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London, England, 1822-08-23 00:00:00

OFFICERS ON HALF-PAY.

When Officers on the Half-pay appear at Court, they are
to wear the Uniform 'of the Corps, of which they are on the
Half-pay.
MEmon.Aainum.L.-Officers of Infantry have the option of
appearing at his Majesty's Leitees in hessian boots and white
kerseymere pantaloons. When they do so, they are to wear
their sashes.—At his Majesty's 'Drawing RooMs, they are to
appear in shoes and stockings.
Epaulettes and Wings.—The Epaulettes and Wings of all
Regimental Officers are to be of the same description, with the
following distinctions in those of the Field Officers, viz.—The
Epaulettes of a Colonel to have a crown and star on the strap ;
of a Lieutenant-Colonel, a crown ; of a Major, a star.:—All
Field Officers, (those belonging to Rifle Corps excepted,)
whether by brevet or, otherwise, are to wear two Epaulettes.—
Field Officers of Fusileer and Light Infantry Corps, and like-.
wise the Captains of Flank Companies, who may have attained
the rank of Field Officer, are to wear Wings, as well as Epau-
lettes. The Epaulettes of Officers of Grenadiers are to have a
Grenade, and of Light Infantry a Bugle, on the Strap. These.
distinctions, in the case of Field Officers, are to be above the de-
vice of the Ctown and Star.

HORSE FURNITURE FOR MOUNTED OFFICERS
OF INFANTRY.

Saddle Cloth—of the same colour as the facing of the Regi=
went ;—two feet ten inches in length, and one foot ten inches
in depth, with gold or :Over lace, five-eighths of an inch wide,
and scarlet edging. Bridle—of black leather ; bent branch bit;
with gilt bosses, having the Rose, Thistle, and Shamrock in
the centre, encircled with the words—." Infantry mounted Of-
ficers," and the crown above :—Front and roses to correspond
in colour with the, facing of the Regiment. Collar—white.
llolsters—to be covered with black bearskin.

FUNERAL OF LIEUT.-GEN. SIR S. AUCHMUTY.
GENERAL ORDER.-DUBLIN, AUG 20.
The interment of the late Lieutenant-General the Right
Hon. Sir SAMUEL AUCHMUTY, Member of his Majesty'S
Most Honourable Privy Council in Ireland, Governor and
Master of the Royal Hospital of Kilmainham, Colonel of the
78th (Highland or Ross-shire Buff's) Regiment of Foot, and
Knight Grand Cross of die Most Honourable and Military
Order of the Bath, will take place on Wednesday next the
21st instant, at half-past ten o'clock A.M. at the Cathedral of
Christ Church.
ORDER OF FUNERAL PROCESSION.
Detachment of Cavalry.
Troop of Horse Artillery.
Band of Music and Trumpets.
Six Squadrons of Cavalry.
Physicians to the Deceased in Carriages.
Officers of the Royal Hospital in Carriages.
Band of Music and Drums.
Officers of the Staff, Junior Ranks first, on Horseback:
Heads of Departments on Horseback.
The Lieu tenant-0 en e ral.
Pall-bearers in Carriages.
The Charger of the Deceased, caparisoned, led by two Grooms,
supported by two Orderly Serjeants.
insignia of the Orders of the Deceased, borne on a velvet
Cushion.
Aide-de-Camp. THE BODY. Aide-de-Camp.
Chief Mourner.
A ssistein t-Mourners.
Carriage of the Lord Mayor.
Carriages of the Sheriffin
Carriages of the Chief and Under Secretaries to his Excellency
the Lord Lieutenant.
Officers of the Navy and Army, senior Ranks nearest the Body.
Carriages of the Nobility and Gentry.
Detachment of Dragoons.
The Officers on the General Staf to appear in dress uniforms,
other Officers in regimentals, all wearing a piece of black crape
round their left arms, above the elbow.
The In-Pensioners of the Royal Hospital of Kilmainham will
line the way from the chapel-door to the gate leading to the
military road.
The four Regiments of Infantry in garrison, off duty, will
line each side of the way from the Royal Hospital gate, by the
military road, along the quays, through Parliament-street,
Cork-hill, Castle-street, to Christ Church.
On the hearse reaching the west entrance of the Cathedral,
the Body is to be taken out, and to be borne from thence into
the Church, by a detachment of Grenadiers, who will be in
readiness for that purpose.
As soon as the procession has entered the Church, the Regi-
ments of Infantry lining the streets will be closed, and form on
the Quays fronting to the River, and as near the parapet as
convenient, with the right resting on Richmond-bridge. Minute-
guns will be fired by the Royal Artillery from the Salute Battery
in the Phoenix Park during the procession, and the perform-
ance of the Funeral Service.
At the conclusion of the service, on a signal rocket being
fired from the Cathedral, a salute of 11 guns will be immediately
fired by the Royal Artillery, and followed by a volley from each
Battalion in succession, which will be repeated in the same
manner thrde several times.
Colours to' be hoisted half mast high.
persons having places in theprocession will be
furnished with tickets for admission of their carriages within
the gates.Or die Royal Hospital on Wednesday mornitg text ;
all other persons desirous of sending their carriages are request-
ed to order them, to assemble in front of Kilmainharri Court-
Hope, by ten o'clock in the morning of that 'day, when the
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necessary arrangements to preserve regulaiety will be made.
Auo. 20.—Lieutenant-Geneial Fyers reached
Dublin on Thursday night,,it9d,:on Friday,. fa:malty:took
upon him the teen- command, of the Army ;Ir:dying in
Ireland.

