Star.
London, England, 1803-06-15 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

montltc.

Mr. HAWK t n s Stow's a pm-fasted the third Report of the Com-
mittee appointedto confider the Survey of tke Highlands of Scot-
land. which was orderad to lie an the Table. •
The CRANCELLOR of the hectic... Lora moved, that the-Hoare
Jo to-morrow refolve Weft Into a Committee of eh/Whole Rourc,
to conlider of fo much of his Majefty's Speech of the 23d of No-
vember as relates to mercantile tranfajtions.—Orilered.

He alto gave num.:, that ts• would to-morrow, hi t.ae Commit-
tee of Supply, move the Confnlidation of the Excife.
Alfo, that he would on Friday, in the .Coiunilttee of Supply,
move the Army Extraordinaries and IVBfeellancom §ervices for
England.
Mr. Corer gave notice, that be world, on Friday, In the Com-
educe of Supply, bring forward the fame Eftimates (or Ireland.
Mr. WICKHAM gave notice, that he would to-morrow move
for leave to bring Ia a Dill to regulate the Corn Trade between
this country and Ireland.
Alto, that be would on Friday move for leave to bring in a Bill
(or preventing Illegal C, nbinaxioes between Workmen in Ireland.
The Bill for fuppiying the Navy with Seamen was red a Srft
time, and ottaed to be read a feeood time to-morrow.
The Report of the Northampton Ordnance Bill was brought up
and ago* to, and the Bill ordered cobs rcada yd time to morrow.
The leim Revenue Reguladoo Bill was read a (amid time, and
ordered to be committed on-Mooday.
The Bribery Oath Bill was read a [mond time, and catered to
be committed to-morrow.
Mr. Beassaser, from the CommifSoners of Oases is &a-
but& pretested au savant of Corn exported from the soth of
March 0,03. to the IR of May following. Alfo from the Ezelfe,
the numbs of Waded Stills In Scotland. and the toothy of We&
and Spirits dallied there for the Regal& market, from the stb of
January t 801, to die sal of January z

FISH COMPANY.
A report was prefcnted from the Committee on the
Bill for the eftahlifliment of a Company to reduce the
high price of Fiat, and to efiablifh an additional
Market for the tale thereof, in the City of London.
On the motion for the fecond reading of the Bill,
Mr. Haut rote and objected to the hill, as it went
materiany to affcd the intereft of a numerous clefs
of individuals upon the tea coaft near Harwich, all
of whom, he kid, had on that account figned a re-
monfirance againft this Bill paffing into a Law. This
retnonfirancelre raid, he was ready to prefent in their
names, and hoped that the Honk, after confidering
their cafe, would not fuller any new Bill to be iuvroo
doted for the purpofe of benefiting one fet of mon,
while it tended fo much to the prejudice of others.
Mr. H lfo difapproved of the Bill, and
trolled that it would not receive the fandion of the
Houk% He however did not °Ned to the principles
of the Bill, in fo far as it tended to reduce the price
of fish in the City of London, which had there rifen
to a molt enormous height; but he difapproved of it,
as be few that it tended to render a oleo' inflitution,
denominated the Marine Society, fubfervient to that
object. This was, he raid, a focrety by which his Ma.
jetty's Navy had been upon many occations vet y much
benefited, in fa far as it had been the means of cloth.
ing and maintaining a great number of boys reduced
to unfortunate &nations, and of educating and in-
firneing them in maritime affairs, till they were fit
for his Malefly's fervice. It was fuch a society of
men, who had carried their filberies to that degree of
perfedion which they had now reached, who were
about to tic injdred by the introdudion of this Bill.
and not thole who had at this moment acquired
the total monoply of that soo4 ufeful article when
brought into the metropolis. He thought that the
moll proper mode to be followed, in order to act cr n.
faith the end propofed by this Bill, was to regulate,
properly and more aridly the preknt fish market in
the City of Leann. The Bal.bc nbfersid, bad alto

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in view an inereare of the nnmber of featren, both for

the ufe of the navy and mercantile tranf4dions ; -and
he, no doubt, hnught that flich a Company might
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hate that additiunal and beneficial effect, were thia a

tine of peace ; Inn now that we were involved in
war, he begged the Houfe to recolleet, that in the
infiruftion of two hundred boys propofed by the Bill,
a great number of men were alto retrifite for that

very purpofe of,initruaion. He tni;;ht venture to
(Ay, th.at at leao. 150 men sv.ould by this means be

prevented from affording their :infancy in the pre-
lent fituation of the cranny, at a time when the af-
&Lance both of men and boys, however uninterened

