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London, England, 1802-04-12 00:00:00

IMP ERI L PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

SATURDAY, ArRIL JO.

SIR JOHN ANDERSON brought up a Bill, for rais-
ing money, &c. for carrying on the improvement
,ot the Port of London.—Read a fist time.

He brought up also a Bill for raising a further
sum of money to defray the expellee of the Plan
for widening the entrance into the City of Lon-
don by the way of Teoiple Bar, and the entrance
of Snow-hill, &c.—Read a first time and ordered
to be read a second time.

The Bill for' appropriating a certain piece of
ground for the purpose of His Majesty's Ordnance
at Woolwich was read a third time and passed.
Mr. VANSITTAP,T moved instructions to the
Committee upon a Bill to' carry into effect the
Resolutions of the Committee of Ways and Means,
that they do make provision for the effeaual col..
leition of arrears on the Duty on Income—which

were agreed to.
The 25,000,000.. Loan Bill was reported, and
the Amendments were agreed to,—Bill ordered to
he engrossed, and to be read a third time on Mon-
day, if then engrossed, •
Mf. ALEXANDER brought up the. Report of the
Committee on the Bill for granting an additional
Duty on Windows or Lights, and inhabited Houses.
The Amendments were read a first time, and on
the question for their second reading,
Mr.,ROBSON took occasion to objea to this
Bill : he entered at large into all his former topics
in opposition to it, He, said, among other things,
that the more he considered this Tax, the more tie
was confirmed in the propriety of opposing,it.
He
thought that
,in many instances, it would be im-
possible to collea it, He though? it would fall
extremely haft.' on a class of persons who could not
afford it. A house of the rent of tol. a-year would
now have 61. to pay for the Window Doty in most
cases, which he maintained to be intolerable. He
apprehended that those who ezpeacd popularity for
repealing the Income Bill, would- be disappointed
if these Taxes were made to fall so heavily on the
lower classes of the People, who now said that the
Income Bill was taken off from the Rich, and that
the Poor were, taxed to make up the deficiency of
it. He thought that something should be done to
make the ,Duty on Porter palatable to the Public,
He was of opinion that Gentlemen would, now that
the Tax op Income was no more, cheerfully pay, 51.
a.year additional Duty on their Carriages. He
wished for a few days' time, and •he apprehended
that Ministera- would receive information upon this
subjea. He complained that he had not had an
opportunity of reading this Bill ; it had been only
five days before the. }„louse ; he complained of its
being hurried, &c. He persisted in considering
this Bill as a commutation • for the Income Bill,
in conjunftion with the
,other Duties now before
the House for raising Four Millions. He said that
in some stage or 'other of this Bill, he must take
the sense of- the House,
- Doßar DUION AN said, the House had now
for the sixth time been amused, if amusement it
could be called, by the Hon. Gentleman who spelee.
last, who ought to have some compassion Upon the
House, which was obliged to hear every thing that
-was not contrary to.Ordere • The Learned Donor
said he had imposed silence upon himself on the
subjects of Taxes, as they respelled England, think-
ing himself:incompetent to the discussion of them,
not being a Member for any part of England ; but
'the Hon. Gentleman had assumed a competency to
the discussion of all things, beyond all others. He
knew, according td himself, the affairs of the City
of Dublin, the best mode for its internal regulation,
better than those who represented that city, , and
who had lived in it for many years. He knew,
from the same authority,. all the affairs of Ireland
,better than i it the inhabitants of that Country. He
:knew also the affairs -of • this Country better than
any body else, and now he requested that the
House wGuld put off the discussion of a Law,
brought -forward for the support of the State, in
order to afford him an opportunity to hold a Parish
Vestry for St. Mary-le-bone, with the decision.
of which he had more than once threatened the
House of Commons. Now, the Learned Doetor•
• said, he had inquired into the subjea of the St.
Mary-le-bone Vestry, and he found that the Hon.
. Gentleman had, all the politics there to himself ;
he
had tired that Parish as he had the House, by re-
peating-his objeaions to the Window Tax over and.
over again. If this 'Tax was a commutation for the
Income Tax, as the Hon. Gentleman contended, so
was the Dety upon Malt, and that argument against
- the one must equally apply against the othq. The
Learned Doetor insisted ,that the lion. Member
ought to acquiesce in suca `:'axes as were proposed
by 'the Minister for the public service, unless he
could Nint out better. He was indeed in hopes,:
`that from the repeated admonitions the Hon. Mem-
ber had received; and the ample answers which had
been given to hiM, he would have desisted from
further observations on this subjea ; but both him-
selfand the House had found'the contrary to their
cost, and the House was to be in the same situation
as the Parish of Sr. Mary-le-bone with regard to,
the efforts of the Hon. Gentleman,
Mr. Y ANSITT4RT observed, that and r this
Bill the Commissioners would • have- a pottier to
-discharge the burthen of it from those who ought
to be excused for poverty.
The Amendments were.then read a second time,
and on the question for agreeing to them,
Mr. IVIGLEY said, he understood the mode of
thecolleaion was to be altered in this Bill, and he
wished that some time should be allowed, as desired
by an Hon. Member,' to consider this Bill, which
he owned he had. not had an opportunity of doing,
• for he had not been able to see it on the Table. He
did not say that any thing irregular had been done,
but so it happened, -the Bill was not on the Table
,when he came ;to look for it. He wanted only in-
Itnation upon thecontents of the Bill, and for that
reason, he wished the further discussion might be
'postponed for a few days: