The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-03-23 00:00:00

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.. gerfornsed it jeltitly
..der pa-gamed it tint by al,
received i Pry large sates as p
'lets lit lost little; lane with atitatba
a:taunted to 641/. Those who hail received most
performed the (knit." o: the s:tnation by ilersity. It
had 'wen Laid dim .1 in the rep art of a Committee of
'lilt hail r, as a *nixie', that where the duty wholly
performed by iterate, Oleic, was priPiti firrie evidence
that the expense of the pritieipal might be saved. lie'
was lif opiidois that all the Receivers lianwral might
1W doll.' suss. 1u I .1:1 11111, all the sines raised in the,
province: were transmitted to Vithlin, and in Scotland
ni the :a.iiiie oiansier the itiamieut collected were trane.
id:tied to the Receiver General, whit resided in the
3letrop.dis. Ile could not see why the same 'night
not lie dime in Ent; LA MI, and dmn upwards of 441,4111114
iiii;:ht be sii.e.l atiau illy in that department, while
at list' same time instals unnecessary patronage would
lw done away, at Inch it appeared to bins was only kept
sip In; had pnrpose.. By the areuntlt% insole up tat the
soli Jiiiir.a..y I !:420, it appeared that the lowest balance
reisiaisainju the hands of the Reeeivers amoonted to
36;,5; L. This sem they held at the commence-
ment of the .....arie .. and as the 'platter ailcaneed, its
gr,,at ing pro Sect ilen'olini or perhaps trehle.l the
ainaiiint lie dad ine!,!;..iiied. Ile called on the Home
to consider how if tea t !lie aaiyaii.age must be to those
who held thew balances. lint then it would lie 'alt)!
they Wait have those for Receiver•• tiertatral who
t•ou'Al give proper sintrity. Ile wished every neves.
sary seenrity to he given, MO objected tit the wea-
r:ties at present ilemanded. The preaetit ?system hr
conisi lered to be a' bail as had conk, lie. This he in-
stanced in the failitres whi.di had orcitrreal, ;main the
manner in whisk the al...omits hail been kept, from
a hick i: was dear that the Tan Office had no regular
cheek on the Reeriv.w Mr. Sh;tw, the Itereiser-lie-
neral of Silt rey, died in 1'505, and the Cottsiiii.sioners
came nit iris s't siri•irs for 3.!,(11101. '1 h„ balance that
remained tine they then mated to he somewhere about
3or 4 4100/. Five years after this, 4,000/. more was
alemanaliel oniiii formation it hich dail been supplied to the
Commissioners. after the hats' e tine had been de-
clared to amount to but 3Of 4.0001. Of the 40,000/.
Sir limbed No 4 hail paid 30,00 U/. n'ttl Mr.
L'Eatrange hall been called on to pay the remainder.
This was sulfhient to show how little the reveam was
protected. 11t. Ayton, the Receiver-General, of Sa-
lop, died in I .11; ; his securities (two usetnbers of that
llotise,) before bring hound fur him. had inquired
what balance stood against him, and was told that
there was it thing hat a few thousand". After his
death, they were Calls 41 sin to make good an essornsoes
bait lit's. of 11'0.1 1111;. ,!tie trans him 20 years before;
and for this t; et' hail been priareeded against, but Le
was happy to learn that proe..eilingit hail hien stayed.
In the Excise :1 better system was acted upon, and oat
of the ini040444. revenitt. there collected, widen was
three times as great as the • sat iif the lend and
.-tssesecal Taxes. the at: ea rs were not half ho great as the
balance left in the Receiver'. hands. The saute course
onelit to lie adispeil with respect to the lend and As:
ses• .41 Tax,': that ttat4 art...l upon in the Excise, or that
which he had shorn to lie in force in Ireland and
Scandal'''. If the ition..y were pryer sidereal to remain
its the sullectora, Imnik more than 'ix weeks, ;Reek of
the evil woad.' be prevented, anal then ends hit Is seen-
ritie.. a.. were now requited would not he necessary.
Ile thasiseht the 'milieu ut Receiver Geiser ii ought to be
abolished altogether, lint if the system WAS to he kept
sip, lie wonlil then rec.:it:veil that tenders should be
advertised for in each county from those willing to
take 11:5011 themselves the duties of that situation,
and be at as save iliat plenty wmalil he fonnil to give
asietimmate .t's'arist'. and t.. i.erimmens Omens wimholit re-
quiriug any nnitlitterarion for time sake of the bent lit
ill iSilig from the ha! tutees twee.sarily left its hand. lie
now stmt' to the Distrilintors of Stamps. These Gen-
tlemen in 17..19, rem rimed frisiii the publie the sum of
72,1;:dif. In ls2o, they teCeileil 734.11.11. and over
and above they hail the 14 •IN•tit of 14:41444r4.•, 0hi4.14 at
the lowest ainunn'esl Si* alma tits of 1113,1111 a 'l'llr
per rent age, in t:.e collection of stamps was, from
I 1;9 I to 17:i5, 71. lc.. per cent. In 175,1. it was
reiterant to :11. per emit. The following year it WAS
raised to lit. per cent. and thus it remained till 1774.
when it was realiired to 5/. per cent. This was not
altered till that C 'tree sat, of which the preile-
reshot of the prewnt Speniker was Chairmen, when it
was reduced to if. at which it now stood. Ile then
noticed tiw incomes 'relived by the Distributors of
Stators. Mr. Cole, of Norfolk, received in the years
I 51;. 1515, 1.40, and 1520, the aver age satins of
3,520/. per annum. Mr. Gray, of York, received the
sans of lire thon.and eielet hundred and eight pounds.
lie were on to enenuerate the average incomes of the
distributors of stamps iss other countries. and tarred
in two instances to prodnee individual' of the first re-
spertahility„ who would give the same 4ectirities, and
perform the same Janie'', (if the s:. stem has to be up-
held) for a lunch :smaller reisitineralinn. Ile would,
however, recommend that the same coarse should he
taken with the mli‘trilottopm of itamimps, that lie had
wished ta see taken with the Itereiver.lieneral. Ile
wished rendeis to lw railed far in earl), comity, and
the Government cnnlot take the best that °erre& Ile
haul one vreat complaint to make. If any one went
to hely a shilling stamp, he wont) he charged a shil-
ling and a penny for it. We herd been charged 54, 54.
for a liye shilling stinno :at Hell last year, and when
he asked why this was, he was told that they (the
venders) %Yenta not take the trim le to veil them with-
out such a profit. Ile would 11)- that every individual
who cliargest a penny extra for a stamp ought to he
transported. A wan who, stole live nails, value three
farthing., out ado dock-yard, was liah:e to transporta-
tion, and why should the offender he had just de.,
scribed lie exinapted from a like piinislituelo ? Ile had 1
suegestual a eranse to i 'al, this offence, and lie'
hoped it would he ItitOlited Ity the plan be recom-
mended lie had no doubt hsi a saving of 132,000/.
might be effected. l!e. waitahl venture to answer fur a
saying of 100,0001. in the tirst year of the experiment.
A method of n. 4104.0.11 in the expease of Receivers-
General was s ti tile ago pointed out by the Pi-
, Dance Committee, :led which, alter being at first
lialnited, was allh4Viittelltly acted 'pan. is was to ef.
feet a eating of •!0,114/01. per annum in the rearm of 25
years, which. continued with his plan, was the mere
semblance of eenninny. Thu Distributors of Stamps bad
been increased at various periods, so as to sok the poli-
'dad circumstances of the times. la the time of Mr.
Pereerallasolodoistrat ion. the olive beg become vacant
at Liverpool. when two Members of that How made

