Star.
London, England, 1816-03-05 00:00:00

71IE MILITARY AND NAVAL CLUBS..

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saterJai latt it was officially announced that a
:„n 'ion bad taken place between these celebrated
P
ediblisbments ; the title, of course, is no longer the
:sone; the Clob is now denominated
THE UNITED SERVICE CLUB.
Tile nimea of the Directors are as follow :
I. lien. Ger.esal I.ertl Lynedoch, G.O B. k,.
K.C.B. r,ar.admlal the !tight Hon. Lord A. Beauclerk, K.C.B.
, & &Awl A. AIL"- Y.I.S.
4 Gen ...I Sir Grow Beckwith, 0 C.B.
• i r,s.Aihn't3 Chin Eir Henry Blackwood, But.. •
„4 11,1ao-Ueverat lion. Godfrey Boavi:le.
1, iltajor.Gert,al John Frown, I) 9 M.G.
gPlionel the Marquis of Buckingham, R.M.
i iii.e. A "ndral Hon Sir Alexander Cochrane,
'll, lout •n' colonel Chapman, S.R.R.E.
n. Lieu cram-General Lord Combennsre, G.C.B.
ig Major• General Ralph-Darling, D.A.G.
a Captain D'Aeth, Royal Navy, G.W.H.
li• Maior Cbarles•Puke
13. Ma'jor.G.neral Dyer, E.I.S.
ji, ,-ior.Gereral William Eden.
17. Major-General Lgerno, C. B.
if. htior-Jeneral :;1r Hi.nry Fare. K. C. B. •
gi. Cokulef Sir H. Framingham, K. C. B.
gt I kitten:int-Colonel John Gardiner, A. A. G.
n. Major•Genertl Nii Waliam Gordon, K. C. B.
IL ll,tto Dighy .-lariihon.
ii Gent MI lir Charles amuse., Bart.
gilatut.nant.Gentral the ILI:J.lull of Huntly.
'ill:Captain Knox, of the Royal Navy, E. S. P.
it Vi.. 'Wirral Sir Francis Laforey. Bart. K. 48.
IT twain Robert Lambert, Royal Navy.
is, Colorer John Macdonald.
10, Sir Junes M'Gregor, Knight, M.D. •
si. Lqload Sir John Makobu, K.C.B. E.I.S.
a, Rest :Admire, Sir t Atney Malcolm, K.C.B.
"IL Lie tenaat-Cia.erel :-ir John Murray, Bart.
a. ueat,tr.,oc..43.ocra: :rir Hildel:•.-and Oakta, Bart.
si. Deateitant.gen.;.:il Orr. E. 1.:.•.
11 cartainarausl lo.:111 Peehell, Royal Navy.
es. Vice-Adouras Francs,. Plekmore. .
37. licar•Mmiral Ma.,:n.tw Henry Scott.
. Liesu-Cokinel Si...Av, of the Royal Horse Guards. •
....kentAdniiral J. W. ?prauge.r. .
4 Op*** ChilliCS *hem, Bart. or the Royal Navy.
li. pane WM:Om 1 horr art, issth Regicarnt.
gi,pitatli'gr llama. I'rovrbri.l3e, Bart. of the Royal Navy.
.4 *iirokil air Joh i 7' )rlase War.,•n, G.C.B.
'AL tborti.i ,Kpl, R.hl.
4
~0. . grAltatkin W. iffylit‘e, tart. R.M.
.foc
:4, . 'W Wilkant l'uong. t;,C B.
' itative list,' it -appe.irs that the Directors
lirArt siatecn in number ; the tormer muster-
Itty.
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le, . evening a grand dinner was given at the
(Iv in APJemarle•stre, t, when the following
. . _ WV, Lord Lvt4tooov in the Chair.
Trowbridge,ir..
Adn S' t
Ihr,ui. of Buckiligham, I S!r John Malcolm
Cason Chapman, I Admiral Pockinore,
or Duke, Adinira: :;ir John B. Warren,
Mr. Archibald Campbell.

Colonel Gardener,
irral Hamilton,

1.G.C.8.

PARLLIMENTaRr PROCEEDINGS.

HOUSE OF I.oit DS, MARCH 4.
The Rays! Assent Vidi sisniti..ti by C. +omission to the Esche-
w 1 IL$ t:,. he NI lit Duties, the btaysl Courts %lon tial, and
Hoe pricuv Bill.
ilel.rr.?< Commissioners were the I.ORD CUANCELLOR, the
blot SILAi,TLSPUKY, and loorsi Rs. ocsos
Camel were heard in continuat• mai ;: the Irish
Appeal of StetMpulr v Stse!cprol•c Judgment
'lie Earl of SHAFTt.3.:',URY presetoted a i'c:•;t.cu: front the•
iishitants of Plyn•oa•R I)nck and its vicinity, in the County
it Drew, against the limply ,:nt Debtors' Ac'.- -Ordered to lit on
*stable.

