Star. — London, England, 1806-05-08 00:00:00

PATRIOTIC FUND. Lila, May IRA GENERAL MEETING of the , CONI FER held this day. iv ad a Letter from the Hoc. En ...tart • Efq. Prehdeut of the Council of the Viand of An addreff-d to the Committee of the Patriotic Fund at Lloyd's, -he following is an extraa : " Antigua. Match 4. !Soto. inhabitants of this !nand, adtua: cd by fentiments of the attachment to out excellent Conflitutios. 4nd of the loyalty to the bat of Sovertigna, and fftlintly alive to ant, in which the honour and welfare ot the Empire are could not hear of the glorious and deeitive victoria oh • the enemy, by the late ever to be lamented Lord Nat • y Sir RICHARD STAACHAPf, without thofc emotions have (welled the bruit of every Brio& fubjed,oo the of cooqueltefo brilliaot and Imporuult . . . . to satineft their participation an the national triumph Is of his Mafefty's arms; and, at the fame time, to contributing, as far as their prefect drcumitances wi , l ad the truly laudable ad of affording Relief to the Seamen, Marines, and Volunteers wouoded, and to the Widows, and Relatives of thole killed in the above memorable to teltify the fenfe they entertain of the merits and their brave fellow fuhJedts, who gallantly eapolc Oct. (encounter every (peeks of danger in the noble caufe of and Country, tb. inhabttanu of this iiland eagerly ens . opportunity offered for the completion of their wither inititution of the Patriotic Fund. (indorse this trait, I now forward to you herewith, Rills Inge for tyod ss which, at So per cent. on fterlinS. is 30621 es. 9d. currency, the amount of the fobfcription• compliance with the requeft contained in one of the Ado. .4 with a high degree of fatisfadion to our Committee, J Oita to the Members of that noble Affociation the Fund, the unanimous Thanks of the Meeting held in this a feeble, bet well earned tribute of applaufe, for the example of humanity and patriotifm which they have J. P. WELSFORD, Secretary. ' from the minutes) KENNET AND AVON CANAL NAVIGATION. — "ICE is hereby given, That at a General re of the Committee of Management of the Affairs r of the Company of Proprietors of the Kennet and Navigation, held at the White Hart Ins, la the City Wednefday, the ninth day of April, !Sod, at eleven the forenoon, pnrfuant to adjournment, the fold Com . did lad a call front the feveral Proprietors of New Shares ' wl Notes authoriged by an Ad of Parliament, made and Forty-fifth Year of the Reign of his prefent Majelty, a AR for enabling the Company of Proprietors of the Avon Canal Navigation to complete the fame, and and enlarging the powers of the feveral Ads paired for ;fad Canal," to be taken and fuhfcribed for In the Na nd undertaking, embodied lobe made and carried on by Company of Proprietors, for the fum of ten pounds par 'lr and in raped of every inch Share and Optional Note to be wanting and neediary, in order lie defray the and to carry on the fame. And did make aeon from feveral Proprietor. for the (aid fum of ten pound. per cent. refpc.2 of every inch Share and Optional Note refpec ste Paid Navigation and Undertaklag, for there porpoks ; and did appoint the fame to be paid Into the bands Harfords, Davis, and Co. Mahler. of the raid Coto- &IRA on or before the tcth day of June, 'Sod. by order of the fald Committee, JOHN WARD, Principal Clerk. ~ . ! I I ' All=ler i ATa miTi 9 E WARD BRAM, tigua, addreff,d of which the fa . i "-caurti " The inbab 1I g Warmeft attach Readieft loyalt} r 1 . • 1 every event, in -Intereited, rout 1 tamed over the sot., and by Si which moil ha , • achievement of " Anxious to on the fuecefs c unite io eontrih ant, to the tru Soldiers, Mart Orphans, and &dhotis, and to (offerings of the lives, and taco 111 1 their King and braced the oppi 4,44 1 ; in the Inftitutio t o .To diktat of Exchange fo equal to 30621. 