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l ot nr,voii , il; It still might be re :wt.: it via* to Ilfra'elai 1'1,41 . 11e was iiitluced to imke the petisent motion. The Loan ADVOCATK4 I II , erVetI, that whatrall hate hyrii the prmeLee 111 1 bl.• irspeit briure tikr 171114111, l`il . 11 the Courts and suli.equeut writers law Lad sot their laireo iiguinst it owe , Ile had no wish to impulse the motion, tisiugh he rertaiuly thought it would be s work of Mt. ROM LL void, that the old principle of the awl which still sub.isted, wa•, that 'Antoci' . 4 .504 lean deauctude when opposed by roinuton etio.nos. lit kiwi, *try well that this prartice was nit racooragrdaisice the Uoion, but he thought it tiiiie to Pot it beyond the Possibility ur The Hon. Mptobet obtained have to bring iu his JVIITICE GENERAL IN SCOTLAND SIG J. GRAHT postpooeil the Col ttttt mew on t h e Dad Justice General or Scotland's Bill, unt.l sr'imight. IRISH WINDOW TAX. !IP. RUDEST SHAW rose and spoke nearly as fol laies:--.• Witco I hail last year the honour of mak she WlOllOll which I alll now about to militant to the Mayor, that Dor Petition presented by ine to oils 'base, from the Householders of the City of Dublin, for itie repeal of the Window Tax, together .1.11 the other Petitions front Ireland on the same ~,Liect, he referred to a Coottraittee, 1 stated that I Orlfrf 1111001 1 • question excite go iter in trrriit aniortg the citizens of Dublin, or respecting 45101•11 theft was less diversiti. 1111/11111111 11 . It 1 were 1!;:,:s1. iillll/11 opiinon then. I am sure I csiniot he in error now, when I Smuts the I loure, this. that interest Ito. if possible, iur ;eased, and that the sum canons cor.rietian of my cosistiiortits at prrarnt shoot up of every prfOrsiple of sound pal cy and good faith, the people of Velum' have a right to claim it uotal repeal of the Wiodow Tax. I mention this, au t iu order to interfere with the full discussion of this questiosi, for thrC1115 5 55 05 5 and ioquiry is what w e call fur, loot rodirr to motorail to Hip !louse whir. they any %object upon which the second city in the moire has token such all active ;11111 zealour part, and pronosticed ro decisive awl deliberate all opii- IS not well entitled to sr calm and serious in vertigai ion in l'ailiament. This, Sir, ir •II I now ask, and which, I am su re, the candour and good twine of OM: House will not refuse to concede to me. When I say that a tool and temperate inquiry is all I now ask, I must at the MOW time confess, shod I say so iii the ilimicionstiess that if. the House will but time their fair mid fall inmates, I have little doubt that the result will be wholly favourite He to the object or my motion, sod to the wishes of the Petitions. I have certainly every redo t o he g r e teful to the House for their sodulgrace on a former acclaims, but I hope I may add, without presumption. my sincere wishes that, in debiting this question. behind will tat now, as on the last occasion, be upbraided with not having supported her alone of the public lisoleas—that she will hot now b e t a unted far pat hissing done that which it liar been bug sitar, as it was Impossible for her to have done; At the same tints I would re spectfully suggeot, that it by no Illtallst follows that because Ireland may (in, mutter from wiliat caliseej have been deficient in her contribution tonic public crigenries, yet that a tax so unequal in its pres sloe, 15101 So issillrioll ll ill its consequences to the oil the community, should be obstinately per s.-it-red in. Were Ito admit, therefore, what I err -I.iiiily am very fur from admitting. that Ireland bad not since the Unto.) done all that could be reasoualrly . xpecteil of her, still this wool(' he no argument for tile lax. If tle tax itself be oppressive and unequal, o r i f for any oilier reasons it he a tax that ought to I, I , pealed, Own. I say, the supposed deiitileory on the part of Ireland, can be 110 argument in fa sour i=f this continuance of it. If the tax be in ink If radically objeciimiable, this House will du its dirty awl aboli•li it ; apt: if the abolition create a serious deficiency in the public rese w". it will be then the duty of the Right Honour sable Gentleman to soggert the consideration ef Parliament the best means in his judgment of