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its wit', one set or C....sidemen hi hind him mum one mint
—lie hail the no:ad...lune of differing with windier eve of firm
tieition before him on lawirk.)—Thry wee a
third pond on whirls he sheered Vie believed) sills every
man in that Movie, soil in the ishule counts y--(
re, )—Ti might appear hitherto's, hut lie crnettained the op's-
, and he it mild honestly avast it. Iltsopittion wait, that
their could not he a MM.' proper season, Or pelnlent
(Or iimiusiog taxes the lima& ill. His reason fur think-
ing so was, that wow ay the war, and the triumphs—dhow
mptv triumphs shirk had so ninth amused the people, had
passed sway, suit she 'lay of reckoning bad arrived, the peer
ply most feel tier rolotal ire- is 4.1. NM—they twist feel that it
cannot he ears ed ins with impunity—that when the *un,. v
sound of tiro dry dies upon she ear, romplaiitlas nod a ss row•
mot soiliering retn:44ll bellinl.W.ollolll money, 4,441.nni
IL Her, and ant hus'l tawnier's.... To the mode of t.ixatiiiii,
he had the strain:. st etion—it was humor the rotor
end •pariwz she was taxing beer, the beverage
of the poor; it was taxing tee, en &eddy which is
in
universal consumption emimpt there ; and it was taxing the
iwople to protect the seesisisy of the fund-holders anil eirn
of
wealth. Already they had suffered Iwyond their means ; and
it was laureniahle that pear* brought with it neither com-
fort. security, nor repose.
The CHA NCELLOR of the EXCHEQUIER denied
that the taxes went to protect the rich. or that the
sinking fund was for the security of the fend-bolder?. Sid for
the general security of the romitry. With record to the
statement of the Ilon. Member, as to Slur brewery, it could
nut he sunsuit tls.t lie arted in any clandestine iniumei,
nor
slut tit) staserso lit Ant MI from him tend to cscae any
clamour against therm. Re had said 'Hahne: hut what
might i.e said where a fair difference f opinn I
It was evident that the pour desired HUo advaniotage Awn the
remission of the war malt slaty, sod whatever may hare
been the intention of the brew, rs with respect to the price
of porter, it happened an slicoliat sing niftily, that he alaittld
have twice brought oat the secret of their intending to re-
duce it.
Mr. ‘VODSITOESZ said, he would not object to
one tax so 5e16.1, ground,. but lie never could
a, W.V..
if a tax whirls would, in any degree, lead to rhe-
fronllnte the growth of coin, as that on barley must du. He
alluded to the rape' ienee of she year 1816, and to the diffi-
culty with whirit the conntry extricated itself from three
sliflicaltiea. He dreaded that it was shout to endears
ai-
milar distress. and suds surely was not the time to impose
further hurtles's on agriculture.
Mr. C. t7accraT believed that no subjects could
he ileitis( sl less fitted for taxation than those which
the Chancellor of the Exelreqacr bad selected. The taxes
would fall almost exclusively us. the poor. Malt liquor was
!Mk need by the higher orders of the people than he could
aids--(Laugider'—it was used chiefly by the winking
classes: ass was British spirits. Tea akin was a principal
article of their consumption, and yet suds were the sources
from *bleb it was intended to raise a large revenue. The
II 1111 l myelitis Member then complained of the trafainsess
of the Chancellor of the Exchequer in nut openly as-
knordedging how tido 1111 l led were the imputations he
hail 111104v11 out against the brewers un a furrow acct.
VON ilrier haaiug hens apprised of the 'frontons millet..
pls.: on which his calculations had been founded. He then
faltered into ass arithmetical calculation of the prices of
hops and malt at different periods, and assured the
HAMS", that previous to the last rise in tier price of beer. the
loos sustained by the brewers was not loss than IL at.ss
every quarter of malt.
Mr. Gust; ts,:os acknowledged that no tax could
Ise imposed which Inuit not of necessity itscrease
Ilse prier of the article cm the consumer. He ridiculed the
idea that the commission which was said to exist among the
brewer..., was sufficient to keep down the price of porter,
bet-mese un every occasion the great brewers met and agreed
50 attkiale for pike of that article. His Huts. Friend the
Mestilier fur WertiiiiitstEr (Mr. G Lamb), some short time,
since askett in the noose a question about the price of
poster, and the ‘seimr diary ristisequeuce was a nreetim: of
the Ina acre, atid an etigurtitsait not to reduce the prier s.
Su notch fur the coreqwtition which regulated Ow price of
bear. It email not be fairly and candidly contended that if
the state of afrairs were such as to render ass increase of
taxes tin-easel y. ibis inertiae could he made without, i.e
some degree. thrsswing ass addit• I harder' on the pearl,.
