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1 ,.... I . I . • ‘ 4l4:‘; ' .. ~ • •,,,. 41 1 ro• i 4 . . • 7.. ...„,. ....TIM , suldsza 452. • be .4t.titob ricto. vrA, 7, • 1 ; 4%1.. ttl‘._VAv• ti; THURSDAY, JUNE ii, 1804. _ . (PRICE SIXPENCE; THEATRE -ROYAL. CONIF.NT-GARDEN. THIS EVENING will be acted (for the Last Tints enc s.rott), the Opera of THE CABINET. Prince Orlando, Mr. BRAHAM. Count Cursmo, Mr. EMERY. Lorenzo i Mr. INCLEDON. • Floretta, Sitnions STORACE. To which will be ',fled, the Farce of THE SULTAN. Solrman, Mr. CORY. Osman, Mr. 111.ANClikRD. lsmene„ Miac WHEATLY. Rozalans, Mrs. GLOVER. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS—Wsprieso‘or Jung 340 The Defcnce Bill was brought up from the Com mons, read a first time, and ordered to be printed. Earl CAMDEN said, he would give notice, on Friday next, upon what day he would move for the second reading of the Bill. The House then went into a Committee on Mr. Tighe's Divorce Bill. On reading the clause in which it was mentioned that Mrs. Tighe was to re tain her settlement of 4001. Per /AAIUN; The LORD CHANCELLOR observed, that such a clause could not be allowed t that from the a@ committed, she 6..3 no right whatever to any settlement; he / herefore moved their Lordships that that elau:e shoul .1 be expunged. The Earl of WESTMEATH said, it was Mr. Tighe's wish, that Mrs. Tighe should retain htr right of Dower. THEATRE ROYAL. HAY-MARKET. is EVENING will be presented a Comedy, iu Three wO, ad WAYS AND MEANS. Sir David Dunder, Mr. BANNISTER. Jun. Random, Mr. PALMER, Jun. Scruple, Mr. DE CAMP. Old Randnm, Mr. GROVE. Tiptoe. Mr. PALMER, Lady Duader, Mrs WARD. Mt Peery, Mrs. KEN DA LL. I! uriet, Mrs. GAIMRY. Katy, Mrs. Gins The Bishop of ROCHESTER said, if this clause was allowed ft, stand a part of the Bill, it would he giving a kind of tacit sandion to aas of adultery ; this was the first time a clause of thi. nature was in. troduced into Cut House. He therefore would give it his most dmided opposition. . _ Alter whi. It (Second Times, a fiplendid Dramatic Billet, THE ENCHANTED ISLAND. Prover° (Duke of 11:1.1n); Mr. PE CAMP. Antonio (Prosindo's &maser), Mr. PALMEP., Jun. Find Female Spdit. Miss DANIELS The Dances inevieutal to the Piece are autrPmtetiLl Mr. BYRXE, and Muter OSeAR BYRNE. After a short conversation between the LORD CHANCELLOR Aril the Earl of WESTMEATH, the clause was expunged. The Report was then ordered to be received to morrow. The Ballet of The Encluno.d Island will be repeat:4 awry Evening, till farther notice. Upon the Motion for the third reading of the Aylesbury EleaintsßiU ; • The LORD CHANCELLOR made a few obser vations ; adverting to the oppositi.m he had already ven to it, and again declaring he considered it as i al, impolitic, and unconstitutional. g t:f The Bill wal then read a third time and passed. _ . . __ _ .. In the case of Hog v. Lashley, the final judg ment will be given at one o'clock on Friday next. The House then adjourned to to-morrow at two o'clock. EAST•INDIA HOUSE, JtPIC $, 1904. COURT ?fDIRECTI9RS of the UNITED, COMPANY 4 . ME RC LI A NTS If ENGLAND. TRADING at eke EAST INDIES, do hereby r;oe Noire, That thee trill I.e re 101 l to receive Proposals in Writing, ea sr e IVedetesday the 4th of July etatjar the hire, for a fNrN•rr ve Jber of roy /es, evach Shim of abseil $OO Tenn mud a7l, trek, eekelt have prafirmed their emstrarted 'swelter If roves , * in N.. Stirlike. The Teeters, era:4 tl.a• 'cords 't de vcr, to be scurrully .easicad up mt 3 Kit!: tbeSecret.ary. •T britre Tarelv.: at Nts na e•C above Day, haymed ar , ark Hour note," Tender silt bc • cr;rlO. WILLIANI RAMSAY, Ce,,•flari. 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WILLIAM MOORE, of Canterbury, at the entreaty of his Viiends, the Nobility and Gentry of 1111 t'iitaty of Kent, and a mptecruw and mipeetable connection in 'be City of Lim . liin, w'ii, have proin6el him their patronage , •dsupp•irt, 1':411.