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A CASE OF REAL. DISTRESS, THE WIDOW of it CLERGYMAN of the Clvire.:h of England, who has recently lost her Hus band, is under the -painful necessity of appealing io the Generosity the, Charitable and -Humane, and solielting. their Benevolence. By giving up all her Furnitureand other Effeas, she has been enabled to pay the Creditors or her late 'Husband, but she is, thereby left destitute of the common necessaries of life ;• while, she has looking to her for support an aged Mother, a widowed Aunt,.and an infant Son, and besides large with child herself. For the Donations she has already received shereiums her . . most grateful Thanks ; and Ole begs to acquaint_the Public, that Subscriptions for her further relief will be received by Messrs. Davison and Co. Bankers, No. 34, Pall-Mall ; by .Mess - Ts. Puget', Bainbridge, and Parnell, College of Physi ciani, Warwick.lane ; and at Messrs.' Atkins!, No. 7, Wal . * brook, Where particulars of her distressed situation may be .known. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF PEERS. MONDAY, APRIL 28. • The 3,000,0001. Exchequer Bills Bill,the Tea Duty Bill, the Irish Bank Note Bill,, and the Irish House Tax Repeal Bill, passed through Cornmittees; and were reported.. - Earl G4EY (late,Lord Grey) was introduced be tween the-Earl of Buffolk 'and The Earl of RosslYn.. • His Patent of. Creation having been read at the Ta -ble, his Lordshipjpok the Oaths and his seat. Mr. WkILTBREAD, and several other Members of the House of Commons, brought up a Message Containing a further List of Witnesses to be examined on the - Trial ofLord , Visoount.Melville.' . : - Mr. ALEXANDER, SFr R. VAUGHAN, Lord STAN LEY, Mr. ESTCdURT, 'and several other Members of the House of Commons, brought up the Customs Dut i .y lill,.the.Tobacco and "Snuff Duty 'Bill, -and several -private Bills ; -which were severally read a firit time. Earl . SPENCER -presented the First Report of the Commiwioners , foe revising and digesting the Civil Aliairs of the Navy; which was ordered to be Fluted. • The Bill for building a new Gaol in the City of Cork was read' a second time, and orddred to be committed. - -'• • •_ IMPEACHMENT - OF ..• .I,ord' . At•scru.Aci itiOVed to striEtly forbid the pub lication of the Proceedings on . the -Trial of Lord 'Viscount;ivielville, and that notice thereof should be Fix - ed on the doors of the House, and on` the doors „.. of - West i - ntrwter. •.. • , The ,Dui e of, NoßroLx'fasked if there was any • prtcedent for,such a•Motion ,? • • • ' Lord AtickLANTi replied in the negative; but ar gued that such a regulation. was called for by reason and justice, as nothing could. be. naore unjust than that an't!.x park statement:. should go forth to the world; Which might eventually 'be - completely an- . sl:vered,- bnt which, in the mean time, during the progress of the Trial , might create 'a very unfavour able impression against the individualaccused: • LordELnozsr concurred entirely in opinion with the Noble. Lordas to the,propriety and justice Of with— holding, from the public,' during a Trial,,statements tending, to -establish an apparent guilt, although the individual - - accused, miffht be enabled to. prove his innocence, and ultimately' be acquitted. He.thOught, however, that by the terms of the,Motion, the pub lication of the Trial' would be precluded after its . conclusion, which; of course, was not intended. • Lon{ TiAWICES.BURY also concurred in the ob-, jest of the Motion, but wished to ifisert words in 'order to avoid the prohibitiOn of the publication of the Trial - after its.conclusion, • , - • • , - - The LORD CHAziaEr.,i.oit stated, that through mis take, in copying' the Motion, the words " during the•sarae" had been left out. • • - After some further conversation, the Motion, thus amended; prahibjting'the publication of the proceed rngsduring, the trial; was . ,agreecl to: lord AUCKLAND "afterwards • made two Motions for regulating the delitierY of tickets for the trial, ac cording - to which those Peers only were to entitled to tickets who were Members of the House. - • '• The Duke of Noßroi.:K • thought there would a,hardsiiip resulting-from this •to afew,Peers who had not token their seats, end who would be thereby excluded -froiu having.iickets Be therefore moved to substituto, that those Peers should have tickets who were entitii l. to seats in •the - House. • . Some - con versatiOn ensued between Lord Ahckland, Lord Hawkesbury, and . the•Dhke of Norfolk . ; after %,k hich.the Amendment was' negftived, and •the ori . real Motion carried., ,Lord ELDON adverted to the s'ubje4. which, he , th mentioned oh_Friu,ay, retative toat. part of the Re-. i;crf respeaing the ceremonial to be observed on 'the Trial of• Lord Viscount :Melville; which stated. that, on giving, judgment,: each P.eer was to say— Guilty," or “ Not Guilty, upon my honour." Flis Lordship repented -bis-objeaion to the tenth judg rrr•ht, 'which 'certainly did not .apply,'_that being a iiroceeding which; must be settled by- a irate of the aecording - toihe.usual form of "-Content," or Not C3ntent," arkl . the judgment to be deliver ed by their pears Fe ..somc. - ,-.other mode •should be adopted 'of. st'ating : that pa - rt of 'the.cere-, I e objt;:aed, and he there: - ore.Mby, ed.: to' rescind it, in - . order , to:substitute, on , a-fu ture - day, some other form . more . analogous to the 1. • rre.l nature of the ,proceeding. Earl SPENCLI concurred. in the objeaiou made by_ the Noble . add Learned Lord.: Although:the forth' used in the' -ceremonial' Was _conformable to precedent; it 1,-,•as, certa'rplyinconsistent With the na ture-of the preeding •desigpated, such proceeding. being more iti , the nature ,of a • N:ercli4 -than giving judguAt.', argued on the propriety of respirid=. • -thatpart of the ceremonial, and afterwards de vising some (laic'. Mode of stating the - form. • " The_ Motion : was agreed to.--Adjourried till to ; morrow '(this day). • • , , HOUSE OF . Ca:WU - ONE: . MONDAY, 'APRIL 28. • Mr, C.W. - :WyNNE - prese.). - ited an "ticount of the Number of Volunteer .oa:et's above the, Rank of Cap-tain who have, had Corpn,ilssions during the pre-, sent War, distinguishing their Rauk. _" • . • A PerSoli front' the fay-offici. presented an . Ac count of all the Sums issued by the Paymaster-Ge peral on account of -the Volunteers during — tie pre (...1.1r Wol-. Ori the Motion ofGeneral TARLEToN,this . yaper was ordered to be printed. - - • • ' TRIAL OF LORD MELVILLE. The SP.BAKE4 inforMed - the. House, that to rr:Jrrow being -Timed on . for the Trial of Henry Lord Viscount Melville, it was his intention to come to the House•at ten o'cloek in the Morning, that he .might be. ready, if there was a sufficiency of Mem bers, to take the Chair at. a: ettarter paseten ; when he should dispatch the Serjeant at Arms to clear the, .passage. - 'Precisely at half paSt :ten: he should pro ; ceed to - the Bar, when the,Mernbers.would be called over according to their Counties, and . would follow, him in orderly procesSionio : Westminster Hall. The LORD ADVOCATE of SCOTLAND waved his notice of a Motion kelativi" to . • the Payment of the .Salaries to the Commissaries of Edinburgh ourof the Scotch. Civil Establishment, till Wednesday. The SECRETARY at WAR moved for an Account of the Number of effee.tiva‘Men, and of Recruits, raised for Great Britain, for unliinited .service, for the month of March, 1806.- 77 -Ordered. He immediately brought up an Account of the number of Men so raised for the years 1 - 803-4-5-6, I and for .the month of March, 1806 ; which was or dered to be printed. • . Lord St. Vincent's Annuity Bill, and the Longi . tude Bill, were read as third. time and passe:t• The Repott of the Committee Of Supply being brought up, . . Lord GIRLIES rose, not (he said) to giVe any Unnecessary trouble, btit, as the Noble Lord ,Vad-ex 7 7- presed his inclination to hear with pleasure and re ceive with attention any suggestions which - might be offered, topropOse tWoAtnendments, the one of which \• he had himself already alluded to, and' the other of 'Which proceeded' rather froth what had fallen from the Noble Lord. The first of these Aruendtpents re- - garded an addition to the pay of First : Lieutenants of Ships ofthe Line, includingfifties, who atpresent,ancl by the rate introduced by the Noble- Lord, Nyere,.to, stand.on no better a .footing than the other Lieute , tenants. This addition; •he -propesed, should -ofily go to those: Lieutenants Wht, had a seniority' of-six yeari and 'the rate he should propose above the 'allowance -to other Lieutenants was is. per day, • being an expence to Government of not more than five or six pounds . per day. :The pradice, he stated, during the naval Administration of a Noble .Lorc4 whose .careful attention to the interests of the:Navy was universally