The Statesman. — London, England, 1820-05-04 00:00:00

-: -----..."--- 4 • _ . 4 . ____„...„. ;,-....;-..;_- -..- ..---- - ogrria. . I -aa t , - , - ,- .7, - -7` : '111t .4 - ° .. '.4.... i'• . v .! : • at cup it it . , 4 : . : .. . ' 1 • J . . t ' • , itstia,..„.fitadue) nt • .•... ti,...•, it . (fotatesmalt, LONDON; THUR6DAY, MAY 4, 1810. . .. .. 4 . .. .. 1 V l ' -1708. " The Canes for whicA HAAIPDEN fell no the Field, ea SYDNEY died on the fieefehir Pima Swan Paws. • TINIT: OF NEW WELSH MELO-DRAMA EOVA!, ANIPMTHEATRE. ASTLEY'S, WIL6TMINITSII-11R114111. DR. WILCOI', ALIAS PETER PINDAR. --- This day was published, by (loud and Northhouse, No. V. price Its. (Id. of rir 11F. LONDON 31.16.1Z1N5i a•el MONTHLY 1. CRITIC tl. and DR tM VrIC REVIEW. embellished ith a striking and elegant Portrait of the late Dr. Waleot; and containing in 11 wen aptly, I. Life of Or. Waleot, by one of his most intimate friends, comprising litany interesting Origi nal Anecdotes anti unpublished Poetry ; 11. I.ife of the late lienj.West, P.R.I. ; AkciorMlST, No. VII. Marianne Mont morency. or the Victims of the Revolution, a '('ale; VIII. The Old Maid; IX. The Lady of the Hill; CRITICAL ESILTII, 09 the Genius and Writings of iEsschylns; NIISCELLANSCOUS A Utile kasi, ISketches of Switzerland and theft hine,by • recent Traveller; 11. Modern Novelists, Miss Porter, Miss Edge worth, Mrs. Hannah Moore, and Mr. Maturin ; 111. .4 New gate Pastoral; IV. Singular Habits and Manglers of the In habitants of London in the lath and Ithh Centuries; V. siogular Customs and Ceremonies of various Nations; Lyre s: oft Re/tits'. I. Southey's Life of Wesley; 11. &dell's Travels in France, Italy. and retsina& ; 111. Millivolt's Fall Tragedy Jerusalem, a Tmfdy ; IV. Mill's History of the Crw *sties ; V. The Monastery ; VI. Retribution, a Poem. by Swan; VII. Patronage: VI,II. Foreign Literature Five ARTS, I. Harioa's Picture of Christ'' Kitrance into Jeru salem; 11.0 d andWaterColossrs Exhibition ; Dame kTIC Re crew, I. King's Theatre ; 11. Drury-lane ; 111. Covent-gar den; IV. Minor Theatres; V. Parisian Theatres; Table Talk fur every Day in May ; Asteedotes ; Onus OIAL POSTRT, Longinus o'er a Bottle, Canto IV. &c ; Literary, Scientific. Foreign, Domestic, and University Intellimeace ; kleterolo gical Reports ; iiirtlis, Re. ; Prices of Stock, fie. N.H. The title of this Work having been pirated, i. :• ne cessary to inquire expressly fur (JOLD'S LONDON MAGIMINR. —I, Lrrat Russel -street, Covent-garden. '.* The last Number contained ass rignisite likeness and well-written Life of the late Beniasnin West, P.R. A.; and the preceding three Numbers. of Lord Byron, Mrs. Beecher, Isis late Majesty. an.l the Duke of Feat. MII)WIFERY.-I,adirs who wish for temporary Retirement bring their Aceoueliement. will meet with comfortable Apartments, on moderate terms, with the most tender treatment, by applying to Mrs. SMITH, Midwife. No. ID, Church-street, Illackfriars-road. Every maternal at'..ailon paid to the Children that are left to her rare. In eminent Medical ilentleinan attends, if desired.—All letters post-paid. no others auswereal. hail been to encourage this great source of national wealth and !lower. When the House heard the peti. tion real, they would see that it was dictated in terms the most moderate; and that it contained no exagge rated statement, would he evident to any person who should take the trouble to go down to Yorkshire, and there witness the distress awl misery under which the manufacturers were suffering. It mast then be evi dent. that a tax of this kind laid on the raw material, must have been an act of imprudence, folly, a'ul cruelty. This had been stated to be a measure of re venue; but he contended that as a revenue it had completely failed, because it hail th • etfeet of excluding from the country a great portion of those articles of importation on which taxes hail been raised; and very lately a moat important contract bad been lost to Sig country in conseqwence of the tax for a proposal had been made to our cloth-workers to clothe a great part of the Russian army, hat they were tinder the necessity of declining the contract, on account of the impossi bility of supplying the article at the price proposed to he given. The tax, so far from benefiting, did an in jury to the wool-growers, because, on account of the diminution of the manufacturers, wool was now a mere drug in their hands; while the tax