'i " In compli, lotions, and wit I beg leave to off Patriotic Pend, Mend, as a feel 11 t generous CUM exhibited." (Exited hot XENNir NOTICE Meeting I t I . and Bufinefs of atzan Canal Ns of Bath, on We ceolock in tbe f alum Mind mett.Optiond SI Mild ha Om* entitled ..An I Rennet and Ar for altering and 1 making the faid t 'tendon and so 41 ( the raid Comp, cent um, for and refpedively, to ripener, of, ant the raid feversl far and in refpc Cady. in the kJ accordingly ; an of Marrs. Hari patty, in &Lilo] PARL HOL lln the Conu raped - tine the derivation of t the family of Rutland to an! Barony is dea clans in the ft Earl of ,W. flex, Strangers w • &eland, a hi 4 (led at the Bar to the charge r, the /look of 1 meet in Wefti and was actor difebarged, pa Upon. our n dreffing the H, . Refpondents it Bars Fitzherb hilifs Seymour protedtioa of i painted for bee After a few I re id. 'ile LORD the Bufinefs bel refpedling this could adopt, thl appointed for it I Lord ELDO Dumber of App 0 nth COUrtr, 23 I elf°, that, with ci than about 23 I I therefore, obvio being a cafe as done to the part ' miniltered. HI don OR Monday , This motion, • agreed to. Earl SPENCI Boners for rest which was ords SLAVA Petldons war hi. Royal Hight WFSI•MOR di On the nine flotuld be heard sunk place, In ROUGH, ST. ' . .' of ST. ASAP • Petitioners to b -- ...se, occaliou, I hey. 1 The Duke of ItY; and WES . ] , 1 titian ' and that I cafe b y cafe Cowed The difetiffion Coanfe..l Routsb I . • were feed-ally be t and the Bahama Custard havin the Bill herein.; a r. find the general 1 i thing ids than th i • The. Doke of i LAND ohjedted fecood dine. Lord HAWK kai .os to one i mitres. The Bill was c i - and an order nu, V I . Adjourned till 1 . An Account a of the Amount t Tax upon Propel The SECRh f ber of Recruits a Service, front the Air. WM.SNI, . • o f Meffn Chain X , ON gave to V \ ti!lann n. a Len Win., he was in 4. ' oir. MAY tit t. • 'Kith vadat and !LIAMENTAR r PRvCEEDIAGS. .OUSE OF LORDS, TUESDAY, MAY y. Committee of Privileges, new Refolutions were pared Claims to the Roos Peerage, in order to thew the the Claimants, through the Manners family. from A Roos. and alfo to five the Claim of the VIM of any Baiesy of that name. T he Co-helm in whom the des/arodto be In abeyance wwe plated in the Salota ' following order, Sir Thomas Winfor Hutticdiet the r, and Lady Henry Fitzgerald. were for borne time excluded, during which, we on. Mr. Broadburft. Clat to Mr. Baron Graham, atm- Bar, in purfuance of the Order of the Houfe, to anfwer of inflating Mr. Dyke, one of the Doorkeeper, of Lords, while on duty In the High Court of Paella. HaU He was ordered to be reprimanded. accordingly reprimanded by the Lord Chancellor and ', paying hit fees. re•admilEon we found the Earl of ROMNEY ad. ,se Hook reipedling a Petition he had prefented from the ..dents Is an Appeal from the Court of Chancery, wherein Fitaberbert is the Appellant, relative to the Guardianthip of Seymour, daughter of Lord Hugh Seymour, now under the a of that Lady, praying that an early day migh. be ap. • bearing the Appeal. words from Lord GRANTLEY, the Petition was IRD CHANCELLOR thought that, from the Rate of s before the Houfe, it was 1111110MbiC to make any order this cafe now. He fuggefted as the only mode they , that the Petition mould lie on the table, and a day be for its conBderation, r.LDON concurred in this fuggeßion. He Rated that the ,f Appeals now before the Houle were 19 from the Eng -23 from Ireland, and 86 from Scotland. He had found with every diligence, the Houle had not decided more It 23 in one fefilon. The precut cafe Rood 79, it was, obvious that unklo they took it out of its torn, front its Ilk as to the right of Guardianthip, juftice could not be parties, as It could only be done by being fpeedily ad . He moved that the Petition be taken Into cunfidera ,tonday fortnight. motion, after a few words from the Earl of Romney, was .CER prefcnted the Second Report of thi Commit. reviling and digefting the civil affairs of the Navy, ordered to lie on the Table and to be printed. IMPORTATION &&&&& NllOl4l BILL. , were prefented againft the above•mentioned Bill, by Plighnefo the Duke of CLARENCE and the Earl of IRELAND. notion of his Royal ilighnefa, that the Petitioner. rd by themfelves, or their Coanfel, a long difeuflion In which Larch GRENVILLE, ELLENEO r. JOHN, DERBY, AUCKLAND, and the Bilhnp ;PH, etprelTed their difapprobation of admitting be heard by Counfel at their Lordfhips' Bar on and particularly oat fubjedts of great national po• .4" CLARENCE, Lords P.LDON, HAWKESBU 'F.STMOELLAND, contended for