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PiRLI4MENTARr PROCEEDINGS. HOUSF OF LORDS, MONDAY, MARCH 4. The Artlihighop of Canterbury and the Mop of Norwich were (worn. and tnok their brats. ufual order wa. made refpedline the ballot for Peen to eotalitote aft Board of raft India Judicature, cei the part of their Lorddliue Route The i3llls . upon the 'l'4W, 311 private, were forwarded to their refpedire tinges; and one private Bill, brought up from the Corn -1110111 by Mr. Plaekbt2rne, was read a grit time. Earl . FORTESCUE acquainted their Lordthips with his inten tion to bring forward a motion to-marrow, relative to certain per fans difmiffed from his M.Jefty's dock yards; and moved that the Lot* 1w fommentel for that day, which was ordered accordingly. If-otel HAWK ESULIRY, on keing a Noble .itron (Ring) in his place, on whale motion their Lordthips were ordered to be font mooed for Thuriday neat, obfervecl, that, as it would prove a matter of convevicoee to certain Noble Lords to have the intended dircuffion deferred till the following day. be bad to propofe to the Noble Lord, if he had oo particular with to bring forward the mo tign on Thurfelay, that the order in godliest ihould be difehargek and :erected for Fr.:!ay. Lord KING rephe a, he hid eertainly oo objection to comply with the proporal of the Noble Secretary of State; he, therefore, moved ro dd.:barge the order for iummoning the Lorda for Thurf. day, and to renew it for the following day ; which, on the quer don being put, was ordered accordingly. It was orefewld, on the motion of Lord WALSINGHAM, that a meff.tge be feet to the Commons, &firing that the Right Hon. Sir John Stewart may be permitted to attend a Comm;ttee of their I urdthops. 11...u:(1 he fu think fit Some tnnunc bu6ut.G waa difpnfcd of ; aftcr which an adjourn ment conk placo. HOUSE OF COMMONS. Mr. Watts prefentcd at the Bar a Copy of the 111inutes of the Evidence sodas was riven before the Knareiborough Elcdfon Contourtec.--Ooler,d to b e v i t a e 's. Mr. HUTCHIPION, froin the Bank of England, prefented at the Bar of the Houle an account of the number of Notes iffucd by the Binh, and in gene rAI circoleios. from the (di of Ft.bruary, t 80s, to the sth of Februat y, tBos, di ingulihing thole under sL—Or dered to be printed : A Meffige was delivered from the Houfe of Peers, requefting that the Right Hon. S:r John Stewart, Ban. fhotdd be permitted to attend before a Corn-nit:cc of the Lords for the purpofe of giving evidence In the cafe of the charge alit-died 'pipit Mr. Jake Fox. )rd red. Mr.Bor D ALEXANDER and Mr. MACDOWALL prefented (event Petitions from Glatiow, Renfrew, Dumbarton, and other parts of Scotland, praying (or a invilion of flu: lac Corn Law, which nun arcverally tonal to l'- laid up in die fable. . . . The Edinburgh Pubic Bill * nada &11, and ordered to be read a fecund Lime. Mr W. Dictum iom. jun. obtained leave to bring In a Bill for the better regulatioa of his Vid,j,ity's Maine Forces while on More. Mr. Fos rsa gave notice th it he would to morrow fubmit to the Houle an &Urinate of the fume need:Cary to be railed for the fupport of Public Chad les in Ireland, and on Monday next he would open the Bu !get for that part of the United Kingdom, in the Committee of Ways and Means. Mr. Ca Z&VET gave notice that he would to-morrow fe'nnight bring f:,rward a motion relative to the deficit of Mr. Fordyce, and alftfon the fobjed of the a?pointment of that Gentleman to the fituatien of a ComMiffioner under the late Naval Comenifhon. On the motion of Mr. He s ci s sox , the Hoofe went into a Com mittee on the Expiring Lawt A ftefolution was then ponds noting that the law at prefent in exiftence foe the titter regulation of the Trade of the lfie of Man, and the prevention of Image g in that place, is near ex piring, and that it i► ext.cilient that a 'sew Bill should be brought in for that purpok.. The Houk rciameJ, and the Report was ordered to be received to-morrow. Mr. gnapDAN wifhed to put off his motloo, of which he had given notice for to-morrow, to next day (Wedne(day). This would, as far a• he knew, occafion no inconvenience to the Houk, and it would afford a great convenience to him. The notice was accordingly poftponed to Wednefday next. NATIONAL 'MINCE ACT. Mr. FOX obferved, that an Hon. Friend of his had on a former night pointed out an error in the Ratement, on the table, of the number of men railed under the Defence Aft in the county of Surrey.— The Account dated that the number wai fomething between 6o and 70. His Hon. Friend faid that he underilood it to be only 4. A Right Hon. Gentle. man eppofite hid then faid that he believed the (late meat on the table to be correft,but faid that he would mike further enquiry in order to afcertain the fa& He writhed to know if that Honourable Gen. tleman had obtained any further information on the fubleft ? