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London, England, 1816-03-19 00:00:00

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Sir G. HEATHCOTE denied that other mean/
than those that were perfectly fair had been used to
gain partizans. All were anxious, be their party Or
cause what it might, to impress .their sentiments
upon, and to give the support of others. He ap
proved of the Meeting, and as a friend to his coun-
try. Ise had been anxious to collect the voice of the
people. He was no candidate for office, he 'could
assure the benches opposite; he would not be a Mi-
nister of the country—(a laugh)—no, not for the
mines of Peru.—(4 largh, and Hear, hear.)
After some furtlier observations from Mr. Bun-
RFLL, Sir R. Hettom, and Sir C. Isiosicx—
Lord G. CAVENDISH bore testimony to the
truth of Sir R. Heron's statement, respecting the
requisition, he having requested- the Hon. Baronet
to affix his name to it.

PRv•U

book* at £lOO 2-year and uPwarls t Hen, ,1.-ar);•—•
and every body knew that tbe eottuty of Perth tsar
One of the mcst Wealthy in Scotland, at. I the met-
ing Was attended those Whu bard to pAy the T.tx,
and consequently felt its oppression.
A Member wished to know witat the object of the
Prayer of 6is Petition was, as. he had not h for.
tunate enough to hear it distinctly ? t!l2 pcorle
of Perth wish to tike the burthen upon til,,nsclres,
or to throw it off ?

A portkn of the Petition was rrtd aglin ; it te.
presented the indigpensihle neceesity nr;difying
the Tax in a manner suitable to the Income of tho
Landitold,•r.

Lord CASTLE-REACH observed, that Gentle.
men opposite, while the Petit' .n was readiii,,„ p 111
no attention to it. He thc.tmtit this rry...de of receiv-
ing the Petitions of the people weis n )it decorous:—
they ought to be listened to, wh item- they
ought. That they m;4ltt tut:ler-4:1111 the
sentiments of the one br4ore the I roost!, he should
desire the Clerk to read it again. -- (Mt,. no, from the
opt:mite side).
It was however read again, when ire collected,
that after stating the fortitude with w;lich the Peti.
rkners had !rime the b trrhttic of the war, they es.
pressed their conviction, that no impati•nce, or no.
tions of false economy, woulj of anpt them to re;);:itt,
under whatever neat scary regulations the war it;td
entailed on thym —(llear, hear, from Lord Carets-
re.t4).-1t added, that the Petiti..ners would ' .va
rejoiced if the return of 1•••• ace li id eoabled Govern.
meat t.) reduce the burtheos of the country ; and they
silould have been most g: Iteful if ether tneaos c. uld
have been des is:d for relieving public credit ; but
they apprehend?Li that no slich stilisitute coati be
fount.—(Near, hrar.from the ,1171a.urcial side).—Tuey.
would therefore diet-Lin:ly suhinit tt, toe ttec,.•+',t of
the Tat, provi!ed kstsmold m
fiCti as to reconcile its ogeration to the-nie:ms ef each
:I,:i.t,dnals so tl at essential relief he afforded to the

Petition ordered to lie on the table..
Mr. ATHERLY- pretiented a Petition from.:
Southarnoton (not signed by paupers and children)
against the Property 'rax, the Petitioners thinking
their former pt•tation had bees lost.
•Lord FOLKSTONE said, the Petitioners' were
respectable people, not paupers, hut persons affeeicti
by the Taz.—Ordered to lie on the table.

Lord LASCELLE3 presented a Teti: ion received
in the morning Irorn expiessinp reliAnce on
the wisdom of Patliainent, and praying for a modi-
fied I'az on Property, as the best means of Tatbiiig
the sum requirod.
L, rd MILTON &di, the Petition was not akvreed
to at s fuer Too petition was prepared, and t!,e
cryer went ~b-,n t d: siring the p:•,:p!e to go to the
Hail to ;Agit tile p('ti.ion, to compel the Re-
presentaiives to pay far toe poor.—(Tar, hear.)
Lori L.15CF.1.1.::.8 knew not:.i.t.; of the mears
by v.hicb tht Psi I tilt Ih: been 4)1-..t:liiied, or signed.
(Year, liewr.)—th•lercd to lie on the tablo.
Sir C. pies..itei a Petition from Mot-
NottOunibarlAild, against the,Privrl/4y Tax.—
()tiered to liq on the table. •

