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Sp e; t o strictly, eall for the execotion of the `fret zy with the lonian Isles ? The ivil List amounted to 1;200,0001. NWhy m;elit it not be reduced to It 3 former state 900,0001 ? A saving -Art 300.0001. a year tir the public might thus be effected in one single braoch. But bow could • that be expected as long as the -present military mania prevailed, and soldiers covered with gold were seen to parade the streets. Gold lace and frippery could not add to the dignity of the• Br itish character.—Was there any thing in the whole establishment of the Civil List which looked like economy ? No ; all was profligate waste and expenditure. Let the Ministers look at the offire of COmmander-io-Chief, an office of new creatiou, and fur which the individual by whom it was filled received sixteen guineas a day. He was willing to pay a due tribute of praise to the Duke of York for his menagement &ring the late contest ; but why should the in crease which had taken place in his emoluments in 1814 have been continued during peace 1 The whole income 'of the Noble Duke, if 'compared with that of his Royal Brothers, would be found to amotint to near one hundred thousand pounds a year. Solely if any individual should sutpuit to any reduction, he onglif !0 he that Individn'al. Had tto the whole duty of the Commander-in- Chief. hetore the last war, been pertormed as el feet nally-ea they were now, for only 30001. a-year. lie. believed that a reduction to the amount of 50,0001. might be effected on the Staff of, Great Britain.' - A private eoldier could now earn as 'notch again as the most industtious iudividuaL— Three was'lles need of holding out encouragement to procure'itildieeis ; therefore a reduction might 'also 'be effected their He wished to know what duties-Were performed by the Commissioaere • of Woods and Forests.. He hoped that evererincb of Crown Land would be sold, and brought to the public account. The office of Comtuissioners'of the Stamps would also admit of. great savings.— Nan) , individuals wouldhe found who could give aecority to the ' Government to the amount of ,10,0001., and would be happy to execute the duties of tie situation for 3001. a year. He had .never heett able to purchase stamps without pay ing one peony, and sometimes two or three pence peer their nominal 'value. This went into the pocke.4 of the distributors, and formed a tenth to be added to the two and a half per cent. which, Government allowed them. The latter, he had no doubt, might be suppressed. If his Majesty's Ministers would undertake the reductions he had pointed out, .they would find that new taxes were not requisite. Not onlyel e ff9o,oool. might then he saved annually, but much more.— Till the Hon. Gentle-nen opposite had proved their sincerity by actual reductions, he should not consent to vote a siogie additional tax. He con'- . cludvd by expressing his intention to take the sense of the House On the last Resolution pro posed by the Chancellor of the Exchequer. ...Colonel DAVIES said, in all that bed been ad-' vanced in favour of retrenchment, be perfectly . Agreed with his Friends around, him ; but doing thisehe,should vote in favour of a Sinking Fund of 5,000 ; 0001., and he so,far differed from some of his Friends, that be wished for an increase even on that. it was only by such a measure th a t th e credit.of the country could be adequately suppori. ed. If he di •aght it would be impossible to raise the 3,000,0061. proposed to be raised in taxes, be should certainly object to the Resolutions ; but this was not his opinion. He however dis approved of the duty on malt, and wished this to be . given up, and a tax imposed on the imaortation of corn, which he thought would benefit the bold ed interest, and answer every purpose of a Corn Bill. The Husbandry Horse. Tax and the Lot tery were imposts which he could not desire to see continued; hut he was decidedly of opinion that measures ought to be taken to give the public the benefit of a real Sinking Fund to time amount • proposed. Mr. Hatterest thought the present was