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th•r• terra lo the itetuls or the Attilc of E,..g1n..(1
übehryis: hills to the amount of forty.four mil.
tracs. Noel whilst that remains it must prevent the re-
• J:niU rash pajntroia.Th+li measiire, however desir.
n',lo, snarl, he laid, hear directly and unfavourably
r. 55 the ;eyesore. The return to cash payment,
•sc.elil lease Ow effect of lowering the prices of
es.re coin duty; and the &cower of prices would
wieduce a decrease or revenue. and the iitcotne
slight laecoine trio small fur the expense' of the
mate. He saw no chance of returning to cash pay-
ments. unless a great portion of the debt was
Cm led, reed to adopt some general and retentive
of taxation. This must be adopted, as a
•ierra.ore necessary to remedy the evil complained
i.t. Ile said he was out at sill surprised to
iwer the Chem.-7110r of the Exchequer lament
the extent of she unloaded debt ; and lie we.
.sire the Ri2ltt Honourable Gentlemen would
ire very merle obliged to any 'wool) all.,
-..u1(1 point out any mode of getting rid of it.
Astoria/re cause, lie Paid, that might ,irevesit the
Hank from returning is, rash payments, might be.
1641 ihrV were not 10111,14 t d with a airfficiont (loan-
ti!v art .Iwcie. That Corporation, storing the pr.
rood of the restriction, a period of liiag duration,
heal, it roust he cartifesserl, large profits; and per-
bans Os- e were nut iirdteposeil, whenever they
.Itinald be called till to pay in cash, so part with
their gains. lint the (timidity of specie
should he very considerable indeed that would be
requisite in that evetit—a quantity of costar much
14rIer. th.iir was neceseary au oruniary occas ,
Another cause against site reteerei of cash payments,
kilted by the Noble Lord (Castlereagh), was, that
from the elate of the exchange, the rectos. metals
moot necessarily gu out of the country. This, lie
sail, might bp true, ea far at it regard. partial pay-
ineeits; but where the Batik pays to a conai-
dereble extent, and the balance of trade is 'getout
us, the precious metals will go abroad, but they
are sure to glut the market anal to return. Thi.,
he said, was no new principle in exchanges.
There was then in his view three causes which pre.
vented the B ink from resuming their payments.
Bnt it wo admitted that the country cannot •on
without returning to cash payments : the cuily epees.
boo was as to the precise time. To him it less
e Ivo that they must begin by getting rid of the
ur.funded debt—end equally clear he was that loins
great and efficient alteration should he made in the
system of taxation. T.- I • t appeared a wise rind
necessary nortesiire, apd hr could not ate any sound
objection that could lie rustle to it. They hail
already disbanded the heavy. the must coostitutiottal
*oil most Fopular force; they lied disbanded the
army, that hail achieved st) iilinch—sseevvelty and the
Constitution required it. Why out also 'reuse the
pritici pie hibernation ? From a Report formerly snide
by a Committee of the I loose. it appeared, her said,
licit the rallerliMl of the revenue muminleill to four
rnillloisr, and ifa Cosninittee Were to inquire iota the
different branches of taxation, and the anode of col-
lecting taxes, hr had no doubt hut a console-fable
treviog might he mink. Hr would animist ton, that
the assessed taxes, tire taxes tot houses anal on sem.
down—the roost impoposler, the most odious, and
the most oppies-ive of all boxes, should he repealed.