(te4 to take the atiove Tavern, which h 'apposes to o: iif June howie, h^ing si tuzird upon the Milked :mourn in the neighbourhood. r 0 : 11- I nAlsa prospect of the Town and and a grind and ex tensive <:.2w of the Sea Irons Cie We of Sheppey to the North „,W• MOORE, having rtne'c r l hi s ee :l art with Spirits an•l "ion of the beat quality, preaumes In. win hi: enabled, by a limper attention t:i the valetudinarian, r. thine who fre i`nt a watering place for i•leatur.: 3 society, by .4: 1 •110.1 in hi. Chll•;eA. ant asiiiliiity in I. to vain that 4, 4131011. winch will ba hi. rr•ittea m •rit, rIA U !1 .- it 13. Win :•• .:z1 wth graitude. base eau on nl.) 4.11,14 loi terms. .lin“ Ti , if is. HOUSE OF COMMONS. A new writ was ordered fora Member to serve for BridgewEer, in the room of J. ALLEN, Esq. who has accepted the Chiltern Hundreds. -Mr..kLE/ASOSR brought up the Report of the Irish Linen Lawi A mendinent Bill, which was attreed to, and the Biil was ordered to be react a third time to-morrew. On the Order of the Day for the second reading of the Solway Fisheyes Bill ; General GASCOIGNE opposed it, as one of the grossest violations of private property that ever w•as attemrte . a.-td he moved to defer the second read ing f r thr-e months. C:tEI•N Y seconded this motion. Sir W. PULTEISLY and Mr. Hussy supported the Bill After which the Home divided : for the se. Bond reading, 56; for the postponement, 74. The Bill thvi isuee WAS lest. -„ IRISH BUDGET. When the gallery was opened for the readmission of strangers, the House was in a Committee of Ways and Means, Mr. ALEXANDER in the chair. Mr. FOSTER was also addressing the Committee on the subjeal of the finarces of Ireland; which, he said, he was extremely sorry to inform the Mouse, were growing worse and worse every year; and, in order to prove this assertion, he would make a com parative statement betweea their situation at present, and some years hack. In the first place, he would inform the Itonse, that the debt of Ireland, in the year 1 79 3, amounted to no more than 4 2,400.0001. that in the year I skO, it was 25,500,0001. and at the present moment, it was near .',3,000.000. quantity added to the debt this year was nine mil lior.s and a half. If England was to increase her debt in proportion to that sum, according to the settled rates of duties in each country, the sum of that increase would amount to 64,000,0001. But it was evident that England did not increase her debt this year to any such aiflount. If the due propor tion, therefore, was not kept op, and if Ireland con tinued to accumnlate a much larger debt than she should do, according to the rate of debt accumulat ed in England, it was plain that the former country was going upon A system wholly ruinous; and one which it required the whole energy of persons con nesled with Ireland to put a stop to. Parliament might propose an equalisation of taxes, and a con soadation of the accounts of both countries; but in the progress Ireland would be found to be increasing her burdens far beyond what Great Britain increased hers. And the worst circumstance of all that be longed to this ruinous system was, that the Govern. mein of Ireland was borrowing money out of the country; and by that means, not only created ab sentee debts, and absentee taxes, but was contrafted, by all the means she possessed, of increasing her ex ports, and diminishing her imports. While she was able to raise money, by loans in Great Britain, every exertion towards accomplishing these great causes of national wealth was taken away. But the debt so raised, had a still worse tendency; it had the effe9 of diminishing that revenue, that should pay the interest of it. Ireland was in as bad a state with . regard to her revenues, as her debt. The year be fore the union with this country, the ordinary reve nues of Ireland amounted to 2,800,0001. and she owed 25,000,0001. In the last year, with all her increase of debt, the revenues were only 2,789,0001. being about 16,0001. less than in the year 1800. After the payn.ent of the interest of the debt, and other charges in Ireland, there was not a sum of 300,00a1. remaining for Ireland, to pay her quota in the joint cxpences of the kingdom. This was not all; the prove& before her was still worse : the re venues had already fallen between 9. and 300,0001. ' a year ; and if they should fall next year, there would not be a six-pence to answer any one purpose of public expenditure ; and Ireland would be a mere ' sheet of blank parer, contributing nothing towards the exigencies of the