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'he appointutet
hide the otEre
,red—(!dear.) I
ig that should satisfy ,
. existed for :tgreeing• to his res•thetiems.
It the house resolved that melue;itro should he
there. were to hands into stltiels the stsbjeet. womb's,
roperly as tee th0..4. of his Nlaiesty's treasury. lint
if they were netwillieg to ituderake the task, 1,1 them
refer to a Committee of the !louse.—(Hear, from Lord
Castlereagh ) He was glad to understand from the
Noble Lord, that a C ttttt mittee would be agreed to. Ile
was grateful that his stsegestions would be far attend-
ee! to. At the same time, he must observe that the saute
propositions which he had the honour to submit last
y .ar, er...re met by a direct neentive. The I tonuttrable
3letither then read a 'ping of resolutions which he
towant -to propose, whice were founded upon the
statements cunt:tine/I in his speerh.
Upon the first Itesolutions being put from the

Chair ;
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER rose
and expressed his intention to move, by way of amend.
went, the appointment of a Committee to examine ion,
all the cirentustances connected with the subject. Ile
assnred tie House that he sl la enter into that Com-
mittee with every wish to adopt the most ecoomnical
plan whirh combined setority, accuraey,• and expedi-
tion. At the same time he must sae, that the syteur now
existing- was by nn wie INS SU Ladies it had been represent-
ed. With respect to the Receiver feneraishi ps. of Land
and :Assessed Taxes, considerable reductions hall been
made front lime to time in the rates of poundage for cc I-
lection. lint if it was found upon examination that a
lower and as safe a meth nl of collecting could be pro-
Tided, certainly, he for one should not a bj-ct to the
change. Ile worth' state to the noose, haexever, that
under the present system, w ithin the last thirty years,
taxes to the amount iii 337 millions of money hail
been collerteil, and the whole loss thereon was 1.375 W.
The office of Reeeiser Ueneral was Ulm which reqtrired
gr, at securities ; andl persons poesessing large pro-
perty were not likely to unilertake otfices of labour or
difficulty. With. respect to the distributions of stamps
the same observations would apply to thesis. Under
all the eircutustatires, he did nut certainly think it
likely that the noose would follow the Hon. Memlier's
plan of putting these offices op to a mere auction.
The charar•e!s of the parks Wilding them, no less
thou their security ought ts he inquired into. All
he meant to say at preseut was, that the whole ”atem
should go ander the CV.lminati4in of a Committee, and
whets its report IV3* made, the House would lie Ode to
jodge of what was the lutist economical method to be pur-
sued with safety, without fullieroveupying the time of
the House, he would move as an amendment, " That a
&dart Cuoimittee appointed to consider of the
ditties of Receivers-[;corral of Lauri and Assessed
Taxes, and of the distribution of stamps. together nil.
the profits which they derive from their offices." The
Right llonouralate Gentleman then produced a list of
names for a Cutionitte, amongst which were the ful-

