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IMPERIAL P ARLI.I.IIR.V7:

HOUSE OF LORDS.—Tx as o ae, lege.
• BOOS PEER AGR.
Their Lordships resoored into a Corn•nittee of Privilege,.
and Lu.d W•tsision Id havine taken the Chair;
Sense farther went •nee wii addue- and Mr rtans l.ea dat
c4l.iderab • le,igth, in ..airport of the claim or Lair H
(mid to the above Pee .re. After which, the futner e”noder,
aline of the case was deterred ut trial day won night.
The 5.1 k befure the HOW't were •• 1 the; etireral
stages. Arn,ne there, the La. an I G-eriilald yv ale
fri.herr Bill. were rent a .eeott4 tine, and e trtnnlited fur
Thursday.

Th? Cool Factor.' Inriemnitvli h went thrn•ch a Ci'omitsee,
was reported, •.d ordered to rad a thin I t fie on founds,.
The second o..soling of Lingliam's Chewer Rill was post-
poned WI Thurolly.
Lord KING, in parsosnce of wllatt Mai, rod vaster! ty even-
iig, moved fret an acc.sult of the ii.nnber ••1* .10t, 4, issued by
the Sank of Inland, from the 1 t f Jutoary. 1104, to the lit
of January, 1110.5, inclusive, 15.tincoishiog such ISO4O/ a. Were
under 51.
Also, an account of the num', , .4"a ott or ',Aim in
eirrolaCno, on the 11th day. of ,very •tith, wit,iin • at pe-
riod, and on those days in the two months of the riogint roar.
These, on the questions being put, were ordered aceoldi•gty.
Lord KING then, pursuant, to • former notice. mowed tor
an account 01 the sums re • itted to 1.6;...,d, in the eour.e
the last pelt, on 'coolant rat t:. • fintielt an 11n., t;or,ounsont,,,
ecifying the pert ids and moles of remot.',l; su. h sum.;
the rates of Exchange, &e which wet also ordered ac•
Sir T. Potherston Fart. M.P. Sir lama Stewart, Rut.
M P. John Hatt, George Hissord, Ups. and wren' other
Gent!• m'n and perw,sos, to the nu Aber of surge...ii, were .wort
at the Kir, with respect to their ntcnded oriden,;* the
Committee of their Lneiships, to who o it Is referred, to con.
sidw of the inattcrs•llegod agamo Mr Judie, Fox
At half put Frio, their Lordsiiips adjour.wid WI uine o'clock
in the evening.

SECOND MEETING
At nine o'clock the I louse mot again, and as the
adjournment was special, prayers again were read,
lI4NH H ‘REAS CORPUS.
Shortly after, Sir Evart Nrys AN, at:ended by se-
yPral Members, brought up from tLe Comm-ms the '-
Bill for sus:vending the llabeas Corpus Aft in Ire.
land, until six weeks after the cnmoiencement of the
next Session of Parliament, which was laid upon the
Table

have pructsred the ni..et distiTirtnhai pe
Lord HAWKESBURY moved that the Bill be
.r. Wm &raw. speific frw ;he wore see
Gnia Snlyent for the Cute of st.n., read A first tiMe; which being do e, the N. ,b!e
uue Cordial Drefs; and hi. Volatlk• Oth cretarr moved that the Bill he real a se.-0-• ;iii
'he cure of the Gout% Rbetansageim, atl on Thursday. He added, that, whir- VIC •41
be Ai" III" the at'u" mtr circumstances of the cae, he shood.s, r e the BiD
read a wcoisd time oa that day, have to move tits