supplying that deficiency. As lam anxious that this riorsties shonlsl be met in the most direct man ner, I shall hot detain or weary the attention of the Hume by recapitulating the atgunienta which I hell it nir duty to state on introducing it to their rimier; I shall, however, beg leave to remind the litionw of one or two of the leading objections to the principles of the 'notion which I have now the bourns, of submittisig spin to their consideration. thie objection was, that the Ittpeal of this tax would he breaking (Milt with the public c.editor, as halm% a 'podiatry to lessee Om sweatily oil the rtrength of which be lent tits loamy; this argument would prove trio meth. bersitme in that eme no nix single vr yr 10 Ise repealed, and every tax, when once isiiptowil. ought to be perpetual ; the conreppience of which would be, that if Noy one Parliament Etutsid be found sufficiently complying to vote isideditite taxation, it would be unnecessary to call another ; besides. the Right Honourable Gentleman gave up this principle when lie con swirled to Übe reducttim of 43 per cent.—ar tar as 'principle went, the reduction affected :bat its much as the abolition itself. But to give the ribjaction all its force, I would put it to the candour if she Bight lion. Gentleman, whether lie hail any uppreheirrions that t h e abolition of the Irish dow4eglit Tax would plialte the confidence cd . thle public credit. It was quit/ ludicrous to buil t :use that the lose of a tax, now aintimittrig only to qUO,utinf. but every year belling off, would injure lite era urity of the stational debt. Rot if Gentle- Awn me so anxious tit keep faith walk the public ,creditor, I Bust they will lie at least as AIIIXIOw. list 1 1;ottlivliors.t 0611101 krrp faith withillse Irish people. .t ml thus brings me to another o bjection, which. I think is squally issitenalple—that this is not a war ism; Or, at lea-i, that parliamentary faith has nut lawn pledged that it should erase with the war.— As to whither the Act of the 39ili of the King war Or an% 1501 a War tat, I Aiimad suppose the simplest mode tit th (Ante t h at cporstion would be by refer •oce to the Act itaelf. By the 4th chap. of the Cith of ihr IC nig. it ar expressly l asted, that the lax tin windows was granted tor the role purpose it' keeping ups Ali ellectiie Inoue, little short tit 50,000 Snell; ill V 10r turd., 11111 nit that WWI 1114 11 was a tax for War rflablitslsrutest ; and if so, could 1 , 1,0 buoy rise limo a war tor ? But it is soot Moly st.otooll iu Ile a 11411 i for raising all effective force, :Put ruble. rtatide, to Ow 3 ear ISM!, ..:er twit regulations were introilsicial reapectisig tins tar, which rtigulstions were to lie in force for three year., provided the war should sit %Mg COUtiallr. Did nut this, at least, ciaivey an implied Wridel 1. twilling, 11,11 the tax was not to cosi+ 1111 l e beyoilil the air? But it his 10 , en gravely said, that this clause respecting the three years referred to the regulations only, and not to the tax itself. " Is it possible that the Legislature could have contemplated the possibility of the tax surviving the regolatiotis by which that tax was to be rated and cuotrullril, that is to that Parliarnerit could have wird, Let the tax 1,. ;perpetual, but be it etiactert, that all the re• r i,islations for rating and levying the tax shall out continue its force longer than three years ?' Sir, 1 put it to the candour and goo.] sense of the House, whether it was possible tor the Irish Parliametit to have any such doul.le meaning. %I'll:it they said of the mode of rating the tax, they must have meant of the tax itself. The Parliament expressly said, that the rating Shall continue during the war only, and therefore they evidently me a l,' that the tax should nut continue for a longer period. I trust that this quibble (for I call call it nothing else) will nut now be seriously 'tainted to as a grave argument to justify au alleged breads of faith. Give use leave to say, that it is nut seemly in the Government to aisecial plead with the people us a charge that the faith of Par liament was pledged to them, and that it lag ant been kept sacred. I would even go farther and say, that although the precise terms of the contract, or the exec' circumstance* of the case, did not