Star.
London, England, 1805-03-14 00:00:00

lIIIIDDLIM !VICTIM

Sir Joust ANDERSON prefented a PetitiOn from
George BlnitonMainwaring, Efoi. Mr.Thernton Mr.
Mellifh, Sir Wm. Gibbons, Mr. Cockerill, and °titers,
Freeholders of the County of Middlefex, againft the
return of Sir Francis Burdett, Bart. , The Petition
fet forth, , ,
That the Petitiewers were Freeholders, and entitled to vote at '
tee late elation ; that Sir Francis Burden, Bart. and George Bool-
e in Mainwaring, Efq were Candidates to reprefent the hid Coun-
ty In Parliament. as Knights of the Shire; that the faid eledtion
c onamenced on the std of July lag at Brentfoed,and the poll eon-
einued open fifteen days, under the direetion of Shaw and Leigh-
on, Sheriff The Petition then Rated, that Sir Francis Burdett,
But. by his friends, agents, and Partizans. with divers other
wicked and evil dirpored perfons,regardkfs of the laws of elealon.
and the pains and penaltim of perjury, and in violation of the fta
ewe!. in that cafe made and provided. and intending to defeat the
tights of ehc Twat Freeholders, and to defraud them of their privi-
lege and frandatfe, &I combine and confederate, by means of fie-
uncial and pretended Voters, to obtain a colourable majority for
the (hi Sir Francis Burdett, and by theft, and other onlawful
mean, to procure Sir Francis Burdett to rave in Parliament, in
oppobdon to the votes of the real majority of the Freeholders of
the county; and that the Laid Sir Francis Burdett, Ms agents,
friends, and partizans. In furtherance of their faid porpofe, did
procure perfons to reprefent thernfelves as. and alfwie the names
of freeltoPers, and 'pore particularly during the latter days of the
Paid Eledion, did procure divers unqualified perfons to be fent to
poll; that notwithltanding, before fuck perfom =tired their
nurses WI ;sr poll, they were deteeted, yet that Sir Francis Bur-
dett, 144,ftkeds. partisans, and managers, did eaufe and procure
great numbers of inch fake and fietitious Freeholders, who took
the Frecheider's reel, and the oath againft bribery, to be received
a.O placed uptri the poll, and did caufe and procure divers perfons
teigive their v J?es for the raid Sir Franciißurdett, and to vote for
froebotda In raccet to which they bad no right, and alto to vote
more than once, and by gifts and rewards, did procure tbofe who
wed qualified, as well as thole who were not qoalified, to vote
feviial times at the laid Ekaion ; and, in furtherance of their faid
&Ilan, did prevail on the faid Sheriff to put certain on the
poll on the I rth day, wiso had no dew to vote. lt°,l2tisly theft
nets, the raid Sir Francis Burdett. his friends, ajeQls, sad
pm, did did procure a majority of one vote ; by tncamf of which the
fad Sir Francis Burdett was unlawfully returned. althoio the
feid George Boohoo Mainwaring had a large majority of lawful
vales, and ought to have been returned duly eleEted. The Ped-
dun concluded by praying relief.
A converfatton took place between Mr. Thornton,
Mr. Creevy, Mr. Sturges Bourne,and the Chancellor
of tfie Exchequer ' • the refult of which was, that Turf-
day, the gth of April next. was appointed for taking
the faid Petition into confederation.

COMMITTIII OF SUPPLY.

•
Mr. FOSTER. moved that the Order of the Day
&mid be read for the Houle refolving itfelf into the
Paid Committee. He then moved as an inftrudion to
the Committee, that the Ails paired in the 4oth year
of his M..jefly, in the Ira Parliament. as alfo thofe
of the 39th, 4oth, 43d, and 44th in the Britilh Par-
liament, relating to the Revenues of Ireland. thould
be laid before the Paid Committee.—Ordered.

IRISH MIDGET.

