REASONS For further Additional Duties upon Paper; showing that such a Tax will Raise the public Revenue, and Improve the Manufacture of the Nation, and Employ a vast Number of Poor.  
Humbly Offered to the Consideration of the Honourable House of Commons.  
FIrst, The Impositions of Fifteen per Cent on Paper Imported, does neither Answer the end of Raising the Revenue, nor give any encouragement to our Manufacture, tho' both designed; because the Value is so low in the Book of Rates, that it renders the Imposition not above Eight per Cent, all Writing and Printing Paper being only Valued at four Shillings six Pence per Rheam.  
Secondly, To set us on an equal Foot with the Paper makers in Germany, Genoua, Holland, &c. An Imposition of 30 per Cent will be but an indifferent Medium, the smallness of Mens Wages abroad, the lowness of the Rate of the Goods at the Custom House, are things that make almost no Imposition a Clog to the Importation of Paper; but affords the Merchants a Power to Undermine a Trade that would Contribute so much to the Interest of the Nation.  
Thirdly, Whatever is pretended of the Hardships and discouragements Printing would receive; If Considered, can have no Weight, since an Imposition of 30 per Cent, cannot advance the Price of a Book worth Three Shillings, above Two Pence; besides the having an Imposition on all Books Printed abroad and brought in, will be a means to prevent all Copies of any Value, from being Printed there, and prove a Law to protect Property; and far from Discouraging, would encourage Printing.  
Fourthly, Was encouragement given to the making of Paper here, no Objections would be made as to the Incapacity of our Paper makers supplying the common Calls for it, since a great many of them are forced to turn their Mills to the making brown Paper( to the ruin of that Employ also) because their Profits is rendered so Inconsiderable by the Cheapness of Foreign Paper.  
Fifthly, It is pretended that the present Duties bring in more than the Additional Tax; but it is at the same time forgot what large Quantities of Paper w●●e brought in before the Act took place; and how soon the Act expired, that the Stock of Paper then in the Kingdom, almost served to outlast the continuance of the Duty.  
Sixthly, It is insinuated that Requesting more Impositions on Paper, is self Interest; this indeed may be justly laid at their Door who oppose such a Bill, since nothing could persuade but what is very Selfish and Interested against a thing that must be of so great Advantage to the Nation, as this and all Manufacturs at Home are, since they ever turned the balance on our side.  
After all the Advantages the Nation would receive by having this Manufacture, it is Peculiar there remains one more of no less Consequence, which is the Employing so mighty a Number of Poor as this does and will do.  
Tis therefore humbly hoped, the Honourable House of Commons will think it necessary to by an Additional Duty on all Foreign Paper, for the encouragement of so many Hundred of Families of His Majesty's Subjects, whose livelihoods depend upon the Poper Trade, and which will turn to the Honour as well as Interest of the Nation, and so much may and really brought in for the Service of the public.   

REASONS For laying Duties on Foreign Paper.