The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-05-21 00:00:00

THE STATES4IAY:

the Loomed Lord to apply more time to the deci-
sion of Scotch Appeals, the delays in which was a
national evil to the People of that part of the country.
The smut.° it.(; EN ER A fr was surprised that
his lion. Friend, for all his obi edits to the Vim.
Chancellor's Court. was contented slot only to let
it stand, bat also to sopersdri to it a new Coon,
which was to Issimi tole
frog
matters of
bankruptcy. II tar free, the cows iii sneer being
increaser!, they were ronsidorshly diminished ; and
so fir from t cause not being heard for two nr three
pearl after being eel down in the Paver, he believed,
most of three in atreir hid been set linen last Term.
Av far as Lisniropt Frirtiens were concerned, there
was no lie believed that there were now ?O0
moms unheard ; and Out of those more this 130 were
set down firer Irist Trim; and all of these facts
would show that the arrears were diminished instead
of being i ed. Vesicles, since the appointment
of the Vice-Chaneel:or, the Lord Cnancellor had
Neon able to devote three nr four slats • week to the
derision of Appeals in for !Inure of Lords ; formerly
he
The pressure in Ste Court of Chancery did not arise
from questions of Lisokruptry ; and no man could
decide on them anima a person well versed in mailers
of equity. fie hoped that the establishmeot of a
Jury Court in Scotland would greatly diminish the
Scotch Appeals ; for before that establishment, every
little matter in dispute came before the House of
Leith. There was even now an appeal whether a
brigsbeed of whiskey bad been delivered or not in a
cousin year. lie would tint go into mach patron,.
ova mature of the Iron. Mover; bat this be would
my, there never was. Judge who presided in Chan.
eery with more integrity or ability ; or whose deci-
sions would be more revered by posterity.
Mr. M.A. TAYLOR wily wished that the Howse
untold suffer blot to examine professional men as I.
the real cameo of the delay in the Court of Chancery.
Until that was granted I • would not giro op the state-
ment he had made. livery one of the cusses unde-
cided, some of whom, like the itnaborgb Appeal,
had cost 00001. most be resheard if the Chancellor
shooLl.ooforlonstely die before be had decided them.
Homiest shot his ears if he did not know that pro.
men complained a the delay.

Thy llntme 'hen divi.l.4
Far the mama, 49 I Agaiset it, 7; I Miltwilv. 211.

On our se.idmission, we found Mr. If. SUMNER
on his legs, for she ;Hotpoint of making his promised
station for the Repeal of the Duty an Coals carried
coaalways. If antiquity would justify any measure
of finnan, the Coal Doty certainly had that claim.
As early es the reign of Richard 11. a Coal Duty was
laid on to defray the espeure of the armament feel
protuctiog the northern limos from pirates. Another
of 6 I. a choldren was laid on Newcastle end Sander.
land for the same porprise, in the reign of Charles LI
Charles 11. made a grant to Sir T. Clarges, to
the amount of 9001. ..year net of It. It was not
till the 6th of William 111. that Parliament laid
this ditty on as a temporary source of remote.—
By the 9th of Anne a follow dog! of 3s. a ton
ess impoled oe Coals, for the building of St.
Piers. These were made perpetual in tho reign
of George I. to the motet of 9s. 4J. per ton is
she port of London. and 6t. In Ilse ost.perts.—
There sere elle Milne, 11114 usher deliff., making it
in all 12'. 10d. per children in the port of London.
The tit on coals,
L appropriated to the Orphans' Fond
of the City of London, conk' mot be redeemed till
;
111137 ; therefore hia sole object was to obtain a l
re-
peal of that part of the duties applied to the public
relents*. fla gaoled Dr. A. Smith, to show the ins.
policy of laying • tit en coals carried cosstways, and
not on inland coals. It bad been objected, that sal.
lag off this deity would injere internal manufac.
lures ; bet be did not agree is that opinion. Resides,
it could not be fair to place ibis tat on nsomfacimers
in seaports, and set on others Wielded in she coon.
try. On a population of upwards of 12,000,000
the tat amounted so 131. 3J. a head. With respect to
the Cosl Tat. a population of four millions and a
half paid 865.0001. Two millions and a half pad
only *O,Ol/01., while five millions and a half paid no-
thing at all. As She poor of London bought their
coals in small quantities, they paid at the rate of 41.
the ambito'', and loorperee halfpenny the bushel
shone the legator pile.. Wined was dear in the same
ponportion. An intention had been formerly enter.
wood to sere for the @quintillion of the duty, as
it was belioood that the itrthrellor of the Eschequer
was immutable to a considerable collection. But
that not being the ca.A., be bed brought f..rward a
motion for the repeal of the duty shirtier. Ti.
M.. Gentlemen then proceeded to cite !lessees
from the different Position% that bed been resented
to the /levee, etpron.ive of the veatinteoto of iho
country. !fano set of capitation sear the pit's mouth
paid tin duty on coals, he could see so reason say
soother set of capitatistn, at a dioanco, should be ex-
posed to so Meaty alas. Ho felt it his duty to sub-
mit to the Novae whether another tat could not be
substituted in the room of what was proposed to Le
repealed. 11. concluded by moving for loose to bring
in a Bill to repeal the Acts implosion a Tax on Coals
and Calm, so...borne, carried meows), ; and also so
mach of the 39its of the King, as went to make the
Tit all Coal, a permanont past of the it 'vetoes.
Lord EBRINGTON stated, that the sent of
70,0001. was paid for Coals by the comities of De-
von and Cornwall, though used only by a small pOrt
of the popellanois of Devonshire. A china mane.
faermy, and also nether of Lemont land. bad failed
at Plyasoetts, on aerosol of the destnen of Coals.
Lime was a principal manure In Devonshite, but as
lime could not he mode without Coall, the t•t on
Coals in that part of the country was really a tax
en upfront'''. From the speech of the Noble Lord
at the commencement of she Session, some hopes bad
been entertained of a redaction of lazes, bet at that
time he was not sanguine enough to aspect Alit any
las would be altatylonod.

