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Pi!lt LIAME ATAR r PR 6CA ED INGS. HOUSE OF LORDS. AUGUST c. Several Bills on the table were ft.rwarded in their refpeaive *ages. Mr. Hahnufe. Mr WIWI. Mr Stanley, Colonel Beaumont, and feveral other Member. of the Hnuf: of Commons. brought up the Philanthropic Annuity inflitution Bill, and lova Billa .l returned with the Amendments of the Lords agretd to. The Order of the Day for receiving the report of the Traders' Affets Bill was, on the motion of the I .nrif ChanecUor, difcharged and the Bill ordered to be committed to morrow. PHILANTHROPIC ANNVI TY INS,TITVTIoN SILL. On the fira reading rf the Philanthropic Annuity Inflitution Bill (to enable the Society to rue in the Same of their Treafnrer,) The LORD CHANCELLOR obferved, that it had lately become a praaice for Societies of this def Cription not to apply for a charter of incorporation, which would impofe certain duties on them for the benefit of the public, but to come to Parliament with thefe Bills, in order to obtain jutl to much of a corporate capacity as Wiled their own convenience. He thought, therefore, that thefe Bills fitould he looked to with great jealoufy, and he fhould take an opportunity in another fine of the Bill of deliveliag his fentiments upon the fuhjea. The Bill was read a liat time, and ordered to be printed. • EAST INDIA BONDS BILLS. Lord-HOLLAND prefented a Petition from the Merchants and Inhabitants of Liverpool again this Bill, which could not be received ycflerday, but which had been fince altered agreeable to the form of the Houfe. Ordered to lie on the Table. Lord HAW KESBURY moved the third reading of the Bill. Lord HOLLAND faid he did not mean to ob. : jeCt to the third reading ; but, at the fame tim; he. willed that the fubjea could have been brought for ward at a period when there was a fuller attendatcce to dirculs the fubjea. The Bill was read a third time ancl.paffed. PROTEST AGAINST THE REJECTION OF THE cm. CES iN REVERSION BILL.: Lord HOLLAND, after referring to the Stand. ing Order which declares that Protefls amid be entered before two o'clock, and ,figned by the Lords protefling before the riling of the Houle on the day of fitting focceeding the clecifion protefled againg, Rated, that in confequence of the tinexpeeed rejeaion of the Offices in Rever lion Bill yetlerclay, a Protefl againn that decifion had been regnlirly entered, but that it was wilbed to make an alter ttit n in two of the reafors allctlAed in the Prnteft. Finns the unexpeeed rejeeion of that Bill and the fhortnefs of the period which had fince elapfed, he was in duced to hope that their Lordfhips would allow loch an alteration to be made, and alfo that thofe Loads who wifhed to fign it might have time till the riling of the Houle to morrow. His Lordlhip inlved to that effect. The LORD CHANCELLOR obferved, that it always had been the pra&ice of the Houle to keep a tight hand over the privilege of protefting, and he thought the Order ought in general to be rigidly adhered to. In the prefent inflance,die Lords pro. telling had Rated their reafons at great length, and be did not fee any neceaity for granting any further Fermiffion. After a few words from Lord HOLLAND, in reply, the motion was negatived.--Adjouined. REJECTION OF THE BILL TO PREVENT GRANTING REVERSIONS. The following are LISTS of the MAJORITY and MINORITY on the Bill for Preventing the Granting of Places 'in Reverlion MAjOKITY.. LOl4 ARDEN • REDESDALL - NAPIER • •••• MLLVILLE •••••• HEAT HYILLD •••••••• GLASGOW - KI NGSTON ••••• LIMERICK - CARLLI ON .•—•• MORTON ..-- ELDON WALSINCItAM The Duke of MONTROSE His Royal HiOnefs the Duke Of CUMBERLAND The Bilhop of CUICSIESTER • PRO TEST. Entered on the Journals of the Houfe of Lords on the oceafion of the rejedtion of the Bill entitoled " An Act to Prohibit the granting of Offices in Revcrlion, or for joint lives, with benefit of furvivorlhip." Diffentient, I. Becaufe we are opinion that a Bill of fuch magnitude and importance, fent tip by the Commons Houle of Parliament, as a meafure of precautit.n nal-A the wanton and injudicious expendi ture of theanon.y of their contliturats, demanded the deliberate *confideration of a fall Hock t it is therefore with the deepeft re• gret we have frets h haftily rejeded, at the inftigation of Noble Lords doeply ir.terefted its r;vrtßonary grants, and in the abience of thofe whole teteial fituations rendered their attendance in this 'Honk more pecoli .rly a public duty. 2. Beeaufe with time knowledge that this Bill not only comman ded the general anti oba ion of the Conti; oils Houle of Parlia- Moment, hut that it appears from the votes of that I loufe to have been the only meafure introduced by the Committee of Finance, of whnfe exertions his Majcity..ita his Spece h at the cfritclufton of the Taft, as well as at the commencement of this Padiament, fo Rrongly exprcif d his approbation; we cannot without the deepeft feeling of alarm rifled on the feriousdircoment which the Public tuft led at this unprecedented manner of rejeaing a meature fo defervedly popular fanittioned by the dirca approbation of one branch of the Legintture, and indirectly rconiniended to the fa vour of this Wolfe by the other. 