The Statesman. — London, England, 1815-02-27 00:00:00

sTATESMAN: EXTRACT from Me PRINTED VOTES of the HOUSE of COMMONS, of Feb. 21. A schedule of the duties payable annually for ~v er y male person detained or employed in the seve tat capacities herein mentioned, over and above the duties in schedule C. No. 1 and No. 2. For every male person employed as a rider, traveller, or agent, where the same employer shall k e ep or employ one such male person only, the sum of .11. is. A n d where the same employer shall keep or ern rlo) more than one such male person, for each the !a m of 71. 10s• For every male person employed as book-keeper, ~: i c e. keeper, clerk, or writer, the respective duties foilowing, viz.: If such male person shall be employed by any merchant, banker, broker, trader, or other person o r persons not having a shop or warehouse for the sale of goods, Wares, or merchandise, where the same e mployer shall keep . or employ one male person only i i i ,ucli capacity, the sum of 41. 49. For more than one male person in such capacity, for etch the sum of 71. 10s. if such male person shall be employed by any i r dor a shop or warehouse for the sale of resod:. %arcs, or merchalidise, and she business , .11 be wholly transacted its such shop or ware / :use, where the same employer shall keep or ern. ; 00y one male person only in such capacity, the sum of 31. quantity of geld exceeding two penny weight 4, and under two ounces in weight, or any quantity of silver exceeding five pennyweights, and under thirty ounces in weight, in any one separate and distinct ware or piece of goods, is, are, or shall be manufactured, the additional sum of 21. 66. By every person trading in, selling any gold .or silver plate, or any goods or wares in which any quantity of gold, of the weight of two ounces or op t wards, or any quantity of silver, of the weight of thirty ounces or upwards, in any one separate and distinct ware or piece of goods, ic, or shall be manu factured, and by every pawnbroker trading therein, selling gold or silver plate, or goods or wares in which any quantity of gold or silver is or shall be manufac , tared, or taking and delivering out pawns of such, plate, goods, or wares, and for every licence to be taken out by every• refiner of gold or silver, the addi tional sum of 51. 15s. By every calico printer, and every printer, painter or stainer of linens, cottons, or stuffs, the additional sum of .101. By eery maker of soap for sale, the additional sum of 21. By every distiller or maker of low wines or spirits ' for sale. or for exportation, within that part of Great Britain called England, the additional sum of 101. By every rectifier of spirits within that part or Great Britain called England, the additional sum of 51. I By every dealer .in brandy, or other spirituous . . For more than one male person in such capacity, liquors nr strong waters, not being a retailer in any for etch the sum of 41. 10s. part of Great Britain, or not being a wholesale seller And if any such mate person shall be employed of, or dealer in plain aquavita oely, distilled from to transact his business in an office or counting-house malt, corn, grain, b ar ley, b eer , hi gg , or ot h er B r i t i s h distinct from such shop or warehouse, the further materials, in that part o f G rea t B r it a i n ca ll e d Scot st.m of 11. , land, the additional sum of 51. For every male person em ployed RS a manage r , By every person in that part of Great Britain called Scotland, who shall, by w h o l esa l e , se ll or oreiseer, or foreman, or clerk under a manage r , deal in spirits made ae d di s till e d f rom ma lt, o verseer, or foreman, the sum of 31. corn , grain, barley, beer, hi gg , or o th er B r i t i s h. ma t er i a l s, Fur every male Iverson employed as shopman, warehouseman, or cellarmati, the sum of 31. and commonly called or known ht the name of Fur every male person employed as's' porter, car- aquavitr, in that part of the United Kingdom, not ter, or driver, the sum of 31. being a licensed distiller, rectifier, compounder, or For every artiste person employed as a barge, retailer of spirits, not bei ng a de a l er i n b ran dy or lighter, keel, or boatman, in or upon an d canal or other spirituous liqu or s, d u ly li cense d f or th a t p ur - Oland navigation, the sum of 11.10 s. pose in manner above-mentioned, to sell plain aqua- For every male person employed as a waiter to vita only by wholesale, the additional su m o f 21. wait on guests in any tutern, coffee-house, inn, ale- . By every retailer of distilled spirituous liquors or house, eating or victualling-house, or in any hotel strong waters in Great Britain, not bei n g a re t a il er pr loilgina,P.houie, except occasional waiters, the sum '• of plain annavitz, only made or distilled from Bei. of 41. ti , .. tish materials, in that part of Great Britain called And for every male person so employed as an oc- Scotland, if the dwelling-house i n which such re asional waiter therein, if for the period of six ca. I taller shall reside or retail, shall not, together with lender months in any year, the sum of 31. !the offices therewith, be raised under the authority And for a lesser period than six calendar months of the Act or Acts of Parliament for granting duties; in any year, the sum of 11.. m. on inhabited houses at a rent of 151. per annum or ' For every male person employed as an hostler in upwards, the add i tional sum of 21. 7 s . ; if a t 151. an) mn or livery stable, the sum uf 4i. 100. per annum or upwards, and under 201. the additional. i Lil i.... 4 ON TOBACCO. sum of 2i. 11s.; ii at 201. per annum or upwards, For every pound weight of tobacco imported into and under 25.. the additional sum of 11. 155.; if at Glee Britain, an additional duty of 4d. 251 per annum, or upwards, and under 301. the ad. DUrtiis ON EXUSIe LICeNCES.• ditional sum of 21. 195.; if at 301. per annum o r u p-' For every licence z o he take n out by au auctioneer a ards, and under 4jl. the additional sum of 31. 35.; the additional sum of Ba. if at 401. per anuem, it xipwarelai, and under 501. ily every common brewer of table-beer, not being the adilitiinal sum of ., r. if at 501, per an. a •••ntruonlirewer of strong beer, the additlopal sum num, or upward!, the • • sum of. 31. 11s. , of 11. By every , pet soit,Atirsy, --the - Husks of any By every curammas besot,- who theft brew any Royal Burgh, Burgh of Barony, or Regality, in strong beer, if the quantity of beer brewed by such any part of Scotland, or its any place in any other common brewer, within the year ending the sth day part of Scotland other than within the Highlands of of July in etch year, previous to taking out the li- Scotland, limited and described in the Acts in th cent*, shall not exceed 1000 barrels, the additional case made and provided, shall retail any spirits mad sum of 15s. ; if the same shall exceed 1000 barrels, or distilled fJom malt, corn, grain, barley, beer, bigg, and shall not 'exceed '2OOO barrels, the additional or other British materials, and commonly called or sum of It.; and so progressively up to 30,000 fur-' known by the name of aquevitz in that part of the eels, and not exceeding 40,000, when the additional . United Kingdom, to retail plain aquavits only, the charge is 201. and above 40,000, 251. i additional sum of 21. By every person who shalt first become a common By every person who shell retail such spirits within brewer of strong beer, the additional sum of fifteen the several counties and districts of the Highlands shillings, and *Ohio) ten days after the 'sth day of of Scotland, the Royal Burghs, Burghs of Barony Jul) next, alter taking out such licence, such fur- or Regality therein excepted, the additional sum ther additional sum as, with the said fifteen shil- of 11. . bee', shall ainnunt to the duty herein-before di- By every starch-maker, the additional sum of 51. rested to be pa d, accor!ing to the number of For every maker of any kind of sweets or made barrels of strong beer brewed within the preceding wines, other than mead, for sale, the additional year, the additimml sum of fifteen shillings and no sum of 51. surcharge. By every retailer of British made wine or-sweets, By every maker of wax candles or spermaceti can- the additional sum of 21. 