The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-02-21 00:00:00

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find; d, a cheering prospect at the termination of a Mr. TIERNEY and the CHANCELLOR of the
xtiar, that the taxes were to 1w more Isurthensome EXCHEQUER mutually 'explained.
titan they had been during the war! The peace vs-1 Sir W. GEARY considered the present to be an
tablishnient was to be nineteen and a half millions, exceeding wrong scheme. No scheme lie had ever
which, with the interest of the debt, was 54 millions. heard brought forward in that House, appeared to
It would be well to compare this expence with the him to be so fundamentally wrong. Never had he
expenditure in 1786, three years after the termina- seen it proposed to impose a tax, even to the
t' of the American war. The interest of the debt, smallest extent, without an estimate of the sum
and the whole peace establishment together was but required being laid before the House. The sum
14.500,0001. while the expenditure at present would which the House were now called on to vote, was 14
be nearer 60 than 50 millions, as the unfunded debt, or 15 millions; because though nominally only
aad the loans to be raised, were not included in the about five millions were to be provided, to make up
Chancellor of the Exchequer's calculations. It had a supposed deficiency, arising from the failure of
been said the amount of peace expenditure could not the Property 'Fax, yet, as the other Taxes proposed
at present be calculated, as we were at present on a to be continued were NVar 'Faxes ns well as the
net establishment. Why, he would ask, were we Property Tax, they, as well as that Tax, ought at
still on a war establishment ? We had been at once to have been taken off with the return of peace.
peace for nine months, and had a right to ex- He was prepared, therefore, to oppose this and every
'sect a reduction in our expenditure, proportioned other Tax, imposed merely as a War Tax, esteem-
to the change in our situation. By the Treaty ing it, as he did, to be an essential principle of jus-
of Chaumont sve were told that we were to keep lice to the country, that all such taxes should end the
up our war establishment until the Congress at moment the war ceased. It was on this principle
Vienna should hare settled the affairs of Europe, and that he (Sir W. G.) consented to open the pockets
we were in consequence, though in perfect peace of the country; but the same necessity not now ex-
with Europe, keeping up an army larger thin that of ;sting, he did not sits that the same burden could
Marborough and all his ; or than that which with any consistency be continued. He considered
the country maintained in the arduous war with the proposition of the Right Honorable Gentleman as
America. 11 should therefore object to the Resolu- unconstitutional; and, as such, he could not con-
floes as loading the people at the end of the war with sent to vote the money of the people without on esti-
taxes, of which they knew not the application. It mate. A Right lion. Gent. opposite (Mr. fluskis.
Is as trim that some supplies bad beets voted, but not son) talked as if the House had already granted sup-
the whole; they had only been voted on account, plies which the preposition of the present night was
arta the House would be called on to vote more. To intended to rover. He (Sir W. G.) knew that 12
adopt the Iterolutions, ignorant as they were of the million had been borrowed during the present Session ;
grounds on which they hail beets called for, would he but (lid he call this a supply ? When he saw 19
to ablution the people instead of protecting them.— millions of money granted for four successive years,
Th people had bonne the burtheus of the war with was it not his duty to look upon such a circumstance
ustesampled patience and good humour, and they had with suspicion ? Did Ministers really know that in
bestowed fin boon on thorn but eleven millions of . four years we were to be again at war? Ile, for
permanent taxes, though it was true another boon one, did not see any thing to involve us in war, if
hail been held out to the people—to fix at a per- there was only something like wisdom its our Go-
patiently high pace the staple article of their sub. vernment. Why then should we anticipate being at
sineeee. As no measure of economy hail beets taken, • war ? He could not view such a thing anticipated,
as the militia was not yet disembodied, and as the without feeling suspicion arise in his mind; neither
Ministers had come to Parliament with a propo- could he consent to vote 14 or 13 millions annually
sition for lay lug out 800,0001. of the public money to without an estimate.
erect a new Pest-0t1ic..., and hail, on all occasions, After a pretty long conversation, the resolutions were agreed
alive ts thernselses lavish and inconsiderate, he should ; to. and the report
, ordered to be received in morrow.
Mr. PONSON BY expressed y wii.h that thes.• resolutions
opytse the Reseltiti t.is in every stage. I should be printed.
Mr. HUSKISSON said, that the lion. Gentleman The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER conceived this
who had just sat down had been 4xtremely warm, tobe:rnincuin,euat* l He certainly wished that Members
have s. time to consider them, bat it would be very ie.
and had exhibited that warmth on a most delicate convenient to make any unnecesaary delay in passing taxes is hich
point. Did he really wish to tell the people out of were to replace those that would expire on the sth of April
doors, that the only boon for them was increased nperixott.ed He
after
et;iieldit opowrte vwe.ru,s
raevcee nove
d There objection
wtooutilliebebet4neng
taxes and expences of life ? When the Resolutions time for sufficient consideration.
came to be debated, he should be glad to hear his :
The Freehold Estate Hill was read a second time, and com-
r.sastins for those assertions. This was, in some
mitted for to-morrow.—Adjourned.
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points, the most extraordinary discession on finance __
that he had ever heard. Nlativ would he led to sup. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS
pose from the manner in which some Gentlemen had Silaper Cent. Red. 64}11
slated the question, that the Minister had proposed percent. cons. MO
the Way s and Aleans before the question of Supply 4 eer Cents. Mil
per Cent. Navy 94}
had been voted, and that ne was proposiog taxes
sv hich were to last four sears, without being exposed
to any revision from Parliament. As for the Chan.
tveor of the Exchequer not being immediately pre-
pared to present estinettes, it was evident that its the
present circumstances it was impossible. If peace
wits film's, established, every paper end 'every esti.
mire that Gentlentatt could desire would certainly
be laid before the House. llis Right lion. Friend
hail been asked, what diminution of the produce of
the taxes would probably take place. lie, for his
part, did not apprehend a great dimittutien. lie
th,eight also, that the remission of nine millions of
taxes this evening would give to many the meats of
en increased expenditure and consumption of ar-
ticles paying taxes.

