The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-02-13 00:00:00

fond a considerable number of &chequer
.Bills.—
, lie did not wish for any istferntation from the Right
Honourable Gentleman as to stay part of his financial
plan, which might not yet be matured ; bat under-
standing that it waithe intention of the Right lion:
Gentleman, in ell events, to fund a quantity of Ex-
ebequer Bills, ne•iirmeoted him to state whether *itch
was the fact ? Becausocif such were the perposi of
the Right Honourable Gentleman, that purpose
should have immediate publicity, in order to pet he
eed to the uncertainty and gambling speculation'
which at present prevailed in the City.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQU.ER
observed, that he had already notified to thO Howe,
' that it• wis net his intention to bring forward aft?
pert of his financial plan befUre Rothe ; and he,
trusted that it would Rot he thought improper on his
part to decline stir premature or impartial dßeclosure.
of that plan. - With regard to the.communicstion to
the Stork Exchange, the llonoorabfo Member al..
luded, he presumed, to that made by the-Broker of.
the Commissioners for redeeming the National Debt.
The fact was, that, ouderstanding a general ex-
pectation presailed, that if Exchequer Bills were.
funded,' preference would' be given to those bearing:
en interest of two-pence halfpenny a day, he gave'
directions to limit made known, that if any fund-
log of Exchequer Bills should take place, no such ,
preference was intended.
Mr. Aldermen ATKINi expressed a wish, that
•• the Right Hon. Gentleman would favour the House
' with somewhat more of esplanation, in order to re-
move the uncertainty that prevailed in the ,
For his own part he could not think it desires 'So
fund any Fachitteer Bills, and so to diminish the
• floating capital of the country. For how could it be
• Oolitic to take such a mea tore as must operate to re-
duce the price of stock ? Government could raise
money at less than three per cent. in consequence of
' the present price of stock, whereas if that price fell'
' eight or ten per cent. it could not have money under;
four per cent. Such a fall would, he apprehended, be
• the result of funding, at present, a great quantity
of Exchequer Bills, and, therefore, be deprecated
- any such project as the Right lion. Gentleman was
• reported to entertain. Another report prevailed in
the Pity, that it was the iotention of the Right Hon.
' Gentleman to propose the raising of a loan for the
purple of buying up the: five per cents., end this
was a plan which he (Mr. A.) would also deprecate.
But at eft events, he thought that no danger could
• ' result from the Right Hon. Gentleman's at once ex-
'Veining what were his views upon the points alluded
4:" 01:'to ; aid ho hoped the Right Holt. Gentleman would
thartaxPlanatioa, ist order to put an end to the
:fie; •
actuations of property, occasioned by the present
r". to iirdoebt upon- such important subjects.
• The kiHANCELLOW 'of the EXCHEQUER
hoped 'the House would feel the propriety of his
. tolonce with regard to thi *financial plan to he sob-
' : usitied to its consideration, Until that plan was fully
digested and matured—entil,,indeed, be was actually
proposing to have it carried into effect.
gr.'GRENFELL approved of the intention of
• o)lotkilt Hon. Gentleman sot en make any prem=
tore disclosers of his financial plan, adding, that Ms
oily object in petting e question to the Right Hon.
• Gentleman; was in order to do away the impreacion
• in thetity, that the Chancellor of the Exchequer
bad finally **de up his mind as to the fending of Es-
chequer Bills.
. The Bill went through the Committee, the Hew
seamed, and the Report was ordered to be brought
• up to-rhorrow.—Adjournel

NEW DUTIES IN HOLLAND.

Entracte from Report of the Director-Central
of Customs, in Holland : delivered to the Second
Chamber, 29th Jan. ISIS:

" Although the regulations respecting goods in
transit, es fixed by Art. 162, have been found suf-
ficient, experience, however, holf proved that the law
was too lenient *Ph regard to some articles of trade ;
above all, in respect to those of which manufactories
and trades are established in this kingdom. Those
.iaterested therein have not omitted to make repre-
/septillion, against them, and it is for those reasons
that his Majesty has judged 6t that the transit duti.s
do ltsfined Sugar, Cottons, Threads, and Calicoes,
Woollens, and other manufactures, should be in-
creased.

66 Wilt regard to the list or scale of duties affixed
to the law of the 3d October, 1816, it has given
rise to many objections, observations, and repre-
sentations, all of which hare esperienced doe atteotiuu
and consideration.

" Your High Mightinexses will, I trust, allow me
to enter into some particulars with regard to some of
the principal articles, and to state, shortly the rea-
sons which have given birth to the alterations al-
luded to.

Tin-plates.—The import doty was used at 30
slivers per 100: this regulation has created many
objections, particularly since this article is manu-
factured to a considerable estent,and excellent quality,
in some of our provinces. The enquiries made on that
. subject have,confirmed that fact, and the interest of
these manufacturers has not made as hesitate to in-
crease the import duty on this article, and to place
the manufactured and tuckered tin-plate work also
on an equality with such increase.
" The article of Thread, is one which, at all
times, makes a junction of the agricultural with the
manufacturing interests necessary, in order that the
tenltivation of flax may not be neglected to the great
injury of the manufacturers. These circemstouces
and alleged interests base,made it necessary to dimi-
nish the export duty en raw thread and twist, and to
increase the import duty on coloured sewing-thread,
as our dyers are also interested therein.
" The articles of -Hides and Skins, as appears in
the Tariff, ara charged particularly on the exports-
tation, so as to favour oar tanneries, and the inte-
rests of the latter have caused his Majesty to make
same alters.tiens.
." Lace, made of thread, has been charged in the
Tariff wealth' scale duty only, on account eleur own
menufactore being considered of such superior qua-
lity, that nothing was apprehended from foreign com-
Esperience) however; has taught us, that

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