The Sun.
London, England, 1816-03-08 00:00:00

MR. WHITBREAD'S WILL.

Probate of the Will ot the late SANtutt Wityr4
eue,,D,.l,sq.. haring been renounced by rite Ese-
cutors,,Lettets of Administration with the Will,
and eleVen Codicils annexed, were granted by the
Prerogative Court, in Dnetrirs' Commons, on the
sth instant, to Wta.l.lENnv Wt -Halal: An,. Estill'
the Sots and residuary Leg.itee. The personal
estatewas sworn under,2oo,ooo:. and paid a chity
of 27004 The Will is Zith Octobt!r, 1810,
and the last*Codicil 21st June, 1515.--The Exe-
cutors appointed. are Roerwr SANos7.6t;
AVM, WlL6liknE. Esq. and LANCELOT LiOLLANI),
Esq. The following ate the lc:Ailing features :
To Lady Elizabeth Whitbread 9001. per suntan
(in addition. to the slim cif .6001. per ttimn,al by
marriage settlement, end 1000/. per antrumby
'bond), to make np the'snm of 2,5001. per annum
for life, and also the use ot turctitum,
china, &c. in Dover-Street.

By virtue of a power reserved to hint by mar-
riage settlement, of, bequeathing 30,0001. to chil-
dren or child not sneceeding to the estate there-
by settled, he gives the wipe equally to his
younger On, Samuel, Charles W. Hod his two
daughters„ .Elizabeth W. and Emma Laura NV.
with certain provisions to survivors, in case arty
die tinder '2l. Samuel Charles has also an an-
nuity of 500/, and a stun of 50001. is directed to
be invested in :he names of executors, to..he paid
to him only in ease of his nut inheriting certain
estates, in which lie has a contingent interest, by
the Will of a, Mr. Howard., The. presentation to
some benefices on the estate of Sonthill cum.
Wardell is also see ,red tb Samuel Charles, .in
ca Se of his entering into holy orders : by ti.
there is also left to him a. further t:ttrn of 1001)
guineas, and the selection of three horses,
the-daughters, 3001; per annum each, on attain-
ing 19. All freehold and persona.' .estute. (ex. 7.
ccpt the bre weries,A3K. of which the .terios of
partnership may be completed or nil!, itt diseretiOn
of 'the executors, and the estate at Southili, whiel)
is entailed) is t„ he Sold, and form a. general
Ent' the liiiyinent of .annniti6, tiontk,&c.
and the residne.is bequeathed to Henry-
theOtiest son.: 'A hOtt'se ill town is
directed `to lie takenfur Lady Elizabeth. and her. ,
children, the rent of which is. not to execed 4001.
p;:r Minton and it is reenrinnended, that the
Mouse and grountk ar Sont hill be coustaufly kcpt
iu (►risper order lur their rcsidetic,:t, till
his eldest snit arr:ivesat 21,--100/. per atinuto ix
allowed for the education of his eldest son till he
should gb abroad, and then intt her edvanees
the discretion of executors. By
bade the ba of his will, apparently in his own
hand, the teStitier declares that instead 14' the an,
unity metitioireil in his will to his- wife, ouly such
a 00111 ill to be given tier as will Talie up her an-
Onityll,sool. pk.r annum, hot by is sobsenuenc co-,
ilicilliebegotilths lire; iu tradition to his former
bequests, 1000/.. per ationto. •
: Thehequests to clerks, servants; dotnestit s, &c.
are nunteruns:—Mr. Abraham Barrow); 1000/, ;
Mr.-Clarkson,•tlie younger, 500/. 5 .lieVeral stew-
ards and bailiffs, 2001, each, anti ' annuities 73L
which are continued to the wives or some and the.
daughters climbers, in :cuarrof Surviving them: The
ttenement and garden of .Toliti Thompson is, direct-
ed to be kept in repair frit• him during his life, and
a provisio► . is made for his Auailitenanee, and food
for the horse lte:has bvio accustOmed 'to ride, and
if the horse survives, his master, he is to lie shot ;.
also of tam servants to *mit upon him, and'. after
his death they have caul) rovanntiity 44251.: One
codieil (the 10th) runs nearly in these words f,r'-
Fearing 1 have omitted my will and farther co-
diedsl.tomention her name, I livreby beptcoth to
ray cook, a' legacy 'of 601. and 311 '111.,'
Willy 01,501. per annum for her life; if :1 have-lett
her more then thiS, I -desire the greater sum nriiy
stand; tens,- I desire that it maybe cancelled,
and this legacy paid her. Rings are desired .to be •
givrii tau friends *hoi:a -Lady Elizabeth may
mimeo but pitetleularly to clerks. • .

