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he:,ng the case, and that during a considerable period. the Traee was attended with a loss. Heltart therefore to propose to the Committee such a duty on Malt,. as would give to the Public nearly, the whole amount,, leaving to the Brewer the possession of those ad. vantages which he now enjoys,. and which, if in. vestigated, would be found to afford him aiarge and liberal profit. The additional Duty on Malt, he should propose to be two shillings per bushel, which he estimated would produce, 2,700,0001.--- There wauld be a surplus of r3d per Batrd, which will be to be divided between the Maltster and the Brewer, between theniltster and the privateßrewer, hut that for reasons he should hereafter state, would he reduced to 8.1 per Brrrel, which wbuld not be a c:inpensation to the Wewer for his necessary ad. vance of capiiai, if it were not for the very con. :siderable profit, to say the least, of which now p ossesse d. H e would not propose a Tax on the 'common beverage of t!ie people of this Country, 'without also proposing a Tax on the beverage of The higher orders ;'it was 'for that reason he had Proposed an additional duty on Wine and Spirits.— Let It be recolletied that during the last forty Years, the additional Duty on Beer had been very moderate, and that it will not exceed 44 per cent. now in the year 1763, a Tax was laid on of one halfpenny per pot, .and during the whole of that period the addition made -to the duty of Out common -Beverage of. the.Vountry had been 4 1) more after all thanAi per cent. _; while the lid. dition made to the duty on the beverage of the Vigher classes bad been much. higher indeed, and •the dattal addition on Wine during that p. - -riod will have amounted to no less 200 percent. Now at the time the consumption ( ' f that article is very much hit 7 easit , g, it could not be imPuted to Parliament that its Ailvtittrrs were spariog themselves or any Pirt of the higher orders of tie community.---The. ullole of this duty under the Excise would be 1‘• I I t t!, Spir;tA, 1,300 0 p00 514000 , 1,5oc) k 000 2,7;o,000 In the whole, Custotwt, Coooiooo 2",ocoi000 et Excise anti CuStoni,;, S i ODO,OO6 In addition to .this let-leased Duty, he had to. submit to the Committee a meatnre very eaten. ' sive in its operatien, trusted if adopted, it would' oe _obutolatit in its produce ; it was founded on the principle of the Income Fax, a tax however condemeed .ind reprobated byoirone persons (for he dot .n ot coneeive it. ICC have been either condemned or reprobated by general opinion of the 'people.) he slitad ever contend was the instrtueent by which see had carried ourselves through our difficulties; and this he said was not mere matter of opinion, bin of i: disputable proof now on the Table ; "riat tidy all those who supported that measure admitted it was liable to _objation, but he might say the sante thiog of e the present measures, every one of them ; it was impossible to produce: any measure • that was considerable in its extent to which nitaitY objeftions'" might not be o started, but the questiOn was. whethet it was not .the best that could; undel all circumstances, be adopted I The priecipei; ob ieftion to thelncome 'f a sowas, ‘ thauof its disclosing "the circumstances of individuals, an inconvenience which it was impossible.wholly, to a void ; but it should bconade as little liable to that inoonvenience as possie hie, consistently with the PrOduct , andseCurity of the Revenue. The principle he had to submit to the consideration of the Committee wgv this, to make adistinetion between.that species of property, the value of which does not depend on the skill and industry of the owner, and that species of property *bleb does clepepd on the skill, industry, and 4x. ertion of the Otvlier. - Under the first head was Land, and the interest of Money in the Funds, dec. or Money belonging to' corporations, and various other descriptions of Property, which kwas not' now necessary he - t;houltl pitritcula"tize : if the Coin 'mince would hear io mind the Alistiottion; that Would he suflicieto fOr his present purpose, for they were t o besubjc6 to different yosseo,ors of 'the one 'description of property would be relieved from the neceSsityo of disclosure ; 'but other pivot ity, comprelit ndieg Tr';ide anti the Various piefessions, and their incomes 'from their talent s and rtoooti :its, most . necessarily be . brought under the Ck)ohider,itiyil of Commissioners, and as far as the weteconeerned, the obiation,. he feared, woeld not be obviated, but suclu'power o would be gitcn to the Commissioners, as would dom milt t objett ion, though it would not. I "ve the effea of• rainy logo it " altogether.