These texts c:eated, he said, universe' diseleto.fac-
tutu—they interfered with the domestic happiness
of the reople-..they brologiat tax collectors, either
fur the purpose of levying the titers, or for the
purpose of 'lniurspinvi against the inhabitant, eter-
nally about every soup s door. For these taxes he
would aubsiitior a prooroy tax, not an income tax ;
that tax that would fall upon the rich, the miser,
and the ahlierrire : he would establish that system
of texati ~,, that mould increase the revenue, whilst
it relieved the laborious and useful part of the
comaturiity felon the premiere of imposts, which
were as generally oppressive as they were illltlClaaliy

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Mr. BERN X LI. sail he would bring to this tpleas
tion a hale eommois sense. and, lie trusted, a great
share of honesty 4lid tiolrpellflenee—lie came Into
the House with no him, too ills mind: lie listened
with every attentimi to evert word from the Right
Hon. G-ntlemaii who opened the debate. as
lie did to what fell f. the Chancellor of the
Exchequer *lilt the Noble Lord, and lie would
Illy, with great amenity, that if these states
inents haul the effect on hi. unprejniliceil
urind of removing the Impressimis mink tin hint
by the lu
111.11441. eXII4IIIIIIOIII Of the night Honour-
able mover, his would, t besiteti ..... vote for
Ministers, having no brae ou hi insert, and anxious
only to lute secorilsog to the hos.e:•!. dictate* of lost
judgment. We me tt,ltl, he said, by the Noble
Lord, to Iwwure of takiog a false step; lie would
rather say. the [loose should beware of not adilii.g
another false step to the many that had hero Ultras.
They also heard eomething from the. Noble Loral
about the legitimate elements of commerce. For
his 'tart he did slot always comprrimild tl.e mys-
tical anti.. a of the ;V,oble Lord ; but the noly
el. meats of commerce he knew of, were those
of fairness, of ',proms,. and of probity, and
the fair enculation of the precious en. tall. Be.
fore be sat down, be would beg to bay a word
as to what fell frost, an Hon. Menther, whims
be supposed to he asi witepeinleid man. breame lie
declerril Mono If to be so. That iiusmurahle
Gentleman pond he taw very little ditiercnee
twee,' the Minister mill the Oppoxithoi. If he
thought so. be would recommend the Honourable
Gentles's:to to vote for the motion—it would be a
proof a that iiidependence which he boosted of,
beers", where a question II wit 1131.ored as in the
111101 d of an lions.t man to appear of little conse-
quence bow he voted. he certainly would snore con-
sult his clarracter Nod bls independence by acting
its a manlier 11,4 puts him above the imputetion of
servility or the suspicion of dependance.
Mr. CANNING commenced by saying he wind!
nut detain the I louse et great length, but tiller the
allusion that been anode, civil iudeed, in the
lagliraxelegree to him. in the speech of the Right
flu ..... motile Cientlemou who opened the debate,
;Jr.. felt he was called on to state the grounds on
olib Is his vote wohlil be founded. 'rim (peanut
at tame w 45, whither the. restriction siluuld be
renewed. after an inquiry was had into the
affairs of the Bank ? He said. that since he first
brooght his mind to inquire into the subject he
correeelered it but in owe coneidned the
Batik restricti..n as a great departure from a.srione-
tary syarena—he aver looked with swingy to the
time of its abolition, and with regret and &sap-
patittneot to eery' ciicoonatance that preseitted it ;

and he spolae, he said, not merely 14;4 own tenth.
menu, but the b.-wino-tits eon-mimed by those who
sat near him. When lie and his fn.-lids Irk it
their painful duty in the comae of last
to Karnes,- the renewal of the l(cstrictimi Act
they did so, eiltertatiiiiiK a confident and pleaai .g
hope, that it would hsve been the last rune they
would be in have recourse to that usimmttee ;
and lie pledged himself to the Howse, that it wsis not
until a very late proud to autumn, tip to the mouth
of October, or, lie might 611 V, November, they en-
tertained a confident expectation that there would lie
nu further tierev•ity of applying to the House. Up
to that time they (die )lint.ters) entertained that
hope; but aaot her view of the question conveyed to
their minils the pion vro hou unwilllug convictitm,
that it woold be the it duty to propose to Parlia-
ment, though fur a limited • , the further cots-
tiometitee of the Restriction Act Ur •rated slits
with candour and sincerity ; the Rigid Honourable
Gridirons's witlihai his bellnr if lie pleased.