from .certain Parishes in the County of Somerset, by the
Lurl of CAtlNAtivoN.*
From a 'lumber of Occupier's, of Land, 1114
others, in and near' Swab Molton, in the County of Dtton,
by Earl Fawn:sem
otaeieenversation ensued between the Noble Rol amt
Lord'itolle on this'oreasion, in toumlueoce of so or
frOin the burner kts to,the,prcullar situation of the Petitioners,
and on which Tl the Noble aron satited to tinter in opinion.---
ltt eintrAe or hisansereatiensi*ehriaerstond
tointyp that were it deentetneeessairy, he was will for Lis
pot, that the Property should he inereAsed to 10 per:
ctra.so thatii %minipill) relieve thithurthelis of ttriiiietiple::
' • FINANCE'PLAN.OF teed.
The Marquis -Of lANsnowws, after. briefly
~.Ilancing at the gerierli gitertion of the -Income
Tax, stated, thiq he felt himself pecoliarlyvalled•
upon to address their Liord.hipc itt eonsequenets.
Of certain' rumours out of that House whie:i: Ink&
irticently reached him. was first stated, he mt.:
derstood, that the Income:Tax Lad been, doi.tryie:l
in 1806.. This he was, called upon to-correct its
The first instance. The Tax upon Income hint
been re-enacted under another name, ,atrzthe. in.
stance (st a NobleViseount, at the rate Of live
per•cent,. "to. was afterwards increased to SiX
one-fourth per Cent. to meet- am- Anereased ex
peurliture of war, by Mr. Pitt i and• an Al.
ministration of Which he had' the, honour Vs•
lottn a part in 1806, had 'Percale(' ;thriller toil)
perrent-
.Thiskvactione at a period when theloatt
'Of .tberpreeeditig *IT had been extracirdititrily'
great, and the great demands from the'exigencies of
waklircased hard 'upon the finanott of the coon
try already overbuttietted with indirect:taxes. He
still believed, as he did: that There.' was
no' other resource fir meeting the reishri of
the times, thaw that of to raising the Property
Tax. There was, another important subject that
had been touched uptiti,' Which bound hint to take
the earliest opportunity of thus puhliely noticing.
lie meant respecting. tire Plan of Finance, Which
it •had been hisoflii:‘ial ditty to submit to thellOute
of Commons iu 1807. Ile-referred to rite In oceed-
ings in Parliament to prove, that in every stage of
it, :the
,object which was most guarded against
was the .s4ippositinti that- it had been intehded
to continue the Property Tax in time of 'pence.
It was expressly stated in the plan, that the,
plication of the Excise and Custom Dates would
obtain for its object the exclusion ot the Proper..
ty• Tax. The. Resolutions were adowed he the
ilonx-e nearly anattimonsly,,, and without' thesauri-
lest reference bcitu ntittle to 'itrty intention of.,etitt- '
tinning the Property Tax-in time of Peace. • That
such was the fact,- would appear, by the Retil4o.-
tiwts, as Weir as the recorded opinions of the
porters -generally of the plan, Mr. Vansittart hail' •
Castled an able vireecit tit his to he printed, and in
which he admitted, that no intention existed .1t
eontirming the Property Tax it in time of peace,
Ile -stated, that no - Minister or creature ever
otlrentßed of continuing ,titre.`' of pejed;
not even us en annual grant.: It was'therefore tti 'f
:extraordinary, that he coald have recollected its
.eight years what Ite• had forgotten in three years -
after the lime, " lie writtiti now; go to the opinions .
of the oppoirers of ; and here he had a
simriiirtr piece good fortune, in being, aisle tore»
for to a document printed by ;itemise' VeS. iiiOPPO"
sirion.to his plan, and brought forward to a part
cider place'; and it was rather extraordinary that
in six weeks they had not urrr,ed to capital an oh-
jeiction. 'it wag
,known that Lord Vattlerereagit
hint!...elf bad brought -forward a long String of
re-
solutions tespecting a plan of :finance, in' opp'osi-
tionAo that which he (the Noble Martinis),
aubMitted,, One of those restitutions box: elreetly
upon the subjeet.• This would ,be found to state,
to express terms, when referring to a correspond-
ing part of the origin:ll-plan, that the Property
Tax was one of- those a center ;not 'be with .
pr opliety.cont inued in time of pewee. Ctiold it their
possibly be alleged by 'Lord Castlereagh`-: that -a,'
continuation of the Property Tax had been pre.
Meditated at the rinse. It :nay 4e conveniott to
hold one oliipion upon one nee3stott, nod on an-
thev to hold asn opinioit directly the reverse
13tit it was rather. ttbo much, he thought, to affirm
now the dirt:Cl-contrary to what appearod-oo the .
face of his own 1 esolto ,

