The Sun.
London, England, 1842-04-09 00:00:00

(Cheers.) The people of England were a moral people, but still
they ought to pray that they might not be led into temptation.—
(Loud cheers.) In the debates of last year touching the franchises
of Ireland he had heard most eloquent denunciations of villianous
perjury—he hoped that those denunciations would not be con-

maintaining and supporting the Government in such eillirts a
might be on the present occasion required of them ? He had said
enough to show the great difficulties under which they laboured—
difficulties which he believed wou'd be overcome. They wou'd
require great military and tinancal exertions to overcome those

fined Co perjury in Ireland, and that those who had shown them.
selves Pharisees .especting the franchise, would not prove Publi-
cans respecting finances, that they would not send the tax_
gatherer out with the Gospel in his hands to put a host of questions,
and to tempt persons to perjury. There was impiety in the proposition.
and it must produce an utter destitution of principle.—(Loud
cheers.) It might be said he had been guilty of exaggeration—
(Ministerial cheers)—but every word that he had uttered was
borne out by the statements made against the tax in 1816.
(Chee s.) But no man could be guilty of exag;eration half so
monstrous as the advocates of this tax had been in drawing such
a picture of the calamitous state of the country.—(Loud cheers.)
If at the conclusion of the Right lion. Gentleman's eloquent ora-
tion on introducing the measure of the income tax, some person
who for five or six years had lived secluded from the wotl,l, had
entered the House and heard the bight Hon. Gentleman's pc: o.
ration, tie would have been inclined to ask, what dreadful series of
calamities could have befallen this unhappy country ? He would
have asked, was England prostrate at the foot of an enemy
atter an unsuccessful war had all the British fleets been destroyed
at sea ?—(Cheers)—had the success if Waterloo been reversed
(Loud cheers)—had—but that su ely must be impossible—had the
armies of lieglan.l with Wellington at their head suffered disastrous
defeat T—(Continued cheering.) What would be the astonishment
of such a person on turning to the Queen's speech to find that her
M jesty had received continued assurance from all Princes and
States—(Continued cheering)—that they entertained the utmost
anxiety to mainta.n friendly relations with this country, that the
great Powers had combined to sign a Trea'y for the settlement of
the Ottoman Empire and for the preservation of iv cc ? What would
be his astonishment on turning to the speech of another
Right Honourable Baronet the Member for Dorchester
to find that Right Honourable Baronet staling that
such had been the influence of the appointment of a Censer.
vative Government, in preserving the peace of Europe that the
French Government had agreed to reduce the French navy.—
(Loud cheers.) What: Was the Right Hon. Barone‘ to talk of
the pacificatory influence of a Conservative Government, to se-
cure the applause-s of the select audience—and a very select
audience it was to whom that speech was addressed, and this from
the Prime Minister, the Master of the Ministry—(Loud cheers)
—to come down and appal that House, and to startle the country
by vague and indefinite statements, that England was on the verge
of destruction?—(Loud cheers.) Let them contrast that speech
with the speech of the Right Hon. Baronet himself on introducing
the Corn Bill.—(Loud cheers.) In that speech the Right Hon
Baronet described the distresses of the country as being
merely of a transitory nature—that they were dependent

