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LW sod' ii 0U SS ei a gabled so Lordships 4 isthilgence _ _ —• sight happen to he 'thaVrlisti li tie be irn ib tg - lilt he their Landati les. VIM; bat he fait be I t e rdraigir k. it amidim rn lisila=7er i ts • B preses ----' -"' itanitiCey had Zdeallpeseillsa tbe sf Sidi re. liveitnit lent no an an pas 6 vilkeed, of to leglatems upon hearsay evidence, ...Justice. to be received concerned ? He thought fttaiwg Catholic Emanci voodoo. If the House - tea them first inquire determined. He .., lima if the Catholics—' 6111 have pot down the As- ' or notice it would foil to' smile at the ides, but 1 to were they to par __. Bar! had expressed 1 the Catholics. The best of ' WO serum es t bet the' 1J dangers, but positive • - . 11 -s,- as - 1 • Tut , to I- If ire. it when the id* latent;on - sgi Jo mind what he I of the Con.stittrtiolif tips should treat the granted the Catholics .ton of their just/mood fle_•1 0114 1. "iw - -_,„ -- - . guards sad securietts to sa assail. • ' .•hick he had alluded were' • ilialisils the a a Apseint of great and imminent danger i i- OAs Batt . 0 eithoWed by enemies, and our Dente sod air = setaige WWI se doh in tits struggle: but the. effect of !Irmo well - ti 110111maidoot WI been to strengthen and combine . Winking alai* tithe eisetry. Our army . and navy were re otioiaod svith.llollllw sad daring/sem and the Brit ish Sag was again issINNI A through the contest, and Bnitsh glory was . off* few Looking to the immense force necessary to be bity.webil d pat thequestion--nehether it 'mould rot be tet* l baser in dim if stairsy to grant concession to the Catholics ; sad by Inkier wilt us, arable us to employ that force else-' ; pod or loam h4horr i tier ty 4 Jut country, r be th b e e n tt u er po to n raeLyrogen and Derry. The laws sgainsc ttornan Catholics had wail IN pedal reasons, and he doubted rot they were =11.24, eses. Bat to coati not set that the satbe necessity existed for lbw continuance as for their enactment. At that time there was *Sovereign who bad, by a bold measure, been driven from the emmire hr misgoverned for his arbitrary projects. He bed retired to Ireland, where he found protection and assistance. This excited —sonable ' against the Raman Catholic! , of that day, and - urotestant succession and religion party avowedly under the influ. is Pope. The consequence and 3 more. We ourselves had raised which he had been reduced by up—was it to be afraid of hint ? the remaining restrictions which would unite that body to the night bid defiance to the world. e care of our own liberties ; if .111 conscientious vote should be s their !wardship:, reserving to further progress, and opposing • Bill. s few observations. 'N could rot find a qua., the Marquis Wellesley, le The Noble Earl who the subject of that flints improvements in the several justice in Ireland, but that as proved in that House how at the grievances, under which !ear, hear, hear.) And so little 4, for the last twenty-sit years, t on them triple and quadruple With respect to the adminis place ? The great boon that has on of magiatrstes, and that too ee too long delayed. The monks, proceeded to the subject decidedly of ,plan e that the C 1 . as it was with the peace of die vigilance of the Government. a 100 en a species of tribunal whisk supplied with a tribute, large. for redress, and promising to .as of practising it. That be coe. pregnant with suggesting strong n. Instead of doing away the " society, .what had they had but the guise of a remedy; but still remains the same degree . eieritatioo, and it co..— it of being an aggravation of the disuse; but the measure must prove ineffective, and what would then be the ridiculous appearance of the Parliament of Eng land before the public ? How much must it suffer in the respect of every individual when it was passing laws that were of no fore*? Would not the evil consequence of such a feeling as that ' he lamented ? Would It not look as if we were willing to wound, yet afraid to strike ? The Noble Lord then adverted to that pre. wlslon of the Bill which makes it illegal to hold a meeting for the redress of grievances, if the same shall have been adjourned within fourteen days. He would ask the Noble Baron, whom he saw Sitting on the even, beceheri (Lori Colchester), who had so long presided in another place, and who must be molt susceptible of vide, if he would object to a meeting merely beewse it should • happen to have been adjourned within a certain plitl; but if the tame disposition to meet remain—lf the same disposition to corn - piaM continue, how far could that provision operate? With regard to the Rent, he admitted hit dislike to the term ; for though he was eonyinced no compulsion was used, still the word implied it ja; he beer could hear of any unjust power being used en the oninstion. One fact was brought forward; that was no proof; it was something worse titan proof, for it was false; he alluded to the story of the distress that had been made for the non -payment of the Reins-that story, even if true, was only a ground for inquiry it could afford no pretext for legislation. If there was a forcible levy of money, the eeisting . laws were sufficient to put it down. Ho who presumed to enforce it, brought himself within the cognl - seine of laws, in themselves sufficiently forcible. There wed ancther moister tin -gill that showed, to aay the least of it, a great deal of epedal Indio/it it was aimed at that which was not before ta , the receiving of money. As the law stood, the mer e r. o money was nut prohibited ; the new Act Weaned tire words, " Levy or receive ; ' they were now put to- Mr; anak provision was intended to met something illegal be. ere, sad something to be now, for the first time, made so. Ile ask the House if any species of enactment could prevent an individual from nceiving it—let there but still remain the same disposition to pay, aqd the same disposition to receive, and again he world ask what Lw could prevent it ? It could not be effected, unless en inquisition Mame awd more detestable than ever existed in the most Ca•holic and &erotic country were established. How else could ttey tempi( a manic, declare from whom he re:eives, to what put. -pest be applies it—and the very nature of the Catholic religion rendered it nacessery that tney should collect money—who could cottrotti them ar to their dispose) of it ? While the present state of !image existed in Ireland, the Rent mu* continue. The people Wok it a tribute to their security ; thug tilhekag•inneurea dir OMB dist protection which the powers of the State deny. The present sited at a thing beyond any law. The experience of history. the oblervation of existing circumstances paved, that a whole nation And comminity may be put down, if AU be crushed at the name time. • but it was impossible to allow freedom to a part of a nation ; to allow to them their civil, and the earyinent of all the advan trynes of a free state ; to have intermixed with the one portion of ihtieselves, imernileing, but not participating in those enjoyments, and at the same :line to keep that portion enslaved. (Cheers.) It to:End the ingenuity of tyrants to crush that feeling that must sntiag . from such an interchange of sentiment. If that system of eec a usion were cantinued ; if the tight of the sun of the State were withheld from their view, they would be driven to the guidance of those unceanin and rwandering lights that sometimes ilia. minate the hemisphere ofthe state. And who were the people for whom they were then legislating ? He would not himself describe then, but would