was completely impotent in the way of revenue. The woollen menu , factures of the West Riding of Yorkshire, were last year diminished by one-sixth of their former amount. Therefore, the removal of the tax was a matter of ne-1 . cesuty, even for the protection of the wool-growers., His Lordship then presented the petition : it was from the woollen manufacturers of Leeds and its neighbour hood ; it stated the severe hardships under which the petitioners laboured in eonsoquence of nut bring able to obtain a sale for their commodities, owing to the tax on the raw material, which enhanced its price; and prayed that the tax might be repealed. The CIIINCELWR of the It XCIIEQICRIt ap peared to us to say, so far as we could catch some of his words (for he spoke in his usual lou tone of voice), that the tax on wool hail not yet been fairly tried ; for a part of it did not conic into operation until last Ik tuber, and another part not until January last; and therefore, as a measure of revenue, it had not failed. Besides, therm was a great supply of foreign wool in the market. regulating the office of Clerk of the Peace in Ireland. —Leave was given. Mr. HUMP. rose to move for several accounts re lapecting public expenditures,to which the Right Non. Gentleman opposite could nut make the same ohjectiou which he did to the motion of the Hon. 11..ronet. The House must be anxious to obtain some information respecting the income of his late Majesty on the re served revenues, as well as the Civil List. The ex penditure up to the year 1815, was before the House; and he waned to know what was the expenditure from that time to the sth of January, 1820. He should move fur the whole of these accounts, stating those .if each year, and that the accounts of the last year should give a total detail of the whole of the state ments. Mince the year 1786, when the expenditure of the year was placed in classes, many alterations hatl taken place, by transferring various sums from one head to another: and if the various items were looked at, it woui.l be (Amerced, that there were good grounds for altering the arrangements as they now existed ; and which made it difficult to understand the nature, or amount of the different items of expenditure. It was necessary then to have the details of all the hese. The salaries of several public officers were paid out of different funds, one receiving a certain portion of his salary out of one fund, and the remainder out of sass ther whereas each salary should-he paid out of one distinct fond. In consequence of this anonra!y, it was scarcely possible for any one clearly to understan I how the salaries were paid. As the House ought not to he kept in it upon this subject, he hoped the Right Hon. tientlesnan would not oppose the pro• (faction of the papers he should move for. Ilia tikes t was, first, that there should be laid before the House an account, showing the sums paid for each class. it was intended to give aoy information to the House. it would be impossible to refuse this return, for it would be found that the estimate of 1756 had been departed from, and that great confusion had been the consequence. The House, besides, ought to know whether the establishment fixed by the Act of tits. 56th year of the late Kin , . was strictly adhered to. He believed it would he found, that in many items tlo average amount had been greatly increased. Nothin.; then could satisfy the House but having these returns given in detail. His second resolntion would he, fer a Return of the amount of Payments mask under th , bead of Civil Contingencies. '1 hos would the Hsott , e be able to bring up the whole to the sth of January, 1820. The third resolution would be, for an Abstract of the Accounts in totals, from January, 1815, to January, 1820. He concluded with moving for an Account in totals of the Sums paid for each °lrks whit respect to the Civil List, from the sth of January, 1815, to the sth of January, 1820, stating in detail the sums of the last year, accompanied by a statement of all the outstanding claims on the Civil List that were still unsatisfied. 'vials EV EX ISO, and durittg the Week, at HAU- L rast Sit it'..lock ;4ecisely. an entirely new interest :or suteadld I.:.ptestria4 Melo-Draina. called XAI iOF l'IliNA Olt. To F vrA FLOOD-6 ATE. Xaia (Cm Fisliertesn's Wife). Nlrs. T with the Sista; of the Waters. and Miraculous of the Prince by Me sagacity of his Horse. 