ABSTRACT
Commencement of the war. Our fiscal position. Cost of the war. Lyttelton's new tax on the plate-chest. Addition for cards and dice. Proposed tax on bricks relinquished for a tax on publicans. Resignation of Fox and Newcastle. Pitt in power. The Devonshire-Pitt administration. The Newcastle-Pitt administration. Additional taxes on deeds, newspapers, and advertisements. New tax on wine licenses. Increase in the taxes on houses and windows. New tax on offices. Our successes in America and India. The Great Year, 1759. Enormous expenditure. Legge's proposed tax on shops. Proposed tax on sugar. A general subsidy of customs imposed. Pitt's speech on excises. Enormous increase in the taxation of beer. Accession of George III. Bute secretary of state, Dismissal of Legge. Resignation of Pitt and Temple, and Newcastle. End of the reign of the Revolutionary families. The Bute administration. First-fruits of the peace. Dashwood's new taxes on wine, cider and perry. The Cider Act. Its unpopularity. Resignation of Bute. George Grenville as the ‘ Gentle Shepherd.’
