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ltd the hoes id]., 104 "Veulatrn adff riftilwb'rl
do you delay, ;dial you here the Mad to carry e
di So, Sit. (anfwered the boy) it is sal, an &Inds."
The emsfWaation of fuch a cireinottance as this,
where the mails, or perhaps more important papers,
were obliged to be *mulled to fuch ignorant hands,
together with a recolleition of the many robberies of
the mails which bare been committed in that Coun-
try, would, he had no doubt, make the people of ibe
country be well fatufied2 that they would have the
propofed (ecurity at fo low . a price. As to the Tax
upon Dogs. the poor man Would be exempted from
payment for one dog ; and where Gentlemen had a
great number of them. for 301. &pack ; fo that it
would not fall oppreflively on any clefs of people.
Sir JOHN.NEWPORT hid, in explanation, thit
he did not objekto the Tax on Letters, but to the
Tax on Timber, the importation of which had toed-
detably diminithed in the !aft year. • -
Mr. FOSTER phferveclohat although the year
before laR the quantity of timber imported was
topoo tons, and lea year only 29,000, yet it was
not to be• inferred from thence that any falling off of
the dutrisould confequendy.take place, or that the
deereafed import was owing to ,the duty. It was al-
together the confequence of the general fituation of
Euro*. ••• . _
... • . •
My.- XER oppored the I*y cin Timber,
. • bfIe,,,AJJAA R faid..thet there was a Pad's-
entutiri Cm* Pr: fiatirdsPorafriistY3 *
I
f,otfuhros of :the - s ono fin *a he hoped
iterouldoperaelaisfotary'ftforms; • • .-
• Mr: arIiGERALD explaioed. . • -
Sr WILLIAM ,BURROUOkIS faid a few words
is faeoos.of •the limelight fyfteto at Mr. Folio
• The Refolution, impoling an additional Dtity on
Timber, was now.read and agreed to.
. •On the motion for agreeing np tbe 6 per cent. duty
on the !ippon Retail Trade of Ireland, .
Mr. MAY rofe, and (aid, he had prefented a pe-
tition againft thefe duties, from the inhabitants of
Belfaft, and he aided the pi!ielow of the Houfe till.
be Rated a few obfervitions m fcppott of the peti-
tionof his coollituento They had not, he (aid, de.
fared him to prefent it, from any with to newt?: them-
hives from the payment of taxes in general, but from
a wilt to have taxes impofed in,firch a manner, as to
bear equally on all deferiptioos of perfons. This tax
was not fo cooftituted. bin boroentirely, and with
peculiar hardibip, on the retail importer, while the
wholefale importer was altogether exempt from it.—
It therefore affeited greatly the commercial induftry
Lilts country. and, as fueh, he hoped the Right
. Gentleman would agree to selinquith it.
Mr. LA TOUCHE was detidcdly againft the tax,
Sir GEORGE HILL contended that the tai
would prove of. linguist detriment to Ireland. He
- felt the =policy of a tax on ttretail dealer, and
believed that it would undermine the internal trade
of the bilk. -
Sir CHARLES PRlGE.oppofed the tax.
=loft, unwire, and impolitic. ' - • -
Sir JOHN NEWPORT thooght it only tended to
product kind encourage manifold, Maaifefl. mid al,
fame fea_ndo - . . .
Mr: FOX withedthat.-as the tax would bear Par-
ticularly bard Goths email usdq, it might bilibas;'
'f
$± fold dint the tan lord .exilled.filute
Ai drys of arks 11. Ilse eitietailon of thi-tai
was eonfusid-tpitibpeco. tea;-and brandy.. He was
*older fpeculadiempininni tefpettizig tips during a
peekid Jof ,wai.......He Notili not. think of gitiog up
*limes while heridhered to that on kaiser. He
was gratehil to the Merchants of 'London for .their
adirice.to the Meichints pt Ittlattd
.; and hoped that
the former would not deeltne.taking that of the lat-
. ter. on filch queltiona as might lead to the general.
advantage of the twouountriet The wholeMe deo-
lers had purthafed -the tax bylat:riflkeszt the time it
• was SA laid in i aid the itholetale defier had now
a flt to have his laterals properly guarded. ..
Mr.
CORRY wet unfriendly to, the tai. Three
IllefGoos of Parliament ago he had propped the repeal
- of the tax. Yet, from good difpolitione toirards the
Right Hon: Gentleman (Mr. Feller), he had difcott-
raged his own coaftituents from fending_ to him pe-
dwons again* it, becaufe he did not wilt to .ati obi
flacks in the way of the Right Hou.Gatilanau ;ado:
wiling the taxes. He was not for nail% the
.patient
retail dialer, tugging at the oar of indtiffry; and
eau** every fleeting breeze to make his little bark
Pi iti (slay the haven of his hopes I Had ever
hob a tat prevailed in England ? There obght to
be a fimilarity of Giusti= and repletion with !e-
-clat trade of every quarte!..tif the Empire.—
was fininded on a principle of equality,
sad of fimilarity of lineation ; and bf this the alimi-
Mho Of the currency of the two etionities firsinicd
. hole proof.
Mr. HAWTHORNE could not Iran io the ma
tion. The tax was a, bad one in every view of hi
operation and tendency.
Mr. PRINSEP entered his rotary 'retell *FUR
sill DOGOSOViry bearing on' the induftry of the indi-
vidual, fa es to lead to his ruin.
Sir JOHN STUA RT and Colonel ODEL tippled
the Bill, after Which the Houfe. divided on the Refo-
lotion, when there appeared—For the Six per Cent.
• Import Duty. toff—Agana it 44—Majority 63.
The other Refolutions were then read, and arced
0. 4f •
Sir JOHN NEWPORT gave notice, he &mid op:.,
sere Come of the matters contained in tbefe Refolu-
:ions, when they came before the Moak in a different
corm.
Mr. FOSTER moved for leave to bring in four
tiaritt Bills, to carry into dice theft Refolutimus
which was agreed to.
zEDUCTiCIM VT THIL MILITIA.d•LIGACT DVTT SILL.
The CHANCELLOR of the E%CHEQUER
hid. for obvinus rufous it would not be convenient
to many Gentlemen to ascend en Monday (St. Pia-
trick's Day) he ftioisid thereiore with that the queftion
on the Reduaion of the Militia be poftponed until
l'uefday : it might alfo be eligible, for the fame rea
fon, to deter to the fame day, or the following open
day, the briogiog hip the Report of the Legacy•D'uty
Bill.
Mr. FOX willed to know if the Right Hon. Gen;
:Annan dean; to perfevere in extending the duty to
immediate heirs, and fignifsed his intention of oppof-
jog this clone of the Bill, if it were perfillfd in.
'Me CHANCELLOR GE the EXCHEQUER
kid, he certainly defigned to fubmit that clank to
the determination tit the Houfe, and it could not

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