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER raw, that the number of men, as flatted in the paper on the table, vras taken from the official return, which was had from the office of the lafpedor General, and he did not know of any other means by which the fait could be corral': v afcertained. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER then prefenred, according to the Order of the Houle, Copies of ti.e different Circular Letters which have been fent from his Mikity's Secretary of State for the Home Department, to the Lords Lieutenants of Counties on the fubjeft of the Defence A. Ordered to lie on the table. HOILSII TAX. - Mr. ALEXANDER brought up the Report of the Horfe Duty Bill. The refOntions were read and agreed to, and the Bill was ordered to be read a . third time tomorrow. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER then laid, that there was one Rep which was necef fary that he flimild take in point of form, on account : of the impolfibility of dividing the Alf into two parts, which he had mentioned on a former night that he • bad difcovered. He muff, on this account, be under the neceflity of ilitroducing a new Bill, for the par. pore of levying the Tar upon Horfes to be employed in purpofe► i f Hufbandry. He would therefore fhb mit it to the candour of Gentlemen who had made fome objection to the railing ot.the additional duty on that dercription of Horfes as fpecificd in the ori ginal Bill, whither it would not be proper that the • Bill ibouhl be paired on• as far as the Rage which it ' bad reached in the original Bill, without any difcuf fion. He Ihould now, without further obfervation, ' move, 6 4 That leave be given to bring in a Bill for • railing an Additional Duty on Hodes to be employed • iu purpofes of Hufbandry."—Ordered. Tire sforiav BILL. Mr. ALEXANDER brought up the Report of the above-mentioned BilL After .the amendments were read, and agreed to, • The SECRETARY at WAR Laid a few words with a view to fatisfy the mind of a Gallant Officer oppotits him (General Fitzpatrickj, with refpea to the amendments which that Honourable Member had fuggelied on a former night. He entirely con curred with him as to the propriety of making thofe tegulitions with refpea to the age of officers who -are to fit on or be Prefidents of Courts MartiaL— There were feveral officers, however, Come of them of the highett rank and of the utast)* experience, who had declared that they entertained Come doubts as to the expediency of adopting fuels a meafure.— In relpea, therefore, to the opinions of fuch men, he bid thought it would be mod proper that he lhould not bring forward the new elatees until he had sa -spportimity of ftating their opinion more fully to the Houle, which he expe,fted he would be enabled to do to-morrow. For this realon he hoped the Gal lant Officer would be fatisfied that the Bill thould, pals through its prefent Rage without the introduc tion of the clanfes which he had propofed. • . . . . . General FITZPATRICK declared that he had no objection to the delay for fuch a reafon as was then affived. The Bill was then ordered to be read a third time to-morrow. SALT TAX. On the Motion being pnt from the Chair, that the SiII for railing an Additional Duty on Salt, be read a fecond time, Lord WM. RUSSELL declared, that be felt it to be a duty incumbent on him as a Reprefentative of .the People, to oppofe the palling of a law which impofed a molt heavy Tax on an article of fuch ge neral and immediate neceffiry to every clafs of his Mrjefly's fubjefts, but which was molt particularly neceirary for the fuhfiflence of the poor man who was hardly capable of bearing the burdens which are at prefent on his [boulders. In a former Selfion of Parliament, it was thought expedient that the duty thould be taken off entirely in tome inflances, where it moll immediately affefted the poor. He hoped that Gentlemen would refleft upon this cir cumfiance—that they would confider for a moment what an enormous addition this Tax would make to the expenditure of the poor man, and he had no doubt that they would then paufe before they gave their content to fuch a heavy draft being made upon his (lender pittance. The Tax would Rife& him in a variety' of ways; it would tend to increafe the pike of bread, it would alfo add con fi deribly to the price of falt meat, which was an article of very ge neral ufe among the poorer clafs of people in great towns, and it preffed molt grievoufly on rhofe in the Highlands of Scotland and other placct, where falt 6.fh was a principal article of their food. And, above all, lhould this be done at a moment when the poor are fcarcely able to maintain themfelves, and when fubfcriptions have been found neccffary to be entered into for their fupport Seeing this fobjea in the view that he did, he lhould have thought he had been guilty of a great negleft of his public duty, if he did nut oppofe the fecond reading