State. It was absolutely ne cessary, therefore, that other means, besides those already in use, should be resorted to. This situ.s tion of Ireland was one which he could hardly have I J believed, if it had not been stated to hint in a man. nerwhich could leave no doubt in his meld, as to the truth of it; and he would appeal to all the j Gentlemen from Ireland, who now heard him, whe. I ther the most proper, effeaual, and manly course to pursue, would not be to look at these difficulties in the face, to endeavour to surmount them, to raise a competent revenue, and to put that revenue on a footing that should cause it to keep pace, he would i not say with the sister country, but wit h that of our own country on this side of the water ? ahey know that heavy taxes must be imposed, and that the pay ment of them must be enforced ; and t'.•) must be aware that their assistance was necee try towards accomplishing that purpose. The Gentlemen from ' Ireland knew how difficult it was to conea the re venues them that every one of them ought to exert himscif as much as possible to put a stop to private distilleries, and all other frauds upon the revenue; and that if they did not do so, increased taxes must fall on their own property. It behoved them therefore to put down private stills on their estates, and use every other means by which the taxes could be fairly colleaed. It must be a further inducement to them to make these es. ertions, when they considered, that in the year 1805 the revenues must be equalised with the ex pences. At the time when he held the office of Chancellor of the Exchequer in Ireland, he did, with the assistance of the country Gentlemen there, establish such regulations as caused the re venue to be kept up to the full amount at which it had been estimated ; and, during the space of se ven years, nut one theiing was added to the taxes If great exertions s ere now'made for putting the revenues on a sure alai permanent footing, the country would be able to go on ; and would possess ways and means to do so. He was sure that Ire- Lind contained resources within herself; and that it was only necessary to find out the best means of calling them forth. Besides what he had already stated, it was fit tart' 1-louse should know that the revenues were contOrd in a very bad way, and which contributed to the dieiculties of the country. This evidently appeared born the documents then on the table. The expenses of colkaion had lately increased to 76,0001. a year, over and above gaie ties, pensions, Sec. 1 here Was another circumstance in the colleaion of the revenue: that required the serious consideration of Parliament ; and that was the enormous sums of money suffered to remain in the hands of the colleclnrs. In England, notwith standing her great revenue, there was not is the hands of revenue colleetors a sum above 50,0001. But the balances, in the hands of the Irish revennc culleaors, exceeded tioo,bool. Ia lieet, rI , C3C ba lances were 466,0001, and, in the ensuing year, they increased above 100,1001. more. These sums must appear enormous to those who saw hardly any arrears in the hand: of English Collec tors. He would ju..t state to she - House some of the articles on which there were such balances. In the Stamp Office department, there was a ba lance of 80,0001. remaining in hand ; although the whole of the taxes arising from stamps did not exceed 182,0001. a year, and the whole of this revenue was colleeted in the city of Dublin. Tire next he should notice was the Post Office; the balance in the bands of those who coneacd the Post Office Duty, was, in the year 1803, 16,0001. and last year it was 22,9001. although the whole of the reve nue was only 25,0001. a year. He would not go so far as to say that all the persons who owed this money to Government were insolvent ; but he must say the circumstance of so much being due, was im putable to the bad condna of the Board in Ireland, which had the power to prevent it. Besides the due concoction of the revenue, it would be necessary to have some reform in the mode of colleaing it. And in doing this, the exertions of the Irish Gentlemen would be necessary. In the third place, it would be necessary, that a great decrease in the internal ex pences