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Lord KING replied, he had certainly no objection to com ply with the proposal of the Noble Secretary of State ; he, therefore, moved to discharge t.ie order for summoning the Lords for Thursday, and to .enew it for the following day ; which, en the question being put, was ordered accordingly. It was ordered, on the motion of Lord WALSINGI that a message he sent to the Commons, dialing that the Right Hon. John Stewart may he permitted to attend a Coin- Metes of their Lordships, should he s, think fit. Some routine business was disposed of; after which an Ad. journmen took place. HOUSE OF COMMONS Mr. White, Clerk of the Election Committees, appeared at the liar, with the Minutes of the Select Committee appointed to try the merits of the Knaresborough Election, which was ordet ed ta he on the Table, and to be printed. 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The SECRETARY at WAR took the opportunity of men• tioning, that what had been suggested a few days ago, by an lion General, relative to Officers serving on Courts Martial, b mg of the age of 21 at the least, was nuw before oome of the highest Orhears of the Array, for their consideration, and they It id desired anotner day before they delivered their dopi mos'. fie hoped, therefore, the Hon. Gentleman would not obicel to the Motion, fur the Bill being eitgrosstd, arid read third time to-morrow. General FITZPATRICK expressed himself misfit,' with whit the Hen. Secretary had sated, and the Bill was ordered to be read a third time to-morrow, if then eitgro,sed. Mr. FOSTER gave not that he would to morrow move the several Irish Cltaritie, and that on Monday next he would br ng forward the Ways and Means for Ireland. Mr. CREEVY I we notice, that he would, on tomorrow senitight, make a Motion on the sub:ect of Mr. FOTt pees De ficit, and, on i same day, submit a Rewilution to the Howie, relative to his being appointed a Naval Commissioner. The Expiring Laws Bill went through a Committee, and the Report was or iered to be received to-morrow. Mr. SHLKID kN postponed his Motion for the Repeal of the Defence Rill, which stood for tomorrow, to Wednesday. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHF.QUF.R brought up tertrin pipers, purporting to be circular letters to the Lords Liiiitimants of Counties, pursuant to an order of the House. Ordered to lie on the table. Mr. AL,FX ANDF.R brought up the Report en the imprsing an Additional Duty Oil Ple.iiiure Homes, which w.is read and agreed to, and the Bill ordered to be read a third time te Marrow DUTY ON HORSES FOR HUSBANDRY. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, that having been disappointed in his intention of dividing the Ho: se Duty ►3ill, from the ihflicult, which he had before-mentioned to have al isen from milting out the Schedule ; it was now• necessary to have a separate Bill for holies employed in hus bandry. He therefore moved for leave to bring in a Bill for that purpose.—Granted. SALT DVI Y The Right Hon. Gentleman then moved the or der of the day, for the second reading of the Salt Duty Bill—which being read; Lord W. RUSSELL rose to oppose the motion. He began by expressing his hopes and wishes, that those Gentlemen who constituted the Committee, and who had made a report, that the Salt Duty ought to be altogether repealed, would now come forward, and give their reasons for making that te port. For his own part, he could not help opposing the tar, as one which fell direcaly, and very heavily too, on several of the absolute necessaries of life. He particularly instanced bread, cheese, salt-rneat r and salt-fish, all of which were, in a particular de gree, the chief find of the lower orders of the peo ple, and could not, therefore, fail to operate on them, with a pe:uliar degree of hardship and seve nty. He contended, that one of the first effects which would be felt flo.n it, must be to r a ise the assize of !mead, already at an exorbitant price, and would be more dial the I rover orders of the people coold well bear. He could not, on that accouro, give his assei t to this ax, and would, therefore, move as an amendment, th it, instead of tt be now rend a se cond time," the words tt this day six months" be substituted. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, the same observations had been made, when the tax was first mentioned ; but the Noble Lo r d and others, who had argued on it, were certainly in the wrong in their mode of erimatitip; this mat ter. That report by no means proceeded on the grounds which the Noble Lord relied on. Take the whole of the arguments, and it went neither to snore nor less than that of taking of the duty on Salt. al together. As to the fisheries, they had always been exempted, for a drawback of the duty as to theta had uniformly taken place. He begged the House to re colleEt, that this was a duty ih,ch would bring in the sum of 500,0001. in time of war. That the Coln.. matee to which the Noble Lord alluded, and which had made that report, sat in time 4 - peace, and that, whatever might be their opinion at that parti eular period, there could be no doubt but it would have been very different, bad it been given in time of war, fur it was clear they acted under an impression that salt might be made conducive to agricultural purposes. One of the strongest proofs, be said, that can be adduced, as to the interpreta tion he put on it was, that the question had slept from that time to the present. No one of the Com mittee had stirred in it ; but now the argument is brought forw ard in time of war, when it is absolute ly necessary to raise taxes to a certain amount ; sup pose the taxes to amount to a 11/11lion, those parts of the country in which salt Lh is only found, will stand ezaaly the same as they do now. He mew ed the House he was at all times sorry to impose taxes which could in any degree be supposed to fall with particular or extraordinary weight on the lower or poorer classes of tke community. But he must, at the same time, remind them that he had a high and paramount duty imposed on him, which was that of raising Money to carry on a war, in which the honour, the safety, and the dearest and most vital interests of the country are most deeply implicated and involved. An Honourable Gentle man opposite to him (Mr. Fox) had complained, on a former night, that the present taxes were laid too little on articles of general consumption. He had uniformly made it his study to impose taxes which should, as much as possible, fall on the higher classes more than on the lower. That system had been persevered in for many years ; and if Gentle- men would take the trouble of running over the taxes of 1804, which amounted to no less a sum than sixteen millions, they would see in how much less a proportion they bear on the poor to eitat they do on the rich. If they look on the great addition made to the assessed taxes, which are almost all on articles of luxury ; it they look on the taxes of wine and foreign spirits, articles which do not be long, or in any sort touch on the labouring poor, they will be convinced, that the greatest attention has been paid to the lower orders, and the taxes im posed on such articles as they have been exempted from. It was impossible to agree to the Amend ment of the Noble Lord, without abandoning the salt duty altogether, which he thought no man in his sober senses would contend for. He thought it impossible to say the proportions were unfair or un just, taking the calculation of the salt consumed by the higher and the lower classes of the people, and it fell much heavier on the former than it did on the latter. It was estimated that it did not amount to more than three or four shillings on any person in the lower ranks of life, a,id, if so, how much more must that be exceeded by those in the higher? 1-fe was convinced there was no comp.irism. As to the other objeaion of the Noble 1. , rd, that the tax would take the assize ut bread, he thought it of very little consequence indeed, for the assize of bread is never altered on less than the price of a sack of flour, and the salt used in that cannot be more than a small fr. taion of a penny. Under these circumstances, however desirous he might be to lay taxes which should bear on the rich more than on the poor, he felt this tax to be so essential to the interests of the country, that he could not give it up, and must there fore resist the amendment. Mr. FOX declared, that since he had sat in that House he never knew a tax that was liable to more objections. He perfectly coincided in opinion with the report of the Committee, and he was certain that, if it had been followed up, it would have been found highly advantageous to the agricultural in terests of the country. He denied the inference drawn by the Right Hon. Gentleman; that be cause four years had elap , ed without any thing being done in it, the re„; rt was not good in it self. He condemned the n.,de now resorted to Of increasing the per centage fro:n one million to a million and a half, as a most fallacious and injurious mode of proceeding in taxation, for there was no knowing where it would end. He insisted that we ought, even in time of war, to object to this in crease, and that it should be one of our chiefest cares not to suffer an increase to take place. This WAS most clear to every one who rightly understood the ptinciples of taxation. The Right Hon. Gen tleman had said the fisheries were exempted. He was, host-ever, of opinion, that it was a very exceptionable way to lay taxes on any article