Ike Bank Loan Bill wa• brought up front the Compton', by
Mr Le:no:mum and others, and read a first time; as was a
load bill pteseoted by Mr. FANG,
Mr. Reason pre:tented a: the Bar certain Papers from the
kith Corn of Chanctry, relative to a Wfl peudiug before their
Ltnlslips, which were laid upon the
%Orly Residence Bill was read a third time and parsed. 1
*disused till to- mm row.
HOUSE OF COMMONS.
Mr.LAMBTOi. tin:fined enforcing ti.e Call of the House,
Mara postpuncti till Friday.
US hil,.ry Abolition Bill was read a second time, and or-
WON commitma on Friday.
e. PO 01. E l re,ented a Petition from Plymouth, praying
krk ripeat of the lusolvtot Debtors Act.—Ordered to lie on
6table.

Mr.ORENFEI.E.; aiverring to the complaints which had
Ikea made agairri the present mode of czdlectipg the Property
ui:on lilmt to the greatest tyranny of which we
lid to con, lain, was not that arising out of the Inquisitorial
Pato given to the Commissioners of the Property Tax, as this
lot exceeded by the coin:net of the Board of T.trys at Somerset
%11. es. Its gave notice, that it was his inteution to move that
tibia Wen it was objected to by Ministers, on the ground of
Itilluetog given no previous notice, for copies of the Correspoa-
41Ittviluch bad taken place between that Board and au eminent
Mercantile 'louse in the City, which he thought would be found
Isialtry the assertion he had made.

PROPERTY TAX.
Petitions were presente4 against the Property Tax,
' bon: the County of Monmouth, from L:belifield,
licclesfi.:l4 (in the County of Chester,) the 80-1%/41
1%/41 Bridt.ewater, High Wickham, Belford (in
lortlnittberland,) South Moulton (in the County of
Devon,) C Wigton, and from th'e Parish of St.
George the Marty', (signed by upwards of 1(100 m-
ow) Petitions were. read, and ordered to lie
the table.
Mr. C. CALVERT was afraid, from not seeing
toy ui the Ministers in their places, that t!:t:y were
116 t al' are how many petitions had been presented
against the Prcperty 'Ca:. He was much flattered
by the honour which some of the inhabitants of the
City of London had. conferred on him, who were
ccorrainly in the habit of presenting their Petitions
to Parliament. by the h:64:db of their own Represen-
-4,14eb. but who, ou the present occasion, had
tctt to him to do them that service. He held in hi
tilt. a Petition against the Propeity Tax, lrom the
114161 of Dowgate, which was signed by the whole
,
e inh..tritaiits of that Ward, (Ale person only ex-
61Ld. 'these petitioners, he thought it rigl!t to
tb ti/e; Were not actuated by hostility to the ereteUr

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Administration. Throughout the war, they had al.'
ways been disposed to give his Majesty's Ministers
their cordial support, whatever party they might be-
long to. The Petition was ordered so lie on the table.
Mr. C. BARCLAY presented a Petition from the
Parish of Lambeth against the Property Tax, which
he described to be numerously signed, and signed,
like the Petition just read, by those who had hereto-
fore been friendly to the Government. Ordered to
lie on the table.

Petitions were also received on the slme sobjeet
from Norman Cross; Huntingdon; Mile-End Old
Town ; and St. Luke's, Chelsea. Ordered to he on
the table.

