The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1819-11-16 00:00:00

" TO TUC RICHT PIONOURAULR TO/ LORD MOTOR

it tr.: the •ttdersiypeed Liverymen of ...., having
learned wills surprise diet the Court of Aldermen have adopt_
.d twins nteesercir respecting she pruucerdsnt of She lest
C usonion Hell, deeply affecting the rithls seal privileges of
sue o'uole burly of the tivrty, earnestly tall 1111011 voor
I.ord.hin to reureste a COlllllllOl.l Hall as early as pusoushie,
fur she plumpest of esteshiceing Out saw, mid adopting such
messercs thereon es may be deemed iteeessary."
There were about 150 respectable signatures to
tlsia Itetitsisition. Amongst those who wailed epos
the Lott% Mayor, were Airman. Yowler. Taylor,
Hewitt, and Stephenson.

The LORD MAYOR, upon reading the Requisi•
tint,. slid—

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" GVIITLEMEXAS I have hut vrry lately entered wpon
ray office, which you are aware is one of great reaponaihility,
I feel it orreasary, before I return you au answer, to consult
with wome of my (6...4., rxperienCe is treater than
mine hag Inset), and upon whoa'. inilemeist I have the utmost
►eliance. In a couple of hoary I shall be ready to deliver
1.1 von my answer, and shall evteena it a favour if you will
evil upon me at the expiration of that lime:.

The Deputation then withdrew, and at three
r'ilork they returned. They were received with
marked respect by his Lordship, who add r d
them in the following terms:—
" GENTLIMEMI-1 have given ritte consideration to the
*object upon which you have addressed me. and consulted
wish my experienced friends upon the prop iety IS calling a
Commas Hall. lam happy to inform you that the opinions
which I have received are in unison with my own, and that
I shall, agreeably to your application, the Hall"
Mr. lixwirr—" Upon what day, my Lord,
shall we expect to hare the Hull ?" _ . .

The Loan MAYOll—=. The press of business is
at present so great. that I apprehend we cannot
hue it sooner than the latter end of the week."

blr.Vowutit said, the, in his opinion, the Meet-
ing could not. with propriety, be delayed bevond
Thursday or Friday, the subject being one of the
greatest consequence to the Li►ery.
The LORD MATOR—" Then, Gentlemen, let
Friday be the day; I shall issue a precept accord-
ingly."'
1111. VoWtiati-61 My Lo►d Mayor, we return you our most
*incesr thanks fur the manner in which you have received us.
We regard this reef/Aim, and the very warm and ready con-
sent your Lordship has given to one application, as ominous
of a prosperous and popular mayoralty. Permit us to ra-
piers a bore, my Lord, that your Lordship will never refuse
lend so willing an ear neon any future occasion, in which
the rights awl privileges of your fellow-citiaens are con-
cerned. To attend to the voice of large bodies of people,
wide/circumstances of sorb a nature an have recently oc-
envied. is a duty which nothing should induce the Chief
Magistrate to violate. The refusal of the late lord Mayor
to call a Common Hall, at a period a hen the public feeling
Was in an indi►crnb:rble state of agitation, has caused many
mischief., suit added to the unpopularity of that worthy M-
eniala who has quilted the seat, ender circumstances to
a tile!) it would be difficult to find a
The LORD MAYolll—"Gentlemen. you may rely upon it
that 1 shall attend wit► great care to the interests of the
Livery. 1 shall on every occasion petrol m my duty to
twin, and, 1 trust, •aintain the dignity of my station."
The Deputation them withdrew.

It is reported that a guard-house is to he erected
en Hordell Cliff, near Christchurch, Hants, for
the purpose of preventing the numerous depreda.
lions of the smugglers in that quarter.
St:DDilt DIATII.—On Saturday last Mr. D.ll,
foN. who for a lergth of time filled the situation
of solicitor to the parish of St. George, Hanover.
.qiime, and we understand that of St. Joeweee,
'villein the act of dressing himself, for the purpose
of going to dine with a friend, suddenly dropped
dowu and expired.
Extract from a private letter, dated Bombay,
June 40. 1819 :
" We are all here in that kind of monotony.
which nothing but a little news from our little
eland can enliven. Our grand staple, cotton. has
laded. and we have 84 traders in the harbour,
"lm would be gird to lake freight xt 51. per ton,
hut cannot procure it. Our present Governor,
Sir E. NIPEAN. is about to remove, and will he
succeeded by Mr. ELPHIUSTON P., our C missioner
ir the Deccan. Ao expedition will moat certainly
go hence to the Persian Gulf in October. to put
finishing blow to the extermination of the pirates,
or make them Ail howl mew. That extraordinary
'''vase, the elrokre merbas, still cout;nues Its ram-
g,%. but still we are not wiser to. to its cause. than
3' Ott,, though it appears, if remedies be ad-
Itimiotered iii time, the fatal cases are few..—
room August, 1817. to thist,tiroo, the torople anent
iN. by it, iii the Company's territories are calcu..
!sled at 150,000, of whom 31,000 have been Eu-
ropean., or their descendants. Whole villages
air completely depopulated ; and such has been
the terror situ this side of India, that a fleet of
4"/Oto, laden with cotton, was t 1 tally deserted in
one night by the trees. On another OCCIIIMUII. the
~iiahitants of the village ha Stilsette, set on a
"••tuger and murdered him, snider the impression
'.l his being a sorcerer. The whole village was
tr.,•11 and found guilty, to the number of ninety
j.,11101111, who lay souse itioullis in prison, but were
II 1.15? pardoned."

