The Statesman.
London, England, 1810-05-17 00:00:00

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HOUSE Olr LORDS, MAY 16.
ThO, Committee of Privileges on the loxbdrgh Peefugi
was appointed for to-morrow.
' The Amber hearing of the Appeal, Kennedy s, Locke, was
appointid Ilar Friday. .
WEST. MIDDLESEX WATER-WORKS.
Lord. BOLLAMA, brou,gl4 ups khe Report of 'the West
Middletet Water-works Bill, witkeiut A,radment.
The Bishop of LONDON propelled a Clause to be inserted,
for the purpose orreserving 'te the Grand Jl.l.lClioo Canal
CoMpan, (he, cxclksive right of supplyipg water within cer*
lain !thrashes sold paiis adjacent to the Canal, provided they
took measnlres for suppl,iog it ta attain six manual.
The Claim was apposed b,),' Lord. Bellied, the Earl of
Roslyn, Lord Redesdale; ant( the Lord Chancellor; and sup-
ported by the Earl of Ilridgc'ttater and E,uri peucer.
The liottse divided od the lhestion, that the clansfbe in-
serted,
Contepts - . 16
Not-Cehteuts. - - 26

Majority . - - 10
CAMPAIGN IN SPAIN.
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE, in cdoseqnence of the
indliPteation of a Noble'Marquis, who was thereby prevented
fr.? attending, postponed his motion relative to the cam-
paign in Spain, till to-morrow sennight, for which da). the
Lords were or4ered to be summoned. '
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' Adjourned ti to-morrow (this day).
.tipraignsit
• MOUSE Qt. COMMONS, MAY 16.
On the Motion of Mr. lIASTAIID, the consideration of
the ligiteettene Petitiikis was pastponCd• till Tuesday uest.
• SPANISH CAMPAIGN: •
Mr. SHERIDAN l.ostpdned his Motion on the, subject of
the Campaign in Spain, till Friday, tie Ist of Juue.
He also stated, bast a Bill had come into hit hands,entitled
a Bill far regulating the Prtior of the Parish of Lambeth, by
which powers trete given (o the persons to whom the regale-
lion was entrusted, such. as he had never seeu bestowed by
any formek Bill. He animated, therefor!, that lie should
submit shat Motioa oa the subject of that