• The Earl of I,,tvitti.ot)t, s tiki he thought it itrt.
portutit.“oi allow the oh•ervatiolts.:ot the Ni
&14rrititA t, p,ss.withtwut s.tyi:tg 4 "Jew :word, with
ri..optt t tai thvtri. At the slate tithe he not gette.
raily'a,hatit, the pt e,eht hot' the verasion
tol••varrt ally iliatitlim tsar, the expeitiencv
at COO illttitig the Property l'sx. A I,erioti w_oula
eonke when thdt tittesi ton .‘vottif be l'!1:;.1111Y hefPre
the House. He wotilti tll the no, complaint tut to
what wus ititted re.skectio6 what WAS 411efitti to

belattid elseso nor lay any stress on
of uefetnug to it ; but the point et-hic!l lig
cooplained of in this question was, that endeavours
had been made to persuade the l'oblic that either
:llinusters or Parlianwnt had ever pledged their taith
that the Property Tax *Litwin not VOlttilmed so 1111
to preclude Parliament from exercising Its discrc-.
tion vprni the solaject. When that should come
toks consideration-, let the question under the,
eireotnetuoces be 'derided upon its own merits-:
but it could not-be justly,contended that any Ad-
ministration had ever pledged itself that the Pro.
petty Tax, either in the whole or, io.part, or that-
Patlumient was ever so pledged', that.in no cir.,
cumstances the Property Tax should be continued
ire a time of PvKei the'contraty, he v.,..0u1d.
say, that Pat molt :bad Derv'
.so commit ted
as must appear .troin the whole of what. hail.
~likett place sjnce the year 1799, when it was
,viii PrPPoseq ~Puiler t namehe of ;the. Income
ax, by Mr. Pitt. Upon that occasion,. though
_originally proposed as a War Tax, the comidtra-
tion was not Oct eftire precluded, %dialler or not,
"I'derdmrtiealar eivetnostances, it might be eon-
. •
tinned in a time of peace. It was a fact %veil
known to the world,' that the effect
,Of measures
which were subsequently adopted, would have
Jieen to itnve pletlged this' ax,witheert ant whet
1.,,r a sum 0f.:54 milliOns,, anti by that means the
Propetty Tax would have been so mortgaged, if
his Noble Friend, who afterwards succeeded to
•'t he head of Administration, had not proposed to
'l't,rliament•to laud these 66 millions, anti pro-
'sided taxes (or tilt PayMent. of the intcrest.„. It
'tumid therefore never have been in the content-
pktion of Parliament, that tiny contract was
'made bet Ween it and the public, that the
kIIPYid hot upon any account he continued in time
of peace. Ppon the renewal of hostilities his
NtAk Ft:iend prOptisedi Tax upon a similar prin.
at the.rate of 5 per cent. but under new
lotions. Nothing in that enactment involved any
itledge that at tl:e so;iation of war it might not have,
beet, continual, Its it was at liist proposed, in case
()lodger boribens. On the contrary, it was regard
end aa on open question, to he jittlgeil of seconding
(4..iretunstalices. And he must beg leave to bring
itta' their Lordship's recollections, what he had
46-stated in the last Session of Parliament,
v.Yhen lie proposed the continuauce of the Tax, to:
Meet the exigencies of the coming, war. Ile had
expresitly stated, not the course which he thought
'should be takers by Parliament, in war or peace
ey is h respect to it, but that it would he 'a question
;it the time for Parliament to Minsider, tinder all
tlie cireunotances of the case. Butt he batl.a right
rorcomplaitt [fiat it should be !alitl that any engage..
rattotlool ever been entered into either by .Ministers
. oa:, by ,Parliament to abst3in Erato adopting the
h were thooght neeessary,and convenient.
now!catne to point more •intinctliately in
qpcittiste,„;end on Britt .be inttkt .COLIft:SS that, the
N91.)1C Maio k'si explanations were- to, him un.
131.4 factory. lie would. admit, from the state.
itteoip which, had been 'titatle,, and from what
appeared, lyspeetiog, that financial system,. that
it„otiglit. thciutetitiOrt.:.oC;Jts nachos s nut
to contiOtte the 'Property Tax, if such could
have teen ayoidcd ; lila their objections to have
pledged; all the otlicr•Taxes in preference to the
'Property Tax, and that their hopes were, that the
would have • conducted .under such circum-
stances, that
..a necessity for 'the continuance ,ssf
111% Property Tax would not exist ; but there was
nothing in the system to invoke n pledge. that the
should rant be continued in time of.peacc.. It
ypeared on the face of the plan, that in certain
circumstances the tax, nutlet- its operation, must
havoc beets continued, iu time of peace. This
woold appear bons a reference to one of the pA-
taarephs„ tot the sense ire which the plan was
COn.CONed %%MOW. best appear ft-urn the documents
~j~rinte:tl by anthoritY, uutl laid before Parliament.
?aoio.„thts (which: was read by his Lordship), it
appcaredt that...should' the war continue beyond a.
cettain .PetiotlE the Property Tax was to be coml.
i--,tutil,,.and applied. to the purposes of the plan, the
kcyitable iiliereliCe Irons which, he argued, most
he„,.'tliat the plait would go to pledge the Tax in
question (should. the %vat- have continued beyond
'seven years) for. a certain period of pence. With
respect to what a Noble, or a Right lion. Friend
'tofaiis ntj ht hav,e said, it could not be supposed
•that, he et:Oil:answer for what words might be
used hot, abstracted from the irregularity Of
such
.ss refere,nce, he believed it would be found
they had tiver stated that it was the intention of
drat Citaveroment to harc.contintted ti:e. Property
Tali; in tithe of pektee j but that they had slieWesl,
tivit from the. plan: it was in contemplation that
circistostauces might BOK which would inducothe
totitinstance .of the Tax ; but in, either sense,
llogroAo4,.whatever,existed to - form any charge
rigt(inAtikiltMaiesty's Ministers on the occasion.
torELORENyt.,t4e spoke .at some length in 'sup
p4it,,of:whatltati:fallcu from the Marquis of Lens"
donne, :relative tO
.t lie: Finance plan of 1806, and
argmcd, thot. front whateVer fait ly uppeared on the
face ..of flip plan, And from - every thing that
passed, upon the:occasion, it : %vita not to he
fertattlAiantalte then Administrati on, had the lest
ititwitiou, of, coacitusing the.' Property Tax in
t :tote of:.•:pettee ; yin the .contrary, rt was one of
ptincipal objects, to have avoided st obttokirms
a meattoe, tic ,contended that at 'least a Ytfrhal-
rfulgelraditten-ntora than, onee_ given by Mini.
'Sre7t)Atid. kOnt11413411“1 by the Legislature,. aud
it was his firth,•enhvictiqn, that nothing but a. ge-
teral:pei-snation -on the pat of the public, thfit
they. would be cased of a eonsiderable,part of their
'ban-Oleos, but more particitiarly-the tax in (pies.
Lion, bath intrucetl' them to hear those burthens sn
ehearfuily. as they: had .tiotte. Ile defended the
vieasiite, pr;the it,e.rea.e. of die Property. Tax by
tbe..Admiaistrationnf 184 JG.
DP THE NATlftti.
The:Order of the Day; upon which their Lord.
st.ips were summoned,- beiteg real, -•
of gam:alto. raise, porsnant to his
voticu, and observed, that the titthicct to
let. bal tit call their Lordshins'atteotion, ,as one
. . , ,
stolnel tnagintOne, giTnaced stick a
. , .
r
varie-
ty of important ouwcts, that, he slmuld have
ithrolik f.“, 01 the taA which he had auffeitokin,
Aid' he trot' feel 'certain tit. t'oeOlving Stain theit.
Lortribipsi_ indulgence :that
,degree ofjavourAle
orwf,ieh he StQO(.l .50 dints in need,
tiraei thei 'itatvd his intention' of eonauding. by'