give their character in the words of Milton. That great man described them as " a nation acute in their perception, atthtte and itisinuatibg in their conversation, capable of doing may thi..g that could be achieved be quicknen and force of Intellect." Such a people they could net long depress the growing deformation and enlightenment of the eye furhaJe it ; and, above all the Pres would not admit it—that gre-1 engine, which patented the very heart of society. and an electrical =Eunice communicated throagh every distant nation. If their Lirdshifla wished to qiiiet the Cacho:in, it weaned by statutes, not by penal codes could .t be effected. If, however, they must proceed statutes, let it be through the repeal of them ; let them grunt emancipation ; that indeed would put an end to discontent. With raped to the Bill then under discussion, he wiribed patticutarly to ineeess on the Catholics this fact, that many Nutile Lords may, perhaps, vote for the Bill, though their zeal for emancipation may remain utabated. The Noble Marquis, after further observations, eonelecled by declaring that be uvula not now be so pertinacious in his opposition to the present Bill at the other stages of it, on account of what bad marred two nights back in another place; that as ex pectation was raised by that circumstance that measures were near Laing adopted Which was about to restore to the Catholin their s. i... : • .. , !A wowwwww. k , # p i _ 111ftglimilmE Issibles whichustibt dmns lobos meas. He would aware :W. was Tbs Duke of SUSSEX. is sillusornw the Bout isliportant u the present, void au. their um, fee any unused went~ sr It jorsisks ke• rale limed iota by di.mous of i ts ei t= re; Wadi sacrists k to the rlittrt • 4 sad sot construe it btu say itia Is Aim wb= sies trodossis be 1 / 11.11"tbeis i .01. tribe ~On Utah bft4 is do t o oPPOI Sli dbeebelesei • i ts f.,,Troet:i .• ,-- ..• Wl* Ow sew before their ut . „. - !wpm: 'IB Red boss Aimed is by .•• , Oat oboe o n ts i t=ithy for dwissisr . lessad sow snarl to bob sl= l l4 d r illii itO OlL eal ll a ei ll 7 l lll Ilsilbrlesy of tbe lbsti. Wu I . . 111 % W ppiousi is s (.t of Jos* of waged won CdOCIIISI .• . • ibt trisor refusitsi_ I . . 4 1• 060 yaw mo t SlTer — seefteeloa, let bib bib ,iad loviince, befogs It =ma His, tbo prayer w sou will Lyre pp , gligiC a liNdli toanoer, Or 11 might =sib - 18. dub* ha ft use s . . ThlrKable 8 to mii psZ i ts t iv stgat e illie V catho t>ltetnsill i i - - t seta tapes • dangers, • 1 .4 . UMW II to be ow dee am book it :within Iwo 4 Ms bet was • •,. i down to a re an webbt bsi to as is I to. greSt a gri MEd r 1 ai to the due )4 . . :ire frist . : 4 l is le dee 8 IN , .H I was porA t i ii prlvllesssi k was h.** , . P "___ 1111, ..Ible soft. Awls bearing.; i . &Aim at UM al difte— the safety o ' , • lIIA 'Mika of eV Their Lordship •-• • eabises as eat ar poke_ don. If they gr. • Oar Claims, it slait es a tworicilon o propriety, always login se Ow proper guards be essetott Th. osausioes to whit Its a tease:4le jealousy agein;t the Ham she Legislature had to protect the Proc • by force of arms and fight with a pat reef of a Catholic Monarch and the 1' . authority of the Pope were now no mos . ktim up from the abject state to *hie . illusnaparte. We bad set him up— If the House would take off the n - tented the Catholics, they would State; and, so oohed, they might He was anxious we should take car we did not, no owe else would. His C trev e :ettr i fight ef li wa ill icrus w g over its t'i l It in evegy eete.. be CARBERRY sup ed . 'The Earl of KINGSTON made the a 1 The Marquis of LANSDOWN sentence In the despatches of tb eountenance the present measure. bought before their consideration t &bate bad talked much of the ii branches of the administration of jul :chef was not granted until it was Vzat were the burthens , how great I ie people bed been groaning. (Hem ledulgence did that people get, tbat, I pi weight of pep has been pressing n the proportion they ought to bear. V. n of justice, what hes taken oleo conceded was *better selection of to indulgence, an Indulgence to ile t bunptithe s, StAllt soap further remarks, I pit ore cap& was decided lyl AillOeilliell *NI one, convected as ii , ‘ „ogisiotry. that required the strict right*Or townie he looked with suspicion (11 Zilf by its own direction, was soi 4: • ottry, 304 universal, looked to ft silibrd it, but possessing no means of ' Seised was a state of thing , pregm grounds of danger And alarm. Ir causes of this deranged state of socit that Bill, brought forward in the Wen that measure passes there siil of excitation, sod it could not fail 1 . .. ~. l r ~` r 1 4 I •1 .0) i. ••• L ' l=dl ThgeIaiToMITIOWBY head that the rights, to tranquil,' - - oddldesedvizmegth. had to Ireland peace end _ - wee hostile to the contittuance of the Association, because it wee sec OR foot to overawe the delibera tions Si prliament. The Noble Lord proceeded to say that the opponents of the Bill rested less on there being no necessity fur such a measure titan on the chance of its being inoperative.. Hitherto the Association bad relived much excitement, and hie fear was that it would go on keeping up perpetual irritation, 1111%. ins blister after binder. until they all became one stream of ulee ratios. Though it had been said that the collection of the Rent sees not effected by compulsion, atilt lit apprehended that in its col. lectioe the voiceof (be priest was as loud and as presides as that of the tax-gatherer. He was farther opposed to the existence et that s tesezetattoo, because it cached the apprehension of the Priestante ; it may drive them to fornt a body capable of meeting 'the Association, and then Ireland may have triennial Parlismeme. SOON acts of the Association did more to injure the Catholic cause than tett thoerond Change speeches. He did not speak of any ebul lition, any sudden act of intemperance, but corneae their deliberate and well weighed ones. If they continued their present course, that track may lead them to a point to which at setting out they would have shuddered to approach. They had assumed the form and shape of Parliament--they, had put on a menacing attitude. These circumstances did injury--grievous injury to their cause. He wished to take away from the enemies of the Ceatholice those arguments—he wished to admit to the ranks of the Constitution the rank and talent of the Catholics, provided they came forward in a submissive and bumble manner, instead of a bomile and menac ing attitude. To the petitioner he would greet every thing—to him who threats(' while he seludie would grant nothisg. Wagers were then ordered to withdraw, and the House divided, When there appeared— Fr the Second Reading - - - 146 Against ft Majority - 161 The BO was then read a second time, sal the House Adjourned at a QVarreit PAST TISLI.Vg. --NASA" lICIHSE OF COMMONS, Tutimientv, filsedett 3. BRISTOL SHIP CANAL. Sir T. LIFTRBRIDGE, in moving the second reading of the Ship Canal Company's Bill, wee desirous of offering a few ob • Lions upon what be considered a very important and beneficial mea sure. The projected canal was one intended to form a communica tion between tee English and Bristol Channels, commencing at Sutton Bay, In Devonshire, and terminating near Stolford or Bridgewater Bay, In the county of Somerset. It was to be so constructed as to admit the passage of vessels of 200 tons beechen. Farther, the lournded measere same into that House with the sanc tion and support of the great body of inhabitants through whose Immediate district it was proposed to carry the canal. The country was a populous one, and he siocerdy thought, if the opportunity sought to be obtained were granted by the House, there could rot be the least danger of the undertaking falling to the ground, or re maining incomplete through. want of means. 