Note 39 — PART II.
Reading edition
The annual average of the payments into the Exchequer, on account of the duties on tobacco, was for five years, from 1770 to 1774, 219,117l. exclusive of the payments from Scotland.—Near one half of the tobacco trade is carried on from Scotland; and above four fifths of the tobacco imported is afterwards exported to France, Germany and other countries. From France alone it brings annually into the Kingdom, I am informed, about 150,000l. in money.
In 1775, being, alas! the parting year, the duties on tobacco in England brought into the Exchequer no less a sum than 298,202l.