'they certaitslv looked to an early ui-r;•ill, the be-
ginning of March, 1820, for the final expiration
or the Art, and they ',deluded to propose that mea-
sure. without proposiog any inquiry ; lost if at the
expiration of that time it should still unfortunately
appear necessary to continue the restriction, it was
the intention's!' Ministers that such a promised should
not conic from theist without first establishing the
most minute, the fullest, and the most satisfactory
investigation. On the first night that Parliament
met, the Right Hun. Gentleman (Mr. Tierney)
gave notice of his motion, ;old that proceeding cer-
tainly did not change the course that Ministers in-
tended to proceed in, but a communication from
the Bank had the effect of inducing them to
change their intentions; it placed them in a
new situation. The Right Ilonourahle Gentle-
man !night taunt them tor the imputed unstea-
diness of their measures; hut how would he taunt
them if they had come down to the House,
keeping hack the information they received, to ask
for a further restriction without inquiry, as was
their original intention—to ask for it as a tempo-
rary expedient, whilst they were convinced that they
should look for a further renewal of the law ? They
did slot di. 511 —1 hey were, of course, prepared to hear
the attacks of Opposition; but the) felt it their first
ditty to let Pierbanient share the light which had been
let in on themselves. He would now beg, lie said,
to auticipite on attack often made as to the ap-
pointment of the Secret Committee ; he would Yll.
ticinate the ten times repeated sarcasm, which was
too dull mid too stale fur the ears of an old Perlin-
mew, but it was necessary to repeat it for the editi.
eat too of the young Members :—A C lire by
ballot is to be appointed ; lists are made out at each
side of the House ; by some chance the list at
this side finds Its way to the other side of the !louse,
and theta, to the utter amazement of every body, the
Hon. Gentlemen tire enabled to mention the names
that appear on the face of these lists. And her.,
amid the Right Hon. Gentleman, 1 will repeat, for
the amusement of the House, a joke—a very old
one, to be sure, hut good enough for new Members.
—( 4 lough.)—llawisie got the list of 1111111C1 iis
their 'alpacas ))))) „ ata Honourable. Gentleman will
rise, sod, tarter requeatiog to know from the
Speaker whether it be a breech of order to
lay wagers ita the Home, lie will gravely otter
to lay a round sum, that he would actually re-
peat the munes on the Committee—this, lien said,
was generally performed by some Gentlemasa on
the snood bench, but he did clot know who
would he self on the 'dement occasion, to
;perform for the amusemesit and instruction of
the new Members. For his own part lie would
say, that in hits judge-amid a Committee formed that
did not comprels-tuf Gentlemen impartially selected
from each aide of the House, would be of little
value indeed. He should consider such a Com-
mittee as an moweinly contest between political
party, when it sl Id have • beets a search after
political troth. It was, he said, to be la-
mewed, that twiny persons considered not the
safest hot the slimiest way of getting rid of
the Rook result:boo. Of these he would
am. that though they might he very bright
philosophers, they were nut practical politicians.
Ile had heard of doctrines on the subject which
appeared to hint no less extraordinary than they
were dangerwis--a flight of pamphlets had
lighted upon the town—but all this only made
loin more unxiouv for a lad Committee of' in.
query, whose impartial investigation would throw
new light upon the subject, if it did not. as
hr looped it inutile', snide the public mild.
Ile thought the Right Wm. Gentleman had quite mistaken
the gmoon, and mosesiderdood his It Olt Hon. rrii ad.
His Right HMI. Friend had not said that the porisint (#f the
rommisnication made l.y the Hanle was the inability of that
luouht to res iiiii e easinent. is, cash. He COIII4 have wished
that in . levy the CYMlTlutlication haul tat esi place twenty.
four burns curlier item it had. n• it would then have saved
tom front slur blimp he Icol received in the political skir-
mishes with the Hight Hum Gentleman opposite, of onked
those could be called skirmishes--