The National Register.
London, England, 1808-04-18 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL ttEGIsTEtt.

The.irish Airool.Fot posiation*Prohibitiii BM went through
a Committee, and wa reported.
After some further routine husine”, when several Bills of a
lac it and private nature acre forwarded through their various
stages, the Howe adjourned until this day fOrtuight. •

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HOUSE OF COMMONS.


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MONOtY, APRIL 11.

Nir W. Curtis gave notice that on the 27th instant he should
move for leave to bring in a Bill rendering child-stealing an
indictable otreace.
Mr. Calcraft gave a notice for the 3d of May, on the Papers
produced respecting the sailing of the Rochefort squadron.
SIR (7. Pate, in a speech of some length On the subject of
the floNal 'Cava! As)lum, stated various abuses which had
crept 1..10 the appointment of officers, and moved a resolution,
that it was the opinion of the Howe that fit and qualified per-.
sons only, such as had served in the Royal Navy, or in the Ma-
rines, should he appointed to of in that as Wm.
The motion was resisted by Mr. Rose, who moved the pre-
lions question. After a debate of some length the House di-
vided, when Mr. Rose's amendment was carried—Ayes 71.—
Noes .16.

nuncirr.
Tirr, 01.4yrri,LOR or ruE Evcrirgrrß suhtnitted to the
Committee the annual statement of the tinaoces of the Country,
v ith the exception of the terms of the loan, which is not yet
rontraeted for. Having grated the coin' . rativc amount of the
tuppltes, and Ways and Means for the %ear, the Chancellor of
the F.‘chequer proceeded to state the Additioual Annual
Charge created.
The interest wanted for the loan of eight millions, and for four
millions of Excloltwr Bills, would amount to something ahou
X. 750,000.

To cover which, there was Short An-
nuities fallen in
Annual Savior on the management of
the Public Debt
Increase upon the As,esserl Tattr 125,000
Atri in order to make up the deticieury
which still rem:tine:l, he should pro-
pose certain moditications; and ad-
ditions to the eNistim.; Stamp Du-
ties, which he calculated would pro-
duce

200,000

Total amount
el annual rl►,arge
1/.750,000

Total amount of provision
made for meetiug the an-
nuai charge X. 770,000

Pt n. P acrr4 t proceeded to state the outline of the arrange
ments which he meant to introduce into the collection of the
Stamp Duties, front w hich he expected that the r oldie were to
derive an annual advantage of 200,000!. At present the Stamp
Duties were collected under the provisions of from sixty 10
seventy different Acts of Parliament. These Arts he meant to
digest so as that they might be all reduced to one general Act.
Ile proposed that a duty of 201. should be attached oily upon
admissions to officers of the yearly value of NM/. and upwards ;
and that persons should pay only 8/. 011 being admitted to offices
of inferior value. Indentures and articles of clerkship to at-
tornies practising ia the higher Courts he proposed that a dut .
of only 110!. he paid ; on indentures and articles of clerkship to
attornies practising- in the inferior Courts that a ditty of out,
5.5/. shall lie paid : and also that the last mentioned duty shall
he paid by apprentices to writers to the Signet in Scotland.
On collations and donations he should propose to lay an addi-
tio..al tax of 2/. and it was his intention also that infefttnents.
which at present paid a duty of 11. lOs. ',lntl! he subjected to a
duty of 31. Ile hoped, also, that the Committee would see no
objection to subjecting grants of honours and dignities to the
same scale of taxation which they now paid in Ireland. He
would also propose to repeat the duties in all eases where the
leases on Crown lands were chargeable with a duty of 201.
where those were not considered as beneficial. It wag also his
internioa to diminish the tax on small pensions, and increasing
it upon those watch were to a considerable amount in point of
value. Policies of Im-taro:tees on Lives he thought ought to he
taxed ; as well as Promissory N ot6t re-issitable hv people
rarrvio4 on hanks im the emote} ; with this view he propose('
that persons re-issaing- promisAiry notes shall he obliged to take
out a licence, for which they shall pay 201. a year, ;tad that all

