The Statesman. — London, England, 1815-04-29 00:00:00

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Mr. EITZGERALD said, he had considered all these circumstances, and had no doubt but the taxes proposed would be the most effectual of any he could ai present bring forward. lie estimated the increase of the Assessed Taxes, ► when compared with the"col• 0.00%4 the two last years, at 250,0001.; but making eery allowance for contingencies, he should take it at 200,0001, The number of barrels of beer that lipid duty in . 1813 was 836,000, which produced V 64,0001., and which he thought he might fail ty take et 2(1),0001. at least. VIE WIIEEL OF FORTUNE. Pearadinck, (Lt time) Mr. Kearns Tn which will Is. WAYS AND MEANS. f oo das, King Richard Ike Third, and Jaeo de P.si is. 1)...r.4 In he opened at half past live o'clock. to be half past oil. I DOUSE OF LORDS, Arum ?IL s - To the 1/iichy of Cornwall Cause (Sir John SI. Asbyt Pr ttarrou, Pi ince of I%ales's Attorney-General) Mr. Hart was beard in reply.—Judgment postponed. t . In the Scotch (sauce, Arbuckle v. Taylor and otbers Ml* 1 impri.oument), Sir S. !toothy and Mr. Aolums beard for the A ppetlant —thc Solicitor-Defter:ll for Scotland for the Respond ent.— Further hearing on Monday. • , . .. In the Caiedoaiiin Canal. ease—declared that it was unnetkii 'Ml to give any opinion on th e powers a tbb Commissioaprq ander the Arts uf Parliament, the parties iiitOttif s tflpd ..osatters by primate agreement; and as to the rest, Jodgmei lithrmed 11 The Fire-Arms Rill w a s ree d a secon d t i me. .:. ' ..,. The Sett them Whale Fishery- DIII was committed and report* VROPEIITY TAX. , . The Dnitisif. NORFOLK sawed fur a relives , ' of the Asseilt repents under die Properiy Ins f ur five y ears . en di ' g the 5111 April, 1814, which was agreed to. His (;race then gave notice that as the Property Tax was to be revived without any raoili‘ fication, be would bring forward a motion connected with luiiect• A ' The Earl of DARNLEY moved fur sense farther Paper* the subject of the Ntesal Administration, which were agreed Adjourned. ' 7%. s Secand Price 38. 64.—Pil, 9s. 6i.; Secand I, I. wer Gallery, 2a.; Second Price, !s.—Upper 1 ,, Second Price. 6d. .~ In. rts u. Ntl to 73, he th he tr U. e• P. on 'k 11 01 R. tl., 't In 104 Prete. Ida at I. I • ' i . ..:9 .1. of 1, td 1- it, of le le of t, .d wr. of ISut V.l ; Ut he or C " it ; It or), lad rt er rwi n" to I'al 7 r. Are. e. it. T 1 le n. Pitt 1 MI, e, Sr. T' le 1 . Serum . 1.• TR I ti 1% 1.. RAI 35. i.. to 11.1 ' tio RAI t, tine nl JS 10% 6t ly m Iy ituti 111C D f X.9e,1 out dr ie a t.b lI. R o . 4 tot n Id r. T IC it ,ThJ„ If min Re! i , tdr 11 it it thith RIII 1;1:0 ut .4 att r, T •R t o ti t.m. ; In to It IT I'` 1: c ti o. nib to u 4, in !“ tr ft, try t. e4 l. • it . ( 1 st.r, b; tits. T R I• 1 thy 14 1. tut, AN f fau'r a POCK MYR AS%URANCE COMPANY. !HE ANNUAL GENKRAL COURT of the ,11011RIFTORS of the ROCK LIFM ASSURANCN . ..AN Y will he , holden on W EON EMMY. the 17th of , i ! T., rive .'Clock at noon prerOely„ nt the Lon ,r4„hhher. Lodgiste-hill, for the receipt of the Audi. rt of Or Coo.pany's Arcanias for the last year ; and , af Mot Directors :old note Arabes., porsennt Settlement ; wills other Wam-I.s. :•ct,E J heap tieror, in pnrsitince of she need of Aeitle ,.% ttt r falloWing Proprietors, of theft kaention to become !irate., sits Tn be Directors s • NI a r •ENS DOKRIEN MACtEtWri Esq. tis LIAM CLAY. Esq.. v 11.1,1 AV FORSSTLEN, — Esq. GOOCH. Esq. Te he MASH., r ANDREW LOUGIO4 NN, Esq. By the Court or I)iecrlnfs. WM. FltliNU, Attuarv. RrifliP. 4l retl. Elsekfriars, April2l, lolls. OsTE4D AND BOWING MANUFACTORY. DRAPERY and COTTAGE BED for Sale: ora i •er tir:ssi woo ever oirered to the Pohl ; itod Bed. every Aererision. with wr witkout Fianiture., may .d it Mesors.l)arley and Reties, No. b, Upper Mary-le r-0-a", Pordand.piallte, WO at half price, but cheaper non) 'rho peeress So cell at half price. B Bedsteods and &Milky ar every description let so Knot Omits, att. PIANO-FORTES. No. 5. LF.IONTER-PLACE. ,EAP sod GOOD.