HOUSE OF COMMON'S.

rAvENinsT OF' TILE METROPOLIS.

Mr. M. A; TA,/Lost, in pursuance of notice, rose
to onove. for .a Select Committee to inquire into
thelonte of the.rnienterrt of the Metropolis,. Ile
stilted ‘lis reason for trot bringing in a ll,iil before
the' imptiry was made to be, th.rt the 'loose might
be put in posse,sioot of facts, 'in. order that tittf.tie-
C.assitY might. be' seen of passing some substantial,
measure on the r•objeet. lie .Went: into some
detail of the .proreedings of .the -different pa.
risks on the snbjeet, •particularly referring to
that of!Mary.le.bone, and enfoNed .upon the
Douse the:necessity of appoint ingsome inspector-
genetA who might be responsible for the repair
of ilte pdvetnent. In conclusion, he moved for
Abe appointment of the Committee..
' After 50111 e rent:silo; from Sir SIMPON,
General TuoatiToN, and Mr. I.l(ncs.r,, the motion
tuns agreed to.
. Mr. IIENNETT moved for an Account of the grim, 'rind
net proceeds of all Colonial Produce consigned front. the West
lathes to this Country. If. also moved for :to Aceotitit'of
thrA4ctires of the Royal 'Waggon' Train up to, Jonuiryt'
181t1, the munber of Desertions from llut Train, the litice of
Agree)) to.
.:Mr,AIIIiIiCRONIML did not gee the lion. naSter of the
Mint in his "dace, but he tonerired there coutd•he no ob-
jection, tuft motion he seas about to make. It was fOr. An Ac-
count of all Augmontationsmadc iu the Salaries oldie Offices
of the Mint since JannAry 1514. • •.
The CLIANCEI.I,OK of the Exc.:fir:Qum thought that
there would be no ocesoion fur the minion, as a 041C:11104,a
that nature would Mid hero, the llvyise. .
ABERCIMAItiIIt slid, that his object was to'move for
the account of the augmentation to show the cOmpari-un.—.-
lii: did tiot think that the statement to he giretrwould
cota-
pr.ise that eansporison.
The WIANCFALOR of the Exc....m(11%R tail, that a
comparative statement would be math:.
• Tbe motion Was hen withdrawn.

COrill' or siNstoN SCOTL'tND.
Mr. J. I'. GRANT 111111011 i whether n return
moved for by his friend, the Member for %%tato.-
ford, respecting the Court of Session in Scotland,
11411 been made, 11e took this opportunity of
statittg, that 'he believed there had been. a. mi ,11.•-
prelietiSion With regard the delay which had
occurred. The fact Was, that neither the Court,
olgessitOt, nor the Learned PerNoO at the hea'd of
that Catrt, were blame Able, as the order
,)viit
transmitted to the • Lord Advocate of . Scotland,
and not, as it 'shouldliave hero, to the President
of the Court of Session. lie was certaitt
that no disresptct was Meant to the House.
The CHANCE LLoR of the Excneauka replied,
that he batl'seen no return of the kind. lie was
quite sure that no disrespect 19,0 Meant to the
House.

•r he LORD ADVOCATS of SCOTLAND eitterCti
into a detail of the-manner in which it
to hint the Achy :113d taken plaee. The return,
he understood, would be 'made to Parliament in a
very short time.
Mr: AnettOttamattt considered that tine most
prompt ohediente shOuld ever be given to the
orders of the Hoitse. lie had,' however, the best
means of knowing that,on the present occasion a
great 'reason of delay was, the mature cousidera-,
lion of the 'subject by the Court of Session. •
Mr. ‘%% Gna•rr Suggested that a less round-
about mode of communication might be adopted
than that which now existed in the Seeretary of
State's Office, in Seatlind.

.
Mr. TlVattaYi geeing 'the Lord •Advocate Of
Scotland in his place, wished to hear horn biiii
personally, ns no answer had been yet made in the
return moved' tor, What augmentation had been
made in his own Ishtar) 1
The CUANCELLOU of the ExencQuealaid, that
the num' had certainly not been wade, but the
fault did notlie with his Lordship. ,
'hie Loan AD%'OCATL; 'Winn ObjeCtiOn to reply
'to the question put tohim, No return had yet
been made; but when it was mado it would Inform
the Muse, that there bad been neither an aug-
mentation nor 4 diminution in his salary.:
Mr. Ticktiei naked, • Ivltether any advance was,
i
, ~,
n contemplation 1 . .

The Logn ADiOCATIC could lint answer that
qucition. the 'should follow the course adopted
by illiuirters, is not taking hints from the wher
side of the lionse. •