of this Bal— tic therefore moved, That ip the queflion which was put from the Chair, the word " now" be omitted, for the purpofe of inferting the. words " this d,ay fix months." As foots as the Speaker had put the motion from the Chair, The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQU ER rofe to offer a few obfervations in reply. Hegan by adverting to that Report of the Committee on the Salt Duties, on which the Noble Lord placed fo much reliance. It was there Itated that the removal ' of thefe duties wonU be produaive of many itn portant advantages, that it would have the effe& in particular of giving material facilities to agricultu ral improvements. The effect of this would, howe , vet, alto be, to deprive the revenue of a . molt pro , dative article ; and therefore the Noble Lord, in re ferring to the Report, argued not againit the pro poled rnereafe, but againft the tax, to all its culling extent. The queftion then came to be, not only whether during a period of war five hundred thou. land pounds was to be added to the revenue by the propofed tax, but whether a million arifing tiom the fame fource fhould alto be abandoned. But with re (pea to this very Report, which fuggened fuch a re peal, he begged the Honk to keep in mind what had been done fence the time it was prefented, that is, dor• ing an interval of more than three years. With all the documents before the . Houle which that Report furnithed, not a fingle (tep had been taken to carry it into effect. At the moment when the imprelEon produced by the fads difclofed in the Report might be fuppofed to have been the ftrongeft, no one had declared himfelf fo thoroughly fatisfied on the fub jet as to feel hirofelf authorized in propofing the re peal, and till the prefent day the queflion had flept, without even an intimation of a with that the re commendations of the Committee fhould be reduced to prattice. Now be put it fairly to Gentlemen, whether if, during a period of peace, there was no idea entertained of ailing on the fuggeftions. of the Committee, it was now to be argued that their ideas ought to be purfued ? The Noble Lord, indeed, had argued that the Tax was highly impolitic, as cal culated to operate with the leveret} preffure on the lower orders.' He had parikularly referred to , thofe parts of the country where thole chiles of , the community fubfifted chiefly on falt 6th and other fait provitions. He had no hefitation in laying, that to him the idea oflayin* revere burdens on the lower claffes would be peculiarly unpleafant, and he had ever done whatever lay in his power to avoid the neceffity of impofing them. But in a war like the prefent, which was in defence of whatever is dear either to the rich or the poor, in fupport of all the moll facred and valuable privileges of focial beings, it would be going ton far to fay that the poor were to be totally exempted from all share of the bur dens neceffary for the public fervice. It was indeed objeaed by an Hon. Gentleman oppofite (Mr. Fox) whole authority would not be denied tobe the highelt on that fide of the Houk, when the taxes were pro pdfed, that fo (mall a proportion of them was on ar. ticks .of confumption. He agreed with the Hoo. Member' in the policy of fuch a mode of taxation ; but he was afraid he fhould never be able to gad out in all its extent, the fecret of impoling taxes by equal per centages. We had, however, :teed on it as far as it was practicable. The income tax, the taxes on alleffed taxes, and other duties, were fo many proofs of the regard that was paid to the comforts of the poorer claffes of fociety. He called on Members to look back to the taxes impoled (luting the late and the prefent war, from the year 1793'111)w . n to the pre tent moment, as a proof of this rifleman. During that period, taxes to the amount of no lefs than 16 millions had been annually railed ; and, whlrthe ex ception of three or four articles, the whole of that fum wis railed by the higher or middling claret of tg r the (late. This then Curtly is no roof of the come forts of the lower orders being ne eeted, no evidence that there exitted on the part of t e Houk the leatt with to opprefs them by any unneceffary burdens.. —j. The Houle had only to look to the nature of the talcs impofed, to be convinced that every thing was done LA confine the injure of taxation to thole bell ehabled by their fituation to fupport it. They had only to think of the great addition to the (lamp di* lies, tia_the vaf rife on the duties ors wine, and even ifewe iti rits, to be convinced that no pains ha 4 :beestikd to relieve the poorer orders from all vu. geceffary burdens. 