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the litter might be, WAS In loudly demanded by the
erigeueics of the Btate. He, therefore, begged leave
to move, that inftead of this Bill bzing now read a

fecond time, it thank' poftponcd day three

Sir Wm. GRARY oppofed this motion, and fop.
ported the principles of the Bill. He thought it
would neither tend to injure the Fifhermen of Har.
with; nor the Marine Society. He approved highly
of the mode propolcd to lefton the price of fißt, which '4l
he thought was far greater than it ought to he.
Though the capital of this company was intended to
be yo,oool. yet thatocircum dance was not, he thought.
to occafion a monopoly of any trade whatever. He
had no idea, however, of deluding that fet of peo-
ple employed by the Company from being liable to
be preffea into his Majelly's fervice. He thought.,
that the means held forth by the prefent Bill, offend: -
ing zoo boys to be thus educated, for the fervice of
his Majelly's Navy, was an objeCt of confiderabte
importance, and worthy the attention of the Houfc,
notwithßanding that the advantage was confidera-
bly narrowed by the war. He knew, that in the
latter,end of Taft war, the Marine Society were the
means of furnishing a great number of ufeful feamen
towards manning tbeisravyl-and he therefore thought
that (itch an objeetion againit the prefent Bill, might
be done away. It the furor of so,oool. fhould be
reckoned too great a capital, he would rather ar,ree
to limit it to tome other fuer but the more limited
that capital was, the loft good would arife from the .
Society.
Mr. H. lieowvs approved of the objet and the
principles of the Bill.
The ATTORNEY GENERAL raid, that he conld not
doubt but that the meafure propofed by the Bill would
tend to reduce the price of fifb ; but he took this op-
portunity of Rating that he thought great inconve-
nience would arife to the Houfe were they to admit
of applications of this fort being made to Parliament,
without a Charter in the regular form. It was olb
account of that irregularity that he begged to he
fluent in regard to fupporting the Bill.
The was ordered to be committed to 'a (elect
Committee above Rain, confifting of the Members for
the city of London and the maritime counties; and
the petiioners againfl the Bill were to be allowed to
be beard, c:tber by tl emielves or Coma
WAYS AND AMIS.
Mr. A cteariDEß prefented the report of the Com-
mittee of Ways and Means, on which
Lord FOLKSTONT role, for the parpore, he faid, of
making a few obfervations upon the taxes, which bad
been refolved upon by the Cpmmittee. He, for one,
had great objedionvto the fyllem of what are called
War Taxes, or fuch as were only to be continued
during the war. Such taxes might, he Paid, be very
proper and confiderate, but the giving them fuch an
appellation was. he thought, the very means of ere-
ating a relueance in the people to pay them. When
people are very anxious for war, it wait, no doubt,
fair, not to burden their poßerity with a contittuance
of Inch a mode of taxation; but as the inhabitants of
this country kern rather willing to fubmit to infuhs.
and bear with -Minifters, who were willing not to re-
monftrate, or when they did temonflrate. to &qui-
eke with the filence and total inattention with which
their remonftrances were treated; he thought it was
abfolutely wrong to lead people into a difincliisatioa
towards that war, or to create felfifh feelings to ren-
der it unpopular. This was that reafoa for his ott
jetting to the prificiplm of War Taxes, as at preens
brought forward. With refiseet to the detail, ie raid. 0
be. would not at prefentonter into it; but be only wilh-
atto avail hirnfelt of the opportunity 9f taking a view
oldie conduft (.1 his Majetty's Knitters, He objelted
is lets to the fyttem prnefed, of raying that we mutt
provide only for a defer:five war. The filing fo only,
tended to difcourage the people. and every one knew
that Rome was never better defended, than when
waging °fertile: war. The only means of .offenfive
war winch' he could difeoter that we at prefent pot-
/dyed. were three fiat was. either openly to
attack the power of France ; or. feeondly, that
we &mild attempt to conned oorfelvee with the
powers of the Continent, And to excite them to at-
tack our common enemy ; or. adly, That we &mild
endeavour to attack the Government of France, and
the principles of that Government. With refpeet to
the tilt, he thought that our means were very
(mall indeed, :tail, confequently, very fifth Lope of
Comers cool,' be entertained. We might, no doubt,
plan expeditions againit Prange. and fuceeed fo far
as to get potTefficrut of a town, or even an .Maud; but
that would no ways tend to protest us, and would be
attended with very little advantage to us in regard
to injuring the enemy. As to the fecond and third
modes of offenfive war, he contended that his Ma-
jelly's prefent Minißers were. of all others, the teal
qualified to infpire the Continental Powers with any
degree of confidence; in order to excite them to join
in, or efpc.ufe our Mae ; and they were alto the =Oft
improper fet of men to infpire confidence in any of
the Royalills in France, for the purpoleof procuring
their cooperation with thh country, to ftflks at the
Government of that country. He faid,he had Emmet,
f. rim a view of the whole tranfaakins of chair Admi-
niltration. that they not only by their words, bat by
deeds. had ahandhued an the Aries of this count,
on the one hatitglad the Rnyanna in France on the
other. Were t rtegoriation et recent to be entered
into betritt thu eonstrr and enrol' the eoetineetal

