Star.
London, England, 1802-04-09 00:00:00

TAX BILLS.

On the motion of Mr. VAN syrraar, the Loan
Bill, the Bill granting additional Duties on Win-
dows and Lights, and the Beer and Ale Tax Bill,
were feverally read a fecond time, and committed
for to-morrow.

On the motion for the fecund reading of thy Nit
for granting additional Duties on Carriages, Ser-
vants, Horfcs, Dogs, etc.
The CHANCELLOR of the Exca coy fills!, that
the objections urged on a former night to t!i idea
of fubjeding the Inmates in a Farmer's huge to
the operation of the Tax upon Servants, had been
fully confidered, and it did appear to him perf !fly
jolt to exempt perfons employed in agricalira ti.—
Though he was ready to agree in the pi is ciple
laid down by his Right Hon. Friend, that the num-
ber of men employed by any perfon was evidence
of property, yet be would not content to ewe,. tlra t
principle fo far as to inflid injuftice on any 5i.... at
his Majefty's fubjeas ; and undoubtedly ni:tn-
ber of Inmates in a Farmer's houfe was r.9c a fair
criterion of his property, but as far as that prir..
ciple applied to manufadurers, it was fair and
maintainable. He hoped that means woill'd
found in the Committee to free this nwainre is out
all objections.
Mr. M. A. TAYLOR took occafron to nntice a
grievance to which perfons fubjed to the Allcifcd
Taxes were too 'liable, in conthquence of the
exil-
ing Tax Laws, and which he witted to tee reme-
died in this.. He complained that the Infpe tors
often furcharged a man in the place where he only
=annually refided ; for inaance, if a Gentleman
bad two different places of refidence, it might oc-
cur that he would be furcharged in that where lie
did not ufually pay his lases. This lie did not
Rate as a mere poffibility, for it had often happen-
ed; but he would do the Tax-office the junice to
fay, that in filch cafes as came to his knowledge,
the Office, when applied to, gave redrefs ; but
much time was 101 l in making there applications,
an inconvenience which ought to be contidered. In
fall, memorandums were often, according to the
modern praitice of Tax-gatherers, ferved upon
Gentlemen in London, though they paid their taxes
in the country, and thofe Gentlemen upon fuch oe-
cations were obliged to make oath. To prevent
fuch injullice and trouble, it would be well, he
thought, to make the Infpedors refund any money
obtained on fuch iniquitous furcharges, to
the fo aggrieved.
Mr. VANSITTART fuggefted, that the bell time
to propofe any thing to anfwer the Hon. Gentle-
man's purpofe, would be in the Committee. He
begged, however, to mention, that it meafure was
under confederation, with a view to the more equi-
table colledion of the Revenue4which it was hoped
would obviate any complaints upon the fubjed,and
which would be fubmitted to the. Houle loon after
the Reeds.

The Bill was read a fecond time, and commit-
ted for tomorrow.

Mr.WHir. 'RIAD exprelled a with that the Papers
on the Table, relative to the Beer and Malt Du-
ties, thould be printed.
The CHANCELLOR Of the Excusosce obferved,
that all the Papers which had been moved for by
the Hon. Gentleman were not yet on the Table,
but when they were, there could be no objeaion
to comply with his willies.

SINKING FUND.
Mr. navies, rote to put fome quellions to the
Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer, re-
fpeting the nature of the propoßtion which be had
announced his intention to fubmit to the Houfe
on Monday; the nature of which he (Mr. T.) con-
felled he did not by any means underhand, parti-
cularly how, as it was mentioned, that the pro-
pofed Confolidation of the two Sinking Funds
could ferve to accelerate the liquidation of die
National Debt. He knew it was the with of the
Right Hon. Gentleman to give the mutt Etas-
faaory information on the &Ned, and therefore
he applied for it. He walled to know whether the
soo,oool. Short Annuities, which were to fall in
in tBoB, were to be available for the redudion of
taxes ? It was alto his defire to have an idea of the
calculations upon which the Right Hon. Gen-
tleman's plan was founded, and at what rate
the price of Stocks was (peculated upon for thefe
fix years, which intervene between this and 1838
Tbe Cu ANCILLOR of the Excifeossa Paid, that
he expelled tome quellions on the fubjed alluded
to by the lion. Gentleman, but that the Hon.
Gentleman had anticipated his ezpc&ations. He
had however tome difficulty as to the mode of
giving the Hon. Gentleman the full information
he demanded, for upon the heft confideration he
could not find a fit way to lay thofe calculations
before the Houfe, which were necetfary to put
Gentlemen in complete poireflion of the quellion ;
indeed there was no precedent of producing the
calculations of an individual as the bails of a Le-
giflative Provifion. This difficulty he (hould get
rid of, by moving the Houfe to relblve into a
Committee on Thurfday next, in order to take into
confideration the Afts of 1786 and 1792, relative
to the redudion of the National Debt, and in that
Committee he fhould Rate thole calculations, and
would take care that a fufficient number of copies
of them fhould be provided for the information of
the Houfe. It was afterwards his intention to
move, that the report of this Committee thould be
printed. At all events no Bill would be brought
in on this fubjea before the Eager recels. The
Right Hon. Gentleman then Rated, fhortly, the
grounds of the propofition he meant to fubmit. In
reference to the Aft of 1786, he Paid it was pro-
vided by that Ad, that as loon as the Turn in the
hands of the Commiffioners fhould amount to
4,000,0001. the inter& fhould be at the difpofal
of Parliament, to be applied to the redudion of
taxes—now the (Ned of his meaftire would be to
take away that difcretion, and that this 4,c00,0001.
and the interell, fhould go on accumulating with
compound intereh, to be applied to the reduftion
of the National Debt. The soo,oool. Short An-
nuities, alluded to by the Honourable Gentleman,
which were to fall in in 1808, which however
would be fubjeft to a charge of between forty and
fifty thoufand pounds to pay the intereft of the
deferred Rock created by the lalt loan, he meant
to leave available for the redudion of the Taxes. •
With refped to the At of 1792, by which a Fund
was created of one per cent. from each Loan, and
by which it was provided, that if the produce of
this one per cent. fhould exceed a certain fum, to
be applied to the extinction of the debt of each
' year, the furplus fhould be at the difpofal of Par-

liament, this difcretion alfo it would be the objed
of his meafure to take away, and that the whole
produce fhonld, combined with the Fund he had
already defcribed, be applicable to the reduaion
of the National Debt. The operation of this pro.
jet% he trufted, would be to difcharge the whole
debt w►thin a period of forty-five years. He con-
cluded with moving,that the Afts of the 26th and
32d of the King fhould be read, which being read
accordingly, he moved—That the Houfe fhould
on Tueiday next rcfolve into a Committee on the
faid Ads.—Agreed co.—The Right Hon. Gen-
tleman added, that he would, on the firft day
after the Eatfer reeds, move for leave to bring
in a Bill founded on the report of the faid Com-
mittee.
Mr. Ti rR V L Y la►d, that according to his concep-
tion one hundred millions would be paid off with►n
thirty•o::e years.