'f his he nee satisfied did not partake of the delusion of many other schemes which were every day originating. If he thought it one of that nature, he would be the first man in the House to oppose it, convinced as be was of the p ernicious and dangerous tendency of all such ground less speculauons. But the present was an. undertaking of a differ ent atwitter : the capital was sufficiently ample. and, as he under- stood, the money was already subscribed. It was intended to emend this canal through a considerable tract of country, containing land necessarily of great variety as to value : sonic of it poor, but the greater part rich. The owneyship of' theland was also vested in the hands of proprietors of various classes and degrees in life. There were about one thousand different proprietors. The opinion of about 918 of these had been ascertained, and out of that number there were but fifty dissentients ; all the rest approved of the pro. posed plan, considering it as a measure of national and local nil vantage. The canal, when completed, woad pats through nu merous populous towns and places, which would, t.o doubt, be ren dered still more important by the execution of the potent project. The advantages attendant on it were of a singular nature, and it could scarcely, in justice, be called a canal—it was Miler a connexinn of the English and Bristol Channels. It would possess the advantage of two convenient harbours—one on the coast of De vonshire, at Start Point, which would, when formed, go materially to lessen the danger of shipwreck in the British Channel, now so frequent ; the second harbour would be at the other extremity of the Canal, in the Bristol Channel. The project, when effected, would materially facilitate, and afford great accommodation' to the trade between England and Ireland. 'the Liverpool traders would be enabled to communicate with the southern coast of England, without the danger, difficulty, and delay, attendant upon a moose e round the Land's End. The measure was altogether one of such great public benefit, that he anticipated no opposition to it. It might perhaps be necessary to propose a few alterations in the de tails of the various arrangements before a Committee, but that was all ; here could be but one opinion of the practical utility of the undertaking. The plan had been subjected to the consideration of an able engineer, who had surveyed the ground where it was in tended to cut the canal. He had reported, and his report was fa vourable to the execution of the project. AM eminent naval officer, Captain Nichol., had also examined the details, end concurred in opininn with the other Individual ; they both considered the plan feasible, and of great savantage to the local and oational com mercial interests. Looking at it do the saute light, he (Sir T. Lghbridge) wished to give his warm support to the undertaking. Sir JOSEPH YORKE made a few obseevatiots, which went newly inaudible. We understood him to say, that be was the lest petiole who would feel Incibed to apples a useful and practicable theseux. He hewever, wished to state one or two doubts as to the expediency of this Bill. It was to be apprehended that if the canal lessened the number of shipwrecks in the coast navigation, it would lbw deprive the country of many able pilots and seamen, whose skill and ability were principally acquired in that navigation. lie threw this out to counterbalance the apparent advantage to be gained by avoiding the necessity of doubling the Land's End, in the communication between the Bristol and English. Channel'. There was another point to which lie wished to call the attention of the House. He entertained strong doubts wheeler the capital of the Company (two millions) would be found sufficieut to effect the proposed plan. They had to cut a canal through a country forty-two miles in extent. They further professed their intention of constructing two magnificent harbours. He doubted much the pme ibility of effecting those objects with a capital of two millions. These were his principal objection', and he stated them the more freely, anxious as he was that the country might not be deprived of the hardy seamen which the coast navigatiou was calculated to produce. Mr. DICKINSON thought, that whatever could be possibly lost to the naval skill of our seamen, in not having to go round by the Land's End, would be more than compensated by the more numerous voyages that would take place under the new arrange. ment. Ile would support the Bill on the ground of the present project holding out many and great advantages to the trade and manufactures of the country. - Mr. ROBERTSON expressed his approbation of the principle of the Bill. He could not find fault with the measure, because it would go to decrease the number of shipwrecks upon the coast, but would give it his support, considering it highly beneficial to our general interests. Sr THOMAS LETHBRIDGE observed, that the projected harbour at Start Point would be extremely secure, and entirely protected from the severe gales to which the Breakwater at Ply mouth was expand. According to the plan, the intended berbour seemed naturally formed for the security of vessels against those winds. At least, when the projects of the Company should have been completed, itwould afford that security in an eminent degree. The estimated expense of the whole undertaking was 1.750,0teR. He was aware such works more generally exceeded than fell short of th e estimate. The Company had provided for this contingency —their Clipital was two millions. But if three millions were ne cessary to the completion of the object lje was satisfied it would signify little—it would be forthcoming. He wished to reply to the objection of the Gallant Admiral (Sir J. Yorke). He did not think with him, that the skill or discipline of our seamen would be impaired by the proposed alteration. The Honourable Member for Riegate must recollect that the ships would be navigated through the canal by the same crews which would have to work them up and down the Bristol and English Channels. They might acquire experience and practice enough in those ships. The Bill was then read a second time, and ordered to be referred to the Committee. LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTER RAIL ROAD. Mr. SPRING RICE presented a petition from the inhabitants of the town of Drogheda, in Ireland, in favour of the Liverpool and Manchester Rail Road Bill. ST. KATHARINE'S DOCK. Mr. HEATHCOTE Demented a petition from the Ship-owners of Boston in favour of the St. Kathiiiine's Doct 'min.—Laid oft the table. SOUTH LONDON DOCK. Mr. C. CALVERT presented a petition from the Rev. J. Abdy and the Select Vestry of the parish of St. John, Horalcydoisn, praying to be heard by counsel and witnesses against the StrUill London Dock 13il1.—Ordcred to be printed. 0 A )1 E LAWS. Mr. S. WORTLEY moved the corder of the day for the second reading of the Bill to amend the Game Laws, for the purpose of postponing it till .Monday next. ASSESSED TAXES. Lord LINDSAY presented a petition from the inhabitants of 1F igen against the Assessed Taxes.—Ordered to be printed. Mr. DICKINSON presented a petition from the town of Somer. ton, praying the repeal of the House and Window Tax.