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f-eeclom to these unfortonste beings. It avoided emancipating the slave till he had passed through en apprenticeship of considerable length. which might afford • warrant for his capability to enjoy liberty and provide for his own support. As lie could.uasuppose.there. was an indisposition to wee. to bit nietiore, be should withou t further preface move— " That leave blegiven to Wing ins Bill fur establishing w ltswisaeriffreweilit the *Kish teriesies, end foe reges. Laing the rearrabscSlaproefrum the Culogicc" The irestion having been put— Mr. WitSaftooacu mist, it could not be sup. pised he rose to object to the motion of his Hou. Friend, his Sill containing, as it did, some provi 'ions. so voluAble. Without a registration, all at. tempts to suppress the slave trade would be raja. iteagreed.with 'ninon. Friend, that it became tl.e I louse to thew itself in earnest in the attainment of that greet object, bedsore he k , orw a misapprehen sion, ill this respect, prevailed in Francs and other countries ; and perhaps it was partly owing to that circumstance that, notwithstanding there had been • nominal abolition of the trade in that king dom, it was yet, lie feared, far from being a real one. Ile could not but think, that the King of that great stud generous nation would then led shame at tire continuance of a traffic AO repugnant to tall justice and humanity, and at the indulgence by his people in that sordid hive of gain. which had, indeed. by them been imputed to ur. as • eminercial country, but the isifluence of which we %mild then have bittern to Le inferior in the calls of benevolence and justice.—(lhor, hear.)-- They sere to look with hope fur the day when Spain would resolve to carry into effect those Tres tits for the prevention of that diabolical traffic, oho Is ,he never Set had. lie had been informed skit morning, that fifty thousand slaves had been ;inputted into the [lamina's% in two years; hot the statement might or might not lie true, lie toped his lion. Friend would see that the slaves • ere properly treated in their ais i ireesticeship, for she masters v ould then obviously not base the seine interest iii their liealili and welfare as before. ; liter pointing out Some other 'precautionary Mrs sorts, the I lim. t;eittleinati said he seas very glad cf the introduction of the measure. GoRDON said, time real object of the Bill was to create a new office. f leretufort the volumes of the recistery of slaves had been kept at the office ~r the Secretary of State, the expenses of which nif i er am ou n t to 29.0001. Welt It to be supposed that the business in that office hail so much in creased es that the registry could not be kept there ? if so, let an additional clerk be appointed— one clerk would be quite Sufficient for the purpose. After hating heard so much on the necessity of con •my. be could not but feel surprised to find the Under-Secretary of State proposing a new and on unnecessary office. Mr. MA 'MYATT said, that the references to flit registry in this country. were very few. Were two 41135 in each lactc, and too hours of each of these slays allowed to a single clerk, lie was satisfied it would be fully sufficient for transiectieg the business fur which a new office vas souAlpt to be established. Such was his opi- Lion. It might be said that it was erroneous, but surely the trial ought to he made ; these were times the most rigid economy ought to be adopted, lie hoped no additional expense avoid be in ...arrest until thr establishment of a new 'ACC should be tumid absolutely necessary. said, that every step ought to be taken to ten.ler the abolition of the Slave Trade in this couatre complete awl effectual. The motives of tins country its abolisliiiii. t h e Sl a ve T ra de were usiatietletatcod, t nisconstrue 7l „ and misrepresented ; *toil we call on other nations to abolish it, we err s 11!Intlid are that our own libtilit!oll was corn 3itetc—thut it was nut as it was charged, merea idle parade. Mr. Got:Let:am raid, that when the Bill should lve before the [louse, he would be prepared to assign itis reasons for the necessity of separating this office trent the office of the Secretary of State. The Ilouse then resumed. After a shout interval Mr. IittOGDEN brought up the Repast, which