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or the writer So the Gann. 'to which we bore
alluded, were obviously calculated to raise the im-
pression that the 11-'i hod a meddled Property
Tax in contemphOest mid the pahlie, aisisg
up the vague assedies Me Paper with the still
more vague commeste •of the other, seem to here
arrived at this eaerefusiii,- diet an Incouse Tax
DP= the feuded pesprielen slime was to form a
.part of the peristalses* Animas! system of the
cmtatry. To this impression we may is s greet
degree attribute the !site deeliae, in our funds.—.
iknilish proprietors, apprehending a severe lir
spinet their property, would very mainline booms,
to treader it into some other fuse, whit& they
eight essmetve to be safei, and we have understood
that ssgte Intiteslious of this Nature to • eirosidssehle
anima have hers effected by purchases of Frescii
Government seesrities. . The French Five per
Cents. have, in consequence, lately esperietiard •
great advsnre.
The Ministers left pi/Abe*, Mt own desist it
alarm et this urcesearp„*.eigffeS, I. *Wit

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report. and being osedeifinstweeelhat M esreilielt
smell abate of its existirookte the energies of the*
labourer in the Caw*, they compelled him last'
night to publish q clotnidietion to it. The expose•
oasis used ow this secisitia here been probably sup.
plied by a scribe ia Ace.; we shall therefore take
some 'Mice of them. The writer begins
It is the bail hhllitattletteo obit ass hostile to his Ms-
stares 111inkentl,Mkbellseireepsess which they lisPC••l
thseara Owes ewer diejpOiliollgjest Were the meeting
of Parlieeteit."
Thus w no report d be more effectual
ifs iltrosrlog""". " a &pm erer..the public misd,"
either Mhre or after the meeting of Parliament,
than one which represents the Ministers as devising
scheme for the revival of the Preposty Tax ; Nod
its proportion as such tax was *opposed loin miaow
site in its operation, so much the deeper 'efiseer
would fall %moo the public mind from the circids-,
tie. of such a riensor. It hos been the *Wises-
t:are of several wniallk purporting to be fried' is,
the Ministemsalip beet their ingenuity dons; some,
1
mootbs in framisispipespsim for the Property Tax.
These exertions hisneingslarth to the meow tint •
e Property Tax is he Mittlemplation ; and if the
doctrine now laid down by the writer we are so.
ticing be correct, all such persons must consent to
be clamed among those who are " hostile to his
Mutton's Misnames." The writer proceeds:—
" The sederrear at /meet waking tit tins Party, Is is
What a boner of He bet?' the karat*.Af hia Wiest?,
Moisten to lay a Taa apes Peetled Plory oily et
per ma."
WMtt'Ptttxy I who are they? whit are their ob-
jetsol„bin is the Party constituted where have
they asessalsiod ? how have they expressed them-
selves? MP, has been their organ ? This Posy
bee `each of late a cent word among •the Tres-
eery writers, oh* no doubt have found the use of
it vastly convenient. We presume that when they
ose the word they wish it to be understood as
, signifying the aggregate body of Noblemen and
Gentlemen who in Parliament expose the errors of
the Ministers, and guard the rights of the people;
and every idle or frivolous assertion that seems
to smack of opposition is iostently set down with-
out the slightest pretence of right to the leaders
of the Oppositioo, as if it had unquestionably ori-
ginated with them. This trick has had some effect,
but the public, and eve° they who take advantage
of it, must perceiVe its unfairness and injestice.
How absurd and improper would it be to impute 1
to the Ministers of the Crown all the errors and
solecisms that occur in the journals which are sup-
posed to be most devoted to the Treasury ! Yet in
such a rase, the imputation being something defi-
nite, might easily he refuted ; but the word party
is so vague and indecisive, and its application so
fanciful and unconstrained, that even though fifty
Members of the Opposition in Parliament were to
disclaim the thing alleged, the imputation may still
be repeated.

There is a kind of official confidence in the tone
of this writer, when he denies the supposed inten-
tions of the Government to impose such a tax upon
funded property efolie; but in undertaking to re-
move one evil impression, he takes care to create
soother much wafer, Re invokes the aid of italics
to assure us that 4te's sing Ms is intneded." But
he adds—
° If the wisdom of lisrliameot sboeld deem a Property
Tsz to he advisable, noise the existing circumstances, every
man who bas capital ia the feeds, or is Wed, will, of course,
mpatribete his gaols; bet *either the *se stir the other will
be retsina to eeetribase v.:elusively. But we beg again to
therm epee the petthe salad the eoerictius that the po-
llee of laying • tax epee fended property oily has sewer
existed, sad soulful exist, in the naiads of his Msjeety's
Ministers.*
This writer leaves the question. we will not say
pretty nearly as it was, bet much worse iti oar
opinion than he found it. We doubt very much
whether the funded proprietor will feel the pay.
'sent of a tax upon his income much easier or
lighter. solely because a similar tax is paid by the
suerchauts, the lauded proprietors, or the manofac.
turns. We begin to fear that • general Property
Tax is contetoplated, and that it is by such au it-
tack upon the pockets of the people that the
Ministers propose to answer the general complaints
and prayers rot relict

To-morrow being the Snit day of Hilary Term
thrJudgm will breakfast with the Lotto CliAll-•
.cee.i.ott, at his house in Hamilton-osec. Piccadilly.
sod throes go in grand procession to Westminster
Ilidt to open the Courts of Law.