The Statesman. — London, England, 1810-05-17 00:00:00

1 4v4GAis OrNick , • MAv of 74 gunv iti .alid the 1 404 Icii*'fiVi‘ Lit ward; also. *the. Apaidltikikoh f!irdy men, from Saltine RUt1i..43,5! ,, t ~ e elk bet. lsoats were sent PO to ctkt coo 43.AelskOlacl taken shelter in a pear 4Oebleti() k7. of which were boat4pdtart4 token possessire of under • a heavy fire from ibe , batte!les but the wind unfortnnately :the . ) , could not be brought oat, but 'IO of them.prexet on Ere. In this gallant exploit Lieutenant I ciwnley and qva. pen were killed, and several wounded. Sailed the Niemen frigate, Captain Scymouttz wi!!I Qeneralleers on board, tot Lisbon. 'rile Thais sloop of war has the convoy signal s for Qubcc, PORTSMOUTH, MAY the fite, 18 guns, Captain Otis, from Woo;wich ; end the Dapper, from a cruises • Sailed the - Theban, 44 guns, Captain Iligby ; for Gnus niey ; .Thracian, and Daphne, 411 a erskise,_ , - roil l haek; tk /Alpert, w;th the transports for Cadia l wind-bound. Sailed the Pert .Mahon, with several transports f t :Goer:lml, io Nice troops on board; also ) the Peitotta, of 74 guns, for the llownr. ODE TO Silt FRAtiCIS BUROETT. Deaner?! to thee thy country's praise belongs; Thou just discerner of its rights nod a rungs. For ever prompt the injur'd to redress, Thee care- a orit Widows, hapless Orphans bless. 'ith feeling heart, to merry always proue, Thou mak'st each iv retched soCter's case *by own,. 0 ! who could view thy energ,ctitilare, ',VWIst painting J Et sit v'if hearisdistracting carol Or, who could hear thy soul-4asspiring voice, And in thy steady fervour not rejoice! None ! but that set, whose raoc'rous words etnfest, They cosy talents they will ne'er Kossess. ' i '• Ili r . 0 . Consistent and risole'd,"throu•hont his life, I ~ Is . v i a, ask his T ciniajs, Servniitu Children, • Wife: Tliey best can tell, for;well they know his worth, Mid bless the day which dawn 'd upon his birth. TflnvAh now depriv'd V Dear'n-burn Liberty, •:. "(nee boart of England) still his mind is free; Via attire mind Is o : orkiug yet .with zeal Fite his lov'd Cimatry. and the Pithlic Weal; For can vile Calumny's destructive voice, *fake him less object. of the People's choice. Me= enviers of his fame! now do ye prove, Yr cannot wrest from him his Country's love; The yile aspersions which oft him you east, In your own bosoms had their home at inst. BUltneres no traitor, he his King reveres. He only grieves to see 110=4151414's tears; And as her sons their Liberties deplore, Ile anxious strives those hlumings to restore. Far this he front his family is torn, For this to prison is our Champion borne: Put those who thought to crush hint, now descry, They've pluc'd him on a pinacle so Aigh His virtues are more clearly seen and known, Thus hare ;hey spread his fume, and damu'd their own. Britons, you love Min ! then with freedom sing, Bust:Parr for ever! and GQD save the Aiao! Thayer-street, Mancbesterssquare, 'May l 6 1810. . BERWICK 1184.17 NO. . - 2 t 4 li' , • • At a Matting . pf the tOtiiitatitl . of this 80. voif4h, tutibe stll . instant, ccinvenefl . ...in the ab. settee of the Mayor, b . the Coroner, James gra. blii l ;'Esq. It PClifirtit 1 . s r ' Barlilmeotary Reform, iti and for a revisal of b deciSleftsof the House of (oninions, respottet)g,' Sir J . xanCi 3 :41": (1 .W and 31r. Gale Jones, thts a4rCril to t . /A. Rsciututiou was also carried ftW. Instructing the H:ipresenta. tires for Berwick to support, to the utmost of their power and abilities, the motion about to be! matte for Reform. An Address was also voted to Sir Francis Burdett, wimp) . 4guieins the following passage:— of We Woe observed with pleasure, that your nmsims of Re form, honever much they have been stigmatized by the friends of corruption, were not the ideas of it fillleirUi Theo rist, but the calm investigation of a mind accustomed to deep research, pointing out, upon every occasion, the Con stitution in its original purity. as a rallying I ' t fur every real lover of his country. This is the, Reform which we -want, nod none oiii,•r. IVe have likewise observed, with much pleasure, that you have been the uniform friend ef the distressed ; you have upon every occasion exerted yourself to yrocure a redress of their wrongs, or to mitigate the suffer ings of these who had few to help them. These things have endeared you to the Meads of humanity, and mast, nu doubt, be g source of inward pleasure mid satisfactiou to yourself. 