was agreed to. -COLLECTORS OF ASSESSED TAXES. Mr. Bituctat AM wished to put a que stion to t he right Hun. Gentlemen opposite (the Chancellor of tit Ex., Impact), respecting what appeared a vest' improper irregularity practised lay the collectors of sissesscd taxes. He alluded to the practice of is suing until vs, calling fur the payment of assessed lie bac the time piesclibed by LAW—tliat is, laefoi.e they are legally clue ; those notices contain ti t !atilt, or at least a very expressive hint, of re. sorting In case of non-piqnient to Exchequer pro , ess. lie had occasion three years since to call the attention of the !leo. &Stoical:in to the same practice. and lie was t h en given to understand that it would be put a stop to. Ile wished now to know, whether any Treasury regulation had been H e i de on this subject wove the }ear 1816. The notice her now held in bis was doted the t.:511 sit Mardi, 1819, by which the tax collector .alts for the taxes which would not be due till 'Whitsuntide, two months after. The (louse would perceive that thus exacting taxes before they fell slue, could be of no consequence to the Isllt to the payers of the taxes it was of consider obit c ons,,pirtice, as well as to the collector—the farmer pay away their mousey two months before it is due, the latter keeps the money. or converts it to his own vorpose, for the same pei sod. The sit NCEI.LOR of the EXCII6QUE.I% replied iii a very low tour. We nuderstood him to sly "sll.ll hus.%ail not aware of the practice alluded to by the !lon. Member, but Dist it was of considerable asilvautage in the collection of the revenue, parti• cilarly where it is collected in distant places, to n:upl previous notice. It:r..BROUGHSSI said, the public money should ba suffered to remain in the hands of the collector but fur as short a time as possible ; lie wished, iiierefuve, to put an end to the irregularity. As to the advantage to the revenue, it might be so, but it was au advantage to which they had no possible right. Oa tae motion of Sir JOHN NEWPORT, an KCallot walk ordered of the a:notion, description, on:1 value of cotton hosiery, bia y and other articles imported tau Ireland from this country. from 1814 to Idl9. 4.1.1 the motion of Mr. FREDERICK noisticsow, 'V leave 55th MI Mr. Bank tain Protestant Dissenlers Act.—Ordered to tc Rrl Our FINANCE REPORT. The CHAN. er.ton of the EXCHEQUER moved the Order of the Day for taloa into consideration the Report on the Finance Revpluttotts• Mr. CuawEN rose, he said, to trouble the House with a few observations. Ile would be as willing al any one to support the principle of the sinking fund, but lie could not but feel a serious distrust lof the conduct of Ministers. its the commence ment oT the Session the Noble morel (Castlereagh) had given a most flittering sleseriptiou of the state of the finances ; but it was clear that two great branches of our trade, namely, the ev collets and cot ton brooches, are in a most lamentable situation. In truth, it was centrist that blisii•ters were not aware of the state el the country...that sta t e was indeed a state of growing distress. Woutil any MID 101118 . 11Ited with the situation of our affairs say, that this was the moment for larCreaiing the bur dens of the people ? Much had been laid as to what had beets given ; but lot them consider what lead been I.sst. Time income of the coun try lead been greatly dt:ninislied end notwith standisig what had been given up. he had no hesitation in saying, that the present taxa tion was more severely felt than taxation had been at any former period. One fourth of the income, and one third of the wogeie of the people were !eel. Ile was convinced that eight or seine minim'. were reduced in the amount of the real pro perty of the country, and the amount of the in come tie trade was reduced front four to three mil lions. The country at this moment was not able so bear the increased pressure of nitration. and yet Ministers in this momesit of public pressure and misfortualei all for three millions of additional taus, without attempting retrenchment where retreeich mead could be made with public safety and ueltan tage. The cousemience of this public taxation will be a further reduction in the demand and the price of labour. Ile would implore the Noble Lord to consider