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to pay tier their own folly. It was a most tinjustifire 1 Right lien. Gentlernato's objections were ill-timed whole of the details of the qua stion would pass
ble proceeding to roll eon the Ileum to transgress ' awl futile. before the Committer.
ell o, orders. sod to violate the most solemn prin. Me. DAIFIFA fully concurred in the opinion of Mr. Roommate asked, whether the Right flosi.
..ri..te which i, know', In s cominercial cossinry. the Right Hots. Gentleman (Mr. Tierneit, that by Gentleman would- take tai himself to say that
l'tnen.h. to fia„,, the Rank a loss of 3.. per emote i this nortinigeonent the Batik would he the Kamera this Bill ‘4411 4Clllally 'sect $$ A ....... that its amt deo"-
„1,.„„ the partial into of their gold, which (ew, by i and the priblor the losers. • fits would denote the meditated plasma the Cum-
,to, way, if not met by the Bank. must fall on the ; Mr. GRENVELL understand his Hies. Friend op.. mister?
have said, that the partial issue of gold
„lobe. ',spline all circumstances together. he demote to Mr. CANNINO expressed his helief in the nerve-
ow..
utterly it A 104 lo know oil *hot grounds this I b) the Batik had been undertaken in concurrence sity of the messure, and oleo that if it Were to lie
loil sum& Ile could net mate what he had heard in wills the wishes of both Houses of Porliament. He adopted, it mum be adopted inetently, fur any de-
nie cocommift„ that he wits bound to merrily ; thought that this Ilnerlloll was made without au- lay would he worse 0111 useless. it would be sin-
to. caole not %tate what he knew here (though thorny, mod he certainly had no recolleetion-thut getory.
sell he knew was againat the sitraoure), for the the Legislature had given their sanctum to the meis- Lord ALTHORP 510,4, be dal not think the Rm.'.
voile was too „onwrolo.lv ;Mended to fur intrusted sure alluded to by his Host. Friend. •He was inents of his Wight thee Friend (Nlr. Tiereey) had
~,to, a private secret, Neil even if it were so in- I anxious to know out what 'authority his Hon. Friend bees. touched at
sill its
Chetha mum ofarf this discuss
the {O's.
„oat(' with it, they all knew that walls had ears. had Mode his assertion. If the nouse were sane- He was fully orimitost,so from -
Hr woatd *On sod again repeat. that before the tied with the issue of gold emong the payments of visions Of this Bill tending to reduce she teams of
Ilasik coold remise oval payments that corporation the Batik, it must hove been front s
notp the Batik, ohich must he the ease preparotory to
mit.t ooto.t „,,,,,o ii, mom., or snake the purchase that the smell casls payments would be locum- the resumption of cosh pavinents, they would have
of ',ultimo hers' pace with them. He thought he ponied by a contemporaneous issue of paper. • directly contrary tentleticv.
Isioleratoiel the Bight Hots. Gentlemais in Imre Mr. MANNING explained that all be meant to Mr. HusittsSolll contended that the measure was
v.iil that the lc oposeil measure came before state iipi, that the conduct of the Bank had met absolutely necessary to prevent any alterotion its
toe Homo. with the recommendation of • Corn- getreiral approbation. the plans contemplated by the Committee, for thee
indite. This WWI a Illsonkr, for the Committee Loral A. HAsitt.xoe expressed his opinion of the ultimate resumption of cash post-nem% 'Me Coin-
.
had proomoicrd on turmoil upon it, they had merely inemisistency which marked the management of the ranter had under its considerminti other measure's,
received it 44 she snug of a dtstosigui.shed in- proposed plan. He would call the attention of the which.would give the Batik a powerful inducement
omidnal, who was our of their own Members, but House to the different measures which at diffei eta to keep up their stock of gold, and alai to guilt('
hot * 110 Me4114141111440r1l it by the expression of periods were adopted respecting this Bill. Why, that stock mail the proper period arrived stir isou-
their apsooliat too or cumcurrence. It was in tai- he would ask, was not a measure of this kite' adopted ing it to the public.
dears. before the Committer that there wars no scar- when the Bank distril• teed the last bonus of 25 per Mr. ELLICI said he would support the Bill, be-
rot „r geld. its enough of that metal was to be vent. stock? He was aware that on the frontier tic- cause it was in direct opposition- to the Itight flon.