THE REVENUE.

SECOND REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONERS ON
THE PUBLIC RI:VENUE.

TO. THE LORDS COMMISSIONERS OF NIS MAJESTY'S

TREASvity:

.
The Second Report of the Commissioners appointed by the
Acts of,the Est and 24:Ge0.,117-. c. 90, and 3d Geo. IV. c. 37,
for inquiring into the- Collection and Management of the
Public Revenue arising in- Ireland, and into certain Depart.
ments of the Public Revenue arising in Great Britain.
C'onx:racilfront Tins St.ti of.yeaterdery.)
It seems almost superfluous, after what we have stated re-
specting the system of Management of the departments in Ire-
land, to recommend that tne resident General COmthissioners
in that country should invariably be selected from among those
Members of the boards in London who may be presumed to
'have acquired by experience a competent knowledge of the
English system ; and that until the new regulations are fully
established, one or more practical officers, selected Irons the
English branch of the establishment, should occupy the
chief. : places of controal immediately under them. When
the combined system shall have 'beets matured by expe-
rience, this provision will be, -114-40figer necessary, fur the
distinction between British , atta -Irish -officers • will then
have ceased to_ exist; they will :all be members of" the same
establishment, distributed and promoted iadiScriminately,
according to merit and capacity, -throughout the United Xing-
dom. But _ although we advert ..to this as.. a great, benefit ulti-
matOly •to be ,obtained, we are fully aware or' the slow de-
grees by, which the intermixture sof the establishMents must
be effected., and the extreme precaution with which it must be
regulated. •

'A's tha adoption of this measure would'atlinit of dispensing
with the services of a considerable number of the Commis.
sioners nosy holding places at the several boards of each revenue,
it is necessary that we should obiriate the possible supposition
that we contemplate the retirement of all those Commissioners
from the Scotch and, Irish boards alone. , ••Sticlian arrangement
has not entered into our views. The present condition of the
Irish revenue departments has been traced to causes ibr which
the existing Irish. boards . can hardly beheld responsible ; and
so far as we may, be warranted by what has come before us.; in
expressing an opinion of the Irish Commissioners in general,
we should feel boUnd to bear such favourable testimony to their
sufficiency, as weuld.,be consistent with their, occupying
fairly proportionate share 'in the united commissions. The
members' of the Scottish boards would have an indisputable
claim to be considered with the same impartiality in the new
arrangements. .
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But although it has been necessary for us to say thus much,
in order to prevents misunderstanding of our intention, we are
conscious that it is not within our province to say more on this
topic, nor to offer any observations upon the peculiar import-
ance of filling the general boards, at the commencement of
their: institution, with gentlemen of approved ability and ex.
perience in the,revenue business. _

. It is incumbent upon us also to advert, in this place, to the
expediency. of 'establishing a sufficient safeguard azainst the
disposition which might be expected to exist in boards having
their residence in London, to encourage the employment tir
natives of England, in preference, to those of Scotland or Ire--
land, in the service of the revenue. This is a point to which
we attach great importance, and we are anxious' to state that
any such partiality would be directly opposite to the views and
feelings with which our recommendation of these measures is.
accompanied. Li order most effectitally to obsiate such a tend-
ency,. we are of
,opinion that the nomination to all the lower
situations, whether' in the Customs or the Excise (thi highest
executive officers being under the new regulations to be tilled
by promotion alone); should be so far subject to the controul of
the Government as •to give ample power to your Lordships to
e
provide for the employment 'of natives of Great Britain and of
Ireland, in duo proportions.
There is, however, a part of .the present duty of Irish boards
Which the redueed'number of-Commissioners might not suffice
fur the performance of; and the due discharge vi which must
therefore he provided for in another. tminner. td
their furictims as Courts of Judicature.