Thoeitie far a Corntettlee lioustt to Ilraltilts tectil`tel l'y 't'he Wltt,4lttePts StattlYt
consider of the State of the Nation. Ile then le. fur the county ref
ferred to- tratiotts preAtlents, where, ott great mid IetoPERTY TAX.
UnotirtithUS occasions like the present, Such ! Mr. T'reeerev said it 'would he veil, desireble,ep
totte'et: had been tsflri4tscd by the 1;""lie• The- kuow, livhether it wits the "t•th [light
Noble Dekti was proceeding vi;itli his subject hen lion.Gentleusin inure the continuation of the
he fiittling himselt sedrienly intlilee•ed) PropertyTax,in the Committee t,tl Alopiley, as It
his seat, apparently much affected, and unable to +.6s +.6s
proceed farther. quiestiO
nwhich stood for that thy point
of farm ? NVould the Hight lion. 4..lentlemati
The Marquis of LINSPOu'NE immettietely sing- be so good as to state in what coudition the florae
gamed that the House would' perhaps allow the might expect to .Mattel us to business for the -next
.Noble Duke to postpone his motion to another %seek Nits the Property Tax Unedited to-be
.
day. 'brought 'nu, or was.siny other mode to.bu suggest-
The Earl of,Ltveepoot: said. he had too much ed in lieu of it, as it was daily more and e.oro
personal esteem for the Noble Duke to object to proved to merit the deepest,.coesiderationi -
any pditpouement suitable to his Grace's conve- The CtIANGEI4OII Of the li,XClttifaUall said that
nienee. • 'llllinisters and the House must coincide with the
Earl Gully then moved, that the debate be ad- 'Right Hon. Gentlethart, that the measure, when,
jottrited till Tuesday next, which was immediately ever-it might -be'beotiglit forward, ought to expo,
agreed tri by tech- Lan•dsliips, who were ordered hence every consideration. As to the precise
.to be sellutioned accordingly.---Adjournedtill to- tinin when the subject would he brotight forwent,
tnorrow. . we understood the Night lion. Gentleman to say,
that till the House should agree to the vote of
money in the Commilice of. Supply, to •the
amount of five or six millions-, he should not feel
himself authorised to introduce this measure. in
the Nays and Means.
Mr. !.I,IERNEY replied, that lie knew there was
the greatest anxiety on this question ; and he
'Jutted that sonic Gentleman of more cousequenee
titan himself would' bring forward a Resolution
.4 on Monday, which.- should cause the House to
i
understend wlien the tfuestion;slionid be brought
On, or whether, tinder any eircionst:incts, it ws
One whiell ought to he entertained. -
Petilious-wete:pregenrea (row Dartmouth, from the
tualli)••4 Perth, frltu rtioadeigti, .Destm, by Sir 'l'.
• find felir-f front .-\•''sricultzrall)lv.n...,, from Niqe-
taw Friars, Sumerht•t, tr'utn the
Utuoinst/wy, pgaiiist *l.lch were rt•.
rithd, and ordvied to ttit'Tubte, vfittauut producing,
!. may debate.
Lord NUGENT,. on rising to trove .for leave to
pre.sent a Petition from the of stoke,
Biickiiiglianishire, read a letter with which it was
SLccompanied. It gave a deplor.hle view •of the
vote of the people formerly .employed. in egri-
- etiltisrallabotir, who were thrown on the parishes,
.even there (Amid riot get -proper relict, he-
'l4ittise the rates cool.l not be obtained. writer
4as a Gentlemait who had 'perhapl never before
troubled: hinqcll btu' flow, what he
`had witnesses!, lie sAid, he felt deeply that the
people were grievously oPpressesl. The 'Peel-
tiots , stated the same feeling, Attributed
then' grievances to the intentiep of Ministers to
maintain' u large standing artny, ,which 'valid re-
iiitire the l'ioperty Tax to be opptesSively levied,
in ;order to support
,it.-.-The 14,;(iI1011 was
ceived.
se'fie tete rr'r moved to bring rip a Pet it.iori from
Shrewsburs., which be-stilted to coreplivin .61 the
Prot.:: -1y Tex as partial, unjust, anti 6ppreSiive,
tinder any circumstances.: ;the: alsO
prayed tor the abolition of the 'slat Duty, and
spoke of the large military establishment its in
ttieir minds unconstitutional. '‘Vitli 'such repre-
Fentatimis lie cordially agreed,, and , he trusted
that Nliiiisters would yet find it-better to pi,t
Bomb tither limit t.o taxation than the .patilnce,of
the people.—The Pcti: Sou \V us received.
Me. -DickeessiN ru,r 10 present one fromlViee
lisctiqe, in Surrey., observcd, . that among
other evils DV which the Petitioners complaine.i;
Was one of vital importante. It related to 4.lte
general decrease in the vissatitity of land sown this
year with Wheat, as well as the qteintity
back oft-the : bands of the p'wners, and, iiow lying
uncultivated, as the farmers, front rfie low price
of wheat, eOuld not afford to..eulsivate them.
Whatever might be. Nair! all Oat the faith of Mini-
sters on pal tient:it. poilitsii there was Mitt generat
m syste of, faith ie GovernMentS, which wits ait•
engage:tiger so to stipport the ioterests of agrtent-
titre, that th,e people should not -rtiti the risk of-
starved.-,,T -h W e Petition a , s received.
•Buouon'ANt. said,. ha. Itch! in les itutol.a
Petition front tire town of Hannon, •in Devon,
agstinst the Property .fax, which, amotigst other
facts,,complisSised that the twist and i-eto-
lereble parts if that systeth were the compelling
the Petitioners to ',lay open their concerns to a
train of inspectors and spies ; and the.y,.r;.,;„,1 the
Ijoittid would refuse sanction th the tiec.snre
under any modifications 'Whatever, ()n this sub-.
jeer he was'etiableir, from- what had .very lately
Q0111(2. to his knowledge, to oiler a very.strikiag
commentary. A very respectable per:ten, a ship.,
broker, residing' et tin very great
.dislatice front
that Hoose, had occasion to purchase au article
-at leelteesentonger's, which he received 'wrapped
up in a paper that proved to be, 'to Isis tin steals
astonishment, the return of rite of friends and
neighboors to-the Commissioners of the Property
Tax. he called on'theGeutlemen, &toil stated the
-circumstance, and they both called 'on the cheese-
monger, • 'floe trailesfealetall.thein be had lately
bought a great 1(.4.0. waSte paper, of the saute
kind, and they found, upon farther• inqiiire, that
the lever in ipiestion bud beets exposed .to sale l;.-
the C9/I,laliSSiCiarl's), anti consisted of tlie.whole
retail's, of w tiO
hat was costunly ea lied, t eir
diction but which he should call their itiquieJi
CIVIL. LINT.
Thus it appeared the inivkite affairs of all= persons
Mr. 13ttotronva asked when a rotaries Paper were expos:!!, not nitly:to the Couninissioners hitt
f)ti this subject would be laid before the House ? to the world', by their returns beitte expo:scale
lVe tutderstottd the. Chancellee of the Excheqiier sale as waste paper; and it Ito had seen no icason
to site it was nearly reedy,
Mr. Tlaatilor wished to know why the produc- woillifinduce hint .to do it. For it would.steiv,
tion• of the Account so lung .exOecteil wits slot that all attempts for making the Corentii.sioners forthcoming, and when it would be.produced ? keep iaith with those under their inquisition were
ttestIIANCELLUit of the
,ExerteSlU4ll said, in enaeailiog ; 11,11(hltere appeared no great 'chance
all prtilraltility, it would be delivered to-morrow. . at making these persons keepthe secrets Of indisi-
/Ur, TI.O(N.Ey replied, that if it were not pro- duals, unless 0(4/ toOklivorir three to as.
(limed to-Morrow, Ice should.. feel it, Itie.doty to sitethem, by wine-hall the :delve. that ensue be.;
move a direct vote of censure oil the persoirs.con-.I .fore them would: he verbally,exposed.
certied unit the Civil List, us he was; etniVitieva The CITANCELIoa or the I,x.ctit:Quett denied'
that, there iviisohlittliiog improper at the hOttoni that such a charge coma • generally apply to the
of the sitbjeet, which prevented the produCtioti of Commissioners. He remembered a . similar
.eir-
the papery..
cutostance that occnrred.aboot a year and.a half
•
49111 CgcnnAbilt moved for Copies of various ago iequiryire ascerta)ted, That it was a
Correspondence between slit; Adeliralty and hint- terterftl preetiee recut the Commissioners carefully
self, iii February and Jllarelt, ebeliji extracts to destroy all the returns after they were doee
Irons certein ()theist! Docitments nod- the Alueter , whet particularly what were of Private .nature,
of iveditClT3ilitAllt i nilci tK'Cel/Elligstich as it was'necessery toor p;.-..ereti
thel)"l:pole,sif,sheTiqg 944tehe wltte.mel d r'eertnitt lthreoes Bat it also 'appeared that
oye P - •
to is eertisio time to the,ll.4l4ltc ee.r. e • ,' t.soreelew cwt' thew' returns had occasionally 'grit
it 'ter *few .w.ords, 41y, hockbritt, Sir J. l Ahmed. thou
,h howe%eri couldyo,'ke,
yorke, aunt ils -Crokee, the..tnotlorewee.egre,ed to„ take torn to s'ay,' that neither the' Cones
JlJ,r,.CoJut moved for Accounts' sittttinz tllc eMU. filiSt'ionerS 101' 1+0114l01)., nor any other district,