ths right of Pr -t the Yetitioncrs Email be allowed to fuppcot their 'Rion at length terminated in an order being made that '4 be called In, when Mr. ADA and Mr. Semi sax ieard upon the part of the Petitioners from Janata a Mande. ing withdrawn, Lord GRENVILLE moved, that a fecund time. His Lordtbfp explained and Juld• I principle of the Bali, the objed of which was no the protedion of our Colonies. ( CLARENCE sod the Earl of WESTMORR. ted to particular parts of the Bid, which was read a 'KESISURY fluted, that he would relieve hia ob. pan of the Bill, until it mould go into a Com- ordered to be ref, rrcd to a Committee on Friday, Ilade for fentmoning their Loadlips on that day. till t9-1110tTOIV. HOUSE OF COMMONS. ors. prrfented, purfotant to the order of the Houfe, t of 0.,: ExemptioosgraDtcd to Foreigners, from the ,perry, as affreting their Dividends. VARY at WAR brought up a return of the Nom who entitled from the Additional Force for general to tit of Odober 2804 to the rftof April t &S. M ru ponooned his motion refpeding the Pc Won burn and Cowie tin Friday next; sod Mr. HUS. notice.that be (hook, move to-morrow for the Pro. tret received at the Treafury from the Petitioners, °See. Inured lot an Account of the Quantity and Value, real, of all Foreign Linens iniported into ibis Country from the year y9B, tflitingulfhing the yaw and the Rote of Vutiea. The Account, after a few words from Mr. CORRY and Mr. FOSTER, was ordered. The Scotch Judges Dia was read a feeoad time, and committed for to morrow. The Additional Force Bill Repeal Mt was ordered to be com mitted to-morrow. SAIL Of ST.tINCINT. Mr.JEFFERY, at the inftance of Lord tiovrick, agreed to poft pore hi. Tuition upon the charges againft the Earl of St. Vincent until Toefday nest, provided it ./.111 understood that no further poltponetnent mould take place. TRIATING ACT. Mr. TIERNEY poftponeJ further proceedluge upon the Eke liuga rc.ting Ad until Teefday next. IRIS,. BUDGFT. Sir J. NEWPORT moved the Order of the Day for the Houfe to go into a Committee of Ways and Means. The Houfe having refolved into the Committee, Mr. ALEX•NoIIt in the Chair, Sir JOHN NEWPORT Rated, that if in attempt. ing to lay before the Committee a Ratement of the revenues and refources of Ireland, he was poffeffed of the abilities of his NobleFricnd (the Chancellor of the Exchequer), he fhould not feel any of the embarrafl ment which he then laboured under. Confident in his ability, he would perform his duty without any apprehenlion. For btmfelf, he could only make the Ratement in fimple and unadorned language, contain. ing the refult of the encptiries which he had thought it his duty to make. "lhough in fume refpeas he could not congratulate the Houfe on the Rate of the revenues of Ireland, yet whatever deficiency exifted, had arifen from the want of that order, regularity, and arrangement, which took place in the manage. ment of the revenues of that country. It was ex tremely deferable to eftabliffi in that country the fame regulations that were in force and prailice fn Eng land. However, notwithßanding the difficulties and impediments which the trade and commerce of Ire land had to encounter, he was happy to Rate, that that country poffeffed means and refources that would materially add to the Rrength of the empire. The value of the exports from Ireland tall year. amount ed to 3,203,0001. being a confidtrable advance upon the exports of the preceding year. The export of linens alfo, and the import of flaxleed, had confider ably increafed during the fame period. The exports of lag year were greater in amount than the exports of any year (Ince the year 179 z. Another proof of the progreffive profperity of that country, which arofe cut of the increafe of its exports, was the courfe of exchange, which had remained Readily, during the lan four months, lower than at any former pe riod. The terms upon which the La loan had been negotiated in Iteland, afforded a Rill Rronger proof of its increafe of profpetity and confidence in the G.vernrnent. The terms of the loan, made in a country where the rate of intereft was higher, were lower than thole upon which the loan had been ne. gociated in this country, and more advantageous than the terms upon which any loan had been nego tiated in Ireland (ince the year t 79z. The loan had been made in the 34 per cents. ellimated at 711. 