Sir E. KNATCHBULL, in presenting a petition
from Woolwich, directed the attention of Ministers
to the language of the petitioners, and called upon
them to answer it. The petitioners described. them.
selves to have borne with patience the burden of the
Property Tax during the war, relying on the pledge'
which had been given to them, that they should he
relieved from it so soon as peace returned. To this
they stated the Government to have been positifile
pledgt d. The present was the first opportunity'. k
had had in this Session of addressing the house on
the subject, and he was slow free to confess, thetas.
leis Government intended the tax should be very
much modified, he should feel it his duty to oppose
the renewal of it ; but at the same time he wished to
be distinctly undertood to give no opinion), for or
against it., at present. He should be glad to hear
what the Chancellor of the Exchequer would have to
state to the House on Wednesd ty or Thursday. Till
lie was in possession of this he could not make up his
mind on the subject. A Requisition for a County
Meeting on the grievances complai,:ed of under the
present Tithe Laws had been already signed—,and
second had been prepared, calling for a Meetiog to
consider of petitioning fate anent against the re-
newal• of the Property fax. He would not anticipate
the'restilt of the proceedings o.i this question, but au
der all circumstances, he was inclined to hope the
Chancellor of the Exchequer would abandon his pre-
seat plan.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
thought he did himself and his constituents great
honour, by the course which he had thouget it his
duty to take on the present occasien, in declining to
give an opinion for of against the proposed measure,
till the grounds which it was brought f irward had
been fuily.steted to the Hoese. He was quite ready
to declare to the Hunuurable Baronet, that the peti-
tioners, with respect to the supposed pledge, which it
was said had been given, were completely misintor.
med. On the first introtincthm of the lecome Tax,
by Mr. Pitt, instead of a pledge being given that it
*Louid cvase at the conclusion of the war, its produce
was it:tie:lay :mortgaged for 436,0()0,000. a such
which it would take eight yeass to pay off. From dale
it was clear, that he Pitt) Taint notihroplaggen
the House to do away that tax immediately on the
return of peace. %%filen, on the renewal of the war,
a tax upon income was again thaught necessary, it
was nu longer had recourse to as a lurid on winch
money might be bora owed, but a. Cie means for meet-
ing the necessary supplies ofshe year. When granted
during the contimetece ot the war," and nu lferger,"
no pledge was given that Mii.isters shoeld pre.
eluded horn av themselves ot such an ileeist
on the ret urn of peace ; they were only anon.) by
those worus, again to submit the policy of tAing
sued a course to the consideration of the House. In
ISOG, when it was raised in its amount, the Clialictu•
r of the Exc:•equer and the Ministers of that d iy,
given no piAge shit they would never, on any
.übsequent occasion, but in time of war, hive re-
course to such measure. This they must have
meant to leave open to the future consideration or
'erlianient, on the presumption that there it would
.e disposed of, according to tLe circumstances which
nought arise. Hiving thus brie!ly advrtteti to what
had :peen done hi his pre&cessots in office, he now
came to speak ot the course wilich be himself had
pursued. In the last year he had come down to the.
House on the 20th ot February, and offered a gene-
ral statement of the Ways and Means by which it
had occurred to him to provide tor the service ot the
ye ; and among these the Property Tax was nut
inctudcd. ell had done this, not because he thought

to propose a renewal of that tax would be a breach
of good faith,• as he thought that a question which
was open to consideration at eny time, bat because
he thought it objectionable in policy at that period.
The clicturee,rces of the !resent day were widAy
different from those of the country then. He had at
the time to which he referred suggested othertixa,
s..nse of %thief) had eftewatds been adopted by Par-
liament, and some had been mortgaged for a term of •
years. Arucno the taxes thtn proposed was a large
addition to th,2 c.tic‘.,s(i.l Taxes, and certainly he had
he:trd it made a question by many, whether this
would not be [note burthensome and severe on the
public than the Property Tax, while at the same
time its produce would not exceed half the amount
of the sum raised by that impost ? Lt was on these
considerations that Le had determined on suutnitting
the renewal of the Property fax to the 1-louse. tie.
fore he sat down he tiiought it right to sey. that the
vety important business abOut to come on, namely,-
the Army Estimates, together with the motion of
the Honourable Gentleman opposite (Mr. Western)
would, he apprelteaded, be quite as much as the
House could go. through in me present week, with
every regard to the convenience or the health of its
Members,end he should therefore postpnne his fiction
on the subject of the Propel ty Tax till Monday next.
Mr. PONSONDY observed, the Chancellor of the
Exchequ.T ilea been pleased to say that no pledge
had ever been given that the Propetty Tax could
terminate on the retina or Peace This might be
the opinion of that Right Hon. Gentleman as an in.'
dividual, but he (Mr. Polisconby) believed he wow,.
hod but tew iii that 1-I:;use, and none out tit it.
veil With Lim brat lit../1 %Cob the tact. LL was Alb-
rcuk for lapisuage to Ix stronger thin that whitiOati
e.