strictly and formally pledge the faith of Parinw meat, yet if, trout the spirit of the Acts them selves, *lie language and conduct of the Govern ment at the time of passing them, the people acted upon an no plied understanding of such a pledge. and cheerfully discharged their part of Ilse cove nant by paying the tax during the war, the Govern ment and the Parliament would be bound on the return of peace to front that tax. Now, be the causes what they may, it is indisputable that at the time of introducing this tax, and from that tune down to the present day, there has been one uni form nod utichangeable impression, that the Win dow Tax was a war tax, and that the faith of the Irish Parliament wait pledged that such tax should not continue in force longer thou the war. Now, Sir, I subunit that au impression so atrong and ge moat is in itself evidence of the truth of that impics snot ; but adsiaittnig for a motorist that it was not warranted to the full extent its which it has been eutertaisied, )et, Sir, give me leave to ask, is a feeling of this kiwi on the part of the people to Ire answeitd by quibbling on the words of au Act of Parliament ? Is that the way hip which the Le gislature ought to justify themselves against the imputation of a breach of faith ? In my humble ten times the amount of this tax would be but a pour price fur the forfeiture of that confidence which the hest interests of the empire reqpire should ever exist between this House and the Irish peo ple. But, Sir, who was the person with whom this tax originated ? The then Irish Chancellor of the Exchequer, the late Mr. Corry--the representa tive, and, in this instance, the deputed organ of the Irish Cove/portent. was his language on that occasion ? %Vitro last this question was before the House, 1 cited the speech, or rather a most mate. tint extract from the speech of Mr. Curry, in pro posing this tax to the Irish House of Commons. - I read that extract trout the most authentic report I could find. Wills the leave of the House I shall now lead it ;itis as follows Mr. Corry stated, that when the Winslow Tax was first proposed, it was on the footing of a mere war tax to met the exigencies of die moment, and that its order to render it efficient, it became urcesaary to give it a retrospective operation : lie had already. every time that the subject had been brought before the House, adveuced that the tax was not intended to be permanent, but as a mere war provision. On the footisig, then, that it was merely is war tux, lie hoped to do away every objection to the Bill.' The authenticity of this de ate, as given in the Dublin Journal of that year (Kith June, 1800), a paper strongly in the interests of the then Goverinnent, has utter been once questioned. 11, then, this lan gouge was used by the accredited organ of the Irish Gover 1111 l rot, in order to induce toe Plait Puha meld to vote that tax, there should be siti end to the questiou. Either the Government and the Irish Parliament were then pledged. or, if they were not, the people were deceived. If the pledge was bone fide made, this House Should redeem it ; if it was delusively made, far be it from this House to countenance any such deception. If then lam right in what 1 have hitherto contended fur, this tax ought to be abolished, upon the great principle of good faith, though it were in every other point of view unobjectionable. But is this tax in every oilier point of view unobjectionable ?—isit tiot,com partitively 'peaking, unproductive ?--and is it not universally looked swim by the Irish people as a afoot obituxious,usitqualsle, and severe tax?—and is not that souther argument for inquiry, at least whether it would not he expedient to abolish it ? I may be told, pedlar., that no tax is popular. Why, Sir. no man wishes to be in debt, bust every honest man will he as anxious to pay his just debts as he will be discootented iii suffering under what lie may think tic eatortion. 