tier state or thee labouring poor at this 1110:11ellt. Wos there ever u moment of greater dismay ? No later thou Wednecolay last front four to live thousand pribUllili met at the place (Carlisle) vs hick lie haul the honour to represent, to exhibit ' their dreadful situation—a situation which could not be contemplated without pain and without alarm. They contielens that though they wrote from 1.2 to 14 hours each d.sy, they cannot earn more thou ss. 9J. per week. Ile could siut but believe that whatever taxes might Ire voted would only have thee effect of iiicreasiiig the aretcheduess of the peo ple, without increasing the revenue of the country; there oil toe a geseeral decrease in the consumption of taxed articles, a paitiful state of privation to ' which eigurinuus taxatiein always leads. lie could ouly leuk on those taxes in one light. Ile conch dried them us most eilormoii*, impolitic, cruel, aced repressive. The Alalt. Tax, for instance-- every Gesetleman knew that malt liquor was the sccuetenottl and wholesome drink of the people— of that they ure deprived by taxation, and they are driven from that wholesome beverage to the ace of pernicious spirits, which is destruc tive alike to their murals and their health.— The tax on wool was another oppressive and ieo poltUe tax—and the state of the cotton trade, that most useful and beneficial branch of will be greatly isijitred. Will the people, he asked, submit tee these oppressions with cheerfulness used patience ? NVill nut these measures create through out tier country the most uneasy feelings, and streiesilien the belief, silready 10J prevalent, that corrupt inilueuce, and not a wise and provident sense t.l legislation, regulates the public affairs ? The people complain of distress, and that complaint is usisnered by new taxes, tried retretichntrist is clewed. Let uny nom look into the same of the Centinton—see how many officers receive IBUtifief, oithout eerfortnisig any adequate service, merely because they had been recommended nod supported Ly the patrosiage of individual*. \Vas this a time, be would ask, to persevere in such practices? — was this et time to have public end profitable situa tions !Weil by deputy. ? Yet was not the case noto riously so in many, very many instances ? Ile would warn the House as to the course they were about to imbue. The people of Euglasiel were a ',elitist and a grsierous people, but theme were limits to their f eatietts:e ; he would nut say how those limits were exceeded, llad they setts a fair pursued with sincerity, lie was satisfied they would es.dure ev et y possible privation, and make every pm sdsle &acidity ; lee had no claim on the attention of bat he would soy to them. do Hot 'cress this enormous weight upon the country its the moment of her weakness and distraction; defer the messure, and should, in the next Session, the difficulties of the country not be removed, end time necessity of the tax be mole appear, lie would not wily trot oppose it, but we rad give it his support. Ile accused the Ministers of a total want of knowledge of the state of the country—he implored theist nut to hurry the meneuic —it would be a dangerous experiment, and before the next meeting of Parliacutot they alight have cause to regret it. Sir Mame PARNEI.I. commenced by saying, •that in the *prop' taboo of the siestittg fund tee wards the louse the Minister has broken faith with the public creditor. Noble Lord had taken great credit for economy—he (Sir Ileury) did nut see upon what groused. The House would re collect that during the late war, use the various discuseions on the flisionces of the country *lnch took place in that House, how oftets it had been asserted that the expenses of the Government far exceeded what the exigeticiee of the war required. 'they were. too idle assertions. but the solemn opiniesees of great and virtuous states men. But those opiuians were not acted 011, amid thee consequence was, that several utillious of mos ;my were wasted. In one department alone (tie meant the Ordnance) no less thateidne mahout. of money were *Moira Oil ViOfki which were of no utility whatever. This money was of course fur flier ever lost to the country. As to what had been done iu the way of retrenchment rime time peace. lie world say that the Noble Lord was driven to adopt whatever retrenchments had taken place. During the first year of the peace, was any system of ecu- , ;nomy introduced ?