The National Register. — London, England, 1819-06-13 00:00:00

sun it lion ineetitigs fur the purpose of reducing the price. (Mar.) Titr i uric mug', li not interfered with by duty on malt, have been reduced; but lie was prepared to cuntewd, that it was n luort thing to hod a tax *hick did nut increase, although it prevented the lightentng the tubdetts of t pe..ple, while at the same time it actually benefited the stale. It must be evident to now rational matt that three I mmo= of bites could nut he imposed on nay articles so hat ever, without being felt by the country ; hut there winn a girat di:femme between a tax that increased the pi ice of an us ticle, and one that twenty prevented it falling. lu atom, to Mr. Woriedome, the flight Hon. Gent. contend. d, that the lax atom malt would produce nu injurious elect upon agricultUre, and that the agricultural iaterest had nu right to shut out an adequate supply for the consumptiou of the country, if they could not fullthil it thenatielse%. prevent fit waa to be view rd us it affected the consumer and the revenue. That the qua City of mull would 1101 be increased toy dimiiiishing the tix was evident by the simple fact, that last year the quantity of barley, malted in Ragland, althou,o the article was Cheap, awl the duty taken ott,tiad been less than that of the lust year of tile war, w ht a toe war duty was iu force. Thus, neither the yes euue had bear:fitted by any iurreased quantity of malt, nor the pair is by any Mini. what of price. His Hien Hun. blends around hint would b e a r aitacls to the se which had been shovels to find nut subjects of taxation which would be moat productive and least oppressive. A. tax upon articles of luxury a "old not have omit ere': the purpose. Tory were therefol4° NUJ pt lied to resort to 'me at art article of general use and great con sumption. An Hon. Gent. (Mr. Boston) had wild that he would agree to taxes, breanse they punished us for the war, made the people feel its evils, and thus tended to p them from engaging in future hostilities. He (Mr. Haskis• sot.) wei frienol to peace, ntid ns much an enemy to star as the Hun. Gem.; hut he thought the best way of preserviug the our, and of isvoioing the oilier, aus 0 place the country is a state of smutty, and to show in foreign nations that we could not be iojared or imulted W ilk impunity. Mr.(.. Li ft would oppose all the itioposed taxes as oppressive to the lower orders, though not w au equal degree. Ile protested Nob's! ail 111• W lases t II every source of economy and retrei:clintent were extamated. sir siu natant. supported site taxes generally, but pro fes-el himself hostile to the tax oil malt, its it sill. cted HO culture. though lie was sorry to oppose so good a ay stem as that of which it formed a part. Mr. Simeon a r did out Salem, to trouble the House at any great lenAth at that late hour of the isight. He could not, howeves s help thanking the Hon. Member opposite (Mr. fluskisson), for the admission *Welt he had made, though at the sunte.tinse he must observe that it seas not an sum .sign ann . ? vet?. great importance. 'The admission to wit c.y he allud.A to was this—that when three millions of laves were to he imposed upon the country, they must be p lid by slmehody, and the weight of them must full some h re ; and that it was not, as the Chancellor of the I:xche quer hail stated it to he, that lie should get the money • itlhait Any Maly losing it. (hear, hear). Indeed from the mariner to which that Ri g ht lion. (ient had pose through the budget, he would ;let) any person to say boo the revenue was to be raised, or us, whom its pressme was principally to fall. It had long been the custom to taunt the gentlemen with whom he haul the honour of actiug as Idle theorists and insane projectors; they had been twins d during many si lung year as nom who proposed nothing to the House but the most vague and extravagant projects, but it had turned out that sere the prot tacol ritea, mud that the Right Hon. Gentleman and his supporters were these vain, visionary theorists %bids lie hod:awed them to be. (Loud cries of hear.? Had all bees, comirmed in the cootie of the debate, he must must strenuously oppose it, not merely this tax, hot all the others now