—Orderrd to - he printed. - Mr. HART DAVIS presented a petition from the inhabitants' of the parish of Bt. Stephen, in the city of Bristol, against the House and Window Tax—Ordered to be printed. Mr. C. CALVERT presented a petition from the parish of St. ' Saviour against the Assessed Taxes. BROUGHA 31 considered the prayer of the petition de serving the attention of his Majesty's Mir.loters. He, for his part, would prefer the remission of such taxes as those which brought the people in direct contact with the tax.collector, to the repeal of other branches of the revenue. It would be desirable that the visits of the tax-gatherer should be diminished at. much as possible. He rose principally for the purpose of stating an instance of the conse quenees attendant upon the late reduction of duty upon French wines. It was a curious illustration of the operation of that mea sure, which had come under his own personal knowledge. The moraing after the Chancellor of the Exchequer had made his nanchil exposi, he (Mr. B.) was a' Guildhall, where he had not remained three hours when he learned what might perhaps surprise the Honourable tientleman, r.amely, that the respectable vendors of wine, taking into their most wise consideration the reduction made by his Majesty's Government to the amount of 161. per hogs. peeler of the petition. Mr. C. CALVERT isalikakit another grievance of the Agonised Taxes was to be louse is themessessal rite of Assesernent. HOUSIS in the southern part of dm (sty *toe nomad to an amount three times as peat as those is the narteern districts. The petition inethembrocillit op, and ordered to be printed,. Sir W. INGLEBY presented a petition front the in habitants of Reattach against the Aliened Taxes.—Laid on the table. Coionel PA Lel ER pressated'a petition from the perish of St. Alichsei, in the city ofleanin agaiible the House ar.d Window Tax. —Laid on the Mine. LEITH DOCKS. Mr. A BERCROMB V presented& petition from the Magistrates of Edinburgh, against the Bill foe the transfer of the management of the Leith Wet Docks to ',feint-.Stock Company. After a few words from Mx. DUNDAS, the petition was read, and ordered to be printed. Mr. HUAI E presented a petition from the Legal Practitioners of A berbrothy against the Attorney's Tax.—Laid on the table. Mr. HUAIE postponed his rnotioo respecting the Protestant Church of Ireland to the 10th of March. The Honourable Member gave notice of his intention to substitute his motion for dispensing with the Sinking Fund for the former motion. (A laugh.) SHIP CANAL. Mr. DICKINSON presented a petition from the inhabitants of Ilroington in favour of the Bristol Ship Canal Bill.—Ordered to be printed. Mr. DICKINSON presented a petition from Glastonbury in favour of the County (leipica,Bill.—]aid on the table. IRISH PROVINCIAL BANKS. Mr. GEORGE DAWSON Fomented &petition from the city of Dublin in favour of Peoreocial Banks ; also a petition from Londonderry to the sanivetheen—Ordered to be printed. Mr. DENIS BROWNS ented a petition, very generally' t i: signed by inhabitants in tr parts of Ireland, in layout of Provincial Banks . —lssie en table. Captain MABERLY inherited a petition feom the town of Northampton in favour of the County Courts Bill—Ordered to' be printed. CATHOLIC CLAIMS. Mr. HUME presented a petition from the Roman Catholics of 1 the City and Liberties of Londonderry in favour of the Catholic Association aneeelaims--Laid on the table. Mr. liG3lJf wished to take that opportunity of correcting a mistake alien ion by an Honourable eientleman opposite relative to the conduct of the Catlitnie ittesocieffoo. It had been stated that a certain vast subscribed tier the promotion of education had been converted to the purposes of the Catholic Rent. He was authorised to den the statement in tem. SirGEORGE HILL explained. Lord A. HILI. presented a eon from the town of Down latrick in favour of the Catholic s laims.— Laid up the table. DUTLES ON TOBACCO. Mr. HART DAVIS moved for a Return of the amount of ma ' ired tobacco and ramie paying duty in the year 1824. _ el. Lord J. FITZROY moved the second reading of the Bill to enabll the Metropolitan Fish Company to sue and be sued in the name of their Chairmen. The Bill was accordingly read a se. cond time and committee. LONDON WATER WORKS. Mr. Alderman THOCIIPSON presented a petition from the Ward of Cheap and Queenhithe in favour of the New London Water Works Bill.—bid on the table. Upon motion the Alerquis of 'l'avioock was discharged from the custody of the Sergesnast-Arens on payment of his fees. Sir T. LETHBRILRIE moved, that the order for taking Lord Green into the custody of the Sergeant at.Aroes be rescinded, on the ground of the dangerous illness of his soa. The order was rescinded. and Lord Graves excuse!. ORANGE ASSOCIATION. Mr. BROWNLOW presented a petition from the Orangemen of Ireland, complainieg of the calumnies that had been cast upon ' their character, and Freeing that it might be referred to the Com. niittee upon Irish A gain to inquire into their origin, progress, j and character. On the question that the petition be now brought up, Lord ALTHORP rose to sa he wee delighted to hear the Hon. Gentleman declare that t he Orange Association's were now done away with ; and as to what bad been stated by Mr. O'Connell, it was evident from what he had heard that night that part of it was accurate. Mr. HUTCHINSON expressed his astonishment at hearing the Hon. Member who had presented the petition talk of the Ca. tholice sympathising with the 'persons concerned in the Rebellion of 1798: he begged to remind hint that that Rebellion was not a Catholic one ; that it was set on foot by Protestants and Presby terians ; and so fir from having originated with the Catholics, it was notorious that at tint they were expressly excluded from any the slightest connection with it. And why were they excluded ? It was because the framers of the Rebellion feared they known and tried loyalty ; they would not entrust the secret to the Catholics, because they knew their attachment to the throne, and their hos. rility to any thing bordering on disloyalty ; so that the Catholics were igepratit of le until it unfortunately extended over the entire Putney. Then chef/en common with all , became connected with it • but be would %Idly and without fear of contradiction amen tle"t at Its erigto it eats not hatched by them, nor sympathised in by arthat it sem _not soactioned se upheld by the Catholics. r, hear.) 'lnit. i that charge was brought against the Ca alkalies it would be welt to remind the House that when ja cobinical principles hoed in Protestant England, and in the Protestant North cf Ireland, the Catholics remained untainted. The Hon. Member would rot object to petitions being received ; but he must ask the Hon. /Reinter, when he complained of the Orangemen being maligned, whose fault it was that they were so maligned ? (Hear, hear.) Was it not their own ? NVlty did they do that which gave reason for inisrepresentatiore if such it was? They had an opportunity of disabusing the public as to their se and their principles, and yet they did not do so. When his on. Friend endeavoured to extract at the bar of the House the matte of the Orangemen, and the nature of their oaths and pass words. from Sir A. B. King, that gentleman declared his demon!. nation rather to go to gaol than communicate a single iota connected with them to the House ; and when a secret body chose to act so, and not avow openly what was asked, they must content themselves to being subjected to almost any charge. Mr. ABERCHOMBY was rejoiced to hear that the Orange Associations were to he considered as extinct. lie hoped the Hon. Member was justified In announcing the circumstance ; and if they were not actually so. ha trusted the Hon. Member would