been used when this pledge was given:- It declared'
the;Tax should eontinoe for a certain time—that it
should remain in force till the sth of April, foil >wing
the signature of a Definitive Treaty of Peace, and
no longer. Where in the English language could
words be feund more distinctly to declare, that the
Property Tax should cease from the .sth at April,
after the conclusion of a definitive Treaty of Peace ?
What stronger pledge could be given? •llid the
Right Hoeourable Gentleman mean to say no pledge
was given, because a clause was not inserted to de.
'.clare Parliament should be prevented from recurring
to such a measure of taxation again, 'or because ire
the Act the people had n"t been desired to take
notice tbit the impost was never to be renewed ?-
I'he Right Hon. Gentlem in had this night threaten- '
ed them again, by those Asses.ed Taxes, which,
carried intu effect, he had declared would be more
oppressive thhn the Property Tax, and had wished it
.to be understood that we must liasie one or the other
He (Mr. Pons .nby) denied, this, and would contend
we had no need of either _(Hear, hear.)—lt was
too much that they should be told by tie Chincelite
of the: Exchequer, that ti•ey most submit to one or
other ()I these burdens to meet an expense which we
ought not to be called upon to bear. He (the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer) had complimented the Ho.
nourahle Baronet who seek. bsfore him on the course
which lie thought it his d.ityoo pursue, and which
he (the Chancellor of the Exchtleer) had characte-
rised as doing both the Honourable ft tronet and his
constituents great honour. He (Mr. Ponsonby) was
of this opinion, and he hoped he wnuld agree to do
what that Hon. Baronet had recommended, and
what his constioize- &minded. If he did this, he
w.micl take the wises:. plan he could pursue, and
give up the Pr.:pe-t:
Mr. FREE:sr:IN ME said, the Chancellor of the
Exchequer bed told them he had not proposed the
renewal of this Tax last year, bee tuse he had
thought it inconvenient at to thee. He might have
gone further,hand told them he had other reasons fir
acting as he did, which grew out of his reluctance to
recommend the continthoice of the Property Tax itt
time of peace. Nobody had then said Parliament
did not shod pledged to abolish this impost on the
return of peace, and certainly the understanding
was, "whey: itovasYenewetl on the breaking out of a
new war, that it was renewed for the purposes of
that war, and for those alone, and thrr-fure even
then a pledge was given, which the public had a
right to expect woald be redeemed. It was now re-
' quired of t.e Right 1-1.. g. Gentleman that hp should
give up the Property Tax. if be did not do this,
he would be made to repent it till the last hour of
his life.
The Petition was then read, and ordered to lie on
the table.

Mr. DICKENSON presented a Petition from the
County' If SL.riterset, against the Pin'perty 'l'ax. In
this Petiiiosi the general distress of the country was
strongly. set forth, and the amount of the Poor Rat.%
Ole ex.ste4ce Sinecure P. tees, deptored and corn-
ojainest.: In calling the attention of the House to
the player of the Petitions, the Honourable G•ntle-
MAII spnke shortly in favour of their views. He'
stated toe French Ambassador to be in the hibit of
4raing st) passports a day, 45 of wifeh were for
o.ai Yes of this country, who were about to emigrate
ii...onsequence of the distress which
_prevailed at
home. It would became Ministers to look into this,
aod to bring these people back by the only way in
which they could be brought back—by restoring the
country to its former state.
Sir M. W. RIDLEY wished the Chancellor of
the Exchequer to act upon the hints given by these
Petitioners, and to endeavour to do without the
Property Tax, by diminishing the taxation, and the
expenditure of the country. A leading feature in
the Speech of the Prince Regent, was the recom-
mendation of economy which appeared in it. if
they looked at the conduct of the Government, there
was little reason to believe then' sincere in the deck-
ration to which he had referred. *They had now on
the table of the House the accounts of the recent in-
crease of the salaries of the persons in various public
offices. Why was this increase made at a period
like the present ? Was it to encourage a disposition
to extravagance, and to establish the necessity of
renewing the Property Tax ? If he recollected right,
the Property Tax had been abandoned last year on
account of the return of Peace. When Bonaparte
had again made his appearance in France, the Right
Honourable Gentleman had called for the renewal
of the Tax .on account of the war then about to
commence. It was thus that it had been again
brought into operation. There was nothing to
justify its continuance now, and he hoped k would
not•he pressed on the House and on the country.
Mr. GORE LANGTON opposed the mainte-
nance of a Standing Army, and contended the pro-
.ple had a right to be wholly emancipated from the,
Property 'fax. ..An impost so unjust, and inquisitor
vial, the Ministers ought not to attempt to fix on the
shoulders ot this free country. If the Chancellor of the
Exchequer 'persisted in this design, he hoped he'
would meet, from a large majority of that House,
with that firm; manly, and coiottitut;onal resistance
which would ensurelhis defeat, and thew the value'
of that inestimable hlesbing, the British Constitution.
He wished thiyPetition to be read by the Clerk with'
a distinct and audible voice, that it might not be lost
on Ministers, who alone seemed Win ignorant of the
general feeling of the country Mutt Ib e.. 'important I
*question. • . • .
. Mr. METHUEN reminded Ministers of the feel-
ings of satisfaction with which the Prince Regent's
tecanimendasion ot economy had' been received by
.all Eughind, and w. shed them to consider with what a
scrutinizing eye Lice pco,:le would look for the fulfil-
ment of the espectatious thus excited. Having se-
condetithe Address which was moved in answer to
that Speech, on the 'present occasion he felt it to be
necessary for him to speak out. . Friendly as be.was
to the Noble Lord and to. the rest of his_Royal High-