19%. per cent. and it was to be übferved that, on the 19th of April, that flock was at 711. 1125. 651. and on the 28th of April, being the day before the contrail for the loan was entered into at 711. 6d. fo that the loan had been made in flock eflimated 195. above its cur rent value. There eras the Rill furtb,r advantage, that the Rock created by taking the loan in the 34 per cents. was 340,0001. leti than if it had been taken in the 3 per cents. The interell upon it was as. 6d. lefs than on the Englifh loan, and including the provifion from the Sinking Fund 75. 9d. left. This he con fidered a decided criterion of the growing profperity of the country, of its increafing confidence in the Government, and of the extent and liability of its refources. SUPPLY. It was now neeeffary for him to Rate the Supplies for the prefent year. The proportion of contribution to be railed by Ireland to the joint charge of the Empire was, with currency 5.739,880!. The feparate charge of Ireland, includ ing interell of its debt 2)522,3401. Being in the whole 8,162,2201. Out of which was to be dedutted tgo,000l„ of the loan of haft year, that had not been drawn for; 1.4.0,0001. advanced for the ordnance fervice out of the Irilh Treafury, that had been fince repaid ; and two feventeenths of capital prizes in the Lotteries of the year. WAYS AI I D MEANS. Loan of two millions in England 2,166,00°1. Ditto in Ireland 2,000,0001, lly Treafury B l's- coo,oool. The revenue of Ireland he &told take at 3,1100,0001. On the ill of January /aft, it had produced for the antecedent year 3,360,c001. ; but he had reafon to think that 100,0001. of the revenues of that year were not colleCted. He propofed to carry the revenue of the year t 806 to 3,800,0001. by NOW TAXES. Fit*, by a Tar of 3s. 6d. per cwt. on all Brown and Mu feavada Sugar, with a corrdpondent duty on Ealt India Jug.r, attintate.l at 74a401. Aduty of fs. per cwt. on Iron imported Into Ireland, In place 'the prefent duty of las. 6d. per ton, ts,cocl. An Additional duty on all Teas under as 6d. per lb. apoct. Stamp ditties, according to a new Ichedule, Stamps on bark,. ai,ocoi Regulation on the duty Oil Millers, by taking off the duty of eight p r mit. on Rills of sou gollatia, and reducing the bounty front 16 te 8 per cent on thole of moo gallons, yo,oool. Regulation of duty upon Malt, 60,0001. Ditto of duty on Hats, Auttions, and Paper, semi. By taking away certain allowances to Molten of Ships in pie- Ocular ports, Owl. The Hon. Baronet then Rated, that as to the fund to which he had often alluded, the balanris in the hands of deceafed or difmiffed Collators, no effort fhould be wanting on his part to recover them. They amount ' ed in the year silos to 228,8001. but could not be cal.' culated upon to provide for the interell of a loan.— Above 130,0001. of 'bele balances were perfealy re- ' coverable. As to the balance of the contribution ac count between Great Britain and Ireland, though previous to IA year in favour of Ireland, it was re duced by the fum of 560,0001. advanced laR year by Great Britain for Ireland, and would be Rill further di:ninifhed by the fonts paid by Great Britain for ca pital Fires for the Lotteries of former years. The Hon. Baronet apologized to the Houle for occupy ing In much its time, and concluded, by moving the firs Refoluthn, that si fum of Two Millions, &e; Mr. FOSTIM cspreffed his regret at teeing that no part of the Loan for Ireland for the prefeht year was to be proti4led for by taus within the pare-. At the time of the Union, the debt of Ireland amount ed to thirty.tsvo millions. and it now amounted to fiery-futir millions, Itic:r:g more than doable ; while , the debt of Great Britain had only increafed within that period from four hundred and fifty to five hun dred and forty eight millions, being let's than t.sth—it ; being to be obferved that the debt of Ireland might ultimately fall as a burden on Great Britain. This, he thought, ought to fnew the neceffity of railing RS much as poilible within the year. It was certainly true that two millions of the debt of