The National Register.
London, England, 1815-06-18 00:00:00

TIIE NATIONAL REGISTER.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer next artversrd to the Juan, the
terms of which he said, were tit best the Guvernmeot had been able
to make, an.. he had on hesitation in declaring, that winle it was per.
fect'y cif sfactory to them, it was, ()oder all the circums•atices, ma.
sAtably la rto the subscribers. He then took a comparative view of
the t..xes duris g t'te last ati,! the present year, awl slated the progress.
of the revenue since any consid, rabie audition had been mace to the
puHic burr hens With regar. to t o interest ter the loan, Parliathcnt
had already' made provision for about ne half, and lie intern ed to sub-
mit to the House to I ii}vide tor the rentaiiitier out of 'he money in the
bands of the CommissirweiS for the reduction of the national debt.
From every view which lie could take of the state of things, and the
tootpects that might be entertained, there was no probability of
the war pressing upon us to au equal extent in future years, e'en
should it continue. If, contrary to expectation, the' contest turned
out a protracted one, the Sinking Fund would alliad further resource.
Probably, also, tl e Ivan of next yeat would not exceed vO,OOlOOOl,
the charge of which, with some assistance front the Sinking FtnA,
night be met by edditi(m•,l taxation. In respect to the issue of :he
contest, the sense of France would shew itself in a very short time.
The colohined effirts of the Royalists, and the Allies would put the
matter to the rest (He ,r, hear I)—The state of France was different
to that state which some supposed. At present, murmurs against
the ComiLation of Bsionaparte were halt suppressed—discootents
mould aril—there was not a cordial co.operatien, and therefore we
plight look at the contest as a short one. The Right Hon: Gentlernin
conclutte,i with moving, by way of resolution, that the sum of
9E00,0001. be raised by way of annuities.

Mr TVERNEe considered the Budget, which had been opened by
the Right Hog. Gentleman. as one of the most alarming which the
country had ever becu put in possession of ;' at the tame time he must
do the Right Hon. Gentleman the justice to say, that it had been
opened with clearness and precision, and in its component parts the
fairest he had ever heard. With respect to the arrears, to which the
Right. Hon. Gentleman had alluded, and which he had stated would
not arise again, there was no proof how long they had been growing,
nor any cousclation that they might not be growing arrears. The to.
tal amount of the supplies required for the year, namely, 29,728,0001.
was a sum calculated to stagger even the most sanguine It was good
to see the way in which the progress of expenditure had crept up,
till it at last rose to this portentous amount. Here the Right Hon.
Gentlemen read a statement of this progress which he had drawn up.
In 1908 the war expenditure amounted to 45 millions ; in 18(9 ro
millions; in 1810, to 46 ; in 1811, to E 2 ; in 1812, to 53 ; in 1213, to
57; in 1214, to 62 ; and, lost of all, in 1815, to 72 millions. It was
one the mischiefs in which we were now placed. that. tram the ge-
neral condition of our finances, the depreciation of our commerce, and
the tall of the exchanges, our expenditure was constantly increasing ;
All the predictions of reduction brought forward from time to tine
had been uniformly fa'sified, arid he suspect d that the predictions
that they had now heard from the Chancellor of the Exchequer
would equally nil. With regard to the loan itself, it seemed to rim
avery fair bargain; nay, he might think it too liberal, under all the
circumstances, did he not know the resources and intelligence of the
.parties. The Chancellor of the Exchequer had told the House there
was no depreciation of the funds in consequence of this loan ; hur he
(Mr. T.) insisted there was; and he begged the Committee not to shut
their eyes to this, that they were going backward instead of forward,
with respect to the national debt, which was one of the great reasons
for the depreciation of the funds, and which ought to be well weighed,
especially on the commencement of this new war, the end of which
nobody could possibly foresee, but which, if it went on a very few
)ears, must inevitably ruin the country. •

The Result'lions were ultimately agreed to, as well as the Barrack
and luish Estimates, and a variety of other miscellaneous grants.—
Adjourned.