—Thoso •ho' wont to per. kis et A NO- Mk rES at every deveription, Pedal Harrel °t care, dte. both new, as witand-ltraid, will vrri t reat •:sri•tq a 4 ;shove t and they mai/ have an Or. uu•ts of Winn the P.tle.4 Oltbiee Haitlionk and Cabinet ••foriea, •ra,•upe laud trio any yet invented. ;r di-coatis tor money. kiaa-ewer rhear. Pattol Instrawead has set yet been seen is America. a. above. The day was pubifthe3, to Four Voir. 12ran. price 235. I HERESA ; or, The Wizard's Pate. .--- A Romance. bIEMBER of t h e INNER TWO Pi r.. Mad for . A. K. Newman awl C Loadenhall-rireet. W.tre may to bad the following, puhliohed sear: ASO lALh AMAMI% of MATRIMONY; 'le Fir., Hustlerel And the Srennd : 4 vol.. Th. aiLTER 1)1. MTh IS AK Y. A Romtroce. By Kramet. 114 tem.'s, 4 vols. 211. II , At HER V ; sr, The Grave oaaloinette. A Romance. ti. Shistmiw, 4 YAP. 22.. OF FALOONBERG. By Bridget Bluccoautle, NGEROCS SECRETS. A Scottish Tale, 2 vols. ,CIII.LOR'S JOURNAL. Edited by Miss Byrom, An ' thr " Englishwoman," " Englishman," &c. &c. '2 vols. 6d. Vienna. December 29, 1814. To hlers. ROWLAND and SON, Kit by,treet, Hinton-garden. Lond•m. ,ivt.esistt,—ln consequence of the loot! etrectq of your :ASSAR OIL, 1 have it in command from his Imperial •sty the Emperor of the Itnssios, that yOU w ill. with lelay, send the sum of feu guineas worth to him ; directing ::.James WO., Ran. Physician to the Emperor of i., St. Petersburg!), and receive the amount of the some hi- E)cellency Count d.• Lieven, his Majesty's Amba•sa 'a the Cl.llll of Great Rr✓nin. 1 h.see the !tomtit to lie, Gentlemen, Poor most obedient Seelinint. J 4 NI ES W YLI E. E inestimable qualities of this OIL, for pro. a lust:lMA crow th ..f !lair tat the baldest places— al bell.tlitill f loco mid pleasma petfome— .•t .Rsehrows, Arr. to , fitted in HOW LA D's A 13E on the HAIR, which is roti•.•rd with earl' or btatle. The out,i,lr of cads bottle is signed, in i!ik, A. ROWLAND and SON. 3.. 6.1.—105. 6.1.—n0d One Goleta per bottle, by the vrietors. Its above. ROW LAN WS FSSENC it OF TYRE. rh will insmediat.l% mid effe.inally chntree RID or GREY lii. kl 1:-11ROWS, WII &r. to a permanent w'N or BLS 7E. and so pern•aaeat that it anent he ►e- A Iss washing. It is perfectly latateent, and Lad ie s nod ileum nay their Ilair•with EASE tutd SECRECY. fid. per bottle, or small hustles fur trial, at 4•.eneh. q•riet•trs *in warrant its efficne3. nio.leasle and retail. t.s the sole Props ietors, A. 'NI 1N it and SON, non r of Kirhy.aireet, the first turn ^)she right is Hatton-garden. Holborn t mid by meat Per. Medicine Venders throe/Wool Furor. 's• (We've the slgarature, A. ROWLAND mad SON. SUPERIOR ADVICE. 'T it of the first consequence to ascertain on whwe talents and integrity a firm reliance okay be rod 11 ;0411On'. Messrs. CUR ULF: and Co., Surgeons of cc and high professional attainments, Members of the :Cllr-es ..r London and Edinbergb, present in the Pub of 30 years experience in the Cure of Venereal I.lll laili nod flies* Debilities and Deficiencies whit!, not i:•o 4 .•ifly prevent or embitter the mntrimunial state. In the cf •flAtions, from 'event infection to confirmed Lees, +r-Jement cronnimsds very often a upecilv, and *!ways a 411 rue. In dubious case-, their long and well urrov.ged il , fic:ec gives them * promptitude of thdi secures :Prom from bring memorialized out of existence, Of hay rimidittition undermined, and the vital prinmple destroy. hlint, litti insidious disease, or a blind mud fatal coufi ,r n shallow pretetdrrs. ! e f erVoilS Drbilitv, Vascular Relsehtinn. and Atony of *riving from exces.ive indulgence, imalubrinus soltary sem:utility, their practice gives new life and ;.” 