'But he deflred Gentlemen to re. Be* a little on what was to he the operation of the to propofed, before they Coffered themfelves to he led away by the idea that it would operate with any great feverity of preffure. The amount of the tax was five hundred thoufand pounds, taken on a c ilcii listion that the quantity cif falt confumed was 3111111• ally about two million' of hurtle's, The , lation of the whole kingdom was taken at ahr eleven mil lions, fo that the proportion to each rimily would not be very confiderable. h was always to be kept in mind, in reafoning on the preffure of the tax, that the quantity of falt confumed in families in higher life was much greater in proportion to the number of individuals than among the poorer claffes. It was eafy to account for this, from the different manner in which their provifions were prepared. The tax, be fides, was infenfibly collated from the weekly earn ings of there claret, and would confequently not ope rate as any material refrare on their laborious in. duflry. He had inquired into the fubjat, and he found that it would amount on an average to no more than four or five (billings for each family. Now confidering all the heavy impofts which the higher orders had been fubjeted to, it could not with juf tice be argued that this tax would operate with great feverity. As to the effed which this tax might have on the price of bread, he maintained that it was quite inconfiderable. The WI was, that on a Pack of flour the quantity of falt neceffary for converting it into bread was fo trifling as to be quite incapable of pro &icing any effeft on the rife of bread. It would not produce, he had reafon to think, a rife of more than a farthing on a whole Pack of flour. Such a rife as this was not to be ferioufly fpnken of, when arg•i ing en the principle and policy of the tax. It could not affea prices by itfelf, and ought not to be urged as any proof that the tax would be oppreffive. On the whole view of the fubjed then, he had no difficul ty in laying, that fainted as the country now was, ursent as was thi call, both on iich and poor, for great facrifices in fupport of their common interefts avid common fafety, he few no tax Ids objatinnable ' and capable of producing an equal fun), which could be fubftituted in its room. He therefore felt himfelf called ou to refill the Noble Lord's motion. Mr. FOX declared that he had feldom dial to give hisopinion againft any tax which appeared to him more obj:etionable. The Right Hon. Gentleman had anted why, if the fuggellions of the Committee on the Salt Duties were politic and expedient, they were not aced upon during the exiftence of peace ? To this the anfwer was at once fimple and conclu five. The Houfe would recolleadiat the Report was made in 18ot, and it was only in that one SetUon that the interval of peace gave an opportunity for bringing forward a propotitima for the 'repeal of the Salt Duties. At that time thole at the head of af fairs, and thofe who brought forward the Report, had not time to make up their minds how far a Bill for the repeal of the duties was expedient, or in what manner the deficiency arifing to the revenue fhnuld be fupplied. But it was, indeed, a very different thing to talk of the abfolute repeal of a tax allowed to be obnoxious, and to come forward with a pr( po fttion for augmenting it to a monairous extent:When ever this country was reltored to peace, he hoped and trulied that the tax would be totally annihilat ed. But, faid the Right Hon. Gentleman, if the old tax cannot now be renewed, on what principle was it that Gentlemen objected .to the increafe ? This, truly, was a very fingular and novel fort of rcafon ing. He would ark the Right Hon. Gentleman, if the tax amounted only to two hundred thcoafand pounds he would °Neel to the repeal ? He believed the Right Hon. Gentleman could then have no doubt ac to the policy of the repeal. The old tax amount ed to a million, hence arofe the difficulty of dellroy ing fo large an amount of revenue. But the new tax propofed to render chi: revenue greater by five hund red thoufand pounds, and hence the di ffi culty of the repeal was greatly enhanced. Or. this ground, if he had no others, he fhould therefore object to the frefh impofition. It was not only oppreffive now that war vatted, but would infallibly throw frefh obaacles in the way of the repeal, whenever peace came to be , reftored. Now, as to the tax Well, he further ob jeeed to it that it attached to one of the dared need , faries of life. With refpeet to many articles of con fumption to which Taxes applied, the lower orders had a remedy, either by difcontinuing them altoge. Cher, or by ufing them in a more (paring manner. But here the evil could not by any means be avoided. The Right Hon. Gentleman had Paid, that the filh-1 cries would not be affeded in confequence of the drawback to be afforded. The.vcry neceffity of the drawback was, however, an argument againa the tax. Difficulties arofe out oidrawbacks in two ways. In the one cafe the revenue was defrauded, or in the other, the individual would not derive the advantages intended by the Legiflature. He could fuppofe the