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pea„- I,t would cost him '23,0191. Th 2 Lord. Chancellor• very
ori'iTt'Y ordel•ed that the account should not be rendered. He
contended that when they were in a situation to repeal taxes,
~eY should. first
rst remove it from the sanctuary -of -justice.=
oe„ stieeo''areelegant writer said, is that security which the
lits-sierntrlent of a country giieS to every individual:in the pos..' F
tee, °I.I of. every thing he holds dear—his property, his charac-
ins honour, and life." l'areea' it seldom happened that a man
went
Jan, to law but his neigas rs predicated he -.would go
and frequently nor- a/id:tout good reason; and there wePe,
tilsandit of lawsuits which the individe a' carrying it on knew
4_l' the defence could only increase his original debt. Whilst
se:,taxaipon justice remained, he, for one, could never con-
lie 4, to a vote such as was proposed for Windsor Castle. That
.„, thought would be a piece of unwarrantable extravagance.—
nere was no fear, as he had been told, that by the removal of
these low taxes the whole country would become litigious.—
(A;tie present state of things was, that wrongs went unredressed •
,!'ing to this evil, and he believed there was no man in that
troouse above 30, who had not submitted to many wrongs to his
P , nerty with impunity on this account. Neither could he agree
ith those who thought no debt could be contracted without
'an •
it' '`‘,o•lolig as justice was-denied to the poor, he would op-
Pose those votes which Occasionally came before them for build-
,churches, the•only occasion on which such a work might
.ei‘ttieclared to be sacrilegious.
obl' r.
CA 14CRAFT thought the House and the Public much
, need to his Hon. Friend for the observations he lad made on
i'lletitaxation on law proceedings. He was sorry to hear what
the fallen from the Chancellor of the Exchequer, relative to
'0 Salt Tax. The House he considered as pledged to the re-
Peal of the remainder of this tax, on the sth of January next,
and he hoped the Right Hon. Gentleman would not be the per-
' r. to endeavour to persuade the house to an infraction of
elr areement. No tax had been repealed, whose removal
the so grateful or so useful as the Salt Tax. He knew that
e•itight Hon. Gentleman was surrounded by those whose in.
eres t it was to advise him otherwise, and perhaps he was
°bl'ged to throw out the observations ho had made. But he
!armed
nun that these. persons were interested—that they were
,n,.,Oet consumers, whose part he (3lr. C.) had always taken. Upon
whole
,the statement of the Right Hon. Gentleman had dis-
fdpointedhun..The Coal Tax he thought had been well select-
", but he was not so clear as to the duty on Wool. The removal
pthe duty on foreign Silk, he feared, would open a fearful corn-
etition to the English Manufactures. But what he thought dis-
'earteniroa was; that up to 1827 they were to hope for no further
reeral of taxation. With regard to the vote of 500,0001. for
ah•tirches, no one who- saw the necessity for them would
)ect•to. But he thought it would be well first to inquire
for
fate of those Church,s which had already een uilnd
rof which one million had-been voted. Ile believed b
the result
i'atitiirt inquiry would be, that the demand for that sort of
sate ieng was not equal to the supply. With respect to the
Vtrindsor Castle, he did not agree with his Ho..
kourable Friend (Mr. Smi'h). If the advance was warranted
"013; the state of the country, he thought it well bestowed
Weea great national object of that kind. Whether this
~a:st: done or not, a great part of the vote must go in ne-
vrlelairy repairs. With respect to the repeal of the tax upon
tio":. it was too scanty and small to deserve cornmenda-
bt:iip, The relief was required, and he thought the 500,0001. for
4gaiing• churches would be better employed that way. He
declaredatt that he thought the public would be disappoint-
In an e statement made by the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
dens repeal of taxation the object should be to relieve
.the burs
the people, in order to increase their energies, and
ever
to them to enterprise. It was their energy that had
• 4117 exerted itself when wanted for the salvation of the country;
hi,`;,latever might be the wisdom of the Government, it was
eJ 'He arms and head of the people that the country must be
eeilteerried from difficulty either in peace or war.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER hoped it
ould not be thought that lie dissented from the latter senti-
, !nents of the Hon. Gentleman's speech ; and indeed he thought,
111 the course of the statement he had made, he had shown that
!Itch were his own feelings and opinions. He might be wrong
in the selection he had made of the taxes to be taken off; for
tacit was the difficulty of balancing the different interests in a
case of this kind, that the embarrassment in taking off taxes
was as great as that of putting them on. The reason he would
frankly state, for his having selected these particular taxes
was because he thought they offered the best practical appli-
cation of those principles upon which he wished to guide
his official conduct; and because as such he thought them
More likely than any other to return them the means of apply-
ing funds to the reduction of taxes upon other objects. There
Might be other taxes more oppressive, but their reduction
would not so much conduce to the interest of commerce, nor
be eventually so beneficial to the country as those he had se-
lected—(Hear, hear !)