8: S. EXTRAORDINARY ROBBERY. • On Tuesday nigbt,-about eleeen•o'clock, mnn aid Geode pap, who resiiks in the neighbourhood of Nlatieliester-street, wassitting in his (relit parlour, no other *person being in the home, lie was extremely alarmed by the sudden appearance of a man, with a btack"crape over his face. The terror of the old tientleuitio was considerably increased by the man not spejakinA, hut repeatedly making a noise like the barking of a mastiif dog. The rolv•er opened the hack 'parlour drool, and b , ekoned to the old Gentleman to f.illow him, which he refuted: The robber then shook him by the shoulders., to iodine him to go. The cad Gentleman still refusing, the robber forced him into the bark parlour, pointed at an iron safe, and made sigts for him to open it. The old Gentleman not complying, the robber proceeded to take the keys from him ; and. in the sriiff.e, the Gentleman tell over a chair, and a table fell upon him, which cut op en hisnose, broke tits shins, nod bruised `nth in other parts of by body, in a most shock Mg. maaner. The robber appeared to know itte4l43i ,ht the safe aryl pros e , rderl to unlock it, and took u.ul th ree gold watcles, torso ~.‘,1.1 snuff - buses , several diamoitfand pearl rings *and otticr tinikets, to the amount or isetweeu I. and 5001. 'heti, after giving the old Gentleuiao settral -severe blows, lieldnok the r 'sidle, left the room, and locked the old Clentl,Nuae pi ß After snow time the old Gentleman recovered himself opened the wiudOw, and gavetian(fdatet to :the ololibblWirlioildf, an other person helm hotly. .11se ere:i tiere obliged to have recoursc to ptaddis i t, aqd 1111 1 1:1 the yard wall, and then broke opeil,the-ddint.'-s'fhe • tld that the yillian had left the coodloi•idreioertarr of the, fritut trarlisur in such a as there was el dosqpl but bp jptendsd shouldlei Arc m the house; but f:witiviiiteky' thetiillow ha ran.—Tbo old Getittemail keeps a earriathedlittirtl was out. with At niece. se bit resides( path ,i aid the, footman at- i tending her ; they did not return till ;Vey IP 9 c l ?ck: jt St.hull; petted that there was Ott Menai! servalitbelonglog to the iiiiiitN' at the time, the old tienttedian having 'cliabgeh hh seri Alps' very often lately, and it cpuld 001. be IV , Ferigined bY *hlt means the robber gained admittance , kilo the house, but it is supposed by the area; and it Is Sirilligly linsPected that lhe sober was a servant Who had formerly l ived to the family. + 1 E sTATEWAN. cAlV,ripigqa 1 SSATING.. --...0..... The Meetkni of the Freemen and inhabitants of ' Canterbury, which we noticed in our lut, was held in the front of the guildhall canterbury , on, the 14th instant. • Air. FRENI:I, in moiting the first A esoltution, .. took notice of a paper which he stated had been put kir° Ids hands as he was co m i ng t o the Meet , ing, and which, h.e, read as follows, :... I .‘ Roman and Christian Patriotism united ; or a Scripture Specimen of noble Opposition to Ar. bitrary Power. The Ancient 'Magna Charta . • •,. . • pleaded by the Apostle PAUL. " Thr Chief Captain commanded * him to be (trough( to i the cas t l e, and bade that be should be examined by scourg ing; a as they bound ( Kim with thongs,' Paul saititinto the Centur on that stood by—ls it lawful for von to scourge a loan that is a Roma, and uocoo4eumed r. - (that is, without atrial.]—Acts xxii. 25. " And the High Priest, Annanias, commanded them that stood by to smite him ( Paul) on the mouth.—Theo Paul said unto hink- r find shall smite thee,' thou whited wall, foisittest thou to judge us after the Law, and commandest me tube smit ten, contrary to the GOi."