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London, England, 1822-05-10 00:00:00

The Marquis of LONDONDERRY raid, 'bat there wet
the less reason for the Member for Dull permuting to hos
motion to night, bemire there wad a propostliun befoie
Parliament which caatemplated a rensisaroo of taus He
would do well therefore to wait rot the general view winch
the Government seeM have to tale of the ',object ; (..c
otherwise each member thinning a repeal would have the
same right to pat his favourite tax sir Issue,. whet. moue of
them might suit that general view which the Government
would take.
Mr M. W. RIDLEY added his prayer to that of the
Noble Laid, that his Hoe Frielid would delay his motion,
sod let them gs Mika the Committee un the Report.
Mr. SYKES bad acted according to the sense of dray tie
felt towards his constitute's; but ea be knew the
of addressing an uuwilliog andienee, be most, however re-
luctantly, abandon his insertion, sod put off his motion till
Friday, the 17th of May.
Lord ALTHORP hoped it world be allowed precedence
of all other motious fixed foe that day.
Mr. *SKIER said that he could tint cosseist to &lay with-
eat that wadasteadiae.
The 'Marrieds of LONDONDERRY said, the Hon. Mere -
har treaM he more secure c,, the preorotiog day, as the is .-
portant motion of his Right Hun. Friend, oo Trade Rego!, s-
norts, stood for Friday.
Afire some conversation between Mr. G. Bennett, N !r.
Peel, Mr. Careen, Mr. Bright, and Mr. Ellice, it was y u-
dersibod that the amitioti of Mt. Sykes was to have per _ca-
dence oo the 17th May.
AGRICULTURAL DISTRESS. :
The Order of the Day for revutaifig the cone few
'lion of the Report was then read,
Before the SPRARRR left the Chair,
Mr. DENISON said, that not having expressed his
sentiments on this subject in the course of the
cession, and having presented a Petition from I he
once opulent and now diatressed county of. Surrey§ , he
would trouble the House for a few minutes. Hew • as
convinced that the cause of all their evils was u n-
bounded taxation, aggravated by a rapid restricts nu
of the currency under the Ball of 1819, As to t he
question of the circulating medium, the Mehl. ..ef
fur Essex had given notice of a motion on that in
jeer, and therefore he would reserve what he had to
say upon it till then. But the unbounded boil! of
paper io 1797, not called fur by the necessisidi of
the country, and the hasty adoption of the mean are
of 181 y, operating upon an enormous amount of
taxation, these were the sources of the evile.• KM
would implore the Noble Marquis to var. „blis
attention to the pressure of those taxes, sob teh
were weighing down all classes of the Covol 17.
The Government might keep faith with the fat 4..
holder, and yet by takiug millions of the lit air.
ing fund, together willi sonar economy adopted in
the collection, save etiough to be able to repeal • the
salt, soup, candles, sod leather taxes, which not ild
give material relief to Agriculture. He linet:it
to say, that instead of looking to a real reducti
of the burdens, each party seemed anxious to sit de
the toad from their own shoulders to othe:r. .is
forcibly brought to his mind the remark 1* 1b sd
heard from a Itiend of his, who had at from Ben 0-•
noarchuis, the great French dramatist, just belt, 'e.
the Revolution-4hat there was uo one class arson g
them but was trying to shift the burdens (tot
their own shoulders. lie believed that if a's apprsil
were to be made Dankly to the justice and honour
of the country, they would each come forward must
undertake their lair share of the burdens. • -
The House theta resolved itself tutu Committee-.
Lord ALTHORP • •id that he would p,ti:nise
amendment. 'flue Hon. 'Member fur Portuibt‘gion •
proposed a duty of Otis. on impoiting, to decrease
by Is. on each rise until it fell to lOs., where it ass
to be stationary ; he also propored a bounty of 7..
on exporting. He (Lord A ithorp) would urryote
a bounty of lb% tau with a fiscal duty of
2Or. on importing, as better ar,reen's with the
expenses of cultivation anal produce.
Mr. RICARDO had expected the rapport of his
Noble Friend_, because he agreed with hum in tine
prinCiplea upon which he ( %tr. Ricardo) had f•tirLe.l
his calculations. The :Noble Lord how thought
himself jurtutied in n'oposing a bounty of 18,
though he had adaoted that it should not go be-
yond the proportion of taxes which bore peculiarly
on agricultore. There was no very great objection
to it io practice, as it would not be found fir-
queutly in orrationt but it was against evict
and was so fir objectionable. They were
ell agreed on the effeis of indirect taxation.
had been assumed that aviculture was more af-
fected by it than other commodities. It *night be
true in degree, but the effect was greatly aggravated.
A distinction was halm as to the difference betweeo