The National Register.
London, England, 1819-06-14 00:00:00

JUNE M.

can meetings fur thT purpose of reducing the price. (//ear.)
The article stow, if toot interfered wall by duty ins malt,
have !Well reduced ; but lie aas prepared to contend, that it
was a good thing to find a ta t a hieli did not increase,
although d foreword the lightening the binder's of the
pe..ple, ish:le at ilie same Line it actually hem- lio ed the
stale. It must Str evideut to any rational ID.. three
mnllaoor of taxes. avid not he imposed on any articles what-
ever, without heir% felt by the country a hut tittle was a
petit difference !ast ween a tux that eased the p. ice of an
article, and one that men ly prevented it Idling. In matter
to Mr. Wod.louse, the Right Hon. tient. cameo& d, that
the tat ripen malt would produce no rllrct upon
agriculture, and that the itg, 'cultural ititerest had no right
to shut out sin adequate sapply for the cousumpt tau of the
tawdry, if they could not furnish it thomsels es. The ',resell(
tax was to he viewed as it attn led the consumer and the
revenue. Timm the quantity of malt would not he increased
by diminishoug the tax. was es ident by the simple fact, that
last year the qu of barley, malted in England, although
the article airs cheap, unit the malt duty taken off, had been
less than that of t he last year of time war, a ben the war duty
was iu torte. Thus, neither the revenue had benelltted by
any lucre:lraqi quantity of malt, nor the public by any dimi-
natio!' of pi ire. His Right Hun. frinul. ~round him would
bear Isaacs' to the anxiety which had been shown to dud
out subjects of taxation which would be
least oppressive. A tax upon niticles of luxury anal,' not
have Zilljaered the purpose. They were therefore compelled
to resort to one on an article of general use and great con-
sumptiors. An lion. Gent. (Mr. Buxton) had said that he
would agree to taxes, became they punished us for the war,
made the people feel its evils, and thus tended to prevent
them from engaging in future hostilities. He (Mr. Husks.
sou) was as friendly to peace, and as much an enemy to war
a. the lion. Gent. i but lie thought the best way of preserving
the nor, and of avoiding the other, an, .0 place the country
in a stale of 64°1111 ity, mod to show 1.1 foreign nations that we
could nut be ii.jured in insulted a ith impunity.
Mr. ti La would 4,111110. e rill the proposed taxes as
oppressive to tl, lower coders, though ton iu unequal degree.
He protested ugliest all new taxes 011 every source of
ce./1111111, and retreeclinient were exhausted.

Sr. J. Sr no lc or supported the lases genernily, hut pro-
fessed himself ho-tile to the tat on malt, us it all; cted
ngri-
eud Mr. though lie was sorry to oppose so good a systeni as
that of a hick d termed a part.
Mr. BacoorlAN toil Hot intend to trouble the House at
any Treat leNth at th 1 late hour of the night. He could
not,lmwevw„ help thanking the Hog. Heather. opposite
(lir. Mathison), fur the udinission abieb he had made,
though at the Milne time lie must übsetve that it was not an
/Om ssion of any vet s guest importance. Tho admission to
wh eh he alluded to was this—that when three millions of
fates were to be imposed upon the country, they must be
paid Icy come-body, and the weight of them must fall- some-
licre ; and that it sus art, us the Chancellor of the.Laclie-
quer laid staled it to be, that he should get the money
with..ut any body losing it. (hear, hear). indeed from the
JJJJJ er an which thatitilit lion. Gent. had gone through
the budget, he via/old-defy cosy person to say hua the ;a venue
was tic be raised, or erti wham its pressioe was la iocipally
to fail. It bud lung been she custom to taunt the geinaemen
with wham he had the honour of toting as idle theorists and
insane projectors; t hey had been ea itild during many a long
year as men who proposed noticing to the House but the
inl.Sl value Hind tlitr:Aavalit projects, but it had Ismail omit
that at. y were the practical melt, and that the Hight Hon.
Gentleman and his supporters acre these ruin, visionary
theorists which he had stated theist to he. ( Loud cries of
hear.) Had all been confirmed in the course of tlce debate,
lie must must strenuously oppose it. out Merely this tat, but
all cite others now riposted. They were all equally oppo-
site to the principles of sound pollsiial economy ; acid though
hi should nut enter upon diem now, Ice slenuid say' en tot:grant,
that they were each injadieititus as the malt tax. Our word
mar. as to the necessity of the. tax ; it was said to he requi-
site to take two millions out. of the pockets of the p ,in
'bider to testore the country to a state of happiness and
prosperity. An Hail. kleinher bud said, ee illll,l have these
fates :is a serious ce with which to Potpie Us to meet a future
tsar. It a Llb true, we might go tic a ar, though Ice hoped
that such au evil was very tar iiistaid. Lveie a lien it fell
upon us, we should be able to nivel it better by not pi essing
too hard upon our resources in time of peace; by satiering
Muse resources to accumulate they would have so far fruc-
tified as to enable the people to make head against their
cutely with much seater vigour than if the Iluuse weer to
make tbeinselt es trustees of nil the property in the nation,
and allow it to accumulate at eeturaind interest. There
ass no better way of nursing the property of the subject,
than by leaving it in his own hands; therefore to state thin
there was any necessity for this lax, nod to call upon the
landholder, and especially no the barley-grower, ta pay it,
was as great a fallecy as the Right lion. Gent. had ever
ventured to propose to the country, lie sbuuld oppose tie
present tax in every stage of it.
Mr. Cote declared himself to he against all new taxes,
whatever they Wright be, until an Pipet eiliebt had been made
of what might be dime by retreischment, lie would never
consent to impose a new tax upon :he :'ready too much bur-
dened people. Besides, of all the taxes which could possibly
have been tit riser', the malt tax was lice most oppressive. lie
had 1111 doubt that the governmenta had teeeived the memo-
riul w hich had be en sent frion the county of Norfolk, cum-
plaining of the distress of lice agriculturists; and yet mob
5.. is me 1111 l riul before them they had come forward with n
new tax which would press nicest heavily sit his Conseil*.
eels. The ministry nu-ht to lower and not increase this im-
post. In that l'at.e, the cousumption of barley would be in-
creased, and the interest of the agriculturist iu consequence
impressed. Ile should oppose any lax upon %scud, ten, cut-
ler, &c.; but lw should oppose aMt still greater vehemence
so unjust aid impolitic a tax as it was uow proposed to lay
upon malt.

The Commilt,e then divided upon the mak ret.o:utiun, and
the uumbets stew—

.19d—Noes ...9T—Mijnrity....lol

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The remaining resolutions, improing additional duties nn
tobacco, pepper, entire. cocoa, find spirits, were then Put
succeimsel ; anal Mr. J. 1.. Cram moved an amendment to
each of ocin (1-xcep, that rel,ting top plies), the of ject of
which aas to fix the duties at the ilfebel.i eites. .1 he amend-
anent§ were all imam ased %idiom die
remilution. agreed 11/.

Mr Boownsm reported progre,%; :00l the boos, h.tvlng
returned, thy report was or end to rvccot d (1.3.
The othr, orders of the da, welr Ihru divpu,rd of, and
the limor .thjourued to half-post I.

TIU2L6DAY, JUNE 10.
An immense nunitit r 0f l'etiti..us were presented against
the Voreiin Enlistment