Mr. FOSTER—'t Sir, having detained the Corn.
enittee laft year at confiderahle length on the fubjed
of the fitnation of Ireland, I (ball not now have occa-
lion to go A mncb into detail. I (ball begin with a
fe wt biervatiofts as to the Rate of the trade oflreland,
and 1 am happy in laying, that although the trade
hes n..t In much advanced as I could have wilhed,
yet It is in a far better fituation than it was Come time
.ego. A very Rion Ratement will elucidate this po-
fito.n. The impr.rts were to the amount of 3,700,0001.
Lill year. The imports for the five years preceding
were on an average 3,70ch0001. fo that in fad the
imports for the IA year have kept pace with the
average of the former five years. The exports amount-
ed te 4,980,0e01. lark year, which is much beyond
what they have reached at any period during the laft
ten years. Therefore, the quellion Rands thus—there
ha. been no alarming increafe in the imports lark year,
and the exports exceed the amount of the preceding
years. With regard to the exports, there is Come-
thing arremely confolatory to be remarked. The
linen trade has increafed, dining the three quarters
of tht lair year ending in Oftober, 2,000,000 of yards
beycl d the exports of the fame period of the preced-
ing y. at—therefore we may eonclnde, that the ex-
ports of the whole of laft year would have greatly
exceeded the exports of the formers years. In the
imports of lark year, as compared with the preceding
year, there is an excels of (owe of the materials of
mantfafture—that excels is on theraw materials only,
lush as course yarn and cotton wool. With regard
to the linen trade, the whole of the excels during the
three quarters of the laft year, compared with the
three quarters of the preceding year, is 3,000,000 of
yards ; the principal part of this increafe arifes from
the exports to the Colonies in the Weft Indies. Here
allow me to remark, that if in laying on taxes we do
not hinder trade and manufatftures, we do well; and
if in taking off taxes we promote trade, we do
better. Lail year the export tax on the linen trade
-was taken off, and there was an excels of 3,000,000
of yards—fir far with relpetft to trade. We ftand not
the fittiation Yee did fume years ago ; we are not
i i a declining way, taken upon a comparifon with
firmer years. The balance of the imports for the
I tit years amounts to 1,193,0001. a year official value.
Take the excefs of the tali year, and it is only
63c.0.tt01. fo that the excels of the import over the
export trade is not one half of what it has been for
the WI five years. With retired to the debt of Ire•
Land, let us fee how it hat increafed. I (hall not
enter into the cattle or the means of preventing to
I age an increafe. We can at leaft thew that we have
Gepped the proves of that increafe. In January
sooa. th? debt of Ireland was 33,0c050c01. It had
the year before been 34,000,0
0
0
l. fo that there was
arderreafe of t,oco,ooul. The increafe now will not
be half that amount ; fo that we may fay we are in
a better lituntion than we were at the dole of the laft
year. Having Rated the fituation of the trade, and
the debt of Ireland, I will proceed to lay Wine the

I
Committee the demands; and the Ways saftia
for meeting them. The whole charge of felt
lllos, for the debt of Ireland, including the Sinking
Fund, is L 611,6231. The proportion of 2-tyths a
the fum raifed by England, for the joint charge for
the lervice of the year, is 5,403.1021. Britifb, or
5,853,3601. Ira, making together the fur of
8449831. which is the fum Ireland is to provide to
pay the interek of her debt and her quota of contri-
bution. Certainly it is a very large fern, and one
cannot apply one's attention too much 'to the means
of leffening it. In order to meet this demand, I (hall
take the revenues of Ireland at 4,000,0001._ I Stall

explain my reafon for taking them at that fum *
lentil. A loan has been fettled for at 2,500,0001.
which is 2,708.3331. kills. A further loan is intended
oft 000,0001. There was a retidue, on the sth of
January, of the loan of Taft year, n the amount

of 738,7391. Brita, or 800,3541.
[. Itith, which has
not been tranfmitted to the Irishreafury,anal I (hall

therefore bring it forward. This comes to 8,508,6871.
to meet a charge of 8,464,9831. The nest thing will
be to raife the Ways and Means for the intere(t of
2.500,0001. Email!), and 1,000,0001. MA).