1,, 11l V o le pylon. even in ra,es which are verging ou de tattrs and other derangements of the Urethra they to a mild and effectual manlier. Slight and recent cases lereal lofvettnn are cured in the short petiod ttf two r ° the Fertile Set it will he coirolit,ry to know that they tortd of the Dchiliiiep which defeat conception, and i tt.c tt.adutio n cosiiinhial , !rents heated with candour, delicacy, nod inviol ible fr ie 4 fs. CU ARIL and Co. mny be consulted every day, at if Inure. Ilattonlenrden. '• irttris from the Country, stating minutely the crow, livi I g, &c. and entloting a remittance for MN ice Lind ‘11,e4, "il be treated with studious tattolloll• IJ lialliin-gardro, 1 1, Ak HOUSE OF COMMONS. Mr. Ron moved, that a Committee be appointed to elhip4ilt . into the State of Mad-houses in England. —Ordered, • 0 The SPCA K reminded the noose, that ilesdlay Wit would be the last day of receiving reports on Private SIM: lied informed them, that he would take the Chair at half-past three o'clock on that account. .1 COMMITTEE. OF WAYS AND MEANS. Mr. W. FITZGERALD moved the Order of the Day for going into* Committee of Ways and Means. Mr. WHITBREAD wished to know from the Right Hon. Gentleman, whether, in point of coon• tesy, he would not consent to ware fur the present the Committee of Ways and Means, to give him an opportunity of bringing forward the very important motion of which he had given notice? Mr. W. FITZG I :IA - LO said, he should be very ready to give the Hon. Gentleman every accommo. dation in his 9ower, and would therefore bevel no objection, in case the business he meant to bring fors , ward should continue beyond the time when the Hon. Member wished .o bring forward his motion, to move that the Chairman do report progress. WHITBREAD then begged leave to ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he would ex tend the same courtesy to him respecting the Com mittee on the Property Tax ? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER airwered, that it was understood the ether night, and fixed, cm the Property Tax should go through the Committee this night, and be read a third time on Monday, on which night, being the Call of the House, the genera; discussion on the Bill was agreed to take place. According to the arrangement for carrying on the public business, this was a day fp *Vet the orders preceded thin'otiCeti, ad as such (we understood) lie objected to comply with the lion. Gentleman's request. Mr. WHITBREAD said, that arrangement, it was true, had for some few Sessions past taken place, but he was never a party to it ; on the contrary, he had always expressed his disapprobation of it. His motion ass unquestionably of the highest import ance to the country, and ought to be discussed when the most attentive and serious consideration was likely to be given to it. Every one knew the nature of the Property Tax, and it might easily be proceed ed on after the discussion of his motion was closed. He, for one, was willing to agree that it should be proceeded on after his motion, and he thought no one would object to it. It remained, therefore, for the Right Hon. Gentleman to consider what course he meant to take, and to make his determination ; for his own part, he had considered, and was deter mined how to act. The House then went into the Committee of Ways ■nd Means. Mr. FITZGERALD then said, that he was per fectly aware, that in the present ao ful crisis of affairs, it would be necessary that very strenuous and active exertions should be made by Ireland in aid of the heavy taxation under which this country laboured at the present moment : therefore, when be had a few nights past opposed the motion of the lion. Gentle man ou the floor (Mr. Bankes) for the extension of the Property Tax to Ireland, it was not from any wish to prevent Ireland from contributing ai far as u as in her power to assist the publicburdens of Eng land, bat merely to imposts such taxes as were better adapted to the circumstances and situation of Ire land than the extension of the Property Tax could possibly be. Ile would, therefore, briefly state to the Committee the taxes he purposed to substitute.