exert that influence which he believed hint to possess in prevailing on them to do so. As far as the present petition went, he had no wish to "roam its being referred to the Select Committee, and still less had be objection that an inquiry should be instituted into the nature, the origin,the history, and progress of the Orange Associations: so hr he would meet the wishes of the petitioners, and as a Member of the Committee would do his utmost to go through the inquiry. I Again he expressed his joy at the assurance that they were now extinct, and he would add, there let them rest. lie was the more glad to hear the declaration of the Hon. Member, as recent experience I did not warrant the expectation. It was now two yearssince he (Mt. Abermornby) brouget forward a motion for the purpose of inducing' 1 hie Majesty's Moisten to exert that influence stet power they pos. sowed in remedying the evils springing front these Associations, j sod he was glad to hear it officially announced by the Right lion. Gentleman opposite (Mr. Peel) that they met with the disapproba -1 shoo of Goverument. Such a mode of putting them down he always considered the most constitutional, legitimate, and proper mune. Mr. PEEL also expressed his satisfaction at hearing the amend ment that night made; and he conjured the Orangemen not to defer their intention, and not to act in opposition to the positive provisions of an Act cf Parliament. That he conjured them to do as toys! men ; but ibis he would say, that be never considered their loyalty as compensation for the evils that naturally sprang from the principle. In viewer to a charge made against some of the persons connected with Government, that they were Orange men, he would say, that these persons continued their connection 'from a hope that by their influence they ma_y induce the other ' Orangemen to continue peaceable, and not to lay themselves open to acy charge of acting violently. At the same time he must say I ibis, that if any person continued a member of the Orange Asso. elation now that it was illegal—at least about to become 11J—Ile would be acting a highly . improper part. 1 After a colonisation, in which Mr. ABERCROMBV and Mr. BROW NLOW took a part, the petition was ordered to be retested to the Select Committee onthe State of Ireland. BDUedillthle Lk IRELAND.• . -- • . Mr. M. FITZGERALD presented a petition from certain Catholics of Kerry, canning that some measures be adopted to promote education in kilaud. The Honourable Gentleman went at sonic length into the abuse of the funds now granted to the Kilitan•street Asseciation, and declared dolt these finals were ctn. played rather for the pnrposs of proselytising than eaucatiug the peoale. The Honourable Gentleman next adverted to the charge brought forward on Teestlay last against a clergyman of the county of Kerry. lie said he had written for information oa that bead, and hoped shortly to be able to give a complete answer to it. After a few words from Mr. BROWNLOW, the petition was ordered to be printed. APO T II ECA RI ES. On the motion of 3lr. BROUGHAM, the Bill to emend the 33th Gee. 111. for regulating the Practising Apothecaries, wan ordered to be printed. The Bill was ordered to be read a second time to.morrow. The lion. Member wished to correct a misstatement which had gone abroad relative to what hail fallen from him on a former night. It had been said that lie spoke disrespectfully of the University of Dublin ; the, fact was, and he appealed to the Honourable Mcm. her opposite (Mr. Crisker), he said nothingeof that University that was nut highly respectful. Mr. C ROK Ell "amen teil, end declared his surprise that such a notion should base gone :throw'. Mr. HUME declared it was the intention of the College of Aberdeen so far tb conform to the recommendation given by the lion. anti Learned Gcalleman. on bringing in the present Bill, as to entitle themeelves to the benefit of it. ASSESSED TAXES. Mr. MA BERLY presented a petition from the Parish of Mary la-botne, against the Assessed Taxes.—Ordered to be printed. Mr. MA BE ItLY then retie to make his promiseu motion for the repeal of the AlbSelrnett Taxer. lie regretted the extreme thin ness of the House, so thin indeed as if nothing of the slightest 1 interest were expected to come on : and yet he wag sure that if persons were sem lean house to house to ascertained* public feel. ' • .-'4" nulictui kOul red. • end Warty-nine out of every thousand would After making sortie further observations, ratan proceeded to notice the several articles of duty was Frowned. The first article to ras hemp; there still remained on It a duty -.men per te. duty lie considered still too hipti, as it was a commodity of so much importance tet the shipping intereet, as a TRW material for the manufacture of cordage. The consequence of the present high duty was, that cordage was now purchased from foreigners. whereas if it were motored, our own manufacture would be encouraged. He next alluded to wine, and contended that the reduction would only benefit the rich, and not the poor, who most needed relief. The Honourable Member next entitled to the re ductions on coffee, wine, and spirit.; the reduction on the last, he contended, though it may do something to madmen smuggling, still would tend to demoralise the country, from the ("effigies it afforded to persons desirous of drinking ; and even it was not certain that smuggling wield be put down by the present reduc tion ; for fast year when the reduction was made on Irish and Scotch spirits, its only erect sas to change the station of the smuggler—it certainly drove him from the mountain!, but it settled him on the banks of the Tweed. But grant that it pm down smuggling in spirits, what was to prevent a contraband trade in tee, tobacco, and the other articles still taxed ? The Honourable Member next alluded to the alteration in the duty on cider; and said, that though the remission on that did not amount to much, still it was of great advantage to those who preferred that species of drink to beer. He now came to the reduction on the Assessed Taxes, and admitted, that the partial repeal that had taken place would do great good ; not so much from its amount, as the an. noyance which attended the collection. (Hear, keen) And he was sure that many of the mistakes that occurred fume more from an ignorance of the papers, than from any wish to defraud. The Honourable Member, in advereng to the duty on iron, de clared his opinion that hemp should be pot on the saute footing with it; they were both equally articles of raw material.