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Gs an ingretteut, I rechou that the whole of the
hops in Ireland could produce such a number of
bowel. as would yield nnnurtly 24e,0001,.; Out as
it can ink "Perete for six mouths, L estimate the
sues arising from this prohibition of the use of raw
' corn 111 brewitig, at iii.oool. The fleet sum I
propose to ratite is from an increase of the. duty
upon the strength of spirits, by making au addition
is the proportion of one to tee, upon fourteen de-
grees abuse the present stressgth, uud this I calcu-
late will produce 130,nu01. a-year ; but as it will
telly operate for two mouths, I iney state it at
et.loal. The thirst mode, by winch I meats to raise
1. what necessary fur the paynteut of the sidereet of
'this Loan, is by iiiereming the quantity of work on
lieeseesi stills, *Welt will produce '240,000t. a vest.
Now, as this last erasure, as well as the preceding
one, will out iyerate till about the sth of Nov. as
the present laws enable His Majesty then to allow
distilleries to recommence, 1 way state the sum
likely to he raised m three two months at 60,0001.
Theft three sums will produce e16,e001. which is
about :20001. ebuve what I will require thr the put-
pose sideuded. This, I think, can give us no reit-.
son to despond. There less been uu fall of the
Revenue in regard to stamps, but an inerense ; .no
fall in that arising from the post-office, nun in the
assemed tatter, but emelt have increa,eil.—The only
fall of the Revenue has been in the instance
of the Excise Ditties, which I &Willie, to the
theasure of prohibiting distilleries iu Ireland.
—That is • the . cause of the WI, and there-
fore we are to look to the tentoral of the
prohibition as the only mode to do it away, and
make good the defalcation of the revenue, and
I hope it will be removed early next harvest.—Theta
bulancee dose by Collectors, have, by the documents
upon the table, been decreases' IC the tours of
last year 150,0001. They were on the sth of Janus
ary 18014, 354,0001. on the sth January 1809, they
were only 105,0001. sod therefore so fur from the
revenue not being properly attended toots hail been
insinuated, it shewed that it was pursued with a
degree of strictness and euergy surpassing any
former period.—With regard to the adulation
of the country, therefore, Ido not consider it
in any degree worse than before—The value
of the imports and exports was greater than ever it
had /area; never have there been a greater quantity
of yards of linen exported than during last year,
with the exeeptiou of see year, a considerable while
ago, when it was equiilled—lt is satisfactory to
know, that while the trade of Ireland is
thus increasing, the amount of the revenue has
diem much mom Look to our recchatige ; it has
been such as every out must know that money was
coming in instead of going out ; having been almost
fin chide of last year order par. •Therciove,
.! I. circumstance, and implying it to the
situation of the country in other pirectil.irs, we
have reason to believe that 'relent' is more ufiliteut
this ever she was heretofore. The increase of the
debt has been only owing Zo the Circumstances of
the Empire, for the last two years ; and the ;e-
-rase it was thought more prudent to go on reusing
our quota by a deht, than tia have rinsed it by ad-
ditional taxes. The whole amount of the debt of
Ireland is certainly stupendous, it being already
no lees than 76 millions of "mmeY end at the end
of tin present mes ion t will ansouut to 81 Mil-
, lions--• auto which in Kutner days many thought
that Ireland could not have existed under ; and
"ret there is no teaiou to thlnk it will Lijiire her
in her resources in any degree. I think it out fkir
it should ue known that great Ittention has hers
paid to ameliorate the situatims elf Ireland, to ex-
, food its trade, and to improve agrictilture. liy
the howdy allowed, there have been te.atoo
uldi-
tioual hogsheads.of flaxseed. brought into 1. iond ;
the utemet endeamers have been used to render
her iudepa odeut as to flax-seed ; and Wry, every
imam have heels adopted to add to the agriculture
.noel tillage of Ireland, by draining and improving
the 'ergs. Large grants have been muted for int-
pren um: that source of cultivation and growth.—
Altlion.,;ll it be usual, Sir, to say much more upon
such °cc asious as the present, yet, I trtet I have
said enough to satisfy Gentlemen' es to the reel
situation of Ireland ; bui if any Honourable Mem-
ber wish fur further explanation, I Owl' be toady
to go into it es far us I possibly ear. Herons eta
cluditigi however. I may venture to meatiest
the terms upon which the I risk loan has Laren cone
batted. It has beta made its the Ji per cent.
flick of Ireland, there bring given for emery tool.,
lea capital of that stoek. The bidding was on
the treasury bills, benring interest at 5 per cent..
the 'Anus being at the rate of 91. its. iii. "upon
every hundred. Although the legal interest of !re-
late" is 61., yet this loan has been thustontructed at
au interest out exceeding in all 4I• Us- 1141; a eir-
cmustance which chewed theafHrtence of that coun-
try, and which should not make nit despair. The
whole charge of interest anal Steatite; fund did not
exceed the sum of 51. I7s. I Id. per cent. upon the
whole of. use debt so incurred. The Right Hon.
