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I.rowyers. with the Attorney-General at their head,
and amounted in the whole to e 4,0001. a-year.
ill
condemned those prosecutions its the strangest man-
ner. and thought they amounted to a grievance
which called aloud for a reisiedy.—( lear.j —He
never could support the imposition of these new
Mr. Aldirman WIAIII9IAR also strongly objected
to the proposition of the Right lion. Gentlem it.
opposite. -.was glad at leugth to Bud that this
system of delusion and expedients, so thug practised
by his Majesty's Ministers, had &lien to the ground,
cud that this *ere at length compelled to come
forward Madly's* that they would resort to any
Measure sooner than one of econelny....(yeaf,
hear, lied?.) —lie never could consent to the on.
posjtiors of new taxes in the preseut state of tie:
country. wr4 not at once propose a proper:, *)
tax ? The Minister knew very well that he don' t
not make such an experiment, for theu he would b.
deserted by the great mass of his supporters, who
were auxious to throw .the burdens upon any
der, but their °vise going into the pro-
priety of the particular new taxes. the tint question
WWI. was the country able to hear thrill lases ?
thst was the real question.--4/frar.)--Ile denied
it was, and therefore be opposed these fresh burdens
upon the people. Eheting the war, the artificial
increase of the price or commodities, and the mono-
poly of British bode, enabled the people to pay
excessive burdens; but stow that trade had found
its level, so should taxation—it was in vans to straits
the curd—it was impossible fur the people to pay
they had previously done, au ruorrisotis *tight a tai-
UiIUIP. in tins state of things it was idle to attempt en
increase of the public burden*, and it was cruel to
lay them on the poorer classes---(!fears—it was
cruel to tax the pint of beer, which enabled the poor
man to recruit himself fur fresh labour--(el largli.)
_Ths. humour was. he thought. ill-timed—there
were Gentlemen present who had no opportutsity
of arcing the distresses of the poor, and who, iu
their hours of luxury and ease. and over their
,sine, were little competent to appreciate the slen-
der meals of the humbler classes—he who saw
knew well what they suakred. But the Bight
luntinrable Gentleman. in his malt tax, said, " 0 !
the brewers are acting dishonestly, and I must
participate in the fraud on the public."—(!liar./
Was this becoming in a Minister? Certainly not.—
f /Jeer, Lear.)—And thus poor people, whose food
clossiated of a little bread and is little beer, were to
pay a still higher price for such sustenance, be-
cause their superiors had beeu guilty of fraud. Tee
country would as ill endure this species of coudect
on the part of the Minister as they did his lottery
expedients.—(//ear.)—He would come again to
another tax—that on the importation of wool. The
evil of such a measure was this—the amount of
woulleu goods exported was up to 9,000,000. alums
ally, and the amount, of imported wool was only
one half of the *glue of the manufactured article.;
so by this tat the classes * little employed in the
manufacture of the article would lose, and at such
a inouseut as the present, wheu their labour was au
ill-requited. the benefit of labour which produced
to them no less a sans than four millions and a half
yearly.—The worthy Alderman then alluded, in
terms of strong reptobation, to the large number of
absentees, who spent the entire of their property
out of the country—who formed, as it ware. the
pensioners, for wham the lower classes were obliged
to labour so hard and under so many disadvantages.
, 'Else Ministers may talk of their majorities, and
boast of their influence elsewhere—but be was one
of those who thought the Prince Regent would
have little difficulty so finding successors for them,
and that too for the advantage of the country.—
But, if no other individual would do it, he would
put the Right Hon. Gentleman to the lest—he
would move for a Committee of Members, neither
placemess nor pensioners. to examine into the state
of our finances—and, if possible, to remedy the
existing evil.—(Hear, how, hest.)—He was sorry.
after the fatigue the House had undergone, on the
preceding night, to take up so much of their time—
but he would not be doing justice to his feelings.
having been sent to that House. without a penny
el:rein/cif , by the
bedingeaortst mepeaktrhopois lorisnotf the
ignentsß,ri
de-
clare his abhorrence of this atrocious systaisliedh em-
hire,
( lhar, hear.)—Tbr Right Hon. Gentleman might
bring up his supporters from Cornwall and Devoe-
shire—lse might boast of his majorities—oud decisive.
that he possessed the confidence of the country—but
of this he was conviuced, that no Minister would
ever secure the confidence of time people of Bug-
land, who did not, more than by words, commt-
*erste their sufferings—who did not pursue a sub-
stautial system of economy and retrenchment, in-
stead of talking about it.—(Hear. dean)
'f lie first Resolution, declaring the repeal of
18,000,0001. of taxes, since Isl 4, was then agreed
to.
the question being read ors the second Re-
solution, which states the consolidation, by the
56th of the King. of the revenuer of England slid
Ireland, and the deficit of the net revenue of the
latter country to the amount of 1,800,0001. es com-
pared with the interest and charge of her funded
and unfunded debt, which must he bade good
from the revenue of the United Kitigthia—
Sir Joust NEWPORT rose and *aid, he sroulii
now propose to the House the amendment of who'll
Ise had given notice last night. fie conceived, as
the Revolution was now worded, that it would
carry to every person in the country, and'hand down
to all future times, a direct and positive censure
on the people and the Representatives of Ireland,
for net Levies 'wade dee mortices to hellish a just prupse•
tics of revenue to the treasury uf Ike empire. Now as be
was cuavinced that that part of the empire had lima oust
to the utmost extent it cueld hear, and eves le a genie,
°deo, u proportion, than Ragland, eine. she Hume, h'
email satmama to that Resailuttoe, as it now.stood, awl he
would therefore move ass aseseadeseut to it. He was fat:,
led in saying that helium' was Mud more is proportion
since the Henn thee &witted, by die positive statement el
the Finance Committee of 1111 h, Ilse year berme the cumuli•
dation of the revenge,. They declared, iii their Repoli.
" that, large as the awtorut kad been of lac:tent email,.
in Greet-lkitaia, that, in Irelaad, it bed iiierened in 1u
infinitely grader mon dye." He weield, therefore, ssi.
OW Flossie was tt law sad licaesiable, that, oil die
face of theiri 40100 Id• they should Merribe a 'muical
of the Wile debt lectured by !retard, without ano
sesteg she large supply winch .she had furnished to the re
venue of the empire ?—(hisur,hwar.}—lii order to ewe whet
Indeed had day, with respect to the reveller, he memo to
sluts we addition to that Reweliitimi, which would Mew
at
was raised by taxation Ireland dues the Vain lad 114
'mein, agues) smutnit of Maine, previously 10 that crest.
It would then Ire seen what sloe had dune to meet she heal