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London, England, 1806-05-29 00:00:00

IMFRACHMENT OF LOAD WELLESLEY.

Mr. PAULL, purfoant to the notice he had given,
rote to bring forward his promifed charges againtt
the Marquis Wellefley, with reference to his con-
duo to the Nabob of Oude. It was not his with,
he laid, to trefpafs unneceffarily upon the time and
attention of the Houfe. The charges he meant to
fubmit to their confideration he had written, and
were in his hand ; lie would read them if it was the
pleafure of the Houle, or, with their permillioni he
would move, without reading them, to lay them on
the table. . .

Mr. SPEA KER anfwered, the llnn.Member might
life his own difcrction, and had certainly a right, if
i.e chafe. to ufe his privilege of laying them on the
t.hle.
Mr. PAULI. immediately did fo, and moved that
they•be now read by the Clerk.
The charges were read accordingly, and occupied
ui.wards of an hour; the flatement commenced in
ecapitulating the local and political fituation of the
e °wary of Oude, as an independent State under the
Nibob, its Prince, in extent equal to Englan4 and
Wales, with a population of many millions ; con-
taining many rich and fertile dittrials, with a num-
ber of populous towns and villages ; its capital,
Lucknow, as large as London and We flminfler. and
t ivally crowded with inhabitants; that the Nabob
lived in a a* of wealth, Sate, and fplendour fupe-
riot to any European Prince; that his jewels alone
were worth four millions flerling, that he had 500
elephants in his train, with a military eflablifltment of
t 1.000 horfe and 30,000 foot, exclu6ve of the police.
—lt then detailed a general outline of the minuter
!.t inches of Geranium, and mode of collating

taxes, and recapitulated the vat ious treaties entered
into with the Nabobs of Oude by the Britifh Gover-
nors in India, down to the arrival of Marquis Wel-
lefley ; it then proceeded to nate a variety of charges
againft the Noble Marquis, accufing him of having,
without any jolt caufe or provocation. contrary to the
ex prefs orders of the India Company, without the
eontaltation or confent of his Council, and in open
violation of folernn treaties (ablating with the Nabob
of Oude, made exorbitant claelions of money from
him, demanded of him the fill-render of territory
guaranteed to him by folemn treaty, frequently urg-
ing him to difband hi; army, and treating him with
fo much difrefpen and re verity as were calculated to
induce him to reap his throne ; and when, by the
frequent exactions made upon him, his revenues were
inadequate to fupply farther means, the (aid Mar-
quis not only committed against him new aft' of
hollility and indignity, but endeavoured to degrade
him in the eyes of his fubjeels, and to excite them
to difobedienee and infurreelion. The charges coo
tained a variety of other accufations of a Dill graver
nature ; and upon the reading being concluded, Mr.
Paull moved, that the Paid charges be printed.
Sir ARTHUR WELLESLEY would not object
to the printing, but withed the Honourable Gen-
tleman would infirm the Houfe how he meant to
proceed ?
No anfwer was given.
Mr. W. KEENE Paid, he apprehended, that Gen-
tlemen had in general formed a very incarreet idea of
the Sovereignty in India when they compared the
Nabobs and Viziers with the Kings of Sardinia, Na.
plea, and other European Powers, whole prefervation
is connected with the intereli. of Europe. No fuch
fyftem as that was known in India. The tenure there
was entirely by the (word, and a Prince held his do-
minions only until Tome other Prince, ftronger or
more fortunate, &mild be able to difpofiefs him.
Mr. FRANCIS would not allow, that Princes in
India' do not hold their dominions b the fame jolt
and lawful tight that the European Sovereigns have
to their territories. He was afraid, indeed, that in
point of fait, the (word was fuperior to every other
right known in India ; but then it was the Britith
(word. It was upon the dilrolotion of the Mogul
Empire, that tbefe Nabobs and Villers obtained their
power, but Dill they had enjoyed it for a confiderable
number of years, and this country had concluded
many treaties with them as Sovereign Princes, The
violation of thefe treaties would be not only a viola-
tion of their acknowledged rights, and of the general
principles of juilice, but it would be a violation of the
'authority of that Houfe and of the Legidature of this
country. Some of there treaties had alto been recog-
nized by other Powers. in the Treaty of Paris, con-
eluded in 1763, France, as well as England, acknow
ledged the Soubador, er Nabob of Arcot, as Nabob
of the Carnatie.

Mr. Secretary FOX Paid, that if there were fome
in that Houfe who confidered that the Indian Prin-
ces had not the fame right to their own dominions as
the Sovereigns of other countries, he hoped that the
number was but (mall. However thou might have
been the duration of their power, or however precari-
' ous its tenure, their rights were not at all affefh-d by
thefe confederations. With refpea to us, who made
treaties with them as Sovereign. Princes, they muff
be conftderod in the light of Sovereign Princes. He
knew, indeed, the length of poffeffion, the attach-
ment of their (objects, and the fancied fecurity of
their tenure, were circurallances which would ferve
as matters of aggravation, in telling the (tory cf
Princes difpoffeiTed of their former power but thttfe
circumftances fhould go for nothing in the queftion
of the right that thefe Sovereigns had to be confidered
as Sovereign Powers, by thofe who had treated with
them as fueh. And if there was any circumftance
which could more [honey claim than right, it was
the eircumftance Rated by his Hon. Friend, of the
Britifh (word being fo powerful in India. If we were
fo all-powerful in that country. there would be an
additional call of duty and honour to fupport the
compaas we had entered into. So far from our
power farationing a violation of our Treaties, it would
be a great aggravation of the difgrace of violating
treaties folemnly entered into. He eroded this would
be the general (entiment of the Houfe, and of almoft
every thinking Member that cornpoted it.
Atter a few words from Mr. BANKES, the Paper
was ordered to be printed. '
Mr. PAULL gave notice, that on Friday lie fhould
move for papers refpeling the feizure of the territo-
ries of certain other Rajahs. The Papers would not
be long, and could be eafily made out.
Sir ARTHUR WELLESLEY thought that after
twelve raontlir had paired glace this bufinefs was firft
introduced, and after fuch a number of Papers had
been granted, the Honourable Gentleman ought not
to make more delay, by moving for additional pa-
pers. If thefe papers fhould be of any material im-
portance, he might make them the fubjea of a f&Oa•
rate charge.
Mr. ROBERT THORNTON (aid, that the
Papers which the Hon. Gentleman had now moved
for were eafy to be made out, and would not be longer
than thole already produced about Ferruckalaad. He
confidered thole Papers as very material to the charge
which had been read this night, but did not think
them fufficieutly material to ground a feparate charge
upon.
After a limit converfation between Mr. Pau t.,.
and Sir ARTHUR W LLLLL Lev, it was underfiond that
the difenflion of the charge would take place on this
day ('tree weeks, if no particular circumftance
Humid make it neceffary to poftpone it longer.

MUTINY BILL.

The SECRETARY at WAR moved the fecond
reading of the Mutiny Bill, which.was accordingly
read a fecond time. On his propofing that it fliould
go into a Committee on Friday next, •
Mr. PERCIVAL withed the committal of it fhould
be pontroned till Monday. There were numbers of
Gentlemen who would with to attend the Houfe
&ging this (ltge of the Bill, who could not conve-
niently attend, on account of the holiday week not
bring yet over. This fubjed was intimately connect-
ed with others which would be brought on. He
hoped that the /tight Hon. Secretary would not ob-
ject to granting them an etiimate of the expence of
the new arrangements for the Chelfea Pentioners.
The SECRETARY at WAR could not fee how
tbefe eflimates were neeetrary for the difcuUion of the
Mutiny Bill.
Mr. WINDHAM faid, that although the expence
of the fiflem to be propofed molt certarnly be a mat-

ter of confideration, yet he could not fuppofe that it
would be neceffsry to give more than a general fort
of ellimate at fit% When what was called the great
alterations that were to be prepared fliould be taken
into difeuffion, they would be debated upon other
principles, and a little more or a little lefs in the ex-
pellee of the rytlem, would not be a principal argu-
ment either for its adoption or rejection; he there-
fore law no neceaity for the delay that would be oc-
csfioned by waiting for eflimates.
After a few words from Mr. PERCIVAL and
Lord CASTLEREAGH, the 13111 was ordered lobe
committed for Friday.

PRO ?li ITT TAX SILL.