OAT AT ticiii• $1 rLOCK
Long. Ann. 16 5-16
India Bond* 11 p
Excite—ter UIIs 4 p par
°minim 2 d
C•miais Up- Arc. 65 41i

TWE STA TFSMAN.

LONDON:

TLtS9AY, FEBRUARY 21, 1/415.

Mr. 1:01tBe:S made some observations on the
',resent state of communication by letter with India,
which we understood him to state was very uncer-
tain and espensive, by which means the privates of
the Indian Army were often precluded from receiving
newi from their friends.
Mr. BEN N E'r.r and Lord MI uroN wished some
DIISIAPI to be kiven to the question respecting the
appointments of the Govornor of the Cape of Good
Hope.

Mr. PEELE said, the salary of the Civil Governor
%as 1'2,0001. a-year, as far as he remembered. The
Military G oce:iment W 39 an ()nice distinct from the
Civil Government, and lo the person holding that
ollee the usual allowances wme made.
In answer to another question by Lord MILTON,
Mr. PEELE ,aid, the Cape revenues defrayed the
salary of the Civil Governor, and, he believed the
evence of the Cape regiment. The Military Go•
vernor's appointment was 9 or 101. a-day.
Lord MILTON observed, it was the same whe-
ther the salary was paid from the Cape revenue or
by this country, as the Cape revenue, if not thus
expendpd, would be applicable to the other expences
a the Colony. Did the same person enjoy both sa-
?

Air. PEELE answered in the affirmative. It was
immaterial, in the way the argument was framed, whe-
ther the salary was raid out of the Exchequer, or the
Cairo revenue.

Nlr. BARING repeated the manner in which he
hod introduced the subject, and observed, that it
made no difference as to the argument, whether the
enormous salary were paid from the Cape Revenue,
or from tube Exchequer. He should say no more on
the subject, as he hoped the abuse would be done
away—[a laugh]--or if not, he should make a mo-
tion on the subject. He wished to know, from the
Chancellor of the Exchequr, in the first place, whe-
ther the interest of the debt to be contracted was pro.
!tided for by the taxes voted that night ? and, secondly,
Arliether the dividends payable on stock in July
would he subject to deduction for the Property Tax?
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said,
that he considered the Ways and Means which he
had brought forward to be applicable to the Loan of
the year, unless other taxes were novided. As to
the July dividend, it would be subject to no deduc.
Coo for Property Tax. From the dividend payable
In April, a half year's tax would be deducted. The
r cern ption of the July disidend bad been determined
by reference to the commencement of the tax, when
it was found, that though the tax commenced only in
April, a half sear was deducted from the JO) di.
v4lend. By a parity of reasoning, the next July di.
iideorl would be entirely exempted : a disidend being
con,i,!ered at law an entire thing, not divisible.