Gentleman then concluded with enovitee, t• *Chet
the sum of 1.2.50,00 u Irish currency be mired by
way of aneuities for the service of Ir. • ilia."
Sir ion* Newroae--" Altl gli the Right
Grentletnan has setter' that the tostance in the
hands of the present collectors has decreased con-
siderably within the last year, yet if the orders
issued lay the Duke of Bedford, when Lord-Lien-
tenant of Ireland, in 11407, bad been enforced, they
would nut have retrained et one quarter part of
the amonnt at which they now appevr to be. The
fret is. that from the period when that order was
issued, the cash balances in the hands of the col-
lection' were reduced to 33,41101.; hut when mat-
ter* were committed to the Right flan. Gentleman
opposite. the balatices in the stamp department,
(tat of t:se poet-office. and those of the deceased
and alistuiseed colleetam„ were considerably aug-
mented. I bare to complain Sett • a balance of
260101. should here been paid tato the hands of
the Trensurer i•f the post-offii.e. 114 I Collerife it
to lie a direct violation of the °Meng then iiisued.
By the direction* of the Duke of Bectferd, it was
also enioined, that the focal amount of a-issues
should Ise stated in ill nee is laid trat ere Parlia-
ment, for the purpose of meeesinitte, male
the amount of those iieitures, bit the expense
of emidesnith• an attending theani but this dodo
not appear to have eren entapliot with...—
With respect to the cries which the flight lien.
Gentleman proposes, in order to raise the expro-ai
of the preaeut year, I most sm., lie is tomtit more




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sanguine- Ain I ine.-1,11 he 4:6oeeites that die
prohibiting of new core iii breweries will raise the
sum he states, I cannot imagine. As to the iisa
crease of the duty on strength •f spirits, and the
increase of work on still., I think they will only
Mold wit a larger inducement to illicit distilleries.
I hope, hoesever, that 1111 taxes will prove more pro.
ductive than 1 can conceive the; are likely to be.
I here one thing to impel:so upon the minds of the
Committee; and that is, that it is perfectly imma-
terial what portico* of gross ferriage is to be raised
upon the people, end paid to the Treasury. if the
expensesof the dikereot boa rdsbe allowed to goon in-
creasing, as t. ey have done hitherto. The incidental
expenses of the Board of Excise. in 1806, amount-
ed to 13,0001.; in 1 ntv7, to 36,4001. ; mid in 1808.
to 104,01,01. of which last sum thery was nei lees
than g9,uoul. paid tonne individual for printing and
stationery. The is only aggravating the burdens
of the people, without raising limy additional re-
venue. The gross product of the stamp duties had
increased by .16,...,1.; tort there was a delete:ohm'
of no less than 44,0001. for increased expenses.—
la the Post-Office too, the expenses were upon the
Increase to such a degree, that out would think
the nominal addition to the revenue was rather for
the sake of adding to the burdens and creating jobs,
than tending to the good of the public. It is la-
mentable to look at the increase of the funded
debt of Ireland. On the sth of January, 1801, it
'involuted to gi,300,0001.; on the :oh of January
last, to 76,000,0001. and now lie states that it will
be next Jai.. 81.00tbottol. The debt has thus im
creased at the rite of 15 to 4, while the revenue bas
only increased in the proportion of 15 to 81. if
the debt of Ireland were raised =the debt of Heft.
within the country, I really thick that a groat
part of that debt *mild Ir. done away."