lied, if the Bank only paid the price I.r it. The casion the application to restrict cash payments .leitleinals's (the Chancellor of the Exchequer)
took hail a right to pay the price for it Out emanated from the Batik, and that this came from financial schemes. It certainly were to he ',tailed
aO, occuitsulate.l profits of their trade for the some of the Members of • Committee. But. on if inure information could be given respecting the
Ito 21 ye or.. The present measure was, he the former occasion. the measure was adopted by ulterior proceedings contemplated by the Cons-
theaolo. of vital importance to the character of the ass Order in Coisticti, and afterwards owlet' dby mittee. He fully convorred in the stutteneet or the
lloose. Let the Iliiie.e reflect on the precedent the House; here there was no such exercise of au- causes which had drained the country of the specie
%loch it would set, and the clanger of inch piece. thority. V hy, then. not wait for the Report of lithely issued, and condemned the idea ol' reduciog
&too. It was stated, that 700,0001. its specie had the Committee, which, it was agreed on all heeds, the interest, winch could hove only the effect of
been drawn from the Batik, its small payments, would speedily be forthcoming? It would appear, giving France a decided advatitage over this coon-
during the lost there months, and that a similar Isom the statement of the Right Hon. Gentleman, try ill all her pecuniary arrangententso
sirens might be anticipated for the elvoling quarter, that his Bill was so excellent in all its parts as to The Cita:SCSI.I.OR of the ExcHeeucit said, that
if this measiore were 1101 carried. Suppuse this to require no commentary, but to be at once entitled wisest the proper time artived to roster upon the
he the cases was that • sofficieet reason why the to their moot. and a direct infringement of all details of this subject, he would be prepared to
House should cast aside all its rules, and take a their orders, for the purpose of passing it in one drew that there was no iiicousiateticy whatever Im-
merse for the pasolig of this Bill which no man night. .wren the principle of this Bill mid the principle
would acute's to propolie in the case of soy other? Sir JOHN NEWPORT declared, that he was totally which governed his other arrongemeist% 011 this
But then it was mod, if the Bill did not pass the unacquainted with either the Government or the eubiPet* Hr only regretted that the measure hail
tail upon the Bank would necessarily become very Bank us this transaction. But if he knew any not been earlier introduced. The fact wad, that
considerable. He did lust exactly credit this alarm, thing of this subject, he was fully convinced of the hopes were entertained last year that the state of
exchange might have come round, and obviated
for lie could out believe dust •people would chew an necessity of adopting the proposed Bill.—(Neared
iveniences comploined of.
anxiety to get Oda • 668111ent when it was awc- It was because be sincerely desired to see cash pity- the ilic"
A (iettilernsti, whittle name we could not kern,
muting and falling in value. Its six weeks st the ments resumed that he was anxious to see this Bill
observed, that thin amount of specie, which, tinder
utmost, the Report of the Committee would be pass. If lie were careless about their resumptioe,
the existing measure, the Battik were liable to pay,
made, sod surely it wont(' be then full time to start he would he careless about thi. Bill. He approved
re- it could be accompanied by of it, because whether the Bulk were sincere or
the propositem whets must he worthy of consideration, since the Com-
all the inforieetimi which the nature of the Witmatte were or opinion that it was expedielit 10 pest
not in the expression of their desire to pay in specie. a stop to the system fur the present. Sidi, how-
ousted. 'fhe Noble Loud hd drawn a distinction this would facilitate their means of providing cash,
ever, he conceived, that it was not strictly proper
'sowers. the principle "'eh K"ver"ed she Present and leaving them without soy excuse fur toot re-
measore, mid teat which vegetated the Bill of 1797, sinning their payments its metallic currency as soon to come to this resolve two days before is number
of individuals hail a right to demote' their divi-
lie t Or. Tierney) .greed they were distinct, and he, as possible. Were it not for this measure the
deed.. As the former proceeding had not pro-
therefore. thought suer.' WAS 110 llel:elP.lty el twee!. accessory consequence would be, that the drain upon
Outing Ibishe O wing:tied, but it would perh a
O inestatire like the fooner. lie cooclua- the Bunk coffers would still go on, and the Bank duced a salutary effect, it wos proper that It should
rd by aribtriOg. that he saw tau reason fur the in. would be daily reducing the fund On which the ps have beets as
well of this had been done at au earlier period.
troductsois Of this Bill at the piesent nsoinetil, be public must ultimately rely for cash payments.
