The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1819-06-04 00:00:00

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TH E B RITI S 11 PRES S.

LON DON,

FRIDAY, JEwt: 4,

Tile CH A N cr.T.Lon of the Exctit.Qrrit hat night
submitted his Financial in U Committee

of the Houle of Commons. They are declaratory
of the present embarrassed state of our finances.
end of the necessity of further sacrifices on the pert

of the country to meet the difficulties by which it is
encumbered. The Resolutions in substance state.
that since the hintinution of hostilities. in 1815,

the Property, Mali, and other Taxes, amounting
altogether to 18,000,00 u/. have beet, abandoned—
that in the year 1816 the finances of Great Britain
and Ireland were consolidated, and that the former
became bound to meet the financial embarrassments
of the sister country—that the total revenue of Ire-
land may be estimated at 4,500,0001. the interest.
charge, and Sitiking Fund of the public debt of
that country at 6,400,000/., leaving a deficiency of
1,600,000/., exclusive of the Civil List, and the
portion which Irelaild was to have paid towards the
general expenses of the empire—that the total
amount of the supplies for the present year may
be taken at 20,500,0001., to meet which the avail-
able revenue of the country did not exceed
7,000,0001. rendering it uecesssary to raise by
loan, or other means, a sum of not less than
13,500,000/. for the service of the present year—
that the Sinking Fund amounts to 15,500,000/.
from which, if the sum required to be raised
by loan, &c. be deducted, there will remain
something more than 2,000,000/. absolutely
applicable for the reduction of so much of the
national debt—that it is expedient to raise this sum
so applicable. to not less than 5,000,0001. mutually
—that this can be effected only by raising the
amount of the revenue, and that it is absolutely
necessary to impose new taxes on the public to the
amount of 3,000,000/. annually.
These Resolutions will be taken into considera-
tion by the House on Monday next. It was stated
by the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, in con-
sequence of a suggestion from Mr. CRENFELL,
that, although he will meet the Gentlemen of the
Stock Exchange this morning, on the subject of
the Loan which it may be thought necessary to con-
tract, he will not bind himself on any point touch-
ing the amount of the Luau, or the probable
appropriation of the Sinking Fund to the exigencies
of the State, until the decision of Parliament shall
he known on the Resolutions he has submitted to
the House of Commons.
The ATTORNEYMF.NERAL moved the second
reading of the Foreign Enlistineuts Bill, to which
Sir It. ‘VILSON MoVtli as an amendment, that the
Bill be read a second time this day six months.
On this, after a smart debate, the House divided,
when there appeared, for the amendment 14..1
against it 155—50 that the Bill ass ordered to be
read a second time by a majority of only 13. The
Bill will undoubtedly Ile lost.
In a Committee on the Assessed Taxes the
CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER proposed, that
all persons paying Assessed Taxes might he per-
mitted to compound them for three years, taking
the assessment for the present year as the
ground of the composition. With reference,
however, to this point. the House and Window
Taxes are to he separated from the other As-
sessed Taxes, and in a composition of the former,
the compounder shall pay five per cent. but in a
composition of the latter 10 per cent. on the origi-
nal assessment. Sir M.W. Rio LEY forcibly objected
to this mode of assessment, and strongly urged that
a general average of 5 per cent. should be adopted.

The circular levitation to the Mewls of Miuisters to meet
Lord CASTLEREAGH OR Monday next, is the most pres.irig
of any preceding card of the kind. It is sigma by Lord
CASTLEREAGH himself, and requests their company to hear
a proposition that is to he submitted to Parliament, of the'
most important kind. It is understood that ibis alludes le
the Taxes that are to be brought forth out of the Budget.'

At a dinner given by the Committee, at the Nor-
folk Hotel, in Norwich, on Wednesday the eGth
last, the piece of plate subscribed for by the Mem-
bers of the Norwich Union Office was presented to
JOHN PATTESoN, E.y. os a testimony of the high
sense they entertained of his late services to the
Institution. The gift is an elegant and highly-
finished Candelabrum.

On Saturday se` 'gilt a poor woman, named
UNDERWOOD, of St. George's Tombland Church-
yard, Norwich, after potting her daughter tot bed,
locked she dour and wrnt out. Shortly alter the
child, who was about six years old, opened the
window, and precipitated herself from • four-story
chamber to the ground; in consequence of which
her thigh was broken, and she was otherwise so
much injured, that it became necessary to take
her to the Hospital, where, however, she is doing
well.

PRICE OF

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