.e Bill on the tame day. He was,
at certain standing orders of their
,teat against a Bill going through
v.-. stages oil the same day. He would,
.e, ?noire that the Standing Orders, No. 26
. 35, be take,i into consideration on Thursday
,c, for the purpose of their being suspended, as
n- as relates to the Irish Habeas Corpus. AR Sus-
elision Bill.
the questions were pnt on his Lordship's Mo-
tions for the Bill being read a second time orfThurs.
day, and the standistff orders in question being
taken into consideration on the same day, which
were ordered accordingly, as WAS also a third Motion
for the printing of the Bill.
Their Lordships then adjourned pro Anna till to
for the purpose of attending Divine ser-
vice, hut virtually till Thursday, for which day all
the Orders were fixed.
---eneesm—
HOUSE OF COMMONS.
Mr. STURGI• SS HOUR N 1... moved that the account re-
sented of the qoaritity of hop, grown in the county of Sussex
in the year Inna be printed ; which wet agreed ht.
The Army Extratirditiaries acre also, on the Motion of Mr.
CALCRAFT, ordered to be printed
Mr. GILES moved, that there be laid before the House an
account of the number of effective men recruit. d for the ser-
vice of the United Kingdom store the Ist of J tale la,t, as far as
the same could be mart. up, together with the letters of ser-
vice, and mode in which they were recruited, and distinguishing
the cavalry from the infantry, and the Supplementary batta-
lions, which was wort in.
Mr. BROOKE mewed that the following Papers be laid
before the House :
C,:pies of any accounts received respecting the number of
passengers taken on board the Spanish frigates detained of
Cadiz on the 12th of Hoven:Met • and also of el• toe passengers
captured in other Spanish vesmis previously t'. the wan being
declared ; haw t, and the names of those
who belonged to the .111111 or navy o' S; ..in.
Conies of the instroctions sent to the British Officers for the
detention of such ve.sels-..and
An aeon:tit of the private property taken belo.igirig to the
said passengers, ant any orders given fur the restitution of it
Arvid to.
MIDULESEX ELECTION.
This being the day appointed to tty the merits of a Petition
from certain Electors of the comity of hltehtlewex, complainsurs
that on the last day of the poll for the late Hestion, their votes
had been taken anti approved of by the then Sheri s of the
county, end the day atterviarrt. expunged on the declaration of
the numbets ; the fiellowihig names were returned on the re
ductal list, and, as usual, sweat st the Tattle :
Lord Viscount MatseaM, Ciairnian.
R. S Ainslie, Esq Grate Mutdauet, Esq.
Lord Viscount Fitaltarris, H Chopliane Esq.
1... Spencer Smith, C. Montague Ormsby,
Sir Robert Poole, Bart. His,. Arch Hutchinson,
Charles Uuneomhe, Esq. H. Ayre,
.1. H. Williams, Esq.

