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because he had not been long-enouffi In office to
obtain full knowledge of the state of Irj!and; but
there was one observation which he wished to make
t\he Loan for Ireland, made this ..yer iii England,
Was two millionS ; 'the annual amount of the Debt
of Ireland, due hi England, was two millions :; so
that the whole Of the Loan would remain' :here to
pay the interest of the Debt. He then adyerted
the_rapidincrease of the Debt of :Ireland, and said
that in two, years it would hare arrived at that point
whew the Debts of the two Couptries were to be
United'.

Sir JOHN NEWPORT, begged leac'e to state a
few faCts. in answer to what ;had fallen from the
Right Hon.•Gentlemon respelling his having raised, tnuch of the Supplies within . the year.' In the
last year the joint charge of the two Countries was
42 millions,- and in the present year it Was 43 mil-
lions last year, 'when the Right Hon. Gentleman
was Chancellor of the Exchequer, there was four
millions British borrowed; this year there'was two
millions British, and two millions Irish?, borrowed.
After this shorfoatetheht, he would ask, 'whether
he had not done as much towards raising the Sup-
plies within the year as the Right Hon. Gentleman?.
But the Right Hon. Gentleman had not stated that,
when he came into office, there remained 800,0001.
•of •the -Loan of the preceding year not drawn for,
,and that he had called for the power of raising'
500,0001. by Treasury Bills ; and the Right, Hon.
Baronet. said, that he hoped that he should not
have occasion to issue bills to above half that amount.
Besides, as he had stated last night, the Ways and
Means which he had proposed exceeded the Supply
•hy.200,0001. With resped to the,Revenue produc-
ed by the Taxes laid
.on by the Right Hon. Gentle.-
man, he wished to state a few fads : he would net;
for the purpose of making a comparison, take a year
that had been remarkably unproductive, but he would
state the Revenue of 'lreland every year since the
Union. In 1801, the Revenue was 2,345,0001. in
1802, 3,254,0001. in 1803, which was a remarkably
unproductive year, and which the Right Hon. Gen,,
tleman had seleeled for the purpose of his compari;
son, it was only 2,741,0001. which was 500,0001.
less than the preceding year ; and in 1804, with all
the Right Hon.. Gentleman's additional Taxes, it was
3,220,0001. ; and last year, 3,322,0001. The year
1802 was a year of Peace. and internal tran-
-quillity in Ireland; and in that year, the Re-
-venue was within 70,0001. as' high as it was last
Year, after the Right Honourable Gentleman had
imposed Taxes to the amount of 1,200,000 L a year.
Another reason -which operated on his• mind was,
that he had seen the failure of the Right Hon. Gen-
tleman, who, in some instances,' by very much in-
creasing the Tax, has aCtually diminished the Re-
venue. This was the case with, the Ditties upon
Wine andTobaCco. Under all these circurnStances,
. the House would, he .was sure, consider him as
•justified for 'not having followed the advice of the
Right Hon. Gentleman. He was ready, however,
40 CIO the Right Hon. Gentleman justice— he cer-
tainly had proje&ed regulations 'which would have
very mtich improved the Revenue; these regulations
it was his (Sir John Newport's) -intention to follow
Up, and'he had 'no doubt that when the Revenue of
Ireland was colleCted in a fair and proper manner,—
when theiColleCtion was assimilated, as far as possi-
ble, to the 'ColleCtion of the hevenue'-of this Coun-
try, it would be' found Man* More ,produc-
tive. Until- these' exert'jpos were Made, he did not
feel himself justified in calling fornew Tixes, when
npt above-twa-thirds of tilo,,e now imposed 'were.
colle6ted:
Mr. FOSTER explained.., •
Mr. LORRY &iid, he trusted the House would
indulge him with a • few observationS upon what
had thllen frotn the Right Hon-:' Gentleman opposite
to him. The tendency of the.obseryations of the
Right Hon. Gentleman Was to make the House be
lieve that when he came into office he had found
the Revenue at 2,700,9001. and that he had added
taxes to the amount of .1,200,0601:a year to it. It
was true, that in 1803, the year before the Right
Hon. Gentleman
_came ;into office, the'Revenue of
Ireland was only 2,750,0001.: but that was a year
in which, from obvious _Causes, the -Revenue had
failed very considerably. The year before that the
Revenue. was three millions and a quarter, and'
within 70,0001. as much as it was last year, with 'all
the Right Hon. Gentleman's new taxes. He trust-
ed the,House would forgive him for taking up their
time, but the Right Hon. Gentleman was so much
in the habit of making these statements, certainly
not intentionally, that he felt himself called upon to
state the real fads. With respell to the raising the
Supplies as far as -possible within the year, it cer-
tainly was !desirable 'if it could •:be done ; but
the Right Honourable Gentleman, who had not
done it himself, had no right to call upon the
present Chancellor of the Exchequer to do it
he (Mr. Corry) was`'Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer for Ireland, he had prepared a very strong
measure for, raising a'considerable part of the Supply
within the year, and, if he had remained in office,
he should certainly have submitted it -to Pat Lament
and:his opinion and his plan, 'upth that point, re-
mained upon record in the Office. With respell to
this Duty, upon Sugar, he begged to make one ob-
servation, and itappeared to him' to be of considerable
'importance. -A Right Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Rose)
had stated; that the Chancellor of-the Exchequer for
Ireland was bound to- lay on this Duty,' because it
had been imposed in Great Britain. , -It was very
true that when Ireland was admitted into a share of
the Colonial Trade, she,was• bound, by what was
called the ", Colony Compa&," to lay on the same
DutieS upon colonial articles as Great Britain ; but
he contended that the Colony Compael was Merged'
in the Union, and that Ireland' now shared with

Great.l3ritain in the sovereignty of the West India
Islands ; and therefore the Chancellor of the Exche.

quer for Ireland had a right to' use his own discretion
upon the subjed.

Mr: ROSE 'admitted that the Colony Conipaa
waa done away. by'the Union, but the Spirit of it
still'existed, for it could not,be,Contendeci that'lre-
land should have'a preference over Great Britain in
her own'Colonies.

Lord. DE BLAQUIERE cOmplimented Mr. Fos- .j
ter for the exertions he had made when he was in !
office, and said he would -have done a great deal
more if he had not been thwarted. ,

Mr. FOSTBR" sziH; he wa3 happy "to find that
the Right. Han.-13aion'et weant .to adopt the reguia7
tions he irad propbseti auct he Was- ure whets they