— The Tax he sliouet ' , repose on-the 'Rent of , Land. %vould be a ':':ix on the net Rent, as far “s it could be anemone& He hoped to suggest a mode by w hich, he mooed, the too Rent of Land might be 4 'ee-rtaitltd, without vexation or trouble. w ""hrl propose a '1%,,x of One the Pound, tl " t ged on the 10-oerietor, and Ninepence. on t he TiOiant or Occupier in England, where the Tenant: ,Paid the Poor Rates, almost without exception ; uat in Scotlanl, where the Rent was compdrativdy higher, because the Poor Rates were not paid by the Tenant, he proposed th4.the.Tenant should be vharged at the rate of siXpence in the pound. Ile had endeavoured toobtain from various sources, the beat -means of fOrming an estimate, of that part of the Antmil 'Revenue arising from the Capital of the Country, the improvement of which did not ,in airy degree depend upoothe personal indust ry of the ""essor. He knew that . any calculations upon ! Ili4 sullied, must .be in a great degree coojedural, I'm greet information had been- derived upon this t i i abied from the Income Tax ; he should' imagine taat he would not' be very far from the,truth, or Nrifiefrom the point, in, estimating the Annual Rey. I/e Pte to which he had adverted, at go That part of it' w hich would be assessed under this, measure, w ou ld b e somew h ere b e twe e n . 60- an 4 7 0 ! 4 illions. He cideulated the,Revenue arising from er.d &C. at about zS Ntillivtis , !train Houses and Buildings itot emloyed in purposet cif .Agriculture, e to but ye it was.r.bbable '9 14 riot a.bovi three-fifths would be chatVa'i l o nkr , this measure, -he would.- take it, at six,. insteino of Ti4is was fur England o-fatSeotlan.d he estimat e d it at , 3500,6001. The propertruise . ( ) ,"g: from Government Securities, .Bank, ~last India ` l° eic, Corporations, and other Dividends of Char. 14r " Property, lie estimate! at.; Itcoo)"Qh • . ,NaVigatioot, To ll s, :TuftVikes, .tc,'.bad been esti:. mated at between five and ten. - MillionS, he Woeld. ,take -it at 7,500,6001. He begged, thCommittee to understand, that he did not attach any verygteat degree,of accuracy to theSe calculations; -bet - they were the best he was .enabled to form. These wetdd .altogether fOrm ,'e'suni• 0f•67, 500,006. acid this at one shilling in the pound, or 1.20 th, -would .produce 3,375,0001. To this he conceived an ad dition might be made of .20 - Millions .for Tenants' :Rents, which at the rate of - Duty he had before - stated, would produce 500,0001. • It would be ex. tremely difficult to estimate the property arising from .Salaries and Professiens ;- he supposed however it might be taken. at, four IVlillions, which at one shilling in the round, would produce 2p0,Q001. With regard persons in Trade, theseme difficulty would subsist in making' an. accurate Estimate, because much must depend' upon regulations ; but making allowance for the &dation in all cases, of this description, which defended upon the skill ,and industry of the individual, he should estimate the produce under - this head. at one shilling in - the polled, (With a positive exemption of all cases un. . der 601. e year, and a proportionate scale between that and t5Ol. a year), at 62 . ;,0001, Ti;ese sums all together would, it his calculations were coned, prodece a Revenue of +,700,0001. which however he would only take .at 4,500,0001. , With regatd to that species of property arising from Govern. • Ment Securities, he knew perfectly evell the delicacy A'vhich -had always been felt upon this subjed, -but he. was sore that it could not be expeeted, at the present time, that that kind of property should not be called upon to bear its share jn the general con tribUtion, when every other specks was called upon to contribute so heavily. The question now was, not what species of property s hould be cx. emitted, but in what proportion each species should contribute ? • It certainly ,was intended that. this kind of property should be made contributory, though 'it. was' not' in every instance. He. meant however now to propose, that all persons possess. log property in ' the Funds should "lie required to make returns to