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" Before we said a word more on the subject
of Taxation, we felt it due to the Public to lay
the foregoing statetnent of facts beforeahein—they
will find that between. the mode resorted to at
present for changing the Window 'Tax, and the
mode proposed in Mr. Hawthorne's Circular Let-
ter, that the principle of Taxation is placed on the
most equitable basis, that in former as well as in
present times, the public could have expressed
themselves most anxious to have settled, namely,
that of Taxing Property to the exclusion of Po-
verty !—Look at the facts, Readers—they are
• extant and must speak for themselves, and you
will judge from these, whether your minds should
be governed by common sense or led astray by
delasi,e speculation, and factious turbulence-7-
From an house worth 101. per annum, to an house
worth 1001. you will fired the commutation pro-
posed has reduced the Window Tax by degrees,
until it amounts to less than one-half of what it
formerly was. Is this no relief ? No reduction
of the 'tl'ar Tax ? No exertion to meet individual
iocompetence by financial sacrifice ?
"But, you will tell us, that houses above the
ratio r.e have taken will not be relieved err-01y
with those under that suin—and that ahhough
houses in Dame-street and Grafton• street pay
higher rents than the housesjn James's-street and
'Thomas -st reet, yet the latter are nevertheless fully
as competent to pay the Window•'l'ax.
Then it appears that the objection) is not to
the commutation propobed, bur it jealousy' which
arises from a feeling that the rich are to be taxed
in preference to the poor.
. " It is really very hard, that in this country
particularly, we can never argue fairly upon any
subject. but.that the passions, for the most part,
govern the undersa,andings. Hence It is that we
can account for garbled extracts from Mr. flaw-
thorne's Letter being- reasoned upon as if they
formed its general heating; and, that while this
unlogieal system is persevered in, whole passages
are either Overlooked altogether, or grossly mis-
represented.
" We find, for instance, that be is accused of
telling the public, that their hostility matters little,
as the measure has been decreed !—Now, what
Mr. Hawthorne said, is what Mr. Vansittart said,
and which the Parish Deputies fully approve of,
who are Dow designated sham Deputies, with Mr.
Straw, an Independent Member of Parliament, at
their head. The financial circumstances of the
country did not admit of the total repeal of the
Window Tax—rod that he would readily., listen
to any suggestion for modifying the 'fax, and'ren-
dering it more equal in its operation.' Now this.
did but satisfy the Parish Orators, although tire
Parish Deputies were tally satisfied with it—for
no sooner had Mr. Hawthorne informed the peo-
ple that they were to be their own valuators, and
that he knew, although he could not go into par-
ticulars, that Mr. Vansittart, in all financial ar-
rangements, was actuated by the most liberal views
towards this Country—and that all the other
branches of the Assessed Taxes were under con-
sideration, than they cried down the proposal al-
together, and demanded nothing short of a total
repeal of the Tax.
" Now, could Mr. Hawthorne say more, to
raltu the• fears of the Housekeepers who pay high
rents, than that he could not go into particu-
lars, and that the most liberal arrangements
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" What right, then, bad the oppulent Shop-
liceper to cry out in opposition to a modification
before he knew what was inteaded for him But
no ! The dreadful spirit of discontent and jea-
lousy which lives only in this country can never
subside. Its body is of too troublesome a system
ever to get calm ; and it has ever been the
scourge of Ibis unfortunate Island. •
" An objection, for instance, is started against
Warehouses—which -were never in the contempla-
tion of the proposed system. No Warehouse is to
be taxed, unless it is bona Fide part of the Dwel-
ling-house.
‘• In short, the Parish Orators have been so
hood-winked by prejudice, as not to see their
own interest ; for instance, we hod one of those
Upper Dominick-street, whole Taxes, were the
plan adopted which he now opposes, would
amount to 61. ss. whereas they now•amottnt to
91. Ss. 6d. !—and another Orator on the Quays,
whose Taxes are 121. 3s. 2d. and which then
Mould be only 71. 10s. Let them call on us and
we shall feel pleasure in proving this to them to a
demonstration.
" We wish now to have done with the subject.
Our. object from ,the bev,iuning was to coDsi-

der the sn'hjecf on i't's own rner-its ; and it is on
such -only we wish to:consider it still.
Mr. Hawthorne's Letter, then, be put out tzf-tl►:
question rtltogether, and will any man deny, 111:1t
we-have gnfficiently proved this Tax to be
.not
perpetital Tax, as' ii is impudently called, but a
Talc so modified,-;as to have its original- amount
reduced nearly one-half.
" One word more as to tl►e charge of its being
originally a IVar Tax, and that as s►►ch it sho►tld
now. be repealed, because the War Taxes in Eng-
land have been so. At the peace of Amiens, all
the War Taxes in England wcre repealed, and not
ope:sixpence of tl►em taken off in Ireland. No.,
nor even a single word spoken of them. Mr-.
Isaac Corry, too, was then Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer in Ireland. Surely
,that was the time to
apply for a repeal of ,this same Window Tax, if it
originated itt the sante Way as our parish Orators
Would insinuate it did. But Mr. Corry was then
alive, which made every difference with time Ora-
tors, for it is only now they cry out, when Mr.
Corry is no more able to defend his own mea-
sure! This is like those from whom such oppo-
sition comes.

" But is it not hard to misrepresent Mr. Haw-
thorne for originating a measure which is calcu-
lated to relieve the poor and accommodate the
rich.

We again declare our only desire to be that
of serving those who appear to us so unwilling
to serve themselves. We wish for peace and tran-
quillity; and as we know that taxes form a matter
of imperious necessity, we defend the mode of-
fered, as the most equitable, being the least op-
pressive on the subject t and that we are not
aware of any substitute being even offered for it.
" We have only clone our duy in thus exposing
the folly of intemperance, and we feel that we
should not have done so had we acted a different
part, and been silent on such an occasion. Ire-
land requires the protection of a Military Force ;
that force can alone be supported by Taxation ;
and it all Taxation be done away with in Ireland,
but which the British Legislature can not do, Ire-
land is lost."—(lliternian Journal, Oct. 1.)