In England the Cam Missioners of Excise constitute a Court
of Justice for the. decision of causes relating
.to tluterevenue.
Theit judicial Functions are chiefly exercised upon prosecutions
which arisein London: • Those which occur in the country are
usually carried before Magistrates. But all cases which are of
superior importance, or haVe any special difficulty attending
them, ate conducted in the Court of Exchequer. - . •
The Commissioners of Customs in England have no such
powers. All legal proceedings for breaches of the Jaw relating
to that revenue are either summarily decided upon by the ma-
gistracy, or prosecuted in the Court of Exchequer.
In Scotland, the judicial functions are exercised by either
commission, except in the case of certain offences against the
Salt 'Laws, which the Commissioners of Excise at Edinburgh
were by a recent Act empowered to take cognizance of. The
duty of attending to them has been trifling. 'ln all other legal
proceedings, the Boards in Scotlenel have recourse to the Ma-
gistracy, or the Court of Exchequer, according to the import-
ance or difficulty of the case. - •
In Ireland, the Boards both of Customs and Excise sit jitdi
cially to hear revenue causes. arising in the Dublin district;
end there are Coutts of Sub-Coriniussioners, composed of the
principal officers in each revenue, to try such as arise in the
country. From the sentences, either of the Chief or Sub-
Commissioners, a power of appeal is given to Commissioners
appointed for that purpose in Lublin, in the same manner as
from the English Board of Excise to the Commissioners ofAp.
peal in London. The •powers of these Commissioners of Ap-
peal are of the same description, and their duties nearly equally
light, in both countries. They consist of five Commissioners
in each. But while the salaries of the English Commissioners
are only 2001. per annum, subject to deductions, those of Ire-
land'have 8001: ti-yetir each; thus furnishing another instance
Of the disproportionate expensiveness of the IriSh establish.
ments, as compared with the English.
Of these revenue tribunals its Ireland, the Courts of Sub-Corn-
missioners appear to be peculiarly objectionable in the principle of
their constitution. The prosecutors, in itlicaii:ies that come bcftiie
them, are Revenue Officers, and Revenue Officers are the judges.
It is true, that provision is made to. preient those who sit as
judges from being interested in the, specific causes which come
before them ; but theyare connected by habits of intimacy, and
by -a similarity of general•inferesti, with the officers who are the
parties in those causes ; and they must always feel, that the
questions upon which they give judgment in favour of a brother
officer on one day, are of the same nature as those upon which
the same officer may, on. the next, be appointed to pronounce
sentence between themselves and some other defendant.
We are told, however, that this anomalous tribunal has not
been found practically to produce the degree of injustice which
might theoretically be expeCted from it. This is to be pre-
sumed, it is said, from the circumstance of its not having been
much complained of.
_, We attach little weight to a conclusion
upon that ground. We were in like manner referred to the ge- ;
of,theiream:utz:bie:
neral absence of complaint on the part of the merchants for a
proof that the officers of the customs were not negligent or ir-
regular in the discharge of their duties. The. examination,
however, of the 'merchants themselves convinced us, that if such
complaints were neither loud nor frequent, it was not because
there existed no ground for them, but because in Ireland com-
plaints against public officers generally have hithexto• been es-
. teemed not merely hOpeless but dangerous, as being mote like-
ly to produce persecution from the inferior officers, than redress
froth their superiors.
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The diffitulty which opposes itself to an alteration in these
Courts of Shb-Conmissroners, , with a view of placing the ad-
ministration of the revenue laws in Ireland upon the same foot-
ing as in England with respett to the country ilisteictS,' is the.
want of a magistracy in ell respects similar.- It has been Stig-
gested that an improvement might be made by the inteivention
of the. assistant-barristers, in lieu or in. aid of those Courts.
But a§ there is 'a bill now helbre the legislature for introthicing
some improvements in the polite and MagistratY of -Ireland,
it will he more- advisable to. defer, the nOnni4nration .of. any
measure fonthat purpose, until these loxislative improvements
shall haie been etfbcted, when it may tie' "seen in what Matinee
the disposal Of she revenue causes out of Dublin may beliest '
adapted to, them.
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It is to be observed also,: then the mode of trying Twit:Title
causes In the country would not of necessity be affected by' the
alteration the local boards.. The reduction
would only render a new arrangement of the Dublin jurisdiction
.
indispensable. ' . .
• ' We have had under out edrisideration two plans, .
to relieve the chief Ccrounission'ers ,from ~(Itis-part of their pre-
sent duty. One of them is a .proposnl auhmitted 0 the Lord •
Lieutenant, 'wld-chi had &rift object to mike the .GorpriiiitiopCrz .
cf Appiartbe:JUdges in the 'fired ingfaiicee 'acid • to citable tho

parties to appeal from that tribunal_to the Court of Exchequer,.
with some abridgement of the forms and expenses belonging to
the proceedings of that Court. The other is a suggestion from
Leslie Foster, a person'tchos.e opinion, on all accounts, is
entitled to the greatest ;weight, and .one of the Board's counsel.
His opinion is, that theCauSeB now tried bythe.CouKt of. Com-
mission:TS might be carried at once into the Court of
chequer, under regulations which would effectually gtiird the
subject against any increiiie of delay or expense. Thishasitp-
neared to us to be.by much the more eligible course. It would.
not only be a relief to the revenue boards, iu 'their judicial:
functions, butiYould lead to the entire abolition of the taxis-
'mission of appeal .in Ireland, the expense of which is about
5,0001. a year.
Mr. Leslie Foster's proposal will be found in his evidence.
given before us annexed to this report.. The other, suggestion
to which *-e have adverted is also inserted -in oar appendix, to,
gether with the opinions of the Irish law officers upon it.
We thi not think it necessary that We should eltate in ;More
detail our opinions upon the respective merits ; ihese. plans.
because a e conceive,.that previously. to the adoption of either of
them, or of any other arrangement for the same purpose, the
subject should' be folly examined and considered by the new
general Boards of Customs and Excise, assisted by. the British
and Irish law officers of the Crown.
In the offices immediately under the Boards, and connected
with the 'exercise of their functions, some changett will be re
viral; and souse reductions will be found practicable, in con-
sequence of the alteration of the Boards themselves. The of=
fices of the secretaries. in both departments are of thitt 'descrip-
tion t and those which appertain to the geheial receipt and col.-
lection of the.revenuesin Dublin and in Edinburgh, will be
susceptible of a more economical modification, whenever it may
be determined to carry into execution the change which we pro-
pose. It will he our duty to suggestthe regulations and re-
ductions by which_these ,parts of the establishment-A may be
best adapted to it, after completing- our inquiry into each of
them, and after conferring with the persons appointed to pm-
side over them.