this year had been contracted for in Ireland, but Rill this was done by an Engliffi Houk going over there and bidding for one half of the (urn: fo that, in fall, one million only had been railed in Ireland, and the remaining two millions in England. The terms of the Loan had, indeed, been highly gratifying, being more advan tageous than the Loan tranlafted for this country, and Itill more advantageous than that of laR )ear. — The Honourable Gentleman then proceeded to take a view of the fituation of the country at the time he went out of office. On the sth of January he Rated that there was not a tingle farthing of unfunded debt due in Ireland ; fo much the reverie, that they had not even an account with the Bank, a thing which had never been the cafe in Ireland befog. During the time that he was in office, be contelled that no balances had been 101 l or been.allowed to accumu late in the hands of the Collettors ; on the contrary, though he felt pain in doing it, he had compelled a very meritorious officer, the Teller of the Exchequer, to leave off having large balances in his hands, althn' that was the chief way in which the fituation was rendered any way comfortable, the falary being very inconfiderable. He then went through the different articles of Revenue, (hewing that where any defici ency had wilco it was occafioned by his fuggetion not having being entirely afted upon, and that where no alteration on his propofition had been made, the refults had fully equalled the eltimates. He concluded with fo:ne übfervations on the taxes which had been propofed. There was a great quan tity of tea under 26. 6.1. per lb. uled in Ireland, and this would produce a great deal more than it was taken at. As to printing prefer, he underflood no thing of licences granted to them, and the duty had only been collected on the paper Rainer,. The ba lances in the hands of the Collectors had been lately reduced, and he hoped would be reduced more.— Every thing had been done for the recovery of the balances from Colleen oi s deceafed or difmiffed. There were leveret improvements, fuch as the equalization of the rate of intereft in both countries, the equali zing the currency, the getting rid of the relliiition on the Bank, and the putting the hills Merchant, with refped to the warehonfing of goods, on the fame' footing with the Britifh Merchant. Mr. CORRY contended that the Houle ought to look with rime jealonfy on the meafures propofed by the Right Honourable Gentleman oppofite. The equalization of the rate of interel in both countries would be prejudical to Ireland, as a great part of the capital of Englifh gentlemen which was kept in he land, on account of the higher interell, would be withdrawn. Neither could the currency be equalized, and the Right Honourablg Gentleman had probably been flopped in his fpecuUtions on that point by the luminous views of the Great Man whom he very much deplored. The Right Hon. Gentleman had been in an error in Rating that he had left the Tres. fury in a Rare in which it had never been before, that is, without any unfunded debt, as he himfelt ( Mr. Corry) had left it to him in that fituation. The Right Honourable Gentleman had alto added to the paper currency of Ireland, a thing againß which he had before declaimed. Mr. FOSTER explained. Mr. PARNELL obje&ed to the fyllem of loans, inflead of railing the fupplies within the year. The accumulation of debt on this fyilem would, in a few years, be intolerable. The refources of Ireland were greatly increafed, but he apprehended there muff be a great deal of mifmanagement in the collec tion of the taxes. Mr. ROSE admitted that abufes exilled in the col. lettion of the MR, revenue, and affirmed that fome. thing had been lately done towards remedying this inconvenience by affimilating the mode of colleetion to that of England. Some of the meafures mentioned by his Right Hon. Friend near him might, under (certain circumllancer„ be proper. As to equalizing the rate of itnerell, he had firong doubts of the pro priety of that. Mr. LEE differed from the Right Hon. Gentle. man oppofite with regard to removing the refirietion on the Bank, as in the increafed Rate of the trade, price of land, debt, &c. &c. of Ireland, the fpecie would not b: fufficient for the purpofes of circulation. He differed alio from his Right Honourable Friend under the Gallery, as he thought that equalizing the rate of ;mere( would be advantageous. It was better at prefent to adhere to the fy item of loans, and leave the capital to be employed in commerce. The taxes, he thought milder than could have been expeEted. Mr. GRATTAN was of opinion that at prefent the fyflem of loans was preferable, as the wealth of Ireland, though it was increafed, yet it had not in creafed to the degree which many had affumed.