not the proper moment for imposing new taxes to the amount of &,000,0001. The taxes now proposed be objected to, as tie regarded them as tending to press on the lower orders. To him it appeared that they were offered as a sort of a bribe to those who would - not have voted with Ministers bad they proposed a Property Tax. Ile would pledge himself, if the Chancellor of the Exchequer went . into an inquiry into the retre ri chtneots ,that could be nu*, toot proved that every, practical saving had been effected, to support him in imposing taxes to the amount 0f3,000,0001., or 0f8,000,0001. it necessary. He complait•ed - of the want of eco nonsy observable at present, and particularly cen stired the expence of Excise prosecutions, which annually cost the public in fees to counsel not - less than 24,0001. While. these things continued be must vote against new 'Faxes, and should therefore oppose the Resolution now before the House. Mr. Alderman WatmMAN would be as happy as • any man to see the country in possession of a real Sinking Ftind of 5 or .10,000,000/. But the goes tion was not now, what amount of Sinking Fund would be desirable, but whether the country could', bear 'new taxes ? Ile was of opinion that it could not, and he felt convinced, that by in creasing the taxes the Chancellor of. the Exche quer would diminish the revenue. The tax which had been suggested on the importation of. Corn was one which the House could not sanction, and which, if they did, the country would never bear. He strongly objected_to the Malt Tax,. 'and the grounds. on which it . was brought forward. If the Brewers charged the Public too much for their beer, ought the Chancellor of the Exchequer to claim a•share of the profit ? Was it for the Mini ster of this country to participate in every fraud that he could discover, whether it were in a Brew house or a Lottery ? The . tax ou Foreign Wool hi. perticolarly objected to, as he considerdd it likely tto injure an important branch' of our commetee. Such taxes ought not to be imposed at a moment Pee the present, on an oppressed and a distressed -and star vilig population - . He strongly disapproved of the conduct of Ministers, and announced it to be his intention, if he continued to sit in that House, to move. for a Committee, to consist of persons who Were neither Placemen nor Pen sioners, to inqtnre if important savings coin(' not be elleteetl try povernment. He was sorry to detain the House so long, after the tatiene of the preceding night, but ha felt it to be his duty, salt, there witholt one penny of cxpenee t 6 himself, as one of the Representatives ,of the British Me tropolis, to -protest against the measures now in progress. Ministers might bring up their forces from Cornwall and from Devon, and out-vote him ; they might- boast of possessing the coiefi deuce of the Sovereign and of that House; but, acting on their present, system they would never be strong in . the confidence of the Public. Ho-, for one, would never vote for one farthing being taken out of the pockets of his_ cOnstituents by new taxes, till every possible retrenchment had been made on the part of Government. • The Clerk then, by direction of the Speaker, proceeded to read -the Resolutions—The first was agreed to. On the second, which sets forth the charge created by the consolidation of the -Exchequers of England and Ireland, Sir J. NaNeoaer rose to move en amendment, of which he had given - notice on the preceding. night. Lie considered the Resolution just read went- to reflect on the people of Ireland, as though they had not borne their fare share of the burdens of the empire. This he maintained was not just, and therefore he proposed to offer a Statement of what had been clone by Ireland since the Union. This be,thought the House hound to admit as a part of their Resolutions. The condi tion of Ireland, which had prevented her from hearing taxation as sire 'Might have done, was result of the ab l oninable sYstem of misgovern ment which had been adopted - by the English Ministers, whOieineasvvres had made i necessary to Maintain a large standing army, and