1 ant far front insinuatiog that this tux, instil repealed, cannot be as justly levied off the King's subjects in Ireland as any oilier; but surely it is a serious question for this House, whether they will persevere in making the law nistrumental in levying any tax in violation of the public faith. I said that dna fax was odious sit ,retried. %'ill flentlemett wonder that it is so *lwo they learn in what 111141111er the law allows it fo be levied and raised upon every lionise in Pelsud bobs sect to the tax ? The word* of the Act are, that the co:lectors can der mend an esitrance into 'weir room in every house ill Ireland. from light in the MO, tilt:g until sun-set, and insist Upoll admission, under a penalty el go/. I shell leave it to the (louse to reflect for a en ttttt rot to what gross abuses ao in quisitunal key of this kind might eventually lesid. I. not this (ut prosision to itself sollicteist to make the tax odious tip any pro f ile jetilour of their is betties? But, sir, s there no other reason why this tax should be orhis,us aim the 11611 people? Sir, it Is a fact ascertained beyond a doubt, that the liryah of the poorer classta has materially aufferesl, and is still suffering its conarquence of this tax. When this question was last before the House. some Gentlemen seemed to labour under a great iniactri.ceptiou as to the uperatiou of the tax this respect—they argued that as houses with 61111. (lOWs less than a certain number were free bum she tax, mill es the poorer milers universally occupied such houses, and that they were niest subject to the f-ver, that die tax could not hose at all occasnined or contributed to the fever. But, Sir, the fact unfortunattly is, that that part of Dublin which is known by the name of the Liberty, contains a vast bee of later houses, all of which ninst have been originally liable to the tax, a n d are exclusively occupied by the poor and the most miserehle poor in the empire ; and so strongly was this felt to be on i iiiiii Merit *Luger by the Goverioneet of that country, that orders were given in all eases where the Irma of contagion had forced the wretched inhabitants to restore the windows, and stunt the light and air, that in all such Ives, theta; so incurred, should be remitted. I recollect, now that lam on this part of the subject, it was objected by my Rialit lion. Friend, who war then secretary fur Ireland, that so few li id availed themselves of this indulgence, that that circumstance was conclusive evidence, that the tax could oat have been the general cause of the contegion. Why, sir, in the first 'dace, I greatly fear, that the poorer chaser* had s u it that confidence in the Government in this particular, which I se lit they aught in have bad, the continuance of thelVindow Tax being considered es a breach of faith, the peo;►le are too apt to look upon every measure respecting it in the same point of view. They might have suspected that this very indulgence, so sincerely meant, was siothiug more than a trick, affecting to give them tempo rary relief, but in reality imposing on them perms nent taxation ; and that this artifice had been re. sorted to fur the purpose of comitereciing and de leafing their own miserable evasions. Such distrust on t h e part of the people is always to be deplored, and Parliament can Clever be too cautious in pre serving. the public faith inviolable. But, Sir, there were other difficulties in the way besides mere dis trust, for when once fever attacks these miserable habitations, the inhabitants are in 'general 60 poor, that far from being able to go to the expense of opening a window, they call ►carcely procure aid& cietit nourishment to sustain existence. 1)r. Par ker, in his Report on the Epidemic Fever for last year, has the following passage I have ob served the back window* of houses where fever pre. veiled, closed sip, to avo►d the %Window Tax (as was isifornseil by the inhabiting.). In vain was it represented that they would be indulged with ex emption from the tax on making application to the Commissioners lathe Revenue. it was evident, they alleged, they could not afford the expense of a new window sash.'—(Extruct from Dr. Porker's Re port of the ltpidesaic fever, 1817 surd IB).—This extract may give the House some idea of the class of people opus, whom this tax falls most heavily. Upon every principle then of goad faith and sound policy, I once more submit this question to the car.- did consideration of the House. The impression throughout Ireland is, that if she had now a resident Legislature this tax would have bred lung ago re pealed. 