—Acts xxiii. /, 3. • _." At another time, when Use Magistrates began to be ashamed of their conduct; and wished for the Apostles to by privately let oat of prison Paul nofily said—they haze henten as openly uncoodemn e d , being Romans. and cast us into privoi% and now do they thrust us out privily.—Nay, verily, btp_let theist some themselves and fetch us 'outs"— . Adti xVi. 37- ' • Christians; au example so illustrious is worthy your imitation." He then Observed, that from the very . apposite Scriptural quotations introduced, he should have been inclined to attribute this production to the worthy of the Cathedral, bad he been there, and he presumed, at least, that it had been penned by an Honourable and Reverend Prebendary of that Church, Mr. ilobart : he was sure it would do that Reverend Gentleman credit, and he sin cerely hoped that he would make it the subject of a discourseirom the pulpit. It would, indeed, be worthy his profession gecond the efforts of the Meetin4. He concluded by moving the first Re. " That the Speaker of the Hour of Contours is not the King; and the Houk of Continuo., is Only u pact, and ikot the whole of the• Legislature." . . The other Resolutions expressed the concur. fence of the Meeting in the proceedings of the Electors of Westminster, Middlesex, and the Li .. very of f.undon t and their approbation of the conduct of Sir Francis Burdett. The Poition voted,. in order to be presented to the IfOuse of Commons, complains of the same grievances as the NYestminster, Middlesex, and Pitodon Petitions. It is conceived in respectful but firm language; speaking of the cases of Mr. . Gale Jones and sir f rancis liurdett, the Petition says i I . , ". We are the more earnest plat yqur Honourable Ilotts•• should revise your proceedings in these respects, since we are not able to account for the unexampled severity. of ',our Ile. nourable House towards Mr. John sale Jones and Sir Fran cis Bjjrdett, and the refusal of your tunny-able House to enquire into the'ettedpet of Lord Castletierigh and Mr. P.erce vial, who at the time stood distinctly Clogged with the sale of *seat in your Honourable House, eviStaice of which was offered at the bar by a Member of your lion. Housej and it was declared in your HIM. House, " that such practices were "as notoriiius as the Sou at norni.day!"—prqctiees, at the bare mention of which the Speaker of your llootsurable House declared, 4 ! that our ancestors would have startled with Om: • .ror and indignation." • " Now Re humbly be leave of your Monotwabk Home I.enitsider Which is of Vie greatest importance, the preset.. patioa of, to say the least, a doubtful erivile s ee, or the preser l station of the country from corrupt luid dishhhourable prac tices, nud in what light will it be considered by posterity; that Sir Francis Burdett, a real Representative of the People ' should be confined in the Tower, and Mr. Perceval should be at large in your Honourable House, and shoald take so great a share iu the rejection of Petitions, coupling his name with a transaction of a most odious nature, from the charge of which he ought either to be relieved, or to receive the severest seusure of) our Honourable House." The following is a Copy of the Address moved 1., Si r I , • to rmicts Burdett, which is ty pc presepted by Mr. Wardle Rini Mr. Frend : To SIR FRANCIS UURI)ETT, cart. Sin ;—The Roinawirave a Civic Crown to hint who pre -served the life of a Citizen: the Home of Combo's! of this Kingdom has sent you to prison for defending most ably, le gally, and constitutionally, the rights of a Citizens, and in hint those of the country. • Pm; the People of England are with you; y6u were before endeared to th,lin by your patriotic cuitcluet io Parliameqt, and your late finnan.. ndinly resistanee to the Speaker's war want. though titiforciti by an' army, has rivetted you In our hearts. You have indeed displayed cqurage, and skill, add zeal. wltiCli manifestly polio you out as the only permit in England' on whiten we can rely for obtaining the great cud ot . , all our wishes—a reform 14 the Representation of the Peo ple ; such as shall completely destroy the *trough-mongering Faction, and