difficulties, and should he receive fur answer an extract from the
Queen's Speech, which convinced them that there was no European
war, and that because dangers were distant they should disregard
them ? But with those disasters—in that state of financial diffi-
culty—what was the measure which this courarsy would resort to,
or what was the measure which was proposed by Govcznment this
country would consent to adopt ? There was, speaking of thu
country alone, 3,000,0001. now to be sun:ltd. Did they enter-
tain the sanguine hope that in this next yrar and in the present
complexion of public affairs, they would make a great saving by A
reduction of the taxation ? He doubted whether any mar. was
sanguine enough to entertain that hope. He doubted
whether any roan cot.ld consid. r the present to be ar
accidental or temporary detieit=wl.e:hrr or not they must
calculate (it they were determii.e.l nor to resort to the
reduction of taxation) upon ((min tied and almost indefinite
taxation. He proposed a tax from which all persons with an in.
come under 150/. a y..ar were exempt. Ice proposed a tax v hich
no doubt hitherto was only resorted to in cases of war; but as the
Hon. Member I. r Coventry had said, it would be miserable politi-
cal perantry to insist upon war as the only contingency to which
:in income tax shou'd be applied. Tl.e question was, whether the
public necessities were such as to justify the imposition of snob a
tax ? The Noble Lard offered as a substitute for the present pro.
posal, the bridet of la,t year.—(ldean) The Noble Lard nevus
could have thought that war was the only contingency that ciuld
justify an income tax. The Noble Lord never could hare thcught
that there could be no political necessity in times of peace—not
only in times of European pace, but of gcneral peace,
when the whole political horizon wan undefaced by a single c:ourt
—the Noble Lord could not have ttri ught that under such eircum.
stances a property tax must be necessarily unjustifiable, because in
the year 1833, when Lord Althorp was beaten upon the malt tax,
and a proposal was made with retard to the house and window -
taxes, Lord Althorp proposed, and the Noble Lionel (Lord J. Rus-
sell) supported an abstract resolution, to the effect that if the deficit
in the revenue were caused by that reduction of taxation, the only
alternative would be the imposition of a property tax. That was
the resolution—(Opposit'on cries of " A property tax ")—proposed
by the then Government for the purpose of persuadin.„; the Hou►e
vf Commons from reducing the house and window taxes.
And was it put upon record that a property tax might be available,
while an income tax was disclaimed ? No; purposely and stu-
diously a property tax was considered irreparably alleal with an
inc one tax ; and its the resolution it was expressly stated that if
they caused a deficit in the year 1633, they should not have
resort to the sugar dudes, they should not have resort to the
timber duties ; the only alternative which should rescue them

upon merely temporary causes (Hear, hear, and cheers)

from the financial itillkuliies in which they would have been placed

upon the bad harvest--( hear)—upon the monetary distresses of
America--(Cheers)--and that his confidence in the resource* of
the people of England continued unabated.—(Continued cheering.)
For those reasons, he (Mr. Shiel) thought that the Right Hon.

by that ccntingeney, would have been the adoption of a praporty
and an income tax.—(Hear, hear.) Why, when a gnat party
had supported that abstract resolution, was it possible n.w to Ilse
and tell him that war alone could just.fy such a nwasure ?—(Near,

Baronet had not made out a case for the infliction of this tax in
Liras of peace—(Cheers)—a tax which had lie-n found so oppresive,
that in 1816, on the conclusion of the peace, the Parliament had

hear.) Could he have calculated when he proposed that
tax—could he have calculated after he had shown Wet-
Henry Parnell, the Chairman of their Financial Committ,e,

insisted upon its immediate abandonment.—(L L tul cheers.) A
tax which its very advocates admitted was unjust, inas-
much as it pressed lightly upon the affluent, but fell with withering

had left upon record, afar he had read the opinion of Lord Al.
thorp—aftcr ne had read the opinion of Mr. Poulett Thomem—
could he have believed that it would be a necessary consequence

etnct upon the imtusltious classes—(Cherry)—which establisLed
inquisition almost as abhorrent as a religious inquisition—(Con-
tinned cheers)—which turned the Gospel itself into an implement
of taxation—(Loud cheers)—which beld out a premium to false_

that he should have been exposed to that Parliamentary opposition
on the put of the friends of the late Government, because he had
proposed a property tax?—(Hear, hear.) Oh, but said the Noble
Lord " You might have resorted to other mersures—you

hood and inflicted a penalty upon truth—(Continued cheers}—from

tn!ght have resotted to a legacy duty upon property.