'foe Tout; Austrian's surprising Horsemanship. without - or bridle. psrtiruisrly his imitation of a Drunken II us oar. on the hum's bar., hack. Mrs. Mos n ss ill exitibit her various Evolutions on llorse 'Ark . A (*mule Song. by Mr. Stoma. Likewis?. esiotordinsry Ito A° Mowing. by Monsieur Lon saviour. fr nt Clowns. Mes.rs. Fi Hingham and Drown. troop Volticeiirs and Te.uhlers will go tlwough :heir aarprish.g, ulationg. The whale to conclude with a New Romantic W e l s h mo o _ Dramsonitk eatlrel) No;a Pictaresquisscenery, Dresses and l'etneaelpas, imerapersed with S‘Jats. Deets, Choruses's, and Combats, milled THE WHITE II %RD'S TOWER. BOW. A.—Gallery. Is. Dents to IMO °pea at half-past F: anti begih at half-past Sit o'Clock precisely.—Half-price at half-past 3ight.— Y:sces for tie Howl to be taken of Mr. Kiuloch, at the itos-Onlee. from Ten till Four o'clock. Equestrian Tuition daily, from Nine till Three. EDUCATION 6F POOR CII lI.DREN IN THE ME TROPOI.I9. A T a MEETINO of the COMMITTEE of the ;t WEST LONDON SUNDAY SCHOOL SOCIETY. •••I.;:,lkhrJ fie the Instruction of t•lrildren and Adults, In the W.s:ern part of the Metropolis audits Vicinity, held 31st April. It itt JOSEPH BUTTERWORTH. Esq. M.P. in the ('hair. The follow iug }Levitt was made by the Secretary, and adopted by the Committee : I. That by elate Return of Numbers in the Schools under the manaerment of this S.:ci:•ty. there :were three thousand ue hundred and fifty-two Children, besides a number of Adult Persous, receiving Instruction on the Sabbath-day ; wl.ielt Schools are situated in poor and populous neighbour hoods. viz. Oeorge-yard. Drury-lane; Peter-street. Soho; George-yard, Crown-street. St. tiiles's Hintie-street. M ary le-bone ; Old I.ord's Cricket-ground, Paddington; Maiden lair. Rattle-bridge; George-street, Chelsea. and King's rwd, ditto Horse-ferry-road. Westminster ; and Min ified, Lambeth ; and that these School's since their iamb- Ildieint hate afforded Instructien, more or less, to upwards of twenty-ti i a thousand Children. i. That notwithstanding the ember of Children in these , sad the various other Charity Schools In the Metropolis, it has been ascertained that there are still many thousands who attend no School whatever; whose Parents continually ab sent thems..ltes from places of public worship ; and WV ierent to their Children s improvement, leave them to grow up in otter ignorance of all moral and religious duties, and 1 lathe degrading habits of vice and depravity. These lamen :bit facts sic folly confirmed by the minutes of evidence caret before the Select Committee of the llonseof Commons, rppointcd to inquire into the Education of the Lower Orders in the Metropolis, and also by an estensiv .• inquiry recently, snide from house to house, by which it has been ascertained, tier Ilinativelk toadied and eighty-one feallieela the neigh- N-Airlgood of the Seven-dials and Drurv-lane only, theft are eleven hundred and twenty Children, from :he sgq of five to fourteen, who cannot read, and thirteen hundred and Any one who do not attend any school whatever. Mee' , Children of poor Irish families have no other means of Instruction Into from Sunday Schools. 3. That the affecting increase of juvenile offenders of late y ars, has been ascertained to originate chiefly in the want of Mut:alio') and moral instruction. • f After a few words from Lord MILTON, the petition was received, and ordered to lie on the table. New Poe r-Orrtcc.—M r. It. tiOII,DON said, that preparatory to the motion he had to make, he thought it necessary to state, that he had always been hostile to the plan of applying any of the looney belonging to the Orphans' rand of the City of London, to the purpose of defraying the eveuse of any aastssudaLisa building. Such application, however had been made, in the instance to which lie now alluded ; and he, therefore, moved that there he laid before the !louse an account of the progress already made in the build ing of the New Post-olfict ; the snots already expended upon, it, and of the estimates that had been made of the ex Lenses.—( kilered. The CHANCHLIPR of the EXCHF.QUEII said, that the Art of 1816, with regard to the Civil List, had conclusively arranged the appropriations of th • various items of the Civil List. If the Houom ah.e Member ima:ined that this Art had been violated i:t any particular, it was for him to show it. Hut unless some such violation were intended to be exposed, the account would prove perfectly nugatory. The ar rangement of the items of the Civil List were ere. 