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
moved the order of the day for the third reading of
the Property Tax Bill.
. FRANCIS tinted, that he willed to be in-
formed. whether that was the proper time for him to
itate his objeetion to a very important claufe in the
Bill—that which exemp:ed Foreigners from the Tax.
The SPEAKER informed the Honourable Ment-
he', that if he objeCted to the principle of the Bill, his
time would be before it was read a third time; but if
he had any claufe to bring up or to expunge, he
might move for it after the third reading.
Mr. FRANCIS then Paid, he fhnuld wait until
after the third reading.—The Bill was accordingly
read a third time.
Mr. VANSITTART moved certain claufe to be
added to the Bill, by way of riders. The firft claufe'
was for exempting Commiffioners of the Income Tax
from being Paint Offices, or being obliged to terra
on Juries.
Sir ROBERT BUXTON thought that Magi ftrates
would have an equal right to be exempted.
Mr. VANSITTART Paid, that the reafon of the
exemption was, that when Gentlemen [tumid under.
take gratuitoully fo troublefome an office for the pub-
lic fervice, it was but fair to exonerate them from
Come other burdens.—The claufe was agreed to.
The fecondclaufe was, that the affeffinents ttoold
not be fufpended on account of the former offa-
-1 ments not being completed.
Mr. JOHNSTONE conceived that this claufe
might create • very great hardfhip. in obliging peo-
Pie one year to pay 161 per cent. on their whole
111COINC‘

The oblation was anfwered by the CHANCEL-
LOR of the EXCHEQUER and Mr. VANSIT.
TART, who thought if it were not Cu, a issras world
be given to thofe who had evaded the *ferment.
This claufe was alto agreed to, as was alto another,
brought up by Mr. ANSITTART, for facilitating
the afferments for former years, and a ciente for
enabling the India Company to flop the tax from the
intereft of bonds iEued after the 3otb of September,
So 6.
Mr. FRANCIS Paid, that the firfl thing which
fuggefted to him the idea of refillance to the claufe,
was an obfervation made by an Hon. Gentleman,
that if the exemption was not granted, foreigners
would be induced to withdraw their money from this
country. The fame opinion was alto held by a Right
Honourable Friend of his (Mr. Fox): but as neither
of them car, ied conviftion to his mind, he felt it his
duty to Rate his fentiments upon the fubjea.
tweets there two Gentlemen he found himfelf placed
between the hammer and the anvil ; but as his objea
was to allia the Government in the collation of the
taxes, he hoped the Minillers would at lean give him
Tome indulgence, and Rate his oblations in a more
forcible manner than he was himfelf capable of do-
ing. It was one great quality of a Right Honoura-
ble Gentleman (Mr. Pitt) now no more, to Rate,
with great force, the arguments of his adverfaries,
though he did not always refute them; and he hoped
hi. fucceffors would, in that refpat, follow his exam•
ple. There were three points of view in which he
fhould confider this fubjea. Fiat, as to its policy
and political effeas ; fecond, the inconvenience that
would attend its operation, and the opening it would
give to abufes; and, third, the effential juftice of the.
cafe. To afcertain the policy, it would be right to
know the amount of the rum that was propofed to be
given up; and he found that, by the return made on
the 6th of the prefent month, it was Rated to amount
already to forty or fifty thoufand pounds, exclufive
of feveral other accounts that were daily coming in.
Taking therefore the real and fraudulent property
held in the names of foreigners, he thought it would
not be too much to Rate it at an hundred thoufand
posuids. The fear of foreigners being induced to
fell out, or withdraw their property, he treated as
chimerical. They invefted it in our funds Irons mo.
lives as well of convenience as fecurity. Many of
them alto did it upon (peculation ; and people in
France and at Amfterdam were known to deal in our
funds, in the fame manner as jobbers in 'Change-
illey : They bought in in time of war, when the
Rocks were low, and foldout to great advantage, on
the conclufion of a peace. It was, betides, nn trifling
confideratinn, that the interell of all this money wee
yearly remitted, and (pent in France and Holland in
fupport of the Government of Bonaparte; and on I
that ground, at leaft, it would fcarcely be contend-
ed, that foreigners were properly entitled to an ex-
emption. Coming, then, to the abufes, in the cafe of
not being able to diflinguifh what was really and
fraudulently held in the names of foreigners, he Paid
it was Rated to him, from very good authority, that
there were great fume, tinder that mark, exempted
from the duty. There was one circumflance which
ought, in this cafe, to be attended to ; namely, that
in the French revolution there were feveral of the
natives who found it neceffary to remain in that
country for Tome time, who remittsd money here
to be inveßed in the funds. For that purpofe
French agents were employed, who bought in the
flock in their own names, and when the real propri-
tors came to apply for it, they found, that legally,
they were entitled to nothing. Thofe who inverted
It in their own names kept it for themfelves, as the
tranfantions, from the circumtlences of the times,
were necelfarily confidential ; and furely fuch per•
foils fhould rather be fubjefled to a double or triple
tax, than be thought deferving of exemption. The
next point was, to confider whether this was real and
fubßantial juflice ? but he could nut find it in any'
compaft between the Government and the Proprie.
fors of Rocks. It was true, that the AQ of the
reign of Queen Anne Itipulated, that property in the
(rinds fhould not be made liable to taxes, as far as re.
garded that loan. But if that was really a con-
tra& it was violated by this Bill ; and by granting
this boon to foreiocrea the Houf would be doing