I Look at the Budget, patient Reader, look at the
Budget of new and old Taxes brought forward last
night in the House of Commons by the CHANCEL-
Lon of the EXCHEQUER. We charge you, summon
all your patience, for if you have been among the
number of the dreamers that at length the long-de.
•sired period of relief was come, you will be awaken-
'edto a sad- reality indeed. Not merely the dread-
ful, soul depressing load of old Taxes are to be con-
; tinued (the Property Tax excepted, the abolition of
which will odd but little to your relief, unless you
I are a man of property), but a new batch, to
the amount of five millions, are to be added
to the annual burthens of the nation ; and the further'
I comfortable prospect of four years more of struggling
and groaning is humanely contemplated as neces-
sary to wind up the expences of the " just and ne.
cessary war" which has so long drained our national
resources, and ended in the aggrandisement of foreign
Powers, who are rioting amidst the effects of our fatal
profusion and beating down with our departed
strength every principle and symbol of liberty and
justice under their feet. 0 for a Job like patience,
for nothing but an antediluvian indifference will do
now. At the end of seven years servitude in the
good old pastoral ages, which the Corn Bills are no
doubt intended fo restore, an honest man got a wife
for his pains— after the lapse of
.four-aml.tatersts
years of hard labour, perhaps of fighting, hard
fighting, people now a-days get nothing—but stripes
perhaps, if they complain! the Minister's plan will
be best explained by the Mowing correct analysis :
ttltte. Produce.
Customs—Tobacco, ?id. per lb.
tisci4e—Tobacco, 6d, per lb 150,001
Licenset —Double fixed -Rates, 50 per cent.

proge.sive 900,000
Wine, 01. per tun 300,000

ASSESSED TAXES, viz.
Inhabited House Duty. 30 per cent. ...... 396,500
Progressive Servants' Tax, 8o to 90 per cent 308,500
Under Gardeners, &e. various....... 101.500
Trade Servants, and Servants for Hire, ditto 148,000
Carriages, about 75 per cent 363,000
•
ilor,es fo► Pleasure, about 80 ditto 632.500
Trade Horses, ahont 40 ditto .. 85,509
Dogs, about ito 11)3.500
Game Certificates, ditto... ...

NEW DUTIES.
Windows in Wate!iouses and Hothouses,
31. (d, per Window 50,000
Rent of Warehouses, same as !louses .150,000
'Whelan-50 rr cent. additional on Ser
vauts, Carriages, and Horses .120,000
---2,64000
Post-Office—ld. an each Newspaper 50.000
E.Ol India and Foteign Postage Regulation 75.000
125.000