—aone whatever. Was any dis- il.—ifiege.)—Not position shown by Ministers to abate the expenses the • puttsa ho I of a war establishment ?—none. lie woe cruse Sormer *hum vo le for vinced, that if the House had soot interfered, and a prime), tax—for repealed the Property Tax. the country would are co hillectedcould from these .brought into the no retrenchment whatever. Retrenchment tin. wch be daobtedly bad taken place; but that was not the , the least elpense.--effear . .)- -1 . " question — the House had to co nsider the question, ' demon (Mr. Canning) had last . ,_ Can any further retrenchment be in ide ? That i idea *X econom s y. sit u l d tal ked leted olthe puny saving of vast reductions in various departinelos might patch eosins a tha lien. be made, he had too doubt ; but if )liiiisters Gentleman consider what 'airport even such sums did not sincerely go about the work of retreat:he would give to respectable families, reduced to waist 'neut, if they did not adopt the determitete by the /heiresses of the country.-11 1 ear.1 -1-1 e lion of sacrificing the patronage of the Crown, then alluded to the expenses of the newly.acquired which they now unhappily goseessetl, he was con- itian Is Colooniers, and particularly t ow the loland's einced no real or e f f ect ual savin g would be wide to which ought to support their n military establish the country. The first great source of economy mesas. ' Otis principle woo, recognised in the Treaty might be adopted iii the collection of the public of let? with the lonian Wendt:, end on stat ed in revenue—there indeed there was great room fur the finance Committee. Why not then, 4 0 ,10 improvement end reform ; there were no less part of that Report were to lw acted upon, adhre thin sitty•four Commissioners of Revenue, though I to another. by winch a satin of 12.0,000 i. might be by far a smaller number would answer ell the sieved to the country ?—lo Celleli also, and in the purposes. And here lie would recommend the Mauriti Gen. us, gr U eat e •Lgeill receiy ma l e an b l acqess uired. In the cos4olidation of the Boards of Customs and Ir. ' ..'ee former rowtorig va onto th cise.—a principle which. if sided am, would be 67,0 00 /. fur 'ortecta a lms; and in the latter, GtWerlint attended with two great advantages—e saving{ of ex- Farquhar recoiled 4b,C00/. fur the same purpose; prose to the loabloc, and the assurance that the and all these establishments, were to be kept up irs . public bueintes would he inure satisfactorily tenet- i great part for the pageatery iki no . olitary establish . . acted. In the collection of the revemee of Ireland, innts,lo:goltl barorisand gold binding.— ( 4 laugh.) there was a great waste of the public motley. loa --Geittlem e tt may I ittgli. but it Was no I.leet Of that country et fry wasteful expreelit me Was carefully jocularity for the 1 people who had to, pay the adopted ;in Esiglend the public Cuoirßiseitmer s expanse, and who oere 'mettle to procure food for were satisfied to receive their salaries, I.ut in Ireland their faiutlies. Ile would tell the G,qatlerrielo who the head Commiettionere had sidelight! rewdeeces ensiled at his rem:alb that this pthe eeeeittrycouotr formed furnished at the public expense. A greet red or:. no part el the real gran uf y, and lion might be also snade in the expenses attending that 111 lash valour had attained it. character befota the expenditure of the public money. lu the cx. it became decked out in bliell frippery.—( Hear.) peroliture on the navy, the army. and the urduatice, --A variety of saviugs might be made in the inti. there might be Vital:o66A a Noon; of twelve him. tary establislionents of the country, awl co ttttt neric 'lrk dad thousand pounds. Another brooch of saving iag a ith the Itigheat, the COninsander in Chief ' s and might be made with regard to the tail goveruineet the War OfEce.. M Ivy was the Commander in of the couidry. In the Home Department, there. Chief (whose merits he most willingly allowed) to perms amounted to !It MOO/. a year; hi theme Colonial recriie sixteeis guineas a day in AMU iiii to his other Departmetd, the expeosts aniontinal to siamul.; allowances, in a time of peace ? Why was