The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-04-20 00:00:00

~„if the tax, not bec lege we were going to war, but
great expences actually had been, and must
..ober he incurred: and on that account he Would
cme for the Speakei'g leaving the Chair, believing
11,.,t the Property Tax would be most valuable, most
„riTer, and most efficient.
)lr. Nlll{ll ished to say a few words to
whin wl'y he sopporteil the question for the
:wilier's loving the Chair. Ile hoped the tax
„is b.r co moilifwil as to rei‘dor it less obnoxious to
people, espocially in the article of the assessors,
allooioa an appeal from their decisions.
1,, ket:og for this ques'i,.ll he did not conceive he
r.. oar.
.11r. W• said. if any thing could induce
ri, Into lor tlx, it arrulcl he the argument of
i!..• 11011. C't11•"113,1 who list ; but lie thought
roi;sti; woos, that (toiler any modifications
iil•,l# to he propi,•cd, atothio4 could he more oh-
-o,;oris than the late tax. Ile had no doubt lint
ntidpr certain modifications, and distinguishing
hoween different idols of property, and relieving it
firm it., vexatious mode of collection, and its inquisi..
riwors, it might be made the proprrest tax in the
„„,!(I hot front chat he u iitlers!onti from the Chan-
cr:!or of the Exchequer no modification whatever
iris it tended, and as such he thought it a tat which
°tight ttry..r to lie revived.
,11r.Ai,ietman ATKINS said, that he should not
appose the retie%al of this lax, if adequate measures
uore taken to provide against the vexation uo justly
of in the mode of collection.
II AR VEY said he approved the principle of
the Property Tax, if it were properly modified; and
hr ti•nr ht the lime was now arrived when the House,
hi such modifications as he had no doubt many Hon.
Members hail it in contemplation to propose, might
mike it a productive anti a popular tax. In the pre-
via when great exertions were demanded, he
it %mild be bitter to adopt such a tax so
rw(!ifi• d, in preference to others, which would fall
more heavily on different classes •of persons who
(.001 ill afford to hear them, and which, perhaps,
acrid in the end not prove effective.

WF.STEIIN thought the Property Tax so
tort ohj..clinnable that it oottht never to be resorted
;.gaitt. If you took one-tenth from the produc-
th—to..; of the commercial, the manufacturing, and
in 2261.31411ra! interests, you took one-tenth from
too kmsk..ral protlactiveness of the country itself. He,
th!ft'.l.lol 111)1)",(.1 ;IP `.i4imikPr's leaving the Chair.
:.lr. DICK lENiON thou.tht tlt. Property l'ax not
rot highly obnoxious. but he insisted theft. was not
t.r• same power in tho cluntry to pay it now that
Clot.. was fortnetly. He had with the deepest regret
from the Chancellor of the Exchequer, that no
H,oatiett ma: intended. The whole property of
tl.e o,untty was at this ninment in such a state, that
to 41,1. Ellen the value of ally property he had from
to i.nother.

Mr. ROSE thought a Committee the best mode of
(Ite measure, and there it would be found
1. t. 1,. Protwi I .I%tx was tho most effectual that cou'd
o.ed . Not e itlodatolieg the many asso,tions
ilyst *vs operation :11:1 CI agape(' property, the
•••`%,,in realits, tint dttlitt!; its continuantte
!,,n!,crtv had doubled is valea. It was a tax
!.:r pr..tel4llv to any 111.1 could' lift kid on eonsump-
t;oo, ler derioz an es poriencf. of 30 years, he had
r.;•if .110) obherved, that in (3xes laid no articles of
or.ualp!ion, rvery eoe hat! drawn three times us
si *as olvnined by the Government. Even in
s pro,;•0,e(1 by the Chancellor of the
F...chetprr, it would he found (lint nine out of ten
would any 11Tbk1 119 MOH) as .mold be required by
at' Ptopei Iv Tax. lie stated that but for that tax
fuailed edroperty of the kingdom would have been
snoil ilatvd pip% ious to it. The Three per Cents.
llnki Wien below .Isl, and vet since that the Govern.
tn•::( had hot, ("3 ed GOO Rtllllntl S.

Mt. BRAND thought any discussion on the Pro-
t...it) Tax, at the present time, as premature, as
tar proposition itself; but he must observe that
the tax was, in many instances, extremely ohjec-
tionahle, and such as a case of the most urgent
necessity slotte could justify. No such case had,
l'aneter, been Olen laid :-.,•fore the house, and it
tas not e'en asserted, hut that Peace may still he
ceeartl. Ile thought that if it were nocessary, at
Presetit, to rake any immerse sums, it would be
much more advisable to meet the exigency by a
V.,te ut Credit, than by impnsiog so severe a tax.
11,.illowed that the Property Tix would raise the
timt. effectual Aupplie!:, as biro}` the most general
55..-11 of confiscation. In the event of war it would
1).• the best, but it had not appeared
tat ear was alholutely nece.sary. Ile would, how-
• er• propose, Ps an amendment-4' That the consi-
°"'ion or the Pt opt,rty 'fax Act be postponed to
fori nig ht."
II r /%1 ‘.,
• ,'• Into to second the motion, as some

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ntioo W 4.111,1 1,0 rC(lllirPil 1)(1"nrn $lllXy should
...4oy 1 1,(04),C0M. n year. 110 dial not think a
toe' 0111 the country %%a,: 11/ well pry-
P",l pty the tax us the House seemed to
itnafjc...

, Ti Kit ry aished it to bP unl,,rctond tlett
" ‘"7:;::: fur the fl,nenilinent, he should not hold
1.„
from proposiii4 farther delay, if
!ortni4ht GP !loose should tint he in pos-
N• 10., of 1111..11:Jute infornintion upon this important

CAI) obcorred, that althouzli the
of lot(1 novaiwed within twenty yr4rq,
t'sl•ll°,l. by the Right Honourable Gentleman (\lr.
""`e), that valve had notoriously fillets of late
t'.11?• and that fall was acQigued as a main argument
for Corn Bill. Therefore the condition of pro.
11).P." uas truly described by the llo!initrable Mein-
Somersetshire. It had been statea that war
mitt! ant take place, but if it even should not, he
h
n'i"(l doubt that this tax, once imposed, wool(' he
upon the country for ever.—[No, no! front
r Vinicterial .vide.]—The Chancel-tor of the E.
rt4tli er, hrin ever, bad said, that h' should find
if not impossible, to propose a lnss
P".l"iountile tne, hut this was telling people
l, '`lt if they desired the removNl of a blister, they
%,ettilsl have a caustic; nod if the Right lion. Gen-
teln!ti sn ,urceed in reconciling, the public to
l)r"Petty Tint. he would evince a degree of con-
fr from which he might flatter himself with being
by posterity upon the same shelf with the
I•
."rd (Castlereagh).• The Hon. Member con.
that there was no necessitl for war ; that; on