Why,

which honesty could not escape, and in which fraud could not be
zaught—(linmense cheering)—which held out a direct inducement
to perjury, and seas, therefore, of all imposts, the most immoral—
(Cheers)— which vulgarised the feelings—(Loud cheers)—which was
abhorrent to the religious sentiments—(Continued cheering)
and revolting to the moral sense 01 the English people.
(The Right Hon. Gentleman sat down amidst loud cheering front
all parts of the House, which continued for several minutes, dining
which the House presented a very animated scene. Before the
cheering had subsided Sir It. Peel rose, and made an ineffectual
attenyt to address the house. The cheering continued, mingled
ith suit's of " Adjourn, adjourn!" and repeated cries liar
Brotherton, who rose, and, as we understood, moved the adjourn.
ment of the ehate. Several lion. Members were pressing to leave
the Ilouse, when Sir R. Peel again made a vain attempt to gain
a hearing, but was again compelled to sit down, amidst loud cries of
'' Question !" " Adjourn !" Order having been partially rests red),
The SPEAKER having put the question,
Sir R. PEEL said, Mr. Speaker, I wish to ask you, Sir, whether
that motion was made before I rose?
Mr. BROTHEBTON said he hoped the Right Hon. Baronet
would not object to the adjournment, as some business had to be
gone through after the debate was concluded.
Sir R. PEEL—Then proceed with the debate. I don't wish to
speak to the question of adjournment. But I would rather speak
to the main question.—(Considerable confusion.)
Mr. R. WASON rote to order. Ile understood that there was

suppose he had been disposed to take such a step ; in the midst ofe,
the difficulties in which he was plac.d• he should consider what
it wculd be practicable for him to carry. Let him consider the legacy
duty—would he have had the support of the late Government
if he had made that proposition? What did he find in the Par.
liamentary records of the year IS-10 ? Could he expect the sup.
port of the Noble Lord when i.e found upon record what had fallen
from his own Chancellor of the Exchequer? An Hon. Member,
said the Right Hon. Gentleman, proposed that a legacy duty
should be imposed tqien real property. I will not go into the
moire by which the tax ought to be levied, because my objection is
to the principle of the tax.—(Hear.) Now, suppose he had
brought forward such a measure—suppose he had proposed the
imposition of a legacy duty upon real property, should he not have
been met by the suggestion that a property tax wculd have been
much better ?—(Hear.) Should he not have teen reminded, and
justly reminded, that in the year 1840, the Chancellor of the
Exchequer—the financial organ of the Government—had p'aXtd
upon record his opposition, not to the expediency, but to the
principle of a legacy duty? The Noble Lord had sug,ested two
measures—the one, the remission of the duty upon foreign corn ;
and tire other, now proposed for the first time, the imposition of a
legacy duty upon landed property.
Lord PALMERS I'ON—And an addition to the assessed taxer.
Sir It. PEEL cuntinued—And an addition to the assessed twice.
Ile hoped his agricultural friends—(Laughter on the Opposition
benches)—would remember the worth of the Noble Lord, who had