Mr. LITTLETON thought a ripest of the tilt
would produce s revulsion most toittoot to the trade
of the country ; tha motion would thive the inland
Coal, carried by the Grand Junction Canal, JO 01:44
from the proper marker. Should the duty be re-
pealed. all the 'actual.* privileges *void share the
same fate, which probably *mild not he very agree-
able to the traders of Newcastle. In many cares the
Inland was dearer than the sea-coal, and a chaldron
of Nouns& cost was etrof to ton tout of Steffan!.
Airs. RIP should give bit dectiltd oppottian to the

motion, and he hoped the question would be sot at
real by the vote of that night.
Mr. Alderms• WOOD said, that thy a"PfTit•ta
of the ewer, before the How were Pliretl h•l*Pell
two Ores. Lost year the Chancellor of the Each,.
rpm gave hopes that this tat would be al;err cl in the
course of ibis Session, bet now those oh.. adenesird
en
egnalication of duty over, charged wi.h
roaring to repeal the tea altogether. list this wen
not his object ; he wished to have tho data evirrliaerl;
and if a tat of 11. per chaldron ors. imposed nn all
coals mein from the 141, it enald hr n: a soot of
100.0001. more to the Ileoetree than roes raiaed by
the *listing system. It was said that i,lsotri coals,
though 'emptied from the Doty, become as deer;
from the addition of cabal and land-carnage. as sea-
borne coals; but the Deese shoeld recoll•r1 "al
price of sea.borne coals was also inch increased by
land carriage. If the eiry woe taken of from New.
castle, it might go to check the inland coal trade in
Some measure, bat then inaoefacturers and comenwer•
generally could obtain coals leech cheerer than they
now do. It WII mid that fleotlemen ronr.rned sq
the inland coal trade would be reined by this ; but
what right had Shone persons to claim an exemption
trim a tan levied on the resi i f the country ? Could
they expect slut the Chancellor of the nachecuree„
when he wanted money, would not call open them
to cittiaibute their proportion to the public wants ?
—Let do present Duty be continued if flummery,
bat then let the proprietors of inland coal, bat
also lased --tie cont.! not sew why Wales should
be exempted from this Tat more than any
other port of the kingdom. If the Poverty of the
country was the cause, then Cornwall had an equal
claim, es the labouring cisoreo had been reduced to
great distress at the period when the Chancellor of the
Elebeqeer extended his f to Wale,. The pe7
rind of this indulgence, however, would expire its
HMO, and be hoped the Chancellor of the Eacbequee
would take a !roaster from whet had passed. and not
allow any one part of the country to be relieved front
a burden at the 'spawner of another. H. was the
more envious that some remedy aboold be applied,
from a knowledge of the solferings of the lower
classes of Loodr.n from the high price of Coals: be
had known them pay so much as 71. a brothel in
times of scarcity, when the inhabitants of other
ports of the country could purchase Crash at half that
price. The manufacturers .rOll were also tetieosly
injured by the eziatiog system. There was no netts.
sit, of placing the duty to be taken at the pit's mouth,
ander the EICI.P, as it could be collected as toile, se
other tales non are.