Commissioners by whom was to be carried into execution.. .These Commis. sioners would not be all of them resident in' Lon. don, as under the.ltscome.Bill, but they would be appointed in different : Farts of the Country. They were to have the 'same powers for certain purposes as the Commercial. Commissioners. Ail penises having property ,in the Funds were to lay their Ac. debits before.these. Commissioners ; and if they did not do it before a Cett;iin day, they should, he held to have trade their election, in which ceseporvision was. made that they should be charged be another way. It .would he end.e-stood that no person could be charged except accerdlog to the first provisions to which he had alluded,' Unless it was by his own cheice. If the persons dtd: not make their returns to the Commissioperi at a proper time,,thcie and in that case wily, the •previsioes were to he exe. ,• 'cured at the, Bank. All agetsts for Foreigeers e and persons - not being British subjeets; having proprtty in the Funds, should he exempted :, the Commit.. tee would feel time they could not with justice 'be included in this impost. When he said Foteignets, he meant these' opt resident' in England. The, dot its, therefore, which he meant to propose to cod ' tinue during the. War, were Customs, 2,000,0061. Excise, 60000,0001. and the 'Tax on Trol - ttY I 4400,000 1 . The Committee, however, 'would be aware, -that thong!! Parr:wet:or might determine to raise so large a part .of 'the supplies 'for the. service of 'the year, .yet it 'must be ObviouS, that a very considerable part, of this-sum could not be rats. :ell within the present :year.. He would therefore only calculate upon the to be , produced by these taxes io this year, at 4,500,0001. there would . then remain, x 0,000,0001. to be provided fur the service of the present year ; this suns must be raised by way of Loan, and he had this•day entered int* an.agreement with some respettable Bankers ,of the City of London, for a Loafs : far ;2,000,0001. 10,000,0001, of which was for England, on the following , terms every tool._ Sol. .3 per cent consols, which at 58-1 the price of Saturd.iy, skOold'be tee, ode---80 reduced at the same • Ogee, 4.61. 1.4.4. oiL .The bi(%,ling was upon the l e poteAmmi ties ; thiy were taken at 6s. sd. which ar 1.7 years and a half purchase, svas 51. 12s. 34:-:•-• The discount was .21. 6s. which made the whole atnoeot doll. 6s. 6d. The bonus to the Con.„ frit - tors as therefore 11. 64. 6d. and the interest per to be paid by the Public, '5l. as. 3d. r eeet. lie had to. congratulate the Country, that e under such circumstances as the present such a. loan could be obtained. -Ifeentertained-a sanguine hope that it .Woulti,prm ' re a beneficial one to the Ceraraztors, end he eves sure the Committee would'pattkipAte in that wish, because although they would wish that it should be benefiCial to the Public, yet they would lea that it was essential to the interests of the Public, that eublie spirited men of thii descrip. .tion should Oot:sitf,..r by their patriotic euxtions, Tht *Sent bareetin fur the LouNn was mule bi.ulefi... clot for the Public than any fortner.goe, with the exception,, only of the Loans teeo ;led ;Soo, • but they were made ender circumstances peculiarly . advantageous, because et that time measures were adopted fer raising large part of the Supplies Within the year ; in the further ease, by .-the for increasing the Assessed,Taies, and in the latter, by the Inconiel3ill. By the.,effeets of the systeM 1 which wads then adopted, we were furnished with the best criterion t.,1 the real prosperity and growing wealth of this Country, because it was upors the adoptiois et those salutary and vigorous. measures of Finance, that the two LoanS to which he had alluded, which were so beneficial to the COUrary, were contraded. 