The Sun.
London, England, 1815-03-14 00:00:00

WAYS AND MEANS.
The CHANCELLOR of . the EXCHEQUER moved
the Inrther eonsitterlition'of the iUljourtird Report
of 'the Committteof Way's' and Mean;.
TIERNEY: wi,thed t.<) .understand upon. what
ground ht was no. \v a l ctrl to collSep t- to An'
amount t,f l‘rlys and MeailS so Much llrger than
the Supply that- had' b,..en v,,ted previous to the
Recess. A supply 0f.2.4„005,000/., including the
Artny.and Navy, had ben .voted ; and towards
providing this, the.smu of 18,000,000/. had been
raised. He con hi JIM d y Ste, 010.0.011:2 Wily it
Was Proposed to continue the War Taxes to the
'amount 0(6,000,0001., but the Ways and Means
now proptv.ed amounted .to a much larger stitli.
in iqinisters etnpowen:d to
Lxchequer billy to an unlimited amount,
Littd. lit trusted the Ihuse woUld-not agree to any
"further Ways and Means :before they knew how
Ministers had used this•power, and what, was the
alumna of Bills that had been issued from the
Exchequer. At preS:nt there was no ground
whatever laid to induce the House to agree to the
new. Taxes beyond what lie admitted to be au
able view of Finance, and an entertaining speech
front the Right Hon. Gentleman.
The CHANCELLOR of the l'cr-wo.uER entirely
concurred in the principle, that no stun voted as
'Ways and illeans shoublever exceed the amount
voted previously in Supply, Mid lie hoped to satis-
fy the House, awl the ft.i.t.,ht Hon. Gentleman,
that he had now proposed no such irregularity.—
The Right Hon. Gentleman, in his statement of
the S 01:1S voted by the House :in the, early part of
the Session, had omitted the sums for making
good-Old Exchequer Bills, of 12,500,0001. and of
15;000,00/. mAing a joint sum of 27,500,000/.
and a total of 51 indlion and as half of Supply for
the present year. To meet this charge 31,000,0001.
of Ways au,' Means- had heen granted, leaving a
slim of 20,000,000/. to be provided for Ile was
perfectly ready to admit, that, the Exchequer
ought not to anticipate taxes before they xr:.re
voted ; but the taxei he now proposed amounted
only to between nine and ten millions, of which
al4out :$,500,0001. were new, and the rrmainder
the former I.Var Taxes.
Mr. PoNsoNnY declared his intention to object
to bringing up the report, until the Housewas
informed to what purposes the sum noW asked
for was to lie applied. A Peace Establishment
was here proposed of nineteen millions, without
the Right Hon. Gentleman condescending to com-
inuoiati the slightest information 'upon any one
item of the expenditure which it was meant to de-
fray.

The CHANCELLOR, of the EXCHEQUER could not
presurt►e to anticipate the judgment of Parliament,
before any estimates were laid on the table ; but .
by agreeing► to the report, the House gave no opi-:
nion as to future establishments ;.they merely pro-
vided for sripplies which had been already voted,
and he considered it advantageous to abstain from
entering into subjects not before the House, and
upon which they possessed so little information;
Mr. 14NNETT and Mr. PETER GRANT protested
against voting the Supp!ies, without having a dis-
duet and comprehensive statement of 'the wants
of the country, and how those wants were to be
supplied.

11-Torq said; that the• Right lion. Gentle-
wan was putting the cart before the 'horse. It
Was ,desirable that the House' should know what
the peace-estahlishment was intended to no, in,
order to prevent the necessity of imposing- those.
taxes.

Mr. BAN,Ns contended, that, in the present si-
tuation Of the ernlfltrY, the sums then demanded,
and more, must be granted, to to die good the
supplies actually voted. The Right Hon. Gen-
tleman was only waiting till he could submit his
plan of a peace establishment but the question
was, wln.n the news of the last two or three' days
might produce. He wished that the expenses of

• Were not insmiible to the commere;al advantages
t'u be derived front afriendly intercourse- with the
1.446 v-es of South AnieriCa; 'audit would be their ob-
ject to furnish nogroundo4rovocation or hostility,
either to Spain or her possessions in the New World.
It was natural for Great Britain, after having es-
tahlkhed .the and independence of Ord
Spain, (Hear, hear, from the Opposition benches),
to wkl, the catt.se of freedom in those ex-.
(6)sivt Colonies : but it would be highly impolitic
to adopt any measures that might expose us to
the irtipntation of-having made our foriiit exer-
tions in the Peninsula,, only to find a,prstext for
robbing our Allies of their most valuable posses.-
sions —(War, hear !)
jet
r. IVFICTiBREAD was of Opinion that the e-
sent was 4;tuost-„favourat* opportunity -for -the
consideration Of this most iinportant subject.—
The Right lion'..Gentleman %I'otild give then);
lie
trusted, Soine iilfotitnation; botAt as to the faCtS'of
supplying Spain.. with Alie ineuns ()Cent-lying on
hostilities in the NewWorld,,andas,to the Mi-
nisiey'who had advised the interchati;e of the two
orders, h.ctweeti'his Royal acti.iig on
behalf of his Majesty,..and'..Ferdinand'. the_ ithi
after the latter had proved himsclf_iw nsurper.on
ihe. rights Of his people.
The CitArtCiti..r.siitT'br EXCHEQUER' had' no
difficult) in assuring tire' HUTE-(iehtlelhm) thief no
money had been advaneed to the'Spanish 'Goitern-
Went for cqrying on::.the contest in South 'Arne-
ilea. With respect_ta-thc..Ortleriiiof the Garter,
he did not think the interchange of ceremonious
,was a proper subject of consideration .in
that Ilriuse:.. Iriictight to be rccollected that it
was with Ferili•traliot, who •was .no w4lesignaTe-d as
an,usurper, and with him,,personally,.
Treaty was m'ade.
I •
3kri. I'ol.so 10 Nl:tiiouglit"th :t one of the'grai
test
political advantages, that cntil.l be gained for.thiS
Country %toad, •To fict4r)) South Awerieejrom
airtlepend4eßce uu (Aft- Spain ; but the necessary
obserVhti'c'e of tlitl Trea•.y 'bound us to a strict
nentraiitic. •
• Altur,,pine further observations, the C.l3.Atc'eFf.4
LOlt of the EXCIIr.QU.Eit observed, that it was not
intenthzd to impose the new export duty of two
per etnt. on the exportation of foreign linens, that
a duty on•export:-Was' preferred to one upon im-
port, because thc tatter was already sufficiently
liprthened,'and.thittilir was not intended t bat the
duties cpliected under this act shOuld be irerpettial,
6ntibat they were to be limited entirely ti) the
creation of the fund for discharging the Fclaiilit'O'f
the company. .