— He fhould be forty that the queflion of the rate of interelt Should be at this time agitated,although Come Of the meafures propofed by the Right Hon. Gentle man might deferve confideration. He approved of the &Rem of the Hon. Baronet below him. Sir JOHN NEWPORT replied; and After tome huffier obfervasions on theparticular taxes,efpecially that on Iron, from Mr. FOITSR, Mr. Ross, Lo r d H. yam, Lord CAbTLIIRSACH, Mr. VANSI and Mr. CORRY, the refolutions were agr ee d to , an d ordered to be reported to-morrow. PROP kRTY TAX. _ _ The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER moved the order of the day for refulving tan° a Committee for the further confideration of the Pro perty Tax Bill, Sir HENRY MILDMAY hoped the Noble Lord would not prefs the Houfe at fo late an hour to go into a Committee upon a bill that was likely to ex cite fo much difcuffion, efpecially as feveral Gentle men, who earnefily wifhed to be prefent at that dif cuffion, had left the Houfe under a confident per. fualion that the further proceedings on the bill would be deferred to another day. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER Paid it had been underllood on all fides of the Houfe, that this was the dl finally determined on for going into a Committee on the bill. &ma Gentlemen had alked him, in the courts of the evening, if he a r enad hilly s m a e n a r n w t tro was, proceed h w e i t c h e r t t h a e i o b i y i bill i t d h f e v po e ni m n bgi e. However, if the Honourable Baronet, or any other Gentleman had any oblation to the principle of the bill, he would have no oblation to poltpone its other wife he fhoulel certainly with to proceed now. Sir HENRY MILDMAY Paid, he could not of. fume to fay, what were the particular oblations of his Friends who had gone away. He could only Rate their earneß with to be prefent, and that tbey had gone away under the perfuatlon he had before Rated. Upon the general voice of " proceed now," the order of the day was read ; when. Mr. WM. SMITH then Rated his oblations to the Bill, which were, that it operated moll unjuftly and unequally, ;nail:loch as it taxed, at the fame rate, incomes which arofe from different fpecies of proper ty totally diftintt in their nature and value. It was a grofs intuit upon cede, to tax at the fame rate in. come from capital, and income depending folely on perfonal exertion—income from property not worth three years purchafe, and income from property worth thirty years purchafe. The title was falfe and delufive, for the tax was not upon property, but upon income, and it was to all intents and purpofes an in come tax. He alto dilated to it on account of the principle of diklofure which it involved, and which afforded fuch inquifitorial and vexatious powers to the officers of Government, as rendered it to the laft degree grating to the feelings of Englifhmen. This principle of difclofure had, however, been much mo dified by a Noble Lord (Sidmouth), now in the other Houfe, and for this be deferred the thanks of the country. But Rill the principle remained and vitiated the whole Bill. He had no great oblation to the rife from yi per cent. to to per cent. He was aware of the difficulties with which his friends had to Rear gle. They were placed in a &nation which com pelled them to adopt meafures which they them (elves might not confider as the belt. The money mutt be railed, and the difficulties attending the exe. cution of a reel tax on property, or of railing the nece fary Supplies in any other way, were fo great that he was not thrprifed that they had not been able, in the fir)infante, to get over t hem. But he thought the tax .a