One million three hundred thousand yet remains flint without money, however) the rich produce of
therefore to be raised, but the amount yet to be their soils; and pay a trifling addition of 201. duty
provided may be expected to be considerably above upon the ton of wine, as well as 30 per cent. addi.
this sum ; for Sir Jona Nras PORT declared it utterly tion to the Assessed Taxes, and a corresponding inf.
impossible to raise Two MILLIONS on the Irish Este- sauce on the price of all the other necessaries of life
, befori
not yet deemed high enough !
this
is there not something rather visionary in ail
blishment, as proposed by the CHANCELLOR of the
ties : And is it not acting -by contraries to try to
Excnuotica, the Sister Kingdom being incompetent
to meet her own engagements, which are greatly in
prevent importation by raising the price of the inier.
dieted article to a temptation? And would not an
arrear. A fresh assessment of taxes must therefore
be levied to make up this defalcation. Act of Parliament be necessary to .regulate the cli.
We cannot speak of the new duty on warehouses, mate, and change from rocky. and barren to fertile
; and arable, the great proportion of the soil of NI
shop-windows, and the articles of commerceoshether of
! country which comes under this description
we should voluntarily set at nought the cheap and
luxury or of necessity, and above all of the additional
postage of one-perm!) on Newspapers, without anti.
I certain products of other countries, and make anti.
cipating the baneful consequences which must result ' selves more insulated than nature has made us' 1
from such impositions on the trade and means of in- 1 Passing over the injustice of such an act of usurped
formation, already so highly taxed and barred in this 1 authority as we suppose might be conceived to tits.
racterise the conduct of twelve out of a hundreil
. men, placed on a desert island, who having somstltittg.
country. Knowledge is wealth and power to a :
community. It is well known, that the commercial
to dispose of, should take upon themselvea to pass a inii
interests of this country are greatly advantaged by the
.! to prevent the others from obtaining any thing but from
diffusion of Newspapers abroad as well as at home—it ! then: and at their prices—passing, we say, over
is also but too greatly felt that the public Journals of i the palpable iujustice of such a proceeding no thli
this country are taxed to such
,an extent as not ;part of a few, against the many, whose lives may ba
merely to make the press, so valuable in a commer-
,placed in danger by it, would it be -politic? is t
; . such a measure as is likely to increase the populatio .
cal as well as in a political point of view, in most
arid prosperity of the island! The question is self
cases a ruinous speculation, but to prevent, like the I answered. The most fruitful spot under the sun, i
Edicts of the worthy FERDINAND of Spain, any i such partial and destructive policy were to be adopt
thing like the actual state of the country from being J would become an uninhabited waste, or merely
known abroad through that medium. This is another I land of slaves and tyrants.
of the resources looked to, which we confidently prog. People of all classes will admit the propriety
nosticate will fail. Newspapers are already taxed ,
giving domestic agriculture a just and reasotiabls de
gree of encouragement; but the quantity is Oleo's
more than they can bear. A diminution of Public ! subject of dispute. The landed interests think i
Journals would have,and has, been a consequence of should be very great, and the. mercantile and W
the peace—such additional restrains upon their cif-. ! bouling classes, by far the most nomeroue, can set
culation must diminish the number still more. A' no good reason, particularly at the present time,
when the Property Tax is to be taken off .the pro_
lesson from the book of ATTIL4 may supply their
pertied men, and all ranks hare been cherishing th
place. Certainly, to blot out information is the true 1 pleasing hope of enjoying some coMpensation for 41
way to retrograde.
Il great privations which they so long suffered, whys
It will be some consolation to the public to know, J provisions and every thing governed by the priced
that there is some prospect held out of a reduction i bread should be raised to the exorbitant rate of the
in the price of porter. The CHANCELLOR of the I war prices; and thus interests are divided which
I should be held inseparable, and animosity is. created.EXCHEQUER took occasion to allude to the present I where none should subsist.
high price of that article, and disclaimed all partici- 1 Such restrictions as receive the sanction of the
potion in the continuance of that price, although he , Legislature should embrace the interests of all. The
: British Government has generally been tender in tax.
attcan observed, that the Brewers had waited to
had originally assented to the rise. Mr. WHlT-
ing those absolute necessities of life on which the
existence of the poor depends. Nothing but the
know what theltight Hon. Gentleman's intentions'
, most absolute necessity should induce them to throw
were; and now that they found no additional tax `obstacles in the way of the people obtaining cheap
,
was to be put on malt, they would carry into effect a 1 food. lluman imagination shudders at the conse.
determination which they had previously formed, ! quences of an opposite proceeding on the part of the
Executive. Of the quantity of corn at present, in the
for diminishing the price of this article. —So far
, countr we of coseu infored,s
good; but if the new regulations in regard to Corn,
but how stand cannots
the la ur
w, arid he
acc
what is thratel ye
seietivem de..
shall have the effect of raising the price of grain to ' gree of disadvantage which the home farmer labours.
the extent to which it may be feared they wl.tp; -thiqunder .when compared with the foreigel the duty;
reduction in the price of porter may bo only tempo- on wheat imported is 245. and 3d.ger,guarter as the
rary. `law stands at present, and the. charges en imports.,
As to the proposed measure to add to the-relief of .lion are about 2ffs..giaing the donsestic /rower of,
.4ar .
'thellitifttiolaiii. by further burthening and testi-tete-L*4'e". a preference over. the &veto ta. Ins.s
per quarter when the market priat does not
