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London, England, 1816-10-23 00:00:00

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ot !Hi WINDOW TAX —This great
object of universti desire was brought forward by
Mr. EitiOlty on the part of the Guild. of Carpenters.
He rnavta that the Commons' Assembly do petition
Podiums.* on the necessity of its repeal.—Mr. HARTY
seconded his motion —A number of other Gentlemen
supported the motion, which was opposed by Mr.
GIFFABD and Sir EDWARD Srmu.n. on the grounds
that. though a war tax, the necessary expenses of Go.
vernment, but above all,the interest of the heavy na-
tional debt, could not possibly be defrayed without
those taxes, which. in their collection, were found I
most efficient, and at the same time least expensive.
They asserted, that should this obnoxious tax be
• given up by Parliament, that others, more oppressive
aid unequal, very likely, would be subsituted in its
place.—Mr. GIIIIPARD therefore moved, that its con-
*oration should be adjourned to thateier three
mouths.—This was opposed by a number of Gentle-
men, who recommended retrenchment and economy
'to the amount of the tax, as the unly substitute Mini.
Stets or Parliament could reasonably or properly
.in-
.troduce in the lamentible state of these countries,
whep.ruin and beggary followed the best exertion'ot
.41; ranks and claws of ,the people.—Mr. PLIFYAnres
motion was negatived. 7 or 8 to I.—Mr. GIjYARD
then.rnoved an amendment, a slight modification of
the original Resolution, which was carried unatii-
mpeily.
A.lssOugst other matter, a motion was made by Mr.
Haanr-10r,4 vote of thank* to Matthew Wood, Esq.
Lord Mayor of London, for his humane and liberal
exertions in, behalf of three of their unfortunate cows-
trymen, who had nearly fallen victims to a. most tooland abominable conspiracy, and fur his generous in-
terference, in enabling them to return to their country
in circumstances that mitigated the rigour of their
sufferings, and reflected honour on his public spirit.
This revilotion met with some oppusitimi in its fall
extent from Mr. CIFFAID and one or two others.—
Mr. Giffard incautiously called Mr. Wood the leader
and fomenter of a mob. This was reprobated with
much spirit and effect by Mr. Wilms, Mr.-HARTY,
and several other Gentlemen, who expressed great
indignation that the Livery of London—the most en-
lightened, opulent, and independent body of men in
Europe—should be termed a mob. And the resolu-
tion, after undergoing a trifling verbal alteration,
was curled we am.
The Loan MAYOR then stepped forward at the
headof the table, and dissolve d the Assembly.

INDUSTRIOUS POOR OF THE KINGDOM.
Yesterday a Meeting took place at the Mansion
House, for the purpose of taking into consideration a
plan, suggested to his Royal Highness the Duke of
Sussex and the Right Honourable the Loan-MAYOR,
by Mr. SALISSURYs for benefiting the industrious poor
of the kingdom.
The Mike of Stassax was in the Chair.
Mr. PRITIORRII 'Mid the plan, which began with
representing, that among the generality of the poorer
classes of society, there was an almost total neglect
ot the many advantages that presented themselves
to .persons engaged in .pursuits connected with the
rural affairs ot this country ; that various materials
of spontaneous growth were to be found in hedges,
road-sides, and waste lands, which were convertible
into useful articles; that great numbers ot domestic
articles, manufactured abroad, or made up of mate-
rials imported at considerable expense, might be sob-
stituted by productions calculated to give consider-
able benefit both tn the poor and the community at
large, supplying sources ot labour and profit to the
country people at different periods of the year, and
capable of being worked by children and others who
are unfit to execute more laborious employments.

The following illustrations were then made
The rut/see used for candlewicks were to be found
in waste and boggy lands, and if collected and pre-
pared, would afford labour and profit during the
winter season. The rush, a weed of the most noxious
kind, was, when prepared, worth 2s. 9d. per pound,
applicable to a variety of purposes, easily colfected,
and converted into articles of great use with mach
facility. The bull-rushes, of which floor-matting,l
chair.bottiiros, baskets, kr. were-made, were found
in this country in small quantities, and the deficiency
was supplied from Holland.' The quantity imported
in the year 1815 wail 149,229 bundles ; the price per
bundle on importation was h. Sid. amounting
.to
the sum of £9,501. In 1810, the importation price
was 4s. 9d. per bundle. That expense was to be
avoided by the substitution of the plait called tvftAa
latifeila, commonly growing in ponds and •stagna.nt
water in many parts of the country, and which was
convertible into mats and baskets in every respect
'mesa to those worked with Dutch rushes. At Ham;
mersmith there were great quantities of this special*,
plant, the use of which was almost wholly unkeffierof
The importation of baskets into this country fro*.
France was next alluded to. Those baskets were
stated to have been made of wood split into small
pieces, which wood was not better adapted to the
purpose than the materials of this country's growth.
The willow-tree afforded materials for snaking excel.
lent baskets.
Nut-galls were imported into this country in great
lquantittes for the use of dyers; but they might be
collected from our own oaks, and our woods afforded
them in profusion. It was an extraordinary fact,
that no more than two vegetables of this country's
growth were used by dyers; and it was ascertained
that various articles were growing on our waste lands
calculated to answer the purposes to the fullest ex-
tent. Woolwich sand-pits, and the chalk-pits at
Guildford, yielded some of them in great quantities.
The poor people of Wales and Scotland found in the
hedges Plants, the stalks or leaves of which afforded
prominent and valuable colours for their homespun
yarn, yet these articles were not turned to any ac-
count as a matter of commerce.
The plan also recommended the instruction of the
poor in the use of the medicinal plants, in the places
wheie the/ abound ; die wild chiukengle parliederly,