grievance of an intolerable kind, and he would not have done his duty had he not Rated his object dons to it. Sir ROBERT BUXTON oppofed the bill on the around of its involving an unequal principle of taxa. hon. He hoped that Come relief would be given to the landed intereß, efpecially to country gentlemen with incomes of about :cool. a year. Sir HENRY MILDMAY alfo oppofed it, on the ground of its impofing a duty of four fhillings in the pound on the landed tuterea inked of two !billings. It bore particularly hard on one defcription of peo ple—men of (mal l landed property who had farce famiiie., and he hoped that fome abatements would be allowed on their account. Mr. PERCIVAL fupported the bill, on the ground that it was impoffible that an equal (urn of money could be railed fo equally, upon the whole, on pro. petty of every defcription. The money mull be railed, and this was, in fad, the bed plan that could be deviled. It was a tax on profits, and fo the title implied. He hoped, however, that exemptions would be allowed in mtny cafes, otherwife the meafure might become fo odious, that we might be in danger of lofing it altogether. Mr. WILBERFORCE agreed with his Honoura ble Friend who fpoke lad, and hoped that exemp. t•tns would be allowed in all cafes where the necef faries'of life were concerned. It would be hard if, when one part of a Ihip's crew were enjoying every fort of luxury, the other lhould be put upon fhore allowance. He limed the cafes of the officers of the army and navy undcr a certain income; but what had been done for the latter, and was to be done for the former, might preclude the neeeffity of any exemption for them. But the cafe of clergymen under a certain income mull be confidered. He knew large fupplies mull be railed, and if the tax fhould fail in any degree on account of abatements to perfons of a ftnall income, he would be willing that it Ihould be made up by an additional rate ou the higher claffes. Mr. ELLISTON laid a few words in favour of the Income Tax. Mr. SPENCER STANHOPE thought this the moll revere Tax ever impoled, but his fenfe of its neceffity rendered him favourable to it. He never knew a Secretary of the Treafury that had not bean adverfe to every exemption from a tax, but be thought the amount of a tax not a matter fu likely to be complained of, as particular hard cafes.. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER would not fay much at fo late an hour. The neceffitY of railing a large Cum within the year had been ad. mitted, and it had alto been admitted, that this was the belt tax for furl) a purpofe, being, as had beets Rated, fuperior to the original Income Tax. To this refource, therefore, we mull look for the means of that energy which eircurnilances demanded. There might be fome cafes of apparent hardfhip ; but equa lity could, in furls a cafe, be only taken in the grofs, and along with it we mull confider the efficacy of the Bill. As to equality, perhaps, theoretically, a tax on capital would be the fairell, or one combining capital and income, according to various delerips tions of property ; but the prodigious trouble, and the agency requifitc for fuck a fcheme, would hardly juflify him in venturing to give up the plan (that had been already eftablithed. The Noble Lord then expreffed his ftrong difinclination to admit any further exemptions, fince , - ,p,0001. were already loft by the ccmceffions made. J.,e fhould Ellen attentively to fuggellions, but nothing lefs than the kerning ge neral with of the Houfe thould incline him to Mcreafe exempiiwas, which were moilly of greater lots to Government than benefit to the individuals. He objeOed to the idea of taking a greater per centage from the rich than from the poor, fince its tendency was to alter the order of fociety. The exemptions is favour of thole who had children, were in reality a tax upon thole who had none. It was his with to avoid unneceffary preffure, but not to agree to ex 3 emptions which wo u ld great l y reduce the efficacy of the tax. Mr. ROSE exprefred his opinion of the impoffibi. bility of laying a tax upon capital. Mr. WILIFIFORCI and the CnastraLima of the EXCIIICWIR explained.--The bill was ordered to be committed to.mormw,—Adjourned.