make the House of Gimmoos, what it ought to be, the watchful trustee of the putpic purse, and gaudily.) and preserver of the peoplg's rigloi. • Au arduout contest awaits" you on your release from this wicked attack on your person. The hydra of corruption is pot easily to be destroyed, nor would your glory be so great, if your enemies were leas powerful. It is ippostable that they should forgive von ; for you will not be turned aside by party purposes, and. having only one object in view, the good of ill, you mu-t e xpect that they. who are troomoding to preserve or obtain places, and pensions, and jobs. Rill obstruct yo 4 to the utmost of their lumen Yet we flatter ourselves that you vs ill triumph ever all these obstacles ; and nit effort txt our p.:rt shall be "imam to contribute to yunr success. aVe scorn to cdsidole wit!, you, qn the' prieations which you suffer ; for your mind ii too noble to be affected by the loss of those comforts, to which, friss your rank and situ*. tion in life, you are entitled. The Crown of Martyrdom is the glory of the Christian Church; and suffbrinfo and priva tions await fibs who is truelit his Country. VVe pray that the triumph over rep enemies may be speedy and c . omplet e ; we wish you q j l the happiness which a good subctenee can afford ;s c beg of on to rely on Us, at steads attached to ;li y von Wild your C ''. and to accept thmie teed les of our at fection and re delivered by our Fellow 'lazes's, who will confirm to Vint the intereft taken by the City of Canter ., but y in your welfare. Signed at the reqeest of the Meeting, WILLIAM C44Llf s Chairomn. Carnet bury, May 14, 1810. NAroLvov was at Flushing on Saturday ; to r passe d hich place he is supposed to baye pien, in a vpssel from Catlsantl; and Rn )Monday he was ex. pectel, together with the EMpREU, at Ostend, where, it appears by the statetbent 'of' Captain who left Ostend on Monday, great preparations had been made. A boat had been elegantly fitted up fur as aptatie excursion, wiiich was to be rou-ed by j 9 Captains, who had t'itfered their services for:the occasion. 4 large rcaffu)tling, apperbiy decorated ? had also been raised, commanding a view of the !firer, from whence NiltoLfON anti the Efra,Lsti were to view the shipping, Sidon. ilitlfttes were likewis* to Its &ireq on the Tater if the weather pr 0,141 farograple. LAw..-i-In the Court of King's 'loch, in the case the Bing against Pieta's, Mr. Stephen was heard at great length for the pcfeadant. Re hen only got through two of the points to which he found it necessary to call the attention of the ' Coot, when the father hearing was postponed . this day. 4MPERI4L IianL,UVENA - HOUSE Olr LORDS, MAY 16. ThO, Committee of Privileges on the loxbdrgh Peefugi was appointed for to-morrow. ' The Amber hearing of the Appeal, Kennedy s, Locke, was appointid Ilar Friday. . WEST. MIDDLESEX WATER-WORKS. Lord. BOLLAMA, brou,gl4 ups khe Report of 'the West Middletet Water-works Bill, witkeiut A,radment. The Bishop of LONDON propelled a Clause to be inserted, for the purpose orreserving 'te the Grand Jl.l.lClioo Canal CoMpan, (he , cxclksive right of supplyipg water within cer* lain !thrashes sold paiis adjacent to the Canal, provided they took measnlres for suppl,iog it ta attain six manual. The Claim was apposed b,) , ' Lord. Bellied, the Earl of Roslyn, Lord Redesdale; ant( the Lord Chancellor; and sup ported by the Earl of Ilridgc'ttater and E,uri peucer. The liottse divided od the lhestion, that the clansfbe in serted, Contepts - . 16 Not-Cehteuts . - - 26 Majority . - - 10 CAMPAIGN IN SPAIN. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE, in cdoseqnence of the indliPteation of a Noble'Marquis, who was thereby prevented fr.? attending, postponed his motion relative to the cam paign in Spain, till to-morrow sennight, for which da) . the Lords were or4ered to be summoned. ' • ' Adjourned ti to-morrow (this day). .tipraignsit • MOUSE Qt . COMMONS, MAY 16. On the Motion of Mr. lIASTAIID, the consideration of the ligiteettene Petitiikis was pastponCd• till Tuesday uest. • SPANISH CAMPAIGN: • Mr. SHERIDAN l.ostpdned his Motion on the, subject of the Campaign in Spain, till Friday, tie Ist of Juue. He also stated, bast a Bill had come into hit hands,entitled a Bill far regulating the Prtior of the Parish of Lambeth, by which powers trete given (o the persons to whom the regale- lion was entrusted, such . as he had never seeu bestowed by any formek Bill. He animated, therefor!, that lie should submit shat Motioa oa the subject of that POOR LAWS. Mr. WHITBREAD obtained leave to bring in a Bill to exploit) and amend the Acts fur the removal of the Pour, so far aitelated to the Regulation of Woikhouses. On the Motirta of Mr. DAVIES IDLY,G the Clveneets• Account.; Bill went throvls a Committee the Report was received, and mitred to he taken into farther corpacleration on Tuesday peat. On the Motion of Mr. DUNDAS, there were ordered to he laid before the House Copies of certain Letters from the Presideties of Fort St. George, ill the lint Indies; to the Committee of the East India Compaq). The' House went through a Committee on Foreign Gloves. Relsort to-morrow. hlr. M. FITZUF.RALD gave notice, that he should to morrow move J ur leave ' /11 prig: in 'a Bill to amend the , Laws for the acruragemeat orPlauting Timber Trees to ' Ireland. The Poor Settlement Bill was read a second time, and or dered to be committed ea Tuesday. The House sent into a Committee op the Irish Glaob when the Report was received, End ordered to be taken iuto farther consideration oa a future day, rod to be printed. CRIMINAL LAW. On the Mogen of Sir SAMUEL ROMILLY, the Bill for preventing ,Robbery In Navigable Canals went through is Vommittee, and was ordered to be reported this day se'ohight, on Which day the Solicitor-General stated it to he his Mien. tiou to oppose the Rill.' • Sir J. N 1, W PORT moved for the amount of Sums granted from the Votes of Creditsof Ireland for 11306 and 7, op ac count of Lottery Office Commissioneri. Ordered. WHARTON brought up certain Ai:A:tmes of Revenue for 1130.8-10. • • • BUDGET. . On the motion of the Chaucellor of the Exche quer, the House resolved into a Committee of Supply, to whom were referred the ;peasants, of 'the Public Debt, &C. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER then said, that in layiug before the House what it was his duty to submit on this occasion, he should state not only what was the actual revenue of the country, but be should also exhibit what was the situation of ititrada. These statements he declined out only peculiarly scope 44 to the question be. fore the House, but also essential to the proper consideration of our affairs, calculated, as ho I :resumed they most be, very considerably to en liven the gloom which had lately been held out es to the finaucial state of the country. He was the more an4ious to du #O, because our revenue and resooreen, far from being, as had been represented, state of decay, were greatly the reverse; and he could congratulate the !louse OR the fact of their being actually in a state of progressive im provement. What he should have to say would show, that iss this year, exhibiting, as had bean, ;supposed, the most gloomy view of the state of the country ; in that Very year, our real situation furnished the most evident and demonstrable proofs that we were isithe most prosperous state in which we had been at any former period. He should first state the supplies already Emilia for the year ; , • - • roe the Nary . t , 419.1111401 r . ' Forthe Army ?; • 11. 9 "CI1ID " • Fur lrel:md - . . 2,99?„00 ,,1 0 Extritordinarie; V.,79t1.000 Miscellaneous Services already granted 1,752,0001. which with others to be veted might raise the' branch to 2,000,0001. There would besides be a Vote of Credit for England to the amount of 3,000,0001. ' • for Ireland to the amount of 200,0001. fur. Portugal to the amount Of e 50,0001. ; making altogether about 50,600,0001. from which de ducting-the Sum for Ireland there would remain to be provided for by Great Britain 46,500,0001. To meet this there wera i Anneal Dudes 3,000,0001. —Surplus of the Consolidated Fund 4,400,00Q1. —War Taxes 19,000,0001. —Lottery 360,0001. — Exchequer Odle funded 9,000,0001. Loan B,oo9,oQol.