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promissory rotes re-issouble, arid whit+ at present paid a stamp
duty of 3d. should pay a duty of 4d. and that when they were
only payable in the place where they were issued, they should
pay a duty of 6d. lie should also propose that transfers of
shares in joint stock companies should he paid in future upon its
real value at the time of the transfer, instead of its nominal
value. lie should likewise propose, that a defy of one shilling
should he imposed upon all summonses before Masters in Chan.
eery. The existing taxes upon legacies, he meant to remove
by the introduction of a new regulation for putting the resi-
duary legatee on precisely the same fimting with the others.
Conveyances of land which at present pay a duty of thirty
shillings, whatever may be the value of tho land, Isere also hi
matter for arrangement. lie proposed, that when the con.
vcvanee did not exceed the value of DO/. it should only pay a
duty of it. ; that when it was of the value of from 1301. to 300/.
it should pay U. 1O6.; when it was of the value of from 3 to
3001. that it should pay 2/. 106.; that when it rose to the value
.1 10001. it should pay V. 106. and so on, carrying the tax in
no instance more than 1 per cent. upon the consideration. The
Chancellor of the Exchequer concluded with observing, that
he had brought forward his financial statement to give Gentle-
men full time to peruse the schedule which had been prepared,
and to form a judgment of its merits before they sera called
upon to give it the sanction of their approbation.
Mn. Rinortrn contended that there was no necessity whit-
e‘er for the Right lion. Gentlemen to have imposed any new
taxes upon the people for the service of the ensuing year.
After a few observations from Mr. Tierney, Mr. Davis Gidtly
and Mr. Vansittart,
Mu. ih:SA moved that the Mil of 726,0f:01. he issued
crow the surplus of the Consolidated Fund fur the service of t:ie
ear 1808, which Resolution being agreed to, the Mousy
resumed, and the Report was ordered to be received tn-morro-.v.
On the third reading of the Reversion Bill Mr. Whithre,ol
stated his objection to the Bill, and deprecated the connivance
of his Majesty's Ministers in throning the late Bill out of the
House of Lords.

MR. P 1 RCEV.4I. denied the assertion.

SPEAKEtt than put the question, that the Bill he read a
third time, when Lord Porchester rose, and with a etinlicimilile
degree of animated argument. proposed an amendment, whicit
went to alter the preamble of the Bill, and make it more agree-
able to the feelings of the public.
Six Bun:JETT animadverted with considerable severity on
the secret party which exi,ted hostile to Ministers and
to the Blouse. lie said, we had kings dethroned, and States
annihilated. by armies of merrenaties. We ought to be a peo-
ple united together, confiding in the present '.llinistry, hut not in
the present (iovermnent ; and that was all this great Nation
required. Ile did not think the Bill went far enough, and not
going the proper length, he should oppose it entirely.
The House divided, Vol. the original motion IN: for the
Amendment, 60—Maioritv 5/. The Bill was then read a third
time and passed.—Adjourned.

TrrST4 V, A rnit. 12.
Mr. Alderman Sha►v pre,ented a l'etition from the T)cbto►s in
the Fleet Prison, praying relief.—l,nid on the table.

ROMA %TIM I.lCs.
Mr. Crattatt presented a Petition from the Roman Catholics
of Ireland, praying relief from the they now endure,
and that they may he restored to the free participation of the
rights and privilegep of British subjects. It was, however, 163
duty to state, that the Petition was signed by a great 'norther of
persons, and that there were a variety of names a!lixed to
not written by the persons whose names they purported to he,
but written by others, under their authority. Ile should there-
fore move that the Petition be received as the Petition of those
individuals who had actually subscribed it.
Srfincrot said, that the rule was clear, that a Petiticin
so signed could not be received. The names of thow so pia
down might, however, be detached, and then the Petition, be-
ing less, objectionable, might he received.
Some conversation then arose, which terminated in Mr. (;rll-
tan withdrawing :he Petition, giving ,wt ice that be should pre-
sent it again on the 16th of May, in a less objectionable form,
:Id on that day he should move that it be taken into com.ide-
ration.

nr.rrtcc•r. OF TYIE COVNTRY.
Lona rasrtruc.snor rose, pursuant to notice, to state his new
Itlttist Plan, for the Internal Defence of the Intintr‘.
• omn►enced a most eloquent harangue, and said, to re-t meaty
OD voluntary service, to deny Government the weans of ioaktvg