4s. dies for silt, the additional sum of 61. I For every licence to he taken out by every menu By every dealer in or seller of wax or spermaceti facturer of tobacco or snuff, if the tobacco or snuff enndles, not b. ing a maker of such candles, the addi. work, w ighed by such person for Vienufeettire, ' Coma sum of 10s. 6d. within the year ending on the 10th of October: pre- By el ery'chandler or maker of candles other than vious to taking out the licence, shall not have es- aas or spermaceti candles, for sale, the additional ceeded twenty thousand pounds weight, the additional sum of It. sum of 1I.; if the sameshall have exceeded twenty thou- By (eery person trading in, vending or selling sand pounds weight, and not thirty thousand pounds, eeFee, tea, cocoa-nuts, or chocolate, the additional the additional sum of 11. los., and so on' progres. sum of ss. 641. sively on every additional 10,000 pounds weight up By eve's , glass maker, for each and every glass- to 100,000; and then, if the same shall have ex. ' house, the additional sum of 101. ceeded 100,000 pounds, and shall not have exceeded . By esery tanner within the weekly Bills of Morta- 120,000 pounds weight, the additional sum of 61. ; ' Fey, the additineal sum of 5!. and if the same shall have exceeded 120,000 pounds, I By every other tanner, the additional sum of and shall not have exceeded 150,000 pounds weight, 21. 10s. the additional sum of 71. 10s.; and if the same shall By every d r esse r of lades and skins, in oil, the have exceeded 150,000 pounds weight, the additional* additional sum of i. sum of 101. By every currier, the additi' r sum of 21. By every person who shall first heenme a manage:: Cy catty maker of 'STRUM for parchment, the ad. • turer of tobacco or snuff. the additional stertof 11. ; ' Iditional suet of 11. . and, within ten days after the 10th day of October By every met ister or maker of malt, if the quan- next, after taking out such licence, such further ad. lily in malt made by such inaltster or maker of malt : ditional sum as, with the Said it. shall amount to . nithin the year ending the sth day of July in each' the duty hereigetnfore directed to be paid, according year, previous to taking out the licence, shall not ex- I to the quantity of tobacco and snuff-work weighed seed '.:) quarters, the additional sum of 21. 6d. andifor manufacture within the preceding year, then& io in propelling for every additional 50 quarters, ! ditinnal sum of 11. and a surcharge. luta the quantity shall exceed 550 quarters, when i By every dealer in or seller of tobacco or snuff, the additional sum is 11. 10s. • ! within the limits of the chief office of Excise in By every person who shall first become a maltster London, or of the chief (Ake in Edinburgh, the ad o: maker of malt for sale, Cie additional sum of two ditional sum of ss. shillings and al ; and within ten days after the 1 By every dealer in or seller of tobacco or snuff in sth day of July my, after tal;i• g out such licence, : any other part of Great Britain out of the said limits, such further additional sum us, with the said two the additional sum of 2s. 6il. shining, and six *, shall amount to the duty here- By e ery maker of vinegar for sale, the additional . i9-before directed to be paid, according to the quart- sum of 101. i tit, of malt made within the preceding year, the By every retailer of foreign wine, in that part of additional um ally() shillings and sixpence, with a (seat Britain called England, alio shall not have an serchatp. .. Excise licence for retailing distilled seii ituoua liquors By every Make, of teetheglin or mead for sale, the or s tron g waters, or a licence , fir the raiding of addninnal gulp of it. • beer, ale, or other exciseable liquors, to retail to- By every Maker of paper or pt steboard, and every reign wine, the additional sum of 51.45. paper-staine r , the additional sum of 21. By esery re slier of foreign wine, in that part of By every person trading hi, selling any gold nr Great Brit. in called England, who shall have taken silver plate, or any goods or wares in which any out a licence fur retailing beer, ale, and other excise. 1 able /ignon, bat shall not /we an wise licence for retailing distilled spirituous liquors, or strong waters, to retail foreign wine, the additional sum of 41.4 s By every retailer of foreign wine in that part of Great Britain called England, .who shall have an ex cise licence for retailing distilled spirituous liquors or strong waters, to retail foreign wine, the additional sum of 21. 