had, then fore, door h 1111
Isis duty 11111111 K what occur-
,Ms Right Honourable Friend hod intimated He agreed with the Right Honourable Gentleman
(Mr. Hueltiserm) that it was ofno consequence
ml to hum upon the subject. 015 d it was for the that the present Bill, instead of emanating from a whether the Bonk found gold to-day or to-morrow,
House to diastase of the question just as it pleased. Member of the Committee, should have been in-
-( Haw. hear.) treduced by the recommendidi ffff of a Minister of that would make no difference, for cash payments
could not with safety be resorted to, unless the
Mr. Itfceitoo felt the greatest enthermsement at the Crown, or by an Order iii Council. Now with
Battik restrained its issues. Under these circnm-
staiing his Onittio sto the liouae upon this subject. great deference to bit Right Hots. Friend, he should
stances. if it were at all right to pass tin,. dill, it
What he pr'
ktiovriog the partitoilars of the ulterior melisure to it would have been highly reprehensible to have ately.
LC remote,' in, his opinion with that the principle of interfered iis this mintier with the proceedings of a Mr. PSBR said, as the Learned Gentleman (Mr.
the proposed 1).11 ought to have been long since Committee appointed to inquire into so important Brougham) had
accused bins with referring to do-
adopted.—(llear.)—The Rigid Hoe. Gentleman a topic. It was his conviction that this Bill was currents, or which the House was not in pi mon,
had raid shat to continue the present course of necessary and ought to be adopted, and he had it was necessary for lona to offer a few observations.
making ply meets at the Bank would only expose stated his opinion that mornisig us the Committee. in the way of explanattro. A duty lind devolved
that Corporation to a 10,11 of 3s. per ounce. 'lnns —(lieur.) on him, to propose to the House s Measure of great
was one ~r the mamma why he (Mr. Ricardo) ap- Mr. BROUGHAM, in explanation, still condemned importance, and it was necessary that he should
proved of the 11111, which west to protect the Bank the transgression of the Orders of the House, in the state such restoos in its support, as, consistently
ersainat such it loss. Ile approved of the Bill, be- matinee in which it was proposed to proceed with with the situ•ation in which he "stood, as a Member
coo, it woitlil prevent the sum %stitch the Bank this Bill,
of the Bettis Committee, he might safely urge. Ile
roust tote in such a course being made by the sort Mr. CALCRAIPT could not concur in the necessity adduced such arguments as he conceived were per.
of perm... alio must derive advantoge from it. of this Bill, nor could he, for the sake of swing tiara to the ease,and he referred to • document. the
This Will would enable the Bank to mike those the Batik the loss oil a partial issue. consent to issues of gold from the Benkmbich he believed was in
e ffective regulaemis which would ensure the re. hurry a measure of this kind through all its stages ' the possession of every Gentleman. The only stiffer-
sumptism of cisli payments as soon as possible. in an irregular and unusual manner. Was it, he ' ence was, that the account laid before the House
The Batik wish, no doubt, here always an oppor- would ask, worth while to make this the subject of came up only to the 29th of January, and that
tunny of replettoliitig their coffers, and of pressor- a Special Report, and then to set aside all the eats- which he quoted came down to the latest 'period.