'e I by the Act after due deliberation and diet-union. The lion. Gentleman and the House might be certain that no excess of expenditure, over the amount settied he the legislative arrangement bad taken place. The Hight lion. Gentleman then moved, as au amendtu-nt, the previous question. Mr. HUME challenged the Hight Hon. Genth m to point oat any one account where the items a Vie Civil List were to be found. The Hight Hi n. - man wuul.l remember, that the Act of 1816 had teen at several times altered since. Nor was it an unusual thing for Ministers to propose the violation of Acts t t Parliament. Firmly convinced that the House haa a night to hare before them the whole of the items of th • Civil List, he trusted that they would assist hint in an attempt to procure the suems of his motion. Mr. HCSKISSON thought that it was entirely a new de-trine to maintain that the House had a right to call un the Crown for an account of the expeniii tare of the Civil List. He had the authority of Mr. Fox for saying, that unless upon occasions when the Crown cause to Parliament for its assistance in some modification of the Civil List, it was not allowed In Parliament to call f au account of the expenditure f that department.- -(Hear!)—The Hon. Newt... told, that the sum fixed by the arrangement of 1t 16 had not been exceeded in any year sii.ce that time. It was at that time provided, that if there had be:n any ex..sns of expenditure over the estimates, to Ow amount of 16,00 W., then that the subject would be brought before Parliament. If, then, there was rt. , - thing demanded of Parliament, it was a proof that t:,ere bad been no excess, and this being the case, it could not be proper to call for any account. It ap pearing, therefore, that the arrangement for the Civil List now was the same as that contained in the Act of 1816, the Hon. Gentleman would find all the infor mation he could expect in the details of that Act. Mr. TIERNF.Y admitted, that the usuage as to the occasion of calling for an Amman% of the Civil List ex penditure, was as the Right Hon. Gentleman had stated it to be. Hat his 'peels was certainly an extraordi nary one. The Hight Hon...lead/Inman spoke as if the Civil list had been in existen..e, whet-sae they were then ildled upon to form a Civil List. Heave his Friend (Mr. Hume) sought for information that :se peered to him necessary. When a message from his Majesty stated, that he would be content to take the arrange - meats of labs fur placing at the di/tonal of the House the hereditary revenue of the Cretin, the question nu, was this a proper arrangesn.nt to . he made. His Hon. Friend wished to have very Ms. i.ortant piece of whett , all the voted Ltrr.--.-Sir H. PARNELL said, he rose to move roe certain papers relative to the Civil List, and the expenses attending the Civil Governma nt of the country. Hi. , object was, that the House should know what was the nature of the Civil List in the year and what additions had been made to it, and what charges hail been made upon it since that time. It was only by documents of this kind that the House could comprehend the subject. It was also necessary to know, what progress halal been made in the here ditary revenue of the Crown. The iiiii important thing, however, of all, would he, to know what was the expense of supporting the Civil Government, for 0.4 expense was not paid out of the Civil List, as some persons might suppose. The expense of the Civil Government was little short of tau milli a-year. It wonld he nee aaaaa y also to know, what were the expenses of managing the hereditary revenues. Great reductions, it was said, might he made in these ; and in order that a correct judgment might be farmed ou that point, he should move for accounts of carious offices anal expenses attached to those revenues--such as fines, fee-farm rents, woods and forest.; alienations - , &c. lie should also propose, that there be laid before the House an Account of certain Emoluments attached to the Duchy of Lancaster, as well as all the expenses relating to it. 'the Hon. Baronet concluded with moving for the several accounts to which he alluded. The first was for an account of the several additions made by his late 3lajcsty to the livil List, ant of the charges taken from it and transferred to either funds. 