created other expences, which, under a wise administra tion, would never have been known. He moved, that there should be added to the Resolotion the fol!OVVing words:•'' That not withst g there had been raised by taxes imposed on the people of Ireland, bet wee., the perkds.of the Union and the consolidation of . the two Exchequers, the sum of 60,125,000/. giviog an annual average of 3,750,000/. raised by taxes, exceeding the revenue in the twelve_ yearS before the Union, which amounted to the average sum of 1;344,000/. by no less than 2,400,0001. net revenue.". The CHANCELLOR Of t he EXCHEQUER said, the Resolution' before the M ouse- stated the 'actual situation of Irelaod wi . hont reference to the causes which placed her in that situatiori., He hoped justice would always be dnne io Ireland, ant' was far from wishing to deny, the merit of the great and magnanimous efforts which her people had made, in_coltjuuction with their fellow-sub jects on this - side . of the water; but the statement now proposed to be added to the Resolution, was wholly toreign to the subject before the House, and, it adopted,. would Seem to 6-all for a similar description of the causes of the present financial kituation of England. He objected to riceive it, merely heeti nse it appeared to him that it would be 'out of its place. - Sir J. , NEWPOItT wished' to know if the Right Hon, Gentleman meant to negative the state ment. It he did, he put a negative Ott What was incontrovertibly true , . .The CHANCELLOR 0f the EXCHEQUER proposed merely to put a negatite on the question, that it, should be received into the Resolution,, without either affirming or denying the truth of the state ment. The Ametltnent. was then put and negatived, and the Resolution ;was' them agreed to ; the three followiOg Resolution lasing heel) carried.— On the sixii) Resolution being put, Sir M. W. RIDLEY, in rising to propose the Amendment which - he had to move, would not detain the Haase long by, travelling over the ground which ,tlad been so often trodden ; but he felt that he should not do his duty it he were merely to content himself with a silent motion. From a reference to the conduct of Ministers with respect to the Property Tax, and the subsequent reduction of the Army Esiimates, after the Nohle Lord and his colleagues had declared that. if they were reduced the country could not maintain its proper raok among the nations of &ro ve , h e contended that no confidence was to be vllced in their Orofessiont. He objected to the-imposition of new Taxes, and especially of such as would press on the lower classes of society. On this ac count he wholly disapproved of those which had been proposed. At all events, it was premature to propose new Taxes when the house had_ de cided tor a return to Cash, Payments. He thought it would be better to go on wills a Siokioo Fund of 2,000,0001, than to form one of 5,000,0001, by imposing new Taxes to the amount of 3,000,0001. lie moved that all the words of ,the sixth Resolution shook] be omitted after the word that, to make room for the following That such estimated surplus (of 2,000 0001.) being ap- plicable to the extinction of the Public Debt, it is .ruit' expedient at this time, iii the present dis tressed state of the country,. till every, practicable retrenchment hat been made in the public expel). diture, to' add to rhe burdens of the people by the iMpOsit i Mn of new Taxes." The CHA . PCEIIeLOR of the EXCHEQUER opposed the amendment . ; It went to 'express satisfaction ; at the preseot state.of the finances Of the collo try.—(Cties of " No, no," from the opposite sitfe of the tionse) ! ---Theßight Hon. Gentleman ~thto read the Resolution, which he said went to leciate, that instead of seeking to make nit addi , lion to the Sinking . 