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at once, it might occasion in Great Britain a pretty general and temporary drunkenness among the middling and inferior ranks of people, which would probably be soon followed by a permanent and almost universal sobriety. "* Some instances of extraordinary, and indeed almost incredible excess in the use of malt liquors among the lower classes in England, may be found in Marshall's Eural Economy of the Midland Coun- ties ; and, I suspect, may be referred to nearly the same causes which operate pow...erfully against the habits and morals of our own populace, wherever the means of intoxication are placed within their reach. I alluded formerly to the mischiefs which have been occa- sioned by the peculiar manner in which the duties on spirituous liquors are levied in this northern part of the island, [Vol. I. Pp. 320, 321 ;] I mean the fatal principle, established in the year 1786, of collecting the duties on spirits in Scotland, by a license duty on the contents of the still, instead of a specific duty on every gallon of liquor produced.
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