a question before the House. described them, in his speech of that night, as having " heads par..
The SPEAKER said that he had made an attempt to put the taking of the nature of the clay which they cultivated." If he
question when the Right Hon. Gentleman rose to speak. Lad spoken in terms like these of his manufacturing opponents—
S,r R. PEEL said die would address himself to the main question. (Hear, heat)—if he had indulged in such language with respect
Ile thought he could, consistently with order, do so. lle thought to those Members in the House connected with manufactures, who
it would be perfectly consistent with order to do so, for the per. had spoken slightingly or disparagingly of his measures—if he had
parse of shoseing the Howie that they ought not to adjourn, and that spoken of a class in terms like those in which the Noble Lord
he was not, in taking that course, establishing a bad precedent from had spoken of the agricultural Members in that House—if he had
the position in which he stood. Ile wished to ask whether or not said that their " heads partork of the nature of the clay which
he must strictly confine himself to the questien of adjournment ? they cultivated," he wondered what would have been the terms
(Here there was considerable excitement in the House, and of reproach which he would have drawn down upon himself by
the Right Hon. Baronet appeared extremely agitated.) the use of such contumelious express lons towards a particular
The SPEAKER was understood to say, amidst the confusion class.—(Hear, hear.) Why, he felt quite surprised when he
that prevailed, that the Right lion. Baronet could, if he thought heard his friends in that House think it necessary to vindicate
fit, go into the main question before the House, when speaking en themselves from having given him their support. At one time
the question of adjournment, they were charged with having broken their pledges to their con.
stituents.—(Hear from the Opposition benches.) And yet that
Sir It. PEEL—If I am in order, and not chargeable with este-
sound was scarcely extinct before some lion. Gentlemen told tern
blishing a bad precedent, I will then go into the mein question.
that in bringing forward the Corn.laws he had consulted cxclu.
(Tile House was again thrown into considerable confusion, and the
sively the agricultural interest.—(Hear, hear.) Why, when he
Itight Hon. Baronet seas unable to proceed for some time, owing
to the loud cries of " Ostler, order," and " Adjourn, adjourn ;" at had brought forward his Corn-law, which his Hon. Friends were
length the Right Hon. Baronet proceeded.) I will state the now charged with supporting, was nut the proposal received
grounds upon which, with unabated confidence in the expediamicy with laughter and derision, and was he not told
and the necessity of the proposal which I have made, and— that he had offered an insult to a sufleteng people? Had he not
Mr. BLE w ITT, who was standing below the bar, rose amidst been ru yeatedly told, that the whole object and etlect of tie law
loud cries of " Order, order,' and said,—" Mr. Speaker, r move which he had proposed, was to strip the eekeing law of the oiler.
that this House do now adjourn." lions to which it was liable, but to leave the evils to which it led its
Thu House was now in a perfect ferment of excitement, and the full force ? Why, they could not masse these extraordinary charges I
Right Hoe. Baronet again stood for some time unable to proceed, they could not charge hint with having been subservient to the
at length Mr. Illewitt gave way, and agricultural interest, wilds, they charged the agricultural intereo!
Sir ROBERT PEEL continued. Ile would again explain with having forfeited all their pledges. The two charges were
the steps he proposed for the purpose of rescuing the country perfectly inconsistent. But he trusted the aricultural Members
front the calamity and from the disgrace of continued indift would see that the sole proposals of the Noble Lent, to extricate
ference and connivance at the financial difficulty of the country, the country from its present difficulty, were an Ss. duty upou
They (the Opposition) rested their opposition to the measure whicts corn, an inetease in the assessed taxes, and a legacy duty
he had proposed on the double ground, that he had net established upon real property.—(Hear.) These were the three proposals
a sufficient necessity to warrant the proposal, that lie had made— of the Noble Lord. Now, with respect to the Corn-lass,
('Tremendous cheering from the Opposition) —and that even if lie epprehended the sense of the House had been sufficiently taken
the public eircurnstancea called upon the country to take some de. upon that measure. The House had last eight passed the Govern.
meted steps, that still some other course should have been pursued mete Bill ; and he did not suppose he could calculate upon au fs.
than subjecting the income of the country to direct taxation. They fixed dusty as a means of supplying any portion of the public noses.