'Fund, the country °tight to rest saiisfi , cd with a surplus revenue of two mil lions, and with such savings as might he be effected by measures of lesrenchtnent. The beneficial part of this Resolution appeared to him to be em braced by those propositions which he had sub mitted to the House, which went f u rther, by de iog, that such an addition ought to be made to the Sinking Fund, as would meet the exigen cies, and support the credit, of the country. lie defended the particular taxes he had proposed, and felt . it to be his duty to oppose the amend ment of the Hon. Baronet. Lord MtvroN ,thought, before these Taxes were proposed., it outzht be proved that the conn try would 'be 'benefited by taking 3 millions out of its produeiive capital to ply it into the Exche quer. lie was of opinion that the 3 nolhoos. iu question would be bitter lett in the pocke i s ttt the peOple to aid the efforts of their thtitittry. and thonght•no. Tight/3 eUijilt to be imponti ull the present period of dtitreo shotiiti love passed away : t _ _ Colonel DAVIS explained what be had said at an earlier hoor, and declared that with the oh ,jsct Abe Chancellor of the Exchequer had in view, if the 3' millions to be raised could be attained by no other Taxes than those which . bad been proposed, he would support them. Mr. J. P. GRANT was convinced that taxes to the amount of 3;000,9001. could not be imposed on the people of England at this time, without fn.-, flicting that degree_of distress which must prevent that accumulation of wealth which might make them equal to the situation in which all agreed the country might hereafter' be placed. He de fended the Amendment, and expressed*surprise that the Chancellor of the ExcheqUer could fora Moment ,view it as expresssing any thing like sa tisfaction at the:present state of the country. To him it appeared to have no such meaning. Fdith ,could not be kept with the public creditor accord ing tt) the original plan, and this being our situa tion_ he must object' to the imposition of -new taxes to create a Sinking Fund of 5,000,0001. Mr. CALLAGHAN spoke, iu favour of the: pro posed.Tax.es, which he thought would he produc tive to the revenue, without advancing to the cousumer the price of any article to which they aOlilied, because those Taxes were to be levied ad tatorern:—(A laugh, and cries of Question, Q , ,e.oion!")—The Hon. .Member continued to p itit l yrize the principle 'of all the new Taxes, hot :Amidst sue!) 'wise and intei , ropti,y, that his meatiing could very seldom be caceted. He tuaitt tattled that the Tax upon Malt would biit . inerease the price of Beer, nor %stoithl the Taxes upon Su ;4ar and Coffee affect the price of those articles, or injure the interest of theHtVest India Merchants. As to the Tax upon foreign ‘Vool,,heconsidered that a very proper measure ; and lie did not. see why, for the ,benefit of our on n- produce, Taxes should not he imposed upon foreign Corn, foreign Silk, or foreign any thing else-=-(Coughing, and tom) cries of ' Qoestion, Quest ion, !" which con tinued with Lttle intermission _until tbe, Honour able Member took his seat.) • Mr. FRANKLAND Lewis rather wished the ar rangement of a plan for,fora permanent peace finan cial establishment had been postponed to another Session, and 'separated altogether from the.sitb ject of the Bank. As .to the expediency' of raising fresh' taxes to establish a Sinkine Fund, it was to be observed that the Sinkiti , -Fond at present Wes only nominal, the connfry having, in , tact, no fund that operated praCtically on. the reduction of the public debt, and he 'thought it of the utmost iipottance that they should have sonic surplus revenue applicable to that purpose. All taxation Was arm evil, but the benefit of establishi , g such a fund pedocuinattd above the evil in the present case. Mr,,ABERCROMBIR said, that the fi,i . st.ipiestion which must occur with,reference to the new taxes, was the capacity of the countiv to beat them. He must admit, that it it were able to bear thew he ivonld * rather that the Sinking Fund elionld be 5,000,0Q0/. than 2,000,0001. He cordially ap:. proved . of the amendment, Mr. H SuMNER complained that the taxes pro posed were of a nature which most operate on tavourablv on the landed interest, but declined his intention to support all-the prbposit inns. Atter a few words from Mr. MACDoNALD, the House divided as follows Fur the Original Motion • Fur the Ante/id/Tient Majority The liesoltstions were then agrted to ; the last for t4smoirly being agreed to unanimously, Mr. BROULMA wishcd to know what cource.the Right Hon. Ga"ntletnatt on:ant to pursue , to-morrow in the Com mittee of NVars and Mehos ? The CHA:St'l , ..l,lOIt of the EXCHEQUER gaid, that he would follow the usual course of to,:vio 4 the sum of 3,( , 00,0001. of nets taxes, and then to move the new taxes in the same Committer. • • • .... Mr. BUOIIGHAM.