— He put it to the House whether it was not mere politic to take oil the chides and increase the consumption even of tea than wine, from Its tending lees to demoralise the habits of the people and as being more generally . used. Tobacco was the nest article to which he would direct their attention—an article of great necessity, and paying, he believed, a duty clime million flee hundred thousand pounds. If the great object was, as they had seen told, to repeal 'the duties upon those articles which would in their repayment carry out of the country the greatest quantity of experts. here was mre which would answer the purpose as well as wine or spires. with the same advantage as to the repression of smuggling, and affording a great relief to the people. Many other articles caold be mentioned which would, he thought, have afforded greaser relief in their to wel than those which had been mentioned. Soap. candles, hides, indigo, cotton, wool, were all articles which would be benefited by repeals of the duty on the raw material ; hut he laid his great stress upon tea and tobacco. The Hoe. Member then proceeded to what he said was the principal purpose of his motioe—the As sessed Taxes. He argued that it would be a greater beneat to re duce them altogether than in part, because they would at the same time get rid of all the expensive machinery. By the repeal of the Assessed Taxes they would be able to reduce the whole branch of the Beard of Commissioners, with all its attendant ex penses. Be then alluded to the opinions of the late lewd London. derry and the Chancellor of the, Exchequer, in 1823, upon the direct taxes, and the great benefit they conceived would arise !TOM their repeal, if the circumstances of the country permitted it ; and argued that it was inconsistent not to carry their opinions into action the moment they procured the means. He objected also to another item of repeal, the deny on shop wintlows, as not being suf ficient to enable those who paid it to compete with the itinerant shopkeeper. He characterised the Assessed Taxes as a kind of partial property tax, and again strongly urged the necessity of their total repeal. The Hon. Gentleman then adverted ti the Sinking Fund, as a delusion, which. instead of tiering off any portion of the ' Debt, had really increased it. lie indicated the plan of the late Chancellor foe paying the half-pay list, and 'seated, that he should be able to prove it had added an amount of sixty millions to the National Debt. One of the very first acts of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in coming into office, had been the conclusion ef a bargain, which had cost the country two millions of money. Ile did riot mean to condemn him for that ; but so it was. He had a high opinion of that Right lion. Gentleman's integrity and ho. ROUT, but lie would not trust him or ary other Minister with a Sinking Fund. They had always eared it for the most profligate and extravagant purposes; it always afforded them the means to delude the people ; it had even detected themselves ; for he be lieved most firmly that the late Noble Lord (the Marquis of Lon donderry) had fancied in reality that he had funds enough at his command to carry on a war office yeanedttration without borrowing a single teething. He could prove it was a delusion, from the present state of the debt itself, which was now, after nine years of a Sinking Fund of Gee millions annually, actually increased by twelve millions since the year 1616; proving that the whole plan was a mere juggle to avoid borrowing sixty millions at once. He acknowledged that, although the amount was Increased, the charge had been diminished; but this he attributed to the energy, indus try, and enterprise of the people of this country, which had en abled Ministers to reduce the interest. aid not to any operation of the Sinking Fund. Any one, he observed, could see the rumbina. tions by which twenty millions of reduced taxation had enabled the people to exert their energies and resources, so as to produce the increase of capital necessary for that ulteretion of interest. Prom the days of Sir Robert Walpole to the present hour, he de fied any man to show tit u t the Sinking Fund had reduced one pound of the Natienal Debt. He acquitted the Chancellor of the Ex chequer of any design to catch populariy . in his °petitions of finance, and trusted thst Ilon.Gent. would view his proposals in the same light. He would therefore state at once, that although his statement had produced satisfaction there, it was by no mesas ue out of doors. The country certainly was disappointed in not be ing relieved wholly from the Asses id Teem, : n I he believed that dissatisfaction would be expressed shortly by peti inns to the House. He would then state shortly, that it was his intention to move the repeal of taxes to the amount of 3,970.0110!• composing the tax on windows, inhabited houses, servants, hones, carts, carriages, &c. He would here observe, that as a proof of the in• efficacy of the relief intended by the Chancellor of the Exchequer in remitting the duties on wine, that wine ball risen considerably the moment his intentions were made known. He did not mean to say that it would not ultimately find its level ; but did that relief operate to the benefit of the people at present? The Honourable Member then moved a series of Resolutions to the effect that these duties composing the Assessed Taxes should cease and determine. Mr. LEVCESTEII seconded the motion. He said the effect of this repeal would go to induce men of fortune to wend their money in their own country; to prevent them irom dis figuring their houses by blocking up their windows, and enable them to increase the revenue by keeping more horses, carriages, and servants. He supported it too, because it would free the peo. pie of this country from those odious pieces of printed paper, which placell an alarming power in irresponsible hands, and degraded the magistracy by turning an English country gentleman, in his caps. city of Justice of tile Peace, into a tool of Government and a Com missioner of Timm, and degrading them by the abuse of jus tice which it engendered in condemnation without trial. The Hon. Gentleman then condemned the Sinking Fund, and intrrated the House to try whether they could not do without it. If they could not. he observed, they might have it back again. There was one thing connected with that subject he wished to notice—the corn laws. Those laws he thmight they could not alter without destroy ing the Sin king Fund. He thought it but just to the country gen. Hemet that they should not take away the remedy without restor ing die disease. Mr. HEATFICOTE thought the petitions on the table called for the reduction of the Assessed Taxes ; they were too numerous to be treated with contempt. He thought the Stoking Fund would enable us to show Foreign Powers that we were prepared for war if they, by their conduct, should render it necessary. He merely rose to express a hope that alinietere would be able to show some good reason tar the intreine rat the army, (Hear. hear,) after the termination of that question on Tuesday, which lie hoped would give peace and tranquillity to Irelerd. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER was somewhat surprised at the motion which had been brought forward to-night, when he looked forward to the notices of the lion. alenthere foe Westminster and Aberdeen upon the same subjects in the ensuing week ; the one upon the name subject of Assessed Taxes, and the other upon the Hon. alember's incidental question—time Sinking Fund. He understood the motion to be directed against the partial repeal of the Assented Taxes ; the whole of his observations had gone directly to the Sinking Fund. He (Mr. Robinson) would have thought it a more reasonable course if the Hon. Member had confined himself to the ohiect of his motion ; and lie trusted he should be pardoned if he applied his answer solely to what bore upon that question. The Honourable Member had with great ingenuity so dispwaed his items as to make them catch support in same leaner or other, so that if he failed upon one, be might gain as parties upon the next. .He acquitted slat lies., Member of any desire to gain popularity upon the eve of a sup. posed general election, (A laugh) as he had raid him the same compliment. His objections, as he understood them, were, that the reduction of duties had not taken place upon the article of most general consumption, m; hat he was inconsistent in not re. doting the duty upon hemp thitty per cent. instead of fifteen. Suppose the demand for hemp increased, he would say that the duty would not then