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'for the- Perpose of inrfig disk *eras.
.." that the duties now payable on lialtinlOrest
Ilsitaiik.-aid Ireland shall Aiwa ma be no loupe
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"jeayelile.
Mr. LICTCYSTRIL seconded the amendment. He
Could sot consent to keep op the re anent of this
tax merely in compliance with the solicitation of
those persons who were interested in its continuance,
for it appeared to biro that for Cientlerneu to solicit
the keeping of a tas iu which they bads private
interest, savoured of any thing but the essence of the
pure spirit of patriotism.—(Hear, and laughter.)—
He advised the Right Hon. Geutleman 16 give it
up. and fistretry to purchase public good humour
and noioistetial popularity, Commodities which were
grewing scarcer and dearer every day ; and not to
let slip an opportimity which tniglit never again
occur of making so large a purchase on such rearun.
able terms. The Right Hou. (hollering') it seems,
expected by the increased conium si ofptio: salt, in-
stead of the 200,0001. which he proposed to re-
tain, to get 400,000 L So much the worse, said he;
—(Laughter)—for the thing that was must to be
avoided was, to take money out of people's pockets,
and the thing most to be desired was to leave a
shilling in them, if they happened to have one.
—(Laughter.)—lt was said that this resonant of a
tax was necessary, iu order to mane the clear OW..
plus of 5,000,0001. for the siiiking fonds agreeably
to the remlutiou of Perliemerit, sod to keep faith
with the public creditor. He was no advocate for a
breach of public faith, he admitted the 611.0 of the
public creditor to his dividends, and he was willing
to struggle for the payment of them es honestly
and as pertinaciously as any moo—certaiuly quite as
honestly and pertinaciously as thole who in the teeth
of the Act of Parliament subjected theta to the
operation of the income tux.—(Near.)—And there.
fore it was that he wished for the total retina of the
salt tax, for he was sure that it was quite impos-
sible for Mr. Peel's Bill, the payment of the sorb-
' Indust', and the surplus of 6,000,008/. to exist
together.
Mr. J. SMITH supported the amendment, be.
cause the duty ou salt interfered with the pour man
in all the arrangements of his domeviic economy ;
and he was coefideist that this additioual reduction
could be afforded without trenching upon the rue.
plus of 5,000,0001. which be was ready to admit
could not be encroached upon without a brra.k of
public faith, except ins case of paramount netessity.
But if this additional amount of taxuticn could not
be given up without touching the surplus of
6.000,0001., still he should be disposed to say, that
they had better take off the mit tax entirely and
let the tanners wait till a more convenient oppor-
tonity•for the reduction of the tax ou leather.
Mr. Dealsors supported most cordially the
amendment of the Hon. Member far Cumberland,
because bethought the remnant 91 this tax ought
to be taken away. He must, however, object to
the doctrine of his Hon. Friend (Mr. J. Smith),
who said, " repeal this trx at all events, and let the
tanners wait." He protested against the injustice
of depriving a large and respectable body of men,
whose capital was embarked in the leather trade, of
that proportion of relief which had been promised
them, to bestow it on others.. With respect to the
keeping of faith with the public creditor, he ad-
mitted the right of the fundholder to his dividends,
and that it was incumbent on us to make every
exertion to pay them ; but that being dime, suf.
ificieut, in her Opinion, was achieved fur the pre-
servation of public faith.
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Sir. LITTLETON baviug voted against the motion fur
the repe•l of the salt tax on a former occasion, wished
to state his reasons for supporting the amendment of ti.*
Hduourable Member fur Cumberland. He opposed the
motion in the former instance, because be thought the
tax neeeaury to the maintantasee of the surplus of
6,000,0001. which the House had resolved to keep up for
the purpose of a sinking feud. lie regretted, however, that
that resolution had bees departed from, by the adoption
of a measure on •the recommetiotatioa of the Chancellor
of the Exchequer, fat exteudiug over a loos period of
• yearn the charge fur 'helium tire y to defray the amount
of half-pay mud naval and military amnions; which, though
it uumivally hit the sinking futuJ untouched, tracked it by a
sort of counter current that affected it eery severely. He
therefore thought, that it was no longer necessary to subject tics
country fur net trifling a sum to the operation of a tax that
was is...generally disliked, is order to keep up a mere slew
of a sinking food; besides, If it should hereafter he found
ueeessary to supply a substitute for this tax, a belt he lo..ked
to the public spirit soil exertious that had heretofore been
displayed, be could not but feel convinced the Chaucellor of
the Exchequer would dud no difficulty in gettiug the Hutton
to accede to a proposal far that purpose.
Mr. Alderman C. SMITH thought it would be much het.
ter to keep the tax which they now bail, than be tiect,sk.
tided to look fur another to substitute fur it hereafter. Toe
inconvenience of turning out of employment and whit-mg
to distress eight hundred pour wretches of Esc it:tow...—
(Haar, hear! and laughter)--that, he thought, ass an evil
that greatly eseeeded any benefit the public could thrive
from the total repeal of the tax.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER regretted
that as arrasigemeut, which, when it was at first proposed
appeared to have given such general seta:Kt:on, •dtould
have sine* bees disturbed by the oppositiun which lend been
raised against it, and should uow again have to etict.unite
the araeudment of the Hon. Member fur Cumbettaud,
which, if adopted, could not but end in diaappointnieut to
the country. He felt it to he R duty that he owed 10 the
situatiuu which he filled, to maintain the integrity of that
surplus which some Hun. Members 'mood so an (tingly duo.
posed to Rollick ; he (rift it also to he a duty be owed to
the poblie credolor' by whose exertions he had hoes,
enabled to make those arrangements by which he had
preposcd to • ffect three reducns from which a COObidt r•
able relief would be derived to the country; and, tin rerun%
he wan bound to ptraevere in opposing the total repeal. The
resolution which load been agreed tit no the Committee was
the result of much attentive cousidennion of the subjirt,
which Nil hint to the conclusion, and he had found itii ream:.,,
upon Norther deliberation and Inquiry, to alter the judemtut
he bud then formed—that a partial reduction of bulk Ike
taxes, that upon salt sod that upon leatkei, weeld laird a
more beneficial relief than the total repeal of tither tax
if, however, the House *humid determine upon'
a total repeal of the salt tax, he should be compelled to
Mauldin& that part of his Resuletion which related to the I
reductiou of the tax upon leather.—(heir, bear„ hear )
He hail been accused of wishing to retain the rt msioder of
the salt tax for the pefpoßell Qf Bel licutitinen.
should know that the Teroatiary bed sotbine to du with that
petrustage i thcoffieers of the Excise Witty all appointed by .
their own Buerdi The saving is the expesitie of collection
that could be erected by the,,,iiire repeal of the lame would I
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