injullice to the Engin holders. Why koala taxes.
be impoled at all 1 Of courfe to fupport the Go-
vernment. And why was the Government to be
(upported ? In order to enable it to prated our per-
font and our properties. In doing this, however, it
protected the property of foreigners, as well as others,.
and, therefore, they had alfo a duty to fupport. The
perfons, indeed, of many of them could not be pro-
becaufe they were not here; but if a foreigner
refided in this country, he would be liable to the tax,
though he had 'elided abroad he might claim this
exemption. Thisbe could not but confider as a moft
unreaforiable diflindion. The foreigners refident
1 abroad drew as income from this country to flreng-
' then and fupport the Government of a formidable
enemy, who, were he enabled to execute his projeds
of invalion, would, together with all other property,
deafly alfo the property of foreigners, at prefent
protected by this Government. He had next to take
notice of an argument that may be employed
againh him, namely, that there foreigners ought not
to be taxed, beeaufe they were not reprefented. lie
was Cure that was a principle that would never hold
in practice, however well it may appear in abated or
fine (pun theories. The male of the people in Eng-
land. whatever may 'await)! be the cafe, were not
gamily reprefented in Parliament, as they had ao
votes in the choice of Reprefentatives ; and if a fa-
trivet refided here, he would not be fo much as coca
virtually reprefented, though be would be held liable
to this tax. On an octillion of great moment, in the
difpute between this country and America, a man et
great weight (the late Mr. George Grenville) main-
tained, that as the Parliament of England has a
right to make laws for this country, fo had it a right
to impo(e taxes on America. For his own part he
was of a different opinion, and was glad the Ameri-
cans [refined a claim of fuch injuftice ; but after
having mentioned the authority of Mr. Grenville, he
did not expert to hear any of his defeendants or te-
prefentatives in that Houfe alerting that this coun-
try had no right to tax the property which it pro.
teded, belonging to foreigners. In fupport of thit
part of his obfervations, he adverted to the petition •
of the " Friends of the People," of whom, he kid,
be was the lag. That petition Rated to the Houl,
that the majority of the People of England were
not fully reprefented in Parliament, ar.i that they
were ready to prove it. if the Houfe would allow it.
To thew this was no mean authority, he Rated, that
thofe who were moll alive in the formation of that
fociety, at the honfe of the Earl of Lauderdale, and
afterwards in drawing up the petition, were Tome of )i
the perfons now highell in his Majelty's Councils ,
Cush as the prefent Lord High Chancellor. the pre- I
fent Falk Lord of the Admiralty, the prefent Trea.
Curer of the Navy, as well as his predeceffor, the pre-
fent Attorney General, Lee. Mr. Pitt elk, as likewife
the Right Hon. Secretary of State (Mr. Fox), were
Ilrenuous in promoting a reform in Parliament, on
the ground of the People not being fairly reprefented
—but fo far were any of them from laying that the
people had not therefore a right to pay taxes, that . ,
they all declared the Legiflature was as much entitled
to their obedience. as if the Houfe of Commons was
conflituted in the manner they witted it to be. He
then 'lured the Houfe, that if he was not ferious in
his nppolition to this claufe, he fhouid never have put ,
himfelf in his prefent fltuation. If he had fatisfied
them of the inpiltice and inconvenience of the mea-
lure, he would next exhort them to look to the fitua.
Lion of the country in refped to taxation. The fink
lax of the left budget, upon pig iron, though eftimated
at soo,oool. being nearly half the iniereliof the loan,
was, from neceffity, abandoned, and he apprehended
the fubhitute for it would notprove much more accept.
able. He lamented, that on this oteafion be could not
recalled the eloquent language of Mr. Whitbread, on
the dole of the proceedings upon Vifcount Melville';
impeachment, where he reprefented, how every fum
diverted from the public fervices muff be made up
by pence and farthings. daily deduded from the Rif-
, tenapce of the. poor ; for lively an exemption to fo
great an extent mull contraft the pittance of the
indigent, while it was given to perfons who had no
Claim whatever to it,—He concluded with moving,
" that the claufe be omitted."
Mr. FOX was convinced that his Hon. Friend wag
satiated by the bell intentions in propofing his pre-
fent motion,though fomething like a tone of reproacti
teemed to run through his (peach. It would be fro•
pnffible for any man to believe that his Majefly's
Differs were influenced by any peculiar tendernefs for
foreigners, in propofing to exempt their funded pros,
perry from the tax. They could only be alluated by
I what appeared to them juft and politic. The prefent
meafure, confidered with regard to its policy, would
have the cleft of difcouraging foreigners from
veiling their property in the Britillt funds, or of in-
ducing them to withdraw it altogether, and therefore
mull ultimately be injurious to this country. Their
motives for preferring the Britifh funds were their
fitperior fccurity, together with the high rate of in•
terca which they derived from them ; but the 'Hon.
Gentleman teemed defirous of removing there mo•
tives at once. He had alto given them the invidious
name of (peculators, and had obferved, that daring
the American war they had bought in when the funds
were low, and had fold out at the eoneluficra of pew,
to great advantage. But every man who porehafed
an eltate with the view of rendering it more valuable,
might equally be confidered as a fpeenlator, and he
could not fee how the conduit of foreigners, in this in. •
Rance, (hould draw upon them the refentment of this
, country. Unlefsfpecul.tions of this kind were left un-
fettered,the whole funded fyftem would be annihilated.
One great advantfge of that fyftem was, that any man
could invett his property without rifle or delay, and
could buy in or fell out whenever it faked his con.
venience. And as it was defirable that foreigners
lhould purchafe into our funds, he confidered it as
exceedingly impolitic to fubjeft them to the ta.e. The.
Hon. Gentleman had dwelt upon the frauds that
would be predate!, in vetting domeffie property in the
names of foreigners, and it was certainly poffible that
fuch frauds might take place ; but it was to be ob-
lerved, that the property rax had now exulted for three
years, and frauds had not been hitherto dikovered.
He could not help thinking, that there was little dan-
ger of the defalcation of the tax from fraudulent prat-
aces in that way. The Britifh creditor mutt be aware
of the confequences that might enfue from them .
Suppok the foreigner, in whore name the property
was fraudulently veiled, to die, the property would
de(cend to his heirs, and according to the laws of the
country tin which he refided. In regard to the jut

