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    would be still more inconvenient , and you must not therefore be sur * prised if it is not carried into effect , I remain , Sir , your obedient servant ; ' Mr . ¦ ^ * H . L . Wickhamt , 4 Brompton *

    The words ' general * and c partial' are not underlined in the original * but I cause them to be printed in italics , because they , in fact , comprehend the whole gist of the question . Lord Althorp had stated that he could not afford to repeal certain taxes . In my letter to him I pointed out that he could afford to repeal taxes which impede production by laying a tax , in the

    shape of a licence , upon certain mere distributors of productions , and by increasing the amount of the tax , in the same shape , already levied upon certain other mere distributors . Be it re * marked that I only proposed to tax , or to increase the tax upon , such distributors as depend for their trade upon the vices or the follies of the public . The answer to this is : — 1 st . c The raising money by compelling the taking out of licences has never been considered advisable as a general measure *' Rejoinder . As a general measure I never proposed it .

    2 dly . e As a partial measure it would be still more inconvenient . ' Ah ! the pot-house , the chandler ' s shop , the attorney , the goldsmith , the omnibus and cab nuisances , and a score or two of other small matters are licensed ; ' but the partial adoption of the system would be inconvenient !!!' The system must of necessity be partial ; it is partially adopted , but the error is , firstly , that the system does not sufficiently tax the licences of a trade which makes the immense fortunes of a few by dealing out poisonous spirits to the many ; and , secondly , that such mere distributors as lacemen , linendrapers , and other effeminates whose chief source of revenue is the mania for dress , are not licensed at all . No one will deny that the best possible

    tax is that which does not impede productive labour ; as little , I imagine , will any one deny that the two trades , or kinds of distributors , I have named , —living , as they do , upon the vicious and the foolish , ( for the most part , that is , )—are precisely the persons who ought to be made to contribute largely to the expenses of the State from the revenue they derive from ministering to the vice or the folly of individuals .

    flie plea of * inconvenience of the partial adoption of the plan' I have already shown to be unfounded , for it already has been partially adopted ; but while the itinerant vender of huckaback and printed cottons must pay £ 4 sterling per annum for his licence to earn a scanty living by a most wearisome calling , the venders of lace and ribbons , and the rest of the trumpery which seems to turn the heads of so many women of all ranks—and to obtain which more womea in the lower ranks sacrifice chastity

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1834, page 769, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2639/page/23/