3. Becaufe at a time when the unfortunate fituation of Europe tendersthat exertion which pros eds from a union of fentiment fo deferable ; and when the people of this country arc tuffering under the preffure of an unprecedented accumulation of tasks, we can not but feel the deepcft•coneern that this Heide Mould rejedt a meafure fo intimately conttedted with that fyain ef economy in the expenditure of public money, which the people have a right to expel! ; we dread that it will extinguith all hopes of denten' any benefit from that Committee of Ficanee, to whole exertions the people of this country have been taught to lodk - with favour, and that it will give rife to ferret fcciings of dilcontent, at a moment when prudence calls for fuels meafures as are heft calculated to produce a union of efforts in the common mule. • 4 , • (..igned) LAUDERDALE, VASSAL HOLLAND, SELKIRK, CHOLMONDELT, Cowes!, Gansvasoa. for the two Taft realism. PROTEST—AGAINST TION PASSING THE IRISH INSURREC BILL. Pan GRlrtvgNoL •••••• COVIPEL SLlaci tC CHriLMoNDELILT Lend Y.% 11110VGII HOLLAND ••••-•• LAUD i.RDALI H D ED AINGD Gi>l 2. lilecaufe the •eafone which have been urged in debate do not appear to be fuffieiently Itrong to compel me to agree to &fang tbi,titil, which cip he jutlified only on the plva of neeeffity, and which being C. , Mrary to the principles of a free conflitution, ought (if unfortUnately m-e..ffary) :o be hi force for the thortelt time pullible; and yet in the pre',:tit cafe it has been pertinacioully re fufed to limas its duration for one year. and on the contrary it has been declared in debate, that it would !•avc been better if ibis Bill ►al Dew for a longer Fcriod of years. a. Beeaufe if it be true that this MI Is imperloufly called for by the diftradted Rate of Ireland, it Gould not have been delayed till fo late aperiqd of the SeMon, when the attendance is neceffarily fo thin, and it could not receive the difetaon which it ought; but Mould have !been brought forward (boner, to g ether with other meal - tares of a conciliatory kind to meliorate the unfortunate state of that country,if it be really fuck as it is reprcfented. 3. &cable it appears to me that the hell way to conciliate the people of Ireland to a union with this country; is by convincing them that in all our sets towards them, we are as tender of ,their liberties as we are of our own. and that we will on no account Puf fer that to be done to them which we w;il not as readily', and pa the fame ground 4, fulatnit to ourfelveit. (Signed) PONSONBT, Earl Bcfsborough, In Ireland. PONSONEY. • • • • • On the Duke of Btornav's amendment to confine the term of duration of the Irifh InitarreElion Bill to one year only, the following di(Tentients were entered on the journal Book, by Peen who voted for that amen,dment : vassact.tintarin. Baotou), m' E NTWORTIt FITZWILLLIAI4, FoLera Yaasoaouurr, PONSONDY, POVSONIY. HOUSE OF COMMONS. The Order-for confidering the Petition relative . to the Carriek• F e r g us Elc&on. was dikharged, in confequenee of no fureties haying heen entered by the Petitioner. The Accounts moved for by Mr. C. JOHNSTONE, relative to Payments made by Army Agents, and Balances remaining l a n their hands, were laid on the Table. _ I Upon the motion of Mr . HUSK ISSON, leave was given to briiig in a Bill to empower the Commiffloners appointed to etamine the ' Accounts of the late Barrack Matter General (General Delancey) . finally to audit there Account% The Honourable Member, in making the motion. Rated that the Bill was neerfl'ary, in order to lenable thofe Commiffioners to carry into effect the object of lII* appointment, in confeqiience of the Third Report of the Military 1 Commilßons. The Bill was afterwards brought in, read a brit, and orderml to be read a fecond time. IRISH ARMS PREVENTION BILL. The Report of the frith Arms Prevention Bill was brought up, agreed to, and after Come amendments were introduced, ordered to be read a third time on Friday. The only amendment of any confequence was adopted qp the motion of Mr. Lufhington, that • Magittrates fhould not impofetbe penalty preferibed for not regif tering arms upon thole who might not h ave done fo through acci dental circumitances, and not through wilful neglect. PROPhRTY e F GENERAL DELANCEY. The ATTORNEY GENERAL obtained 'leave to bring in a Bill to releafe from the claims of the Crown certain real en 1 pet fmal Property of General Delancey'.. The Right Honourable Gentleman Rated the object of the Bill to be to facilitate the fale of the property by (exurbia the title of the purchaf•r, and to yea the produce of the tale in the hands of I'ruftees for the payment of the Debts which might appear doe to the Crown. 