tug that full metallic circulation which, the blislted forms of the House, merely for a measure He thought it necessary to bring the account down
moment the restiiction ceased, would be available of this kind, and without assigning any adequate to the present time, localise the issues, at it late
for Ilse germeal purposes of the country. He con- reason for the proceeding. Ile was ready to admit period, were of more importance, its guiding die
sideted this Bill moat necessary and proper, and that he thought the principle of the Bill right ; House to a right decision on the question, than
only regretted that such a measure had not been but to the mode of giving effect to that principle, those which took place at an earlier date. The se-
emlier adopiett.—( Hear.) he had massy ohjecisons. Some attention ought to cond document was the Report of the Illim•ter of
Mr. MANNING regretted that the Right Hun. be paid to public feeling in a measure of this kind ; Finance in Paris, which every one was itristiainted
Gentler', a omuosite should have applied the term and he would ask the supporters of the Bill, wise- with. These were the °illy papers he quoted. and
"In it isle to the pi ocredings hitherto adopted by titer they thought the public would look upon the lie was most anxious to guard himself against quad-
the Book. Ile had no hesitation in saying, that measure with the same importance in which they big any document that was nut generally known to
the payinstits in specie, which it was the object of viewed it ? He strongly disapproved of the lute's- Gentletnets. Willi respect to what In. Hon. Fliend
finis 13.11 is suspeiol. had been made in cencurrence lion to suspend the Standing Orders, to make way (Mr. Manning) had said, he Is
merely to observe,
with the wishes of both Houses of Parliament. If for passing this Bill through all its stages in the that the partial issue of specie had not produced a
the step, therefore, on the part of the Bank, were course of the preseut night. good effect. Few indeed was then, its tits mond, any
it stupid °lie, there %sere other quarters to share Mr. Canned said, that for obvious reasons the great probibility that it could succeed. Tim Bank
in the stupidity which the Right Honourable Committee were precluded from now divulging adopted measures which led to the issue ol sor
Geolemati attached to il.—(ffear. hestr.)--Cir. the.grounds on which hereafter the measure mus 6,000,000/. of coin. Now, if that coin were ex-
CaMiltalleta. 4%111C11 could slut have been foreseen at be justified. He could not view Ow mode of car- ported to France, it was clear that the experiment
the time, had certainly, to a great extent, defeat• tying the principle into operation its the same light would fail—hut, if it were retained its this country,
td the intri,ttuita of site Bank. in making the pay• that other Gentlemen did, nor did he see any ma- qit was no less clear that so much %stolid be added to
ments to wen lie alluded. 'Else Bank could not terial difference between the course now about tocirculation of the country, that it would, pro
have foresethe negotiations reapecting the French be pursued, mod that which wet adopted ou a tupelo, assist the country banks, soul raise, in a cm.
luaus, the deficiency its the Insivest of 1817, the former occasion. To make the measure operative, trios proporti 0000 , the price of every article.
great insportetion ut foreign corn, and the various it was actually sad indispeissibly necessary to pas' The SIMAKILII suggested, whether the most re..
events which so materially effected the foreign ex. it with celerity, and it could not be passed without guide course would not be, to go into a Committee
changes, and disoopointed the views of those who • transgression of their rule,. Tim remedy, if of the whole House, and, in that Coinsuittee, to
thought the course taken by the Bank likely to applied at all, must be instantsneous. The Right Move for leave to bring iii the Bill. A motion haw.
ad to the best results. The Right Hon. Gentle- Honourable Gentleman had assumed many facts, big been made to being iii a Bill to restrain theGo-
man's prophet y IVaa rather at the safe side ;he which, if he were at liberty. from his knowledge in vernor and Cumpacy of the Beek of &ogled from
prophecies' after doe rod, and its 1819 pronounced the Committee. to discuss with him. he cduld toying certain notes in specie. the question must
upon the re.ult of the measure of 1817. But it was easily expose and refute ;he could, iudeed, give be. ,s That the said motion be referred to u Cotn-
u little hood, that he entirely threw out of his view them the most complete contradiction. The Bill, I mister of the whole House."
the events which had mode the total alteration in he was convinced. was actually necessary to fiscilie This motion was snide and agreed to. The
the effect of she measure. With reference to the tate
resumeme object they had all in view. nainely, House resolved itself into the Cent mittee, Mr.
preseut measure, lie would beg leave nimt dis- the tion of cash paymentS. He was per- Husstssou in the Chair—and it Was resolved that
tinctly to ray, that it was introduced without the fectly convinced that if the measure emanate
by the d from h
The House should aesresumed,k fur leave
dto bring its the mid Bill.
previous knowledge ur desire of the Bank. The au Order in Council it would be opposed
Right Huts. Gessilemon had complained of the Hououroble Members, wlso now seemed to think Mt. Hiustassoo moved, '1 That leave he given
mode of introductog she measure. On this point, that mallow advisable. He repeated thatthis expe- to briug in a Bill, to restrain the Governor rod
all he (Mr. Ma 111111 l g) should say, was. that if any dient was necessary to enable the Cons. maitre to ar- Compasty of the Bank of Ettgland from unstring
other course than the present were taken, he TM rauge and carry into effect their ultimate measures Payments its Cash, under a cettani notice given by
sure the Right Hon. Gentleman would have bees, for the permanent resumption of cavh pa Torn's, in them for that purpose!lt-Agreed to..
louder sit Int objections to it ;he would hove com- the most effective manner for the public interests. frr. PEEL moutedistely brought in the Bill,
Mr. C•LCRAFT wished to know the slumber of which was read a first lillirl
plaumd that the Privy Council bad interposed and The Bill set forth, that the continuance of par-
by this House to suqinre into the whole matter. weer liable to be called upon its specie.