— He intended to propose to equalize the Assessed Taxes in Ireland in the same way they were now paid in England. He anticipated an objection that such equalization would fall heavy on the resident gentry of Leland ; but it was impossible to impose taxes without inconveniences arising to some classes of persons more than to others, and this he thought would fall where it would not be so severely felt as a tax which would affect the lower orders of the community. His next tax was a duty on Malt cor responding with the duty here. The objection to this would be that it would raise the price of beer; but that would not be more than a half-penny a pot. Ile then moved his first Resolution, which was that a duty on houses, &c. should cease. Sir J. NEWPORT said he did not mean to object to the taxes proposed, but he felt it his duty to ex press his doubts as to their productiieness. Every augmentation of the Assessed Taxes would fall heavy nn the resident gentry, and might cause them to ab sent themselves ; in such case, the seeming addition to the taxes might ultimately prove a diminution, as was the case in the duty on wines. As to thetas on Malt, the encouragement of the breweries intead of the distilleries ought to be a primary consideration with that house, as deeply affecting the morals as well as the physical powers of the Irish people. The Resolutions were then read and agreed to. WAR WITII FRANCK. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER rose 'to move the Order of the Day for the Committee on the Property Tar, when • Mr. IVIIITRIeEAD put in his claim for the pre cedence of the motion of o Web he had even notice. PrilPhsts to Mr. Permit's Resolutions, which were now cohtlooed from year to year, notices had had the precedence of orders, which had alwaysgiven way to motions of whichy by the courisey of the House, notices had been given. If he tad caught the eye of the Speaker first, he should have, therefore, had a right to the precedence of his motion, and he was now content to accept it from the Right Hou. Gent. as a courtesy. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER. was Unwilling the Bill should not pass through a stage to night, but if that could be done after the Honou rable Gentleman's motion, he was willing to give way , to the anxiety of the House to hear any motion upon the important subject of which the Hon. Gentleman had given notice. This was at last agreed to, upon the question that the House should at its rising adjourn to Monday, Which was also agreed to. ," The other Orders of the Day were then postponed to Monday. pr.WHITBREAD then proceeded with his notice. —n was not only a question of the greatest import skim in itself, bet it was important that it should be *.e it forward at this time. It would not be ne cessary to detain the House upon it, for the question lay in the smallest possible compass, and it would be for the house to decide whether they would embark the country in a war, of which the duration could not be foreseen, upon the narrow priaci pte whir+ had been avowed as the cause of it, and open which it would be for the, House to determine Whether they would consent to t ed, or whether they would Abt take tba opportunity of the documents wile'', to the discredit of our negoriators, bad been .ot every Iv.- souse understand from the Noble Lord in the Blue Ribbatid, who spoke upon the amendment which he had the honour of moving, that an alternative was still left to us, and that the die was not cast ; and that the Council of the nation were still deliberating whether they should avail themselves of the abstract right of the Allies to make war, or whether it would not be more ex pedient to confine ourselve to repelling any hostile attack either upon this country or that of those Al lies? If any thing was to be collected from the No ble Lord's speech, it was that ; and he put it to many Members of the House, whether, in voting es they did against his amendment, they did it not upon an express understanding that such amendment was unnecessary—that the Ministers had plighted their faith that war was not then decided upon in their minds as the line of policy they should adopt as ne cessary for our safety ? The whimsical description which the Noble Lord chose to give of the amend unmet was, that it was a truism ; it was, however, no abstract proposition, but a request to the Prince. Regent, praying that such measures might be taken as would be consistent with the honour of the coup. try, and its faith to our Allies, to secure us peace in preference to war. If the Noble Lord meant any thing by this, it was that it was unnecessary to re solve such an Address, for the Ministers would of course advise it. What, then, was