}

ttlnnlec9t the sale of these p:txzrs :t o'4
lion. Gentleman would inquire, f:irther, he as'.'"?:
find that this wsis the fete : thli p.:141.1
might have got abrdad, tite circumstance was at'
taittly*ithout their knowleilg,. it certainlyawyo'
was intended that the private conetrits,of tn'Y
tliriductl shtittld be Made public. 'Where wasage;.''
degree of misapprehension altogether respect'
ing the operation of this Tax; for tinder i"
*. 1813, there were nigtlectons out or evert " •
did not make any tett:nth wbatever, except fortlnt
purpose of obtaining toile, from it. It was irtl
known that in the year 1801, In artier to'reve.'lt
the grievance Of commercial otpmttres,.•iitst-i**4
:_sbn who chose to be assessed bvsesponsilite 'Tea
ferences of his own appaititmerit, heti the-liberty.,
to be so, provided the cAnntuission,rs approve4rt
them- though this law was afterwAra
abolished, he should. be perfettly satisfied -10"1i.
the assessments which shotild 'be made on PO
persons- by Gentlemen of their own appointliteeti
iiintiliteeres4tticititioteiisrseionntnesrstansca:sv; no ohjection tiler' •
pct• to disclose his affairs. AnsotP:rtsalptc.:sisdudr:°4-r_
the Tax 11110!) the agriculturist, it heti
certained- that out of above 1,130;1)00 fltrinsr;
only 163,000 paid any portion of it ; 9"4 •
paid for iihe
these persons only about
,6,500
one thousand pounds a. year. Of 589,030 refulnish
appearedi4rte2n:oaoiorut nstri:l tilit,nohto.llll4paoii:(.loooll%,vlicyreieoxintimV;i.tts::,d, teti.L°
ritiltlber IS- farmer!
a tilf )°lll3ll %1?reo. letixrielltheptaebtlitiitisel.276:Oeol3'r°"l)::r(d'lntilu';
been AV
itttk
599,9011. The fitrineriovito wotdditave to Nyoll
the reduced amount of their rents,' n"2:
tit.; eGoth part of them, 101. in every GOCIt.4t
It act cf,.kre naturally followed that 001
persons would receive gient relief 4— It woui" ulio
be- it- vekiert for consideration, lrhat reta r,113
be granted it) c*ses of tri,tril ; anti tilre' 710
do class Which -demanded real. to "'lli "a
!louse would not be die posed to listen, it rite
ht.
nottrable Gentleman could point it tint. ThCitlitj.
Pratt. Gentleman then' went int, ,t 6,. Jo of 961''ii,
ru f,
slzew how little the Tax,
as now stmr•
G.e;,.e( n tr
d iiitrio7,le in trade.
rnade..There were
,'s ti ;
11 all only 2:: C ,nO2ll 1t114.1t 1:ials; erCt
109,760 were exempted, as returning h?'S ‘
R-yeqr ; So that those who did contribill 1, .
the Tax' Irerc no More then :56„5.1.2. This
bee did not .include
journeymen,- whn wren •
ernptell if their respective u eeklv incomes diet ttn: "
ceiir
xieeip,edroUnss.,
ti lite rc.tecirgthi_tnp; to the case of crtfilre;
l'o
his opinion that it was iltiljn. "
)05sichnle°etn,ls ""der:ll:rrli
ett
outer. mode thin that nit ndy pointed out ; slc
persons would be-merely called on to .expot'e, tl7,
of -all Part icilla.hrtinclir of trade io "*": •
they in'ght be englged, and they might be c"."
cernt.4 in. various branches, without ever l?cif!g
Oti .bk.the same Commisiimiers to o'l°4
the. whole Of their itir;;rl. I
Buovonot, espianaCon, Said hie
MlOl no it vision tee,arii ,t 0 the -sink (if 11)c
ref ml'l., to the Connuission.rs of the L''ll`l
di:strict.