01;_at millions, at 6177 -4--Stha per cent. the B:11:iflt hint

charge -
On spoo,ooo, fuppofe at fame rate,

17 2,06 s 186,400
68,8 as

Mtking in the avhqle a charge, including the Sinking
Fund, of C 255.225
have Rated that I take the revenues of Ireland at
44004=1. I thall now explain the reafon why.—
They produced tall year 2,f100,0n01. The principle
I go on is to put the revenues at a full peace eftablifh-
ment, and to rule the additional wat expences. I
foppofe that the revenues will produce taoomool.
more than lift year. It is pleafant to knot, that the
taxes which the Haute thought proper to propofe lift
year, with the exception of the taxes on excite, have
operated in the grofs, perfettly to my fatisfdion.—.
The whole revenues of the country, for the two quar-
ters ending Midfummer, 004, amount to 1,334,0001.
for the two quarters ending srh Jan. t 805, i. 886,0001.
The excels of the two quarters ending sth January is
552,c001. more than the excels of the preceding quo,
ters. Without going into minutiae, I hate the reve-
nues to have gained by an acquifninn of 552,0001. I
know that the duties on the dittilleries are not col-
lect! as they ought to he. lam well warranted in
laying, that if a proper mode of collating them had
been retorted to, they would have amounted to con-
fiderably more than they have done. lam pertuad-
ed, that, with the addition of the duties on the dii.

tilleries, collated as they ought to be, the revenues
of Ireland, in time of peace, will not produce leis
than 4,500,0001. Rating the debt at 2,500,0001. there
will be 2,000,c0001. over. Naw 2,000,0001. cannot be
expended in a peace ellablitbment, sinters tg,ooo,ocol.
are expended in England. In talking of the allec-
lion of the retenues,-1 believe many Gentlemen who
hear me can bear tetlimony, that there is not a city
or county in Ireland where the duties on dittilleries
are pettedly collated ; they are not collated in the
counties of Galway, Tyrone, or the province of Con.
naught. As to the city of Dublin, Ido not with to
detail what I know concerning the collation of the
revenue in it ; but I will fay this much, that there is
fcarcely a dittiller in Dublin who has not adually
avowed to me that he has defrauded the revenue. It

is owing to the wretched fyflem with regard to the
lower officers of excife ; their means are fo (mall, and
their habits of expence Co great, that without raifiug
their falaries confiderably, as the reward of diligence
and merit, we (hall never be able to prevent the dif-
tiller from alts of fraud and peculation. There are
:7 or t 8 dillillers, that not long ago, en being exa-
mined, refufed to e examined on oath, and attually
fent in a memorial, Bating, that it would be an. aft
of perfidy in them to difclofe faits that would be in-
jurious to others, and that they cculd not, as honelt
men, make any difcovery. This they fairly acknow-
ledged to me, and I recollea, that in the books of
one difliller in particular, there was a charge of I :col.
paid to revenue officers. Without the utmoll exer-
tions of the Com:l:droners of Excife, and at the fame
time bettering the condition of the revenue, officers,
you can never make any alteration. I hope the pe-
riod will not be long when you will ameliorate the
Excife Laws, and make them more fair and ecfnita-
ble with regard to thofe who pay the duties. It is a
fa& that the Sub•Commillioners of Excife are them-
felves the feizing officers ; therefore, until that is re-
medied, it is impoffible that the excife trial can be
palatable. The nearer we can get to the civil mode
of trial in proceedings relative to revenue, the better.
It is particularly important that the colleaion orthe
excife duties iliould be under one Board. I hope, on
Come future occafion, to call the attention of the
Houfe to this fubjett. The objea is to find the ways
and means for this fum of 255,2:51. a year. Firft,
I fhall propofe a tax on (everal articles, which, tho'
of importance, yet, with the exception of one, are
trifling as objeas on which taxation will be felt.—
It is (caret worth while going through the whole de-
tail. Iloropofe to inereafe the duties on the impor-
tation or TIMM(' &aims, PEPPER; &C.

_
An Honourable Gentleman who reprefents the
City of Waterford kerns alarmed at the idea of a
Tax on Timber ; but if he thinks that the revenue
mutt neeefrarily be railed on fomething, there is no-
thing on which a tax can fall in lightly as on foreign
timber. It will certainly not ailed the poorer claffes.
There is hardly a cabin of a poor man in Ireland,
that is made of foreign timber. I do not knew
of any cabin that is not built of high timber. Per.
haps in Waterford it may be otherwife, owing to its
contiguity to the tea, The dirties I propofeare there:,
double the duties on all timber, exceptcleal, and halm
the duties on deal. The reafon why Gentlemen
mould net be alarmed at this duty is, that it will not
amount to a quarter of what is received in Great Bri-
tain. Thefe duties, altogether, I eflimate at 36,0001.
The three or four next taxes will not fall on the poor.
One is a tax nil
MOasts—
Not on agricultural honks (a largh )—riding honks,
and horfes that draw carriages. The duty I propofe
will be much fmaller than what is paid in England.
It will be 3s. for a Tingle honk. The next is a tax on
DOGS.

