The Sun.
London, England, 1821-08-31 00:00:00

NATIONAL RELIEF.

MR:EDITOR-If there are any errors in the
following plan fOr the relief of the Country,
those who have more experience can easily correct
them. As the tenantry are much in arrears to
their landlords, and from appearances, will be
still more so next year, some great measure must
be adopted to afford general relief. Let there
be a property-tax of three per cent. on the Funds,
on land, and on the rent of houses, with excep-.
tion of those foreigners not resident in the British
Empire. Suppose the above tax on property
amounts' to 30 millions Sterling, and 18 millions
of it is allotted in addition to the Sinking•Fundi
which will in a few years reduce that Hydra,
the National Debt, to a shadow, and 12 millions
Sterling will remain for abolishing those taxes
which press heaviest on the public. Suppose the
following, in which a return is• made to the-Go-
vernment for the 500,0001. arising from the duty
on horses used in agriculture lately abolislied,;
for it is unfair to Ministers and injurious-to the_
Country, to abolish any tax without giving a sum
equal to that which the revenue is deprived pf
by the loss of the tax : • • -
Agricultural Horses abolished • £500,000
Tax on Tea (to prevent Smuggling) . 3,100,000
. . . . . 1,530,06
Tax on Salt
Tax on Coals (supposed to be) . • 1,500,000•
the Tax on Wines to -increase their con.; I A 700.0
sumption . . •
Shop Tax (supposed to be) . . . 1,000,000- -
Other Taxes to the amount of . . 3,620,000;
~

£12,060,000,•

A tax on the exportation of salt may be twenty
times its cost, as every grain of salt will be want-
ed for our fisheries and manufactures. This with
exceptions.—A tax on the exportation of coals,
three times their cost. This with exceptions.
Tea has long since been universally 'nfed,
and Mr. PITT, by his Commutation Tax, thought

it ought to be relieved from taxation. Do the
same now, and that article cannot be smuggled ;
but it rests with the Excise to prevent its. -adul-
teration.—lf there is notax on Tea, there Ts 'not
any Foreign Nation can compete with • the 13'6-
tish East India Company. Since the ports of
the Brazils have been opened, a wine merchant
at Exeter now only exports goods to the amount
of 50001. a year to Portugal, though before that
event, he sent goods, (chiefly coarse woollens) to
the amount of 60,0001. a year, so that the trade
to Portugal has declined eleven-twelfths, and the
duty on 13ritishwoollens has very lately been
doubled in Portugal, . and raised to 30 per cent.
Portugal is, therefore, of less consequence than
formerly to Great Britain, and which prepares
the way' for equalising the duties on all foreign
wines. This will render wines much cheaper in
the wine countries, and thereby create a balance
of trade in our favour. As three-fourths the du-
ties on wines are proposed to be taken off and
750,0001. granted in lieu, wide will fall more than
three-fourths its present value in the wine coun-
tries. A pipe of wine, which costs now, with the
duty, 1001., will then cost only 25/. So that a
man who receives 10,0001. a year from property
in the funds, or land, or the rent of houses, and
who pays 3 per cent. on that property, amount.

ing to 3001. a year, if he now