be considered of any great conse quence, when considered with relation to the leerier price, by those whit were reflected by this duty of a hallpeeny per pound, and that was a eatiefactory test as to its propriety. With respect to the meduc ion of the duty on coffee, it had been attempted to speak xlrghtiugly of in as it was alleged to he only nt luxury. Now he be lieved it was more than a luxury—that it wee en article not in par. tial, but general consumption. and that it was likely to become still more so them the proposed alteration of duty. For years hack the consumption of this article had been on the decline ; what was this to be attributed to ? to the rate of duty : alter then the duty, and it is but fair to calculate on a corresponding inert-est...of consump. don. When the conatimption of an article had fallen, it was held to be, on the ether side, an unerring test that die duty wes too high. As to the article itselt, although it might lie said to bea luxury to lion. elentbers of that House ' who indulged in a dish of soiree; yet to the labourio labouring, chain , * of ti me community it supplied * wholesome and necessary mesa It was relatable and ntantinum and deserved the encouragement the reduction would have the eilleei of giving it. There was anther reason Ice the reduction of the duty--looking towards the West Indies ; for it was expedient not only to encourage everything which was eslcalated to promote our commercial intercourse with that part of the world. but more parti cularly with that article, the growth of which required lees of slave labour than others. It was therefore that he thought the reduction of this duty could not in ('mimes, be considered as a luxury. In the same manner, what had been pmposed with respect to the duty on wine, had been stated as merely a proposal to give the middling daises a taste for luxuries. This he was not digit:reed to admit— wine was useful for many other purposes—and although it were i only a M=ary, he for one was not unwilling to exteml it to the shift tiling clams% provided It (lid not interfere with the interests of the trade and commerce of the country. (Hear, hear.) The next topic to which the Hon. Member adverted was, the reduction of the duty on spirits. Now how did this subject stand ? Two year ado en experiment had been made by the reduction of the duty is less land. It had been milted to ascertain haw that alteration warbled. and it had been found to work well. In Ireland the reduction was tons. ; the duty in England had been 10s. 6d.—the reductionro so low a rote as the duty in Ireland, would be on • sudden too OW ; accordingly a more moderate, though • considerable reduction, was 1 recontmeedednfounded on the good result that had been yielded to I thenharge in Scotland and Ireland. Prohibition on the admission 'of spirits Mat attended with the utmost inconvenience. They were proceeding in a circle of errors which required to be acetified. The Hon. Membet hail suggested the taking off the ditty on What to-- the amount which that tax yielded was three millions ; if were reduced by half, this would be 1.500,00 W. the whole of the loss wbich, according to the disposable maple's on which he ecleulaiett, he wns able to offer. But allowing that the increased consumptir a Iwould reduce it to only a quarter of what the tax yielded, there would be still 750,0001. which would intetlere to prevent the !chef to other departments of taxation on which he had proposed togive I relief. As to tea. that was an article an which the duty was en. I tainly very high—he believed 100 per cent. ; it was an article, bow. ' ever, In which they whoenibarked in smuggling, both from die dis. tance from which it was brought, and treat other mows. were un. willing to risk their capital. If the propositions of the Howie. able Member were attended to and acted upon. it email abate a loss to the revenue beyond what could be borne front any compu tation of thertisposable anrplus. Mr, OIABERLY suggested, that he intended that a reduction io Donut of those articles lie suggested should be atioyted ; he did not intend that the change should take place in all, and th at Illicit. Were more deserving of reduction thau those which theßight Honourable Gentleman selected. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER resumed—The Right Honourable Gentleman contended that he had selected those branches of intlestry for relief which soon required it. lie would ask the House what had been done with respect to malt ar.d salt, the reduction of which had been proweil on the House with so Much menerenois. The whole of the loxes to which the Honour able hien - doe had adverted, did not ten .ntillions, of which three bad been appropriated to the ion of taxatiot. If the i ormositions suggests.' by thellorou Dentlemwn were adopted, i instead of basing a Burp us ford at the end of the year they would be chimed to borrow moue) to pry the interest of the debt in time lof peace. Many who objected to a Sinking Fund admitted the necesaity of a surplus Fund, which was after all the same thin,. Even the Honourable Member for Knaresborough (Mr. Tierney) admitted this on a former oecaaiun ; without it they never could i proceed on a safe plan of fir ince.. and he should therefore adhere to f it. The Honourable Member had said, that with whatever degree of favour his propositions had met with in that House, they were generally received with despair out of doors; be certainly could not undertake to say what all people out of doors might say ; but certainly he had no reason to believe from anything he had heard that such a general seutimtnt of disapprobation prevailed. On the contrary, he had strong reason to believe that the reverse was the . generally prevailing opinion. He was satisfied at least that the propositions which he submitted were foundei, notwithstanding the disfavour with which he was threatened, on principles most conducive to the interests of this country. and on an enlightened regard to the general prosperity of the Empire. (Hear.) Al r.CA LC RA FT said, as to the precautions which thefPglitHon. the Chance kw of the Exchequer had proposed for the prevention of smuggling, he thought he was entitled to the utmost credit. No person could tightly estimate the mischiefs of which smug. gling was productive who was not, as he happened to be, coo. nected with a maritime county. lle could wish to have seen the principle extended so as to prevent the smuggling of tobacco, and for which an encouragement was still held by the excessive duty on that article. As for what the Right Hon. Gentleman bat done to counteract stnunegtiinr. lie begged to diet his mend of sic. cue praise, which he did the more readily, as he perceived the Right Hon. Gentleman was disposed to eat generally on principles of liberal policy, which formed a contrast to that of his predeces. sm. Glean loan) The Siirptus Fund ought. in his opinion, to be applied to at-eduction of taxation rather than to a sinking fund. which w,:s bat a nominal wrote of paying off an immerse fhb: of eight hundred millions. This would alone malls the people to arrive at that degree of prosperity at which sonic effort might be made eTectually to diminish it. This would be far wiser than to be rackit g the people, as at present, with taxation in the tenth year of peace, and appropriating the one hundred and sixtieth part of that debt to the discharge of it. Great obligation would no dcubt be felt for the proposed alteration in the duty on wine, and the health of the Right lion. Gentleman would often be toasted for it. (A laugh.) But he begged to call the attention of