It will be of confcquence to the• poor people of
Ireland, that inftead of maintaining five or fix dogs,
only one fltould be allowed. The horfcs I eftimatc
at 4ochooo, and dogs at 8000. The next tax I pro-
pole is on CURSICLES.
Why thnuld not curricles pay the fame as four-
winded carriages, as they anfwer the Lane purple ?
pfiopoli that a curricle with two wheels &ell be con-

Mend as a carriage with font wheels. There are
amber iittd of carriages. which do not pay duty.—
They are ufed as fubllitutes for chaiks. I mean

GiCS.

Mg, are untaxed. I propofe to put a fmall duty upon
them. There is another fpecies of carriages, called

JAUNTING cats,
Which may be confidered At objeUs of taxation, as
they are confidered to be the siir-amia of the poor
people. I fhall not impofe fuch a tax as will oblige
them to put them down, I fhall propofe ss. a piece.
The whole of thefe duties, I estate, will produce
to,oool. a year. With yelped to the next tax I pro-
pole, I am afraid fome Gentlemen will be angry
with me; I copy the example of England. It is well
known that Bachelors pay very :tale towards the
revenue ; I prt.pore an addition of t p. on every Ba-
chelor's male fervant. This will produce about
40001. The next tax I have to fubmit to the Com-
mittee is on

miurn, HATS, AND AUCTIONS.
This I expel will produce tr,oool. I propofe to
raife ao,oool. by a tax on the

103 T OFFICE,
An additional id. a letter.—With regard to the PA
Office, I thould mention, that it is in contemplation
to recommend a meafure for the prevention of the
frequent robberies of the Mails, by fending them in
coaches. The bea mode of ctrrying this into dila
will be to recommend to Giani Juries, to dire& the
making proper roads through which the mail coaches
are to travel, and with that view to take care that
Surveyors are appointed to mike the roads as com-
plete as poffible, and pretent thole who neglea their
duty. By this mode we (hall take nu money out of
the Public Treafury, and no more than is abfolutely
necelfary from individuals. There is another tax
which I do not with to refort to direftly, but it is ne,
ceffary I Mould mention it. I need not remind Gen-
tlemen, that in the year 179 t the Health Money du-
ties were taken off the lower order-, and railed on
the higher. Houfes that had one hearth amounted
to nearly coo,oool. There were comparatively
very few houfes that had two hearths. The whole
lots to the Public, by taking off the tar, was 25,0c01.
What I with to do is not to revive the tax, but to
lay a tax on

M 011328 UNDER. SEVEN WINDOWS,

Whefe the perfons inhabiting them pay so Millings a
year, the tax I propofe is three (billings. But to
guard the poor man from being called on, he mull
fwtrar be is not worth tol. or does not rent land to
the amount of 51. a year. In order to be liable to the
tax, he mull pay sos. a year for his houfc, or he worth
tot. or rent si. a year in land. I cannot think this
will difirefs any one. Gentlemen will fee that we
are aMmilating. ourfelves to England. Inflead of
taxing houfes according to the hearth:, we exempt
them till they are rated at (even windows. This tax
will bring back 2 1,0001. a year ; but then we muff
derludl 63001. for houfes of five and fix windows, to
be exempted as in Britain ; fo that the Sum I take
credit for is is,occl. The& are, I think, the whole
I have to propofe, except one, which can only fall
on thnfe who are able to bear taxes. It is a tax of
zsl. per cent. on all windows above (*even. This I
ellimate at 31,0001. I mean to propofe a tax, with
a view to facilitate the intercourfe between the two
countries, an object which mull be the vtifla of every
man. Every one knows, that if the harbours he fo
arranged that the packets could fail at low water,
when the wind is favourable for them, it will prevent
their being obliged to wasp out. The tax I propofe
is for the purpofe of ameliorating the condition of
the two Harbours of Dublin and Waterford, making
both as convenient as potlible. I mean to propofe
that every paffenger who crolres the water (ball pay
a toll. This will be the fubjeet of future ennfidera.
Lion. There is one more tax which I eftimate at
170,0001. It is by an increafe on •

STAMPS AND LICENCPS.