To the EDITOR of The BRITISH PICBSS.

Sfit—lt scents likely that an Income or Property Tax will
be proposed during the approaching Session. 111 one or two
poihis of mils, stifli a tax is confessedly elixiltle: in others,
II is eminently ol•jeetio!lshle. Amine. these, the era, t tu-
egnality of its pressure is particularly worthy or con•
aidrr3ttoo.

'l•n illustrate this inequality, I shall state an imaginary,
but not an unlikely case. A and II are both married men ;
each posses-es a fixed income 0'5091. • year, and has three
children so far their ClICIIIITI!,11111CP11 are apparently similar;
but, in reality, they are widely duffel eat. Ais infirm, or his
wife is so ; his three children, from right in fooricen
years old, are at echoed; he is under the neceasity of
maintaining two aged. indigent relations; and has con-
It:feted a debt of 2091. On the other hand, R. anal his
wile enjoy good health; their children, from one to five
year. old, are at home ; instead of Ruppnrtiug indigent riga-
nuns, he occasionally experiences the innuificeure of upu•
lent one.; and his inc.otte is perfectly unencomhered by
debt. "fhe medical aid required by A may cost 161 • year;
the school, and other expenses of los three children, may
ansonnt to 1201 ; the maintenance of his indigent relations
In 501 ; sod the interest of his debt to 191 : in all 1901.
The expenses of B children may not exceed 301. • year;
and these expenses may, one year with another, be compen-
asited for by varied munificence on the pert of hie opulent
kinsmen. Ile may thus be said to pu . a clear unen-
numbered income of slyer 5001 per aMilllnt; while the in-
come applicable to A 's strictly ►peaking domestic exigen-
cies does nut exceed 3101. Dueler such cireitmstantres, an
income lax of Si. per reel., ainoistitiog to 40/.• year, would
have suf other effect on if than that of obliging him to limit
leis hospitality, or dispense with ce►tail) luxuries or super-
flifities, while, by reilescuste A.'s unappropriated income In
2701 n year, it would compel him, Vise continued his bounty
to his indigent et bilious, and prosecuted the education- of
Ifs child. en, to forego many of his habitual comforts, which
hail gradually risen almost to the rank of necessaries of
life, or Its retrench his bounty to his poor relations, or re-
tUOVP at least one of his childreit (ruin school, in ease he
cool,' not ill.petime with the comforts alluded to consistently
with the poem ivation of his health.
There is another point of view in which the inequality
011ie pressure of an Income Tax is strikingly mantf,rt.
The pay of and the salaries of civil offictrs, may he
•scertaned in a traction; they therefore unit feel the full
pressure oldie tax—slide others, the precise extent of abuse
Maroons cannot, by ■ny contrivauce, he detected, may be
comparatively but hide affected by it. And here I may
Imo cover observe, that the former most necessarily be also
the case soli all who flisflaio the practice of deceit, false-
hood, or misrepresentation in any shape, while the leiter
be may the case with a dirge proportion of their less strupu-
' Was ur Cl/1/IKlelliiolle fellow-subjects.
Deprecating, for these and other cogent reasons, the im-
position of a general Income Tax, hut at the same time
aware of the existing necessity of an additional copious
source of revenue, anal also of the expediency of 'object-
ing to taxation the immense revenues derived (win property
in the politic funds, 1 would suggest the imposition of a
tax of 20/. per Lint. on all the unexpended mid ureitionlat-
log Incomes of this description, above 1,0110/. or 599/. a
year. A sufficiently accurate knowledge of die amount of
these unexpended individual incomes may be attained by
using as a criterion the average amount of the stun paid cur
Assessed Taxes, by persons enjoying either of the incomes
just mentioned, which might easily be ascertained. For ex.
if a person known to possess 10,0001. a year, de-
rived from property in the funds, pays no more for Assessed
Taxes than what appears to be usually or generally paid by
persons possessed of about 1,0001. or 5901. a year, derived
from other sources, it may (filly he concluded that be an-
nually saves and accunsulales 9,0001. or 9,5001.; and should
be taxed accordingly.
This tax is certainly liahle to a strong objection on the
ground of its being a partial one; but the strengils of this
objection must be much impaired by the consideration of
the inoperativeness of the tax, in abridging any of the com-
forts which the person taxed was in the habit of enjoying.
Its only effect would be, to retard his accumulation of caps-

t al. That is aould be au extremely popular tax, nerd scarcely
be observed and *bat it would, its reality, ilwilab not sp.
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pareutly, tend to an augmentation of the revenue a the
Male, almost as much as a g I Income Tax, is, I ihiuk,
indisputable, in as much as the latter must new ssarily in-
duce, in most insinoces, a proportionate diminution of ex.
penditore in laud commodities, ht. or the part of those
who pay it, and cuitsequeatly a proportionate diminution of
the public rearm's., arising from Excise, Customs, Avatar/ell
Taxes, &c. It might produce eighteen millions a !,esr; but
its imposition would probably occasion a suleirractioil of
six millions from the amount which the foregoing taxes
might otherwise have yielded.
1 tun, Sir, yam obedient Servant,
Z.