the Surprise of the House, when they found that at the very mo ment when Ministers were deluding them with these hopes, and holding out an alternative ■s in their power, that the Noble Lord and his Colleagues had decided upon taking the line of aggressive war, and that it did not depend upon them whether we were to have war or peace, but on the Allies, to whom specific propositions had be;:n made, upon their answer to which no alternative remained. If it had not been for a publication in the Vienna Gazette (one of those illicit and premature publications whose dis closures had destroyed the fame of the Noble Lord in the Blue Ribband, but had been of great benefit to this country), he might still go on endeavouring to avert the present motion, when his line of conduct was decided even before he uttered the words upon which the false expectations of Members were found. ed. The Treaty of Vienna was signed on the 25th of March at Vienna, was received by Ministers, and not brought down to the Houses and deliberated be fore the Address was moved on the 7th. On the Bth an answer was returned to Vienna, by which our Go vernment was precluded from further deliberation.— In the course of the debate upon the Declaration of the 13th of March, which was unhappily signed by the Duke of Wellington (a measure for which it was impossible he could have had no authority), great pains were taken by the Noble Lord to thrr air of discredit on the document, which was all ed to be explained away by glosses which wei tircly inadmissible; for nothing could be more than the Declaration, the whole of it tending _ _ particular point, and it was said by the Noble to bare been taken in a state of circumstances binding on the state of circumstances of the April. The Treaty retired the D..elaratien referred to , it, called all its horrors into %cavity, ind the Declare. Lion formed the basis of the agterm •nt among the (tease federated Powers. It was now, therefore, for the Noble Lord to reconcile his words eitlethese facts. He knew by the Treaty of Vienna, of the 25th of March, that the Declaration of the 13th formed the basis of that proceeding; he knew that Millitters advised the Prince Regent to ratify the Treaty, referring to the Declaration; and he knew that there would lef no alternative left if the Allies abided by it, and ee lcepted the amount of our subsidy, the limits of ! which Lord Claticarty had power to enlarge, by signing subsidiary engagements, to what Went Mi. sisters declared it to he unconstitutional to divulge. Thus was the question shortly under• the considera tion of the House, and he should move that en hum ble Address be presented to the Prince Regent, pray. ing him to take such measurer as mould be neva:NKr to prevent the cowry from being involved its war. upon the ground of the Executive Authority in France being invested in any particular perea.n. fore the restoration of the Bourbons, that was welt, known to be the object of many advocates of the war, but they never dared to avow it. Such an ob. ject was held to be legitimate by Mr. Pitt ; but it was never held to be a tenable, one in that instance, even by those who most ardently wished fur the re storation of the Bourbons. • He then adverted to the Declaration. of the Prince Regent, that the 3d Ar. tick of the Treaty was not to be understood as bind, ing his Britannic Majesty to prosecute the war with a view of imposiot upon France any particular forte. of government. Ceresialy not : the Prince Regent had no right to do it ; such a thing was never asked front Parliament by any government, and this was in tenderness to Louis XVIII. who was desired to be a party t, it. The Allies declared, that the restora tion of the House of Bourbon was the direct object of the war. Great Britain said no, and deelaredeo: for fear of misleading. It was not contending svhe.