—Maiting in the whole 46,700,0001. or an excess of 146,0001. abuse the sum re. j quired. He should proceed to state the different items of which these sums were to be composed, leaving the Consolidated Fend to thelast. First,' the War Taxes, these he estimated at 19 millions, and he esteemed himself justified in taking theta at that amount, they having last year produced into' the Exchequer 22,772,0001. The Property Tax bed, during the last year, produced 13,751,2301. elthoorgh the assessment for that year was comps. led only at 11,400,000 1 . being a difference of ,350,0001. This, hey/ever, might be supposed to have arisen from arrears, none of which now t existed earlier than 1807. The last quarter sheaved 1 the Income Tax to be greatly on the ineremie, but he did not take it at the increased rate. The War Taxes under the beads Customs a n d Excise for 3. years, 1408.9 and 10, amounted to 27 millions, . being ye au steerage 9,060,(001. being together 20,460,0001. As to the Lottery, he knew an Hots. Gentleasiu opposite (Mr. Whitbread) ob jected to it as a worm of Revenue: lie trusted,. however, that the regulations introduced by him. (11r. Perceval) bad completely . destroyed one ri.ass of the obj-ctions, arising from Insuranee, aua bad gone greatly to remove the imischievou ... .......... . ..., prectieet Which *ere 44 alter day becuering ooh nected with that . prielice; ' 1t hoped, therefore ' the House would mit I?eeireeprii to deprive ; the ' gemlike of the mouth pf income thence atsiiiirt Nu evil effects resulting Quid Lotteries hying se nearly done away by the, late Reetnetioits. As to the t xcliequer Bills, he had eirciely !toted them at 3 millions for the year,. and . 111 t•asted the Rouse. would not be'indiepused to a trent e, that 'mount: Now as to the loan, he had thelatisfectieti. 9r *tat. ing, that it amounted in OA to Al itillions; Vt. ti . millions fur Great B.ritein, and 4 Minions for Ire. late t t, and had been conetuttetkon terms iitteitiiy the most favourable of any matt which lied yet beets known in this country. The terns were, thei the Coutrecturefor every 1001: ehoulel receive' pot. three Per cent. Re.lucetl, and 10A. ts• ad; ce1i.114 9 1 being in the whole 1,401. 7s. kilk the Louisa& eAf, the interest thus to be .paid (ee the loan, beini no mice than 41. 4s. 34d. pee Cent. se that a loan of 12 millions had been iiegociated at 153. 71 I. be._ low the legal rate of interest. The total ceatge on the public, in this matiocr, was in the proportion lo of the an of hit year, as 41. 4s. 3i , 1. to 41. I`4s. lad, So that be the country in a worse elate or a better now then it •VI As last year, 12 mil. liont had been borrowed fur a 'suns intrinsically worth 11430,00b1, The Rt. Hen. GtlYet, then pre. °Ceded to elate the mount of thet;oesulitlated Fund, which eeceeded in the year 1810 the surplus of the preceding yeas by 5,33 ,00(, He did not wish,' itowever, to take it at this amount, but to prefer an average of the two yeah, which prodticed 4,485,0001. This, too t he took in preference to an average of the three years, Which would have presented a higher amount. There was every tea. son to suppose, that instead of e diminution the amount would fidle . equal that of last year, the quarter of the pkesetit already before Parlienient exceeding that calculation, and making the amount upwards bf twenty.cour tuillione;. or 'o paring it with the year 1808, 94,400,001A 1 it weuW be a satisfaction also to. the Wiese tq know, that the Malt Duty was now recovering its , lft there being an increase under this head, in the Let 4.l.lrivr, tea the amount of 40,000(.; su that litero U4ll lIVIO doubt of its equallihg, if it 41 apt exceed, the amount of last year. Tin:, nett had was Aesesseti • Taxes. These, for the tat year; amohnted to 6,410,0001. In this stim there were cuesidereblo . arrears, amounting gq the hest celculation to not less than 600,0001. These were nut of arrears now eutstatelitte inure than 2(00,0001, a fiki'l **hi would induce the House to see that no teAleieited •prevailed in this branch of the revenue. The stamps he estimated at 5,130.1eXk1, the Pest Offwe at 1,194,0001. ; the flaw ki •., et;.. qt o t Leouie, I producing a tote! of 3 . 