he to the Privy Canned amounted to e7anerf. a year; be placed, in pullet of 041101min:id, su high above and the expenses attending the office of Lord the other brunches of the It l Family ? e Lieutenant of Ireland, in torious Ware, amounted Windt duty of that depart mee had been dome before! to nu less than one hundred thousand pomade a yeah the war. and might be door again, for little snore Here lie couceietal their Was great ro sssss fur re• than 3.0001. a year. In the Staff. leo. a sum of tretichosent indeed—anal it Minoltas were bliiCete, 3 jr O OUL might he reduced with Wifely and liati*faC tf t h ey felt fur the distresses !since press upon time lion. la the Military College, and in the recruiting people, they would adopt in every department a for the atter. 30.0001. sitight be saved—in the strict and rigid system of econotny• This was the Ordnance Estimate, 130.000 L—iii the Ai my Ex time when such a system should be adopted, owl maltase: l6 es. 1.50,0 0 /.—iii the navy, a tooling may he eittercd into particulars to 'thew the Noble Lord be also made without reducing the 'lumber of mess that retstaichusesit may still be made, and to tam. employed. Agate, in the Mint. rotor geeing may since the House that the Noble Lord and other I be made. and also under the head of Woods and Ministers were in gross error, when they asserted Forests. lu the latter, the selling of borne of those that all possible retrenchment (tad beau already I lands would bring; a large *um to the public, and matte. It was not so ; much yet remented to be done I also sere altogether that expensive ettablislinsene, —end until every thing that was 'towable Was done, I which he could strew to be unurceseary on its pie no further taxes should be placed upon the country. I sent scale. It Was ludicrous to talk of the necessity Taxation at all times should be avoided us much of preeerving materials for British slsipping.frotts as possible ; taxes, at the present moment of these forests. If accounts of the timber used fur the public distress, should be the lest painful act of public service within the Lost '25 years were laid on the Parliament. ' Pima lion. Baronet said, that a the table, the House would fibril see the sums paid sum of three milliwas was paid on account of Ire- I elsewhere for timber, over and above the produceur land, lie requested the attention of the House to ~I I these forests, they would then see the useless ex the stale of tits expenditure in Ireland, since the petwe of this establishment. Agi s i ii i in stamps a Union. These expenses were incurred in the great saving might be obtained. In the town with support of the Irish Government...4/f the heavy llwhich he was more immediately connected (Aber. military establishment of that country; union- 1 dram), the stamp distributor hid 1,4001. for his tuitately that establishment appeared to he tie- office, although men were to be found there who ceorry in the opittirin of Gose ant. Vidor- would du the work for soul. and give 10,0001. sects tunattly little hail been done to reilloVe the greatl rity. Besides, the seller surcharg e d 10 p er cent. causes of public discontent. The system of go. on the price of the stamp to the buyer—( Hear) verienent in tlwt country was a system of beer —and a'wr'y would be fitund to undertake the --a system of intolerance...which Deer:lied but to OfflC ,. . he was convinced, without any additional / work. profit beyond this arbitrary one, which they them barrio, to alienate , and to inflame the Hence it Was deemed necessary to support the Go- selves laid eta. Let the Right lint. Gentleman verieneet, or, us Lord Clare hurl expressed it, •' to nose his sinking fund to whatever amouut he please keep duwu the bridal Irish " by large reteblieltintatts eel, but let him precede his taxation by economy mud heavy esoetirlittire. But had that course been soli retrenchmen t, commencing with the civil list. udopleol which had been so often ro commended— Oil the last Resolution, if he stood alone, he rhould had a lenient system been pursued, there would take the sense of the (lutist', sooner than comae. have In. it sin incessity to overawe by force a people mince this levy or new taxes.