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fected, convinced as he Was that to the Sinking Pend they were in
a greatmeasult. indebted int that prospeecaN situation by which I
they were enabled to lighten the hurthens of the cduritry.
Lord MILTON said he regretted, as well as his Honourable
Friend, that the Chancellor of the Exchequer was not in his place.
His Honourable Friend • seemed to forget, that when the Budget
was laid before the House, the Chancellor bf the Exchequer stated
that they must wait for four years before any taxes could be re-
pealed, unless they had recourse to the Sinking Fund. It was by
the total aggregate taxation of the country the Sinking Fund was
suppotted. In his opinion Ministers would make up their minds
to resign this Fund in the course of next Session. Nothing could
be more obvious than that a Sinking Fend of five minims was un-
necessary, cow that the public debt, or, what amounted to thesame
thing, the interest of the debt, was so greatly reduced. He agreed
wick his Honourable Friend that the taxes which ought first to be
repealed were those which pressed most generally.
Mr. DI A BF.RLY said, there was no effective Sinking Fund be-
fore 1819. Ilciw then could the prosperity of the country be at-
tributed to that Fund? The Petition was read, and ordered to
be printed?
Lord A LTIIORP presented a Petition from Wilbarton, in
Northumberland, against Slavery.—Ordered to be printed.
Lord STANLEY presented a Petition from the Licensed Vic-
tuallers of Manchester, complaining of the interpretation put upon
the Excise Acts with respect to the retailing of Ale and Beer.—
, Ordere&to be prihted.
Lord STANLEY held in his hand another Petition from the
same place, signed by 7.0,000 individuals, praying for the Abolition
of Negro Slavery. The Petitioners, he was happy to say, expressed
their approbation of the measures already adopted by his Majesty's
Government upon this subject. As sonic objection had been made
to the language of a former Petition from Manchester 'upon the
same subject, he was enabled to state that this Petition bad been
revised', and found to be couched in the most temperate and,re-
spectful terms.
Captain BASTARD presented a similar Petition from Dart-
ford.—The Petitions were ordered to be printed.
Mr. T. WILSON presented a Petitiou from certain individuals
connected with the projected Dock at St. Catherine's, praying that
the House would be pleased to favour the Bill now in progress
through the House.—Ordered to be printed.
air. GIPPS brought in a Bill to provide for the better employ-
ment of Agricultural Labourers.—llead a first time, and ordered
to be read a second time on Tuesday next.
Mr. EGERTON presented a Petition from the Licensed Vic-
tuallers of Stockport, against the Duty on Excise Licenses.—Or-
dered to lie on the table.
Mr. C. HUTCHINSON presented a Petition from the Grand
Jury of the County of Tjpperary, praying that the Bounties on
Coarse Linens might not be withdrawn.—Ordered to be printed.
Mr. C. HUTCHINSON said, that be held in his kind another
Petition, which he presented with feelings of pain and regret, be-
cause it related to a Bill brought into the House by a Right Ho-
nourable Friend of his, Mr. Plunkett, who, anticipating no opposi-
tion to the measure, had, he understood, left town that morning.
It was from two Roman Catholic Gentlemen, Messrs. Devereux
and M'Donnell—the former a man of considerable property, who
had been a Delegate from the Irish Catholics in the year 1795, and
both highly respectable, against the Bill introdUced by his Right
Honourable Friend relative to the burial of Dissenters. Without
entering into the merits of the question, he (Mr. Hutchinson) could
only say, that he was bound to give every credit to the Is;oble Lord
at the bead of rise Irish Government, and to his Right Honourable
and Learned Friend (Mr. Plunkett), for their anxiety to promote
the best interests of his country; and if the measures which they
pursued had not been productive of as much good as had been ex-
pected, he was far from attributing it to want of zeal on the part of
those who composed the Administration. Ile was particularly sorry
that a measure like that brought forward by his Right Ilonourable
Friend, which was intended to conciliate all parties, and particu-
larly the Roman Catholics, should meet the disapproval of any of
that body ; but as the Petition had been entrusted to him, he could
not avoid presenting h.—Petition ordered to lie on the table. •
Sir C. COLE presented a Petition from Wisbeach, against the
duty on Coals carried coastwise.—Ordered to be printed.
Mr. GOULBURN obtaiued leave to bring in a Bill to amend
an Act passed in the last Session, relative to the Irish County
Treasurers.
The Report of the Irish Burials BIU was brought up, and the
Bill was ordered to be read a third time to-morrow.
Mr. HERRI ES brought up the Report on the Law Stamps, and
obtained leave to bring in a Bill upon that subject.
The Board of Works Bill was reads third time and passed.
Mr. GOULBURN gave notice that he would, on the Bth of
April, bring in a Bill for draining and improving the Bogs in Ire-
land.--Adjourned at a Quirter past Six.