of Ireland should take place. But for the accomplidiment of this objea, he should look to the superior powers of the Administration and Go vernment of this country : for it was a thing which the Irish Gentlemen could not do. And he was confident, that the Right Hon. Gentleman now at the head of the Administration, would gladly assist is any measure for that purpose. %e ith respea, however, to the econcrny necessary in the collection of the revenue, that was in the power of the Gentle men of Ireland : it could be effeaed by a Paribirnen tary regulation; and, in order to shew thatevery thing ought to be done towards promoting it, he should shortly move for leave to bring in a Bit, to appoint certain commissioners of enquiry, who should ex amine into the state of all the offices of the financial department in Ireland, and give a full report as to the situation of every thing within that department. Until this was done, he could not introduce any re gulation with regard to the better collection of the revenue. His objoft now was, to propose an in crease of taxes in Ireland ; and with the leave of the Committee, he would state what they were to be. He thought the best way would be to propose a proportional increase of duties on the same arti,ks on which an increase lately took place in Great ill s tain. The tint article then was wise : on all Trer: .h wines imported into Ireland, he should propose to encrease the duty to 791. a ton; Port eel.; Madeira 701.; and on Rhenish and all other Wines, 681. Indeed there was no other wine of any other de scription imported but Rhenish. He thought it best to lay the duties to this amount. because the wine merchant would raise the price of it sixpence a bot tle. According to the average calculation of the last seven years, he supposed this duty would pro duce the annual sum of 109,0001. The next article was malt, on which he would propose to lay an ad ditional duty of I s. Sd. a barrel. The duties already payable on teas were eel. 7s. per cwt. on fine green teas, and on small and black teas 2.51. These duties hi proposed to double, •d the produce would be 180,0001. The next woud be en additional duty of Is. sd. per lb. on tobacco, which would produce J 1 2,0001. The next was on home-made spirits, on Wltich he proposed to add 2W. a gallon ; :mil the pro. duce fie estimated at 41,0001. Sugar was:mot:ler ob jesa of taxation. On this he should propose an equali sation of the duties, by which - the produce on raw sugar would be 3.5,0001. and that on eel:. cd sugar, 3.3001. With regard to an increase of the stanip du ties, be was happy to fir..l the tax he was next About to mention, bad already met the approbation of many of the gentlemen of Ireland. This was a duty on all affidavits made before justices of the peace, on which it would be necessary to have a stamp. Such affidavits as these wore very frequent in Ireland; and if that country wanted a revenue, lie saw two reason why they should not be made to c.:11- tribute towards it; and if they did not contrii,ute, that musk be owing to a decrease of those affidavits, which wofill be no evil whatever. The nest article a duty payable on the registry cf" all Ist..tholds. , He felt it would be rather a delicate thing to pro pose a tax of this kind. It would, however, be very small, and not produce above 30Oul. Jittit if gentlemen thought it would be injurious to persons in Ireland, or obj?,!t.:4. to it in a constitutional paint of view, he would be ready to withdraw it. lit the next place, he should propose to restore the - duty 0f.6 per cent, on retail importers ; and that would produce 80101. Atai:her mode ef eticreas hag the revenue, and one which would produce the most beneficial efrefts, would be to direis, that the whole rerenues of Ireland should he paid in British money. This would go some may in remedying the evils arising from the unlavourab,e course of ex change; ard in equalising the currency of the two countries; which was so IMIC)1 to be desired. It would go a step to I:mai , rise the people to such a measure ; and the encreased reve cue attain from it would amount to 190,0001. The whole of the duties he now stated would amount to 1,0001. There was one more which he had to mention, and that was an addition which roust accrue to the re venue from alteriha the modee.f charging the slaty on wash ; and wlich would pi educe the sum of 400,0001. These were the principal taxes he Fad to propose. And in uffering•them Loth., House, he would again call for the support and assistance of the Gentlemen of Ireland, to render them, as wall as the other duties there, 440 A, I is: %Gold, iu the sea-fearing language, eccoenmend it to theno to give a long pull, a strung pull, and a pull altogo e ther, in order to raise the vessel of the state awl keep her from siaking. If they Irslifie thk ex .