'I hese fads ought to' afford to the House a lesson, ;in indoceitett,' .4eel an eecouragemeet to recur to the same r t. which wal: adopted at th at period; in'the hope of deriving milar success. He had !sow to suite to the Corn., mitteel.the Ways and Means for providing the • serest of the Loan for 'whielt -would mike' r 6 Millions of 3 Pet Cent. Stock, the e l:merest would amount to 4.80, - 0001., the Long Atinuitice to 32eeiie together with -the, Charles of Manage:inc ur , aed the Oise per Cent. fob the !Siokitie noide together 676,5801, ; to meet this Cherge there was file i; n Revenue` on d os Ceosolid:ltioti of t h e Customs, tso,ootel. ; the CensglideL•ioio und :the • .rneritation of the Aisessed 'Taxes; 2:14.3501 g - The mode in *filch he should propose tit make up the remainder was by the .adoption of a meiisure which had often been recommended, and which had frequently been under consideration, tic meant a change in the mode of collecting the. Tax on Receipts. He would propose that in all instances where money was to be paid, that it should be competent to the person by whom the money was, paid, to demand a Stamped Rec;:ipt. and that the Amount of the Tax on Receipts no instance be less than td. or more than 5 Thisßegulation. Regulation. he supposeo .woald produce zzo,oool. which, with the two'fortner sums of ,tio,oool. and 2 50 , 09 b1. (Aqui !cf intke together 6r.0001. and the Interest vf the Loan was oujy 670,0001. He would now, with the pen - Inuit'', of the Com. mittee, recspitulate the different heads of Supply, and Ways and Means: SUPPLY.. Navy ','exclusive of Ordnance for Sea Service) L', te,oz r.OOO Array. - • - • - • - . 8, 71 1,849 •L Army xtraordinaries, to be voted - '' 2,4: , 0 - rhoan Exit - aura : tunics of the preceding- year -remaining unprovicled for . - - • • - 1,*32, IP Orawnce - - - . I,ISQ,(DoO Vote of Creclit - . . a,000,900 Corn Bounties - - - - • 514,. ..:co Miscellaneous Services - - - 1,3a,,0c5a -- 7 ---- , • . Total - - - 26i:79, o joint Ch . arge ct Grcat Brit;:in and Ireland. SEPARATI CHARGES BAR. GREAT BRITAIN. . .- , Deficiency of the Malt Doty - 1 t,q..1, Deficiency of Way:, and Means - - - 1.7c„13t American Contrnioners , - -33. -- ", c, Q Expedition, East li:dia C , lnpany - - I,e, ...)„ - .,e- Exchequer Bills - - - 2,731,0nc, interest on ditto - - - - • 9 2 ,'-} 3 Exclicquer Bats reinaining 0t'179 8 - ' a.soc.,uty, , . Total separate Charges.of Great Britain 6f3a1i679 Total Supplies 33,730,69 Two Scventecnths for Ireland . 3,162, Aciclitionat on account .o; Civa List, - &e. , 170, for Ireland , • . 3,33'1'4;9 Supplies to be provided for - 30,393,324 WAYS AND MEANS. Matt Duty, Tax on Pensiohs, &c. and remains of Land Tax - 2,7i1.,1,-) Exchequer Bills - - - • 5. , ;0,- . ..;....1 Sniplus Consolidated Fund TR-4 - O,coo,ota Exchequer: Dills for flank A tintittite4 - /, 59 1,),) llnuirttey remaining' in Exciiegocr . - 37,752 1-I - Awry, - - - Coiocio . Loan • - - - - - . 10,o;o0,o Dauduce of Ow new Taxes in the present year 4.;c.),-)..:o 30,6 ;47,7z Silppflys - 3r,,30,31L> • Overptua o, b etiet The COramittee would perceive that the great ofi jettt he had in view was to, raiSe a large ,part of ihe Supplies within 'the year. The extent to wiiich he Wished to carry thiSpeineiple was tin , that theft: Should he no increase Whatever of the 'Public Debt during the coarse of the r War. In the first place: it would be necessary to ascertain, the probable 'amount of the. annual Charges of .the War, and there , to make provisions for carrying on a :vigoroui and even 'protra4ed contest, without making any greater addition to the Public Debt than what would lie annually' liquidated by the Sildeing Fund. - 'f he annual Charge of the War, airless demands were made opon us - by the intervention of Foreign Powers who might wish: to make a eomtnnteettose with us, he thought .would not exteeal 26,000,0001, 11, tlicl not mean to deity thih was a:great, au enor. news stun, but 'certainly not greaser than the objet for which we had now to contend. If then the House should think fit to adopt the mea,ur . e he was now proposing, if he was right in his. Estitrato tyf the growing produce- of the Consolidated Fund, which he had considered nt above , Million ; an d if hi s ca l c ulation of the Annual . - Taxes was car. 'ten, which he had estimated at t a,soo,ociol. but which 'for this purpose he would only' take 'at t 0,000,0001, there would only remain a stim of 6,000,0001. to be . borrowed, whic,h ..would be more than covered by the Sinking Fivid, which . now produced considerably more than 'Six lions. Tfitt grOiving ::produce of the - Consoli— dated; Fund was, 'ako likiely iii inetense, unless we were again 'Visited by those calamities •with; which the Country had been afiliaed.. If then his calculations were correct, we should be enabled to meet a WM EXpeiltiittifg of `l'wenty.six without any increase to the Public Debt, an object' so deirable that no difl`erence , ol opinion could be: entertained Upon the subje4L , He trusted,. there. fprc, this