4. That considerable improvement has been made in the minds and morals of many of the Children, by the instrie lion in the Schools of this Society, fort long series of years; er;4 that ne,perous instances have occurred in which the pa rents and outer parts ofthe families, have also derived great byneff: by means of the Children attending these Schools. 6. That teeny of the Teachers in the different Schools have exerted themselves to aid the funds of the Society, and have manifested an earnest desire to increase their laboureand to persuade their friends to unite their services. if an extended number of Schools could be °pelted fur the Poor:- 0+ which the ('ommittee resolved ; 1. Tint is highly desirable to extend the benefits of this Society, and that the Committee world open more Schools. protided they could be furnished with the means of defray kg the expense attending the same. 2. That the instruction afforded by this Society Is espe cially calculated to counteract that moral poison which has of tate bees diffused to an alarming degree, by the eircula ti, a of biasphemous and seditious plibileations amongst the lower classes; inasmuch as the Children educated in these Schools are assiduously taneht to reverence the sacred Scripture. snd to regulate their conduct by Its divine precepts. 3. That the plan of employing none but gratuitous Teach er+. Secretaries, and Visitors, be strictly adhered to by this lt() - levy, as the best means of securing attachment between the Teachers sad Children, and of promoting the interests of the Schools. 4. That as the funds of the Society are inadequate to the present expenses of School Rents, Books, Repairs, and other incidents) charges, and the Treasurer being already in ad vance nearly 213.11.. that an appeal be made to the Public in behalf et this Society ; and as such numbers of Children are perishing for lack of knowledge, filet benevolent persons be respeetfully end earnestly requested to contribute their as sistance to this most simple and effectual method of convey tag morel and religions instruction to the Children of the Poor. by teschiag them to read the Holy Scriptures. F. W. WARR. Sac. Subscriptions reeeived by Joseph Butterworth, Esq. and Rea. Mk Fleet-street ; Mr. John Cooper, 5, Queen-street. Chespsitle; Mr. Henry Clarke, b.!. New Bond-street; Mr. raider. Market-street, Oxford-street; and Mr. Warr. Red f.lms-passage, Red Lion-square; of whom may be had the iie;etris of the Society. \ • The CHANCELIAtIt of the EXCHEQUER con ceived the accounts moved for by the lion. Baronet to be wholly unnecessary, because they I.hochl be all laid before the Mouse along with the genera: accounts of the expenditure of the year. The Committee ap pointed to consider the Civil List in It+ 111, had made a report, which contained a great part of the informa tion now sunght for; the Hon. lloeunet m ight see th a t report; and any Gentleman might move that it be re printed. He could not agree to the Hon. Baronet's motion, and should more the previous queition. Mr. TIERNEY said, if his Hon. Fiend waived his motion, he should not be understood as giving up the right to move for the accounts in question, whenever be should deem it necessary. Mr. CALCRAPT observed, that as th-• Chancellor of the Exchequer had no objection to the re-printing of the report of 11116, it would be proper to make a motion to that effee. 5,000 TICKETS ARE DRAWN. Cnit( )1.1., the Contractor, begs to acquaint the Public. that, although 5,0001165ta base been drawn, Yet the following Is the MTI! Or THE WIIIIL. Four Prizes of 230,000 130.090 110,000 /30,0110 Two Prizes of .t mum 210,000 Four Prizes of 'NU £l.OOO 21.001► Sixt% -eight Prizes of Amt. di4OU. ZSUU &e. &c. Making together in Money and Consols. SEVENTY-EIGHT CAPITALS YET UNDRAWN. TWO Prizes oft 10,000 NCR IR DRAWN IN THE FIRST nec MISI:T/LS NEXT DAY, likb MAY. Warranted Undrawn Tickets and St.ares are selling by C‘nnot.L, Contractor, No. 19, Corohill, and 99, Oxford btrce:. Condos, who shared and sold, in the last few swaths, V.ll/47 tIO.WO LOOS 26,000 ?SS . 21.000 11,226 Y OUO Sir H. PARNELL said, he wished the rtrort rui:ht be re-printed. The previons question was then put and carried. The original motion of course was l Ott. Sir 11. PARNELL then moved, that the Report of 1816 be r..