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lice of fuch a proceeding, he could not fee how it was
juft in Parliament to tax any but the property of its,
own fubjeCts. As to the aft of gren Anne, which the
Hon. Gentleman had referred to, as exempting the
funds from taxation, it mull be confeffed that the pre•
lent tax might perhaps be junly confiderd as a tax
on the funds, and as only to be juftified from the ne• '
oeffity of the times. But the tax in itfelf was proper.
ly a tax on every fpecies of property ; and were the
property of foreigners in the funds to be now taxed, it
might juftly be confidered in that cafe as a tax on the
funds, Since Parliament could not pretend to tax the
property of foreigners. It had been reprefented as
provoking, that foreigners fhould be exempted from
the tax ; but would they not, by being deterred from
purchafing in our fund:, be enabled to give the
hoftile governments under which they lived more ac-
tive affittance, by lending them their money, than we
could derive benefit from extending the tax to them ?
Such Governments alio, as far as he knew, might have
a property tax, and thus the property of (Itch fo-
reigners might he doubly rated. In truth the hoc.
tile foreigner, were he lubjeaed to this tax, might
jelly complain, that we took a part of his property,
in order to deprive him of the whole. As to what
the Honourable Gentleman had laid on the fubjed
of reprefentation, no one who had laid, that the Re-
prefentation of the Country was inadequate (except
perhaps a few eccentric men) hzd denied that the
people owed obedience to that Houle as their Repre-
fentatives. The very phrafe inadequate Riprefentation
pasved, that the friends of reform conceived, that
the people were reprefented, that the virtual reprefen•
wino, indeed, was not complete, and that it ought
to approach more to what was real. Every perfon
with whom he had been connefled, difclaimed the
idea of univerfal ftifirage, but he did not know on
what the Conditution of the country depended, if
the people were not eonfidered as virtually reprefent-
ed in Parliament. It was breaufe America was
neither virtually nor really reprefented in Parlia-
ment, and that the Americans had no complete
communion of interefts with this country, that our
right to tax America was denied ; and it was on
precifely the fame grounds that he now objected to
taxing the property of foreigners in our funds. Would
it be conliftent with the conftitution of Parliament to
fay, we give and grant the property of foreigners, in
addition to that of thole whom we reprefent ? And
how could his Majefty be reprefented as thanking his
good fubjeCts for their benevolence, as was done in
giving the royal silent to tax bills while he would,
at the fame time, be thanking the ft;bjeCts of France,
or of foreign powers fobjea to her influence ? The
very tenor of the royal acceptance would render the
impofition of a tax on the property of ioreigners ab
Curd. The Commons could only give and grant what
was their own, and not that which belonged to others,
who had perhaps a perfect oppolition of interefts.—
With regard to the Hon. Gentleman's peroration on
the cafe of the poor, no one could doubt that they
were entitled to every relief in the power of Parlia-
ment to give, but -ecourfe ought not therefore to be
had to a meafure radically unjull. The cafe of fo-
reigners refitting in this country was totally different:
they enjoyed the proteCtion of Government and of the