-rtion, they would do a great and esoiraial Len. .fit to • the Empire. By the now duties he j.i>t pro• posed, there would be an increase of r %roue, of upwards of 12,000.0001. Ani th.n sum was net to be raised, Ireland would aeser be able to keep pace with Great Britain. He was con fident that Ireland was able and williorto im y her due proportion of the public taxes; and that that ought to be done rather than resort to the system of borrow' ag. hssidaa the &miss i.e ;ah4rAey sratcd, ielat W tai...ce one or two other articles tinder the head of stamps. The first was a regulation, by wi ion private tankers in Ireland shon4 not be ;SO .red to compound for the duty of their notes, but that whole of the duty be levied upon the noteo selves. This regulation might_ have the effe . 4l of preventing improper persons from setting tip liar k ing houses. The next was, that there shnuLt be a stamp on every permit pawed for the conveyance exciseable goods. The amount of the stamp would be from 2d. to Is. The Right Hon. Gen tleman next cailed the attention of the Committee to the necessity of a clear settlement of the joint accounts between Great Britain and Ireland. Na account whatever was settled since the (Jain; and it was a most extraordinary thing that two great Houses should have been so .hing its partnership, and never have asked how they wars paying, what they had paid, or bow :bar. ac counts stood 1 So far as it rested with hint to m a move these difficulties, be should neither spare Isla labour nor his time in endeavouring to du 1. , .) ; arkl he hoped every thing would be ready by next Session of Parliament, to prepare for a html settlement. IL: wished, if it were possible to be done be:Ore the present Session broke up, to make an art argt meat, according to which, a certain time should be axed in every session for bringing on the busiLts, of ltelapd ; and in that case, he should hope that Iri,h Gentle men would pay more attention than they had hither to done to the business of their own country. then concluded with moving resolutions pursuant to his statement. Mr. CORRY said, be did not rise for the purpose of throwing the slightest impedimert in the way of the business brought forward by the Right lion. Gentleman, but merely to offer a few observations in justification of persons to whom be had alluded. If the revenues of Ireland were not well aotleoed, the blame did not lie with the Board of Corsonis sioners ; for they never had, or never exercised the sans rowers to enforce the colligtion, as were Ks seised by the Commissioners here.. 'Thar, ! ow rot, rested with the eLscritive Government of laristati ; and in jaw:Lineation oti them, he must say. that alley did cher% their powers to Tommie tl.v due colleftiim of the revenwut. list certainly acquitted the Right • Hon. Gent. of animention to inculpate any per. son; and he bored that the affwirsof lie.a•id writsld prosper in his hands. As to the joint account of thei two countries, it was, in mast parts, very easy to be Hide out; he had himeeif made up one 'last Ses ion. Some parts of them could not easily be settled ; bnt.no more money had been raised on the joint account than Was oreebsary. • Mr. FOSTER, in expinantion, said.' thas- tbe light Hon. Gentleman had certainly .lone him no more than justice.. when he salt that-lie bud no in tention of throwing blame on any on:. . Mr. CORRY ruse to explain : and on that occa sion observed, that he bad omitted to answer ~ t.e of the statements of the Right Hon. Gentleman; that in which he olk.etved. that very great battoces remained in the hands of colleetors. He thought it necessary, in justification of the Leavens:cent of Ise-