7,597,0001; The charge on the Coneolltlated Feed * t lielusiee of ifel4o % .* amounted to 31,9,0%000i. ! ming a spinthis . or 5,637,Q001. If.this statement was correct, it might be asked, why he was disposed to take 110 Tore from Mit branch for the service of the year than 4,400,00011 pe unold explain tine circuio. stance: The Stempeled risen eery greatly dttrieg • the last year, to the *solvent of tot, .less than 1,236,9071. in consequenco.4l7t* eiketelidetioe of those duties seising 40p, roger:4lone which he , himself had introduced. These he bad estimated, under'ditterent hea d s of management, would prp.: duce is saving of 106 t QOpl but it lo happi,tued i that instead of this, it- had, produced en iiicreaegit ' ' revenue of eo lees that 1,236,9071. Ile ought, ' probahly; to teke blew to himself for having lo greatly under-rated the amount to be expected from these regelitioee ; bat still 'he hoped the House would be happy that they had hetet so pro ductive. , The difference between this expected suet of 106,6781. and the ectual amount of 1,236,90/# 'left a balance of ima j ooot. What he had to pro. N I- ' !tie, therefore, to the House was, ntit only that ' 0,000 . 1. which would be wanted for the expendie tare Of the present year should be takett from this guess of a tax laid on by recitation in the year Itiop, but he also 'thought th;t Parliament was Justified in looking to this fund as affording 's. prospect of defraying thp interest of the Loan for the year. Indeed, he should feel himself toot . ititt.,. lied if he did not call on the douse to leek 4r this source. Ile should propose to reserve 150,9%)1. for this purpose, and then there wee!!! still re tain 115,0781. as the bahiece of this one tax after the interest of the Loan was provided for. IY., 'was aware there might be objections to this plan, but they would be found nothing in comparison to the edvantages which would be seen to result from it. It might be said, that it was a new mode of • • proceeding ; but this, he sqlnitted, wee not a slice ficient objection. Among the objections which might be Heide to this proposal, one was, that it wesa new course—thaee different goo 'hid been !imed by Mr. Addington in pOt. But that was a year of peace. and the gitent of the Sink,. I ing Fund had been altered. f the situation of the country had been then exactly what it is new, he should think that the wisest eoursu would be to have done as lie prOposed co do : But if . the thing was in Itself propee,, there was no occasion to leek fqi precedent in its 'favour. —Ever 'shim 1807 it was considenui advisable to tiourisk ttie revenue; and fdr 'that perpine to avoid the inipotitieti 9f.new taxes if . pessible fur three years. Lb fact only onelear had , in thiS manner been spared ; for as he had before show,,, in - the year lifoB an increase of Inure than a mil. 'lion had taken place. Another . circumstance was to be considered, which went 'le she. the pro. priety of the course yhich 6 proposed to fullow t that was, the -great amount uf melts collected open the Property Toe and the 'Assessed 'Faxes. The total amount of 'bob in the last year was no lees than 20100,0001. Since thee Ow heti beep so great a snot collected its these taste, beyond the anima average ; be thought. this a strung rca. son why , no new taxes should he impeted at this pericul, if it could possibly be aynded. He hoped the Housd weeld thini(thet the •courte which by hid proposed for its cuosideratigp (tit4igt lir d 4 u pi t ed, vithuut.any improper interference with the produce of the Consolidated Fand. He eext ad. pried lira Resolution which bed heat passd by tee House, at the suggestion o' is Nt. is, Marquis,' who had been his predecies'e (1,..1;:0wny), '• 44 ' that ail account should he iir...iscr k il- if the net produce of thu permanent taws, at ep I • ,f ""s j 4 • • ... _ 1 - 1 i . 1 )1 1 •-`!. •'4 ct • • - .