EXCISE LAWS
... TO THE EDITOR O TILE CALEDONIAN MERCURY. In his speech on the rum duties on Monday evening (I 7th), whilst arguing the case against protection to British and Irish distillers, the Chancellor of the Exchequer is reported to have stated, that the whole sum lost by decreases on spirits in Scot- land did not amount to more than 33 hundredth parts of a farthing per gallon, being exastly one-third ...