'The Bill was brought in, read a Grit, and ordered to be read a fecond time. SALTASH Upon the motion of Mr. WHARTON. the appointment of a Ballot for the confiklcration of the Petition relative to the Saltailt. Eledion was fixed for the ifs of September next--to which it was poltponed from the t3th inft. Mr. BARHAM brought In a Bill for fecuriog Pifparch in the Deirery of the Writs of Eledion, &c. Read a heft, and ordered to I e read a f.-cand time. Mr. FOSTER brought in a Salto fandion the Woe of tesniscioi. of Exchequer bills for the fervicc of Ireland. Read a Brit, at d ordered to be read a fecond time. Mr. DENT pnftpnncd until to morrow, his notice with re,nrci to a Bill f u r making farther Regulations its the Law refpect.rg Eledims. The Confulid3ted Fund Bill was committed, and the Report, ordered to he brought up to morrow. The Smuggling Prevention Bill, the Swedish Herrin,: Irriport3- dun Bill, the Silk Drawback Bill, and the Engliih and irithDraw , back Sufpenlinn Bill were read a third date and pall A. The Welt India Produce, Auetiun Duty Firuipq to Bid. and the Malta Linen Trade Bounty Bill were ttporti.d, aud ordered I to be read a third time to morrow. • MAy R. AIRE. Sir C. POLE, after time prefatory remarks upirn the acknowledged propriety of having the doors of that Houle thrown open for the Petition of any indi vidual who conceived himfelf fubjeft to a public grievance, upon which principle he felt it his duty to prefent the petition to which be meant to refer, moved that the petition of Major Ayre fhould be re ferred to the confideration of a private Committee. This petition the Honourable Baronet obeerved, was the lad refource of the petitioner, after he had found all applications for retirees to the Admiralty; the Treafury, and the Privy Council completely fruitlefs. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER was glad that this Petition had been prefented, and that the confideration of the Houfe had been difiinaly drawn to it; becaufe an opportunity was dins offered to communicate to all the parties concerned a know. ledge of the grounds upon which Government had ailed; which knowledge he had no doubt would fplly juflify Government for their condu6t npon the fubjeEl —The circumflarsces of the cafe were thefe :—The Petitioner applied, as the reprefentative of Captain Ayre, for his Share of the Prize.money arifing out of the capture of the Settlement of Chineurah. After an invefligation of the Petitionet's claim, in conjunc tion with that of others who had a claim upon the fame occafion, the Court of Admiralty decreed in their favour. But that decree was fufpended upon this ground. The Dutch EAR India Company appeal:d to the Court of Chancery, againft the Eatt India Company of this Country, upon the fubjeEt of this capture—and fuck appeal being communicated to the Court of Adtnirarty, that Court thought proper,. very justly, to fuepend its decree. fat to the delay which had occurred in the .profecuting the appeal of the Dutch Eail India Company; it was edify accoun table for, becaufe we had been lince the Appeal, for the greater part, at war with Holland. But when the war ceifed, the fucceffors of the Dutch Ealt India Company might refume their appeal t o elle Court DE' Chancery—and if that Court Ihoold decide in .thitr favour, after the fulpenflon of the Decree, made by the Court of Admiralty, had been taken off, the confequence would be, that the money paid under that decree, mutt be refunded. It was with a view to prevent fuch a confufion, that the Crown Officer; declined to profecute the Appeal which the Petitioner and others had thought proper to prefer againft the fuepenlion of The Admiralty Decree. Thefe were the grounds upon which the Privy Council, before whom this cafe underwent an invelligation, allied, with regard to the applications of this Petitioner, againft whom it was impoffible that they could entertain any prejudice, and the Right Hon. Gentleman trailed thefe grounds were filch as