Star.
London, England, 1806-05-08 00:00:00

NOW TAXES.

Fit*, by a Tar of 3s. 6d. per cwt. on all Brown and Mu feavada
Sugar, with a corrdpondent duty on Ealt India Jug.r, attintate.l
at 74a401.

Aduty of fs. per cwt. on Iron imported Into Ireland, In place
'the prefent duty of las. 6d. per ton, ts,cocl.
An Additional duty on all Teas under as 6d. per lb. apoct.
Stamp ditties, according to a new Ichedule,
Stamps on bark,. ai,ocoi

Regulation on the duty Oil Millers, by taking off the duty of
eight p r mit. on Rills of sou gollatia, and reducing the bounty
front 16 te 8 per cent on thole of moo gallons, yo,oool.
Regulation of duty upon Malt, 60,0001.
Ditto of duty on Hats, Auttions, and Paper, semi.
By taking away certain allowances to Molten of Ships in pie-
Ocular ports, Owl.
The Hon. Baronet then Rated, that as to the fund to
which he had often alluded, the balanris in the hands
of deceafed or difmiffed Collators, no effort fhould
be wanting on his part to recover them. They amount-
' ed in the year silos to 228,8001. but could not be cal.'
culated upon to provide for the interell of a loan.—
Above 130,0001. of 'bele balances were perfealy re- '
coverable. As to the balance of the contribution ac-
count between Great Britain and Ireland, though
previous to IA year in favour of Ireland, it was re-
duced by the fum of 560,0001. advanced laR year by
Great Britain for Ireland, and would be Rill further
di:ninifhed by the fonts paid by Great Britain for ca-
pital Fires for the Lotteries of former years. The
Hon. Baronet apologized to the Houle for occupy-
ing In much its time, and concluded, by moving
the firs Refoluthn, that si fum of Two Millions, &e;
Mr. FOSTIM cspreffed his regret at teeing that
no part of the Loan for Ireland for the prefeht year
was to be proti4led for by taus within the pare-.

At the time of the Union, the debt of Ireland amount-
ed to thirty.tsvo millions. and it now amounted to
fiery-futir millions, Itic:r:g more than doable ; while ,
the debt of Great Britain had only increafed within
that period from four hundred and fifty to five hun-
dred and forty eight millions, being let's than t.sth—it
; being to be obferved that the debt of Ireland might
ultimately fall as a burden on Great Britain. This,
he thought, ought to fnew the neceffity of railing RS
much as poilible within the year. It was certainly true
that two millions of the debt of this year had been
contracted for in Ireland, but Rill this was done by
an Engliffi Houk going over there and bidding for
one half of the (urn: fo that, in fall, one million only
had been railed in Ireland, and the remaining two
millions in England. The terms of the Loan had,
indeed, been highly gratifying, being more advan-
tageous than the Loan tranlafted for this country,
and Itill more advantageous than that of laR )ear.—
The Honourable Gentleman then proceeded to take
a view of the fituation of the country at the time he
went out of office. On the sth of January he Rated
that there was not a tingle farthing of unfunded debt
due in Ireland ; fo much the reverie, that they had
not even an account with the Bank, a thing which
had never been the cafe in Ireland befog. During
the time that he was in office, be contelled that no
balances had been 101 l or been.allowed to accumu-
late in the hands of the Collettors ; on the contrary,
though he felt pain in doing it, he had compelled a
very meritorious officer, the Teller of the Exchequer,
to leave off having large balances in his hands, althn'
that was the chief way in which the fituation was
rendered any way comfortable, the falary being very
inconfiderable. He then went through the different
articles of Revenue, (hewing that where any defici-
ency had wilco it was occafioned by his fuggetion
not having being entirely afted upon, and that where
no alteration on his propofition had been made, the
refults had fully equalled the eltimates.
He concluded with fo:ne übfervations on the taxes
which had been propofed. There was a great quan-
tity of tea under 26. 6.1. per lb. uled in Ireland, and
this would produce a great deal more than it was
taken at. As to printing prefer, he underflood no-
thing of licences granted to them, and the duty had
only been collected on the paper Rainer,. The ba-
lances in the hands of the Collectors had been lately
reduced, and he hoped would be reduced more.—
Every thing had been done for the recovery of the
balances from Colleen oi s deceafed or difmiffed. There
were leveret improvements, fuch as the equalization
of the rate of intereft in both countries, the equali-
zing the currency, the getting rid of the relliiition
on the Bank, and the putting the hills Merchant,
with refped to the warehonfing of goods, on the fame'
footing with the Britifh Merchant.
Mr. CORRY contended that the Houle ought to
look with rime jealonfy on the meafures propofed by
the Right Honourable Gentleman oppofite. The
equalization of the rate of interel in both countries
would be prejudical to Ireland, as a great part of the
capital of Englifh gentlemen which was kept in he-
land, on account of the higher interell, would be
withdrawn. Neither could the currency be equalized,
and the Right Honourablg Gentleman had probably
been flopped in his fpecuUtions on that point by the
luminous views of the Great Man whom he very
much deplored. The Right Hon. Gentleman had
been in an error in Rating that he had left the Tres.
fury in a Rare in which it had never been before, that
is, without any unfunded debt, as he himfelt ( Mr.
Corry) had left it to him in that fituation. The
Right Honourable Gentleman had alto added to the
paper currency of Ireland, a thing againß which he
had before declaimed.
Mr. FOSTER explained.
Mr. PARNELL obje&ed to the fyllem of loans,
inflead of railing the fupplies within the year. The
accumulation of debt on this fyilem would, in a few
years, be intolerable. The refources of Ireland
were greatly increafed, but he apprehended there
muff be a great deal of mifmanagement in the collec-
tion of the taxes.
Mr. ROSE admitted that abufes exilled in the col.
lettion of the MR, revenue, and affirmed that fome.
thing had been lately done towards remedying this
inconvenience by affimilating the mode of colleetion
to that of England. Some of the meafures mentioned
by his Right Hon. Friend near him might, under
(certain circumllancer„ be proper. As to equalizing
the rate of itnerell, he had firong doubts of the pro-
priety of that.
Mr. LEE differed from the Right Hon. Gentle.
man oppofite with regard to removing the refirietion
on the Bank, as in the increafed Rate of the trade,
price of land, debt, &c. &c. of Ireland, the fpecie
would not b: fufficient for the purpofes of circulation.
He differed alio from his Right Honourable Friend
under the Gallery, as he thought that equalizing
the rate of ;mere( would be advantageous. It was
better at prefent to adhere to the fy item of loans,
and leave the capital to be employed in commerce.
The taxes, he thought milder than could have been
expeEted.
Mr. GRATTAN was of opinion that at prefent
the fyflem of loans was preferable, as the wealth of
Ireland, though it was increafed, yet it had not in-
creafed to the degree which many had affumed.—
He
fhould be forty that the queflion of the rate of
interelt Should be at this time agitated,although Come
Of the meafures propofed by the Right Hon. Gentle-
man might deferve confideration. He approved of the
&Rem of the Hon. Baronet below him.
Sir JOHN NEWPORT replied; and After tome
huffier obfervasions on theparticular taxes,efpecially
that on Iron, from Mr. FOITSR, Mr. Ross, Lord
H. yam, Lord CAbTLIIRSACH, Mr. VANSI
and Mr. CORRY, the refolutions were agreed to, and
ordered to be reported to-morrow.