charged him with exaggerating the financial difficulties. ( Here sities An Sr. duty, under any circumstances, must be a preoatious
the Bight Hon. Baronet was again interrupted by a tremendous source of revenue, because, in the event of a favourable harvest in
burst of olieering from the Opposition, which continued for a cense. this country, they could derive no revenue from it whatever. He
dernble time, during which the Bight Hon. Baronet in vain would next come to the assessed taxes ; and lie would ask whet
attempted to be heard, and the consequence was we slid not hear were the assessed taxes which the Noble Lord would propose ? They
the conclusion of the sentence.) Ile would represent to them anti had lately had ten per cent. added to the assessed taxes ; and he
tee country what was the real position of the country in respect to very much doubted whether as much might not be now said In favour
her financial aifliculties. He said that in the year 1835—(the Right of a property tax as against an increase in the assessed taxes. It they
lion. Baronet was here again interrupted by loud cries of " Order") °ejected to a property tax that it had a tendency to dinehlish
—Lord 111elbounic's Goveinment being then restored to office— the comforts of the poor by reducing their employment, h thought
and the conclusion of the year 1836, they (the late Ministers) being he could show them that assessed taxes were still more liable to the
the administrators of the finances of two great empires. The same objection.—(hear, hear.) And if the proposition of the
one, the dominions of her M ujesty in the United Kingdom, and Noble Lord, of an increase ite the assessed taxes, as a means of
the other the great empire of the East, where millions ofsubjects supplying the di ficlency in the revenue, were adopted, he thought
were submitted to their sway—in 1836, in those two empires, he could show that every addition made to the assessed Mee,
( l'he rest of the sentence was lest in loud elks of" Order, order.") would fall with more prejudicial effect upon the labouring wed
\Vas he not to be allowed to perform a great public duty ? He industrious chasms than a property tax. If they levied their
was vindicating himnself from the charge that he had overrated di- charges on the assessed taxes how did they exempt profesaionel
fliefultics for the purpose of procuring acquiesence in his proposals. , men ? Here was a charge made, that it was unjust to levy a tax
Ia I god they (the Opposition) having the afiairs of two great en, on incomes ; bile surely, the professional mate must bear the
'mires to administer, found their finances in this state. In ties amount, If levied by means of assessed taxes. —(Cheers.)
country they had a surplus income over expenditure of If any distinction were made with respect to the temporary nature
1,376,000/. In India they Pad a surplus of 1,556,000/. of incomes it would be useless, because they would have to pay the
amount in the window and house tax.—(Hear, bean) Were riot
They entered on the rerformance of their duties with a net
the assessed taxes liable to the same objection as the property tax?
surplus In those two empires of 3,000,000/. of income over expen- l
1 —(llear, hear.) After they raised the assessed macs they increased
secure. How had they left it?—(hear.) Was he overrating diP-
the temptation to go abroad.—(llear, hear.) Take a person with
ficulties —Meer, and counter cheers)—when they rem std a cur- ,
50,00 e/. or 60,000/. a year, and if they assessed him to Ara amount
Alas of 3,000,C00/., and left a deficit of 5,000,00 W. ? They had a !
Settee, in the year:ending the eth April, 1840, on the finances of the , of 20 per cent., with the additional assessed taxes, they Increased
the temptation for such a person to go abroad. lie finds a p'ace
United Kingdom of 0,570,0001 ; they had a deficit on the revenue
of India of 0,430,0001. ; they had, therefore, in the last year, i where there arc no assessed taxes, and he goes there; but he would
left their position in the Government ; they found a surplus 1 not on that account engage by his (Sir R. Peel's) proposition, while
of 3,000,000!. of income over expenditure ; they quitted office, and the preposition of the i Noble Lord would leave him wholly un.
left a deficit, which it was his (Sir It. Peel's) duty to attempt to 1
touched. Ile (Sir It, Peel) would touch his land through the
supply—a deficit of 5,000,000/.—(Hear, hear.) The difference in 1 tenant, and it' he were a fundholder, through the funds. He may
: go abroad, but he would be obliged by his plan to contribute to
the finances of the country, from the time they underteck the charge
to the time they quitted it, was a difference, against the country of the exigencies of the country.—(bear, hear.) But by the Noble
8,000,0001 Now so far as financial difficulties were concerned, if Lard's proposal he would be induced to dismiss his establishrent,