4s. • . By every retailer of foreign wine in that part of Great Britain called Scotland, who shall not hare an excise licence for retailing distilled api ri mon s liquors or strong waters, or a licence for beer, ale, or other exciseable liquors, or retail foreign wine, the additional sum of 31. Os. Bd. COitv LAWS. A PLAIN VIEW OF TiIIS IMPORTANT IttnliF. l lT; ADDRESot..I) TO THE Pi,OPLE OF iiRITAIN.. 1: That the risk and' difficulties t,f importation, as well as the increased consumption incident to a state of war, hosing for a lime enabled farmers to exact ' higher prices far the products of land. landlords have also exacted increased rents. .That the rent of land has in this mistier been generally doubled, and in many instances more than quadrupled. 2. That independent of the shove causes of high prices, the act itself of the increase of rent as leases have fallen in, or nu the greater part of farms held et .will and yearly raised, hoe further contributed to this state of things, by putting it out of the power of farmers to sell at those prices which would other wise have been sufficient, and at which competition would often have induced them to sell. 3. That the high price of subsistence exceeding what the lower ceders have very generally been able to pay out of their earplugs, has greatly contributed to the excessive poor rates. • 4. That the high price of subsistence necessarily raises that of labour, and thereby of all other com modities. That it has accordingly augmented the public expellees, and been the cease of many. taxes which would, not otherwise have been requited. 5. That an average increase of rest, supposed at 20s. an acre only, amountsto 60,0(0,0001. levied on the people in the increased price of their food, in addition to the other pressure of taxes for the tui tional defence. That such a burden alone greatly exceeds all the national taxes within the same period. That further, our notional taxes, in great part levied on the luxuries of the rich, do not affect the lower classes in the plies of commodities ; but that the operation of the increase of rent by means of the increased price of fond, attaches to the hest efforts of industry, and, following it through every stage, is ultimately paid manifold by the consumer, and may he safely stated to have been productive of, and to maintain the distress of high prices in a quadruple ratio, or greater than our whole national taxation. 6. That it is a delusion to hold uut to the lower classes that wages or the price of labour will, or can, rise in the same extent with the proposed time in the price of food. That all classes must be sensible our foreign trade most cease, unless we are able to carry it on at a cheaper rate than foreigners can do for themselves. That with the loss or decline, of our foreign trade, numerous hands must be thrown out of work, "and in their endeavour to obtain em ployment in other manufactures and occupations, must displace many of those now employed in them. That the great number of persons out of work in all trades will inevitably reduce the general rate of wages, and prices of all work, to the lowest pittance. 7. That, although the price of • labour may rise its some measure, yet that it will not do so in proportion to the price of food, has been demonstrated at the time of the late high war prices of breed and meat, when many of the ablest hands, both in manufactur ing and agricultural occupations, . were driven to the humiliation of parish relief to eke out to them the ab solute supporta( life, otherwise beyond their reach, by means of anyigerxeae of wages. • 13: That distress must overwhelm the !abodes. po. pulation. That when labour is at a high price, expe rience teaches that the same number of t:ands never are, or can be, employed; that as abler hands are reduced to seek interiorempleyments, inferior hands, and women and children, are thrown out altogether. hat at a cheap rate of food and of labour al ntay get •ork and live; but that at a high rate many must come on their parishes,atid under the controul and in spection of parish officers, or starve. That such a state of things is frightful in contemplation. U Teat no old woman in the count!), can mistake the true cause of the increased price of her bread and potatoes, when, with the field under her nose oat hid) they are grown, she knows the rent of it has n raised from .20s. to 21., 31., and 41. an acre, while all the taxes so much harped upon by farmers aid landlords are only a few shillings. 