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mosithrots.
The Hon. St. Aide-w St. Jo ~t, fur the Pt titlrt
Trottel. Greve, Esq. ha the Stung M •maer.
IRISH HABEAS CORPUS SUSPENSION.
Sir EVAN NEPEAN move•l the orslrr of the
day for the third reading of the Irish Habeas Cor-
pus Suspension Bill ; when
Mr. MARTIN (of Galway) immediately rose,
and observed, that, as a Representative of that part
of the United Kingdom, which was to be peculiarly
affefted by this measure, when he found himself
called upon to pass so hard and oppressive a bill,
without any preliminary inquiry, or any good rea-
son, beyond the alleged one of public notoriety, '
stated fur it— he felt it a duty he owed to his Con-
stituents at large , 1.1 htis best endeavours to ascer-
tain what tae reastllis were which inoduced it ; or
whether any circumstances were now in existence,
which had any resemblance to what was sometimes
called the rebellion, on the '2.3d of July. 1802. The
objea of the amendment he had to propose was
to make it requisite for those, who said the ne-
cessity for this measure was not, riots, to state fairly
what their reasons were for thinking so.
The SPEAKER here inlet witted use lion. Gent.
observing, that no amendment could be propo.el in
the Bill, till another question was put, atter the or-
der of the day.
Lord HENRY PE! TN' said, he did met rise to
occupy the attention of the House any trU tE,r, than
by adverting to a precedent for s similar pr,ce:
quoted by a Learned Gentleman (Mr. Wed) on a
former day, when he said, that the I laheas Cotpus
AO had been suspended here in 172 i, svirhont any
inquiry respelling the existence of any necessity for
it having been instituted by Parliament Having
since had time to examine into the pounds of that
assertion, hr thougitt it right to shew, though he
did not see the Learned and Hon. Gentleman then
in his place, that the two cans 11101 e no analogy
whatever to each other. Previously to the Suspen-
sion having been adopted in the >ear 17:2, the
speech made by His Majesty to His Parliament,
from the Throne, said so much of the existing con-
spiracy. that it composed two-thirds of the whole of
it. let when, even on the spur of the occasion,
Sir Robert Walpole, who was then Minister, ven-
tured to propose the measure, he &swiftly pledged
himself, that he should afterwards move tor a Com-
.— mince to inquire into the existence of the conspiracy.
A committee was accordingly appointed, in about
a mouth afterwards, for that purpose, which, upon
due inquiry, finding that the conspiracy did really
exist, laid a sufficient ground for confirming the
suspension. Afting, therefore, in conformity with
that precedent, he wished to know, whether, if this
boil were suffered to pass, the present Ministers
would pledge themselves that there should be a
subsequent inquiry ?
No answer having been given to this question, the
order of the day was agreed to ; and, on the ques-
tion being put, that the bill be now read a third time
Mr. IA ARTIN again addressed the House: bas
said that it was impossible this measure could ever
produce the effeft for which it was intended, unless
st was made to extend its influence generally amongst
all the people of th► United Kingdom. The sill
provided, that persons, who had committed aas of
season in Ireland, should be arrested on coming to
this country ; but it made no provision, nor applied
any remedy at all against such persons who, after
meditating treason and rebellion in Ireland, should
come over here to carry on a correspondent:, and
promote their plans more mischievously, and, per-
haps, more effeftually, than t::ey could do at home.
Persons of that description were altogether dime-
eithaite by the present Bill, and, in order to remedy
that treat Me& he should propose an amendment,
which should extend the benefits and blessings of
the ptesent A a to the people of Great Britain; for,
in his opinion, it would be great partiality to give
exclusively such enviable advantages to the people
of Ireland. Now that the countries were united,
and, as it were, identified, they might, be ironically

remarked, to be in future governed by the same
laws, and have a fair and equal measure dealt to
them. For the purpose, theref ,re, of granting
equal security to Great Britain as to Ireland, he
should move, as an amendment, that words to the
following effeet be inserted :—" When as it is that
divers persons notoriously carry on a traitorous and
rebellious correspondence between Great Britain
and Ireland, be it therefore enacted, that all such
persons shall, in Great Britain, be also subjected to
the provisions of this Bill."
' This amendment !eat negatived in:tenor, and the
Bill read a third time, and passed.

