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¶ of Finance, of which he had the honour to be 2 M
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PP bee, up to June of the last year, the . c."l
tinder these circumstance/it, It became my duty, t et i StIeSSAGN FROM 1113 MAJESTY.
income tax from Scotland only can
He irragined that the reason was, that rents Were nn;
whether the spirit of your instructions would be ace by The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER then brought
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my obtaining an official recognition on the part of , alas- trotts*Vßar a Nleasage from his Modesty, in nearly the followreturns of q
ment of the first condition, and an understanding respelling gibe ilog words i
paid in Scotland ,so regularly as in England. down
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to 11,r Jr.,.
fact however was, that the taxes collected there two others, in conformity with the views of his Maiebtyiesenosh• 64 G. R.—His Majesty thinks it proper to acquaint the House
ment,• though not given In a formal manner (for roasonabdord of Commons that his Majesty has authorised the issue of some pr- paid
the rents. were pa:a
Sir PETER MURRAY supported what heared
veiled very slowly into this country.
detailed), .or whether it was incumbent on me to forbear irola euniary advances to the Portuguese Government, in support of
making any proposition, as I could not obtain a compliance with its military ekertions against the common enemy in that coon- tea.
the exact letter of your instructions. try. His Majesty being desirous of continuing that support, has
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varioes considerations of great weiet urged me to endeavour directed that an arrangement shall be made for the maintenance
to bring about an adjustment of :he differences between the two of a body of Portuguese troops not exceeding 30,000 men ; and said b die L
countries, upon the points entrusted to my discretion, as far as it his Majesty trusts that his faithful Commons will enr.b e hilts to , '
WAS possible, without departing from the orders I had received. fulfil that engagemont." as regularly in- Scotland as in England ; but thattl.
The strongest inducement was derived from the communica• Mr. HU I'CHINSON gave notice for Monday, of a motion deficiency of collection arose from —e
tions which I hadlately received from Mr. Smith, of the dissatisfac- relative to a gallant officer, who had distinguished himself at the a bad system
assessment. ei
tion of the French Minister here with the Non4ntercourse Act, head of a l'ortuguese corps. ,
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the particulars of which l have given in my No. 17, also from the Sir FRANCIS BURDETT rose to tnove, That there be laid ! TheSOLICITOR.GENERA I. for SCOTLA''''.1
general aspect of the relations of this country with Great Britain before the House the Minutes of the Court Martial upon the bad the satisfaction,;atth to inform his Hon.Frind tl .)
and France, as detailed in my No. 17 and 18, and In some prevl- Hon. Warwick Lake, late Captain of his Majesty's ship Ulysses. .
subject had attracted the attention of
ous dispatches. He did not know whether any objection would be made to the Goverrate:,
The circumstance of the Congress being about to assemble motion • but if there should, he should turn his motion to a no- •under the' .t,
and was at present consideration of his M.,.
very shortly, was another reason for wishing to have an amicable tice for 'Monday next. jesty's Ministers,
arrangement concluded, since the majority of both Houses had After a short conversation between Mr. WA an, Mr. Cm at.i. Es Mr. IIUSWISSON assured the House that
pledged themselves to a resistar.ce of the restrictions upon neutral A CHANCELLOR of the
...DAMS, Sir FRANCIS BORDEIT, and thelat, viiiie
he had the honour of holding an
commerce, if it could be pointed against either of the two great Exentouca,the Motion was agreed to, on its being understood office order ti•
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Belligerent Powers separately, and that it was only on account of that the paper was called for by Sir FRANCIS BulLDETT,vrith a Board of T u '
Teas ry, Its attention had bf!en called t(
the impossibility of any successful effort being made, that they view to make it the foundation of some ulterior proceeding in the subject, in consequence of the :.mall renl.ttaitr
were prtivented from ascertaining their rights against both during that House. .. •
received from Scotland on account of the r...c ~It.
the last Session. On the motion of Mr. TIERNEY, a Message was ordered tocountry.
that - ''' 0
.NER ex lained.
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As this Govt-rnmesst thought that any long delay in the time the Lords, to request that their Lordships would give leave to M r
for the renewal of the intercourse between Great Britain and the John Earl of Chatham to attend, on Monday next, the Commit- •
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United States would deprive suck an arrangement of many of its tee of that House appointed to inquire into the conduct and po- The LORD ADVOCATE of SCOTLAND
mutual advantages, and as fully agreed in that opiniqn, a day c:r- bey of the late expedition to the Scheldt. answer to the call of the Honourable Clen tlemail sis
co.
tain (the 10th of June next) was accordingly fixed upon. . Captain Codrington, of the Royal Navy, was, on the motion posite (Mr. Horner), stated, that the tardy
'The notes which passed between the Secretary of State and of Major ALLEN, ordered to attend the same Committee. collect;
myself, and which I have now the honour to inclose.(marked A, ' On the motion of General LOFTUS, it was ordered, that a _
of the revenue in Scotland arose from two causes. The
B, C, D) will explain the course pursued in the arrangement that humble Address be presented to his Majesty that he would be first was, that they had not had the advantage of the
was concluded. • graciously pleased to give directions that there be laid before that same system of parochial assessment, nor of CCMlllis.
Should his Majesty's Government consider that I have exceeded • House the Copy of a Paper or Narrativepresentedto his Majesty sioners fGr the Affairs of Taxes, when the Property,
made on .by John Earl of Chathatn, relative to the proceedings of the army .a e. _
instructions in the engagement I have
. _ . ax was imposed there, as existed in Enzland. Tv