CAL WOOL) was satisfied 14;6 the tax in its present
state. In she case of Wale. th► duty bad been taken
off stone cool that was employs., for the purpose ot
sgrienbure. The Member for Surrey seemed to have
a substitute for the Coil Tax. bet was afraid to we:
lion it, lest the Chancellor of the ,:,chequer should
accept the substitute, and at the sauna time retain • hie
Tax. Ho himself could mention many lazes that
might be eery nsefelly taken sway. The tan on Salt
might be modified, and the excise on candles abolished.
He thought that in the Case of taxation the Hoare bad
began at the wrong rod ; they had take„ oft the In.:
come Tex, which fell chiefly on themselves, and at
the same time .offend many petty lases so rental*
that tended effectually to demoralise the lower or.
den. Ile had voted for the modified Income Isis
and he still *height that a tea on plepprly, not GM
WIDOW, was highly eopedient in the prec.nt 'late of
the etsontry.—(llcar, hew he port
of . Londott seemed to Le of extraordinary
dimensions, for it mended to Stake.. and its
boundary was marked by a large stone. Some years
ago, an Officer of Excise had been trot to seise a
ship from Wales, laden with coal. Bet the ship
moped, and the officer was said to bre. remained
there ever since. A few years sco, the City of Lea.
don bad proposed the continua 0111. of that par. of the
dotty en coals that went to the Orphan.' Food, suit
thereby showed no disinclination t.. the nos, whim
fur their ewe emolemest. lie &weld oppose tbei
motion.
Alderman WOOD explained.

Mr. COURIENAY nal in f Abp

Lord 1111;l'ON said, that the City of London.
while they propolod to do ewa) the Patliamentarr
daisy, had no objection In the local Amty, that was
for their own advent'''. _ _

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCH VQL; ER nb-
versed, that his views on the question 111119, VAT, been
known, from •hat he hid It different 'ones stated
when Vtiitions were presented on the subject to that
Wine. Test was one of the reasons for his not
having previnosiy taken a part In the discussion. Be.
sides, he ass welling to beer the opinions of Gentles.
men, who, from their local conneaions, were colts-
Isted in afford the Hoare ciao fullest inforenatioe.—
Sio.e first the subject was introduced, it was his de.
tided opinion as most inexpedient to stir a tptestioni
of that nature, when the eircurnsiances of the coon-
try *ere such es not to alleur the hope of a favour.
atile decision. Enough bad passed on the dlicessioe
of a fanner night, to show that it wee the Intention
of Parliament to watch with jealous and peculiar
care any thiog that tended to prestige, a diminution
of retsina,. Indeed it would be his duty In a few
drys to call the attention of that House to the man-
, e'er in which they might best add to the tense, of
' the country. With respect to the Cities of London
and Westminster, was to be recollected that they
had received a considerable relief already, by the ces.
, Liliao of the War Tat. COlll9, which, in the year
1614, were at 62 shilling, per A0111,6111(1 lbe lent;
were sow to be bad at 4R, giving a relief of 14 shil-
lings on that measure. He did not think she Homo
corld act otherilstr, under the circeasstauces of the
country, than to reject the motion.
Mr. LAM fITON said, that offer the cosonenica•
ti-ns the Chancellor of the Exchequer bad with per-
sons, vifth whom be was Connected, he lewd *ilk
path his !mention of opposing the repeal of thia
tea. That regret wad ctiosi.leratily aggregated • ith
his annoesicement that night, of the filtration also
to add to the taxation of the country 'tipsily bores
'dm by atvenoresood possum. He !rest d, b.w.
ever. that Mai, was spirit enough in that House and
In the comstry, to resist mach as mitreerdinary sod
alarming proposition by every Constitutional mesas.
—Ulcer, hear !]—For his owe part be piedged
himself, that he would evert every wens within nig
humble lallsteete, In aisles a decided eppoti ioe to

:1* des;' "--; hit annoaatement that ntgot, or Tao gammon
*motion
A Ewald- 1.1".4. "al". to add to the texation the coestry already, bergs
"nu ""ne"" 30
larket. Moeld the slut be re.
'Nos by *towns:weevil ple"sert. H. !rest how-
yever, that thine was spirit enough in that House mod
It* inigneg" wouldeld shire the In the emestry, to resist each an inureordinery sad
"MY "eld net he eery Wee- swim's( propesitlon by entry Constitutional mesas.
if Newcastle. In many cams the new, hear fi—re, his 4rwa part he pledged
Mn the rea-enel. and a cheldron
himself, that kw would evert every =mins witlin beg
pas altal to ton tons of Steffa'. hugsmoshotace, la smog o decided eppoti Joe to
ice Cie decldtd oppottion to tdo
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