admitted (Earl SPencer), had been t 0 'employ as First - Lieutenant, only such Officers as had a Seniority of six years. While he was at the Navy Beard he had carefully attended to this diitin6lion,-which he knew to be highly gratifying to the feelings of the Officers: The other point to which he Wished to call the attention of the Noble Lord.,•was that of the Petty- Officers . . .The Noble Lord had stated it to' be his wish, not to confine this class of persons to ,their present number.. If increas ed, however, the way in which they at present existed, he was afraid some inconvenience might re sult. ' 'He should therefore recommend, that ii new: class be introduced among the Petty Officers, under the description of Quarter-gunners. :These men :formed the prime-sailors of the British Navy, and he shOUld propose. that' one be appointed to every fourth gun, being to a ship of 100 guns an addition of 25 men- of this description. There was still another sub je& to which he begged .to call the attention of the House. . This was, as a sufficient encouragement, in many instances, had not been held out to Petty - Qfficers, that the Out-pension of Green should be granted to their widows, mo thers, or orphans, in cases where they should chance to be wonnded, or loSe their lives, in thp service of their Country. After' stating that. he was attuated, by no party feeling of opposition in pfoposing the Pre-' sent. Amendments, but that on the contrary he. had. fermerly submitted his Sentinients on the subje& to the consideration of the First Lord of his Lordship concluded by Moving his .first Amend ment. . . ' The SrEAKEE•suggested'to the Noble Lord ; that this could be only effeeled by moving a, Resolution; specifying that the gross sum which it.was wished should go. to effeet the obje6l of the Motion, should -he put at the command of His Majesty. Lord HOIVICK, after thanking the Noble Lord ,for the pains he had taken in the_ business, -begged to doubt the necessity, or even Kopriety, of the amendments suggested by him. He had .never yet heard that any greater responsibility attached to, First Lientenants of a Line-of-battle Ship than ,to those of a Frigate. In many instances, he .was cer tain the labour was infinitely less.. Neither did he -understand that First Lieutenants formed a separate and distinet class.; . lar - lesg 'than six years seniority was necessary to procure .thein such - a situation. If the last requisite were proper, he thoughtit . should be at once declared that none else could be First Lientenants. Itwas well known, too, that, from , Onvenience to the.services, frcim the will of the 'Ad miral, Bce. a person . Who -was First Lieutenantof a Ship . tO.::clay might be Second ;Lieutenant of her to morrow. -SO in this'way the distinction proposed by - ,the Noble LOrd vVonlil be of prejudice. That, how eVer, First : Lieutenants had great advantages over other Lieutenants, was'• to be seen in the facility of -acquiring rank.. For instance, in the battle of Tra falgar, 'and in' ihat .lately :gained . by-Sif J. 'Duck; worth,,every First Lieutenant had .been promoted the rank of Master and Commander 'As to the second .proposal of the Noble Lord, respealpg avaiter Tiers, the - 1\;ohle Lord had misunderstood his -mean ing- .as to the - number of- Petty Officers-which -he proposed adding. His cbjeet 'only. was to make the% number, on .an average,. ten to each Ship, being to thelarger,Ships; probably .15, and to the smaller in proportion. The estimates `he had moved for would iii :no resPeet admit of the addition proposed by the Noble' Lord. The Resolutions passed in the Committee; were then pit and agreed to. A Message was received from the,Lords; stating . that they :had given directions for summoning the Witnesses on -the Trial of Lord, Melville, agreeably i to the request of the Commons. _ Mr. KER rhoved that there be laid before the Haase an Accoutt of the Amount of. Exemptions on Funded Property, Stock in the East India and, South Sea Funds, allowed to Foreigners ,under the Pfoperty Ta,c Act ; stating it,as his reason that he thought it unjust - that such exemption "should con tinue. • • Lord HEARTPETIT did not objet to the Mo tion; but thought, at the same time,`. that it would be unwise-to extend the A& to for'eigners, • Mr. YiOSE thought, to subjea'foreigners to, pay a tax . of 1.0 per Gent. cm the prdpacty'bOd by thew in our funds, would haw the eded of making. theta' , . _ immediatelywithdpw it. Mt. FRANCIS wished to knew.whetheilt was pes sible for people, in the - situatioa described, to nn a'place where to deposit their money with equal security. He thought the prop erty of Foreigners in the Funds were equally liable -to the Tax •as that of SithjeEts of-this. Country. - The Tax was imposed for the prote& ipn of that part of the Funds belong irig to Foreigndis as: Well as that belonging to our Own SubjeEts. . After a, few words from Mr. HusxtssoN, the Mo tion was agreed to. . Lord HENRY PETTY gave..notice that he should on Friday next move for leave to bring in a Bill for the better Regulating the Office of Receiver-General of the Customs. • MARQUIS'W.ELLESLEY. Mr. PAULL moved that the Charge which he had preferred against 'Marquis Wellesley be read. The SPEAKER twice inquired Who seconded the Motion. When, after same pause, Mr. MARTlti.seconded the Motion. • It was then put and negatived, Mr. PAULL rose, not to cast any refleCtions on the course which the - House had thought proper to adopt, but to expresS his convi&ion that many dis passionate men, both in the House and hi'the Coun try, would long have cause - to regret that the'Order of the'House for printing his Charge had been.re scinded. He asserted his right to stand.forward as the.public accuser of Marquis Wellesley; and de clared that 'he felt that he deserVed well Of . the Country fOr having done so, instead' Of having' Me rited the aspersions which had been cast upon him. It had ',been said that he brought forward, this Charge, at his peril. This was extraordinary 'lan :guagb., - He knew it was at'his peril, but what'Weeld . • the' House , have. thought .the; 'accuser of Lord .Melville- had been toldt : that be .brought forward,his, Charge 'at his peril?-For his part he • ..ti: i 4 be; - lieved, notWithstatiding, the treatment that lie had experienced, that thoogh . Marquis ,Wellesley . 144 taken_ sanctuary in the, bosoms. of His -Majesty nisters, yet he would not escape with imliut~it r. In the line of 'condifEt Whieh lie had "puFsued, was justified by precedents,. several; .of which -he. `aettuced (among,the rest an Order of the House,_ . dated the 12 th of Decethber, 1 i . S7 , to print the se veral Charges preferred againsi The proofs of his Charge were now.in the: hands:of the Members, but the .notoriety, of the facts. on. ' .which- it was founded intitled 'him ) :in his opinion, to have it printed even before those proofs had-been . brought forward. The Hon. ,Gentleman ~here en tered into' a very long and circumstantial detail. of the several articles .Of his Charge, and concluded by moving, That the Charge be printed. - " Dr. LA IFRENCR , seconded-the Motion—not as matter of charity but of justice. ..The printing .of the Charge, was purely for the convenience of the Members, and was, of Course", within the discre tion of the" House. 'He hoped; -howiever, that the Hon. Gentleman would not -press ":hisMotion until the Papers upon which it was to be supported should be before the House, when the Charge and the Evi dence might be printed together. Mr. PAULL detnanged that, the Charge should be printed. . Marquis DOUGLAS thought that there were .great and manifold evils in India, and'whether the' fault rested with the GoVernor-General, the - Board of Controul, or the,. Court of Dire&ors, pledged himself to . support the investigation, so far as relates to India, in order,as ait Hon. Member (Mr. Francis) had. said they would be soonealled. on to do, to pra te& England against India. ; Mr. SHERIDAN was surprizecl that the Hon. • Gentleman who had brought thrward -this Motion should rejeEt - the temporary opposition of his 'Hon. and Learned Friend. He contended that it-was the. right, of any' Member of that House to give' in his Charge, but thought, though there.' were ptecedents on both sides, that the better mode of proceeding would have been either . .by a. previons'Committee, or by produCing preliminary evidence. :If, as the :Hon. Gentleman had said, the Papers,which he had moved,for, in number forty, and' those moved for by another Hon. Member, forty ...more, should be produced in a-day or two, he should not then" have any objeetion to the Motion of the Hon. Gentleman' - ter printing. the Charge with tlie Papers. • • Ah:. LEE proved, by a reference to the Journals, tfiat in tip. one of .the Precedents aave r ted to by - the Hon. Gentleman had the Charge been printed. bel • fore