to induce the Houfe to be of opinion that the Petition onght not t0 4 .6e enter tained. He could not, ind Fed, .Ice v Any * nee to refer fuch a PetitiOn to a Committee, for.fuch a iefirence could only ferve to encourage expe6tations 7 in the re; titioner which mutt be ultimately difaiiiiipted. The motion was reje4ed. . MILITARY CAUSAL, TYTHSS:496I.. . _ The SECRETARY 'at WAR moved the •shird reading of the Military Canal Bill. A Member moved a clank to (mire indemnity to fuch as might fuller in 'their .Tythet:by the We which was to be made of land in confequence of this Bill, The SECRETARY at WAIL was forty to Ue. under thcneceffity of oppofiag this claufe. But it, :proceeded -upon a priociple, which if eflablifhed, would go to a great length indeed. Ths proprietor of •the land was at liberty to make any life of it he pleated, and it might -newer be fo ufed as to become liable to Tythes, of courfe the principle of this claufe could not be fuflained. •Mr. FULLER thought the indemnity referred to in the claufe entitled to confideratinn, and hoped it would be regarded by - the Bench of Bahops. The Honourable Member was proceeding in his remarks upon what ought to be the conduit of the Bilhops, When The SPEAKER called him to order, obferving that that Houle could not enter into the conEdera- tion of fuch fubjetle. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER conceived the ground of the chase totally untenable. He put a cafe, whether if a Canal of this nature were to run through fwampy grounds, and that in confe- . quence the ground on its bank being drained, became capable of cultivation and liable to afford Tythes, the Clergy would like to be called uprot compulforily to contribute to the expence•Of fuel' a Canal obvi foully they would not like it. Then upon what ptin ciple of jullice could they claim an indemnity for r Tythes upon the affumption, that certain land would be f r applied as to yield Tythes. The Houfe muff perceive the extent to which loth a principle as this clinic relied on might be carried, and how untenable fuch a principle was. Theslaufe was rejelled, and the Bill was paired. OFFICES IN REVERSIIN• Mr. BANRES gave notice, that he would on Fri day next, bring forward a motion grounded on the Refolution of the Houfe on the 27th of March latl, relative to, the granting .of Offices in Reverfion ( 4 lad cry of bear, hear !) MILITIA TRANSFER RILL. Lord CASTLEREAGH moved the third reading of the Militia Transfer Bill. Cnlocel STANLEY role to oppore•this meaftne, from which he was perfealy convinced no benefit could be derived to the country, equal to the per manent difadvantage which would tenth from it to thaticonnitutional force, the Militia. But from what occurred of late years, anti particularly in this in ft true with regard to the Militia, he could not help thinking that this force was not a favourite with fome Gentlemen. Perhaps it was not fuited to their faw' ti.eviews—it did not afford patronage enough. The Honourable Officer panegyrized the conduel and character of the Militia, and quoted that important et "'Jere,: of t h e patriotic zeal, the volunteering for Ireland at the time of the rebellion in that country, an.i at , a time when there were not, esclufive of guar dr and gartifons, above 6000 difpofable troop' in this courtry. From the difpofition which Mini fters manifetted, he wifhed to know whether it was their intention t r continue thofe drafts from the Mi litia from time to time ; becaufe if fo, it would be come a confideratiun with there Gentlemen who had made fuch facrifices, through their conflation with' I . that body, whether they would continue the connec tion any longer—whether they would expofe them felves to the mortification of Bills of this nature? For his own part, as a Militia Colonel, he mull fay, that be could not without pain part with thole men, who 'were attached to their officers, and to whom their officers were attached. And fuels, he was fati.fied, were the feelings of the great body of the Militia officers, who would, he had no doubt, be driven, by meafures of this nature, to withdraw themfelves from that force; at the fame time that he was perfuaded they would not fail to employ their talents in fuch a way as to render fervice to their country, thould the country require their aid. The 'Honourable Member cor.eluded with afking, Whel:ier Minillers had given direflions to any Officers of the Regular Army to tamper with the Militia ? and he was urged to put this queflion, becaufe, from a letter which he had this day received from the Lieutenant Colonel of his regiment, (the Lancafhire) it appeared that cffi cers of