Star.
London, England, 1822-04-13 00:00:00

FA SIIIONABLR ARRIVALS.

The Earl andCOUstieas of Derby, in Grosvenor-squat, from
she Oaks, Kent.
J. G. Lanibton, Esq. M.P. and Lady Louisa LansbtOn, is
Cleveland-row, from Lanibton Hall, Durham. •
Lord St. Helens, in Grafton-arm% from Brighton.
Janes Massey, Esq. at the Pulteney Hotel, front Newmarket.
DEPARTURES.
The lion. Colonel L. Stanhope, for Sunning-Hill, Berks.
Mr. Prendergrairt, from Ilculgson's Hotel, for Paris.
Hen. Mr. Grenville, for Dropingte Lodge, oh a ilait to Loa
ald Lady Grenville.

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ssrr.viAfirOF rim BEARINGS OF TRE
LEA !SR TAX UPON THE PUBLIC.
The Arkiiltnt;ita being about hail' the whole
population, might be supposed to consume abode
half the leather manufactured 4 but, as their shoes
are made of the coarsest and heaviest leather,. on,
which the tax is the same per lb. as upon leather 'of
five times the value; and as they, are twice as heavy
as those generally worn by the other classes, and
other leather goods are more generally tired by them;
they cannot. e supposed to use leis than two-thirds
of the leather manufactured. The. whole tax is
£600,000, therefore the y pay to Govern meat £400,000.
To this is to he added the expense occasioned by the
Excise _restrictions, which are necessary to secure
the collection of the tax, and are stated by most re-
spectable persons before the Committees of the House
ft Commons on the Leather Tax, to be at least equal
to the whole amount of the tax, which is a real loss
to

the country of property to that amount, and must
be paid for by the consumers of leather, making the
Amount paid so far, on account of the tax and re-
strictions, by the agricultural classes alone, £BOO,OOO.
(See Report of 1813, pages 26, 39, 47, and 49, and
Report of 1816, page 138. .
As the tax is paid on the rough article before it'
goes from the tanner to the currier, or leather cutter,
the tanner must be supposed to have a profit for his
extra capital and risk upon 1:800,000, which, at ten
per cent. would be £BO,OOO, making the whole
amount which must be paid by the carriers to the
tanners £880,000; upon which sum the carriers must
be supposed also to lay on another profit of ten per
cent. to the shoemakers, making £968,000 ; upon
which the shoemakers or other artificers in leather
cannot lay less than another ten per cent. making the
whole which must be paid by the agricultural classes
£1,064,800, being more than twice the amount of
the late Agricultural Horse Tax, though the gross
produce and other revenue of this part of the Leather
Tax which is paid by the agriculturists to Govern-
ment, is considerably less than the tat last mentioned.
The remaining one-third of the tax which is paid
by the other classes of society to Government, is
1:200,000 gross, for which they of course pay in the
same proportion as the before-mentioned classes, that
is. C 512,400. Can any tax be compared with this?
And is it extraordinary that the leather trade con.
tinues to decline, as shewn by the last accounts of the
produce of the Leather Tax, for tea years before the
late additional tax was imposed, and the nine years'
since that time, which were laid before Parliament,'
March 15, 1822, and that the trade should repeatedly
complain, though leather is deemed a necessary of
life, that, owing to the leather taxes and the restric-
tions, leather goods arc so high in price as greatly to
lessen their consumption, and to undermine one of the
most important staple manufactures of this country ?
SUMMARY OF TIIE ABOVE ESTIMATE OF THE BEARINGS

OF THE LEATIIER TAX.

- £400,000

Gross amount received by Government from the
Aviculturists alone on account of the tax .
Total amount paid by the Agriculturists alone on ae-

count of the tax
Gross amount rccelved by Government fur the

whole tax 600,000
Positive loss of the property of the country by the

restrictions - - : . - - - - . . goomso
Profits of the different tradesmen upon the tax and
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- n97,'200

Total amount paid by the Public on account of the tax £1,597.200