The occasion for this uprising was another of Hamilton's measures, a law laying an excise tax on distilled spirits, for the purpose of increasing the revenue needed to pay the interest on the funded debt.

这次起义的契机是汉密尔顿的另一项措施，即一项对蒸馏酒征收消费税的法律，目的是增加支付融资债务利息所需的收入。

A national debt of about a hundred and twenty-eight millions, near the capital of the funded and unfunded debt of Great Britain, might, in this manner, be paid with about sixty-four millions of our present money.

一笔约一亿二千八百万的国债，接近大不列颠的有资金和无资金债务的资本，以这种方式，可以用我们现在的大约六千四百万的钱来偿还。