ing the rest of the community, we think it extremely : exceed 31.• 3s. With such a preference, it may
dangerous and impolitic.. It ii obvious to every one '
be thought there was no great necessity for heieg
acquainted with the state ot the Country and the lin a hurry to enact new regulations. The mate
history of the Corn taws, that these laws have not 1 ket, it is tbq; provenly le already protected from.
had all the extraordinary effects which are frequently I the u
nto. o
foreign torn nearly up to the lea
proves 1 (pima price. .SOMething beyond this must therefore
ascribed to them. Their successive enactment
-) be contemplated. But certainly nothing can he so
their inefficiency. Will the plan now proposeff, ...Impolitic as thus continually stretching the power
be attended with better effects than any ' former of the Executive and the strength of tee people to
measere I We doubt it. We are not without fears their extremest -tension,. We have seen that plenty
i
that it is calculated to produce infinite
.mischief of corn does not make cheap bread. The coon- v
to the farmers and land-owners themselves, though at this instaur is glutted with French corn, yet bread
i cannot be called cheap. The expectation of some
we are given to understand, that it is the matured
offspring of the united wisdom of all the interested' such measure as is now proposed, has prevented itsbei brought to the market. Thin; the ver me.
(and who are not interested in the measure?) heads tion of compelling a high price.of anjr. articly e is•irtn-
in the Legislature. We shall give reasons for our jirious
sto thousands. But the fact is, the pa-
'opinion, and shall be glad to find that there are no ' pulation of the country now far exceeds the pro.
grounds for our apprehensions ; but we know this ! deer of the land—any product that it can be made
subject too well to be mistaken. What ! the Ito yield, notwithstanding the great improvements in.
agriculture which have taken place. These, intaany
collective body of British agriculturalists, assisted' •
_ itos tanc.es, have been carried
.to their utmost attest.
with the aids which Government can and 'hit SIIt is time to give up raising structures on foseda.e
shown its readiness to supply towards carrying !lions that will not support them. A sober system
their object, fall into errors injurious to them,' is now necessary. The corn laws are acknow-
ledged to have become of no effect, It it in vain,
selves, and bungle their own business! Impossible.
Softly. Men are never so likely to err as when therefore, now to.attempt to raise.lsuperstrecture
their interest is concerned. So that now the " piping of things,
on that foundation. There is
.a nature( order
which no artificial arrangements can
time of peace" is come, and there is great danger alter. It was by the duro, cum ,parce eolona,
that commerce will open her thousand marts for the I viro, that the agriculture of . epoient Rome was
the
fruits of our Industry, and the barks of all conducted in the best days of the Republic.--
It has been by people of the same character why
nations of the world, fraught with the wealth of
frugality, and persons of some sense and experience,
" Ormus or of Ind," are likely to pour their treasures
into our exhausted coffers, which, -God knows, we
that the
foundation of agricultural improvement has
been laid in all countries—not by eeercive laws of
have much reason to wish they Would ! we most not the Government. Neither harmony for prosperity
think of keeping up a communication with to- are the effects of force. ,
- --4..... ~.,4,...,.... .:., .1
reigners—we must be more isolated than ever. The
. importation of a single cargo of fresh grain,. under A Dutch Mail arrived this forenoon. It Ikois
80. per quarter, however necessary, might be de- merely a confirmation of the statement that: our
Belgic army is to be withdrawn from the Netherlands
structive to the whole agricultural interests of the' on the Proclamation of the new Government, which
country; therefore, if people mean to be rich acid is expected to take place soon. All was quiet in the
happy, they must return .to primitive manners Low Comstries; Lord CASTLEREActi is expected to
—they most unlearn all that three thousand come by tine way of Holland, fur divers weighty rea-
years have taught them.--O! there is nothing about t. ,
sous; a
,will, it is suppdsed, arrive in this country
... of the preeent week. There is do nee.:.'
like the Arcadian life—Statesmen with crooks, from Yu ma's.
Chancellors and Lord Chancellors with the true
It was reported Iliatlfew Orletios bad fallen bit the 15th San
sheepish look, and with heads a-wool-gathering
AmterlicraAlonisloninnticitetihneet air
311ernOnlitarariu,id wan enco
ne unter with
‘mveitoll the
ail day long, without the danger of incurring " the on
world's dread laugh." 'Then, after the ports are feat.estiutre
eegeln4enotiass In hand; it is added, that the Amer,.
orderedp.rn, tehien itiirieit epeocfk turd to be raised mie assiits, which I,
shut and hermetically sealed against foreign grain,- The Loan Ala You insiYir.cted ihe-klealweigher'S ref it 9 tot
and all hands employed in its production here, what
committed st.-. 11.
sihe 9th inst. a. most
fortunes would be made by the farmer! What re- shocking murder siqs
venues would accrue to the State ! How well the .;ear- of aro4el,:rnentidiinorggilivreitt if "hneer.' ,atylineurngiiiiir l'inroningrebiini %hit!
consumers, when sufficiently placed under the pro- township of nr)mho, near Wreah tm, North Wales. it nio
ran, that volinaer hin•Sher's return ip.me from hii work, abo t
tecting and protected power of the growers, Would ~,,,e o', lock in the evening, he found kir sister weltering_ in I'
How tiLloi,sat:i.w,tt4u,;zetititt.r.innotr•Littiriirogayresanos the brad. rritlbiCi,orfira.lo.:,
be able to bear the increase of taxation!
easily, after the paired trade in merehandiSe to the the rvid., ce, billing upon 11 young man of ;he amine of amilet
, Humphreys, he was t.iken into custod) and,
it is said. he I,'
grain countries, Germany, the Baltic North Arne- •ohce confessed the guilder. '
3
s
leS'729'Cle. titc* was properly crippled, we could resort to
Additional Taxes will be hereafter proposed, to the amount of vita,
about Xl, 00,000 i the vintages of Spahr and Portugal) and bring home
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