the limits of my ..
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his Majesty's behalf, I art aware that no advantages which migkt
be derived from it to Great Britain could jurtify my conduct.
I therefore rest my vindication upon the reasons detailed in the
foregoing part of this dispatch, for believing, that I have adhered
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in the late expedition to the Scheldt. -
The instructions which had been laid by Lord Gardner before
the Committee inquiring into the Walehrren Expedition, were,
on the motion of Mr. ABERCROMBIE, referred to a Select

had consequently not the same MaCliticry for 11.,
ready collection of the tax, when supctiatended by
only a single-person in each county. Another tau;

to the spirit, and, as far as I could, to the letter of my orders : but
place my chief reliance on the well known liberality of his Ma-
jesty in appreciating the conduct of his servants.
I will only beg leave to remark, that the agreement has been
concinded in the persuasionthat an amicable understanding would
he settled by the special mission, and with a view to promote so
desirable an object.
Should unexpected difficulties occur in forming a Treaty, or
should his Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary find reason to doubt the
friendly disposition of the United States, it will then rest witk
his Majesty to take such measures as may be deemed proper, as-
cording to the actual state of things.
In the mean time no injury can be derived, i conceive, from
that conditional agreement. I have the honour to he, &c.
(Signed) D. M. ERSKIN E.

arose, not only from the slower payment of rents,
from the adoption of a more strict and rigid mode(
ascertaining the rent and value of property, accor4n,
to the Property Tax Act for Scotland, than existed i
England.
Sir JOHN ANSTRUTHER admitted that rent
were paid more slowly in Scotland than in Englar,
but that was no reason why the Revenue should a
be collected with more dispatch than it actually was
He paid his Property Tax in Scotland within tsv.
months after he paid it in this country. He had
hesitation to state that he could see no reas, n
the revenue should not be collected with the SJ
regularity, strictness, and accuracy in Scotland as
England. The subject was under the considers;..
of Government, to whom he was persuaded nob ..
attached.
The motion was then put and agreed to ; as al
was the next motion of the LORD ADVOCATE, `i tln
there be laid before the House an account of a.
amount of the net assessments of all the Duties calk
Assessed Taxes in Scotland, from the 24th of Mar,
1800, to the latest period to which the same could be
made out, distinguishing each year."
LORI) WELLINGTON'S PENSION. •
The House on the motion of the CHANCELLO
•of the EXCHEQUER, resolved into a Commit •
on his Majesty's most gracious message relative to
grant of a pension of 82000 per annum to Lord V
• count Wellington.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUE
rose, and said, that in consequence of his M4-,y
most gracious Message, recommending to that H.
the grant of a pension to Lord Viscount Wellingt.
it would not be necessary for him to trespass 1
upon the time of the Committee, in order to impre
them with the propriety of adopting the motion he
to propose. He ci.uld certainly not anticipate
objection to the motion, which would have the ef
of inducing the House to withhold its concurrence;
but in order to render the grounds upon. which hi!
' Motion was founded more clear, he should, in the
first place, state to the Committee the circumstance
under which it was brought forward, and unless tin
House should depart from its uniform and establishe
practice in all similar cases, he was persuaded
would not dissent from the proposition with whichl
should conclude. The facts were these, his Majesr,
as soon as the intelligence had been received of 6
brilliant, glorious, and decisive victory of Talavet
had conferred upon the gallant officer who comma
ed in that memorable action the honour of a title--;
honour to which all those who devoted their talents:u
lives to military pursuits looked up with the most ;
dent and laudable anxiety, an honour the proudestd
tine tion that can be conferred on a brave soldier—:
highest object of his generous ambition ; and
the same time the best reward of eminent s
vices. ( Hear, hear.) In conferring this mark of
Royal approbation and favour, his Majesty
thought it right to recommend by his message to