either a previous inquiry or pieliminary evidence. laid the foundation for it. . Mr. Secretary - WINDHAM thought "it of portance that. they should not narrow - the grc:anids of the Impeachment, or tie themselveS down within the confined limits of precedents. There were.hut 15 or 16, precedents on the and these could not apply to every possible ",.case. In his opi 7 . - nion every case ought to rest . ifs - own :..bottom: He had been shocked when he heard of the manner in which the Hon. Gentlerrian had 'been discounte nanced and diScouraged, and ridiculed even with unseemly jests, on a former Occasion. As a Met tber of that House, be, had a right to have his Charge re-: . ceived, and a day appointed f6r tal:ing - , it into consi deration. 'By this he . .did not mean ihe,Sligt;teSt.r. implication of what might be the'final result.: he could have wished. that the Hon.' „Member , had agreed to the 'proposition of his - Learned Friend; but as the Honourable -Member persevered in his Motion, he, should feel 'himself• bound to vote for it. . , Mr. Secretary FOX. agreed with his Aight Friend, that it was the undoubted right of any Mem ber to prefer a Charge to the House. But in bring ing forward this. Charge without: any , evidence, ,or notice of such evidence, the Hon.' Gentleman ap peared to him to have aaed InjUdiciously.' If be meant fairly,.he could surely have .no' reasonable oh jeelion to defer. his Motion for printing the Charge' till the papers. containing the evidence. were pro, duced, He agreed that every case - Should rest on its own bottom. After the Hon.. Gentleman had' moved for.So many volumes Of Papers ten months ago, why. : t had he brought forward a Charge which no one of them can support ? As the, papers were likely . to he soon produced, he thought the question in issue of . little consequence, and.should certainly vote for the printing-the charge.' :Here he could not but notice' the lauguage'nsed by the Hon..ll , lerribet Which .was very unusual in that Heuse. -The tr.:to deManded that his 'dial-6.e should-: - be . printed. , F I,he quytionof pritu!ing m'as there' matter of ftirth for the House, and he knew not of finy right Member had to demand it. If the Houso-, should to th.o priiiiing it, it' would be tompeteut to any - Member •who .might think that any mischief arjse - fi . oril 014 putiiio,ing of It, to' move that care should be taken tilikt the Charge shou hl b 3 ed in the regular way for the convenience Of Meni bers., He thought the House ought to adopt some mode olobtaining.sonie repose from those perpetual 'debatei - on the subje& of these Charges, by coming' soon to the, consideration of some of them. He wished theklon. Member to follow the example of . Mr. Ettike,and. those who conducted theJmpeach'. - merit of Mr. Hastingt.who carefullrabstaiOct from any. discussion of the Merit's till - the Charges were brinviht forward. Sir ARTHUK . IPEL.J;:E S LEI: was. - .of _opinion, according to theprecedentswh lay had been, correet 7. , ly explained by • The . . Learned Member (Mr, Lee), v: that the prOduaion of evidence ought to precede the • 'Motion for printing the. ,Oharge.- If. the printing was intended to, bring the whole case under the consideration , of the House, that could not be done till the evidence should be produced. The Hon, Baronet then read some extraEts from the document which had beep adverted to as supporting the charge, to shew.. that the Court 'of DireCtorF bad approved of the conduct of,. Marquis Wellesley, which was now made matter of charge., As to the attempts that had.been made to implicate himself, he should only. say that he had obeyed his orders, and , would be ready to answer to the House, or any'other ootn• petent authority ; -for his eonduel. Dr. LAIVREITCE dec/ared his, intention of support ing the Molion, as the liOn,,Member persevered in .it. - , • Mr, PERCIVAL', thought. that as *the . printing of Papeni \S'asfgr - tW CoitvenienCe of the House, it WaS- Ipeiletalir Within its dlscr rion tti - akree or not to the Motion. IN . To case had made,. in to warrant . ; the House jh - departing 'froarlhe'course it....had al readl; adopted. inclifiafion of his .mind-was, that the conv e nien c e was on the side of resisting thy . ..Motion, :An d that ground he should oppose it. ' - 'Lord HglirOc PITY agreed that it 'would have ;beenutore•for the, C: tOtiVeiiience of the Hottie• if :the Hon. Gentleman - 114 d acceded to the•propoSition of. • his Learned:Trienlf:' ' - gut the question appeared to him ofArifling signification. If the Mcitiori 'Shoal& he agreed to,, ...theH6.;se Would not thereby adopt ;the change; it would still-be the a& of the indivi dual. He should, hoWeve; -- , - have been glad_ if the question for printing the.. Charge had. not • been brought forward. - - - Mr: ..1311-AGGE • BATHURST moved-- the-- Previous Question. • mr. CORRY seconded the Motio,n; Mr, Wm as heliacl on . a - foriner occasion 'voted agamk , tor printing .the Charge,. should now vote for, the Erevious Question. Mr. JoHNsToNE lamented, sincerely the course that had been '-followed by the Ron.