The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1806-05-09 00:00:00

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Mr. PAM. raid, the Hoe. Gentlemen, (Mr.
Ilanks,) would shortly have an opportunity of put
tic g his suggestion this night into the shape of a mo-
tion, as in the course of nest week, he, (61.r.Paui,)
'mild submit to the House, the Oude and Fer-
ruckabad charges. He then proposed a long string
of motions for different accounts and papers rela-
tive to India. which were agreed to.
Sir .1. NEWPORT gave notice, that to-mor-
row he woul.l move for leave to bring in a Bill for
the better regulation of the Malt I)aties in Ireland,
d also for 4 Bill to regulate annuities.
On the motion of Lord DOUGLAS, an account
the grat.:icuts, pensions, and annuities, made and
gable iu India, front the year 1793, to the Latest
period,
On the motion of Mr. WINDHAM the House
went into a Conimittee upon the &II for the Repeal
of the Additional Force A.


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In reply to A question by Mr. Yorke, the Right
Moo. Secretaty stated, that the Bill had for L. ob-
je4 to repel the Al recited, to retain the force
' rais.:o. un.ler it, and to remit Al the fines itl,ich had
been imposed upon parishes for deficienci ...s well
'where the money had been paid, as where it was mill
'in arrear.
Mr. BANKS thought the clause which went to
rescind the penalties, a very serious and alsemtrg
one ' • and. much as he thought it exueffieof t- •-
peal the Al, rather than consent to this II 1., -. Jr
such an enaltment, he would withhold his .i sent
altstaether "I he great diffirence oloseres'e in
the operation of the tax in contiguoas I-z ; ills,
could only at e from supineness on the part of
the parish officers in the one, and meritorious
anist,ty in tit, other ; they rught not, therefore,
to be put noon the same forging. In no in-
stance. heretofore. had the broad p.inciple of
remitting and refunding penalties been resorted
to in such a case, and, in the present instance, he
thought it would be most ungraciously corr.inoc.ced.
What lesson would it hold hold cut :o Cements-
sooners and officers, under future digs of Parlia-
ment ?—" Doi as little as you can under the tax ;
throw all the impediments in the way of its execu-
tion that you can, and some t:me or another you I
will be exonerated; and get commendation from
those who will repeal it"— f hear! bear !) It was
a precedent which would teach the people,
nutted of yielding °bedtime to the law,
to calculate upon to repeal. and less to re-
gard the statute book, than the opinion of some
k.idieg men, who akin oppose an are. and
whose success they waulii look to and anticipate.—
'to raise a great military few*, tie House would
cert.inly adapt the mildest made : but it might
eventually become necessary to resort to compulsory
me.saros i.what. in such a cm, would be the con-
knots of the parish. whick bad ennformed to the
are, and, by raising the IMO MOW& exhausted its
means 1-.' Neer 1 lifer I) e k would be extremely
distressed ; whilst Oa gen*, vellikb had aged in
defiance of the law, Wald esporisous little incon-
vot.,ence, havtag famished so meg meder the at.
W,-,stever was side low. die regit &sold be
taught that they noratdoostorst so I id bis thought
iris
it a most extravagant aid ' to pro-
pose, as the Right HIS: . M.' Jell
did, we only that it eniallt be triektatiniiib line
runity, but that those who
.pioldod abeduseittoke
did it as an essence which others emsp
Mr. WINDHAM said, the Hon. Gended. arme. is
pr,,v;gg his point, had not proved sod epees 1111
be bee; .iot stomp any mode by which the 61111011111110•
nieeee he contvi .: ed of could he obvisted.TbeeilMi-
tion Al Force Al must either be suffered so euntelbh
or t to elotise must, by repealing it, repeal also the
enormous fines is imposed, as it ! ad never been at-
tempted to be said. that the obj-a of the AR was 7e
raise *early a million of money. s. ;di, howese ,
weed be r •quired from 0-e det au ~t g iariabei, if • : e
pebntites were to hr erforced. Toe main objec-
tion of the Hon. Gentleman to remit them, seemed
to be a consideration for the Fe• lings of those who
bad tarnished men, when they found that others
wete not obliged to do so too :
Su+aoroci miens, soca& sots dolons.

It did not, however, become the House to pro-
vide company for these, nor to extend a burthen
fu they than could be avoided. It was not the
banging back of reluelance, but real inability, that
occasioned parishes 'o he deficient in provi,!ing
own; and the defaulter might be -onsideted equally
zealous as the ptoveditor, and certainly more correct
in rnndnet, as those who had found men, had not
bet n very nice in their means. It was certainly ode,
that the Hon. Gentlemen, who had so often <aid that
they wanted men, and not money, now thought it
right to infli& so excessive a burthen upon the
patirhes, as the fines amounted to But, having
cncr got the cash, eye defer reldttus; the money
mos in is mouse-trap, and was nev:r to be Vika-
904'ed. The Right Himourable Gentleman pro.
ceeded, :n a vein of humour, to re-ilNe won of
the objettifins be had formerly advaseM against the
Ati, and said, that he moved its repeal on account
of its utter failure, and total change of obied, and in
petulance of the Resold withal the Knagel•
Sir EDMUND HARTOPP fully uncurled in
the propriety or repealing the Al. bet thseght the ,
"trim? of the 17
laWedly idalnWs the
admit, of
idir country en occasions.
Sir VI IE liner salty Tidies
whom the *mast Abets bed net ancoaaiad is pro-
"ring a sige
parish
tr.
47_ s the c
eaeq ot:refer in-
e suety
tililt.'neaPrilinffir red been ;one; bat as the crieepe
seta were employed by tie/R;no's P33:410 hurl been
reseed in this. the former bad as appestat 'UPC'
riosity to seal,
Mr. GEORGE VANSITTART said a few
words in reprobation of the Additional Farce Bill.
Mt. SHAW LE FINIE said. eisee4be molter
to be refereed cool he applied to the sae of the
poor of the perishes, and to nemrsey porrnses•
Mr. WINDHAM observed, that there was a
ci.ure in the Bill, directing she application of the
so thus. purposes.
General TA RLEI ON defended the AA which
it was proposed to repeal, and said. that the men
raised und'er it, had been declared by many emi-
nent Military Officers to be fit for any service, and
to blend with the finest regiments.
1-1-• Lawrence, Mr. Finical, and Mr. Feller spoke
in favour of the repeal of the At. Mr. Ellison
thought, however, that tiae penalties ought not t 4
be ;endued.

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