With regard to the Stamps, I mean to propnfe the
rates of duties another day. The Licences will he
thole granted to Autainneers, Brewers, and others.
The tax will be not at all injurious to trade. One
article only remains, and that is the Treafuty Bills,
which I make no prnvifinn for at prefent, but I fhall
referee it for a.future day, when I think it neceffary
to trouble the Committee. The whole of the Ways
and Means as I have Rated them will Rand thus—

RECAPITULATION.
Increafed Duties on Import of Timber, Rapine, Pepper,
and Sun& les - - - £ 36,000
Tax on Horfes and Dov - - - 48.000
on Curricles, Gigs, and Jaunting Cars - rc.oco
.-- on Male Servants of Bachelors - - 4,000
on Hooks under (even windows, mcool. but cl,cludt
60004 for Houfes of five and fix windows, to be
exempted, a. in Britain - - t 5,000
... on Paper, Hats, and Auftions . - a z,ozo
—25 L cent. on Windows .
--- Increafed Stamps and Licences -
on Poit Office, additional ad. a Letter

70,000

This in Brit& Money is

£ 195,000

Is trim Money

211,150

• AdditionalPollage do,oOo
Windows 3i,ooo—Total, 265050 L
The Right Honourable Gentleman faid he did not
think it neceffiry further to trouble the Committee,
tinier' he fhnuld be required to explain any part of
his ftatement." He concluded by moving his fiat re.
folution.—On the fii It refolotion being read,
Mr. JAMES FITZGERALD rOfe, and regret-
ted that the public accounts of Ireland, which had
been moved for, were not ]aid before the Houfe on
an earlier day than the sth inaant ; if they had,
Gentlemen would be much better able to go into
the prefent molt important, and at the fame time in-
tricate fubjea. Before he lhonld call the attention
of the Honfe to the particulars of the natement
made by his Right Hon. Friend (Mr. Fofter), he
mull proteft against, and even cenfure the habit of
anticipating the revenue in Ireland, long before it
was received in the Treafurv. Much inconvenience
arnfe from this prattice, and he believed a great deal
of injury likewife refolted from it to the country.—
He could not refrain from lamenting that balances to
an enormous amount fhould be constantly left in the
hands of the Colledors. It was in vain therefore
that we looked for a produeive revenue, whilft this
anticipation and its confequent evils afili4led the
country, and interfered with the application of the
taxes in the moil fltitable ways. He did not think
that it was peceffary to raife any new taxes under the
prefent circumfiances of Ireland, or that any ground
of neceffity had been made out for them. From the
review he had taken of the financial (late of that
country, however unfavonruble it appeared, he