the line had, from the moment this Bill was known to be brought forward, begun to interfere with his men, and, by difiributing money, to intro• duce thole fcenes of drunkennefs and infobordination which were naturally to be expeOed from fuch a Meafore. Lord CASTLEREAGH in reply to the queflion of the How urable Member, Rated that it was not the intention of Minifier, to propole a meafure of this na cure periodically, he meant annually; and they were refirained from fuch an intention by this obvious motive, among other confiderations, that it would produce a repetition of the Ballot, which would lead to high bounties, and of courfe interfere with the fytlem of regular recruiting. With refpat to the tampering with the Militia, to which the Honourable Member had alluded, he obferved that it would be a great prefumption in Minifiers to take any pro ceccling whatever upon this Bill, before it had ea ccived the , silent of even one branch of the Legifla tore. But he could affure the Honourable Gentle man, that Co far from iffuing fuch orders as his quef tion referred to, the Officers who could be capable I of ailing fo improperly as he had defcribed, would fobjeet themfelves to the revere animadverfions df vernment. The Noble Lord was glad that the cafe mentioned by the Honourable Memlier was made known ; becaufe meafures might be taken that the Officers who had fo far forgotten their duty as ' to interfere with the Honourable Colonel's regiment, (liquid derive no advantage from it. It might, for infiance, be fo fixed by the Commander in Chief, that the regiment appointed to receive the Volun teers fronnthe Lancafhire Militia fhnuld not be that avhich was at ;relent next in cantonment to that regi ment ; and other means might be taken - to mark a determinaticn to ditcountenance fuch' proceedings as the Honourable Member alluded tn. Sir. R. WILLIAMS fpoke again(! the Bill, which if brought forward at an early period of the Scions, would, he had no doubt, have produced petitions fromevery part of • the country, and that the Gentle men on the Tteafury Bench would have 101 l their places. The Hon. Baronet took occalion to allude to the opinion expteffed by an Honourable Officer (General Tarleton), on a former evening, upon the tubjea of appointing Int - pet:ling Field Officers, and he would ark that Hon. Officer, whether,• although it might be convenient for the eneral of a diftria to inipett the Volunteers, he had not two M a jo r General's under him, who Could find quite time enough" to perform 'tat duty ? Indeed, it was his opinion that the General himfelf could do fo, and that the H6n. Officer(Tarleton) would be very well employed in doing In, if it were not that his atiendas.cc in that .Houfe was fo necelary and his let vices fo material. But on reconfideration, it was difficult to fay where the Hon. Officer's fervice was mote important, whe. they in the fenate or in the field (a laugh.) General TAKLETON ohferved, that the Officers alluded to by 'the Non. Baronet could not attend to the fervice he mentioned—that, in ha, fuch a thing was "militarily unpffible." Mr. BANKES was in favour of the Bill, from an -opinion . of its neceffity, but would rather have it without the claufe relative to enlinment for life, be. caufe that claufe interfered with the plan of calling 19r limited fervice. Lord FOLKSTONE (*jelled to the Bill and Gen. LOFTUS fliPported it, expref fi ng iron* his approbation of that part of the plan of 'aft Seffions which related to Chelfea, and which formed a great encouragement to recruits. Mr. WINDHAM was glad of the teftimony of the lion. Officer in favour of this part of the plan,' beoaufg Oat was the part molt abufed by tie pen. tlemenOn the Treafury Bench, who aliened that the benefit it promifed would act at all atone for its ex• pence. The Right Hon. Gentleman adverted to the obfervation of the Noble Lord laft night, that this fubjett wee exhau ft ed, Which was a pretty con fi dent affertion for'any man to make upon any fubjed, but particularly upon or,e which he himfelf otigipated. I Fora man who could qiink that new lights couldnnt be thrown upon any queflion which did not appear to his own titind, mutt have a tclerabk degree of fell fufficiency. But the fad was with regard to this Bill, that if it was a (landing difh before the Houfe, nevi objalions would occur upon it every day ; it would be a fort of cut And come again with it—loch was the variety of the conliderations which it contained. The Right Hon: Gentleman entered into a compari: fon between the plan he had the honour to bung for. ward fan kffions, and any other profpea fur railing men which preceded