A VINDICATION OF THE Conduct of the Ministry, IN THE Scheme of the Excise ON WINE and TOBACCO
London: J. Roberts, 1734.
Only Edition. Robert Walpole, the Chancellor of the Exchequer and most influential politician in Great Britain, had come about his power by avoiding foreign wars, and had elevated his popularity (at least among the landed gentry) by reducing the land tax from £4 to £1 over.....