reasons for Being Against the Late Act for Preventing the Retail of Spirituous Liquors; In Which the Great Increase of the Civil List by This Act Will Be Particularly Consider'd The fame Obfervations arife, concerning the Home Spirits, by the Accounts deliver'd this Year of the net Produce for the Year ending at [midfum error 1725, which was but and the fame Produce for Mdfinnnzer 1729, was 104, 37 3 l. Which was an Increafe upon the whole but of I. And the Lofs was 1. Upon Beer and Ale. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.