—( //ear, hear.) whom you had won by kindness, and housed them Culosiel DAVIES said that he had hitherto voted on el„." than clams can boot ilicto—.ll the tics or every investare of reit 11111 l iy of thee 'mobile expendi. gratitude and affection. and the centnion interest ture sauce he bad a seat in that House ; lie should which freemen feel fur the Gove 1111 l trot under which ever be the advocate of the minutest retrenchment ; they enjoy the 'Arse - nags of liberty. Ile would het, but, tan the premed occa ' ,he thought that a sur lie said, enter at large illle the subject now (whore plus or 4,00 0 . 060 1. should be established. A 'auk. the House, as au Him. Friettal of hie, much more me fain', while the expenditure greittle exceeded the competent to enter tot th • consideration of the income, lie emseitlered a fallecy, but one fisted question. was about to propose certain Resolutions. ninth the basis of 1792, lie thought would be pro- Mr. I'VeElt. IV:ooRE cusimienertl by tot effeciirig ductile fur the advantage of the 'votary, and though he could never tolerate an extre va go tit sink detail of the unarms to which the manufacturing , peeple of England were reduced :hr said that ',tale tug fund. i.e c3tild not yet think that 5,000,t3fig. rut tradestileis belonging to the piece wllieli lie re- w a sa all estraurolloary one for a debt of 8 00 , 000 ,0 0 0 , presented, worked for hours for a few farthings:, As to the postabils y uf raring; the stew taxes, lie lie asked, were the Mi meo-re of the Crown re. begged to reserve himself for ;a fuse opportustity. quautted a ith the state of the country ?If they Were, Respecting the malt tax, he eitould way sal', it had if they really knew the state of distress and always occurred to him that a fitter tax night he had wretch...limas to which the people were reduced, On the iilliniflatool: ul foreign cars, which would, he they were must criminal in proposing additionet was bore, be productive to a very great extent. As taxes ; if, on the other band, they were nut ac. to the breach of public feith respecting the sink gusinteal with the state of the coutdry, they were I 'mg lurid, that breach of faith had been committed will more criminal not to have informed themselves once the fund was originally touched. Ile was also ash opinion that the louollsolder wits toi much looter of that importaot fact, before the y p ro p osed to place three iniklions of additional taxes on the voted as the former in this qiiratiuti. He still necks of a peel& already grinning: under bur- thought that a eitiltiog fund of net less than dens which they Were no longer able tar bear.— 5.000,0001. woos urceesary. and therefore he could The I luu. Gentlemen next pronounced a high sod oppose die lteenlietiosts which were submitted to compliment uu the Reports of the C 11111 l flitter of the C 1111 l wither, from a couviction that extraords. Finance. Ile said that the true Mode Of realm:nig eery tflarts had become necessary to re-establish the debt would be by purchasing when the funds the tinancre of the cottony. were low; but Mange's adOplett directly the con. Nlt. D. M'. HARVEY Wild, he had supported an trary principle. Ile was couvinced, that, in vassittits inquiry into the finances of the currutoy from a up tratiosmo elariws the war, load this priociple comic of the necessity of tixisog them oto a per. been pursued, ;here would have been saved isseitent baste. lie could not think, however, thet a sow equal to one fourth of the whole of the m. this was the time, or that the proposition was the Ilona! debt. For his owu part, lie ilerlared, before exact mode thintigh which the country should be the House of Comitions, before his couittry, and called upon to meet new taxes. ' Phil was not the his conatitueses, that he could not consent to the tune to linporte upon the suffering classes of this introduction of any faze* until he should see the country such an unman' of taxation as 3.000,0001. filutisters sincerely disposed to exert themselves, and upon a class whose labours moil sufferings arose in order to relieve the distresses of the people, or with the morn, and only set with the evening of at least to satisfy them that they cenuot be relieved. the day. %VIIy not prefer a property tax, and at Mr. Ilesie expressed lois strong dieapprobatiou once go to the pockets of tliti•e who were Arum of the sestet's pursued by this Right Memorable competent tai flay it %—(11cor, heur.)