REPORT OF TUE BUDGET.
Mr. A aviation' brought up the Report of the
Committee of Ways and Means yesterday, when
some of the Resolutions being agreed to ;
Mr. FOX wished for more information in respect
to the bonus to be allowed, as the Right Hon. Gent.
had said very little on that subjed yesterday.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
restated the amount of the bonus, and explained,
that only a few of the subscribers could probably
avail themselves of it, as it was only given to those
who might be able to pay their instalments before
hand.
Mr. FOX wished also to know whether, as the
Property Tax was to extend to those who possessed
money in the funds, those would not he exempted
from the duty in that past of it which they might
be induced to lend to the public?
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
replied, that the holders of the Loan, when their
instalments should be paid up, would be entitled to
the premium of 51. per Cent now paid upon the
Omnium ; but that as soon as their scrip should be
transferred into stock, the Property Tax would
then immediately apply. What he meant was
shortly, that they would be liable to the Tax as soon
as they were entitled to a dividend, and that its ope-
ration would then apply, but not before, to the mo-
ney, during the time that it was floating.
Mr. JOHNSTONF said, that he could not, nul-
-1 sistendy with the duty which he owed to the public,
I suffer those resolutions to pass. without artiniAdveirt-
P ing on the strange prii-edent about to be established,
of srosing away the public money thus early in the
session, and without being in possession of the pa-
pen, which were direfted by Aft of Pat liament to
be laid before the House, on or before the 27th of
of March. The House was as yet without any
regular account of the public revenue, or disburse-
ments. It was also in a similar situation, with re-
sped to the distribution paper, the accounts of the
deficiency in the produce of the consolidated fund,
Rnti the navy debt; and all this while the sum of
44,000,0001. was required for the separate charges
upon England, for the present year. Another to-
pic to which he wished to draw the attention of the
House was, that even upon the chewing of the
Ministers themselves, the revenues of the East In-
dia Company were, by Alf of Parliament, obliged
to contribute 500,000 L annually, towards the Na.
tional Resources; and yet, notwithstanding this
obligation, aid after it had been voted that there
was a surplus of one million, in the revenue of the
Company, in the course of last year, the House,
instead of deriving any addition from this sot Om.,
found itself called upon for the sum of one million,
said to be doe to the Company. He thought this a
subjeCt, on which a Committee of Inquiry ought to
be appointed by the House. There was another of
these resolutions, to which, asaffain now stood, he
could give no countenance or encourage:, ent what-
ever ; he meant the suns of five millions for conti-
nental purposes. lie was ready to admit, that no
man could be worthy of a seat in that [loose, who
could wish this island to be insulated in its interests
and connediuns, from the powers on the Continent.
or who would not be desirous of contributing all in
his power to diminish the preponderating influence
of France upon the greater part of Europe, which
he could not consider otherwise than as one family.
He would, theref re, chearfolly giant any sum,
which was likely to be applied with any effect to the
diminntion of the enormous power of the enemy ;
hut, before he voted such a ram as this, he
should exited to see some prospeft of accom-
plishing his (shied, by the co-operation of those
powers bordering on France, such as Austria
and Prussia ; hut, without this aid, he could anti-
cipate very hale effed from powers so remote
from it as Rassia and Sweden. To cape& a re-
&ldiots of the power of France, by means of such
allies, would be as wild and romantic as the mea-
sures said to he taken by some of the agents of Eng-
land, who .attempted to accomplish their purpose by
the force of two bottles of sympathetic ink, and the
sum of so° guineas. He also thought it a very
strong rneasnie in the present Minister, to encrease
the duty on an article so indispensably necessary as
salt, to the people of the country, and so expensive
in its colledion, after his predecessor promised, in
the last Sessions of Parliament, a repeal of all the
duties hitherto imposed upon it. Having. further
stated some objedions to encretsed duties upon
horses used in agriculture, he expressed his hopes
that the House would pardon him for saying any
thing that personally regarded himself ; but he was
very desirous of reminding them, that, in the view
taken of the finances of the country last year, when
it was said. that the war this year would cost no
more additionally than what would be covered by
the operation of the Sinking Fund, namely,
42,000,0001. he asserted, that the expenditure
would not fall short of 42,000,0001. ; an assertion
which was now completely verified.
Mr. FRANCIS recalled the attention of the
House to the Act of 17os, by which the East India
Company was bound to furnishthe sum of 500,0001.
in aid of the revenues of this country. This con-
tribution had never been furnished by the Com-
pany but once ; and now, instead of receiving it,
this country was called upon to pay out of its own
finances, by way of debt, to the Company. This
was done at the time when the finances of the Com-
pany were represented to be in a most flourishing
condition. He would not take upon him to assert,
that the debt now in question was not really due :
even supposing it was so, he maintained that the
arrears due by the Company, since the year 1,793.
should be set off against the present demand. /le
contended, that the House had no right to pay this
debt, for the existence of which they had no more
than the word of the Chancellor of the Exchequer,
without any Parliamentary evidence of it being laid
before them. If the statement given in the course
of last Session was staidly true, and that in reality

