The Sun.
London, England, 1816-03-06 00:00:00

ttherlat.l, tl,e opponents .of the Tax my hive
two reasons, and out of them a`vcrystash reason !

Mr. linouGitAm contendtql last night that the
Cti.orcr.t.t.on of the LXCIIeaUER must give up

the Income Tax, part by part, to relieve Tenant,

Landlord, Merchant, so that it wouhl come to
1.114 a shadow prodneing n' thin This shadow the
ILearned (it:nth:man., howevut-, declared it to be his

firm purpose to fight ; in otsr opinion, a, fair

match bad it not turned out that the Shadow was
more substantial that its Rival, For after tergli-
ity4 that >the Tax would be.frdttered down to Wi-
thin.. the Learned Uri:tieMau concluded, by
the ;Rouse not to" alloW Ministers so,
tei»pting a.bait, levying su'elt large sums that
vernmeut would IICTer give it up 1 ! !

Gla4ncing over the Report of Mr: TIERNUY'S
Speech in the Morning Papers, we imagined,
from the plentiful Italic sprinklings of "c.i laugh,"
." laughter," " a. loud latish," &c. that it must
have been ,mic of the wittiest orations ever deli-
vered. We accordingly read it in search of the
litimaiir which set the Opposition in a roar, and
never were so much diskiiiVointed as by fintbng
that it was incomparably dud, with only live jukes
on the sickness of several Ministers. One would
believe that Hatula'sadvi6e was net ironical, and
that these gigglingGentlemeii would really laugh
at Yarick's

Lord COCHRANE, in. the !louse of Commons last
night, moved Isis Chargei against Lora ELLEN,
IsuitovGn, accusing him of p!irtiality, tnisreple-
sentation, oppression,- &c. :They arc thirteen in
number, and were (Were(' to be printed.

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The Dlinburalt Petition an'ainst the Property
9 -
Tax is, we observe, headed by sir. iEFFEAYi
the Editor of the Edinburgh ekeriew,.antl follosi-ed
by a long train of the Metaphysical Jacobin's who
congregate together in that fatriotts city.

LW night lhe'subject of the Prop rtyTax under-
went by far the' most important (4scustion it hn% yet
received hi the Ilinise at Commons.:' Lord CAtini.
,arAGLI ablir..e'stposeri 'the uticturual efforts of the
nary, to cxciteA clkiintNt: against a Ili!! not yet
introduced: into Parliament; rather. than to exa,
iuine the measure and meet argument by
argument. But the diatiriguislaing feature of this
WPM' was, thCiiediiratiCl:ol the CH ANeEt.t.oa
of .the Ltic-Amamt, corroborating all the state-
aleuti whielchave been atli]aneeti Suzy
,re-
speciing the gitteo and tool.lifteations proposed, to
be made in the Property, or rather, Inca* Tax.
The chiel:of, these are—
That.the Tax shall continwe
.for two years.

That the agricultural interespr, now so gyeatly
iihall Ire relieved, by a sensible 1.'04'
Lion in the Tenants"fax, ko-that.all fouler& oc-
cupying less
.than 1501. a-ycar, •a}id having no
other income, will pay nothing, as 'haying lesi
than 501. a-year prof:; and all :who
,h4ve less
than 4501. a-year, will pay an abated tag, as hav-
ing less than 1501,—,Ahnve 4501. a-year, they will
pay 441. in the pound, or one sixtieth of the runt.
So that.6oo./. a-year, will only, pay 101. ; and so
in proportion.

',Oat shall be granted to all classes where
necessary, b.y, extending.the periods of payment to
the utmost that is consistent with the ultimate
receipt of the impo4. The Tax will thns be of
the nature of a pledge or, security for the, Calm-
hoed amount of its prodnce, wherever it is not
immediately productive of revenue.
It has been found impractitable to cleyise any
modification in favour of profits seising front trade,
but it appears frcini official information produced
by the Minister, that this 'ea infinitely less con-
sequence train has been generally apprehended,
from the contributions tinder this head bearing so
small a proportion to ihe.whple.

Such is the measure .which, from the course
pursued hi the Home lust night, we may say has
already received- los sanction; for there was no
longer any furious decleinstions against it, but
`the Opposition, Joreseeing that it must meet the
sense of the majority m the House and Country,
contented themselves with a few attacks, upon
petty details. • -

Two P.apers from nitinct;stetrshire and Bristol,
whith %re annex to these observations, Terre to
shcw that the delusion of the moment on this
question is being gradually dissipated.

TO THE PUEZIOLOEIiS OF 7111$ COUNTY OF

GLOUCESTER.

The following questions are sitbmitted Pr your
consideration, before ',on vote at the County
Meeting to be belti this day

lst.—ls not the Empire so extended—and are not the affairs
Europe so unsfttled, as to require a worn extensive Esti..
blishatent than in any. foriner peace ? ,
24.—1 f, however, 'ady taxes can be.redueed, should not 111
the taxes on nsali, salt, soap,4Antlles, windows, kg. ke.•
(which dreet..the middlii(orriasees more Chats the richt) be the
taxes first taken DIT?
ad.—ls not the Property Tax; (6y ivPie/ the rich man is
verde to pg in liroportion, to hie abumlttni;). iri principle