A Short Address to the Public ; containing Some Thoughts how the National Debt may be reduced, and All Home Taxes, including Land Tax, Abolished

Paris: J. Debrett. Very Good. 1786. First Edition. Disbound. (2), 23, (3) pages; Pages clean and unmarked; document removed from binding with multiple publications. Title page, text and three pages of publisher's ads at rear. OCLC 6055935 William Mayne, 1st Baron Newhaven PC (1722 – 1794), known as Sir William Mayne, Bt, between 1763 and 1776, was a British merchant and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1774 to 1790 -- following service in the Irish House of Commons and the Irish Privy Council; he was also an intimate friend of Prime Minister Pitt. William Mayne spent his early years at Lisbon in the family business of Mayne and Barn. He returned to England in 1757 and served as a director of the Royal Exchange Insurance Co. until 1765. He continued to appear in the trade directories as a merchant until 1780. By 1774 Mayne had acquired a Parliamentary seat in Gatton (one of the most notorious of the "Rotten" boroughs, pre-reform) where he was returned and was also elected Member of Parliament for Canterbury, where he chose to sit. In 1776 he was elevated to the Peerage of Ireland as Baron Newhaven, of Carrick Mayne in the County of Dublin. He was defeated at Canterbury in the 1780 general election and returned himself and his brother Robert Mayne for Gatton instead. His brother died in 1782 and Mayne was returned Gatton for the last time in 1784. In 1786 he sold his property at Gatton and did not stand for election in 1790. The city of Berlin, New Hampshire once bore his name (as "Maynesborough" in the original grant). .