Committee, to examine their contents, and to report what Parts
were relevant to the Inquiry pending before the House, and
what ought to be printed in the minutes. The ground upon
which this motion was brought forward, was, that the ins: ruc-
tions to Lord Gardner were comprised in various letters from
different officers, and must, necessarily, contain matters conjec-
ted with the Inquiry, which it would be improper to publish in the
Minutes.
Ordered, on the motion of Mr. HENRY MARTIN, that
there be laid before the House an account of all the Exchequer
Bills now outstanding, as far as the same can be made out, speci-
fying the several Acts under which they were issued, and the
funds upon which they were charged.
Mr. WHITBREAD, after a short conversation with the
CIIANCY.LLOR of the Exert nevus, on the propriety of making
the motion initasPe, gave notice of a motion,• fur Copies of all
Instructions which had been sent to Lord Viscount Wellington,
relative to the conduct of the campaign in Portugal and Spain i—
also Copies of all Dispatches received from that officer, from the
111th to the 28th of July, 1809 ; and Copies of all Divatches re-
ceived from him, dated Talavera, August 1,1809.
SCOTCH FINANCES.
The LORD ADVOCATE of SCOTLAND rose
' in consequence of some observations made on a for-
mer night by a Noble Lord opposite to him ( Lord
Mahon), respecting the.collection of the Property tax
in Scotland, to remove the unfavourable impression
made in the House by the speech of the Noble Lord.
and to place the subject in a just point of view. The
Noble Lord had stated, that the produce of the Prh.
perty tax of Scotland was much smaller in proportion
to other taxes, than the like tax in England : but thel
Noble Lord had drawn his conclusion from erroneous
premises. For instance, the Noble Lord's statement
of the amount of the Scotch Property tax was taken
from the returns cf the year 1806, when the tax was
collected at a rate of 6 per cent. which he contrasted
with the amount of the Property tax in England, c 01..;
lected at a rate of 10 per cent. Another ground up-A
on which the deficit of the tax in Scotland arose, not.
taken into the consideration of the Noble Lord, was,
that a very considerable part of the tax assessed on
Scotch property was not collected in Scotland, but
in England, and carried to the account of English
collection, and thus appeared in a double proportion
against the credit of Scotland. But he should move
for documents which would prove to the House
that in the year 1809, when the Property tax was
I laid in Scotland at 10 per cent. the amount of the
I collection was £BOO,OOO, which, with the amount
lof taxes upon dividends in the English funds be-1
ilonging to Scotch proprietors, would add another
10200,000, making together :21,000,000. Formerly,
it was true, very little Scotch money found its way
lint° the English funds. But from the increased and
!increasing wealth of Scotland in latter years, there was
a considerable influx of money from that country into
England, and large sums were vested in British
' funds ; the whole Income Tax upon which being de-;
' ducted in England, kvas carried to English ac-I
counts, though paid by the inhabitants of Scotland.
The tax on military pay and allowance to Scotch
Officers was ab:o deducted in England ; and there
were a number of manufacturirt; houses in Scotland,
the )prietors of which, living chiefly in England,

liament, that it should be accompanied by -a grant'
some pecuniary pennon, in the same manner as in
usual in all such cases. In considering the profile'
and estimating the justice of the advice which lu
been given to his Majesty in both instances, it mil
perhaps be proper to confine the House to the simp
ceinsideration of the distinguished and exalted me
of the Noble Viscount upon the particular occasl
But it would neither be just to his Majesty nal
Lord Wellington, that this should be looked upon'
the same light as the case of an officer for the fx
time presenting himself, by his services, to the
of his Sovereign and the admiration of his conn
men. In estimating the claims of Lord \\Tel:in
to the distinction conferred upon hiss, and the e
sign proposed to accompany it, they should I,
what he had been—consider his past conduct, iindl
rive, from his former distinguished services, stmeel
cessary grounds for his present honours and reW2t
(Hear, hear.) But tried even by the test of his latest
vices, how did that fallant Officer present himself,
his Sovereign and his country? He had, by theg
rious operations he had conducted, and the rioter
he achieved, he could not say raised, but entail
most eminently sustained the military renown or
army, and the unfading lustre of the British tial
and character. He presented himself to his Nfeig4
as the distinguished Commander, who had aird„
extended the glory of the British arms over
peninsula of India ; he presented himself
conqueror of Souk—and the General, who Is
b_f,
signal victories he g -'ned in Portugal, expelled
French from that country, and rescued a kin
the rightful inheritance of our ally, from the
of the enemy. In short, he presented him
his Majesty with such an accumulation of
...such an aggregate of eminent services—su
unvaled 'career, an uniform teaour of Tictori
triumph, as could not fail to obtain for WV