lowing :
Mr. Hume. Mr. W.Soltit. Sir (*. Long.
Mr. ilankes. Mr. Wpm,. Mr. llolturd, Mr. WodehutiSe.
Mr. Gretde.ll. Mr. Marino:std. sir T. Arland.
Sir .1. sLicKivrosit own irlit his gratittule toting
to the lion. Meosher behind him, whose spirit of
perseverance:lnd industry had obtained this concession
from the Right Hon. Gentleman, which had been so
posit's-I.ly denied last year. Till* was also paints- the
effect of the situation in which the Noble Lord found
himself last night. The Hoarse multi tort but see thr
great effect which a majority against 31inia-ets occa-
sion:llly had. It put the language of economy and
rctrenelentrtot into their mouths, and created within a
disposition to investiL:ate and to correct abuse. Hon.
Gentlemen who usually sit?ported them wouthl also see '!
with how march s sfrty they might leave the Ministers
in a rid/no-its. Those lion. Members who wished to
give them perpetuity of power world also see, that to
accomplish that object, it was not always useresra-y to
support them with their votes. The time had been
when an administration only existed witlo thr conti-
deuce of the Goose. Ihlt the Noble Lord could take
hints quietly repeatedly, so that he could get a
majority trpott the direct gat-stint' of remaining in
times t„ t and constitational feel-
ing had passed away. With respect to the 00000 °sitter.
souse of then, were intlivithotis of the highest respect-
ability, but he thostglet to expect any good, they ought
to have a fair and impartial Committee, and not one
formed like the prusetst. The best names bail certain- I
Iv been put its the vac, and at first, it scented to sound
yell' well. lint the rear was very deficient. Ile saw
an lion. Baronet, (Sir T. .Iclattil) smile, but the lion.
Baronet certainly conld nut suppose that he alltstlesl to
him He knew !bat Hots. Baronet's character too well,
and nohodt: admired it Mere than he did.
Lord FASTI.i:RRAti I I said, that the I lonostraisle and
Learned Ilentleman toted permit bins to s.sy, th.st lie was
rattier nowt- intoxicated with hie majority of 2-1. titan
was clone eikkfilitriit With his grave and learned charar-
lir. Whets do.. liamt. and Learned Gentleman carries'
his imagination lo.sek to the good old times, which he
(Lord Castlereagh) took to lee the times when the lion.
and Lesrnell Grrob man and his friends were in office,
hr should le 'Tr reeollected what happened . to a very par-
ticular friend of his, the present Marysista Listroltowor,
then Lord henry Petty. That Noble lord received two
very plain hints with the greatest coolness imaginable,
and not in the first wage of a propooition, when titer.•
was a Ivry thin House. Upon the derision which gave
the Hon and Learned Gentleman so notch delight, his
begged to rensinti hint, that there must hr yet other ()e-
-rosions of tiying its merits, an.' perhaps, to use a homely
expression, the Hato. and Learnt-II Nlestilier was hollow-
ing before he tats net of the wooti.—(licar. heir ! and a
laugh).—As- hr before said, Lord Henry Petty found
himself in two minorities, when two of his measures
were thrown out. The one was the Iron Tall. and the
other the Private Breweries Tax. The Noble Lord re-
ceived these hints, anti slid not art upon the doctrines
which the lion. and Le.aned Gentleman now preached
to them. No; ler lost Its taxes, but held fast his other.
—(('beers.)—llis Lordship es nsitiered the present C
-
natter to be as fall a one all cot" be appototed. With
respect to the Item. and Learned Gentleman's surmises
as to the effect of last night's division, anti the Hem.
Member for Alserdern'a perseveranee, he won't: assure
him upon his kowtow, that the granting of this ('ono
usittee was agreed to ten daysago.—(Hear.)--ile should
not press the topic forthet, hot he did Gook the Hon.
and Learned Mtnisber :night have spared the remarks its
which he hail indulged.—(Hear).
Lord A. HAMILTON hoped that Isis lion. Friend
-mould not receive the Coustobtee, but press his Iles.-
lotions.
Mr. It. WORTLEY expressed his retire satistgetion
it the eppoistmext of the Committee, sod dated that be

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