10. That the laborions orders of this Empire be. ieving it the effect of a necessary war have su omitted ith exemplary patience to the increased price of pro visions so long continued on them; and that they must feel with proportionate disappointment- if such should now be artificially preserved. 11. That the alleged interruption of agriculture and want of work by• agricultural labourers has not been caused by insufficiency of prices; but that it has arisen out of the unsettled state of agriculture, in conse quence of leases having been so long held back by. landlords, in the insatiate expectation of increasing rents, and the present wrangling% between landlords and farmers on this point; till which is decided, the latter cannot venture to invest their capitals, or enter upon soy material . operations. IS. That the complaints of land-holders that they are oppressed by protecting duties favouring 4,sr sea. nufactures is a misapprehension : for these matrofec tures furnish better markets for toe products of agri culture than could otherwise be found for them. 13. That further, agriculture has. especially its own protecting duties. That the duties on foreign wines. 'spirits, and colonial sugars, although gene rally viewed more as a source of revenue are not less effectually protecting duties in favour of the growth of British barley and hops. That those alone out weigh at once all the protecting duties in favour of . manufactures. That further numerous minor in stances may be adduced of import duties operating in favour of agriculture. 14. That the apprehension that by the reduction of prices the poorer lands will be thrown nut of cul tore, rests wholly on an 'assumption of the price or labour not falling as well as of rent, which has al- ' ready been practically disproved. That when the cessation of parish aids is taken into the account, and added to the other notorious fall which Ines taken . place in the price of labour, it must he ad m i tte d that 'this has even exceeded the reduction that has yet taken place as to food. That all that is required between good and poorer land is the due preportiolt of . rent; and that this may be equally found'whether good land be at 41. an acre, and poor land at 11.; or good land at 11. and poor land at 51. 15. That the advantage of a flourishing agriculture and the growth of food equal to our consumption, is most obvious. Thbt if Corn Laws and high prices could really promote this object, much ought to be sacrificed to Wont of them. But that it is most By every retailer of foreign wine in that part of Great Britain called Scotland, who shall hove tak•m out a licence for retailing beer, ale, or other excise able liquors, but shall not have an excise licence for retailing distilled spirituous liquors or strong waters, • to retail foreign wine, the additional sum of 21.135.4 d. By every retailer of foreign wine in that part of Great Britain called Scotland, who shall have an ex cise licence for retailing distilled spirituous liquors or strong waters, to retail foreign wine, the additional sum of 11. 6s. Rd. By every Wire-drawer, or other person who shall draw, or cause to be drawn, any gilt or silver wire, commonly- called big wire, in Great Britain, the ad ditional sum of 21. • Halifax Journal, reached town on Saturday to the 2(1 iost. and Boston Papers to the 4th. Niobe, with Commodore OWEN, General MURRAY, and se veral other naval and military officers on board, des tined for Canada, arrived at Halifax on the Ist inst. in 38 days fiom Portsmouth. The determination of the Cabinet Council, which led to the signature of the Treaty of Ghent, appears to have been transmit ted in some shape or other by the Niobe, as, a few hours after her arrival, a report of the speedy termi nation of hostilities was circulated throughout the colony, and acted upon with the utmost confidence, though the day before the greatest exertions were making for a vigorous pr”secutionof the war. The Landrail, Lieut. ROCHEFORT, in taking a convey from St. John's to Castine was attacked by five American privateers, viz. the Charles Stewart, of Boston, 10 Sons ; Cumberland, of Portland, four guns ; Fame, of Thomastown, four guns ; a schooner, name and force unknown •, and Crozeninshield's sloop, of Salem. After a desperate action of two hours, she succeeded in beating off the whole of them, with the loss, on their side, of a great many killed and wounded. The Landrail had only one man slightly wounded. A transport, with 150 troops on hoard, from Bermuda, had put into some little harbour near Mount Desert, after beating off two Atnerican privateers. The Furieuse was pro. reeding to' her assistance.