it, and proved from the data which the documents before the Hun& furnifhed, the tope. dor effi.ciency of his plan to any tbing heretoforedevifed. It was true, he laid, as the Miniflers had charged upon him, that he had not courted popularity. That was a bribe, than which nothing could be More ruin ous to the State. The Right Honourable Gentlemen oppofite knew well the etre& of this weapon, which they had wielded with gseat force both in and nut of office. While in Oppofition, they had endeavoured to excite the Volunteeis againft their enemies in power; and now that they were it. Adminiftration, they made ofe of the fame inflrument. The Volunteer Officers were a moll excellent Minifleiial Army ; brit whether they were molt ufeful at a General Eleflion or in frightening Bonaparte, was a quetlion not yet refolv. ed—(A laugh )—They refemble the pipe which Hamlet fpeaks of: by changing the fingers, it would . found any flop Miniflers plea fed. This was n't a defctiption of force which had not been often tried and played upon. It was like the countryman, who anfwered, upon being afked, whether he could play 'n the fiddle, 66 1 don't know until I try"—( iffee:b laughter.)—Fe contended that the experience of every revolving day wanted the fliperiority of his military plan. Minifters did not like that it %mild thus (tart up day by day, and confute their arguments against it. It was neceffiry that fomething like an curer. Igency fhould be found, and they created the follow ing :—They told us that the French Army had been vklorious, and that our Allies had been forced to make a feparate peace.—" Good Gon!" laid Mr. Windham, 66 could they not forefee all this ? Did k require any great degree of political fagacity to foretel, that Bonaparte would prevail over the Ref flans s And yet fo it was, Minifters did not forefee all this—they were quite furprifed at the victories of the French. Their emergency was fomething like a funk fence in a Pack, which was very aptly called a Ha ! Ha f—They heard of the late difaiters on the Continent, and they exclaimed, Ha! Ha ! here is a famtnis emergency ! let us fpring the rattle, plunder the militia, and overthrow this galling Military Syflem.—This was the cloak under which they con cealed the (Wet° by which they meant to nab the plan of their predeceffuis. All men were naturally anxious for poflhumous fame, and it was his awn with that.his name fhould not go down to pofterily with any fairer compliment than a comparifon of the effidts of his Military Syflem. There were an Italian mufician and a Dutch mathematician, who wifbed that the names of their favourite performances should be inkribed upon their tombliones. Such was his ambition precifely with refpea to his MilitarySynem. The Right Honourable Gentleman oppofite had de prived him of all gratification from living fame; and his hopes that he fhould have feen his name and the benefits he had conferred infcribed upon the living trunks of his fellow creatures, were blaned by the new military matures now before the Houfe. He lamented the overthrow of his plans, ho wever, more on account of the llfs the country would fuffer, than on account of any perfonal feelings. The queflion being then called for, flrangers were excluded, and we underfiand that Mr. Frankland followed Mr. Windham at the fame fide. The Houle then divided on the epteltian, that the Militia 'lrani% fer Par.. 'Ayes 7S—Noes 19. The Bill was then paired, and Mr. Hobhoufe or clued to carry it to the Lords, and defire their con. currence, certain claufes being previaufly added to the Bill by way of riders. The Militia Completion Bill was then read a thir d time, and feveral claufes, on the motion of Lola Caftlereagh, added by way of riders. • Mr. WILBERFORCE prnpofed a claufe, ing to the ball.ired man, obtaining a fubflitute, three fourths instead of one half of the bounty , give n nv him to the fubilitute for ferviiig, provided guar ha l- Anted man fwore himfelf not worth five hundred pounds. He laid that he thought a provision of this kind would go to obviate the greater part. if not all of the ohje6tions grounded cn the prin ciple of its oppreflion operating as a tax. Since the year 1762 or 3, half the bounty was allowed ; he thought that confidering the confiderable charge I made by the income tax, by which every man cow tributed a tenth of his means to the public exigencies I in the circumtlance of the middling orders and the clafs molt likely to be affedled by that claufe, a was a deferable one. Lord CASTLEREAGH objected to the claufe, as 13 claufes of the Bill went upon a principle differ. ent Oom that of the chute propofed; A : T