the Company's debt from the country was nearly
liquidated, then the legal consequence ought to he,
that the sum now required to be advanced should
he deduNd, in order that the debt, now so near
liquidation, should be finally eitingitished. He,
therefore, wished to know whether this sum was
meant in liquidation of the former debt ?
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
declared himself rather unprepared for giving the
Hon. Gentleman a satisfactory answer; bat he cer-
tainly did not propose to vote this sum without re-
serve, or without subjecting the Company to be call-
ed to an account for what may be due from its reve-
nues to this country. The vote now called for had
no relation to, much less did it annul, any prior en-
gagement ; but both the Hon. Gentlemen were
mistaken as to the purport of the Act of 1793,
which enjoined, that, after the Company should pay
its dividends and expences, and have a surplus to a
certain amount, then out of that surplus, it was to
contribute half a million towards the general finances
of the country, and be at liberty to apply the re-
mainder to the increase of its dividends. This sub-
jea would best be referred to a future discussion,
when the state of the East India finances should be
brought before them ; but it surely would be allow-
ed, that the revenue and resources of the Company
may be very prosperous, and yet, by the interven-
tion of two or three unexpected wars, Ise tendered
inapplicable to the aid of the national revenue.
Mr. JOI-INSTONE agreed, that the Company
may have a just claim upon the public I but what he
complained of was, that after, declaring that they
had a surplus of a million, instead of paying out of it
what they owed to the country, the House should
be called upon to discharge an old debt to them:
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
explained, that the surplus so often mentioned was
only stated to arise out of the territorial revenues of
the Company, of which Parliament had no right to
claim any share, until it was brought home by in-
vestments, and all the charges on it paid. That in-
deed may be made the subject of a future claim ;
but as to the territorial revenue, Parliament had no

71mmedsrite right to interfere with it.
Mr. CALCRAF C objected to the duty on salt,
as pre,sing most severely on the lower orders of the
people, who were the least able to bear such pres-
sure. lie also found fault with the duty on horses
used in agricultnre, as it would he a very great hard-
ship on the farmers, and could not fail to raise the
price of the first wide of necessity, hirAci. He
hoped, therefore, the Right honourable Gentleman
would reconsider the subject, and that he would
give up the salt tax altogether, as well as modify
the other.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
said, he had already given the salt tax the fullest
consideration, and that he should certainly persist
in it. as he was certain it was not liable to the objec-
tions which the Hon. Gentleman who spoke last
had urged against it.
Mr. SHERIDAN expressed his regret at hearing
the Right Hon. Gentleman, in such a firm and po-
sitive tone, declare his determination to persit in a
tax which, he agreed with his Hon. Friend near him,
would bear so hard on the lower orders of the people.
Nay, he insisted that there did not exist a tax which
would so grievously oppress them ; for it affected
bacon, pork, butter, and even potatoes, which were
all articles of necessity, on which they chiefly lived.
In particular, the last article, which of late years
had become so generally the food of the lower
orders, and which were absolutely not wholesome
without salt. He perfectly coincided in opinion
with his Honourable Friend near him (Mr. John-
stone), that it was rather sin prising to see this tax
on salt brought forward at the present moment,
when a Committee of the House, who had well con-
sidered the subjeel, had reported, some years ago,
that the whole of the duties on salt ought to be abo-
lished ; and the predecessor of the Right Honoura-
ble Gentleman in office had declared his intention of
acting according to the spirit of that report. The
Right Honourable Gentleman pretended to enter-
tain the highest respeft for the charaaer of his Right
Honourable predecessor; yet he thought his bringing
forward this tax now, after what the other had de-
clared, was a kind of trepanning those who are nu-
nulatiurers of the article. who had heels tempted to
renew their works. He appealed to a Right Hon.
Gentleman opposite (Mr. Rose), to say whether
that had not been the ease in his neighbourhood at
Lymington, in Hampshire, where the SALE lIVOIks had
been repaired at a great expence, under the id&.t the
duties were to be wholly taken of, instead of which
a duty of SO per cent. was to be added? He thought
this a great injustice, and he, for one, pledged him-
self to oppose the tax in every stage.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
owned he h id A very great respell for the chars her
of the Right Honourable Gentleman alluded to by
the Honourable Member who spoke lost, and, as a
proof of it, he should give an instance by reverting
o his condua. I'he Report mentioned by these
Honourable Members was made in 1801, and has
lain on the Table, and never been aged on either by
the Right Honourable Gentleman his predecessor,
nor ever mentioned before by the Honourable Gen-
tleman who had just sat down, though he had been
in the House all that time. He insisted, that both
the Honourable Members who had spoken against
this tax were mistaken as to its operation $ for, con-
sidering how small a proportion fell on the lower
orders of the people, he did not think there was a
single article of general consumption that could he
found better adapted to the purpose of raising a
large sum of money with so little pressure and in-
convenience to the mass of the people.
Mr. EGERTON said, it always gave him pain
to be obliged to say any thing against the taxes
proposed for raising the necessary supplies ; but, as
the representative of the county of Chester, he could
not avoid saying, that that county would feel the
weight and burden of this tax in a very severe and
exemplary degree indeed, as there were more
salt works there than in any other county ; and he
hoped, therefore, that if the Right Hon. Gentleman
did not agree to give up the tax altogether, be
would, at least, devise some means of alleviating its
pressure, in regard to that particular county.
Mr. KINNAIRI) said, that, after what had been
urged by the Hon. Gentleman in favour of the
county he represented. he had waited some mo-
ments, in hopes some Gentleman equally patriotic
would rise and speak in favour of the poor people
I of the North, particularly those who live in the
',Highlands. He was about to mention the fi,h-

