The National Register. — London, England, 1815-10-01 00:00:00

OCT. 1. disappointed in getting his arms, broke his windows and some fur niture; tilis man regrets much he was not at home, and having his gun wit., b in, as he is and Was determined to lose his life before his arms." LIMERICK, SEPT. TO.—The house of Mr. Smithwick, of Lacken, was attempted to be broken into nn Tuesday morning; his son re sisted the attack, and succeeded in beating them • Near one o'elork on the night of Sunday last, a dozen shots were tired at the front of Arctideacon Wall's * Glebe House, at Pallis, in this Counts, at intervals of about a quarter of a minute each. Two balls entered the dining parlour and drawing room, above the planks, and two more stuck in the window shutters ; but no other mischief was done, except disturbing the family, and obliging, them, at that unseasonable hour, to get in readiness, to resist with effect every attack. ON PUBLIC REVENUE. TO ARCHITECTUS. As to many men becoming builders, and forgetting the means necessary to the completion of their works, it is a truism, and cannot be denied. As to my not clearly comprehending the f►nanciering arrangement of the Go vernment, this perhaps is true, and my situation is the Siine as many others, inasmuch as it is beyond compre hension.—llence the tax on new papers. I would call your attention to the fact, that there are two sorts of re venue—a real and productive—an imaginary and unpro ductive one. And I am confide►►t that our present mode of collecting taxes is of the latter nature, thereby proving the correctness of Swift's assertion, that in finance two and two do not always make four. However, I am apprehensive I may retort the charge of error, by stating, that you are wrong in describing the primary object of revenue as the borrowing a principal sum of money for public purposes, upon which, in the • shape of interest, rests an heavy annual charge. This, I grant, is the practice of onr revenue folks, but, that it is either a correct or beneficial principle I deny. The primary, and, indeed, the sole object of revenue, should be the raising a sum sufficiently large to pay our expenses within the year. If this principle were attended to, the capital of the country would not be overloaded vvith exorbitant loans, and thus be absorbed in the funds, to the injury of the mercantile, manufacturing, and agri cultural interests—in all of which it would confer beneits en many classes of the community. In the funds, com parativel►y speaking, only on one. Mr. Pitt, aware of the results arising from borrowing, endeavoured, as far as he was able, to view revenue not as means of borrowing a principal from the public at large, hut as that of raising all the supplies -within the year without borrowing. To establish this admirable principle and useful prac tice, lie laid the tax on propeity—the only tax on the true principle of obtaining revenue, namely, that of leav ing capital unfettered, until the profits are completed, and its fruits ready to be gathered. However, to return to the subject. I am ignorant of the plan in agitation as to the Circus ; but, from what you develope of it, I am apprehensive it would not be, in the present scarcity of money, productive of much benefit. The bonus would, I am apprehensive, turn out a malus. You are good enough to say that a communication of ideas might tend to our mutual improvement. Of this, I cannot have a doubt, if we can agree on a basis. Mine is as much to relieve the commercial as the building capi tal, from injudicious restriction. I am supported by the opinion of Sir R. Walpole, as exhibited in his celebrated Excise scheme, which according to Adam Smith, was in- TIIE NATIONAL REGISTER. tended "as an introduction to a more extensive s'ystein of the same kind." It was grounded on the idea of allow ing the free importation of every raw material necessary to our manufactures, thereby enabling our manufactu rers to undersell those of other countries, and thus leay.; ing " no occasion to prohibit the importation" of foreign manufactured commodities. Yours at present appears to bo widely different; but, mature reflection and candid discussion may do much. Hence, I would beg of you to reconsider the principle and view it in - ail its bearings ; for, if you are of the profession your signature would imply you to be, it is of a most in teresting nature. To test the subject fairly, it would be only to discuss it, and endeavour to assertain how much less capital would do for given manufactures, if duties did not at tach to raw materials. Suppose for instance, the porter brewer could brew lus porter without a duty on malt or, hops, the silk manufacturer without any on his raw silk,. the sugar refiner manufacture his sugar, and the mer chant import it without a duty, and so on with all our manufacturers, how much capital it would release ? Should you think this idea worthy attention, I am ready and willing either to communicate - privately or dis-. cuss publicly this interesting question. I avail myself of this opportunity to say, that my signature was purely accidental, and, not indicative of my profession. - Hence, I wait your determination, and-abandoning the name of Vitruvius, subscribe myself • An Advocate for the Property To; . and the author of " Strong JR•tisons • for its entitilitancc" • • - .7 TO TILE RIGHT HON. THE LO -or fillg TREASURY: •- - • . . My Lords,—Abuse of power at tilt firrieVis l 'eptisidered. reprehensible ; and, from the high dignity of your sta tions, no doubt but you will endeavour toi.peaveritsuclf evil. . . . . By virtue of the " New Street Act of . Parlialtigit from Charing-Cross to Marylebone-Park," &c. you appear to have the highest authority in this measure, inasmuch as, every act requires your concurrence or. confirmation ; it is, therefore, upon this ground that 1 take the liberty to ad. dress you. By certain clauses in the act, the claimants arc subject to have notices served upon them to treat at the expira tion of six months • but if their proposals are not acceded to, they may be laid on the shelf for about four years from this period, or handed down upon fourteen days notice, and thereby precipitately driven to a jury, even in the ab sence from home of a claimant, should he be upon a jour ney of business or pleasure, whereby, when he returned home, at the end of a month, his house might be annihi lated : but in order to prevent this suspense, overtures have been adopted by the Commissioners under the said Act (in particular cases), to submit the investigation of claims to arbitrators indifferently chosen. Thus far the business has, in many instances, gone on fairly—but mark the indelicacy of agents not duly authorised (the pra vity of which is disowned by Mr. Nash), even while the I negociation was pending, by bonds preparing, for indivi duals. to be served with notices to quit, by a Mr. Thomp son, in a way of threat ; at the same time makitx•strong . overtures to the Claimant, to induce him to 04ittion kis, 6f:l