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Powers, for the woof,: of to-operation, he would
al my man, if the Minitiers of fuch Powers would
not be jottified in refuting to place any confidence in
the preient Admini arat ion,-from the manner in which
they had already sifted ? They would fay, how can we be
lure that you will not abandon us in the fame manner
in which you abandoned the King of Sardinia? In the
fame manner might the Royalifis in France objeß to
repoting any confidence in fuel' Minitters, as they
have fecn how they abandoned others in fuch a cruel
manner. Though offentive war would be the heft cal-
ell tied to animate the people of this country, our
pr incipal means of doing fo are thus in a manner de-
Wiled by loch a conduit ; but Rill :hey are his Ma-
jeay's Minitleis ; and on that account they 081 have
the confidence of his Majefty, and the fupport of this
Houle. He, for one, willed principally to aim at
the deftrunicn of the Government of France, and
therefore was an advocate for a more fpirited conduß.
He was far from imagining that the peace was a
peace of experiment, as had been Rated, but he had
all along been convinced, and the event had now
ju Rifled his conviction, that peace could not long rub-
fill betwixt the two Governments. In our prefent
fituaiion, however, he was inclined to think that fuc-
cefs might yet follow our undertakings againfl our
ambitious foe, could we infpire all the Continental
Powers, as well as the People of this Country. with
confidence and ardour in our caufe, by openly and
avowedly, without any concealment whatever, pub.
lifting it to the world, that our fixed deterthination
was the deftruktion of the Government of France.
Mr. Gazona role, and Rated to the Houle Come
particulars of the propofed taxes, which be did not
perfectly under gland from the fp:ech of the Right
Hon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and begged
to have a farther explanation.
The CHANCELLOR of the Prettify'', in explana-
tion, raid, that it was propofed to raife 4,f00,0001. as
voted in haft Parliament for war rues; and it was
propofed in the prefent feffion to add the tom of
6, too,oool. to the former, as the growing produce of
the Confolidated Fund to the 4th of April, teetts. He
Paid, that this was not the time for entering into a
minute confideration of what the Hcn. Member had
alluded to ; and he owned that he could not as prefent
do it with fufficient accuracy to fatisfy the lipuCe as
to every particular information whichanight be requir-
ed; but he was perfeetly teadv and willing at prefent,
if it was Witted on, to Rate the grounds on which he
founded the Itatemint which he had fubmitted to the
Commitieeof Waysand Means, previous to the Chrift-
ma: mgrs. The Hon. Gentleman who had Rated that
be (the Chancellor) had held out to Parliament ex.
peßations of a fury us arifing from the Confolidated
Fund of t,500,0001. had been millaken in making
fuch a Itatement, for no Rich e!pedations were ever
held out by him to that circa. There were two refo-
lotions which his begged to advert to more particu-
larly s As to the duty on wine it was propoled to
snake it the fame as in the year t 795, and be had
therefore Rated it at tol. per ton,
which
would pro-
duce no leis that half a million to Government. As
„to the duty cm Tea, he had Rated yefterday that it
was intended to propcie an augmentation equal to the
whole amount of the fubfifting duties which would
make it 45 per Cent. ad wahrefa on the finer kind, and
:3 per Cent. no the coarfer, which would produce
one three hundred thoufand pounds. He
begged, however, to mention, that from the prefent
reiolutions it would appear, that a duty of no lefs than
45 per Cent. was at fief intended to be impofed upon
all Teas, bothfute and toad, by which it was left in
the power of the Committee to reduce the taxation,
if they thought proper, in the manner which he bad
yetierday propofed, and which he had jolt now re-
Rated. The rafou why this duty had been put fo
down in the refolutions was, that it had been at firft
faggetled to him, that by making a difference in the
taxation on the fine and the coarie Tea, it would be
a :mans of affording an inducement to dealers in that
article to adulterate the fine, fo as to comprehend it
within the inferior delcription. This, however. be
had thought mott proper to leave to the coofidera-
tion of the Houle.