He thought the present to be the safer course of .Ir. LANNING
.warr not able to furnish the Hon. the endeavour to procure a complete removal of the
which had been of late years imposed
proceeding •Ineis the Hoses could adopt,and that the Member with the its urination he required, but the restriction,

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sinners singe t tii‘pect the te.erclistits' accent,' s, hut,
when quest mos mintier lip the Law of Nations avow,
they would not he of
.much roe vice in settling the
&soured poilo.„
Sir J. NEWPORT agein expressed conviction
that coinniterrit melt ought to 1w consulted.
Mr. C. HUTCHINSON woe of flip..., loot Cesee
miolit nose, in the ilecimosi of which ottnisteoct4
knowledge would Ire of great service. 'nee otter-
chants had both lii their ',e.t.a.% 1411 I pro-
perty, and otiolit to receive ontoeX4e lehrf. Toey
settled in FrAtiet• tinder the Protection of the
Trrely of 178e—tint that Treety wes vonlated
to
1793, whet% they were stripped of t heir
.preorerty.
The Peddles WWI then IA iti tot the tattle.
Lord Cserriette.AGli 1141 d. he wished 'to adopt a
course which would put every Gentleinsii iei tom-
Wet, possessinu of dot measure he had in view wall
respict to the clai;ns nit the French floverkineid.
To-night the Bill could he read the scrotal time—it
eiogla tromorrow go through a Committer, 10 which
he would move on amendment—it should then lie
printed—and Its farther consideration he postponed
till after the holidays. Willi respect to the !ultima-
tum/lie HMI. Baronet had moved for airs the -geol.:et
of those claims. he hoped in he Ode to lay it before
the House this evemeg. The I lon. Baronet term-
ed to think that al .ort .I.f favour e•it Itt
act of c1e11114111% before &lint her—tllA fowled claims
were di:loosed of more speedily Ihun those of
commercial nature. This was tint the fact, as
short statement would prove. The whole cleimmos
on the French Goversimeot amended in moldier
to 1,046, and the gross bent% to meet their
was 10,700,000 tier. s in renter, at 5 per cent. which
wes equal to it cepital of t 00,000,000 of forieca, or
8.000,0001. sterling. Alum' 1:13,000,000 of 'raises,
or two-thirds' of the whale aniowit, had keel, ob-
taMed from the French OoveriiMria ; and, of the
whole auto, one-half had been already 'equals:skit,
and wus in it course of pi) nem' to different partite.
Those funds would cover shout (Mr-1111141 1.1. the
genes claims. The course adopted he the Coin-
inic'siote.re was, first to take the clatro• most eiisy tif
proofs and some of the demaiols which were iiicet
simple in their nature were of very large ....A.
'Else funded claims were, in their Hawse, ionnitely
more easy of access, than those of a mercantile
kind, which were often extremely complicated.
01' t,n4fi no less than 7315 were Of a flout-
ed chess ter, and the amount of money claimed
was 136,600,000 of francs out tir
Thia we% the CI isa of cheilis in which the Commies
smiler,. found they crinlil make most ea.y progrese,
and to three they hail parlicsalarly athudrJ. Tire
commercial clue e had proureded more :lowly. not
because is preference wa: giver. to one iiitert-st more
than another, but because the nature of the proof,
in the commercial caste, was of a so ry difficult dee
scription. An t.npr sewn had grime uhrood, ';tut
the cuminerciel • leileil were, in point of amount,
much larger doe, others. But, whether they
looked at the it 1111 l her iif claimants. or the sums
demendeil, they formed a-comparatively small part
of the general mess. Supposing the whole of the
commercial claim• proved to their fishiest extent.
they would be loom' mole, '10,000,000 of Fresicli
Imes, while the entire clalllla athotiloteti to
200,000,000 ; et) that the commercial dining West
not above 1-610.11 of the whole. With respect to
the alteration he meant to prointoe in the C
he begged to say akw wurds. He Could
assure the House that the Commissioners would
feel great satisfeciion in knowing, that provision
would be made to bring before a superior tribunal,
if it were necessary, any judgment they crime to.