Mr. BROUGHAM said he agreed with his Hon. Friend
the Member for Wareham (Mr. Caleraf t), in thinking that the
project of the Chancellor of the Exchequer would excite general
disappointment. In calling it a project, he did not wish to be un-/
derstood as treating with the sligle te'st disrespect the enlightened
and sound principles which part of the luminous statement
of the Right non. Gentlemanl d
to evinced.
by iiced. Ile confined his
Commendation rather as
applied
beneficial commer-
cial change which would be wro'd
gltit
Gentleman. There were theman system
Right Honourable Gen of the
y points in the
application of it which were undoubtedly new, which
they could not be prepared to approve without farther con
proceeding t
sideration. With regard to the 170,0001, from the
bounty taken off the linen trade, he considered it asamost
valuable repeal. It was taken off an article to which it could
do no good; and possibly much harm. By it the commercial
Government of the country had gained great direct advantage.
His approbation of the removal of the duties on silk would de-
pend on the time when that was to take place. The parties
interested ought to be listened to with great caution, and Par.
liarnent ought to hold a tight hand over all issues of money
00 that score. Such things were always the consequence of
endeavouring to retrace our steps from a course of error into the
light path—we could not do so without trampling over those who
had,t followed us in our delusion. When once they became sa-
Rl'inoedo -that the propositions of Government were correct, this
euse ought, ho should say, stoutly and manfully to support
ithaenstii He begged, therefore,_ to be understood only as approv-
Att to principles of the Right Hon. Gentleman's proposals.
Mop
viTtliluty on Wool the result would prove that its remis-
dirt not operate beneficially to the lower classes. The
Y on Silk.
that the remisss of the same description, and it was admitted
nefit the consumer.on of the duty on Rum was not in to be-
pressed his approbation The Hon. and Learned Member then ex-
productive ation of high duties on spirits of all sorts, as
although the encoal habits among the people, and insisted that
argument against I.lragement given to contraband trade was an
reason why they shanyreasing the duties on Spirits, he saw no
article on which nut' dbe diminished. Coal was the only other
that this benefit woutldhad been remitted, and it was granted
by the whole countr be received by one district, and not
rally speaking, the richest while the parties relieved were, gene-
was one mode of relief members of the community. There
'Would next call the which had been omitted, and to which he
attention of the
taking
something off the Sinking Committee—namely, by
ing Fund at all Fund. The existence of a Sink.
lie consideredthe fruit of one of those errors
now daily on the wane, which would soon give way to a
41,009:1 er system,
y a and one more in accordance with the liberal
dopted at present by his Majesty's Government on
other •
se. Points. There was, however, but one part only.of the
zTht Honourable Gentleman's statement which rnet with his
diistrib'Brougham's) unqualified disapprobation—the mode of
uting that part of' the Austrian debt of 27,000,0001. which
azollinitsitlejors,,h
madorereceived. Here, too, he would observe, that
severe he had never heard, even from his
(the'Opposition) side of the House, than the conclusion of
toe rt-
pah2g_ b.t Hon. Gentleman's (the Chancellor' of the Exchequer's)
ariZsgruic.upon the conduct of the Emperor of Austria. Not-
ger;n, ding all his eulogiums on the Continental Monarchs
t,„,"ally, lie seemed to feel it a perfect God-send that the
hai'dPeror of Austria who stood among the first
Pence"lnMon honesty' enough to pay two shillings and esixli
uasiouti the pound of his debt to this country. 6 It would
should
otexdit Y be absurd to expect any further representations
bit a ort froni that Prince another half-crown in the pound,
ohtaVitrend Pa-by proper means an additional sixpence might be
Ii (Hear, hear !)--which would amount to another half
million an he would pledge himself in that case no more than
;.. _Present should he vote for its appropriation in the build-
valor churche (Hear, hear !)—Already one million had been
t(rawri froln
"eet ehureh„%l'eople at a period of the severest distress to
oepposition from a the establishment. Nor had the grant met with
tits further sum to
party or sect in the country. But why was
Liberal and en,. 0 be applied to one class, and the whole of that
participating inrst"ed
onvinced he 8411(13 body, the dissentors, excluded from
enefits ?(Hear !)—ln the House he was
(Ileac, hear !) he also
doors, and that rhos}
not stand alone in opposing that vote—
trusted it would be opposed out of
willing Parliame dissenters would prefer their claims to a
commenced tl nt• The Hon. and Learned Member then re-
Pe°Ple the if applied at all in the instruction of the
achool:hous rant
of 50,000/. should be employed in building
tuftio
jeut t es instead of churches. It would at the utmost be
Whereas, .o erect but 100 churches, or indeed 50 at 10,000/. each,
quate to if an to school-houses, it would be ade-
patis, , the erection of at least 2 300. B that means no
and
M the country would be with Out school of some sort,
thou te Was convinced such an application of the
.money,
404: !vtaumldigha bF supported by a small minority hi that
ea aoor.F•
recive the assent of a large majority out
11) r Warehatnn theA suggestion cf the Honourable Member
tir°l3lletY of all Calcraft,) he perfectly agreed as to the
leclllY to do' owing
the present Salt Tax to expire—par-
reian oaway with the patronage attached to its col-
oome of the Assessed TaNes he also thought might be
Which, with the million already granted, and two or