—As the last Resolution for economy hart been agreed• to unosnimouslv at the suggestion of the Right lion. Civotielnan, he wished to know wiietldyr the Right HOll. C4eitilem , in meant to-morrow .to propose any specific mrs~su• . 1.(011011:V. ...T.;.6-IANCELI:OIt of the EXCIIECIVER.—Not as any part-of the Wa) s add Means. Mr. Bit01,611."01.—It therefore appeared, that though economy and retrenchment were very tine words to he used for,iadneing the [louse to agree to 3,000,0001. of new taxes, they INCIT to go fur nothing 10 the:Ways and Means. Tie third reading of the Bank Payment Resumption Bill was postponed till Monday. . The CI-LINCELLpit of the. EXCHEQUER said, that he wished it to he under stood-that. lie.had caused accounts oft he intended view t,axes to he printed fur the.convenience of the House. _ On the question that a Bill be. brought in pursuant to the Finance Resolutions, Mr. MINIK wished to know whether. any alteration was proposed in the Tax. 9 n.Hemp. . The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER. said, that the accounts which he hat: mentioned,would- supply bitu with the requisite information. Lord MILTON, adverting to the qtlestion before the House, said that the proposed addition to the 'Faxon WOO: was one of great importance, and trusted the Bill. fur the 'l'ax would not lie hurried through the House. The CIIANdELLOIt of theEXCHEQUER said, that abundant time woillitbe given for discussion. Mr. S. WOitTLEY said, that he had no doubt many.peti tions would Ie presented against the Tax on. Ni7ool ; he wished it to be considered whether, if leave was now given to t.ring in the Bill, the rules of the House would allow the'pe tition to,he presented. The SPEAK.Iitt said, that. by the rules of the House no pe tition c-uld be received against a Tax Bill .after it bad been introduced. . After a few Words from Mr.' Brougham, Sir J. Newport, Mr. Robin4on, and Mr Calmat, The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, to avoid any difficulty, would azree to waive - the motion for leare to bring in the Bill on the Resolutions, till to-morrow. . - • After the other Orders of the Day were , disposed of, the House adjdurned at Half-past One o'Clock this noroing,. LONDON SESSIONS.--Yesterd4y the London 4djourned Sessions were held, but nothing of .iiripQrtance occurred. J. Jenkins was convicted, for asaillting J. Ilobey, an Officer of the Court of Request 9, in the execti . Lion of .his duty. The proecotOr went to 'arrest the defendant, and the latter having threatened to give him a lignunering, caused the door of his apartment 1,0 he closed, and beat Inllion violently. Ile . was found-.Gui/ty,.aud sentenced to two mouths' imprisonment. Sunday cveniqg 3 poor 'woman of, the mime of Jane Grey, was attacked beyond Hounslow Heidi, by foul desnytate ruffians, who robbed her of two one-p6n►id Bank of England Notes, Iss, in silver, stripped btr of "her cloak, bonnet, and stays, took her shoes and stoCkingt, and beat her most utt lnerciful;y. • They wonld in all probability have murdered her, but percLiving, , a coach advancing, they ran off 'with their.. plunder. I,AV iNttLil6&te‘ COURT OF CHANCERY, JUNE 8. THE BLENHEIM -GOLD PLATE. La o THE (Iv SHAFTESEURT AND LORD R oo ' . SPENCERi V. His GRACE THE DUKE OF MAILLS°I ROUGH,. AND TRIPHOOK Mr. SHADWELL moved for an injunction tOreald strain the Duke and the other defendant fr o ,f selling, pawning; or dispoSing of certain goM ' 11.1 50 -silver plate, bequeathed-by the I;tte Duke to r plaintiffs and a Mr. Blackston'e, at Trustees r° , the present Doke.. The bill prayed, that the tic ,: fendant, Thomas Tripbook, should be