There wits no precedent either in the caw of the
American or the Catioait:e Commomemett to au.
thurise such a proceeding ; but, wider existing
circametances, he conceived the House would be
justified in forming a precedent. The appeal could
only he made to his Majesty's Privy Cotnicil. Bur,
as that Court had much business to perform, it
would be too touch to throw nit its members the
duty of investigatiug the accounts of the chit meets
who appealed. He conceived the oppeel should be
of a circumscribed nature, relative to the law uf na-
tions, to the construction of the Treaty, or odh
respect to such specisl points, COlllaectett With
the execution of the Convention. us his Nleies-
ly's Council might he advised to separate from
the general ground ul claim—guarding, w reel
instance, against receiving new evidence. A
commission of three was es numerous ag
conveniently act on such an occasimi--for, if the
number were multiplied, they would ulso multiply
the difficulty of getting thmtigh the business. He
could not conceive that there was any resent) to
suppose, that the Commissioners who were to LW
appointed. wool'', from their habits, be unfit to
inspect commercial Cleans. Such an arleuisiene
would be a censure on all the Courts tit Law in
this country. where the Judges were cunstatiily in
the habit of trying commercial conies. Neither
would he, by nommatieg curninercial mess on the
commissiou, encourage a 'lotion that there was
a separate interest—that there was more of jut
dicial sympathy between a con:inertias% man mid
those bred in the saute line, than would be
found between Merchants, who swim forward
with claims, and those isidifferent persons who
would he appointed to atljedieute tilt-m.-
11e could have no objection to the clatinesite
being heard by Counsel, as, by that meanie all the
Marmite'? of the demand would be brought before
the Commissioners. Sonic obsetvations haul hero
made as to whet it would be advisable to do olds any
surplus that might remain, after meeting ull the
claims. Wins opinion, that was .1, 4111(.01011 winch l'ais
!lament ought not to take up. moil it Wile art,' that
there would actually be a surplus. In his ',Timms
there would not by any surplus. At Iv esent there
were 700 cases to be adjudicated, to not mire
half of the fund was applicable, which raised a
presumption, that, instead of a surplus. there
would not be sufficient to meet the ditfore sit dating,
Alert a kw wortls Irrim Mr. W. Swirls end Lord
CASTI.IIIISAIIitt. the BM was read the aerosol time,
and ordered to be committed tor 11111 l /Mr.
SETTLEMENT OF THE POOR BILL.
Mr. S. Boutss moved the %rectal rt maim( of the
above. Bill. Alter a few observali 111 l s from Mr.
Calcraft, Mr. listikre, Mr. S. Ifouriir, Mr. It.
Gordon, and Me. F. Lewis, the Hill was read the
second time, and ordered to be committed teatime-
/OW ; it being understood that she hhooks would
thou be tilled up. rod the consideration of the Re-
port postponed till alter the holidays., •
The Second reading of the bill to prevent the

'on tie Built of Flagland, • with' respect to
istymenti. MIA it was therefore eXpethent that the
111.1111 0(60 11111Vrrersits Ihe'stiopprol.
. _The Bill was read aow 1 time. irs.sell thsowth
a Comsisittee, was reported, and co:,-aril to herald 1
the third time, when rogrOlS4o.ll.
Mr. rect. after ~,,, yeti tie third rertilmc.
'Mr. Iludvow (,t it MEV Imok t h•A opportunity of
Yrbsr•vtitit, that 10.090,1,014. h d liven paid for corn
litsported r Frai.re alto t hot country. The pttee
'of corn. however, had fol'lcit MI much as to came
the ports to hr shot, tai-rotoir, the esti.« of tilt
dr.ros of spat te from this country %entre ~,,, vett.
The Bill was then warlike Mint time gud 'bussed.
ASSESSf.D TAXES.
' The Cusaccsi.tia of the Excititougit. in mov-
ing that the Comuntiee of Saintly he postponed
till Wellorsiltsy next. requested the Hilo. Baronet
(Sir M. Rolle%) to put off his motion, relative to
the Assessed Taxes. which stood for to-niorrow,
solid after the bolttlays, in hopes that some measure
'nigh, be adopted be• Ministers to meet his wishes.