—l le pledged Cieutlewan opposite to set:suit the finances of the himself, if the Right It _tintenable Grottoes,' op country. II all tieCOollt of the interest on the fund- rosier would go into a full i n quiry, tune skew the rd and unfunded debt, and the expenses of foreign ureessity ad ' new texas, lie would be ready to go hums, Were laid on the table, he had strung doubts with him in apportioning taxes upon thou cello were that a sitiking loud of 2.000,0001. would be found I best able to support them.—( !tear.)--As it was I ovarialole fur the country us was stated; stall events the fashion of the day to propose new expedients+ he Ire strongly ollected to the mode of taxation whirls would only hint at the saving which the etiolate) , the Rt. Hen.Gentlenult had prop tied—lies plan felt might obtain iss the anode of conducting Exciae directly on the classes of s ocie t y least able to bear eruaccutions, each of which cyst 401. fur Crown e was stiven folding in a Bill to amend the 1 Gen. HI. regardiagantaitit's sills. Jr. AltiermanWoon preamited a Petl;ion from Wm. Henry Raglish against the tteport of the Committee--an 4 another Petition fro err- , Protestant Dissen:ers aimitt4 the 51ar m riage I one of the pette . tatektifected were corapeilinft to 'bear kw these laze* he weed vote fot r may trui indeed which could be me oho Were able to hear it. and rooted into Ow Esehrquer with -r ifrar.7—.A. Right live. Geir- 'Ong) bad last niglit.ridiettled the I.rowyers. with the Attorney-General at their head, and amounted in the whole to e 4,0001. a-year. ill condemned those prosecutions its the strangest man ner. and thought they amounted to a grievance which called aloud for a reisiedy.—( lear.j —H e never could support the imposition of these new Mr. Aldirman WIAIII9IAR also strongly objected to the proposition of the Right lion. Gentlem it. opposite. -.was glad at leugth to Bud that this system of delusion and expedients, so thug practised by his Majesty's Ministers, had &lien to the ground, cud that this *ere at length compelled to come forward Madly's* that they would resort to any Measure sooner than one of econelny....(yeaf, hear, lied?.) —lie never could consent to the on. posjtiors of new taxes in the preseut state o f tie: c o untry. wr4 not at once propose a proper:, *) tax ? The Minister knew very well that he don' t not make such an experiment, for theu he would b. deserted by the great mass of his supporters, who were auxious to throw .the burdens upon any d er , but their °vise going into the pro priety of the particular new taxes. the tint question WWI. was the country able to hear thrill lases ? thst was the real question.--4/frar.)--Ile denied it was, and therefore be opposed these fresh burdens upon the people. Eheting the war, the artificial increase of the price or commodities, and the mono poly of British bode, enabled the people to pay excessive burdens; but stow that trade had found its level, so should taxation—it was in vans to straits the curd—it was impossible fur the people to pay they had previously done, au ruorrisotis *tight a tai- UiIUIP. in tins state of things it was idle to attempt en increase of the public burden*, and it was cruel to lay them on the poorer classes---( !fears—it was cruel to tax the pint of beer, which enabled the poor man to recruit himself fur fresh labour--(el largli. ) _Ths. humour was. he thought. ill-timed—there were Gentlemen present who had no opportutsity of arcing the distresses of the poor, and who, iu their hours of luxury and ease. and over their ,sine, were little competent to appreciate the slen der meals of the humbler classes—he who saw knew well what they suakred. But the Bight luntinrable Gentleman. in his malt tax, said, " 0 ! the brewers are acting dishonestly, and I must participate in the fraud on the public."—( !liar./ Was this becoming in a Minister? Certainly not.— f /Jeer, Lear.) —And thus poor people, whose food clossiated of a little bread and is little beer, were to pay a still higher price for such sustenance, be cause their superiors had beeu guilty of fraud. Tee country would as ill endure this species of coudect on the part of the Minister as they did his lottery expedients.—(//ear.)