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ness's Ministers. he mint say, were he in the .iiul.
tion of one of them, he would rerir-scor resoectfullY,
but firmly, to the Prince Regent, thrt t,e pled4e so
given must be redeemedthat there must be no mrre
excesses on the Civil List—( Hear, hear.) fir t must
have no more fanciful erections to create thew ex-
cesses, either in the form of a Pavilion or a Pati:••dr.
(Hear, hear.) Even the money paid to this ..:y
frr.m Frrnce must not be appropriated to such
purposes—it Ji I.,ngs to the country, and mutt ire
submi:ted, !u •he other Ways and M .ans of the

year, to the constitutii.nil and exclusive contrAut of

i'ArliaMeot—(//ear, h:ar.) You must also s t •n
ex trnple of that ec Army which you have r,cnrn.

mended. You must reduce your theory to pr.lctice.
for this alone is wanting to bring rut. sybtelt ro
perfection—( kar.) I3e wout,l i,irt:lar sly,
that to pursue t course the reverse r f thA: Ohs re-

commended, 'till be to produce a van: of
%%Lich ineOrrience could not palliate on the (~Its
''and, no poverty sitgitscirt on the ether—(igor )
lit thought our prospzrity would s-on ; but if
in unnecessarily piganticatilitary estahlistsment was
to be kept '1;1, he misted it rated not he Icsi3.; hel,r6
the united voice of the Representatives "t (-es Pco.
ple would carry their pa rem: ;istr ince to the (vat
'of the Throne. Puhlic spirit, lie .% as c..tivileed,
survived within these walls, and on such au irceesion
he hoped it woull'avvalte. He wtsir 4.! it to
derstirid, that wt,en he vo•cd 'or releiring tl4 Army
Estinia!es to a Committee, he had net given an
nion on the estimates themselves. He had Merely
so voted, bee uric he et:night it was only in a Com.
tn;ttee that a reduction in their ailiouilt could be
etTected.

Mr. LANIBTOII corigratillated the H use and
the country on the general feeling called forth en this
occasion, while he condoled with Ministers on their .
long :;std painful indisposition, which, howpver. was
not s.!! prising, avti?n it was cur:sidered how mart
long and severe attacks they
.had hcen ctimaellesl
sustain. lie would recommend that to them which-it:et
I:ad tried so long on the people of this country —pro.
fare bleedin4. Whether the 1 incet ra- the leech: would
do best for this purpose he did not koiw—hist p
sibly they would he abie to olea7a satisfactory
mation on this point firm corna of the Co .
ners of this very tax. In anat!•er and a batter cater
he should much admire the devoted constancy %vial
which the limourable :Member for :33:r.y, and
other Gentlemen, had stood by the r Mi.astre,;tt
friends in the present instance ; he did not unilic
their conduct won!d gain them much 41ry. The
time WAS now come when economy became ai,ver.
lutely necessary. The landholders roust now
a stand, when landlord could get no rent, the tenant
nu profit, and die pxsr no work. Those: he had 'J.:sr
mentioned, were for the present c.nno,.P., I to live n
their capital, and the last bad no resource. Vet t;
was said the poor were net -affected uy tire-Pra-tpet.y
TAX. If it pressed thus heavity on those ..n v hJn►
t icy were dependent, how
.were they to hve it
they were turned out of employ what was to Jet
them from starving. It bad been observed on a for'.
mer evening, that old men uaal to be empi..yed itt
'repairing the roads. This was no longer the cas,...
The young and the active were now constrain, .1 to
do what was horrrttrly lett for the aged Ai.
What then had been gained by th.l t'eace Tins.
Noble Lori had gained a blue rabbon and.* Mat qui.
sate—the country, nothing.
Mr. LTC I'LETON condemned the Proper 7
Tax, and c illed on the Chanzeilor ut the Exchetiu c
to abandon it.
The Petition was then ordered to lie on the table.

PeticiAns against tint Propel ty TAx, frog) 0 kink,-
ham, from the Ward of Lune-street, a..d the 80.
rough ot Tewkesbury, were pretAtated, ierd, aid or.
dered to lie on the table..