Lord MILTON presented the Petition from i
County of York, against the Property Tax. For th..
Last 36 )ears a County M. titng lutd not been called,
as v... 11 titan Cie extent ot the Conaty, the great and
coadieting interests witnin it, as from' the feeling
that siich Meeti•!gs ow,Cit not to he called bat it2on
de frio,t important o:casient. It was said them
were b:;(20 Freehold. rs piesent at the Cazale.
wits sure these weir ;those .ItXX). Among then! were
atuly good friends ot the Government--but there
we some dimientie:it voices, and a few hands held
I di) against it.
Lord LASCELLES thought it right to say, that
wh avvvr 1;:e governing niutire of those pr.
t.OIIJ Whf .t id away, the meeting was not attended
by any Cyt Laic:lien on die opposite side. The Meet-
rrainly fteryllrlyet4l4reinett'andiiiiiiarir
t. satr nothing more. than that the Petition was that
,•in Inc County o• York.

Lord G;...OIiSIE CAVEND.MI-1 slid, the Peti.
hi. opinion, ti:e feme of the whole
wh:ch could not have been more fisily•col•
n•cted, s t'.e inec.ing to k place in the middle of the
The l'etitirm was then read. Its prayer was,
the I-I':ts.• vuuld 'abolish every vestige of the
Property T. Z. and adopt, witnsent Lim; of time, the
s'aictest ecorminy in every deprrtmen7, in purstritice
nt recommend.it.on front tl.e throne.

Mr. DRU:vIMOND moved for leave to present a
Petition how the Lindholders, Ste. of the County of
Parth. On being'brom;lit up ..nd read, its prayer
s, emed to be, to obtain reliet far the I,•nded interest
of that,contity, but ex;iressinf! an inefinarion to sub-
mit to the (pc rty Tax a; a measure of expediency,
it no to :ttcr sub•tit•rie could be found.
though he did not exactly
'add. ••••taiid the purport 4,lthe Petition, supposed it to
cont.iin sure apprehension, that the tax was about to
be imposed on the people of that county. But he
thought the H Buie should be set right as to the na-
lure of Scotch Petitions, of which this was a notable
iiistlnce. In the populous county of Perth Mere were
not more than 200 freeholders, and out of this num-
ber out more than 2...) or 3d had signed the petition.
He, would put it to the House, wnether the opinion
of these persons could be considered as the tense of
'the whole county ?
Ir. DRUMMOND said the petition WAS signed
by 41 -persons—( Wear, hear, from Ow orpositint benchet.)
3r G. WARRENDIA. said the Scotch meetings
were always attended by as respectable Gentlemen as
any in the kingdom ; and the oainions they expressed
ought as much to be attended to as those who signed
any other petitions whatever. They ought not to be
spoken of with that ridicule which the lion. Gentle-
Tließ.on the. other side were so crintinually inclined to
t'irow oirt upon what differed from their own senti•
mews. The pctiii uers appeared to view this tax as
more likely to relieve them tit m the depression nn•
der wiitell they laboured thin any other tax that could
b: levied ; and the House ought to judge of petitions
from the character and situations of the persons inte-
rested in the prayers of them. In this case, the peti-
tion eras front freeholders, who were persons that paid
two-thirds t.f the tax.
Central FERGUSON explained.
Mr. BA Rlhl.; ttiontin it owns a Petition in favour
of theyrop.aty Tax, provided it was so modified as
not ,olouch the Petitioncrs at ail. It nos rmark-,
abbe that there were only two Petitions that the House,
had -heard of at all in favour of the Tax, this from
Perth, "id one from Sheffield. the meeting fer'which
had been summoned by a belleman, and both of.
which soy in effect. that they wish it to be levied as
hard as you please on the people in general, so that
they themsavea are excluded.
Lord BINNING protested against the invectives
in which the Gentlemen opposite continually indoleed
on the Property Taz. He telt proud at th, spir t
and patriotism displayed by the people of Scotland.
wituld tell the .Honourable Gentleman oppostie,
that the.. Commissioners .of SUpply iri Scod-nd in.
eluded the *hole of the goitleman in that pa-t of
the Empire, who had property used in the Kiusio