1 should be sorry that they thought that their unanimous opinion upon soy subject affecting their own interests would be beard with indilference in this House. They ask you to remit a war tax, which they believe (nu matter whether right or wrong) you are pledged to remit to them—they know this tax to be dangerous in its consequences to the public health--they have found it to be most severe and unequable in its pressure. and they feel it fur every ►eason to be odious. It appears by the returns which I now hold in my hand, that the notices sere. ed un the collectors fur closing up windows fo► the three years, ending Sth January next, amount to the number of 32,424, and that the tax is regularly falling off every year. The net amount of the Window Tax. in Ireland, for the years ending Sth January. 1816, was 381,5391. 7s. 6d. ; for 1817, 344,7701. 9s. Bd., a falling off of 36,7681. I7s. 10d.; for 1818. 301,5571. 24. Bd., a falling off of 43,4131. 64. 7d. ; and for the year ending Sth delusory. 1819, only '223.6361. 6v. 9d., a falling off of 77,92 01 . 15$. ltd. Will you then refuse to repeal this tax, at present producing so small a sum, after you have remitted fourteen millions of taxes to the people of England Fur all these rea sons I would entreat the House to pantie before they shall turn the people of Ireland from their bar, while they are humbly and respectfully pray. lug to be relieved from this most unproductive, odious, and oppressive tax. I beg pardon fur hav ing 60 long trespassed oo this House, and now move— " That s Select committee be appointed to consider the expediency of repealing the Stith of the Cue, as far as respects the Tsx upon Windows in Ireland." Mr. GRATTAN arCondrd the motion. On the question being put from the Chair, The Cut/4 cett.oa of the EXCHF.QUER rose to oppose the motion. He said, that he had hoped the liberal views of Parliament towards Ireland on the subject of tomato's, for the two last years, would hove obviated the necessity in which the Hon. Mem ber for Dublin seemed to think h• was placed, of n►akiug the present 'notion. The appeal in sup port of this motion was grounded on a pledge of good fait!►, alleged to have been given that the tax ►hould be merely • war one. This was said to have l►ecu Riven by the late Mr. Corry, the Chancellor of the Exchequer for Ireland. whey lie first intro duced the Window Tax. The good faith of Par liament ought certainly to be inviolable, and if he could think wit!► other 10entleinesi that it was pledged in the manner they imagined, he should certainly arrive at thy same conclusion with them. But he soon hoped to convince the House, that it was impossible to uut tins construct . of Mr. corry's words, unless individuals suffered them- selves to be deluded by self-interest, or led away by the influence of their coustituents without con sulting their own sober jutlgmente. Suppose he admitted, for the sake of argument, that the Win dow Tex had been originally imposed as a war t►x only, could there be a doubt that when it vise sub srqueutly pledged with other taxes to the public creditor for the re.psyu►ent of his advances to the State, that it theti assumed • different shape, and must be cousidered •s • deposited security un til the clin' of the public creditor was relpoir. ell? When Mr. Pitt proposed the Property Tax be proposed it as a war measure, but when it be lt subsequeistly mortgaged to the publie credit. tor, it could not be consider, 4 in the Kigival light. If he knew any mode of Itsyiag an equal sum •• that which this tax produced, he would readily cousider the preseut vomit*, but ha could pot otherwise. He would at once assent to the pro. posit ttttt , if sissy of iid supporters could pima out to I any other mode of 'Nisi's!: the entuout of the tax within the limits of the AO of Unarm Otherwise lie denied, that Ireland, any Mora than F.iigland, could he relieved front a tax which stood pledged to the public creditor fur the intro set of Ins debt. 'Flue amount of the debt of Ireland, cobtracted for her ono purpose , . consisted slow of 104,000,0001. of eAptidi borrowed in 1P16;14..11. 111111 about 30,000,01)0/. leorruearrl eu Ireland. The eh:ow-• slur on this debt, awl I A I% 4il't 111 were 4.5110,0041.