those facts could be sustantiated, had he overrated the necessities of Reduce the demand for productive labour, and go to Milan, or
time country ?—(Counter cheers.) They did net deny, he appre- i Paris, or Rome. Arid in such a case the prefessim.al man, the
hended, that the difficulties of India would recoil upon them; if they clergyman, and the widow would be subjected to a double pressure
slid, he could convince them that time time was approaching when I from the assessed taxes—(Hear, hear)—because they may not have
they would experience that the proposition could be borne out. But the means of teeing abroad, and so exempt themselves from the
op.-ration of the tax.—(Hear, hear.) The pressure on those who
in the time of peace, so far as their finance:l affairs were concerned,
judgine by comparison from 1836, when they had a surplus of were obliged to remain would be proportional to the cause be gave
revenue of 3,000,000! , they ought to have in IS4O one of the others to go abroad. With respect to the timber duties, what
s,ooo,oool.—(Hear, hear.) Theme was a Minister of this country did the Hon. Member for Coventry say, who exhibited great insight
into financial matters, are who delivered his sentiments free from
who in speaking of its financial affairs gave this opinion—" To
the trammels of party.—(Laughter.) He sail distinctly, that et ith
enter on the financial year with a deficit of 1,000,000!. was what
he hoped tee Minister of this great nation would ever consent to, : respect to the timber duties be would infinitely prefer his (Sir R.
Peers) proposition to that of the Noble Lord; and here he should
and what no House of Commons woull ever sanction. The ne-
repeat what lie had said before, that if there was any law artiste
cess:mry consequence of such a proceeding would be to make the
faith of the country suspected at home, to diminish its reputatien which entered largely into consumption, and on which it was ad-
visable to reduce the duty, that was the article of timber. It ems.
rarmed, and to place us in such a situation as would necessarily
deprive us of the high and noble station which we have hitherto merest into consumption in a variety of ways, and the reduction of
the duty on it would give great encouragement to local improre.
held among the nations of the world." The Minister who delivered )
men• s—to the building of cottages, and other useful etnploymenta,
those sentiments—speaking of the deficit of a single million—was ;
,
reported to be Lord John Itossell.—(Loud cheers.) And here was .and would therefore be a source of profit to the labouring classes
They heard a great deal of the shipping interest as being of great
(lie end of these continued deficiencies. They began with a sus. !
plus, they acknowledged the existence of that surplus to be neces- inmertance in a commercial and political point of view, but
what could give more encouragement to the shippirer interest tlm*rt
nary for the maintenance of public credit; proposals w ere
made for the remission of taxation ; at the time whey • increased facility in the purchase of timber. If he encouraged
that speech was made they had son e such surplus
the builder if ships, and enabled him to compete with the ship,
I builders of the Baltic amid Canada, did he not give encouragement
as 1,500,000/. ; a proposal was made to reduce the taxation
bearing injuriously on the lower classes of the people; but the 'eli- Ito the employment of letiour.—(hear.) Look to the stimulus it
rester of that day, sensible of the evils of deficiencies, speaking j would give to the employment of labourers in the building of cot.
of the deficiency of a single year of one million, told theme that no taxes and houses, which was now materially impeded by the basher
Minister, fit to govern this great countryeveuld commence the Mate- duties. lie wished they would look to time evidence regarding the
cial year with a deficit, or, if he slid, he would damrge our rcpu. i effect of the dirtier duties on the cottages of the poor in leelsnd.
tation abroad, snake the faith of the country suspected at home, He would ask if there was any article in respect of which a Wiwi.
and would place ems in such a situation as would nesessarily deprive I tion of duty would be more advantageous. Vie Right Home
us of that high and noble station, which we lied hitherto held Gentleman says —" !lake Canada an integral portion of the sin.
mommegst the nations of the world.—(dleer, hoar.) He was lure.„ lire, and yet his proposition was to levy a duty of 10s. on Gana.
seren; to them a deficit of 3,000,0001. in this country ;he showed diati timber—(Heer, hear)—while he (Sir R. Peel) proposed to
them a deficit in another part of the empire of e,000,0001., and yet admit it at a nominal duty, and afforded it an additional r rotoc-ion
they told him that he was overrating the diflicubies of the coml. by the imposition of a tOs. duty on timber, the pro,luce of
try.—(llear, hear.) Bat, then, they were not to hold dis- the Baltic.. lie admitted the value of the flight Hon. Gentleman's
