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idea..wisi to rake 76 6b off the 17s. now •levied on
*Z- house'. .
•-• • '• in*-MISWer to a question from Mr. WYNN& the
Lght Honourable Gentleman said, no retrospective
operation was intended where the tenant had received
- ato profits; but it•was obvious that this Mutt be matter
of detailed arrangement.
- Lord 'CASTLEREAGH desired to explain, that
the observations which be had addressed on the pre.
ceding diy to the House upon this part of the Wen-
ded modifications, were of a nature that entirely cor-
responded with the statement of his Right Honour.
able Friend, viz that the practical operation of the
new system of valuing the Tenant's Income Tar,
combined with the other proposed relief, would be to
redeem him altogether from the burthen he had
hitherto sustained under the Property Tax. The
whole of the new Tax would be but CO ou a farm
of 4600 a.year.
Mr. FORBES said he was in some doubt whether
we ought to be considered in a state of peace or not;
but he would venture to ask the Noble Lord why the
Property Tax was suffered to expire last year, at the
conclusion of the war, it it was necessary now at the
conclusion of another war ? He desired also to in-
quire of the Right Honourable Gentleman (the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer) whether it was his real in.
teution to suffer the Taz to expire at the end of two
year?
Lord CASTLEREAGH observed, that the only
reason why his Majesty's Ministers bad not proposed
a continuance of the Tax at the period al piled to,
was, that they conceived an equal sum might b.:
raised by means less oppressive to the suhject. He
• did not believe. however, from the sensation created
by his Right Honc;otable Friend's budget on that
occasion, that there were many persons in the country
desirous of seeing that eeperiment renewed.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
Aid, he had certainly no intention of proposing the
continuance of the 'lean tor a longer time than two
years, although be hid once thought three years the
proper period.
In an, 'ger to a question from Mr. WHARTON, the
Right Honourable Gentleman said, that every dis-
positi in would be manifested in the Committee for
applying the measure with. due reference to the situa-
tion'of Landlords may have made. advances to
their Tenants.
Sir WERTON BR YDGES defended himself
against a misrepi esentation that had gone abroad,
and -4 which he had been made to say, that his con-
itooents agreed with him in his approbation of a
ebnienued tax on iiriperty. His constituents had re-
linonstrated with bon in consequence of this miscon-
ception. and he was 11'4 averse to stare openly, that
whatever his own private opinion might be on a sub-
ject of this nature, he slioaid feel himselt bound to
aimed to the instructions of his constituents.
Mr. TIERNEY was anxious to put one more ques.!
non to• the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in order to
e ttisfy a considerable uneasiness existing in the pub.
Lt: mind. His question was—were the late Assessed
"r:aes to be resorted toby his Majesty's Ministers, if
the Property Tax SD' Wel be rejected by Parliament
He believed the Right Hon. Gentleman must be
aware' that the triple assessment, under the, present
circumstances of th.= country, was not to be relied on
for any thing like its former produce. The attempt
to carry it would probably be as unsuccessful as the
former with respect to income ; but if it should be
carried, he believed the Right Hon. Gentleman would
bac. is little to congr itulate himself under the head
of revenge as under that of finance.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
bad lie,•er expressed any such intention as that im-
p ited to him by the Right Hon. Gentleman, and he
was certainly unwilling to anticipate any thing so
unfortunate for the-country as the rejection of the
Property r..x.—(A 101)44—Should such a misfor-
tune occur, it would be then early enough to consider
what the wisdom cf. Parliament ought to substitute.
CHARGES AGAINST LORD ELLIINSOROVOR.
• Lord COCHRANE rose, pursuant to notice, to
'Uhl forward his promised 'Charges against Lord
Ellenborough. The Noble Lord observed (under
great apparent agitation) that when he recollected
• the imputations cast upon his character, on a certain
occasion—the proceedings which took place in the
Court of King's Bench, an the trial respecting Charles
Itandorn de Berenger and others, and the infamous
• ntence passed upon him in that instance, with his
1.• ctual endeavours to persuade the House, to n-
esse that trial—when. he called to mind his expulsion
from that House.when he recollected the degrada-
tion he had undergone in his profession, in that navy
io whose service he had passed so Many years, and
whose glory was the pride of his life—when he reeol-
lected how he had also been deprived of the Order of
aim Bath, conferred, on him for -services done to his
country—when he reflected on all this, he felt it im-
possible to speak.without such emotions as overcame
fun.—[H,re the Noble Lord was for some mo•
exiits interrupted by the evident force of his feelings,
until encouraged by the cheers of the House.]--
but under all the circumstantes of the subject, he :At
it necessary to propose that the House should enter
into a revision of his case, and therefore he proposed
so bring torward certain charges against the Chief
Judge of the King's Bench, by whom he conceived
boneelf to have been so ill treated. Into the details
os those charges he did not, however, propose to•en-
kr at peseta, but merely to lay them on the table,
with • view to call the attention of the House to a
wnsideration of their merits upon a future day. This
wresidevatine bethought due,nut only in justice to him-
elm gold the Learned Judge, but to that House also.
• Fur h he were really guilty of the fraud imputed to him
be seas not worthy to sit in that House. But he trusted
ghat he should be able to shew that he had had no
eounectiou whatever with that fraud. Indeed he was
wet only iu iwiss....ssion of docasueni.s to demonstrate
his it.not.euce ; but he was conli;lent it. would appear
from an investigation in progress elsewhere, who were
the petrels leap implicated in that fraud. At pre:-
Lowever, he should not call upon the House w.
orals el unto particulars, but 1314. 'sly move that he should ,
he ailoweel to lay wa the Table certain 'barges against
th C: tcl Ja4e of the -King's Bench with respect to ,
Slur ILIA of Charles Random De &tenger and mbar '
atcovog him (Lord Elleoborough) of partiality and
„mit peristauou, injustice ant oppression was the -
sae If
'he SPEAKER. ••••14If the Noble Lord has any
aisaree to edVIONISS 444RiliNS arj sadivaa4.4kmagei,