—N mow re l isdl u. the %%Ito& of the test - 11 io Ireland. The Ipso. Gs•iitieloasi had talked of the relief aliOssiest to the p...p' s e England enter the pence, 141111 said tlatt tome had beets given tie lielatirl ni oily orlequale !ism. 11i reply to this lie would secert, that Eng land bed not been relieved slime the loiter from the hordes) of any lax which she bore in cone. with Ireland. In tier year 18 IC (the )esir alter the last peace), Ireland was relieved, lii commott with this c try, front the Malt Tax— her Assessed 'faxes were also mortiliest—n rrdnc hostwastnatlein the lax tot sierits—the Ijest alt Tax wee btkro off 110111 all houses loivotg: hot Hoe hearth. In Idles, , 270,gind. were ta k en off her As sessed Taxes ; end the Window Tax, though no initially reduced one-fourth of its previous amount, was, in fact, from the Isberality of the regula tions, reduced to mit-half. The amount of the pithluce of the Assessei Taxes in !reknit!, in the last three quarters ending the. sth of April, as compared with the preceding quartere, strew ed a reduction in favour of the last year to the amount of 175,000/., while, during the same period, there had been no reduction iii this coun try. Under these circumstances, and in the finan cial state of the country, how could lie accede to a proposition which drew an evident distinction between the pints of the empire ? How could he justify himself to Englend and Scotland if lie ac ceded to this motto", which wrut to relieve Ireland from her share of the security for the public creditor With respect to the assertion, OW the contagious disease, which so unhappily prevailed in Ireland, was greatly accelerated in its progress by the opera. tion of the Window Tax. he 1611011111 wily say, that during the Vicernyalty of the late Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (the Duke of Richmond), and during the Secretaryship of his Right Wu. Friend (Mr. I'eel), who had done himself such infinite credit by his share in the administration of the Govern meta of that country. permission was liptsiasiely and properly granted to open any closed window free of tax where a Medical Professor declared such a step was necessar4 to prevent contagion. It was said that this pertaissiou was clogged *ith regulations which rendered it impossible fur the p ou r people to comply with the terms of theist. 'Phis he denied, for it was the landlord of those bowies inhabited by poor lodgers who paid the tax. and he isecesarily could feel no difficulty its open.. Mg a window, whereby he would nil himself of a portion of his tax. Relief had also been extruded to Ireland by the clause of the Bull where houses filled by poor lodgers only (mid at the rate of one *billing fur each window. So that by this !ethic lion a house of thirty windows, which, according to the regular rate. would lay fourteen pounds, was also charged only 30s. 'Phis was a very cop. siderable reduction, and given. too, iu a case where individuals derived isi the aggregate 0 very considerable sum from tench teuements. If any spe cific grievance were pointed out which regulation could remedy, he would at all times be ready to attend to it, but ha must protest against any dimi nution of revenue, under the circumstances in which the present was called for by that motion of the Hots. Member opposite. Mr. VEZEKER (we understood) stated the griev ances felt in the Old Town of Limerick by the oppressive operation of the Window Tax. He trusted that the wisdom and humanity of the House would suggest some remedy for such en Cbil, e!ifi give a favourable consideration to the Petitions which bad poured in from all parts of Ireland ou this subject. Mr. CAREW declared, that the shutting up of windows to avoid the payment of this tax, bad, by impeding the ventilation of houses, greatly comet. bitted to propagate the infection of the typhus fewer in Ireland. The measure originated as a war tax, and ought not to be continued in a time of piece. Sir GEORGE Mid. said, that if he could postai bly bring himself as an hottest man to concur to the present motion, lie should willingly do rat in obedience to the wishes of to amity of his fel low-countrymen. If any chits of the Petitioners who had supplicated them to repeal this tax, de. serviyl more than another the peculiar consideration of the House, it was that thus of the citizens of Londonderry', whose Petition he had laid pit the table—for