The state of the excise after the union, compared with what it is now

"THE burden of the English Taxes, industriously buzzed about into the Ears of the Commonalty, by such as upon other Views were prejudiced against the present Treaty of Union, has no doubt contributed in a great measure, to work them into so general a ferment against it. Their weakness and incapacity to inquire into, and examine these Matters, joined with some mean prejudices from the fear of losing the Crown and the like, made them a subject very easy to be wrought upon this way.
This is an edition of a classical book first published in the eighteenth century.