system would .he - adopted ; it was one which had been before tried, and of whieh'the was kniiivn it had inspired confidence at home created respeet abroad. But the pecuniary eiLNA was not all, it would be a difie.ronce in aoother respe4l,. the difference between. a tempo‘rary and a permanent tax it would have : anothcr etfee:( also, that of convincing the Enetny of this.Ccuntty, that it was hOpelesfi fat him to l' , ,Mtena NV id), our Fina4es, that It waS not in his power to aired us iii tflat'respea;---it would have it still farcher effeo, !hat 'of convineing the other Powers - of Europe, that they may safely join :sills us in a ,t.totnnion cause- of resistance, against the COMMOr, ElViitY, lot that the resoutees of this Ceuta. try were suck as to give lull security for the pun dual discharge of any engagement it might enter into, and. it WWI an obi,a,l'or %%Celt he liattin view some provisions,- lie would not fatigue the, Comn:,ztee; by "staring all the , ade e nitages of such a q.stOm ; they %vete sad) As the necessity of the times•exatled of us,. , told etforts were to he found itifearlY. pc hisiory....iic desired the Ctoannit tee to lOok at the mode adopted for raising the ;;opplies fOrthe Setvice of the ' they Would tnikon Land a conliderabie - duty imposed, :as well As upon PersOnal Proetrty. They .I.V Mild fold,. tit an eat ly orlott of our - :,l listens, - ttixes „were raised within the yearou all descriptions of property, de. scenting even to t he -waged of Servants. 't'o stilts: trine thistle would refer to ,thc times. of King 'Wil« liain'and que en . An n e, 'when the Funding: Sy4teM was first introduced ; let it be recolleCted, that, thio not only in tiwpourid on Land was imposed, but M s ° 5 05 '. per Cent on stock in trade; 5-44ies, dice Si-perquisites or pensions ;:4.5, in the pound on :all a ntal jtjeran4 pensions, and An persons olany, profe,sion Vier:i.qtargcd in the pound for thatWhiCh :vas received or - got hi, any 'pratitceS, or emolument whomever. It was w be reeollected that thOe time h a hlusigh they WCKC Attilitjtlik),.4llsl the- ObjeA .whist! wt Avert• then contending Wu., considejablei_ yet they Were minor to the objects which We had now ,in view, ani therefore the ex. ertions which we now made . ought to be so'intich - the •greater. That was a great and a glorious lieriod in the History of this CoUntry, but not so great as the present, the contest being Very difir. eat, for the present e;mtest was tbr the".'existence of this Country as a free State,' and the .question :now was, whether we should maintain :tad support that existence, or whether we should abandon tlie . 'People of this Land is a prey to tite Frenelt? lItY then proceeded to shevi that cur rospeds with re. `Ord to Revenue, Were Most flattering. Ichadbeen increasing progressively front the year 1792, to the year 1803. inrthe year 1792 the permanent taxes were 4,260,0001. .lint, , on the eth of. April 1803; the permanent taxes of that period were 1 5 , 99 4, 00 0`, increasing in those eleven years, in permanent upieards of 1,700,3Q31; ; but this was not all, the perminent taxes' of this Country Which hoh been imposed during the War, had been produEtive ire a'rt equal degree. In the year. 1793 they greatly ex. serried the amount of the charges for which they were proitivd. The taxes of the last year were levied' for the purpose of providing,for a charge:of. 3,200,0001. and they had been found to yield a y cultic. of iive Millions ; nor was he speaking this upon conjedure, for the ground of this ealeulation he now held it his Ii d. 'There was-an Increase in the last year, of 1,,t00,0601. beyond the amount of the charge for which the ' faxes were raisech--- . During that period, and even at the present me. Tnent,, we Ii id inereitsed, and were inereasing.in our internal strength ; ise. had no only increased last rear, as a year Of Peace, i b.ut it was evident we had ireen inereasing from year to year, from 1792 dowyr to the present time, even in a period cat w ar ' neither was this: Speaking on conteCture,' for it was manifest,, by the A.:eounrs which were now upon the Table, the pat t ionlars of which 'lte - would, not now t . :-.c..pitulate. \Ve had besides •this, and whleh was i nu:Lc conF,olaiory prospeO, the be; nefit of the.ope6tion . of (h nat ,greit System, that: shcet.anchor thisCountry,the,sytitem which li:id b . ...en long adopted :for the gradual reduaiOn of Ihe