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London, England, 1819-06-04 00:00:00

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fiver e grantvd,
The Charitable Foundations.' 13111 was•read a
fecund time, and ordered to be committed on
Wednesday next

ASSESSED TAXES..
'rhe CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER moved,
lhat the House should resolve itself into a Com-
mittee on the Assessed Taxes Acts. The night
non. Gentleman then observed, that he might
Shortly explain the Resolutions which he had
to submit to the Committee, by stating that the
object of them bore a near tesetuhlance to the
plan recommended by an Hon. Baronet (Sir M.
'sV. Riley).. There was, however, this difference
bet tveen them—that instead of comsbining one
the Ivholo—of the slibjec!s of assessment,
and applying to it the same etinal measure of com-
position, he proposed, after fixing the period of
composition at three years, to require a per
cent. we of per cent. for houses and windows,
and 10 rut- cent. upon household establishments.
separation a!ipeated to him expedient, inas-
much R 3 window and hones being in themselves
I,a,liatile to ehane.e, ong!lt to pay a less
for the adviinh,Lte of being freed from the
He moved, therefore, in the
frat place, 4 Resolution, that the present Assessed
T”XeS he continued tor three years ; and, in the
second, that 3 compost ion he nth-3%l:rd of Is. it)
the poood on all duties assessed upon houstfs and
and 2s. in the pound upon all others.

Sit NI. W. PoDLICY oh,,ervfd, that as the corn
position was to he voluntary, th.• only qoestion
was, whit!) arrengemcnt wts the more advisable,
that of an etrid or a ditictent rate of composi-
tion. lie thougl)t the Hon. Gentleman
would d, teat his object by requiring a per centage
of ten pontids on certain branches of these duties.
'1 he iffieni inn of the plait was to prevent stir,.
charges, and he hoped that on further considera-
tion the Right Hon. G,ntleman would be of opi-
pion that a general per centage of five was likely
to I e more productive titan a partial one of ten.
The tßANct<Ltott of the EXCHFaUER
that his distinction was founded upon the expe-
rience that the assessed duties on houses and
win,iowN varied less than any other branch of
them. They had been generally found to remain
at a stationary amount. The nomber of servants
and horses was evidently liable to continual
change. He should propose also, that although
the party compounding should be allowed to in-
crease the number of his 'windows, or make ad-
ditions to the parts of his establishment already
assessed, yet that this right should not extend to
objects not previously assessed at all. He might
indicate his meaning by a reference to the case of
horses kept without a carriage, and the subse-
quent addition of a carriage : the carriage so ad-
sled would not be included in the Previous

Sir M. W. EIDLEY said, that after this expla-
nation, he could only view the proposed plan ks
one of additional taxation. His own object had
been to guard agaidst this consequence. By the
Right Hon. Gentleman's plan, a rrson who kept
a horse and a servant, if he bought a I;.g. would
lose the advantaee of his composition. He was
sorry that :he Right Hon. Geutleman bad not
acted on his own views, instead of going to So-
merset•house, and taking advice at the Tax Of-
fice. He predicted that this measure would do no
good, and be received with no satisfaction by the
country.

The CHAsc:ELLon of the EXCHEQUER remark-
ed, that in the prepara!iou of auy new or itrpor-
tant measure he should always -fed it his duty to
consult per'sons of experiet:ce and practical know-
ltdee.

lite Resolutions were then agret•d to, end the
Report ordered to be received on Monday.

FRAME-WORK KNITTERS' BILL.

fir. MANSFIELD having moved the committal
of this Bill,

Mr. Hums and Air. G. PHILLIPS pressed the
lion. Gentirtnan, at that late hour of the evening,
to postpone the discussion. • •

-Mr. MAN;Futt.n refused to accede, on account
not only of the great importance of the measure,
but of the state of suspense in which a great body
of the people was kept by its agitation.,—(Hear,
hear !)
111 t. Hoyle, Mr. G. PHILLIPS, Lord At.ThorP,
end Mr. FINLAY, spoke in opposition to tt,e 13i11,
upon the ground of its object being to shackle ma-
chinery, and prevent the manufacture of a cheap
article, in the making of which there was no
fraud, and What 3000 persons would be thrown out
of employ by its passing into a Law.
Mr. MANz•FteLD. Mr. T. WILSON, Mr. P.
MOORE, Mr.C. PHILLIPS, and Mr.PAaEs, supported
the Bill, upon the ground that it was an applica-
tion made unanimously by Masters and Men ; that
it had nothing to do with machinery, since the
same frame which made the inferior, made also
the superior article. That so far from 3000 men
being thrown out of employ by the Bill, it would
employ above 1500 who are now out of work, and
give thorn all wages upon which they might
live without being obliged to be maintained out
of the Poots' Rates, as was now the case, and
that the market would be no more glutted than at
resent.

After a few words from Mr. Ewcz in support
fir the Bill, and from Mr. Hume in reply, the
douse divided, tivl►en there appeared---

For the Bill 37
Against it

Majority in favour of the 8i11.... 22

The Bin then %rent through the Committee,
rind was ordered to be reported on Wednesday
next.

The other Orders of the Day were then dis-
posed of, and the House adjourned at Two
o'clock this moruhrg4.,

We are so,ry to find that the fever is making
progressive strides in this city; we perceive, by
referring to the Hospital Books, that there are
this day eighty-five patients in the several fever
wards. On the Ist of this month, the number
eras thirty-eight.—(Limerick Chronicle.)