Of the practical difficulties which the new boards will have
to encounter-in the full introduction of • the English Syetem of
collection into Ireland, the most considerable will be found in
the Excise 'department. in the Customs, the differences now
existing between the English anel Irish practice, are rather
those. of habit and discipline than of principle or regulation.--
But in the Excise there are wider distinctione. •
These chiefly consist in the combined method of license and
survey (before adverted to) which`prevails in Ireland, and not
- in England, anti in the mixed system of; port and inland duties
of excise which obtains in England, and not in Ireland.
For the former we cannot hesitate to recommend the ultimate
though gradual and cautious substitution of the English system
-of survey alone. We concur with Colonel Doyle and Mr. Carr
in thinking that it would not be safe to relinquish immediately
the means which the license system affords for securing a part
of the revenue in Ireland. But we are strongly of opinion, that
as soon as the system of survey is well established, the charge
by way of license should be abandoned ; as we apprehend that
the system of license must either be of no assistance to a system
'of survey, or it must have a tendency to relax it.
If the license is imposed at a rate of duty much below what
could be yielded on the average by the actual quantity of the ar-
ticle produced, it must leave the whole business of ascertaining
the real duty to the vigilance of the officer, and under goeid ma-
nagement the duty paid would in that case always exceed the
license charge. If, on the other hand, the charge by way of li-
cense were imposed, so as to approach very nearly to the amount
of the duty on the actual produce, it would gradually induce
the officer to take the easier course or relying upon it, and of
sparing his own exertions. But in that case, while it would
still produce no advantage to the revenue, it coald not fail to
operate very injuriously upon the manUfacturers in general, by
its unavoidable tendency to confine the trade to the greater
capitalists. • 1
.No manufacturers could exist under a system of license cal-
culated upon the utmost quantity of any article that could be
prodticed by constant work, except Well as could afford to keep,
their. manufactories always in activity, and to abide the fluctu.
!tiers of the market, with large stacks frequently on -their
hands, The enterprise of the smaller capitalist would he.
:crushed -by in This -is one of the pernicious effect's of revenue re-
gulation, which ought most sedulously to be guarded againit.
That such an effect has been-produced in a considerable de-
gree in Ireland by the license system, even at the rates of
charge, and with-the evasions which have prevailed there, is ap-
parent from the. report of the Board of Excise, in which a very
great diminution in the number of all traders subject to the
Excise, since the adoption of that system is described with ex-
pressions of satisfaction perfectly consistent in persons who have
only the easy collection of the revenue at heart ; but in which,
we presume, neither your Lordships nor Parliament, who take
a more extended view of the general interests of the community,
could possibly participate. .
With respect to the difference which exists in the collection
of the port duties, we can only offer our decided opinion that
it otteht not to continue; and that the Customs and Excise
ehould be employed in the collection of their several revenues
with the game limits as to their respective operations in Ireland
asin Great Britain. Whether it may be more convenient. to
adopt the division established in Ireland between these two de-
partments, where the Customs alone are employed upon the coast
and in the ports, while the Excise have no concern but with
the collection of inland duties, or to extend to Ireland the
English practice of taking a part of -the importation duties by
the Customs; and a part by the Excise, it is not within' our
province to consider. The Commission which is appointed un-
der the sign manual to inquire into the Customs and Excise of
England will, doubtless, submit to your Lordships their opi-
nion upon that important point, as it concerns the futianna-
nagement in England; and the practice in Ireland Swill be go-
yerned by the ultimate decision taken upon it.
In both branches of the revenue, however, the first proceed-
ing towards the union of the departments, and the establish-
ment of a better system and practice in Ireland, will be gra-
dually to introduce a certain proportion of officers of skill and
character from the. British service into the most important
places of check and superintendence in that country, while -
persons of the same description may be brought from thence
- to acquire by experience a knowledge of the English practice.
The complete identification of the establishments, by inter-
changing the lower anti more executive members, so as finally
to abolish all national distinctions among the officers of the same
revenue, would ensue, by such slow gradations, and with
such precautions as the judgment and experience of the Boards
must naturally suggest.
We are well aware that when thee° first and general arrange.
silents shall have been completed, there will still remain much
to be done, in the judicious adoption of the subordinate parts,
before the new system will be in full operation, and productive
of 'all the advantages which it must ultimately . yield. Many
of the difficulties to be encountered are sufficiently obvious,
and others will no doubt arise in the gradual introduction of .so
extensive a change, which cannot now be anticipated. But
we neither foresee nor can we imagine any obstacles to the suc-
cessful accomplishment of this great measure, of a magnitude
sufficient to suggest to its the least apprehension, or induce in
us a belief that they would not be easily overcome by the in-
dustry, the zeal, and the judgment of the general and local
Commissioners, under the superintending directions of your
Lordships. On the ()thee hand, we must repeat our confident
assurance, that neither skill nor industry, however indefati.
gably and zealously applied, can; by a mere partial aniend-
ment of the existing management of the revenue in Ireland,
in its present state of separation from that of England, render
it an efficient and economical member of the general system. j
Of the effeet which meet be produced by these Change;
Upon individual interests and feelings, we are certainly by no
means inseneible, and nothing short of a clear conviction of
the great benefit to be derived from them would have induced
us to recommend a public measure, which may be the inevi-
table cause of much private disappointment and inconvenience.
In the compeneatinn to be allowed for deprivation of office, or
for the retirement of any individual in consecteience of these
general alterations, there will be ground for liberal regard to
the claims of the parties, in the consideration that such al-
lowances will not be additions to the existing public burdens.,
bur only temporary diminutions of the large amount- of even-
tual saving, which we sanguinely contemplate as the result: of
this measure.

• ,
We hast. thus submitted the grounds -upon which we lu,ve
been led to consider the incorporation of the several Boards
of revenue throughout the.llnited Kingdom, as an indispensable
preliminary to the attainment of that uniforthity in the manage-
ment and collection of ti eipublic income which was contemplated
by. ParliLment in the act of our appointment, We have also sub-
nutted the outline of what has appeared to us, after the fullest
consideration, the most eligible mode of accomplishing that hi.
corporation,: as, it concerns the two , principal brandies of the,.
revenue; the Vustorns and EXcise. The other departments will
be ale sukieet of, separate reports, . i framing, a plan for they