cries, but it was intimated to him across the tatte
that the fisheries were exempted. He desist: d ac-
cordingly from that part of the sullied ; fits. insisted
that his Hon. Friend near him (Mr. She:lday) was
perfeelly corred in his statement, that it would hear
with the most grievous pressure on the lower order
of the people; and be contended that it would
greatly add to that discontent which they already
felt against the war.
Mr. ROSE said, that in all cases since a tax yea.;
first imposed on salt, the fisheries had hero
formly exempted, and every atlditioaal ditty was
rather a benefit than a disadvantage to the-rt. In an-
swer to what was said by Sheridan, he sant he
believed no person in his neighbourhood had a.
pended money in repairing salt works under any
idea of the whole duties being taken off. He thought
the Honourable Gentlemen who found fault with
this tax were very much mistaken in regard to is
operation, and particularly so as to the es-pence of
collecting the duties ever since the duty had been
transferred to the Excise, the charge of colleen
bad not amounted to more than 20,0001. a year
Mr. CALCRAF 1' said, he understood, that, in
1798, the expences of colleßing dwv amnuated
to upwards of 100,0001. a year, Ve1:14.:: was more
that 10 per cent.
Mr. JOHNSEONr and the CH ANC El Los of Ole

Exert eir es. severally explained.
The Resolutions were then severally read and
agreed to.
On the question that Bills be brought in on the
first and second ;
Sir R. BUXTON said, he was always sorry to
oppose the taxes, but he could not sit silent, aid
suffer one of thorn, in particular, to pass, aithout
making some observations, or oljeßions ; he meant
the tax on horses used for the purposes of apical-
tore. He thought it was a very heavy and burden-
some tax, and that it was also a highly imp, lere
one, for it will forte the farmer of arable land to use
fewer horses, and, by that means, their hind would
lot be so well cilltivated. Ile thought also th t
while they were taxing their constituent, loon tear
to year, they should on their own p 'lts ;Lola of
easing them as much as possible, by pa, that wth
some of their own privileges, and would throlo e
propose that they should give up that of fro Lag
letters. He denied that the people weie discont-uo
ed with the war ; on the control y, he helieved the
never was a war so popular ; this was among ail
descriptions of persons throughout the country.
Mr. WINDH A M requestedthat the Hon. Bai slier
would not think of proposing to the House to pan
with the privilege of franking. as it uould 'Ca
matter so to it its amount, that it wuul.l be
little or an benefit to the public in the way ef
He considered the privilege in itself as a Lind of
feather in the cap of the members of that House,
by which they were enabled to oblige their frierds
and all descriptions of persons. That it was a
power vested in them for the most useful and W.-,
purpcses; was of infinite advantage to the intereu
of literature, and was the means of carrying on the
most pleasing and useful corr:spondences. which
would never perhaps have existed, had it not bees
for the facilities given to them by means of this
privilege. As the benefit to the pubic would. its