- Gentleman.— The • House would - be involved in inconsistency by rescinding its voteief Friday. He should, therefore, not give any vote, On.the present Question, -which .he foresaw would be decided in favour of the tion.. - • MI. GRANT stated his intention of giving a most decided negative to the Motion. After a few 'observations from Sir ARTHUR WELT LESLEY Mr. WIND H AM (who a c c e d e d to th e Pre vious duestion), and Mr. SHERIDAN, th e M o ti ort for the Previous Question was withdrawn ' - after which the Hon. M em b er (M r . PAULL) obtained per, mission to withdraT his Motion also. _ The Gallery was • clared for a Division on. the .Previous Question ; but Mr. BATHURST and Mr, PAtiLL consented to withdraw their Motions, an 4 the Houge did not divide_ RUN DUTY. IJpou the d‘lotion for the second reading of the Iron Duty Bill.. Mr. ROSE stated several objeaions to the naea.e - ,sure. The drift of the Right Hon. Ge n tl eman ' s ar gument was, that the proposed ' Tax would operate against the Iron- Manufacture, and against the Ex, port. Trade of such articles, but particularly against, Agricalttire, the interests of which would, he con 7 tended, be muCh , m6re affe&ed by this Tax than by .t at -with Tespea to Horses last year, whi c h w as sci unjustly abused. The latter would, he was per-. ;.suacled, hap . been much leSs oppressive upon Agri, 'cultnre, and at the same time much more produdivq to the• Revenue, than the.proposed . 'ax on Iron. LordRENRY PETTY was aware of the pro, priety of fully inquiring into this subject. The statements which, are afloat respeaitig. it be halt seep. They were, particularly upon the subje& of Agriculture, intitlea to attention; but they were, for the most parf, very much Over-rated. However, In order that time should be afforded for the ample investigation - 2respeding• every _interest concerned, the Noble Lord stated his intention of postponing the committal of this Bill until Friday, and that no thing else should interfere with the Jliscassion, he would propose to postpone the Ordef r el a ti ve to the Property Tax until Monday. , Sir J. IFROTTES LEY remarked upon the pro.! posed Dedu&ions in the. Tax. - with respe& to Iron used for the Ordnanae, the Vianallifig:arld the Navy Department's. Lord HENRY PETTY read 'a Paper containing a Statement of the ;estimated quantity of .Iro n liable to this proposed deduaion ; but. read. it so'rapidly, and in so low a tone; that .we could not precisely coilea the particulars. The Noble Lord concluded with stating, that the an - kiln - it of the proposed draw - - back iivobld be at the rate of four pounds per ton. • Mr. WILBEAFoitcp \vas :of opinion that. the Tax under consideration 'would 'l:‘,e materially injurious to the Revenue. 1111 i WARD. also spoke against it, as did Mr:' I. H. nROWNE; who said that he would have objealed, to the Tax upon the first proposition of it. if it were not for his reluaance to'oppose 'a plan of taxation foUnded generally upon the views and system of his late Right Hon. Friend, the predecessor of the Noble Lord. . ' . • Lord A. HAMILTON stated. his perempfory in . struftions from the County he represented, and that it was,his determined resolution to oppose this Tax Mr. VANSITTAIp. obSefVed that four pounds per ton would be theaverage drawback. _ _ ,Mr. CANNING considered this Tax as derogatory to the leading and predominant principle of taxa tion, and hoped before the subje& should come again under discussion' the Noble Lord would think of a proper substitute for it. The Right Hon. Gentleman was persuaded, that the Tax on horses employed in husbandry, which had been Alluded to, would be much more eligible, for. alp Tax before the House was to be imposed at once upon all the instrument s of War and all the implements of iudustry.