in times of the greatest danger, they had contributed largely to the State, and also to I I the suffering classes, who surrounded theca. He regretted much, however, that he could not obey the wisher of his constpuetite. Much had been said of the bite Mr. Corry's pledge, wilco intro ducing the Window Tax; but he remembered when that Right Hon. Gentleman resisted and de nied this Order, and continued that tax. The Right lion. Baronet (Sir John Newport) who filled the (Ace of Chancellor of Use gxchequer lUr Ireleted, had also contiossed the preatiure, with out ever intimating the existence of this sort of pledge. lie recollected the conference which took place between the Clonseellor of the Exchequer seed is deputation of the (lentleaseu who wasted upon him to represent the hardship of this tax, and it was ht. ,full belief that the Geotterneu would have been then quite rati.lied with tike reductions *loch had subsequently taken place, if they had received any communication that such modiOcatious were iti contemplation. Re much lamented that he could pot concur in the motion, from • conviction that it would be doing en inj entice to the other cilium' of his ajtity's subjects who must make up the deficiency. The rate iu Scotland was the same as in Eitglaud. except as to Sts. each house; they 'leo paid the mltte rate of assessed taxer. Not so in Ireland. whirrs bi must Alow every fair reduction had been mit& tu taxation which could reasonably be expected: Front the getters' size of his house, the farmer in lrelaud WV exempt from Ups Willefust ittleabited a ham oist 'wore thole six 'wiudows. and he was free fume time operation of the WI. The Night lion. Baronet thug entered upon the finsocul state of lesion* The debt of Ireland C.bikreeolll open her. 4.1 d payable theft, am-mitts, 1(- 4,462077 i The ammo. , of lie, • evigiUr roe-, on 111% Sill 81 January last. 4,583.977 i. leaving a 'atolls. of about 110,00Uf. 'I his would lw all well it Ireland had not another debt payable *l's E 'if land, toot which uncounted to 4.767 mak, log a total of more than 9,t200,000 . 1. moot 'rhyme it was 16/I,Ory to say, payahle io m ot, of upwards of tour iiiilhanos utod a hall. It was ionsaible, therefore, in our!' a state of to. abrogate a tax of this Lind. Ife the.' re e l ...oil ilia reetictions whiels l a id been Maar at Ihr (1 9 file hnn+r. tilt hearth, awl other lotalt,l, 1 ,, i t its vii three years a redoctom of f Ife eon„. luded lainentiog the iiitiosiaothahr) of areeelolog this mot i and Ity hoping duo the l a o: ne or Ireland 4,0041 by increasing iil4lB.lhy toll -areas•. be better able to meet Site laurden• who:1114.1 lout IteCelhafily bellr in the general state of tine Mr. TiNtOt twe noirlerstrood c plaineli ti.al Inc hopes of the people of Ireland were ;fro os.l pointed in the way that this quest no• t, referred to the wards of the origiti»l 13;611 10.1.16eW that it was a itisralittrr solrly intruded La a y.sr eft. pe u elit ure , The p eo ple of tile MUNI( Ift err phiiisei! doling he war Id the lorries' of doe lax, i o ns was it omit they could no luisger bear vs o i n lie. lion, that their complaints were heard an sioloi The firm. Itletnb...,er liuriwly cositrialsol, to.ot ilia operariuu lif the law was most titifavolitable to 1115 health of the coonolonotity ; awl that, Pal m a tilt Kr port of the Ployeicimus 141 AM, it was art ,rut Or fever had greatly increased, owing to tl.e Lath ventillatuut„ so many of the Aim: t ip, Where a tax affected the health ur 111 l lio•tr) rot N people, 'wilting but the must painful rosseigruey should cause their enactment m their— tout The Right nom Lientlernatt coo.cei.ed th , t he granted a great boots to Ittlasorl last t ear, when he reduced the tax =.1.5 !ref cent. Ilut that n was Sint 4 boon generally Irll was evident from toe ci. outs.- atance, that there were three or lour thousand notices of discontinuance jo that year—s4ood, in dm three last years, uu less thou 31,0u0. 'I lie Ifight Hon. Gentleman also stated, that a great toley people in Ireland item nut affected by tne instance, the earth farmers, and toe (WOW 16.1111.6. 11Kit/rent. It was true they did ii.ot tyro tie we,ght of this tax—hut, if it were to Lea permaueot incisor,. it must ()penile itgaiust the it,iiiroseilieot of the situation of door persons. Did any tiro. Orman, who was a friend to Ireland. wish to t 0..i.. 