thoight he could fatisfy the Houk that his pre,lol-
tion was well founded. His Right Honourablen lend
calculated the Revenue at 4,000,0c01. the Luau
3,500,0301. and gave credit for 800,3543. Nov- the
whole of the Cum to be raifed amounting to no more
than 8,464.,9831. it (truck him that any additiooal
taxes were quite unnecetiiry4 ;arid Lc put it to the
candour of the Houte whether they fhould be im-
poled. He faid that the propofed taxes were unne-
ceffary, becaufe there remained du: to the Treofury
of Ireland a great deal more than was fufficient for
covering the fufficiency, and the fools to which he
alluded were the balances in the 11,:nds of the Col-
letors, the revenues (till due, and the arrears of ti.e
quit-rent; which amounted to to zooeool. The
Houle would he ationdhed to hear, that the balancet
which remained hot year in the hands of the Collec-
tors were no lets than 600,0001. He did not reckon
much, however, on the greater pate of this, s he
fuppofed a great deal of it could never he tocover.
ed, and the reR at confiderable expence. The next
fource which he fhould propofe for the Sooply would
be, the furplus of the Confolidated Fund taken at
264,6191. and the profit of the Irith Lottery rated
at too,oool. The Pottage of Letter, he (hoot.' alto
reckon at 440001. The Extroordinat its, or the ex-
pences thus termed, if welt regulated. would, he
was convinced, add confiderably to the means of the
country; he meant, by not being at all times a con-
fiderable and weighty drawback on its refources.—
There was one branch under the head of Extraurdi-
naries, which, he trotted, would be reilrieted : he
meant the gain to this country, and the confequent
lots to Ireland, on tronfmitting money to the hills
Treafory. Here the Honourable Gentleman notic-
ed the nature of the late loan, and the difproportion-
ed exchange at which it was fent to Ireland. The
Right Honourable Gentleman alto took a dote view
of the relative fituation of both countries, and the
balance of their refpedive debts, with a contrail of
what fhould be the proportion of each, according to
the Articles of the Union : 30,000,000 due by Ire-
land on the firtt of March 1802, were in proportion
to 469,800,c1001. due by England, as one to Is.—
When the debt of England was 469,800,0001. the
debt of Ireland Ihould be 62,643,0001. in order to
make it equal to it in the propot lion of 71 to one.-
53,926,3561. debt of Ireland were in proportion to
484,952,6321. debt due by England, nearly as one
to eight, and tome &anions. To make the debt of
Ireland equal to that of England, in the proportion
of 7i to t, it fhould be 64,555,1721. The Hon. Gen-
tleman proceeded to great length in this contrail of
calculations, and concluded with expreffing a molt
ardent with that the affairs of Ireland were before
the Houle. The real condition of -that country
would convince Gentlemen that its ability to pay its
proportion of the joint expereceo of the.ernpire had
been totally over-rated. What the motive for thiS
could have been he knew not, unlefs it proceeded
from vanity, or interefted moiives in thole who were
concerned in the arrangement which brought it
about. Ireland was literally a bankrupt at the time
of the Union, and had been getting worfe ever fince;
it was obvious, therefore, that Ireland could not difo
charge her (hare of the unequal contrast entered into
for her, and of courfe that England Ihould ultimate-
ly pay all. Having laid thus moth, he felt it in-
cumbent on hint to obferve, before he fat down, that
if his Right Hon. Friend (Mr. Fotter) perfevered
in moving the refolutions, he thould give them his
negative.
Mr. FOSTER replied, that he had no objeftion
to apply the ballances in the Collestors' hands to the
purpofe mentioned by his Right Honourable Friend
who had Jolt fat down, but the difficulty was to get
it paid. Situated as both countries were at this mo-
ment, would it be wife or politic to leave the fupplies,
or any part of them, dependant on mere contingen-
cies. It was impoffible to make up the accounts Co
precifely as not to leave fume of the money in the
Commiffioners' hands. It was the praftice from time
immemorial to do Co ; and he was convinced, from
his own experience, that the object of his Hon.
Friend was unattainable, and this could not, therefore,
be taken into ferious confideration as a certain fund
for the exigency of the moment. His Hon. Friend
would alto apply the furplus of the Confolidated
Fund in the fame manner ; but did he not know that
the whole of that furplus was to be appropriated by
Parliament to the paying off certain arrears for which
it was intended. If it were taken away, there would
he no fund then for this purpofe. His Hon. Friend
likewife took credit for z,000,0001. as if the money
had been in the Trcafury. This was certainly as
great an anticipation of the revenue as any which his
Hon. Friend had charged to the Government of Ire-
land. He hoped he would excufe him for raying,
that the Public Accounts of Ireland were laid this
year before Parliament much earlier than they had
been ever been laid before the Parliament of Ireland,
on which Account he Ihould return his thanks to the
Officers, for having made up their accounts with
fuch accuracy and promptitude. He paid the greateft
attention to the obfervations of the Hort. Gentleman,
but he did not hear any ground advanced which could
induce him to withdraw, or alter the taxes which he
had the honour of propofing.
Sir JOHN NEWPORT faid, could not con-
ceive why no account had•been given of the two mil-
lions due from Great- Bfitain to Ireland ever fince
the palling of the AEt of Uriion. Had that refource
been Rated and retorted to previnufly to the Budget,
it mutt Purely have Coperfeded the neceffity of refort-
ing to new taxes, to the amount of 255,0001. It was
Cutely full time that there accounts Ihould be fettled,
as the Committee formerly appointed had only met two
or three times, and came to no determination. He
expreffed very ftrong objections m the propofed tax
upon the importation of timber, as whatever may be
the cafe in the county of Louth, or thole parts of
Ireland with which the Right Hon: Gentleman (Mr.
Fofter) was beR acquainted, it would operate very
injurioufly to the comforts of all the cottagers in
thofe parts of Ireland with which he was particu-
larly conneCted, where native timber was fo fcarce
that they were obliged to have recourfe entirely to
fuch as was itnported. Notwittittonding this ne-
ceffity, he was forty to obferve, that the tax upon
foreign timber was regularly augmented every year
fince the Union.
Mr. CO it RY raid, that he was glad to find, from
what had fallen from the 'Cat Honourable Gentle-
man (Mr. Fofter), that a new light was thrown on
a circumflance which was in difpute between them
laft year, as to the difficulty of calling iu the bo-