tact, be also very small, he hoped the Hon. Batoact
would give up all further idea of abolishing it.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUEM`
coincided entirely in opinion with the Right Hon.
Gentleman who spoke last, and thought this prvi-
leoe of the highest importance to the interests of the
public, who would be really injured by its being
abolished, especially as it would amount ri, a., mare
than 40,0001. which was a mere rifle. With
respeet to what the Hormui able Baronet had
stated as an ohjen to the duty on horses used in
aviculture, he could tot suppose that any farmer
would, on that account, use a house the less; and,
as to the other point alluded to by the Hon. Ba-
ronet. he could not allow that they did not tax them-
selves, for he could appeal to the whole system of
taxation to shew, that the greatest part was paid
the higher classes of the community, and nut by the
lower orders.
Sir R. Buavott explained.
Mr. H. LASCI.LLES hoped the Hon. Gentle-
man would take some further time to consider ua
s. me of these taxes. He agreed with the Hon. Ba-
ronet who had just sat down, as to the duty ea,
horses used in agricultwe, and, that it would prove
a great check to it. liereferred to what passed lam
so,sion ou the Corn Bill, and begged the Howe to
remember, that it was then held lot th as necessary
to encourage the farmers to grow as much corn m
possible ; and this tax would, he feared, operate con-
trary to that desirable purpose.
Mr. FULLER spoke shortly against the sat e
tax, but in so low a tune we could not hear him -
tinftly ; we understood him to say, heweve th t
he th iught the farmers would evade the tax by ear
playing oxen.
Bias were then ordered to be brought in on the
several resolutions.
Mt. WINDHAM said, that not seeing the Se-
cretary at War in his place, he would just obseisie
to Ministers, that, in a return madeof men raisiot
in the county of Surny, under the Defence Aft. We
number was 6! or 63. He understood this Was a
mistake, and the number not so many. He tine 1-
ticr,ed, therefore, the circumstance, that the error
might be ree,tified before Thursday evening.
Lora NI Alt SHAM brought up a report from the
Committee on the Middlesex EleCtion, and obtarte/
the leave of the House. that the said Committee
should adjourn to Thursday, Wednesday being ap-
pointed tor a solemn fast.
Mr. WILBERFORCE brought up the Balk
the Abolition of the Slave Trade, which was reads
first time, anal ordered to be read a second Una to
Thursday se'nuight.
ELECTION.
On the Order of the Day being read for toil
into consideration the adjourned debate on the Mid-
dlesex Eloftion;
Mr. SHERIDAN stated, that the Sheriffs wishol
to have a little further time allowed them, and as
Friday would be too early a day, he would have
proposed Monday ; but, understanding there were
to be some royal festivities at Windsor, ou that day.
from which he should be sot ry to prevent any Meg"
bee of that House attending, he proposed to fix filar
Tuesday next, which vas ordered accordingly.
The Qaarantine Bill was reeetnautted. tan
Clauses added, and the report ordered to be nom%
on 'Fbursday.—Adjourned to Tbursday.

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