The Sun.
London, England, 1808-06-30 00:00:00

STAMP DUTIES.

It was next moved to go into a Committee upon
toe, Bill
,for tielol-regulating certain Stamp Duties,
Inc.
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Lord HoLraoret inveighed against the principle of
this Bill in the,severest teruts. .1( went to oppress
tho,e who :were already labouring under circum-
stances.of distress and difficulty, by increasing the
Duties on Dettis which be Idea
'writ tall with peculiar hard n the proprietors,
of land. Tip: Bill wouigi ;u severely atfedt Attor-.
pies, should nt'ver approve of env principle
of taxation than to press with peculiar weight
on any particril.q clay of the community.
Lora HAWKRSBURY., observed, that under the ur-
gent exigenctes of 'the present moment, it was ne-
cessary to have recourse to every possible resource of
revenue. The principle of the present Bill had long
been-acknowledged and aaed upon by Parliament ;
and the increase of the duties in the present instance
was only a further extension of that principle. That
principle did not bear harder on the landed than on
the commercial interest ; on the contrary, it must
weigh heavier on the latter than on the former, as
transfers of property were, more frequent among
commercial men than among landed proprietors.
It moreover will operate equally on the buyer and
the Seller.
Lords Rossfmt and LAUDERDALE contended, on
the contrary, that the hardship of the increased
duty would fall almost entirely on the seller, who,
from -urgent, circainstduces, compelled to,trans-
fel' his property. Indeed the principle of the Bill
was, in every respet, iniquitous and. unjust.
.ther a few words from Lord HAWKESDURY, the
House resolved itself into a Cotntnittee on the Bill ;
after which the Report was received, and the Bill
ordered to be read a third time to-morrow.—Ad-
journed.

HOUSE OP COMMONS.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29.

The Minor Estate Bill was read a second time,
and ordered to be committed.

A new Writ was ordered ((kale Borough of Dun 7
; dill;, tie room 'of Henry Vaughan Brook, Esq.
' Who, since his eleClion, bad accepted the office of
SteAVarct of his Majesty's Hundred of East Hen-
dred;
A Person from the office of the Chief Secretary
for Ireland
prosentcd, pursuant to order of the
House, an 'Accounti showing the manner in which
500.0001. granted. for the lirlan4 Navigation of Ire-
, land, had been disposed of,--Ordcred to lie on the
table and to be printed.
A Person from the Tax Office presented a state-
Fll4llt of the exeyncesiocurreJ bJ SA',,arnts, Clerks

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• in the Officeof the C'onstnissionerfkir !he itedqtn,•-•
uen Otine Land Tax.--7P3rtiv.fon to lie c.,1 ;i0..• iithie..
'ie Inspe6tor.G.eitt..r.,l cat Exports and rinp..! ta
rivziented an Account of
.the (idantity ut 4r. sc es
which had 4;een imported and v.,trehoused, i.,ntl ,•,;
ports!l in lite present StAttt,ri up to tt1y,.,C.1.01, ',..lii, I.
ordered_ to lie on the tablo ; •and alter a .fe,,v obse.rvii.
tions Iron: Mr. tiEttNBY and Mr. HUSKISSON, to bó
printed.
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A Person from. OM M Comissionert of "“relt min,
stt:r4ridhe
_presented their Four Wtarterly Accoo»t4
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for the year ending the .';tly. uf. Aptil;1808,- logo.
!titer with the ZiiinoteS of then. Proceedings. ~ •
IMPItoVEMgI44-i'S OF OESTNIINSTER.
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Ordered,: on the motion of. Mr. ,Tieti NEN-,
there be .laid.betb.re the House; Copies of all ORLI.,
given by the Lord Chamberlain. of
Household to the Board ef Works. for the 1;1-1.proye,,
went of tl-,e-,Avenues leading to Westminster Hall,
and the two -Houses of Parliament, since the Iqt of
January, i 800 ; alsoan Account of all Works done
in. execution of these orders th the sitme period .;
lastly, an. Account ol'all.Sums.-of,Money which had
been issued by the Lord Chamberhin to the £34,ird
Works for such purposes, specifying the dales ‘Of
each issue, from the .tst of“-January, 18UO, to 1110
present .t i me.
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• Mr. LONG presented the Report of the Committee
appuintedmy consider of the Report of the Conin,i.
stoners.to whom the Memorial respelling . the Ln.,
provement. of Westminster had been. referred. Qt-
tiered to lie on the table, and to be printed..