POOR LAWS.
Mr. WHITBREAD obtained leave to bring in a Bill to
exploit) and amend the Acts fur the removal of the Pour, so
far aitelated to the Regulation of Woikhouses.
On the Motirta of Mr. DAVIES IDLY,G the Clveneets•
Account.; Bill went throvls a Committee the Report was
received, and mitred to he taken into farther corpacleration
on Tuesday peat.
On the Motion of Mr. DUNDAS, there were ordered to
he laid before the House Copies of certain Letters from the
Presideties of Fort St. George, ill the lint Indies; to the
Committee of the East India Compaq).
The' House went through a Committee on Foreign Gloves.
Relsort to-morrow.
hlr. M. FITZUF.RALD gave notice, that he should to-
morrow move Jur leave' /11 prig: in 'a Bill to amend the ,
Laws for the acruragemeat orPlauting Timber Trees to'
Ireland.
The Poor Settlement Bill was read a second time, and or-
dered to be committed ea Tuesday.
The House sent into a Committee op the Irish Glaob
when the Report was received, End ordered to be taken iuto
farther consideration oa a future day, rod to be printed.
CRIMINAL LAW.
On the Mogen of Sir SAMUEL ROMILLY, the Bill for
preventing ,Robbery In Navigable Canals went through is
Vommittee, and was ordered to be reported this day se'ohight,
on Which day the Solicitor-General stated it to he his Mien.
tiou to oppose the Rill.' •
Sir J. N 1, W PORT moved for the amount of Sums granted
from the Votes of Creditsof Ireland for 11306 and 7, op ac-
count of Lottery Office Commissioneri. Ordered.
WHARTON brought up certain Ai:A:tmes of Revenue
for 1130.8-10. • • •
BUDGET.
. On the motion of the Chaucellor of the Exche-
quer, the House resolved into a Committee of
Supply, to whom were referred the ;peasants, of
'the Public Debt, &C.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
then said, that in layiug before the House what it
was his duty to submit on this occasion, he should
state not only what was the actual revenue of the
country, but be should also exhibit what was the
situation of ititrada. These statements he declined
out only peculiarly scope 44 to the question be.
fore the House, but also essential to the proper
consideration of our affairs, calculated, as ho
I:resumed they most be, very considerably to en-
liven the gloom which had lately been held out es
to the finaucial state of the country. He was the
more an4ious to du #O, because our revenue and
resooreen, far from being, as had been represented,
state of decay, were greatly the reverse; and
he could congratulate the !louse OR the fact of
their being actually in a state of progressive im-
provement. What he should have to say would
show, that iss this year, exhibiting, as had bean,
;supposed, the most gloomy view of the state of
the country ; in that Very year, our real situation
furnished the most evident and demonstrable
proofs that we were isithe most prosperous state in
which we had been at any former period. He
should first state the supplies already Emilia for
the year ; , • - •
roe the Nary . t , 419.1111401 r.
' Forthe Army ?; • 11.9"CI1ID " •
Fur lrel:md - . . 2,99?„00,,10
Extritordinarie; V.,79t1.000
Miscellaneous Services already granted 1,752,0001.
which with others to be veted might raise the'
branch to 2,000,0001. There would besides be a
Vote of Credit for England to the amount of
3,000,0001. ' • for Ireland to the amount of 200,0001.
fur. Portugal to the amount Of e 50,0001. ; making
altogether about 50,600,0001. from which de-
ducting-the Sum for Ireland there would remain to
be provided for by Great Britain 46,500,0001.
To meet this there werai Anneal Dudes 3,000,0001.
—Surplus of the Consolidated Fund 4,400,00Q1.
—War Taxes 19,000,0001.—Lottery 360,0001.—
Exchequer Odle funded 9,000,0001. Loan
B,oo9,oQol.—Maiting in the whole 46,700,0001.
or an excess of 146,0001. abuse the sum re.j
quired. He should proceed to state the different
items of which these sums were to be composed,
leaving the Consolidated Fend to thelast. First,'
the War Taxes, these he estimated at 19 millions,
and he esteemed himself justified in taking theta at-
that amount, they having last year produced into'
the Exchequer 22,772,0001. The Property Tax
bed, during the last year, produced 13,751,2301.
elthoorgh the assessment for that year was comps.
led only at 11,400,0001. being a difference of
,350,0001. This, hey/ever, might be supposed
to have arisen from arrears, none of which nowt
existed earlier than 1807. The last quarter sheaved 1
the Income Tax to be greatly on the ineremie, but
he did not take it at the increased rate. The War
Taxes under the beads Customs and Excise for 3.
years, 1408.9 and 10, amounted to 27 millions,
. being ye au steerage 9,060,(001. being together
20,460,0001. As to the Lottery, he knew an
Hots. Gentleasiu opposite (Mr. Whitbread) ob-
jected to it as a worm of Revenue: lie trusted,.
however, that the regulations introduced by him.
(11r. Perceval) bad completely. destroyed one
ri.ass of the obj-ctions, arising from Insuranee,
aua bad gone greatly to remove the imischievou