• ther the Executive Government of France should be imperial or royal : but when it came one step far. ther, it said to France, " True; but we won't in terfere with the form of your government, but nee particular man shall not be your Emperor." If the question was viewed abstractedly, was there any ca suist so subtle, any politician so bewildered, as to take a distinction that we did not interfere with the form of a governmeut, we only interfered with the man whom the nation had elected to the head of it ? Suppose the case your own : suppose at the time of our revolution any nation had presumed to say. to os, 66 you shan't have any man of that familx i ;" and yet this was , the very,. purpose fot - Whicis: Mins tent ' were going to commit the country. in a leer, which there was no ma* who did net, aclushyleket ebat if it were not successful by a certain time, it mast begiven up. An anathema against Bonaparte was an ana thema against millions of people, and the Declara. tion of the Allies had disgusted. every independent man in the nation, and enticed him to feel shame that the hand of the Duke of Wellington was subscribed to it. It preached up the doctrine of assassination in so many words ; it declared. Banal arte to be out of the pale of civil society, had rendered himself liable to public vengeance, and had destroyed the only legal title out which his existence depended. What was this but saying, for him there is no law, no protection ; and for you who may chonse to take his life, you may plunge a sword through his body ivith impunity, inasmuch as he is the disturber of the repose of mankind ; and therefore you steed not fear punishment, but you will entitle yourself to the general thanks of mankind ? Under this Declaration would not any man be justified in bringing him to im mediate execution, without the form of a trial ? The present afforded us an instance (for the first time in the history of the world) of a war against one man ; for what was Boneparte's power unless supported by the people of France ? The first• Article of the Treaty of Vieena pledged the Allies to unite the resources of their respective %hates against the designs of 80. naparte, and the whole was written in the spirit of murder and assassination—of the Declaration of March 13. It pledged the Allies to the " union of all their efforts against him, and against all who have already joined his faction, or should thereafter join it, in order to force him to desist from his projects, and to render him unable to disturb in future the tranquillity of Europe, and the general peace, under the protection of which the rights, liberty, and in. dependence of nations had been recently placed and secured." He called the attention of the Houie to the egotistical falseness of the latter part of this at. title. These rights there were persons who still con fidently talked of; and there were mighty persons (the Noble Lord was one of them) who still called themselves the liberators of Europe: and yet they were ready to renew war, and again make the whole Continent a scene of blood, to effect the death of one man. 'they still talked of their happy arrange. ments for the deliverance of Europe, when, in con sequence of not keeping their own engagements, all Italy was op in arms, and their whole arrangement was likely to be broken to pieces before the ear be gins. The Treaty referred to the Declatation, moil that declared the life of Bonaparte to lie at the mercy of every man, because lie had no longer a le gal title to it—there could be neither peace nor war with him ; and yet we were going to war with a man with whom vie could mske neither p uce nor treaty : neither, if the French supported . ,q 1 • f disoloied, to pray the Prince Repast to avert tke bor. of war from thecattilleypkynkkingrimr-Vkand 41444*. WO* 41441101ipp AtMarser Addrfss was #oted to the Prfitee cosnifillitienct of MI Message, did not every Member of the House understand from •ow ail him , could we with them. Supposing Napoleon ••. ltempt. I were to fall in the very first battle, the ohject of the •,, • ere en. I war according to the Treaty would be at an end.— simple , The Bourbons had no hold of the .Fteuch pel ple v•-• • h to ones who would not choose them to be restored; but t. Lord there were doubtless other persons ag ainst Isom we ces not might direct the sae personal hatred, and who, if • 7th of they were io the same situation to call forth t!..eir t.i. • Y • ,