Mr. WILLIAM SMITH rote, he Paid, only to lay in
his claim to oppofe, on folic future day, feveral of
the taxes in detail ; kr however much he might ap-
prove of the fyftem of war taxes in general., he was
!till inclined to think that there were many articles of
luxury, and even pernicious articles of luxury, which
ought with equal propriety to be taxed, as well as
thofe which had been dated to the Houfe.

MT. BASTARD obferved, that he fincerely hoped the
Right Hon. Member would ,prove himfelf to be as
rigorous and determined in 'Trending the money pro.
perly, as he had been in Rating and calculating the
!um which he had found prudent to exaa.
Mr. Wu. Durnas Rated, that as the barley in
Scotland was of an inferior quality when compared
with that produced in England, if the duty on that
article were to be the fame in both countries, it would
injure the Agriculture in Scotland, by difcouraging
the cultivation of it. He therefore lhould propofe,
that the duty on Barley, in Scotland, fhould be 'halt
of that to be impofed in England. He thought the
tax on barley would be more than the Scotch farmer
could bear, and that in confequence the growth of it
would be climinfhed in that part of the country.
Sir R. BUXTON fold, be was one of thole who would
vote Cufficient turns for earning on the War, bin he
thought-it fhould be dont with as much regard to
pub,tc ;on venience: as pi. fible. Inlisad of the tax
oa barley, he would recommend an additional Ramp
duty on Country Bank Notes.
Mr. FERGUSON adverted to the inferiority of Scotch
barley, and thought the tax was too high.
Sir W. Esti:nu) found fault with the tax on land.

Central GA nova a raid, every Gentleman took that
opportunity of mentioning his dirapprolutioo of filch
taxes as they did nor like, and he Ihould therefore ex.
prefs bis objciftiln to the tax lin fugar, which he
thought was now become a nec.frary of life, and
which he thought was inSniiek too high.
Lord G. L. Cowes expretred his difapptobation
and Inquire at the duty on malt. After the number
of petitions which had been piefented aga:nil it laR
year, he uas ialoiti.hed the WO; Neu. Grntiernan
OouiJ thick of making 14 be.. ry an addition t. it.
Mr. 131111111/NCtulll lAM, be could not avoid taking
oppoi tinily of siring his decided ditapproba-
elfin of the lottery, attach be cioduieled as • highly
piejudicial to the moral, the people, and a rook
rd raifins money a/Lich, in a commercial country like
nob be fanned in, as it encoutai;ed p„,
ir 25 sp.!, in faa, in loam degree, arca; lb tar as to Ic-

