The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-03-04 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

Mr. Hutchison. preseatevi as Atomise of all the 11.1•11-notes
and Mast Pew-bills lased from the Hoak of Ragland gime the
let of Jimmy, 1519.—Ordered to be laid as she table.
SOIL COFPIN proseword varisia• Petition frost difereot
Parishes is Mimmsetioeire. prairie( that so otherwise might
take piste is the Miles vs Canal mud Cola carried coastwise
laid ma the table.
Br. CURWRI4 moved, that the Po/ideas maw lying on the
table. peayhor a revising of the Poor Laws, be referred to the
Comminee troths Pour taw..—Ordered.
The hPltiA K Eli orqsaisted the Home. that the Right Hon.
H. B. Daly bad sot women into reeognizsaves to prosecute the
(Mhos; Firedog Pretitios ; is etrusequesee of ohieh the order
forth, Cemesinee no that Files-sloe was discharged.
C.I. PAI.Mklt preteated• Petition from Koh against the
lasolemit Moon' Act.—Laid est the table.
Mr. FINI.AY bemelit ap she Carlisle sad Gtateow Road
Bill; .141 A was mod a art that.
Sir W. GUISE presented me Polities,• from tilosseesteneire,
praying Oer protecting Duties eta the Prudes.* of Olt Soil.
Laid ea the table.
A penes from the Ciersetal Pesitestiary at Milhaak present-
ed • Report from the Committee on that lithos; the title of
Wadi may wits read, and the Report we* ordered to be laid sots
the sable, sad to be printed.
111 r. BRAS!? prevented a Petition from liitehia, in Hert-
fordshire, preying fora revision) of the Pour Laws.—Laid ow
she table.
'Me Coanwitiews of Supply and Ways and Mesas were post.
potted till Friday.
Mr. HROGI/FiSI beivegitt ap the Report of she Husbandry
Hones Bill; aid the Bill was moved to be re-committed ea
Torsday
Mr. BRAND Meal* It became as math the ditty of Covers-
meat a relieve lowboadry from the toles ow use impleusests
used is it, as as slime used is eassufseteres. lie sa ano reams
why the westwerse of metaia horn pewee Au, Id out be
taxed as weil as willmadry beeves.
Mr. ,BROODEN said, hit Right Hoc Need *Med every
dime/Mao ea this Billy sad for that reams he bad Jost tamed
Mr its remosmaittal.
Mr. CUR WEN mid, this Bill ought to be rtscoesidered, as
it bore most heavily on the egricalternts.
After a few mare olorrreatloos, is a tone whkh we could
sot hear, the sootiest for re-committing the Bill ea Tuesday
was carried.
Mr. WROTTESLEY pretested Petitiaas from Sheopeldre
against a Doty as Coil to be imposed and levied at the pies
stroetb.—Laid as the oable.—He Yid. from what be kiew of
the eisastry, sod a ma amid be productive of the mom feriae'
cootegoemes.
LITTLIITOM mid. he had obtained an 114.11ratsce ream
the Chearellor of the Itzeimmer that be had gives op all idea
of
sad a ma; but that Right Honourable lisowleman had gives
so amoranee Am if some ether perms should propose web •
las. he world set give it his support; earl he (Mr. lattlevos)
wooM sat foil to sun this sulyeet sots' be get a derisive
11001,17.
The reader' were ordered I. be laid oat the table, and
primer!.
DrFALCATION OF ASAFAftf D TAXES.
Sir WILLIAM DE CRESPIGN It' said, that in
the emotion which he proposed to submit talks House,
he was couriticed the Right Hon. Gentleman oppe.
site (the Chancellor of the Exchequer), would give
Ma his cordial support. If the Right Hoe. Gentle-
men had consulted his own Onto feelings, he no
doubt world have sifted the matter tithe bottom, for
he wrest be crrovieced that it required the minutest
enquiry. The object of his motioe was the deter.
fion freed practised by collectors, assessors, tot.
worms, commissioners, clerks, Ac. to an eateet en.
known before. He wield do the Right Hon. Gen.
Orman the justice testy, that when these abases bad
been submitted to him, he had appointed a poise, to
esquire into them, bet he bad not been able to ac.
complish what hit inclination prompted him to at.
tempt, and the system of surcharges, which bad so
long disgraced the country, was still contineed. If
he succeeded in getting the enquiry for which be was
about to snore, he hoped they should be able to put
its end to that system of surcharge and defalcation
which had so long existed. In the little parish of
Westerham, in the district of Seven Oaks, the gross
aseessmeat in 1814 was 1,4381., but the reterns
amounted only to 1,1151. Bs. I Id.; ennseqoeutly
there was that year a defalcation of 3221. I Is. Id.
In 1815, the assessment was the same, bet only
9801. 101. were returned, laving a defalcatioe of
4581. 10s. In 1816, the assessment was the tame,
bet the returns were only 8581.141. leading that
year a defalcation of 5791.05. Oue Gentleman its
that nekhboorkeod paid 1101. a year, bet for we
years this sem bad not been returned at all, bet put
into the pockets of these persons. There were seve-
ral other cases of a similar nature, which made the
whole defalcation in the parish meant to 1,9681.
3s. 2d. One of the collectors had bees allowed to
collect arrears, and to retain them for 13 months In
his own hands, at the end of which time it was
found necessary to sell the remittere of his boom to
pay his debts. Under inch circumstances, was he
not justified in bringing forward his motion, and le
claiming the sanction of the House to stop this sys-
tem of peculation ? Ile hoped the Right Hon. Geo.'
denims would assist him in purging this Anise sta-
ble. The Hon. Baronet theta mowed for an im.
menu *ember of accounts and other paper, re-
lative to the collection of Assessed Taxes, and ether
lases in the district of Seven Oaks.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER'
said, that if the Hon. Bart. bad done him the fattier
to Call on him relative to the circumstinces now'
bresght before the Hesse, he woeld hare found that
there was no occasion for occupying the time of the
House with the subjeci. Undoubtedly frauds had
been committed in the collection of the offense, bat
whenever they had been detected (and its pains had
been spared to detect them), they had been rigorous-
ly punished. There could be no objection to the
prodectlee of some of the pepess which had been
moved for ; but be would suggest to the llnn. But.,
that instead of persisting in A motion so estraordi.
nary, he should withdraw it for the present. It was
undoubtedly tree, that two years ego a Mr. Wilkes
I had called ea him, complaining of these frauds ; and
on that 'cession he had directed that the einem.
Metiers should he enqeired into. Ile thought that
when the hon. Bart, had communicated with him on
the subject, he would be satisfied either that his mo.
lion was ennectstary, or that he ought to bring it for.
ward In another form. _