-printed. This motion, after some remarks from Mr. TIER NEY, was agreed to. Mr. I'ALCR,AI I I . slid, that, in the Lbseure of his Right lion. Friend, the Siemin•r f,r IVat..rfurd, he should none that leave .ic g:rCn to Limp Iu a Dili for 4 1. ii 0.00,) le. as. r shared and sold Foar Capital Prises that were drawn last Thursday, V7th April. , ..• rannou. has Agents in all the principal Towns I .ruughutd the Country. ittrurmation, palm t?, wheaer :Ar rt..t $ nett upon accoun, the List / • 1 imisgezmimikAil 1 IMPEItI.4L PARLI.I.fIE4Yr HOUSE OF LORDS, WIDNESDAT, MAT S. The Marquis of Salisbur►•, the Marquis of Sligo, and Saltuun took the oaths. 3lr. Smith brought up the Sixth Report of the Com missioners for repairing Roads and Bridges in Scotl4ml. 31r. Bulky, front the Exchequer, presented ■n Ac count of the state of the In•erest of the Public Funded Debt payable in lireat Britain on the sth of January. Mr. Spicer, from Chelsea Hospital, brought up the Annual Accountof the Unclaimed Prites.—.►djourned. HOUSE OF OF COMMONS, MAY 3. Several Idevabereeewk tire svelte ; kinong ?Item were Lord Nugent, Lord Clive, Mr. Sli.Lw ~ f VIIMtn, And Mr. Peter Browne. Mr. Bulky, front the Byrhequer, pregentell an Ac count of the Unfou4o , l Debt of the Ern i '', 1.. Mr. Spicer, frosu t:heilsea Ilospit .1, pr. tentell an Ac count of the Uncl.tilueil Prize 31 ll o fi o.tey in the '1 reaaurer. The Sixth Report of the ttttt ni-sioners of !loads and Bridges in Scotland was laid before the House. Mr. H. CAVENDISH brought up a Report of a Cum 'Hitter, and on that Report obtained leave to bring in a Bill for lighting the town of Iterhv with kits. On the motion of Mr. CA LCRA FE, leave was given to bring in a Bill to alter and extend the powers of tw • Arts for rebuilding Drury•lane 'I Iscatre. A Petition was presente•l, complaining of an undue election for the bormgla of Brillport, whirls was ordered to be taken into consideration on the IA of June. CATO-STILILETCONSI'I+IAVA.-111"..11 , 11•rillallIVOOD said, he rose to give notice of his intclition to wale a motion on a subject which hi eonsiglerod to be of great imperrtanee. Information had been very recently cools inunicated to him, that th•orgr Edwards, wiaoae name he had brought under the core•ileration of (tie House, on the preceding day, was en the point of going out of the country. limuediately on arisl, this, he wr ste to the Secretary of Stale, acibmitting to him the ue cessity of taking some step to prevent A man with such heavy charges hanging over his head from going away. Ile now gave notice, that on luesalay next, he should move for the app int:pent of a Secret l'onamittee to ex amine witnesses respecting eerrain elt:ages that had been preferred against George Edwards. COLONIAL APPOINTAVNT.—Iwird MILTON moved that an humble Address be presented to his Majesty, praying that he world he gra. ionNly pleased t • give directions for laying before the ilonAe, a Elliby of the appointment of Henry Elis, I. to the other of Colo nial Secretary to the Cape of 1:ood llope.---1 /tarred. TAX ON 11'1'01. —llr. S. Willi 1 . 1• El" said, he hail to present a Petition again,. this t •x. which hr con sidered to be most Alalt're and ' , politic. Every argu ment used against it at tic. time it was imposed, Was now completely roafinued. lie hoped the question would be shortly bronrht ' , fore the Douse, anal fully discussed. Then he had n.• alimht but that the tax would appear to he the IIIII:•t it'll ( a ntic anal cree l of any that had ever been imposed. Ile then presented a Pe tition from a great tintost•er of woollenonanufarturers against the tax on wool.—Oellered to lie on the table. Loral MILION said, hr held in his hand a similar petition, to which, if the number of signatures was not very great, it was not to he inferred fauns that circum stance, that the pi•stioo was not one of the greatest importance to the prosperity al the country. It was doing no more than justice .o the parties win, signed this petition, to state, th it in the midst of their dis tresses they had conducted. thclasselves with the utmost prudence: that no po!alic m chi ugs had been held upon the subject, because sn ell nu clings wind I only iurrease the public ferment o hieh already unfortunately ex isted. All they watittol Wlll merely to obtain redress; and that could only be done by the repeal of a tax which was contrary t•• public policy, and contrary to t h e 5 44'11111 pledge which Parliament had repeatedly given to the rountcv. He would say the pledge, be . - ca ns ; the proivip•e the practice of P.:rlianient ever r i