The National Register.
London, England, 1816-03-25 00:00:00

THE NATTONAL MISTER.

csp• ri illy tht relitiqui,hment of this tax. •
wa • the first step to a great relief. At the same time he did not
lonic that the Revenue would lose so ninth 'IS might be imagined,
he tax not protineing more than two ai;dians.
Mr. BRAND wished to know whether the Malt-tax did not
x e nit the ~thot• July.
Mr. I'AN,“TTART replied in the affirmative, and observed
that h t shouid summit a motion with respect to the stock on
hand.

Mr. Poosnosv rejoiced that Ministers had abandoned the
tax. To that abandonment they had been driven by the peo
pie of England Withont their loud and general voice the In-
come-tax would not have been got rid of, and lie trusted the
defeat of Ministers in that respect would be an eternal lesson
to the people of England.—( Laud cries 41 lade, hear! l They
might be us.sured that their Representatives would attend to
their call, and compel Ministers to listen to the voice of justice
mill of reason( Hem, bear!)
laird ensTl.Eni.AGti conceived the Rt. Hon. Gentleman
could not has e been in the House %Iwo his Rt. Hon. Friend
had made the communication respecting the Malt-tax, or he
would 1101 have attributed to the exertions Of• the people, the
relinquislitnt lit of a means of taxation which was conreded
Ally to the distresses of the agricultural intere,t. With re-
spect to the Proparty-tax, he was prepared to contend that it
was a wise, just, and politic measure, inteude•l to relieve the
agricultural interest, and the low erortlers of die people.- •( Laud
cries hear, heate ! ) Rut the rich had relieved themselves from
the burthen, and therefore he must protest against the decision
of Parliament, which he must consider as unwise; if• they had
attended to the modified imposition as proposed by his Rt. lion.
Friend, the people would have been more relieved than other-
ise—( Hear, hair !)
Mr. (loom expressed his congratolutions in common with
the Home on the abandonment of the Malt-tax. He also wished
,o state that Ministers hitherto had received his support, but
for the future he should only support them so long as they
adopted and persevered in a system of ceonomy.—( f air, hear!)
Mr. 1101.4a1A Sr hoped, that those Gentlemen who generally
supported Ministers would take a lesson from the Hon. Gen-
tleman who spoke last, and othy give stippolt when it conkd be
given honestly—then the c:aintry might be saved,and the Cr•ovn
compelled to do its duty to the natun -(ll.atr, hear!)
Lord LUOCELLES eoto it was not prudent to announce
to the c..untrv, that became they had ancceed.•d in petitioning
against the Income-tax, they were to pet; ion against all others.
It must obvious to the lion. and Learned Gentleman, that
there were a 4111111)er Of eXpeliCIS to wind up :he war, and con-
/mittens ly there must he a great demand far money.
Mr. Bitounftsat had no such idea—he had not wish-d the
people to oeution against all taxes.
Mr. kosE could I.ot sit still, and :ear that the Property-tax
equally affected the poor as the rich. He must deny the posi-
tion the great latriho der and stockholder were more relieved
by its icpeal than ons other class of the community. It was
trite that it was objectionable, ina,inuch as it made the private
affairs of the trading part of the pub:ir subject to inspection ;
but in every other point of view it was not so. tie was per-
suaded :he good e. me of the country would come round in
time, anti they would tied the tit, to be a gowl.oue, and infi-
nitely less oppressive than any other—Meal, hear!)