—(llin/el—With respect to a hat fell from the Member fir
Nor folk, he declared lw could not see how the imposition of
the proposed taxes could discourage the growth of barley.
Mira the war malt duty was in operation, as large a quan-
tity of barley was welted as was average] since the repeal of
'het tax. It wesevideut, therefore, that the interests of the
es tslrrt could not be *Bedell by the proposed tax, and it *IAA
equally crefirier that the consumer had obtained no edema-
tete by the dimineti 111 l of the tax. He argued generally on
the necessity of placiog the 610110% of the country on u se-
cure foundation, and assert-41 the House, that cm no former
occasion was snore se Mums solicitude displayed in framing
any taxes,thau in those now submitted to the House. The
Mar Member for Norfolk had slimiest to the distressed state
of the essuatry is the year 1818, bat the 11444114 e 164.1411,1 re-
ip.ct that &muss injaht flow from other causes besides weight
of taxation. Is should be rem. adored, that in that year of
retinae distress, In millions of taxes were remitted to She
petiole • hot he entertained nip doubt that the difficulties then
etillisre:l arose altogether trove the depression of the agricul-
tural interests.
Ms. G. LAMS rose for the purpose of recording
Iris decided oopposition to the taxes tow propo.eil,
aid snore particularly to that which tended to raise the price
of beer on the winking elas.es. On a former occasion he
hail been isaluerd to ask some questions reepectiug this
point, hot he now found that his having done so was a cause
why the brewers had resoles d not to reduce the price of por-
ter. 'I he qursii 111 l hod been asked at she request of a con-
siderable ..umber of his coast is nett', very reepertalile ',resume,
not latter-slid i.e the trade. .nine consumers of porter —(A
sough, )—but grow having Innis 'stand from the Chancellor of
the Exclit quer that the impoaltion of a new tax would have
Sect towards ruing Ilse price, he should endeavour to
remove the fallacy of sheer foram opinions, and tenth theta
to embrace those of the Right lion. Gent.—(lfeue.)--If the
price, however, wi re nut ',iris led, what cowgirl had she Chian.
.'slime of lie Exchequer "sir the quality of the article! and on
thin psitut lie could ant it mare hoot his memory a meeting
bell a few years since by the brewers, in which Hwy adopted
a rr aibitina that they world slot reduce the price of Hie liter,
but that they would intro's.: the quality. With that denim-
. stance dwelling On bit nsiml, be feared that if the price
were nut iestureil by this tax now proposed, Ilse quality
attic herr would suffer by its operation. This lax hat ruls.
ea:Vall to be highly iniatrions to the public, but in partieu.
laity crosnritia this tax, he did nut mean to bestow even
courpsret tee praise on Hie others, for it was his opinion that
ins taxis could be devised which tended moss to depeess the
parer elatises of the people blear, Ares.)
its. C. ('aLweitt —The lion. Member seems to doubt
whether the brewers were sitter-rota their iotratious to im-
prove the quality of heir: but this was, I thought, so pal-
made, that it must Isaac bet al ms every one's atesrfA
In trek.)
Sir .1 SfliTtl6ll? said, he could not approve of a malt
tax, which mast prove the ruin of the mattaters, by taking
thr slut, on the slosh sa basil.
Mr. HISUIUGHAH was glad to hear the Roth
Member ler Clacheiter Huskifsoo) aek 111111 l
ledge that these taxes were likely to haws the steel of in-
, ere:mill she of the several articles, and to tar prove a
bunks iss tho people, hut this was opposed to what had
fattest from the Chancellor of the Eatchriper, who coutended
that 3,000,000/ of taxes would be created, without falliog
an say ace. Hut could ally man believe that a hat amount.
me to 1,0011,01011 on Omit, wuulJ last no effect on the grower
34 the consumer ? The Chancellor of the Eatc,beques bail how-
yver shelled that the lax would fall on either, how then eats it
lu he produced! There remains d hul I third party, namely,
'the turrets, owl the extent slits wiletbition on them stay be
comets ti feats the els etisastacee. that sot less that, 45,0001.
would Ire !okra frogs Me. Barclay, the gentleman to abuse
antlitirdy on this anbjeet Ile. Right liewourabie Gen-
f kolas, was ass fond of referring. This lax, then, wasto fall 611 the brewers and distillers in a degree that
timed rat tip all the mats of 0141 r anlpagartusg. Upon
Wholita 110*1.1111T, will this tax meatosity fall? First, no doubt,
st asii fall 141 Ike ailigilloalsolliarfriWhY %Ili *dowry the tax •