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diil it become the prneliee In hold up ?ilia taN
public reprohatims, or wanste likely that the lie
would continue to hear it in better hoinratr aher
they heard that a resolution was pla,••••1 rlry tier
J.iurnals of the flouse of Cammoset. .ter tat one y
Its being unjust and ()Narrow.. ? of all the meal„,
proposed to reduce the alleged ill effect 1.1 1/.q., tat,
he thought the one propoiwil was the o;•
lineable, for by is gradual alrolition they stri:l4l ht
effectually injorisig the tfol/Plllll., while the toler,i,it
existence of the then admitted evil would keel.
olive irritation arid constant complaints, if it;,
alteration of the kind Isiotral at must took, pl cr, it
should be done toesspletely at the moment, gal sum
I rotracted. As to the equity or the tax, all 14
should say was, that if a revenue is to be rased ea
as. art or consumption, the tAorr equal and psalm
that consumption was, the titter 'object it L-cN,ur her
taxation. The I lops. Alember who had la.t spnksii al.
laded to the opiiims of tlworetical writers on solijects
of t.:Htion ; yet it was singular that Stittr.onpui fns
such a length of time hare continued th;•
ruler tax, not alone in this country, hut at nor
or another in every State in Europe. in I. rail. r,
indeed, it had been levied in a 1111111UPf Ncncillt u;1.
j sin, for Ilse privilege(' orders were (limp. from 0,
mid the lower cl were the ',offerers, and ti
revenue accruing (tom it was collected, not as in
England, by the actual eonsumpioni of the artie:.„
but by a previous estimate of shat might Ise
consumption. The tax existed in this conniry
a period shortly after 'he Ilievolotion—it was 'IA.
se-fluently repealed, loaf reeiroacird within too!ites
other this repeal. The teal fact was, that il.e Iwups
of this tty for years ',Wined the its s Moira
the slightest murmur or 1.11•Cullfrlil, Ittir roil us.
arise mail an flan. II (toilet 1111 w nu flitorr
hirer Sir John liarsiaid!„ owiiig, lie um:IL:slot!, to
solar Iwr•oual (Nth cii•r it ihe hot,.
II oo of the piddle to the topic. When the Ilan.
Baronet was a:.ked how he remained so to •ileht
on is sioliject which struck him es befog rit
vital impurtatice, his answer, and it wmu idttltr
curious one, was, that the subject never 'trout,
him. his timid tieing probably (adopted route
other smatter. There was no Petition, 1111 rim,.

• plaint made by the people. who were an ieleit fit
tollopting Petitions on other OCC4ll.loll6—it 1141
therefore, lie thought, quite clear. they dal not
feel the grievance in the milliner it was stand
in that House. otlwretise they would here lung
since expreseed it 11watt:elves it, the manner they
complained on other occasions. Ile knew bets
was great temptation to evasion. Lot so there
was on other excisable articles, and more so for ins
stance in teas, lace. and silk, for in salt it requited
u good deal in bulk to be concealed or carried t.',Y
to make the evasion worth trial. But lie tuisil
sheer that the attempts at evasion were equally
tiled when the duty was low. They were :14
numerous in 1797, a hen the duty ass only as. t
bushel. At that period duties were paid oii
bushels, and the prier was 81. per ton. In Its its,
• when the prig e was 301. per sou, duty was paid an
46,656 bushels. The greatest exaggeration pit-
veiled on this questtoti, and though the regulations
end restrict:oos, to be effective, meat be poets",
yet it, no one year did the number of protwentiotis
for penalties exceed eleven. so that lie iniegnied
rigour was exercised bey mill the actual itecessor of
the case. The House should therefore ;muse braise
they removed a sum fit revessue amnia ist leg. to mg 1011
thou 1,500.0001. annuslly. He kurw the sestets
must have defects. lint he thought it also had as
ntlestitugra; it was a tax falling with an • ven
upon the consumer; it was also easly culletted,
the expense not exceeding ion and a half per refit.
The duty also made so gradual an addition to the
price, and was only payable at the time of con-
sumption. that it was lofAilele to distitiguish
what was paid for the article. and what for the
Excise. Of this very duty Doctor Adam Snobs
said it m gin be carried to almost any letigils
without bccoutiog teetotally oppressive. This tax
did not take from the pocket of the
more than 1.55. in a year, and this was 4114
paid in larger proportions than about a 50th pint
each week. lie denied that the effect of the repeal
would be a reduction of the price of fish, or an tit-
- crease of the 401411111 y in the market. The markets
were at present generally glutted, and the price so
low as to be within the reach of the poorest claeres,
and yet even at a farthing to the pound, good mars
ketable cod could not, on a late occasion, find 101 l
sale at Billingsgate. All tit the Ira. lit %hick afield
arise to agoiculture from the repeal, lie thought
that greedy overrated—for instance, the quaidity of
salt itecesaary to be mixed in the food of a pie,
would not cost the Cottager more than 4s. in addi-
tion to the 3/. which an. the general averag. ex.
;sense of fending the animal. The Right I Ism.
Gettileenso thesicuinutented upsio the ileitatilrellies:
which had of late yeses taken palace nn the "cootiesv
of tlw pour, through the means of SaYliag 8111,10
and other provident itistitti; otos. Ile alas, bloode.t.
to the few articles' into which gilt entered as :it Hi.
gradient 111 a Millefal way, 1114 could be attel-I,it lit
a repeal of the duties. For istatance—it entered
iota the colour of patent yellow—now superior law
duty was repealed, did they book the effai would
be to lower the price of coaches, in tin 44.011,11 mi
of which so much of this colour was used lii tie.l
importance of umintaitinig the tisleerirs lie towel!
concurred ; and he was prepared to say that sow:
alterations might be intioduced, to make the re.
gulatiooss affecting the persons employed lo theta
more Dimple and easy than I hose now in (-sot-
rime. But notwithstanding the alleged existing
tuipediments, the fisheries of the empise hind
beet, progressively increasing of late years, to•
strati of being constantly on the decline, us bad
hero +warner:. From the Peri. 1804 is 1409, "-
• number of tons cured was 78,099 ; front the 'ea"
11409 to 1813. 110.134 touts; how 1814 to late,
136,210 tosis. The Right Honourable arlit-r•
man then admitted, that molly salutary trod"-
bons may be made for the benefit of the fisheries'
which, without trrocliiiiit upon the revestue, *mild
yet be of advantage to the person,' employed. Th-.•
objection derived front tlw immorality of the
practice of evading the salt laws did not seem to
him to be well founded. The fact was well tooter-
stood. that smuggling. in generale war not Cooc-
iltrell us a deviation I the oriel path of in"'"-
lily by those who were must engaged in it. It
generally considered as a twitally to be avoided ea-
, ' lbw tllllll as All offence cum iii i i led ; 111141 It w.is
known that flitter pelts oi the country where siiitikt•
el% moat lueviultd writ the 'must moral, such us

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