—No less than eight Ame rican privateers were known, to be hovering Oast Castine and the Bay of Fundi. The arrival of our expedition, under Admiral COCHRANE, at the mouth of the Missippi was known at Boston ; and the fall of New Orleans was anticipated, as General J tcx. son had only about 5,006 men to defend- the place, and it was not expected that the reinforrements, amounting to 8,000 men, on . their march from the southertelthd welter(' States, could join in sufficient time. Large quantities of British goods have lately been seized in waggons, proceeding from one State to o wl rre i Tollowing Gentlemen Toted .in the Minorit? on thequegtion re:pecting the Corn Laws, on Thurs day the '23d instant. rAani., Sii W .i. lin Pretherne. EA.^ Marrynt L j. -te:l, Wm. Ridley. Sir M. Moore, P. Barclay. Charles tra l.niiition. J. Onslaw, Serjeant Hiring, %les. F , qtplitir. James Phillips, G. /Mild, Alderman e4 Fieo aside W. H. Smith, A. Buttery:.lib, Jos. Hiirvev, antler Smith, J. nada,. Hon. L. Lill 111...1, W. G. Smith, .G. 'alter', Charles .0111 1... i ...-a, Sir Holt Smith. J. •itleraft. J. Lubborli, J. W. Simpson, G. use, Iti. Hon. G. Hamad, Serve Smith. A.a. C. Shaw, Sir J.. ..... Abercrombie, H. J. Smythe, J. A. Hamilton Lard A. Po. •es, Chas. Vyse , R. W. H. Pitnekiiito:ili, Sir J. Iltiornerslei. H. Smith, W. IFiine. John Howarth, H. aiu% Slunk Robert Tieriley,Vl. Ilna.G. Whitbread, S. Shifter, George Portman, E. H. We h v ave not been able to ascertain the names of the others. We shall be happy to receive informa• tiong than wentkg) to complete the li n consequence o aster Monday falling this year in March, the Newmarket Craven Meeting will commence on Monday, the 10th of April, the new regulations adopted by the Jockey Club being,that when Easter Monday fails in March the Craven Meeting shall commence the second Mon day in April, and the first and second Spring Meet ings to follow in the usual course; but when Easter falls in April the Craven Meeting to begin on Easter Monday as usual. . SECOND SPRING MEETING.—Lord Foley's Osprey, 10st. 3b. against Mr. Terrett's Bluster, fiat. bib. yearling course. A fine opportunity now offers to those who intend ofiltiog the Continent this spring or summer; it is well known that those who take spncie can nearly cOves'all their ezpences in unveiling by the difference between that and paper; whoever, therefore, intends to travel has nothing to do but to buy a Ticket or Share in the present Golden Lottery, where 5000 Geiness may be obtained, or Three Prizes of 830.000, on the sth of April, the very day on which the Property Tax ceases. ('ORN-EXCIIANGE, Fes. 27 —Oar market was well sue pind with Wt.tat t Aim from Es•ex. Kent, and 84' Ik, it.e b of o. rh ons very hefts), at a reductiqu of full 2.. ier qu cater, nod n ennviderable quo tity remaita onclisnowfl of.— Harley e.perie. ced a rrduelion 2s.—Oat. Is. prr quarter ehrnprr.—The supply of Brans iv very ninendast, at a decline of 2.. per gustier.— In Peas and other articles there is little or Wheat Rolelish) '44 IS Ditto (Foreign) —44 74 Rye 3l St Barley • - 30 1 New ditto .... J. .... Man white Peas Ditto Hailen 42 44 Geey Peas 34 30 96 4i) Brute Old ditto Tick do. 26 36 Old -- Oat" Floe ditto Poland do. 9O 26 'Feed ditto lB 24 Fine Inoue ..... ....60 65 Seconds _ 55 60 SMITHEIBI.I) MARK FT.—Fits. 27. To sink the Ofal. pertness of Ob. Ike ... 64. tki. w 6s. Od. Heed et Gatti' this day t Nut.on ..b*. 01. 6 , 6 4 . 61 . Boob lBBO Ve"i ... 7.1. Dd. t. Bs. 01. Sheep prek ... 64. 04. In 7s. 01. Cahn. Lamb ~.oe. Od. to Os. Od. P 1 ......, 260 Y-MARKET. Ho/ ...... 41. Oa. M. to 51. - 04. 01. Clover .... 51. Ob. Od. to 61. 64. 01. • Straw .... 11, lit. Od. to 11. 16a. Od. h• IPS '►q In ?r- Ilia Pr of 'P. pe id u- 111 SO PIII Ire rd sr ialCk ~~