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he will. ai a Matter Of right, 'dirtier the &trot at
the Table."
Lord COCHR.ANE thee advapced to the Table,
and delivered the charges to the Clerk, who was.,pro-
ceeding to'read them, when his Lordship- observed.
that u they were very voluminous, it might not he
necessary to go through them, but merely to read
the heads.
The SPE A KER interposed and stated, that when-
. ever any charget were presented at the Table, it vias
quite impossible for the House to proceed without
being acquainted with the whole of their contents.
The charges were then read thmughout:
The Ant charge referred to the conduct of Lord Ellenbnrough.
en the first day of** trial, in !dosing to postpone the hearing
of counsel for the defence until the next day, at hough Mr. Ser-
jeant Best and others bad declared their Inability to do justice to
the cause of their, clients, from the exhausted stare in which they
were at twelve o'clock at night, after an attendance of twelve or
thirteen hours. But still that Lord Ellenborough rejected their
application, on the ground that several public Officers, inducting
the First Lord of the Admiralty and the Utider Secretary of
State, were present, in order to be examined as witnessts, and
that their satendanoe en the next day would be inconveniens to
the public husioess of the country, and yet that those Officers
were actually not examined until the next day.
The second charge contained an accusation against Lord
Ellenborough, of improperly identifying all the parties prosecuted
upon the said trial. •
The third charge related to the draft for £474, found to the
possession of De Berenger, and that from the conduct of Lord
Ellenborough, in his charge to the Jury, it was impossible for
them to determine by whom that draft waseiven.
The fourth charge stared that the Lord Chief Justice had im-
properly and unwarrantable assumed the fact, that the Bank
notes found on De Berunger belonged to Lord chranst and that'
be evaded the evideine which would have contradicted such aim
assumption on the part of Lord Ellenborough.
The fifth charge stated, that the Lord Chief Justice had un-
truly and vindictively insinuated to the Jury that Lord Cochrane
In disclosing the nan:e of De Berenger supposed hku at the time
out of the country.
The sixth charge affirmed, that Lord Ellenborough bad un-
warrantably and unduly insinuated to the Jure that the menus
ass•gned by Lord Cochrane for the leave of absence obtiffied
by him, in the months at behroary and March, 1814, were
qtly a colouring to draw off the attendee of the Jury from the
matter at issue. •

The seventh charge stated, that the Lord Chief Janice bad
misrepresented the declaration voluntarily Weil by Lord
Cleeii-
rane, of the circunutence of being seen in eumpany with Mr.
Cochrane Johnstone and Mr. Butts on the morning of the List
February, leis.
Ihe eighth charge alleged, that tho Lord Chief Justice had
unduly and unwarrantably controverted the declaration en oath
of Lord Cochrane, relative to the traneactleas of the situ of tic-
bruary, and had repeated the fallacious arguisseets made use of
on sthe ,übject by the Counsel for the prosecution.
The eintb charge declared, that Lord El?taboret's?' had re-
peatedly, unwarrantably, and unjustly, represented to the Jury,
that Lord Cochrane s declaration on oath, nllative to the transac-
tions of the list of February, was unworthy of credit.
The tenth charge imputed to Lord Elleaborough that he had
.unwariantably and unfairly objected to Lord Cochraue's data.
ration on oath respecting the letter which he bad received from
his brother. Major Cochrane, dated Miamian 1814, and that
be had treated it as unseerthy of credit.
Mr eleventh charge stated, that the Lord Chief Justice bad
unjustly represented to the Jury the evidence on the part of Lord
Cochrane, relative to the origin of his acquaniteace with &mi-
ser, as unworthy of credit.
'I he twelfth charge asserted, that the Lord Chief Justice bed
injuriously passed over without comment, that part of the AM.
davit of Lard Cochrane which stated, that when he hesitated o
receive Berenger on board his ship, the hater called to his recd.
lectlon the certificates and recommendations which he had too.
nicely brought from Lord Yarmouth, and other official pa ;
and that lie (Lord Ellenborough) had misrepresented the evidence
of the Hon. Alexander Murray to that particeiar point.
The thirteenth charge accused Lor4. fillentxwough of baying
passed over the solemn declaration of Lord Cochrane on oath,
that be bad not seen Berenger in the red coat. star, and order,
which he was said by witnesses to have worn.
Atter the charges had been read, the Spritacit
wished to know from the Noble Lord what course he
intended to take on them

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Lord COCHRANE said, that for the present he
should only move that they be printed. He did not
think it right to take any further proceedings on them
until Members had an opportunity of examining the in
deliberately, which t►.ey could nut do Isom the cur-
sory manner in which they had been read. He then
moved that they be printed.
The SPEAKER asked who seconded the motion ?
General MATHEW replied, that though uncon-
nected with either of the parties concerned, and nearly
unacquainted with the circumstances of the case,
having been out of the Empire when transactions al-,
laded to took place, he would second the motion.—
He thought there could be no objection on the pan
of the Noble Lord against whom the charges had,
been made.--The motion was then agreed to. ,
The SPEAKER asked what day the Noble Lord
would appoint for taking those charge/ into consi-
deration

Lord COCHRANE replied, that he would not
then name any day, until the printed copies of the
charges should be in the possession of the Members
of the House.

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