proposition in a financial point of view, but there were other
spirited language, and to commute at these things ; they
were not to say, that because there was a debt of • reasons which roistered les (Sir It. reel's) proposition more vales-
iim,ooo,loo/., there was DO great harm in incurring 0,000,0001.1 able, though accompanied with a present loss to the• revenue.
Well, corn then, at least the nt ujority of that House mustguage,
mere of delft, for, if they did go on hoalitig this dispirited lan-
guage, they would be deterred front making the necessary sacrifices
abandon. Truro timber, if they chose to reduce Oh. duty, they
and then, indeed, the natural consequences would be that the faith might certainly derive a revelrs, —(rlcer, hear.) Now with re-
of the country would be suspected at home, and they must descend
spree to sugar, the Noble Lord greatly mistook him in supposing
from the noble station they had hitherto held alneng the nations
' that when he referred to articles in which there had teen are loc.
of the world.—(Loud cheers.) Oh ! but, said an Hon. Member, we tiomi of duty', but from which there had not been a correspond..
had no disasters. 'Flue Queen, in her speech, haul stated that . ing ieereast, of revenue, when he was attempting to show
'referritug to sugar.
foreign powers and States bad gds en assurances of their disposition
srt
titile:t:Upeett,hietud)yn :eilideltinx:.:wtt iaoln'ret ltioe Nreoall-ilsect:srud igmrematelyuiatilei isitO7mktitla ifirri'l t hehe
to maintain tratiquiliity. Ne disaster's ! Let Ohm look to the
imsesent condition id aliens in India.— (Hear, ' hear ) The disaster a selection on foreign sugar n.ust be an
He had never afiried
there, however, was not irreparable. It was a di-aster that would
ilimicssteatec.ocferte'v()Telil'en.ce lief thought that if they did deal wills sugar
be repaired by the support mid vigour of their councils, are by the
gallant exertions of their army. But where had the House read— they should deal wuth it by a col:side:sable reduction of the duty,
not in official despatches, but even in the history of the country—of applying that reduction to time culenial produce as well as to
e. And ',shy hat he dealt so largely and liberally
sloe) wholesale slaughter as that which private inlividuals reported heelers produc
in sloe)
newspaper. One
individual
wrote
to
the
following
effect—aid' the article of timber ? Because lie wanted to give the pi otit
t f time realueuion to the cute.unicr ; and he must trey that
"My life has been saved in a most wonderful manner. I
he thought it inflaitely Letter to eieal on a large senile with
an the only European oho lies m-caece of the
Catimml army, Although we heard of some being taken by the those articles, mid to give the consumer the profit omf
mielny. Two individuals only I cached this place with myself, the reduction than to take the course which was
making in all only three persons who had coped—out 01 how sometimes taken of reducing the duty at a loss to the
many did they suppose ? He could not bust himself to mention revenue without any profit to the consumer. He had ma vese
the number. But he would ask them had they lost tell thousand doubted that time Noble Loid might make a provision tbueded on
men there since the commencement of those operations P As he Prin4le, which would increase time revenue. This, however, ha
had said before, the loss was not irreparable. It. did not view it must say, thot We had realised in the last year nearly as much re.
in that light. Every effort ought, and should be made. They venue from sugar, in consequence of the increase of the produce
should have recourse to every means which their judgment should of our colonies, as the Right HOD. Gentleman expected to realise
point out, and their moral influence place at their coin,. from his reduction of the duty on colonial sugar. The ground ore
nand—they stmuld have - recourse to imicrea„,eg ~,,_ . which Ile had refused to consent to the propogal of the Noble Lord
ertion for the purpose of maintaining that empire was this—that he did not think, after the sacrifices we had made
which rested less en physical force that) on the force of opinion. If for the abolition of the slave trade, it would be for the honour
some decisive effort must be made in order to rescue the troops thot or credit of this coentry to permit the introduction of
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remained to us--some decisive effort for the reparation of the great colonial sugar, the preduc of slave labour, without
disasters which haul occurred—the reparation of that national cala. an effort, at least, to secure by treaty, some corresponding abet,
al ty, it must and should be d mile' Could they not perceive the latent in time slave trade and in slavery. He had said then, and hp
necessity of some decisive and vigorous; exertion for the purpose of must now repsat, though he did not close his eyes to the advantaig