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p u Tose, we It tve4reidfaitlyl borree .in eijnd the Aeyered *jest. a
wiliCil4 14 ''''cr9(llol.l4l. EIF:Yt,9- "MgeC74.;419 Fri1.1.110f.?11•I'lne
ifile7rlizgilgiiii.°•.'l7)74Y: lAreitli!irieellerif'Ouirfa4Z4lnlb:,aat'r4rinl ?a rZ-.
ion of the charges of ina.ragemeree Wg-ki,eo: also ;IcepOre:
View the, „f onpex?onibepreip, tni s etianfAtio .t?.e , consji 'intim} at<
the revenue departinenfa:6x.ertlic other ateratthit tf Which
we siuhniittA tiei'e'ereefelil teiids lit Pgt eoWitzikneeiemeht of ilia;'
.report.
• -Upon .the fulleze consideration,. ti'e Oen HU-I:aimed has.ar-.
..pelieti t 6 us the hest cxkiulauttci f6feettionspli.shinie gill deirpor
pciei f6rObieli, ice ini tin ton with tSkise Medatircsot isin tended .
I.3ut weiteeiroli 4,‘,ctiy,.tolae tqade,rapes;Tas not insistingty per. th i A
partiCulargoOde of effocting an ineors§oration of Oii'lliparCre eec,
! with tiro &Uric' degree ' Of c6htfaelet villial ijAti 'Match w el.,
sise urwitt• the. indiipirtsabli.lied'essitY:ottlie inOeporation: itself,
We arc senvii4, tiistoth'e4 ikaadifi.cittißpoctite entrisprtntinei,
and ot.l,er selierue.s oriferangemeetit ti tffe aPpilikition of tt ern,
which have'n'ot-StikeAkeel:Tifeitielicil tiiiii,---tuay pethaps tee
deemed' prefcrableieltrot%eitlisianiting ars,,faixiong. eppsideratiou
which, we • have bestowed- tipon the sttly.icet,- , But Crnether t'-,...
oliccta Itiall tie 'accOniiiliihecrift the yo'--e'whiCh we have i--o:
poSed, or iii any other.-we abfl be. sip ally ready- to devote eye-
biitt :cm:ea-sours, aidesi by the power $4 inquuy.4yith whie'-:
'earliarniet: has investei tee,- to aseeeta•ea aed. report to lii',...f
Lordships the scale of th' d' stibordiilatl! (*cablishmentis wnieh
May ii-e.triO,t consiStent witlitit; havieg4t,lest regard to all those!
inteeests, AinanCial . and comic.ereial, • ykitli aFe, involved ire the
due execeat'...on of,the seryis:e lkeloginz to :,'.la,:ie'''iletartirienta.
We aeriwell aware that it's fti'th`eise hreere§ts-Aionethat the
prireinee of our' cammieSion extends. • lc -clehfing. thii rer.,o-r,
howeeTer,.we trust it may be permitted to .to ,to :observe, ti
some beeeficial consequences, even heeond, :'rose ithinalia-,*
affecting the revenue arid the merchant,' mir! be :pected
ensue from the union of these departments with the Correiirp', di,.
ing branches of the revenue in Great. Ilri tain. They compreheed,
a Lurie number of officers extensively distributed, connect"' :e.,-
the discharge of their duties with the interests of a consid.erabl.;
proportion of the community, and possessing a deFreo of ir.i.i,.
ence in Ireland greatly superior to the weiglit which belongs tr,
them in this Country: Any Measure which would' have tb.',
effect of introducing into such establishments an hipiovedstat,
of discipline, better habits of general conduct, a..more fairle.f.'el
regard to the interest of the Crown, and a more impartial coe-
'sideration of the just claims of the subject. could hardly fail ?•:
produce advantageous results, beyond a mere, imprOvement i.,
the execution of their own functions. We confidently trust, that
all of these benefits would folloVr the extenslon•of the English.
system of revenue to Ireland, together with the'intirinixture of
British and Irish officers in the administration of it ; and v'e
cannot but entertain the hope that such a change would comr::-
bute, iresome degree at least, to that amelioration of the general
state and condition of Ireland, which a closer approximation el
the usages and institutions of thiS gountry is best calculated to
effect, and which is an object of such vital iinportartee to the
political welfare of the' United Kingdbm. . •
.T.• 'WALLACE,. • (LS.) W. 1. LUSHINGTON,(L.S.I
THOS. F. LEWIS, (L.S.) HENRY BERENS, (L. 5..)
J. C..,HERRIES, (LS.) .. . .
Off;& of Inquiry into the Collection and Iklaeaqt-
ment of the Revenue, June 28, 1822.