{ Office London between the 5th of January 1790 and the 5th of
{ January 1791, with the amount at two pence each Stamp duty,
{ London Newspapers 3,944,093
{ Country ditto 123,200
{ ---------
{ Total No. 4,067,293 [L]33,894. 2. 2

{ Six Clerks of the Roads at 100 each night 600
Probable { Twenty Principal dealers at 100 do. 2,000
gain by { Fifty less Dealers at 8 each night 400
this plan. { -----
{ No. 3,000
{ 3,000 each night at two pence each Stamp duty [L]7,800 p. ann.

{ To Ireland before the Tax.
{ Number of Newspapers which passed through the General Post
{ Office to Ireland between the 5th January 1780 and the 5th
1780 { January 1781 at two pence each Stamp duty,
and { 416,000 [L]3,466. 13. 4
1790 {
to { To Ireland since the Tax.
Ireland { Number of Newspapers which passed through the General Post
compared. { Office to Ireland between the 5th January 1790 and the 5th of
{ January 1791 at two pence each Stamp duty and one penny each
{ Postage,
{ 71,766 [L]897. 1. 6

EDMUND BARNES CHARLES COLTSON
ISAAC HENRY CABANES SAMUEL ARDRON
WILLIAM OGILVY CHARLES EVANS.

No. 3.

To The Right Honorable Lord Walsingham and The Earl of
Chesterfield, His Majesty's Post Master General.

The paper from the Post Master General relative to the Tax proposed by
the Commissioners having been communicated to the Clerks of the Roads
and the Inspector of Franks they beg permission to offer the subsequent
observations.

That the proposal by the Commissioners for Government to receive a Tax
of a penny for the postage of each Newspaper passing through the Post
Office, however eligible it might appear at the time it was first
proposed, will not they believe at this period, be productive of that
expected advantage to the public the encrease of Revenue, as the reasons
annexed among others