the Right Hoo. Gentleman to a problem relating to this branch of our commerce, which had been solved by a friend of his. It might tend to :hew how a still further reduction might he effected on this article. By a treaty which had been enteral Into between this country and Portugal, one of the articles if Cent treaty he underetood was that we were to have the regulation of any body of persons or com pany that might carry on the wine trade with this country. Not withstanding this treaty, there exire I in Prompt a Royal °porn, Company, which interposed its authority, and issued a dictum as to bow many thousand pipes of port sire should be imported into England. Lite cnesequerce was thnt they exercised a monopoly greatly to the prejudice cf the trade of this country. Vi ith respect to claret a similar controul was exercised by • few persons who ie. termed, and regulated most unfairly the quantities that should be sent to England, and the respective countries of the Continent. This was a most improper interference. and called for the marked attention of Government. The 'removal of it, as affecting the wine trade of this country, would facilitate the importation of increased quantities of wine of various and excellent flavour. ate moderate price and a reduced duty. As to the surplus revenue or sinking I fund, he agreed in opinion that it ought to be done away with. At all events he considered two millions an ample revenue to cover any deficit that might arise in the expenditure. The remainder ought to be given in the reduction of taxation, and could not be more effective than by attention to the measures of relief submitted in the " propositions of hies Honourable Friend. He was unwilling now to advert to the bargain with the Bank for the dead weight, as he believed Ministers were now ashamed of it; and it was but justice to say that it had taken place before die Right Honourable Get.. tlemati opposite had come into office. It deserved to be deoomi. nated as a most absurd and mischievous juggle. The Honourable Member coecluded by expressing his suppoo of the motion of his Honourable Friend, as he was of opinion that a more extensive relief of taxation ought to have been given than had been contained in the propositions of the Right lion. Gentleman. Sir J. ‘VROTTESLY considered the mode of submitting the propositions by his Honourble Friend Clfr. nlaberly) perfectly fair. The mode in which they were mine:and gave an opportutiity to those who approved of the repeal of the window and house tax to do so ; to those who soul(' vote for other parts of his prop°_ sititionsno support parts as they approved of respectively. For his part he was favourable to the repeal of the whole of the assessed taxes. If all the assessed taxes be taken off there would still be a surplus revenue of two ;militant, which would be mullicient to niece any deficit that might reameably be calculated upon to arise. As to the remission of the duty on wine. it was a most judicious and salutary measure. It was not only Iseneficiel, as it would tend to increase cite consumption of that article, but it would also mate. rially aid the market for our own produce. This was felt by those in his county (Staftiodnhile) who were crgnged in the maoutic. Luring interest. He thought that relief ought to be extended to other departments of taxation, particularly to that upon houses and trio:lows, which rould be received with peculiar satisfaction by the country. Mr. Alderman WOOD contended, that the taxes proposed to be repealen would not be an ettioteal relief ; and on the house and window duty, at least, he hoped his Honourable Friend would di. vide the House. __ _ Mr. H /SISSON assured the House, that he should not trou ble it at any length. He was glad that he had resisted the prop°. Shinn made by Gentlemen opposite, who, he was sure. had the brat intentions, but whose projects would are been injurious to the national honour, and subversive et the permanent prosperitz or the country. Ile thought, instead of Gentleman attacking the Sinking Fund by a side wind, it would have been more manly and par liamentary for them to have brought forward their arguments on the proposed motion relative to the Sinking Fund. If the Howie were disposed to attack the Sinking Ftal, the question ought to be argued on irs own demerits, and let it thereby be proved to the country to be injurious to public credit. lie would always press for a remission of indirect taxation in preference to that of direct taxes, when the latter do rot narrow the liberty of the subject ; because indirect taxation could always be resorted to in a easg of war with so much less pressure, and, consequently, etir much let. discontent than direct taxes. He was surprised to hear Gentle-met: I speak so lightly of the remisstmeer 14111(1 , 41246. ax if la .was boon to the country. Did they th ink no grind had accrued Irian the repeal of the silk duties? Oat they not know that that opera tion had brought numbers of manufacturers into employ, and thet 141,00 1 /more could be introduced into it If they could be found. Much had been said on the subject of direct taxation t but in answer to that be could state, that the freest counter in Forme. excepting England, lie meant the United Netlietlands, had n t•r: direct taxes than any oche: country. In those States there ass • tax on rent of houses, on windows, doors, hearths, and nen ter nitrite, and the broker went through the Mosses every year to make a valuation of it, and therefore the argument that Gentlemen went abioael to escape direct taxation way not tine. His Right Honour able Friend by reducing the tax on wine, did more to bring tack absentees to this their native soil, than by any ether miasmic , he could have proposed. (A latnat.) He had, beerever, not iiith• mit indignation heard, that since the intention of his Right Ho nourable Friend had been known, the wine merchants of London within these two days had increased the price of wine nearly to the amount of ditty about to he rev/titter& It became a ques tion with him after such conduct en the part of these conscientious, honourable wine merchants, whether they ought to be released from the burden, and whether they might not. inmost' of putting these profits into their own tills, tie compelled to pay them intot he Exchemeer? The first question to be considered were, whether the reduction of taxes had been can led as far as it could go ? and, if it had the next nuttio.r rus, whether it was net most prurient to reduce indirect taxes ? In favour of that course they. had the authority of their ancestors, who had always pretend the reduction of indirect to direct taxation. The Window Tax, foe instaree, was one of the oldest taxes. It was in operate r lorg before the commencement of the last war. In conclusion the Right Hon. Gentleman observed, that he objected to themotion of the Hon. Member, because be felt it his duty not to lend himself to ti e repeal of assessed taxes, so long as there were other taxes that bore more heavily on the industry: of th.people. Mr. T. WILSON observed, that people had kept back from buying wine on account of the duty, and therefore cow the doused I f I. 1 THE't BRIT H PRESS. - I .0 101110 / .d on French wine, facspitrost en thew to raise istir.'t.ine hundred Ind min t article HU. a h boosersif better to repeal vote for the question. Aftei Assessest Taxes, se pat e ssoooy 'lnto the pockets of the Honourable Gentleman vendors of rustic% WA& " • on which a reduction of d iir ROBERT S IN We late words in support of the which he would allude vas 11 tree of tile netition. of fitteen per cent.; that dut •