cafe of a poor man who cured a final' quantity of fills, chiefly for his own ufe—but perhaps, p.trtly for a retail trader. Now in this cafe, it was next to impotlibility to make the diaindion betwixt the Salt ufed for this trade, and that employed for his own ufe. As to the Tax generally, - he condemned it in its application to the poor, as contrary to every principle on which taxation had hitherto been found ed. It had always been hitherto aged on as a gene ral principle, that wheat, corn, and butcher's meat, fhould not be &redly taxed. Here, however, butcher's meat was in direaly taxed, and that fort of food which the lower orders principally depended on for their fubfillance. The Right Hon. Gentleman had argued that the Tax would fall lightly on the poorer elaffes ; but how did this appear, when it was to attach chiefly to (alt provifions, which, with the exception of bread and potatoes, where (alt too was indifpenlible, conflituted the tole fupport of the 13 borions orders ?—He did not pretend himfelf to have much information on this fubjea, but he had felt it his duty to inquire into the butinefs, and he found, that if twenty (core was to be falted, it would require no lets than a buthel and a half of falt. It was true that a bog of this fize was not likely to be in the hands of a perfon in the lower orders of life. But 1 th4., : fo far from weakening, ftrongly corroborated his argument. It was well enough known, that if a hog of (mallow fine was to be faked, a greater quan ta), of falt in proportion. would be required. Sup poling then that a final" hog was to be fatted, and a' quantity of fat, which now paid a duty of fourteen AI was only ainiv raife it to six. if not to a Rill higher ice. He flic ri ' v l e l n fl ig i t l i i n wt is s , fil y rie e nci t i t r.l" l l l s 7 l'f r ( e ; t rt a h i le l h oialgml'e dealer th wouldquantityt e e rwould with .ed Gentlemen to bear in mind whether this addition would not, to a poor cottager. prove a vc:y fez iotts addition. Now, as to the effed of the tax, to far all of one opinion, that the total repeal o f the .14 ' o 's f refilthad the belt judges e a s g i r n ic ulrthetrre hadkingdom , c a o n rifu dt l i t l ed ey many l4.,ete = wDhuitiihescwouoludLbebeadoone o e. They all allowed , that if fd the moll important menfures p fait free of duty could be employed on a larg e soak, it would be productive of incalculable benefit . I t t behoved Gentlemen then well to weigh this before they contented to a heft' impofitian, by which tl.e ufe of Salt in agriculture would be in a great Inc:, lure prohibited. Here the fame arguments as appli ed to the fifheries could nor he employed, because a drawback could by no poffibilit y he employed. View ing then the Tax in all points of view impolitic, he rnok heartily fupported the motion of his Noble Friend. Mr. EGERTON Ma a few words againft the pro.. pofed tax, which, from his knowledge of the trade„ mull operate in a mft difadvantageous manner. He referred to a meeting of the fah owners, who had waited on the Right Honourable Gentleman oppo fite, to explain to him their views, f the tax. At tikes meeting they had ufed every argument to induce him to abandon the meafure ; and thoc'gh they had not fucceeded in obtaining the object of their wifhes, they had experienced from the Right Hon. Gentle man every fort of attention and candid confideration. Mr. GIDDY alto (poke fhoitly tax. From his own intimate experience, he was lure that it would be highly detrimental to the filheries. When the hall tax on fah was impofed, over a great extent of coaft the curing of nth was for a confiderable time almoft wholly fufpended. In many parts of the coun try where the people almoft wholly lived on fah pro vifions, the tax would be productive of much ferious inconvenience, even mifery. He ftroagly recom mended the fubflitution of Tome other tax in its room, as the ancient was unjuft in its principle, and impo litic as well as oppreffive in its operation. Sr; WILLIAM PULTENEY was decidedly againft the meafure. He had no doubt that if the war had not broken out, the Mggellions of the Com mittee on the Salt Duties would have been carried into, effed. The only queflion was—if the falt duties had been repealed, what other duties Mould be :c -loned tato cover fo great a deficiency in the revenue? The argument of the Right Honourable Gentleman oppofite, that the taxwould not be oppreffive, becaufe it would only make an addition of four or five Mil lings to each family, was totally unfounded. The fad was, it would ceeate an addition to this amount in every individual of a faMily, and would any one deny that this would be a molt heavy and ferions prelfure. Hitherto it had been the object of the • Houfe to exempt from taxation all articles of indif , penfible neceffity to the fuflenance of life. Other articlei of convenience or luxury might be given up, but here. it