galife It, though thslaw Ins very &vere aphid every
other tpecies of gambling.
Mr. Joust STOW s laid, that nntwithftanding fo many
Hon. Gentlemen had given their decided opinion in
favour of railing a certain and confiderable part of
the fupplies within the year, he could not bring him-
kV to fee that meafure in the fame point of view.—
Tbishe knew, that it had been the praaice of all na.
tions to raife money by loans, as long as they could.
He could not but objed to the whole of the Ways and
Means; for large and unprecedented as the demands
were which the Chancellor of the Exchequer had
made on the Country, he was convinced in his own
mind they would not anfwer. Reafoning, he laid,
upon all experience, it was too much to airtime that
the old taxes (hall be as productive as thcy were be-
fore. He then went into a confideration of the taxes
ax laid down by the Right Hon, Gentleman, and con-
tended. that from the flatement of the Right Hon.
Gentleman, there would be a deficiency of two mil-
liens. He eked, how the Right
,Hon. Gentleman
could pretend to fay the annual expence would be
only 26 millions? The eftabliihment of loo,ncto fca-
men was not complete, nor would b; this year. It
was the lame with our army and militia : fo that, he
contended, the expences of the War this year only,
would be 3o millions. For taking three-quarters of
a year, the cons incurred could not be lefs than 26
millions; and from that confideration be infified that
he bad a right to airtime, that the War cannot be ear-
-1 tied on at a lets expence than 4.r) million, a year. He
laid. he did not fcruple to give his opinion that we
might at this moment have been at peace. either by
permitting Malta to remain for a term of years in our
hands. or by ceding it into thore of Rui:Ga ; and he
could not but condemn Miniaers for having plunged
the conntry into a war. as In; thought it of very little
contkquence whether ;dittos was in the bands of the
Ruffians or in our own.

Mr. VANSITTART begged leave to make a few ob.
fervations on what had fallen from the Hon. gentle:
man who fpoke hail. He asked the Hon. Gentle Man
if he could lay his hand on his heart and far, that if
peace had been preferved by giving up4ta, that
peace could have been preferved fix months longer
He infifled the lion. Gentleman was very far out in
his calculeation, wheel he contended that the war
would colt 4o millioni a year, for that no one year of
the laft war, even the ma expenfive, had con more
than 33 millions. He faid the-Hon. Gentleman had
not Rated the matter fairly, when he had faid that
th-. Chancellor of the Exchequer had eftimated this
year at no more than 26 millions; the proportion laid
down for England and Ireland was 27 millions for
the former, and little more than three million} for
the latter, which was taking it at one m Ilion higher
than his Right Hon. Friend had done. He then went
into a ltatement of the fums which the GJvernment
had to meet the feveral exigencies, vie.
CanfoUdated Fund * 4.6.500,c0n

AEOCIOSt---Ot TEM= longer rubju tto EtitiCkLeig7i -7
3,700,000
Remainder tithe produce of Lottery - toopoo
War Tales • - - - s ansoo,cze
Which taken together amounted to za,soo,oool. Co
that the whole expenditure of the war would be corn•
pletely defrayed; and he hopcd that until peace can
be concluded with honour and fecurity to the country.
the Houfe will not be induced to lofe fight of thole
effetual means which bad been In unanimoufly re-
forted to, and which could not fail to enable us to
profecute the war with vigour and 'fleet.
Mr. Barmaid. faid, that in the prefent critical fi-
tuition of the country, he was of opinion that the
Houle fhould be liberal in voting '
fupplies. If a
t*entieth is wanted it fhould be given, and if that
won't do, Minifters ought to have more. He thought,
however, there ought to be an equal tax on fugar in
general; and he had no doubt he fhould be able to
prove, that the intereft of the .revenue and every
other confideration,require the tax to be on the value,
and not on the quantum.
Mr. Moots faid, that whatever the taxes of the
country amounted to, they muff he paid; and it was
much to the honour and happinefs of the country to
refledl, that the opinion was unanimous, of our being
very well able to pay them.
Mr. Fu LLIR thought the tax on fugars would bear
very hard on the Planters, and that if the Mande
were vifited by droughts, to which they were Come.
times liable, they would find it very difficult to pay it.
Mr. jnertsrowx faid, that in anfwer to the queflion
put to him by an Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Vanfittart),
he thought the peace would have held fix months,
and that it was as likely to have held as any peace
we can make now. He had been charged with hold.
ing out the language of defpnndency, but he thought
there was a charge of a much more railchievoue kind
attributable to others, which was that of inflaming
the minds of the people in order to plunge them into a
war, the effeas and confequences of which they will
long and feverely feel. He contended that the fiatc-
rnents of the Hon. Secretary were not correft.
Mr. VAN si explained.
. Mr. Dear allied the Chancellor of the Exchequer
why foreigners were excepted from the tax on funded
property?
TheCreawc eid.ort of the E x cif rizi ER faid.ht wiffied
foreignersto be excepted becaute they were not charge-
abb with any other tax. The principle on which
Brit ifh fubjeets were taxed in :his refped was. becaufe
they were liable to all other taxes, and it was his ob-
jeet at prefent in tax all Brit& property in as equal
a degree as poffible. Foreigners were not reprefented
in that Houle, but Placed a confidence in the honour
and jutlice of the nation, and therefore he thought
foreigners sere well entitled to the exemption from
this t-x, and to receive their divide:4 without any
diminution whatfoever.