• ~tr:l:ltural Interest—(Hear, hear, fr9:7l ()Masi.
regard to the assessments on the profits
tram the cultivation of the toil.
Mr. BURRELL said a few words. He described
all the persons who bad signed the Petition withiii
tour miles of his estates, to be bankrupts, except otie.
Mr. PONSONSY said he bid itstmed carefully
to the reading of the Petition the fi:st tita ::n..1 he
thought he understood it ; but scull he ;lid not know
on whom the Petitioners would wish the T.:a to be
levied. He hope 4, however. very shortly to see in
what respect the Noble Lord really held the opinion
of the people :it large; for he could see at present.
by the Noble Lord's conduct, in cheering the pas.
rages of this Petition, what scale henthooght prepon-
derated ; but it remained tb be ascertiti:led whi-Jtet.'
Vie Representatives of the country would vote for or
against the measure.
Sir G. CLERKathought the Honnorable General
opposite ((kneral Feigitsoti) had thrown out !mite
general insinuations against the people of Scotland
than were justifiable. Tice Petitiln was most re-
spectably signed. He &Mei that the object of the
Petition was to remove the burthen from their own
shoulders.

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Mr. FORBES was opinion that the Petition wat
as niucti against the Tax as for it. The Tat
was as severely levied in Scotlsnd as in Eiglandi
and the people ra:d it there as cnnscientiously.
After a few words from 4r. BARING and Mr. R.
ABEiIeItOMBY, the Petition was ordered to lie on thy
Table, as was one from the town of Lowth.

THE PETITION FllOl4 THE CITY OF LONDON.
Sir W. CURTIS, from the Opposition side, said
he rose to move for leave to- present a Petition from
the Islet chants. Bankers, and Traders of the city of
Lend...). It was a week or ten daps ago since the
Petitioil hid been left for signature, and it was ki
the recollection of many Gentlemen in that House
thai there never was a meeting so respectable as.that
which took place at the Mansion House, nor one at
which the attendants were so determined to pederast
their duty in petitioning against this odious tax.—
This Petition, it ought to be recollected, was the
work of the same body of people who, in 1795, came
forward to encourage the Government of the coun-
try at a mast awful crisis, and who, by their resolu-
tions, revived the spirit of the capital. The same
persons held several other meetings in the course of
the war, as at the time of the mutiny, and on other
occasions, and by their loyal resolutions, gave con-
fidence not only to the minds and spirits or the Gen-
tlemen in that House, but to the country at large.-:-•
In 1798, when this tax was proposed, and,when
stocks were so low that a loan could not be raised
with advantage,. it was unanimously resolved that
great bcne6t would be derived irons raising the sup-
plies 'within thelear ; on which tl:.; Right amour-
able Gentleman, now no more, had founded hiss bill
for the Property Tax. He declared it to be a war
tax, to continue during the war, and no. longer. He
was therefore ast,aiished to hear the manner in which
his Right kl,nourable Friend opposite had made use •
of the words no longer," which he considered as a
paltry trick. He would not disguise that that Muse
and all the people in the country looked upon it as a
war tax ; they never would hve, allowed themselves
to undergo the oppressive inquisition which no Bri•
ton could or ought to bear, if they bad not thought
it was to be abolished in peace. There never was a
more respectable Meeting, and out of the twenty•two
thousand persons who had signed the Petition; there
'was not an individual who did not Gel and know his
own situation. Why should not, the motley be raised
by other means I What was the dill, fence whether
it was raised by loan, or taken out of the pockets
the people who could not afford to buy stock. There
was not a Mercantile man who did not feel the tee
.null as deep as any oth r ahongh they mad*
shift to pay it, because they probably had more•
means than other people. But, after all that could
be said, 'it was an o:uacxious t4x, that the .peorle.4.
this country ought not now tc bear. He (Ns WM.
Curtis) Was moo Sit the Himissiti, 'Cuomo tibia

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