Y

• .Mr.-13Attiva s•-:1',1 there had been a 9141enkg1,,!ti
eery conyerkienily" dressed out, in a Tresay:".,
,:„
, per. for the pni•po,e of InAkii,z the tr,,,,v,nre
Nide : it state•! how.mauv m7lßtins of toerhitnicli
with an 11;CPAle tondo- 70 Or 801. a•year. wt"
:7 Will itXempted trimn thi.4 rate, faun whiL h it w.. 1)"
meant to be inferred, that those persol,iolll9t
• interestin the iplustion"
. But it twist he s'"
all these persra were not 'only obliged Ifs pl' in:
directly to the tax, but ihry w,re „h„I4II in(firoc"):
Connected with Ilse OS, their masteri,
e retluteiPstafe; front stii,m4iion tr..lv, 1310
• feet all who were .c*nticerneil und'er Clear, in "'I
way the fiti7mers' labourers,-were
by the distre,ses thefurnieto;.• •The.reliedog.th
one part of the people (the: farinero for thc,Pu",
pose of 1; irthetong another, was a: project
worthy of the great minkter great 'Win%
The relieving 4f. persons by renvisii6tr aeon,"
Illitreis %via just 1 ',but it Was not so generallPt
it the relief were only partially Applied. The W."
point woulitoe to'clireer our ilttellt ion to the Ho'
cipie of the tax, which' ices established far
supi.ort of tisticar ; aittl therefore Abe thing tvhiFl
the Country Gentlemen would have to cunsiderc,
‘tn., that they have been establishing a measi°
of Finance, ‘vhich G'oversonent may ha" re..
!- course to upon. occasion, and screw it up bY:I4A 1;
green like the little advances. they have tzlet
trom titne to tinte upon the 'feu and the 511g3-
'.l' ax. lle wished the idea To be inculcated. "P'''
every Irian's. mind, that this Tax was of such
nature, that nothing could justify it.bOt the ni("t
auluous- war, such us we haveinst emerged tron)i
If this 'fax were es'entnally t•enected, ho here
the tenant would be exempted front it. The Clian..
tt:icilelonewoHlotelete
tiLd4x:eclltleitio:t4cl rbetehnOt:ght the objection t 0
(lie
the di:lelo.o.re 'which ituliit':iteui:ls.dsts)•er're"c-70leini't':::
pelted to itrelce was not Iv cat, as a chase 8110 W , ,
fug the parties
.to toke their returns to
(erees 11:01 not boo :wick acted upon. lie 0./irti
Wring) w.is not Surrked that few persons
hive av:tiletl 'themselves of that clause, as 11"1
u
Troble.4od..enihartassinent which it led to wit
not•to todored, and was, if possible, w°''Sef
than emunion.coorw oHe COn*f proceeding. two ilf"
tleinutfl tLe Property Ta-x for this—it took 101)e
cent frmo the trader's profits in one concern, NHL'
ulloweal trim-no.dfawhack for the losses he might'
sustain in the- other thus a shiptowner, who,
might gain.ott.one vessel, was obliged to Pay t"
PrOperty Tax on hip profits On her, though he'
should sustain a loss to an equal amount on t"

other. .
PRESTON condemned the Property Twc
a measure wholly unfit to lie teiorted to in a :fro
conntry. He objected to its principle /IS inieoll'
stitutional, and as-being .directiv at variance wit.is
the spirit 'of English ' liberty. Every . Man .vita
loved, virtue oral the llritidt Constitntion,wog
hound to resiit sty arbitrary: en impost! which
tern to introduce a fostrth Rtal a filtil power into
641 'S‘t,,(4:, and Ponswptoitly to destroy that syster.
I (stahlish whieh our it FICCV t ors had !tiled tin:
bltio4.---Petition teas ordered to lit on Ilse AOle*

Mr. IVESTR#IN r 034 to 1110 V. 'Lot the nott'ti
51t01451,g0 Comm&ttee cm the Avieidtstral.'
Distress W the Count. y. c did not atiticirett!