'etiolate...lll r state of things Dad they sous d• sire dim the towel orders of the Irish should throw aside their low and grim-11111g habits, mid ct those comforts owl con erineocts of hie, w Inch were seen amongst clia-sea iu this country I;y taxes, such as that now under thscuasitoo, Ib y were compelled to adhere to those wretched hobs which disgusted every iltroger who plied ti.tit country !—/Ilese, hear.) air. PLUNKETT yap conviiterd that ion sohj rt conuetted with the interests of Irtlerod could fa, i ntro d u ced t o that Flume. wi - hout teceivolg a due and patient attentiou. Su firm w a s his colivictluit on this point, that jt was from the English 'emboli of the liousoe of Colours:mos that Ire f mhected sop port on this occasion. Those who now claimed tiler interrelating of the Legislatute came Petard. de• pendnig, to a certain tAtent, op good faith and justice for the success g r their crie-p. If he could prove that. it would go a great way lit persuading the House to accede to their Wilhite*. A good deal of diectissiott had takep place. lest year, as to whether this measure was ritigulaliy proposed as a war lax or Imo. His flue. nielod. who brought forward the present motioo, had stated the word* ured by Jr. Corry. who vitioChaweilor of the Bachelor,' For Ireland. when he proposed the tax. But. observed a Rig'it Hoe.. baronet (Sit G. Hill). if * pledge were giber. by theelottivell or of the Exchequer that it should only Le is soar tax, such a pledge would not be binding mi that House. This was a doctrine he could nut aasent to. ll' such a pledge were not blooding, how erre the people to know, when a new to was inipmeil. bow les it was tomtit to extend ? plow could they led what they were to rely on, if they were root to be guided by the responsible acts and official declaratium rot the representative of (love/sweat was said that, during the theist period of the peace of #rnaells, this WI was out retracted. He Lure it was not.....aud much ground had the Irish penplil to complaiu that it was pot then suffered t:: expo's. peCtlitlit iujuslica lied been perpetrated t it tole period, was it to be peraisted in al another Noes the grievance became the greater—and the rigor of complaint was redouhyd......///eue, 4erir./—Not only did it appear from the 4ecliteatit.ii of the Chancellor of the Peke-quer iu 1?99. but (mot subsequent Acts of l'arliatorm, that this ars too. trucks! to be a war-lax. Wham Ilia malty, ct wail brought fore/and. a sectood tome. lasi 110 was nut present--but be learned from the reports of what had passed. thet the sig amain her made. whru the vesilun was first dist lisped, 1141 Love. coutroyerted. lie begged leave, the,. Coo it. peat what he said. fey the 4tith wt the io,,e„ ere. 4, this tax was declai - ed la Pe laid 1u: Pie purpose of tuatutainiug {illy thoevattil nivie ici Irelatid—evolesitly a war-ratablialitueo.t. came the Act of Me Si lof the snot, our the leetier regulatiou of the coil :e volve' o f that toe. jt ivies observed. that to:lier suoje,ts ..f taxation wet* their niestioued—asid. she teleor, that. to quotiog this statute, ttft 4Nlr. Plynolsetti pr red tou rituch—tutaisse the Window Tax was lio 11.1. statute COMM:led undisputed eat %Wiry. 6416.1 conterrioly his arguatieut was good ins 01111 g. bOhlitifBt. was utisappielortistioi of Use Act. It pas true otlwr wee. %etc to. cledell in the Act of the Sid uj die K woe • but the words uo wluoh ha relied, •hich import to the doretion of the war, were a le ph. d ouly to the Window Tax. The wool* were these s! mud. for the better collecting the wee of taxes pro windows mid lights hertiosatiotiotie4. awl for preverning Freud} uu the yeeleiette, 11 'towed, that the said tan sat the ertioloyie of truemenra basil befo re thew lit of )7 9 9. stall lie rated t hey uow err. VW 111re5 years Ater flu p•osisig sf this Act. proyided t,hts prepaid war wt. bog cositioresa Now, - --11,1auf person A.:II after reading this rutty r 4 cos she ote.imma. that t. pip b -140 NA in 1100. One era. not reengtroWea trytiw lat*re to a roe as I it•frj.j—UNl ,i,t wok& bviii. that. even darts were Ike fart. arbabaeriv.sat Avt y' Perliamersi. introduceri 11 a Kw Cerausr i ihar 4ae:lliter r aimed the s**. Tau 11181ittert I