Sir M. W. Itint.tv'sitiol • lie hid no possible ob-
jection to comply with the Right lion. Gentleman's
request. particularly as he entertaiiied strong hopes
that toe measure he intended to propose was of
such a uatmre as would receive the istpport of his
Al.jesty'r Gaverismesst. Withotit eNtering into soy
arzoo mem gm the question, lie would stile to the
11,use the stature of the object he had iu view. He
was &biros's of submitting to the consideration of
the Right Hun. Gridirons'', whether it would not
be better to allow a voluntary composition, in lieu
of the system of surcharges, which was now re-
sorted tn, with respect to the assessed taxes. Such
a plan would render the collection snore easy, would
do away all vexatious surcharges, and would render
the sal snore productive. He Mesta to take as the
basis of the assessment, the amount of assessed
taxes, r iised on the Sth of April, 1119—aud he
(would prowls', that every individual who wished to
c lit/11111i for the tax, should pay in addition of
S or cent. to that, his last assessment. On pay.
tog such addition, he should be allowed to keep
whatever establishment he pleased, without being
required to resider any further account, under the
Assessed Taxes Act. Let his establishment be
what it might, he should not be liable, beyond
what he paid for assessed taxes in the preceding
year, plus the before-mentioned 5 per cent. lie
intended further to propose, that this system should
be adopted, in the first instance, for three years,
Certain—because otherwise individuals would be
unwilling to increase their establishments, a point
of great importance to the country, since it tended
to the employment of An additional number or
artisans and labourers. A regulation should alto
follows providing that if liovernnient, at any fu-
ture period, increased the *rousted taxes, those Who
load enlarged their establishments, under the system
Ile proposed, should not be allowed to suffer by
such increase.
The Cilstntst.nit of the Excegguea said, the
plan of the Hon. Baronet was founded on very fair
princirles. snot was worthy of Serious consideration.
But, lie feared, if it were attempted to be carried
into execution, many difficulties would be found to
oppose themselves to it.
Mr. Ttextsiw hoped, that, in deciding on this
question, the Right Host. Gentleman would exer-
cise his own discretion, and slot confide in the Ing-
estions of the tax-gatherers.--ifiear, hear.)
Sir M.W. RIDLLT—" if the Right Hon. Gen-
tleman dues not introduce a measure of this descrip-
*lost, 'I mean to propose a motion Au the subject.
on the 47th of April."
The Committee of Supply was then postponed
till Wednesday next.
ADJOURNMENT.
Lord CASTLERZAtIM gave notice. that it was hit
intention to move, on Wednesday next, that the
House, at its risiog, should adjourn to that day
fortnight.
CLAIMS 'ON FRANCE BILL.
Lord CAIITLIMEA9II moved the second reading
of the Bill relative to the Claims of British Subjects
on the French Government.
Mr. fiusstssow, prior to the second reading, rose
to present r Petition from•certuiss merchants, hay-
mg commercial claims oh the French Government.
The Petition prayed, first, that they might be heard
by Counsel, before the British Contmissioners—
and secondly, that, in cases au difficult and delicate
nature, they might be allowed to bring their claims,
by wry of appeal. before some other tribunal. He
hoped his Noble Friend would introduce into the
Bill some clause to meet the wishes of the Pcti-

(inners.
Sir J. NsweortT was convinced. that effectual
justice could not be adiniiiistered to the commer-
cial claimants. unless some Members were added to
the commission, whose experience in commercial
affairs would enable them to enter fully into the
subject. He understood. that only one commer-
cial claim had been decided, hut that a great
number of fended claims hail been examined
and adjudicated. This he could shew, if the
gapers which he had moved for un a previous day,
were laid on the table. He conceived it war not
fair to pay exclusive attention to the funded claims
, —fur, If the interests of any set of claimants de-
manded prompt and efficient relief, they were
sorely those of merchants, who had sent their pro-
perty to frame. not merely on the faith of the
general lea of nation*, but under the provisions
of the Convention of 1788. which directed,
that, in the event of a war breaking out, enti-
cing time should be given them to remove
their goods. On the other hand, the funded
claimig' were in this predicament, that, at the
very time their demands were• receiving favoura-
ble consideration, when a speedy decision followed
their applications. Government declared. if, in fu-
ture, individuals chose to pierce their wealth in fo-
reign
hanks, they must look for redress from those
whom they intrusted with their money, and need
not expect that this country would again interfere
in their behalf.
Mr. HUSKILION said, he was as anxious as the
Right Hon. Baronet to afford due protection to the
commercial claimants. who deserved that ample and
speedy justice should be administered towards them.
He did not, however, approve of having Commer-
cial Commissioners. The disputes arose ou what
was conceived to be an erroneous construction of
the Treaty ; and, if a doubt existed, as to the mean-
ing of the Treaty, it was fit that it should be de.
tided by a higher tribunal. by persona
tive
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