proposed. They were sill equally °pp°. site to the principles of sound political economy ; mud though he should WA enter upon them n o w, be should say ere pursaar, that they were each injudiu Mos as the malt tax. Oise word more ass to the necessity of this tax; it was said to be requi site to take two millions nut of the pockets of the pour, in order to restore the country to a state of happiness and prosperity. An Hon. Member had said, we must have dose taxes al a reaarce w ah w hall to rouble us to meet a future war. it was true, we might go to star, tl l gh he hoped that such an evil was sec) far distant. liven when it fell upon in, we should he able to meet it better by net pressing too hard upon our resources in time of peso. r by suffering those , restful Cet to heemoulate they would have an far true tided as to enaiile the people to snake head against their enemy with much; seater vigour than if the House were to make tiwtmelves trustees of till the property in the nation, and allow it to accemulate at compound interest. There was no better way of horsing the property of the subject, than by leuvitig it io his own hands; therefore to state that there was any necessity fur this lux, and to call upon the liftelholder, and especially on the butley-grower, to pay it, ant as great is ranee) , as the Right lion. Gent. had ever ventured to propose to the enuu.try. Ile sliuMil oppose the present tax in every stage of it. Mr. Cone. declared nonself to be against all new taxes, whatever they might he, mail an experiumut had been made of what might be done by retresichavent, he would never comeiti to impose a new tax upon the already too much Isar dened people. Besides, of all tat taxes which could possibly have been du sited, the malt tax was the must oppressive. He bud miss doubt that the government had seceived the memo o hien had been sent from the county of Norfolk, con planning of tile distress of the agriculturists; and yet with this memorial b. fore them they butt come rumors - I with at new tux which would press most heat ily upon his constitu ents. The ministry ou 4 Sit to tosser and 551st increase this tin post. In that case, the cousumption of barley would be in creased, and the interest of the agriculturist in consequence improved. lie should oppose any tax upon wow, tea, cof fee, sk.c.; bat he should oppose atilt stifl greater vehemence so unjust and impolitic a tax us it was now proposed to lay upon malt. The Committee then divided upon the malt resdttica, and the uuffilosts were— Ar5....196—N0e5....97—Maj0tity....101 The remaining nrsolutions, imposing additional duties on tobacco, pepper, coffee. cocoa. and spirit 4, were thou put soccer:vet) ; and 11r. J. P. Grant moved an amemlmeat to each of them (e acilit that relating to peppei), the object of which was to ha the duties at the present rates. 'I he amend meats were all negatited without divisions, and tile original troilinioto. agree.' to. Mr Bit .);;oss reported progress ; athi the house leasing Ihr rt. pt,rt usts or ereSto b. cove's, al . . - 'l'he utto-r onlei4 of the day were limo divu,rd ut, ittol the House Adjourned 1.4 halr-pust 2. THURSDAY, JUNE 10. An immenfe number of Pentium *ere prescut.l aoinst the Fotrigu Lalibtaleut Bill. TIM NATIONAL REGISTER Mr. M.A. Y LOlll Wall miry that none of his Majesty's Allender, were present a hen these Petitions a cue Mr. Lushingtim expressed ha astonishment that they should be iequired to be present as soon as the Home nat. Mr. CA ICU►r r Nod, all the Ministers %vele lint &sin it to lie present, bee:lose it was well known that many of thrin %tie mere e)plieis hut as they had displayed so much iy. nor:ince, it aas essential that they should lama what a ;a the real stale of the cou n try. Sir 151. W. lit away then wished that some Hun. Meinlier a mild communicate to h u e SI iiiisters what had loosed agiiiiibt this Most and ruinous me.isurr. sot. DELIVEKV.—Mr. E%TEia iniiiight forward hi. Motion respect am the obtaiiiing of a more frequent gaol de livery.— He a mild adopt any course that the House might piescribe ; all he %anted to accomplish was a inure frequent glut delivery than iv. accomplished by two L i ssiZro iu the car. It now frequisotly happened, according to returns before the House, that prisoners, after twine contbod for sit ths, had no hi'ls found agiiillat them, or were acquitted. —( Mar.) The Hon. Mu stiller then eideitil Mai a State. 