Mr. FosTaa,answered that he hail the satisfaction
to state, that the regulations of the Duke of Bed-
ford hall been actually followed up. 'lrheie never
wits a period when there was so little motley left in
the hands of the Collectors of Excise for eontiogen"
cies ; and the papers on the table would *hew it—
As to the post-office accounts. they had never been
settled since they were established ; and ssto the ex-
pense of the stationery and priding alluded to, it
was occasioned by the division of the two boards,
by which • completely new collection of books be-
came necessary—lt was natural to suppose that it
should increase, as there were 14 'Commissioners
instead of seven—The new arraugement, as to the
past.offne, must have also occausimwd cousideratile
additions to the incidental expenses, hut the pub-
lic would soon he able to reap the benefit of them.
Mr. PARNELL observed, that when it was said.
that the net addition to the Revenue by the Post-
office, was 68,0001. he found that the postage of
one guard amonnted to it.uool. anal if each Huard
increased their expense iu a like • proportion, that
expense would automat to 39,0001. leaving 0,0001.
to Ice received by die public. Ile conld not help
thinking, that t..c great principle of the Revenue: of
Ireland, was overlooked, in the desire ro: extensive

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patronage, by the appointment of officers, so auto I
deprive the Irish Ti.iii.sery Board of its power, and
libelisg it in-the handeof the Seerstary of the Lord
Lieutenaut.--De was satisfied that until an mite.
ration in this particular tredc place,' mid the Tres-
Wry Heard of ludand take+ efficieut port, Sr
be a ~'island altogethe ,r *ad tio-se matters of Kr.
venue tie put wider the Treasury of this country
devotee:we. the abuse, woold never be rentedielf.
The Reeilutions thee severally. put and
*greed to, guiltily colic Muse resurniog, the Report
was ordered to be rem eived to-morrow. •
IRISH bIaTILLERY REGULATION BILL.
Upon OP- to davu of Mr. Ftisve,a, the Dome went
into•a committee upon this bill. when that Ri4ht
Hots. Gentleman entered into it detail of its various
claaseS and enactments,iand particularly enlarged
upon the one relative to 6s-whiles.
Sir Jowl Nit, rower said; that the question re-
aliy was, whether Inc smaller distilleries could can-
tea,' with the greater, when tit- greater had a pre-
ferouce of eight peace per Keno'. ? Hardly a yenr
pawed in which some iikeration was not made in
the system of the Irish Distilleries, which h roust
consider an evidence cf its defective nature. It
was agreed that the small stills ought to be cocoa-
raged, but tie attendant upon the small,
weir,' in a great many instances, as great as those
attending large apeait. so that large distilleries had
already -uany erlvaiitoges, without the addition of
'mount*. here the Hon. Member proved, by re-
ference to the returvv of different years, that the
great distilleries had-the effect of swallowing up
the For these reasons, he thought him-
self justified in proposing an Anaendineet, provid-
ing that the bounty shook! nut be payable after the
sth of Jainsary, 1810.
Mr. IIUTLIIINSON wee sorry that he could not
agree with the Hon. Baronet. The object which
he conceived the legislattir.• to have in Clew was, to
promote the agricultural iatereats of Ireland.--
Bonuties, by pruntotiug trade, would contribute to
Ilia object, so that the I hn. Retorters amendment
going to take away the inducement of bounties,
could not, in his opininn. be advantageous.
Colonel B Seal' said, that if the clause/to which
the Hon. Baronet objected woad have the effect
of suppaeasitig the sm all. Mills, he would vote
ignited. it : no inch consequence, however, in his
opinioo, could results In many of the interior
parts of Irelands the only fuel they hail for their
stiller/Oa turf ; some distinction, therefore, ought
to be drawn between such parts and the sea-port
towns, where roods could conveniently be procured.
When the. Committee CUMe to canvidet just part of
the subject, in which he could best introduce a
clause to such effect, it way his intention to do an, 1
Mr. D. Ilitowas observed, that the Monty or
Cavan had fallen under certain penalties for pre-
orate stills within it, and was prof.-eeding
nt length to prove the iweessity of noes, when he
was called to order by Sir JOHN NEWPORT ; who
represented the iuconvenienciee that most arise
feign debating all the clammy together. as every
• per.sin might select a different one, and thereby
confuse the discussiou. After sotne further obser-
vinous on the point of order, by hlr. Duane',
Mr. and Mr. TAYLOR, Mr. Beowas: emit
per:ailed to proeeeil.—Fle said that he spoke as a
rye-witness of the effects of fines *mod the privet.
ilistilleriee of Ireland. They had a great tendeney
..t• prevent taws'. He considered the private
so common iirthat country, as one of its
greatest erls; it relaxed.theit ottediettee to the