orticreti rt v i give up such articles of plate as he bad, and he shonla not be allowed to sell.or dispose of $ ll 3 other till till ther order ; and that the Duke sh°-ts.l be also ordetetl to deliver up such articles as w r i i Tripbook hail not got in his possettiOn y ,any of the plate was sold or destroyed, t hey might he ordered, to procure plate of an 11 Value, and deliver the same to the plaintif f s; : a ke -that the said' articles, when restored, ihould ' I , ulgrthin.,sonte place of safety; but that the 19 01 ", should be meanwhile 'restrained front rerro`t ire any articie4from Blenheim House. The a pplie s: (ion now made to - the Court was merely Ex /0 1. 7, 1 g hut he (Mr. Shadcyell) had no doubt the C°_," . .would accede to it. The will of the,late Duke d pi :ermined, that the gold and silver plate 5 10°' lier for ever- cOnsidere as heir loomS at 1 311n.' beim Jlouse. Inventories- of the goods were or i tiered to he made anti- delivered to the Troste ts t • By an affidavit; it appeared, that Mr. Palmer, o Piccadilly, bad been employed to 'survey the P I T; pert y, and.compate it with the inventory, bdt 4 was found the plate was gone, on which the ti r d punent applied to his Grace on the subject, , was told 'the whole was in the hands of a trade' . man, except tuo articles, which had been srni nave the , arms engrave!) on them. The Earl °' Shaftesbury could not; however, obtain 1010' 3 ; firm about the plate, and though lie was tol'' person was gone to %Volts, hr could not what his name was. A Mr.l'enitigar said, tb s , he had got 12_or 13001. on the plate, by o r ‘ ie " of the Duke, and that it could not be recove r.. ., without that stint being repaid. A letter was seut b' Alderman Cox, of Little, Britain., sayin g I . that the Marlborough plate 'was sent to hint f°' sale but as the arms were covered oe,r trg %). he refused to purchase. ; and when he addet that a Mr:johtt Hone ridd declared that the plate was.offered in pledge to a Mr. Parker , t) Berner'aLstreet, Oxford-road, and that the tir° ls , were concealed under wax, these facts sp;,ke themselves. -Tice Learned Counsel the!, entec . into a long detail of the subsequent procecdi° o which had taken place relative to the plate (PH r ' ocularly as to a pledge gi'.en on it by a 3 1r. Guest 44,1Fleetrtnalket), but our limits preveut "s . giving any further details. The LORD CDANCiLLOR,. without any tion, grantee! the injunction. -• LADY VANR STEWART V. 011 D. The SoLictrott-Gansaam, moved, that the re; cognizances entered into by the Receiver's " e Rents at the Collieries which belonged tico l , Lady Emily Vane Tempest, now Lidy Stewart, should be discharged, as, the wholl counts were already fully paid or settled. The LouD CHANCELLOR—" lam glAd 1 3 e 114 such a 111060 n, and"' certainly grant it." BRUNTON V. HAWKS. Yesterday, at the opening of•the Court,' 114 ; SOLICITOR• GENERAL applied to the Court for injiluetion to restrain the defendants fermi makin% or vending certain,chain cables or ninoringi of 11 . .. * form and structure secured to tie pl a intiffs br Letters Patent. Mt. !Lin- followed on the same side, and 0a; mvrons affidavits of the most eminent engipe 4 A , were roilacetl, stating, that' they having c xatnio e ;' , the plaintiff's specifications, the chain sold ta lli c tletendaks appeared to thenr ta be in every resp ec copies of the plaintiff's invention, which inver lion they considered as nFw,. and of great ateP i c ; yielding a degree of strength and s v ecot I be obtained from chains of any other cOnst med al " '1 he Court inumliiatek- grantell the i:junctiO' COURSE OF EXCHANGE, TUESDAY - , JuAve S. Am ste; dam Ditto, at light ll I I Rottertima Antwerp ll 171x.itkir 1"-lanthurgh 35 4 44 [i6• Aitaina , Paris, 3 Day's sight Ditto tiourdentnc, ditto Frankforton the Main ;8,7;55 206:11is::;: .... 144 i Ex. Moo Madrid q Cadiz ' i3iiitua 3h Eilectir/ Sevilla • - .. .. 6 ' Giltraltar • ' 3•If• Barcelona ' Leghorn Genoa... 451----,Venice, Ital. Lis. 26 Malta . ..5u --Naples -40 . . Palermo •.. l2Ol. per OZ. , Lisbon . . 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