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London, England, 1822-02-05 00:00:00

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TUESDAY, FEDIWARY 5, 1812. '' •
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The Kura experienced on attack of the goat ip
his knee about, twelve o'clock on Sunday night, but
some medicine was adttinittered. from which he felt
immediate 'chef, and vre happy-to find that hia
M*4 Mtn' was suflicientlf recovered yesterday to
be able to hold a Court and preside at a Council,
leach did not break up nntil a quarter before six
o'clock. The Speech to be del iverkl this day by his
&Want was read at the Council.
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It io generally esisetied that the Session of Par-
liament, which contsimsom this day, will be erc
tsernely interesting and animated. The Opposition
is the two Houses mein to disclaim every purpose
of seeking l 6 acquire the seats of office, but they
will labour most strenuously to accomplish the great
object of the people, is conipelling the Ministers to
sedum their present extra-ragout expenditure. This
will be the• great and paramount labour of the
Session, and should the friends of the people be
(Twilled with success in their pstrititic efforts, the
country may anticipate as a neceisary consequence
a reduction of some portion of the taxes. In this
work no trouble;however slight, should be declined
-^wisary, nor should the ridicule of the Mi-
.cleterthe country party from
.neat its every chtinuel, no matter
how inconsiderable each particular saving may he
represented. Lord. CIINIIOgIti, at the Hereford
meeting a few days since, spoke with contempt or
the paltry suns of 500;0001., which might, as he
said, be .saved by the united exertions of the Op.:.
position in Parliament and•thesense of the country; '
• but be it recollected' that the sum of 500,0004
a year, even should no larger raring be effected, is
contemptible or trifling only iu comparison with the
immensely largo sums that •are or hare been
squandered by the Ministers. Lel 300,000/. a year
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beset apart honestly and faithfully for the purposel
of being applied with all the effect of compound
interest towards the discharge of the national debt,
sud the effect in the space of 40years would perhaps,
astonish Lord Csisasoaws, or any other person"'
who may not be accustomed to the molts of with.
metical computation. The sum in itself is by sel
means to be despised, hut it was assumed some-
what too arbitrarily by the Noble Viscount as the j
absolute extent of the total savings which a care."l
ful revision of the public estimates might offer. It 1
was very clearly shewn by Mr. Hotta during the 1
last Session, that in the proposed expenditure of
18,041,8004 a reduction might have been expedi-
tiously and safely effected to the amount of more
than 3,000,0001. We do not expect that in the
estimated expenditure of the --Id 3 ear the Mi

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Dieters will chew a reduction, as compared with the
supply of the last year. to the amount of even one
million; and if such should appear to be the case,
the exertions of the Opposition in Parliament, aided
by the voice of the country at liege, may very rea-
sonably anticipate a fur more important victory
than the cautious admission of Lord CRANDOINE
would seem to promise.
At the close of the last Session of Parliament
the Ministers admitted very freely that they did not
doubt the existence of a large share of distress
among the agricultural body of the empire, and
their silent concession of the husbandry horse tax
evinced a disposition upon their part to gratify the
wiabes of the landed proprietors. In this entices-
eion, however, it may he remembered that the Mi-
nisters only did not oppose Mr. CURWEIeII motion.
They will never allow that the removal of a tax
can be the slightest advantage to the suffering
people; and upon the subject of this tax in parti-
cular it was darkly hinted, that if the removal of it
were found not to he so beneficial to the farmers as
was hoped, it might be found expedient again to
impose it. The distresses of the farmers have since.
that time increased, and we should not be much I
surprised now to hear the Ministers use this nos
creased degree of suffering, which the remission of
the little duty on husbandry horses was not sum-
cient to prevent, as an argument against any fur-
ther removal of taxation. They will say, IVe con-
sented to reprul the husbandry horse tax last Ses-
sion in opposition to our own judgment, because
you seemed to •sutlctiutte much good Flom it; you
acknowledge that the expected good is not trppap,
rent, why then should we now hope a more fulmars
able result from a farther repeal ?" The adroit-
tar may not be apparent, solely because it aglow-
borne by the excess of suffering; but haidoiltatie.
Peal of taxesesierided 1.14 Semen oeelos.lll,
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Awe of these than the little dotytif6ti''qual.tan
horses, it is most likely that the farmer, would not
now be so loud iu their complaints. The farmers

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