r laws, and therefore were bound to contribute to the
fupport of that Government and of thole laws. On
the whole, he thought that this prnpofed extenlion
would be a complete departure from th it fyllem that
had been followed (ince the Property Tax had been
introduced, and concluded v irh obferving, that the
Eon. Gentleman's arguments had not produced the
flighted conviction on his mind.
The SPEAKER then begged to Rate to the
Emile. whether the motion, in the prefent Rage of
the Bill, could at all be entertained by the :inure. It
went to lake away the exemp.ion granted toforeig,ners,
and thus tended to a material increafe of the produce
of the tax. But agreeably to the ellablith.:d ufages
of the Houle, no meafure of this kind could be pro-
poled, except in a Commidee. When the Bill, there-
fore, had already been read a third time, he lubmitted
to the Houle, whether the indent motion was not
irregular ?
Mr. BANKES witted the difeirlliou to continue,
though his Honourable Friend had perhap, unad-
vifedly poftponed his motion, as it was a quedion in
which the country at large would feel materially in-
; terefted.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
obferved, that the Honourable Gentleman might, if
he pleated, bring forward his motion in the Hive of
a new Bill, granting a tax on the funded property of
foreigners.
After a few words from Mr. FRANCIS, the mo
tion then fell to the ground.
On the motion of Mr. VANSITTART, an ex-
emption from the tax of all funded property belong-
ing to his Majefty, and to any Foreign Minifters re-
fident in this country, was inferted in a claule of the
Bill.
Mr. VANSITTART having then moved that the
Bill do pals,
Sir R. BUXTON laid, that be could not omit that
lad opportunity of entering his decided proteti againft
the Bill, inafinuch as it charged the landed intereft
with what he thought equivalent to 13 per cent. and
the funds with so per cent. ; while, on profellianal
men, it operated only as a voluntary tax. He could
have v.ifhed it alfo to have been merely an annual
Bill, like the Land Tar.
Mr. VANSITTART could not fee the utility of
I it. being merely an annual Bill. Betides it would be
always fubjed to the revifion of Parliament.
Mr. WTM. SMITH laid, that looking upon the Bill
as unjuft in many of its provifions, nothing Should
ever reconcile him to it. He had very lately received
a letter from a family, whole fmall annuity would
expire in tBoS, that t', in little more than a year
and a half, and yet they would be compelled to pay
as much in proportion as the man who had a retina
ncnt income, arifing from landed or funded property.
Mr. HUDPLESTONE agreed with every fyl-
lal,le that lialtallen from his Honourable Friend ;
and contended, that it would oblige the man who
derived a (mall income from the funds to fell hi. ca-
pital, and ultimately drive him to the wor khoule.—
He confidered it as perfectly unjult, that the man
who had i.nly zcl..a. year of funded prove, ty Ihnold
pay as much 111 proportion as be who had as many
thoufands. He Ihould have chLerfully paid an nr.
creafed per centage, in order that the poorer chafes
tnight have gene untouched.
1 Lord 1W IiI,AQUIERE cnnfidered it as illiberal
1.• Gentlemen to atterrifit a deadly blow at ibe gill

at the very time when it was about to rats, and to be
fent into the world.
Mr. VANSITTART (portly replied ; and (Mr.
SMITH having explained) the Bill was then paired.
Adjourned at half pan ten o'clock, till Friday.