111• fit illustrative of the iasiutliciesicy of the pi isnial iii the lathing parts of the kingdom ; of their want of r lawilicia lion, ; and lie commuted that these es its alight be mil a way remedied by a He concluded with moving 1181 Address to the Prince Regeut, that the Print e Urgent would he pleased to give directions fur u Raul delivery three limes in hie year, or more often, if need be, the !louse undertaking to make good the expenses of th,. same. The A rrougge-Ggowa AL said, it was impossible that there should be a more frequent gaol delver") than now too k place, as fur as the Judge, 'rev cotters ned. MARRIAGE' ACT.—Mr. Wsr• SMITIR presented a Peti tion from Great Yarmouth against certain pacts of thr Marriage Art ; and he gave notice, al the 11.1111 r he should on 11 rdnrsday next submit to the liouse a pro. position ou the &object. After remarks boa, Air. Bathtub!, &c. the motion was negatived u it hout a division. 'I he Report of the Committee of Ways and Means inn. bruught up, aud, nu the question that she new Malt Duty be agreed to, u division took place. The Ull.Ubeti tit ere—oyes 126—Noes 75 FOREIGN ENLTSEMENT BIS-L.—The ATTOUNr.Y..GENE RAE then moved, that the House do noolve itself into a Com- Mince of the.wholc House on the Foreign Enlistment Hill. Sir .1. MACINTOsIi began by declaring his concurrence in the intention expressed by an lion. Gentleman (the member for the city of London) on a former occasion, of opposing the whole of this Hill, except the clause which went to repeal the .'acts of Geo. 11. It was something rentailuble, that in a great commercial nation which had so long fourislied in security and glory. a bill of this kind should now be first introduced into Parliament. lie would ask, aumitting the truth and existence of the evil coin plained of, yet, even then, why were they to pass a hill so favour able to the party at whose in , lance it was framed ? Why was Ferdinand VII. to be so favoured, a name on which he should fasten no epithets, because it could receive no addition foam any thing he could say, to those with whith it was already loaded. It was for the hon gentlemen to blame, not the rigour of iamar • till laws, but the interposition of new arcs. Would they, the honourable gentlemen opposite. require paxiiament to arraign the wisdom of their ancestors, and alt r and invert those ancient laws which had existed throughout so intim , centuries ? The consti tution framed by our ancestors, more with a view to their own li• betty, than the desires of foreign hatons, did not perhaps pos. sew sufficient conveniences; it did not possibly enable the minis ter, in reply to the applicitioni of foreigyn itrubassadori, to say, with a smile. that certainly every thing should be done to meet the enlightened and benevolent wishes of that Marcus Aurelius of Spans. Ferdinand VII. That coarse system of our ancestors was hardly in unison with the ideas of ministers, which dwelt upon the refined and improved govetrunetits of the continental powers; and, therefore, they must have something by way of imitation-4m alien act for instance. When, in De m, Lord Li ver' col, the then Secretary at War (and every batty must highly applaud his conduct) replied to Napoleon. with certainly as much propriety as it came front the barons of old, Aroldwaus Ardefige nit.tarr," they did not leave the parliament far the mi nister. slush had been said, and most unjustly, about the conduct and motives of the men: hafts. The noble lord had treated dent with considerable severity on a former night ; but really, he was nut so convinced of the superior purity of intention of politicians; and it was hardly a question with him, whether their intentions were not much oftener infinitely more consonant to the happiness and best interests of mankind. (Hear, hear.) The hoiluurithic and learned member concluded his speech, by calling the attention of the boese to the melancholy fate of the Curies ' ass assembly to which Spain wus so vitally in debted. It b ud been said that they (the Corte) were not a recognized assembly : but had we not ourselves accepted from them a trophy of the licit/nous successes which had distiniuislied Ilse periud of their govetcanent, and cneraved upon It an niscription, in which their name w.s eupled with that of the greatest captain el lite akc l Yet these were the very men oho were now doomed to languish iu dungeohe aud obscurity, the victims of that mouurch in abuse favour the inenstite was proposed. At the close of this speech, the hon. and learned member was greeted whit a very loud and general applause, which lasted some mi..utes. I i.e Mama then ter•i•cd into • committee, sod the first chime was amended. +deo iiiii .g to the loottecttois Mosel by Ike Ati asyd.ieettal, as./ agdeed t h e second clause for llosse oiridcd Fur the clause, 145; AgnisoLit,ll4; Majuilly 74. FUIDaII JONI Ile LOAN BILL —The CHANCELLOR of tile EXCHEQUER Ai-might last WI for suOios the sum of 12 nollimo by way of anuuay.—herd a but time aud oideied to be recd a second time 10- TON. bherilf Roberts appeared at the bar with a Petition frost the City of London against the inipovit of 5,000,0001. of additional taxes. The Petition havnig been larou,;tit Mr. W •tntst * a said, it had been agreed to this day at on• of the fullest meetings of the C Council that he had ever ainwssed ; that oio live or !ix hands :tad beta held up riptinat it ; and that he believed the few ;serums a Ito opposed' it ohjtcted to the form uulj, Lot to due substance of the Petitious. The Pt titiou wits then hri4 un the table and ordered to be rioted. I.orraav BILL—The CHANent.LOR ofthe ETCIIitQUEII brought iu 0 hi I for grautin ; ; ins .tiojesty a Mil lit ww,cy to be raised by Lottery. The Bill was read a first time, and after a few remarks from Mr. G. Lamb, Mr. Cetrant, and the Chanallor of the Etebettuer. 'thick sere out distinctly R male in the kalif it sus appointed to be read a 01.1'011.1 time on Motuto) nest. VUTY OX FOISALLO.—Mr. 1.411111 wished to know, betty.. the new duly oil Tobacco of 1141. per pound, would be Lid oil the II ut k dealers bad at pnwvt um hand. LUSNINGTON thought there could bo un datibt that the stack ou hand at the time the act was p.is-eit oould be liable to pay the new duty. CLLKK ur xuc l'cacs (IiteLAND) Cit. L.--311. 11. 191 PARNELL moved the urdtr of the day for the .rcood etadio; of this Bill. Several amtndmehts were made, after obit+ the CO.l It as passed fottamu Ea huorstemnr BILL—Mr. Bitocottu brought up the report of toe Foreig.l Entuttmeof Bill. The report teas read, and some ot the auttodmerts were, agreed to. The Sohn-170R GENERAL brought Up,.... acs cLUSCS which he mused ,hould be added So the Bill. AI r. titict.travi thought, that ;ram the loose ar.d incnn si,tent teramter in vs itirli toe Rill was hrougitt iu, ai.d the amendments introduced, when one I.ittinc.l e , ullettom not I: .111% what hind berm, nr waa ittleoileil to be, dime by ato•tber - when amendment+ were bt -ugh, In, w Iw h scettir.l to alter the nature of tile Biel elitism:ter, it truzht m !tc re cu 1111 l titted, in order to give the Huttsc au upptirtuttit) of es:owning it more t. he hu LICI I Ott-bEN Ell Al. observed, tlint there were Do new enu.e. but the bubetilutiou of some 111/rith Ca others otarticular places. Loud 4CM 'eLl, that the 11111 he enirrntowili for the purpose ut ucuh Rad u th.,d tittle Go IVedoc4ray next. Mr. DENMAN ANUS anxious that the P a ll should he IV-C.llll. milted. Sir J. Af ACKINTOYI4 said, that if she treaty or 1014 were Carried tubs rile( t. Spain had fluty a 14,15 t to demand INA we fidoold Ma ve ally particular awwiancr to ot.e.t.idtl hot by the present proceeding we should be 14110crlsnd a pro. trt tom to one bide, while we hard iu Y dsicet cubt.ary iser to I h.. other. . . . . A short censenation then ensuett as to the time when the Bit' sl dgo itirddigh its next 'f he ets.itt woe, that Loid Costli sengls consented Om the 8,11 ehauld be taLtu • into further roiAderstion ou Wydisesility newt. !'note HATES --kir. S. BOURNE inovtil the third rcatlinz of the Poor Rotes Misapplication Bill and attet • disk.. siun the nursibers weer. . Fur the bill, fU I Agatost it, 46 I Majority,23. When we were re-admitted to 1:41r galls Sir J. Mein• tosii was proposing a clause to piutect the children of