was propofed to lay a very revere import on an article admitted on all hands to be an article of primary neceffity, and one which was effential not tq the comfort only, but to the very exiftence of the • lower orders. Silt was like leather, and candles. • and a few other articles, which only deferved the name of neceliaries in the ftrideft fertile of the term. • The Houle were aware that a tax on Inch articles war attended with inconvenienciip fa- greater than the bare amount of the impost in the 611 The moment the tax was promulgated the retail dealer took advantage of railing the article taxed to a vaft tax fir the confumer. This rife was in all cafes exceedingly oppreffive to the labouring claffes of the community. He referred the Houfe to what had been found to be the effect of the falt tax in France. There it was found to be a molt odious, oppreffive import, and more than almott any other ;Rule excited difguft againft the Government. There too the rife of the price counteraded Cue views of thofe who projected and perfevered in the . tax. The people in molt cafes diminifhed the confumption,and in others totally diluted it. It was a fad, that when the price was comparatively fmall,.there were twen ty-eight nounds confumed, while in the Lime family there was' not a conftimption of twelve pounds when the price became exorbitant. The Honourable and • worthy Baronet defired the Houfe to look to the Rate • of the northern counties, and the fort of bread which conflituted the principal food of thi laborious clatfes. Salt was indifpenfable to the formation of this bread, and furely it was the height of impolicy to augment burdens among thole who were the haft able to af ford them. He should ever let his face againft taxes affecting, as this did, the middling, and- he would contend, the moll valuable part of fociety. If fuch taxes were accumulated, it was eat) , to forefee the confequences. We could not raife the public bur dens. We =ft come to a nand. The State, like other declining empires, mull fee its haft day. He conjured the Houfe, by throwing out this meafure, to Mew their dente to avert Co dreadfal an evil. Mr. ROSE could not admit that the objeftions of the Worthy Baronet were conclufive. He did nut believe that the tai would diminith the confumption of falt. Paft experience lhewed that fuch taxes rather affilled than diminithed confumption. This, at lealt, he could Rate to have been the effea of the tali tar upon falt, which at the rime was fo ftrongly objeCtel to. As to what an Eon. Gentleman oppofite (Mr. Fox), had Paid about the quantity of falt neceffary for faking a hog of zo fcore, he confeffed when he heard the aatement he doubted of its accuracy. He had accordingly gone out for a few minutes to con. fult a perfon, well verfed in thefe matters (we under. Rood the Hon. Member to refer to his Cook) who had allured him that the ftaternent was totally erro neous.' On the fame authority he could affitre the Hnufe that about fourteen ,dun& of 11-.lt would be fufficitnt for jthe purpofe alluded to. He could net vote for giving up the tax, as he really did not fLe where one more unexceptionable could be fubtiituted in its room. Mr. FOX in explanation of bis ffwement, begged the Right Hon. Gentleman to confider that there were different modes of faking, applicable to differ ent fituations and circumflances. 'What would be very good faking for the family of a perfon in high life and affluent circumffances, would be quite ina quate to the purpofes of a cottager; a much larger quantity of falt would be neceffary in the one cafe than the other. Mr. Alderman COMBE, from under the Gallery, . tC we 0 tax in which the ed in the r Lord A the Tax, feets it wo the Northe Mr. HL lay no mo This, lode pulation o Mr. JO the (latent Pulteney) and not to on the Sal an averag4 year, and' xpence. tl,tee-penc ~! Honot tax, and IT Winn to fi the ifland, After a and Mr. the Houfe The pm the Bill t Amendme the fecund On our Salt Tax row—to MIDDLE Mr. Pu the attent in fummin evidence. Strange. h►ittee cons again calk of the Con 'sing, at el journed. PRICE 0 Con rub, fa Bark Stork 3 per C. Red. per Cent C 4 per Cent. ft 5 per Cent. N S per Cent. t ~ Advices the Rochef Yeller4a tended at t France rely bours oppr which dill>. Admiralty 1 , , !I A I,E Some ac town yefter which Rate been given ton of trop terior ; it is to receive tl that the Du dilllttisfied to be emph It contin rived about and was to Laa nigl a difeuffiot which the Tax upon veered, tha Tax that a Clafs of So( elt , e Rq,elyl fore, raife was conten C l / 4. Vf R, that ries of the I Rich, are flare of ill( pointed out year 1793, the Rich ar any Tax th: objedi on ab! Lord Wi Trent, that tv fix moi . rwionty The 'l'4x and mndiii be inferred vet-pool didv, " The f< London, F to the expos ful WM. H, " I am auth Liverpool, tha in the Houfe gilt to the Cot On Sund her !viola) , beforc the 1