which required drawhad... One of two things must happen ; either the dr.svback is not paid, or it is paid but partially. I low was it possible, he asked, for the poor man to obtain his drawback ? The impediments were so many that he feared few or none would ever attempi it. lie denied that the Right Hon. Gentleman had an swered his Noble Friend's position, that tIM tax fell diredly and with weight on the lower orders of the people. He had said that it was no tax on meat, nor on bread ; he would, however, mention an article on which it was a direct tax that fell very heavily on the poor. No one would venture to deny but that the poor had very little chance of eating other than salted meat. He had made an inquiry into this subject, and the result of it was, that to salt a hog of twenty stone would require a bushel and a half of salt; and the less the animal WAS, the greater quantity of salt was requisite in proportion. The rise of salt, which had al ready taken place, was. six shillings a bushel, that which was before sold at i 4s. being now sold for 20s. Here are 6s. a bushel laid on; so that, if his in formation be true, a hog of that weight will cost in salting 9s. thu price of a bushel and a half, and a smaller one will cost more than the half of that, so that, upon meat consumed by the poor man, you must at least aJd one halfpenny per pound, which he insisted WAS a direS tax on the poor, because poor people were under an absolute necessity of eating such :neat. He i ever could admit the Right lion. Gentleman's position, that a tax could not be withdrawn in time of war; if it was an injurious or partial tax, weighing more on one particular class of the community than it did on the other, it could not be too soon withdrawn, either in the time of war or peace. He insisted on it, that the Agricultural in terests of the conarry would have been infinitely be nefited by the repeal of the tax altogether, and hoped the House would not suffer it to proc..ed any fur. ther, AS, in his mind, it was impossible to conceive a tax that was more exceptionable. Mr. EGERTON said a few words against the tax, as bearing hard on the salt works in Cheshire. A MEMBER, whose name we could not learn, spoke against the tax, but in so low a tone of voice that we could not chstinSly hear him, further than this, that in the neighbourhood where he lived, when salt was raised from ss. to 10: a bushel, it created such a difficulty, that the people were obliged to give over curing salt fish altoganer ; from which he had no doubt the tax must be very severely felt by the lower orders of the people. Sir W. PULT::NEY said, he was a memher of the committee, which had been alluded to as having made a report in favour of the repeal of the Salt Duties altogether; and, the only question against following up that report was the difficulty of find- Mg a substitute for the tax, which would be ade quate in its amount. The Right Hon Gentleman had said, that this tax was no more than three or four shillings a year; but he begged the House to recollea, that it was as. or Ts. a year on each of a family; and where that family was laten t it fell with a very great weight indeed. He had also said, that Parliament had been studious to impose taxes on articles of luxury ; that might be, but he could Cot forget that they have also imposed them on some of the absolute necessaries of life. Witness this very tax, and another, which bore a great degree of analogy to it, viz. the tar on leather. "These kind of taxes he could not but condemn ; be cause, he was well aware of their mischievous tend ency, for both of them contributed to raise the price of labour ; and of course, by that means, materially affefled the interests of agriculture. Those who made salt, he said, were obliged to be content with small profits, from the heavy duty that was imposed on it. lie exemplified this position, by a reference to the Gabelk, or Salt Duties in France, under the ancient Government. When the tax in that coun try was very high, the general average was su t. posed to be 121 b. per head ; but when it was it amounted to 281 b. per head. He said that s„ It was an article which was particularly wanted ho the lower orders, who were obliged to use it in al most all the articles of necessity on which they sustained themselves. In licanl tnd they used it very much with their oatmeal in the various ways in which they dressed that necessary of life; but, in the time of the scarcity, the people were compelled to use their oatmeal without salt, as the price of one and the duty on the other would not permit them the use of both, so that he was convinced the tax fell the heaviest on those who could least afford to bear it. The Right Hon. Gentleman had said that you most have taxes in time of war. I admit that, said ~e Hon. Baronet, but we ought at the same tier, t., look at the circumstances of the people; and he thought it would he better to make retrenchmeras in our expences, than to go on in theipmfuse and extra vagant way we had done during the last war. For these reasons he would vote against this Bill. Mr. ROSE replied, that on the sto jea of mewl.