Protestant Dissenters front the operation of this act. Mr. S. BOURNS thought such a clause gaite uunrccs• sary. Sir J. MteINTOSII said, that by the bill as it now stood, the children wonlil lie taken from the superintendence of the parent, and placed entirely under the superintendence the sclrouhaa•ter; The parties, in who.e favour he wished to introduce the clause just read to their., were played by their dissent to be emiscieetines people, and thereto' e, in all probability, would be fund of their t into; ell, and un willing In part with them. He therefore th‘oglit that but eilanse deserved the attention oldie House.. . --- AlterttlCaviiids Irons hir:S. Bourne, Me clause WWI • rejigged, and ilie bill passed. 14 Ir. Aa 6LTHtoT nosed a new writ for electing a liar gess lust, ve ill Parliament for the borough of Doi ctio-der in the room of sir Simnel S:teplicril, appointed Chief Ba ron of Exchequer in Scuiluud.—Ordri Sir C. Moncu moved, that an aublifinai be preeented to the Prince Regent. praying that his Royal Hi•4tuses• worilit direct to be hid heroic Use House a copy of the treaty en te►ed into between Russia and key, m the year leth., relative to the lonian lislantls,and iettlied to iu the ri*sly of Pails, in 1313. After a few words from Lord Caatierragh, which were inaudible in the gallery, the 'notion was agreed ru. The other miles a of the day were then dipesed of; and the Howe adjoin Volta. . GUILDHALL. Iron Cie no.-Disgracclii 1 Riot and Dia ideate al St. Arrafrees ilerial-groisid.--Our readers will re collect Ma circumstance which occurred a short time since, of the Rector of St. Andrew's, Holborn, refusing to inter a corpse enclosed in an iron etillin proceedings have since been instituted against him, for such refusal, in the Ec clesiastical Coon, arid the cause was iu progress for hearing ; hut by the sudden death of the Reyeretid Mr. Clare, the Rector, the suit is consequently abated., Tne corpse, which was that of a Mrs. ("alien. the wire of a respectable inhabitant of that parish 11.111 remained above ground ever since, a period of nearly three wombs; and the husband being about to leave town was of course de sirous of seeing the body of his wife decently ignored previous to his departure. Wit lilt is view. apprehend. rig no further oppos lion, the, Rector tieing dead, he gave the necessary directions to Mr. Bridgnian, the patentee oh the iron coffins, to prel•aru for the funeral. Mr. Bridgman accordingly waited on die Rishop of Loudon ott Tuesday last, arid .stated to his Lordship the discon tinuance of the slut . against the late Rector, request:mg that, at there were now no legal prncertlings before deo Court, his Lordship would direct the minis:tr . to buoy the noilv. Ilis Lordship, however, declined to itaterivre, sport the ground that the case might uhituately b.:conie qu snail belUre the Eceesiastit al Court. On ate WedireuLay, NI.. Bridgman sent notice to the churchwarden, the nsioistcr, and the sexton, of 'oi6 lentiois to bury the hotly the next day; reidy inutle,, that every thing would he in reatitnets. but if site hod , " were brots*ht in an iron coffin, it w0..1,1 not Ise 1 ersoutttri to be interred. Notwitlistandingthis tleiermiaation, the hirersl firm. eerded with a proper turieninity, attended by the husb.►ud, of the deceased slid others. to St. Andrew's burr ground, in Gra . s's-ion.laiw, on Thursday. On their Jr. rival, ►he gates %%ere shut against them, and all salons_ .ion denied by the sexton and his assistants; after watt.. ing there a considerable time., su►rounded by an nu. meow mob, NI r. Cis. krt directed Lila' the burly rlimil.l be taken to St. Andrew's church, Holt urn, loping to find the minister there at eve inef% ice, anal to induce him to periOrm tire erietuons ; the body was ECLOl(lssigly taken thither, and the pies being open, the inricession entered without other molt station thati Irons the im mense cross ri which accompanied it; the ii i ii nit r, bow et er, nits not there to bury ii, and the sexton, who had by this time ;aril ed. insisted upon the body's being taken awns; this was mimed, and ►!te bearers deposited the . coffin urnit one of the tombstones, near the front door of the church so as to be iu the view of ►he Isersous in ins