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and the people arni it therefore behoves every
honest man to lift up his voice, and arrest,
if possible, what we have no hesitation in calling
one of the most cruel and unjust projects that
ever was conceived. Does Parliament, we ask—
do the Country Gentlemen, as they are called—
or does the Country itself, which as an
aggregate
body is much more pure than that portion of it
which is now, we believe partly in derision, de-
signated by the above title—does the Country,
itself; we ask, consider what is now going to be
done to it ? By the proposed act, then (we will
tell it briefly), it is intended at one stroke to affix
upon the people of this laitd taxes amounting
to two millions eight hundred thousand pounds
annually, for five and forty years to corne !
taxes, we may. say, that cannot be removed for
45 years to come, and amounting to almost two
millions eight hundred thousand pounds every
year ! The very repetition of such a proposition,
in the present state of the cotintry,almost freezes
' one. Yet—let us repeat it again, that it may
sink deep into every man's heart, and the evil be,
if possible, averted—we are going then, at the
close of this session of Parliament, and ivhen all

the important business was thought to be trans-
acted, to have fixed upon us two millions eight
hundred thousand pounds in taxes, not for one,
or two, or three years, not even for ten or twenty
years, but taxes which cannot be repealed or
shaken off (for the money is mortgaged) by any
thing short of a revolution for almost half a cen-
tury to come !

[BRITISH rRESS.]
The mania for visiting the Continent has been
always a source of jealousy among the people of
England, who are either nailed to their counters
by their business, or by other circumstances un-
favourable to migration, left prisoners at home.—

The present distress of the country has given in-
creased poignancy to the feelings excited by this
state of society. It has been noticed in Parliament
as an evil grown to a height requiring legislative
interposition, and loudly demanding a tax upon
absentees ; and from the Parliament it has found
its way into pamphlets in set and formal phrase
upon the subject. Absentees must be of neces-
sity regarded with an envious eye by their coun-
trymen, whom they have abandoned to the pres-
sure of taxes, in which they should sustain equal
share, and left to bear the brunt of the battle,
of the benefit of which those who thus abstract
themselves from any part of the burden enjoy

the fruits. Any restraint upon our intercourse
with the Continent, under any circumstances, is
evidently inconsistent with a liberal policy. That
the intercourse may work some partial evil is
admitted, but it is not equally plain that the evil
is not more than counterbalanced by various
consequent advantages. It is, impossible to
draw a line between the man who visits
the Continent for health, business, and im-
provement and him who is only flying from
the payment of taxes.• The attempt would be
as vain as it would be imprudent : it would pro-
duce an unfriendly feeling towards England in
every country in Europe ; it would also work a
great injury to ourselves. It is monstrous vanity
to suppose that Englishmen who go to the
Continent, return deteriorated by its mariners.--

•
e position modestly supposes that an Englis

man, in whatever part of the island he may have
'been born and educated, is of necessity a model
of perfection, incapable of improvement by any
acquaintance with foreign nations.

IRELAND.

REPEAL OF THE TAX ON HEARTHS.

We have great satisfaction in stating, that his
MAJESTY'S MinisterS have signified their inten-
tion of repealing the Tax on Hearths, as well as
that on Windows. The following is a copy of a
Letter on the subject, addressed to Sir ROBERT
SHAW, Bart., by the CHANCELLOR of the Ex
CHEQUER :---

" Downing,stxeet, May 22;1822.

" Mr. Vansittart presents his compliments to Sir Robert
Shaw, and has very great satisfaction in acquainting him that
his Majesty's Government, having taken into consideration the
.representations which he has made to them of the operation
and effect of the Hearth and Window Tax in Ireland,. and
those which have reached them from different parts of the coun-
try upon the same subject, have come to the deterfnination of
proposing to Parliament the entire repek of that Duty.-:—From

the personal interest which Sir Robert Shaw has always evinced
in this question; 111 r. Vansittart has much pleasure in making
the earliest possible communication of the intentions of Go-
vernment with respect to it."--( Dublin Correrpondent, May

25.)
A Letter, respectably signed, has been addressed to the
Editor of The Mayo Constitution, giving a most deplorable ac-
count of the situation of the poor in the parish of Island-Eady.
The Gentlemen implore relief from the fund already collected,
and pledge themselves that there are hundreds of dying victims,
whose state of starvation and misery is not to be-described,