* and extravagance, as tepees ed by .be Honoer able Baronet, to be imputable to the Gm eminent ; there was no man more ready than hi: el' (s henrty laugh from the Opposition sae); ne repeated that there was no man more ready than he was to enter into the discussion of such question , wh: ever they were brought regularly before the dons. • but he could not approve of such a method of usfr7., incidentally, topics, which had scarcely even a mote application to the silbjeet direaly under LthA. deration. The Hon. Gentleman opposite to (Mr. Fox) was under an error, in supposing, from any former reference or experience, that the addi tion nov: proposed would, in arty degree, tend to diminish the consumption of salt ; for, to judge by former experience, he was prepared confidently to state, that after the former salt tax was deuhled, the consumption was not diminished in any part of the country. It was also an error en say that it was customary in Acotland for people to catch fish, and afterwards salt them for the Lute of themselves and their families, as it was well known to be the praftice of individuals to apply to the fish salters for what they wanted to supply their own consumption. He contended, that Mr. Fox was also under a misapprehension in asserting, that the cure in salting of twenty seers of hog bacon would require a bushel and a half of salt; for, at the time the Hon. Gentleman was making that calculation, he stepped out of the House, and ascertained, that the salting of such a quantity in his own family did not require more than 13 or 14 pounds of salt. But even admitting that some of the objections to this duty were quite A;.plicable (as where was the duty to which of jections did not apply ?) he mut give his xupport to the mesiure, because, after the most mature consideration, he did not know of any article ie the whole system of taxation which could possibly be made an ade quate substitute for the picient measure, or one which would not be considevd as much more ob. jeftionable. Mr. FOX replied, that his cakulation was not founded ou what was the praftice in geittlemen's fa milies, where they only salted certain parts, such as merely the sides of a hog, and that only for speedy use; but to those persons who were obliged to salt the whole of it, and, in such a thorough manner as to be prepared for consumption at a temote period. Mr. ROSE explained, that his calculation went to the whole of bacon hugs salted for the use of his Mr. Alderman COMBE spoke in so low a tone of voice, that we could collea but very tittle of what was said by him. We understand hint however to allege that the wholesale dealers would make this tax a pretext for an enormous rise on the retail dealer, and consequently on the consumer; and lie also wished to corrett a mistake into which ti.e Rt. Hon. Gent. (Mt. Pitt) had fallen; he said it would have no 'flea upon the price of bread. It was very true, that by the Int mer Aft t':e price of bleed win regulated according to article of expense to which the bake, was subjeeted was taken into account, and the price of b.ead tot the week regulated acccrdin.tly. The SECRETa RY at WAR wished also to correct a misoteteinent made by Sir William Pul teney, when he said that the new tax would be as addition of four shillings on each individual of a family; whereas, by referring the consumption of salt, and comparing it with the population of the cuantry. it would be found to amount to no more. on an average, than four shillings a year epon e.eh tamily, and not on each individual. 'Lord Aacaraai D ii•ISILTOM and Mr. HUIV.D... SON said each a few worth, the first against, and the other in favour of the original motion. Mr. JOHNS lONE coatended, that his Hon. re- (' lation (Sir William Pulteney), so far from ex 7,ge rating the pressure with which this Bill woulu tall upon each individual of a family, had, through inadvertency, understated it considerably. Ix proof of this he referred to the Iteport of the Salt Committee, which stated, that the duty, as it before Komi, would amount to 25. 61 on each individual to which, if the raw duty of Is. 9d. mere was add ed, the whole a ould amount to 4s. ad instead of 4s. as had been stated by the Hun. Baronet. Ihe House then divided, when the our . nlers : were—For the original Minion, 93—Against e, o). Majority 33. The Amendment being thus lost, the Bill was read a second time, and metered to be comnatted to-morrow.—Adjourned.