Debt, which was a eapitai.opration for the litmefit ot the Publie, an opmEion which carried with it Lids singular' advantage., that ;t executed its pttr. fOr our reliej it, proportion to our pri,:surr, ani its . operation Wr,s fel t ever; daring the \Vtr and if the .term which was now about to re- commend should be anotial, we should not only . provide fir our expenditure within the year., .but arc Shpuld have a gradual diminution, even tiering the War, of the Public Pcbt. Now he apprehended that in the supporf of •surn a system, all descrip. nuns and classes of the Community are 'interested ; .he hod therefore thought it incumbent on him to piopose such modes for raising the . SupPlies.as Were likely• to be en - canal, even though lie knew pan of them, - would hear hard on that part of the Corn.', miuiity, which It shoidd rejoice to spare: but Striae. Were eireninstances in which; they were involved, and so well convinced were all classes of the'ehrtirminity of the neeessi.ty of making great ex. erti'onS at the nr.y..lt mamenz, that he was per. suaded.the poutest in the City:try felt a deer) interest in our present 'Contest, and that he, wo:ild readily yield a r 'of his, present eittariee, rather than see his 'Country trampled tan ; for , the ei,k-ist ion now was t.iral every Peasant in the Conn. try I.vas efilv ince& of it, as well as .tbos6, of the; highe:tir rank), whether •Grcat ,Britain shall con.. (mile tier present power - and 'estithatir.m in the Scale of Nations.; or make an item in rheCatalugue of the Cotiquests of France : he was theretrire p re , pared not only to express hone, ,but a Oat lent ex, peaation, that all classes of rheCotninunity would see the necessity of: our preparing not only for a vigorous, but also fOr a protracted War. It was on thin principle that he proposed the present mea. sures. He remembered what ,had been said by a GREAT Pe ksoN upon a former. occasion, when , he was'asked, what interest a person who was reading a liana, by a taxed rialr-light, had in Maintaining a share in the Balance of the Pbwer of Europe ? To which he answered, that the Troportion he paid of tush-light, and his paper was what he Celt ro be no,more than his share, in preserving his rights, to enjoy them and all the oth,:r advariLiges which btr, longed :to freedom, Nor would he hurt the feelings. of e:.;'enti;:3ll:n, by soppo%i4% they did not feel it ;is - much “s he did ; tipF he Ltlieve that thelower orders pc the People irm.glited that the) Were not a, deeply • inierestek: as the 11Wi,!r, in the present con. . _ test he bdicveJ, indeed, that the lower classes of the Community felt more mirinth in the sent cage •thall'tll,mly Ccntletnen imagined, for must 64..! remcmlicred that the miss of both the Army and Navy were c mpnsc.d of thernswtlt) tha( to their ctertiOns WaS owirig conjnn,±tio with 'the skill,of their Ciimmliniel-')..our vitiviies by a Nelson and an Abergoinht. Nor mu t he, cver tor et th!it it wit; tO their :irclor and enthusiasm th everY thing wa9 anti inust ccaiinne to be owing. therefore nitnit slit*Yi . he . athnitted, that the towvr ehtssts of the Community have a deer interca, and he was perstWed they had a feclingfor the welfare 91 . their Countq, It crab with this anripent with this f= cling,' that he ecntured to*commend the adoption or measures which muit fail in some degree hard upon that of the Community. \\*holier the system hi slitmld appeir pratiti9ble, would for thv wtsdom of the H to d.stermine ; bite,-it 11,,a I , lthoed tns,u earne:t.t oo I.art to diffuse. Oiler every pint of the Cutitutu,li:t', the, burtions must be n o w borne, not to aff3l 7 3any ground of complaint to any class, that they were disproportionably burthened, ncith, , r one class improperly pressed upon, nor ;mod sr totproperly.!eared. He had en. deavoured to in)ke all contribute their just propos , tion, but he did not call upon the rich, for such a system would be impradicable. To be effioirut, the impost must be general, and must be maid. to . aft :41 all classes and descriptions of persons in the Country. It hail been expetted, that whenever applications wert made to the liberality of Parliament for large Supplies to support Govern ment, -something should be said on the conduft of such Government. He way, aware, ho.vever, the Committee= would not cxpea tram him many decla. rations on this subjea. He felt it a duty to 1114ke gttat exerttun. ousted 1: would appear iron