—He would come again to another tax—that on the importation of wool. The evil of such a measure was this—the amount of woulleu goods exported was up to 9,000,000. alums ally, and the amount, of imported wool was only one half of the *glue of the manufactured article.; so by this tat the classes * little employed in the manufacture of the article would lose, and at such a inouseut as the present, wheu their labour was au ill-requited. the benefit of labour which produced to them no less a sans than four millions and a half yearly.—The worthy Alderman then alluded, in terms of strong reptobation, to the large number of absentees, who spent the entire of their property out of the country—who formed, as it ware. the pensioners, for wham the lower classes were obliged to labour so hard and under so many disadvantages. , 'Else Ministers may talk of their majorities, and boast of their influence elsewhere—but be was one of those who thought the Prince Regent would have little difficulty so finding successors for them, and that too for the advantage of the country.— But, if no other individual would do it, he would put the Right Hon. Gentleman to the lest—he would move for a Committee of Members, neither placemess nor pensioners. to examine into the state of our finances—and, if possible, to remedy the existing evil.—(Hear, how, hest.)—He was sorry. after the fatigue the House had undergone, on the preceding night, to take up so much of their time— but he would not be doing justice to his feelings. having been sent to that House. without a penny e l :r ei n/c if , by the bedin gea o r ts t me peak tr h opo is l or is n o t f the ignents ß , ri de clare his abhorrence of this atrocious systaisliedh em hire, ( lhar, hear.)—Tbr Right Hon. Gentleman might bring up his supporters from Cornwall and Devoe shire—lse might boast of his majorities—oud decisive. that he possessed the confidence of the country—but of this he was conviuced, that no Minister would ever secure the confidence of time people of Bug land, who did not, more than by words, commt *erste their sufferings—who did not pursue a sub stautial system of economy and retrenchment, in stead of talking about it.—(Hear. dean) 'f lie first Resolution, declaring the repeal of 18,000,0001. of taxes, since Isl 4, was then agreed to. the question being read ors the second Re solution, which states the consolidation, by the 56th of the King. of the revenuer of England slid Ireland, and the deficit of the net revenue of the latter country to the amount of 1,800,0001. es com pared with the interest and charge of her funded and unfunded debt, which must he bade good from the revenue of the United Kitigthia— Sir Joust NEWPORT rose and *aid, he sroulii now propose to the House the amendment of who'll Ise had given notice last night. fie conceived, as the Revolution was now worded, that it would carry to every person in the country, and'hand down to all future times, a direct and positive censure on the people and the Representatives of Ireland, for net Levies 'wade dee mortices to hellish a just prupse• tics of revenue to the treasury uf Ike empire. Now as be was cuavinced that that part of the empire had lima oust to the utmost extent it cueld hear, and eves le a genie , °deo, u proportion, than Ragland, eine. she Hume, h' email satmama to that Resailuttoe, as it now.stood, awl he would therefore move ass aseseadeseut to it. He was fat: , led in saying that helium' was Mud more is proportion since the Henn thee &witted, by die positive statement el the Finance Committee of 1111 h, Ilse year berme the cumuli• dation of the revenge,. They declared, iii their Repoli. " that, large as the awtorut kad been of lac:tent email,. in Greet-lkitaia, that, in Irelaad, it bed iiierened in 1u infinitely grader mon dye." He weield, therefore, ssi. OW Flossie was tt law sad licaesiable, that, oil di e face of th eir i 40100 Id• they should Merribe a 'muical of the Wile debt lectured by !retard, without ano sesteg she large supply winch .she had furnished to the re venue of the empire ?—(hisur,hwar.}—lii order to ewe whet Indeed had day, with respect to the reveller, he memo to sluts we addition to that Reweliitimi, which would Mew at was raised by taxation Ireland dues the Vain lad 114 'mein , agues) smutnit of Maine, previously 10 that crest. It would then Ire seen what sloe had dune to meet she heal