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Mr. DINT acquicfced M the juftice of the argu-
aunt, and rcafims given by the Right Honourable
Gentleman ; but thought it might be produBive of
conliderable frauds. as &kith •tibjeas might place
large fums in the Funds in foreign names, and by
that means evade the tax.

The CIi•XCELLOIL of the Excasnosa admitted.
that the matter would require great precaution ;
but fill the exception was abfoluttly neceffary. What
precautions would be revitte, however, it was not
now the proper time to
Hr. Ca Lettere, raid, he Amgen the exception was
highly honnuralik to the charafter of the nation, as
well as to the Rizlit Hun. Gentleman who had made
it. He eonfiderc,l tLis as an Income Tax, not as a
tax on the kinds, ntl.erwife foreigners would be liable
to it. He thought the Property of thole who have
placed money in tl.l f.tr.cis from national cnnfidente,
and who were nut r,:rrefected irs that Houk, thould

be held Nem& and fpecially protetted, and fuch a
conduct was truly worthy and dercriptive of the dig:
nified feelings of the Houfe in circurnftances..ot
exi-
gency.
Mr. NV. SMITH approved of the principle of not
taxing the property of foreigners in our funds. He
could not, however, avoid mentioning his difappro•
bation of the principle of the Income Tax—the in-
quifirorial part of particularly. fie thought it the
molt oppreffive and unjuft that was ever laid on by a
Britith Moore of Commons i
.and if the Right Hon.
Gentleman had in opportunity of heating the fend-
ments of 'the vartouslTes of people be had done,
that Right Hon. Gentleinan would alto he convinced
how feverely it was reprobated by a raft majority of
the people. He thought this tax might have been
avoided, and a larger revenue railed by laying a
larger tax on malt ; and he wished the Chancellor of
the Exchequer had tried that experiment, as he was
convinced it would hats been found mualb more pa
pularl
The Ctimicattna of the Excueopla raid, it was
very much his with that taxes (hould be railed with as
much regard to the feelings of the people as poffible.
The Hon. Gentleman had laid, that by making on
additiOn to the duty on Malt, the inquifition of the
other tax might be avoided ; but it would be a great
injuilice to the tirewers to levy Inch. a tar, without
admitting them to the right of railing the price of
beer. The rife could not Well be lefs than a half.
penny a pot, or as. 6d. a barrel, which would be
prothittive of inordipate profit tp the brewers; and if
Ton did cot allow them to mite the price, you would
be guilty of great injuSice. He bad taken the greeted
polable care, he faid;in modifying the tax, fo as not
to affect perfong pottered of that defcription or pro-
perty below yo/. a year. With repea to the difcics-
fore, he regretted it; but if you awe a ta; of that
kind. it was =potable to ereft its chief purpofes with-
out examinatiaiii, and you mulls therefore adbpt one
Or other of thele alternatives of having a difcloftwe, or
exempting it altogether. If any Gentleman will turn
their minds to the robjed, and cr devife any other
mode he would be glad to adopt it. It had ever been
his moll ardent and anxious with td carry public feel-
ing and public opinion along with him: for while he
was determined to look all our difficulties fairly in
the face, be was convinced that, with the public feel-
ing in its rayons., the &roof Goviistnent, or rather
the arm of thil great country, molt prove irrefdlible.
Mr. W. SMITH Paid a few words in explanation.—
The report was then brought up, the rerolutions read
and agreed to, and Bills ordered to be brought in on
the fame.
Mr. WILLIAM SMITH thought, that if the tax was
taken off the beer. aad with fome addition laid Ou the
, Malt, it would not he ft) obnoxious, as it would then
extend to the private brewers, and-a fuldlitute for this
tronblefomc tax on Income might be thus provided.
Mi. Basuto row Rated, that from his experience,
as a Commit/loner of the Income Tax, he had no
doubt, that had it been fairly and equally colleted,
it would not have been unpopular, for the ground of
complaint generally was, that one man paid more
than his neighbour.
The refolittions being read and agreed to, Bills
were ordered on thirteen of them.—Adjourned.