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prectieet Which *ere 44 alter day becuering oohnected with that.prielice; ' 1t hoped, therefore
' the House would mit I?eeireeprii to deprive; the '
gemlike of the mouth pf income thence atsiiiirt
Nu evil effects resulting Quid Lotteries hying se
nearly done away by the, late Reetnetioits. As to
the t xcliequer Bills, he had eirciely !toted them at
3 millions for the year,. and. 111 t•asted the Rouse.
would not be'indiepused to a trent e, that 'mount:
Now as to the loan, he had thelatisfectieti. 9r *tat.
ing, that it amounted in OA to Al itillions; Vt. ti.
millions fur Great B.ritein, and 4 Minions for Ire.
latett, and had been conetuttetkon terms iitteitiiy the
most favourable of any matt which lied yet beets
known in this country. The terns were, thei the
Coutrecturefor every 1001: ehoulel receive' pot.
three Per cent. Re.lucetl, and 10A. ts• ad; ce1i.11491
being in the whole 1,401. 7s. kilk the Louisa& eAf, the
interest thus to be .paid (ee the loan, beini no
mice than 41. 4s. 34d. pee Cent. se that a loan of
12 millions had been iiegociated at 153. 71 I. be._
low the legal rate of interest. The total ceatge on
the public, in this matiocr, was in the proportion
lo of the an of hit year, as 41. 4s. 3i,1. to
41. I`4s. lad, So that be the country in a worse
elate or a better now then it •VI As last year, 12 mil.
liont had been borrowed fur a 'suns intrinsically
worth 11430,00b1, The Rt. Hen. GtlYet, then pre.
°Ceded to elate the mount of thet;oesulitlated Fund,
which eeceeded in the year 1810 the surplus of the
preceding yeas by 5,33 ,00(, He did not wish,'
itowever, to take it at this amount, but to prefer
an average of the two yeah, which prodticed
4,485,0001. This, toot he took in preference to
an average of the three years, Which would have
presented a higher amount. There was every tea.
son to suppose, that instead of e diminution the
amount would fidle.equal that of last year, the
quarter of the pkesetit already before Parlienient
exceeding that calculation, and making the amount
upwards bf twenty.cour tuillione;. or 'o paring it
with the year 1808, 94,400,001A1 it weuW be a
satisfaction also to. the Wiese tq know, that the
Malt Duty was now recovering its,lft there being
an increase under this head, in the Let 4.l.lrivr, tea
the amount of 40,000(.; su that litero U4ll lIVIO
doubt of its equallihg, if it 41 apt exceed, the
amount of last year. Tin:, nett had was Aesesseti •
Taxes. These, for the tat year; amohnted to
6,410,0001. In this stim there were cuesidereblo .
arrears, amounting gq the hest celculation to not
less than 600,0001. These were nut of arrears
now eutstatelitte inure than 2(00,0001, a fiki'l **hi
would induce the House to see that no teAleieited
•prevailed in this branch of the revenue. The
stamps he estimated at 5,130.1eXk1, the Pest Offwe
at 1,194,0001. ; the flaw ki •., et;.. qt otLeouie, I
producing a tote! of 3.7,597,0001; The charge
on the Coneolltlated Feed* t lielusiee of ifel4o%.*
amounted to 31,9,0%000i. ! ming a spinthis. or
5,637,Q001. If.this statement was correct, it
might be asked, why he was disposed to take 110
Tore from Mit branch for the service of the year
than 4,400,00011 pe unold explain tine circuio.
stance: The Stempeled risen eery greatly dttrieg •
the last year, to the *solvent of tot, .less than
1,236,9071. in consequenco.4l7t* eiketelidetioe
of those duties seising 40p, roger:4lone which he ,
himself had introduced. These he bad estimated,
under'ditterent heads of management, would prp.:
duce is saving of 106tQOpl but it lo happi,tuedi
that instead of this, it- had, produced en iiicreaegit ' '
revenue of eo lees that 1,236,9071. Ile ought, '
probahly; to teke blew to himself for having lo
greatly under-rated the amount to be expected
from these regelitioee ; bat still 'he hoped the
House would be happy that they had hetet so pro-
ductive. , The difference between this expected suet
of 106,6781. and the ectual amount of 1,236,90/#
'left a balance of imajooot. What he had to pro.
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!tie, therefore, to the House was, ntit only that
' 0,000.1. which would be wanted for the expendie
tare Of the present year should be takett from this
guess of a tax laid on by recitation in the year
Itiop, but he also 'thought th;t Parliament was
Justified in looking to this fund as affording 's.
prospect of defraying thp interest of the Loan for
the year. Indeed, he should feel himself toot
.ititt.,.
lied if he did not call on the douse to leek 4r this
source. Ile should propose to reserve 150,9%)1.
for this purpose, and then there wee!!! still re-
tain 115,0781. as the bahiece of this one tax after
the interest of the Loan was provided for. IY.,
'was aware there might be objections to this plan,
but they would be found nothing in comparison to
the edvantages which would be seen to result from
it. It might be said, that it was a new mode of • •
proceeding ; but this, he sqlnitted, wee not a slice
ficient objection. Among the objections which
might be Heide to this proposal, one was, that it
wesa new course—thaee different goo 'hid been
!imed by Mr. Addington in pOt. But that
was a year of peace. and the gitent of the Sink,.
I
ing Fund had been altered. f the situation of
the country had been then exactly what it is new,
he should think that the wisest eoursu would
be to have done as lie prOposed co do: But if .
the thing was in Itself propee,, there was no
occasion to leek fqi precedent in its 'favour.
—Ever 'shim 1807 it was considenui advisable
to tiourisk ttie revenue; and fdr 'that perpine to
avoid the inipotitieti 9f.new taxes if. pessible fur
three years. Lb fact only onelear had, in thiS
manner been spared ; for as he had before show,,,
in- the year lifoB an increase of Inure than a mil.
'lion had taken place. Another
.circumstance was
to be considered, which went 'le she. the pro.
priety of the course yhich 6 proposed to fullowt
that was, the -great amount uf melts collected
open the Property Toe and the 'Assessed 'Faxes.
The total amount of 'bob in the last year was no
lees than 20100,0001. Since thee Ow heti beep
so great a snot collected its these taste, beyond
the anima average; be thought. this a strung rca.
son why, no new taxes should he impeted at this
pericul, if it could possibly be aynded. He hoped
the Housd weeld thini(thet the •courte which by
hid proposed for its cuosideratigp (tit4igt lir d4upit
ed, vithuut.any improper interference with the
produce of the Consolidated Fand. He eext ad.
pried lira Resolution which bed heat passd by
tee House, at the suggestion o' is Nt. is, Marquis,'
who had been his predecies'e (1,..1;:0wny), '•
44' that ail account should he iir...iscrkil- if the
net produce of thu permanent taws, at ep

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