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rd our own territorics...but hirw far that jurisdiction extended, was IS.
point open to tut urerliscuasi3n.
The motion fox an address was not carried.
Mr. Ws tin presented a petition, lie-ohject of which was the purchase
of Lord Elgin's marbles Cr the use of the public.
In the course ofd chtiversation on the subject of the petition, it ap.
petard the general sentiment that the marbles should be purchased at'
a price to be named by a Committee of the Muse.
i he petition was ordered to lie on the table.
The report of the Mutiny.Bilt being brought up,
Mr. Bk:NNETT spoke•at cousidt rade length respecting Courts'-Mar.
tial, and wished to propose a clause limititmg the power of the crowns
to de.iiiiss officers without trial. Ile adverted to several casecia Ida he
coils :tiered as shewing the necessity of shewing sonte new regulation,
and among them that of Ensign Cowed, who lad been dismissed in
consequence of the sentence of a Court martial for not having fought a
duel at Boureeaus with a person with whom he had qusrelled at tit*
theatre.
sir. AlastivEns Swrinx was aware ft'le grist diffeidry and delieaet
of the case respecting fighting duels, and was sensible of the inconsis-
tencies in the article's ot war upon that head. Ile, however, appre.
hostler' that greater evils would result from an alteration of them. He
explained the several cases adverted to by Mr. Bennett, and the BM
was.then ordered to be read a third time to morrow.---Adj.

FRIDAY, sv 16.

ASSIZE OF pREAD.

Mr. F. LP. vire gavt notice, that on Monday next he should move for
leave to introduce At bill to repeal the laws respecting the asise of
(Hear,)

OLIPELS EXEMPTIONJ BILL.

On the motion that this Bill be read a third time,
Mr. W. SCOTT strongly opposed the Bill, on two grounds. namely.
that it was not called for either by justice or the higher &int of e ape.
diency. It was a great objection with him to the Bill, that it made nu
distinction between the ebublished pltices of worship and those of thee
Dissenters—that in truth it went to level all distinctions. As to cha-
pels, any man might open them under the name of religious instruc-
tion, and thereby chem and delude unwary and ignorant persons. He
concluded with moving,. that the bill be read•a third time this dap
three months.
The --
of the EXCIIiinfER defended the Bill. As to its

CHANCHLLOIt :OVEN.
heaping additional burthens on the parishes, it could-not lint be ob-
servable that they had not received ally oha petition from any parish,
complaining of this. A.,: it was not tie amount of the relief- that was
the object, since he believed that all the poor rates,Acc. of all the club.
pets in the metropolis produced not mute than soool. but it was to re.
lieve the chapels from the vexations circumstances attendant upon lay.
ing and levying these rates.
Mr. BANKEts opposed the Bill.
Mr. Burrsawottin deft/tided the measure, as being necessary 10
secure the chapels from being the objects of vexatious rates.
Sir J. NICHOL and Mr. WETHERALL strongly ()pinned the mil.
Mr. PHOTliknOr'svas favourable to the Bill, thinking that it could
not tend to strengtlisn'the Church to heap pains and pe►alties on Cha-
pels. It had always been seen, that real or imaginary opposition or
persecution pten►oted the cause of seetarism.
hl r. Brij. 13Far opposed the Bill.
Mr. BA itINO and Mr. W. Sari u having strongly defended the Bill,
cootedding that thee,tablished Protestants were more interested in this
meetture than the Dissenters, since, if there were any speculators
in
chapels. they had venet ally been round to be builders, mild ►uch like
persons whn were Of the regular E.tablisbnient.--A division then task
.place,:and the number's were-. Fat the amendment 4t
Against•it
Majority-49

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The Dill wits of course lost.
The Howe afterwards revolved itself into a Committee of Ways and
Menne, in which Mr. W. FITILGERAI.D hronght forward the Esiitnatea
fur Ireland ; in which it was announced 16. ii the offices of the Chancel.
for of the Exchequer forireland, and that for England, were about I*
he coirs.oltd.terf
Mr. itvAaT, Mr. rxrte, Lord CASTCEREA OH, and Mr. D. GIDDY.
having made some observations, the resolutions were agreed to. Rtputt
on Monday.
T„, R NcEtr,on of the Excnrcau FR, in answer to a question front
Mr. Lirentell, stated that the 14..0k had agreed to give 3,54.311. as a cola.
pensation for the ..t.itup duties fvr cv ry siillwu 1,11 Beak notes,
Adjourned to gvuday.