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

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;' -01,,Maii would be. Tile !tight lion. Gentle-
inwti wailed oti In comt npy with Loki L veR
, depot:oleo of the tiatie, of which dentate:
t,e hid the Itotinur to he olio; to whiLila thi7 hnd
~,crevented OW in which they stood, and
the) iustainett from the then high prices
&e. The consequence of which was, the
hid boon raised. A second deputtition 'had. in
e flintier taken place between the same parties,
a fecowl increase of price had taken place ; 'but
,I.cond price was soon given up, andstl4: trade
,i %tailed to see ‘t hit the Iti4ht lion. Gentle-
-40.thl do before they could say ghat they
.1,.. Now they were peqst:aced of that,. they
tai,e tht'ir me:ogres within -I:z4 hour's; and had

lidos; nte.of which.' the property Tait formed so latear Ito lira, Ceylon,and the Cape of Good Hope; t being afforded. lie trusted, at least, tlat,we should
pert, he' turned short upon the Reuse, and' coolly was there atuhyojecornseptetireigneioo
settlements
. thenilitary- gar. I not proceed upon . the extravagant plan hitherto
told therb, they- might go about their business, he ; risons o(
' had ;to farther occasion fon .them for three months, I Seib aha the mihraita liown $ now
,tatd
.. whetted: Tippoo 1 adopted, if be might judge by. the salary. 4 one
and accordingly away they all went to the right about I threatened. the totat eipules% Yof
.eelurri'ftwitboiee farce st
1 formed 'ltlittitthetsliCae PeGliovferGtioorod Illiaotre.no illve*Xlvsenthiang
()Wiwi. , [n1(111;41. Having theS got rid. of his Itieitimite i From 1G Ern i he the parties tpthis threat no 2oeoool. a year.—[Mr. Vensietart said across the
Mr. TIER NEV said. he shotild not attempt to 'collttsel (theVaefiement), the Right lion. Gentlemen ! longer erlstedP re
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blifiw the Right Hon. Gentleman through the wide bent his ' view' towerdi the country,hostile front was:! table go,octol.] The salary as.Gonernot might beefily
roar. of argument in which he had indulged himself,' ferred his Confidence to his' privy councillor, Mr. `and Ceylon, theathroughoutt . hietlfosten . When. the Cape I thet Sinn, but did the Right Iron, Gent. mean to be en.
ante trans. I dis"played —eQ :ii"e,fect, no ho
gioaritm
ittOur , Oriatltal SOCOlitr, !derstood as stating, that es Governor, Commander.
. a _with which they. were i id-Chief, and in his other capacities, . aid e id+ *Welt be had amused many Membersfpresent, Gladstone, of Liverpool. Hewing been told: in l required not the? u.
ii: would seem from the several cheers with which diet (louse that the Property Tex would not be re. i before supplied, atevl could the colonial possessions •ceive ohlie -money to the amount okfeedo4l,ool.rea;
•hA so cordially • greeted his speech. He would liVied by the people after the' sth of April, he wished 'of the Empire be'said ' hold a more, enlarged !.year;P.
He hoped, thee the. Chancellor of the Lae
ignite salitary. c.ate...litat had
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collier' himself to those parts '
which he considered to through the. mediate of Mr. Gladstone to feet the' blislusetit wheal the e'rAcon' Mitancleis which
‘ first created 4.oleaq nee...would give. some correct information upon
le nette fallacious, and to which he could'not submit pulse of the • Maple of Liverpool' on the stiliect tit iilid'dee'reiled or disappeared.? le (i it, .poiiionbY)) li9s.poini., Tilts wait
ii silence, without being guilty in his Own mind of a- but it unfortunately turned out that rhe'oely tckle: ' was Persnided, thiti'telPiePeoatily.' road to
.tatisfy.
;the: Iftetdeetalfy, come to his (Mr. Baring's). knowled,ge,
deeetion of his Parliententary• duty. In the'letter • man he coniultetl ill that town 'Was the only. Gentle- ' country, or to
,reptle,r'..itca.pa.ble•elnrieeting,.its-beetry but lie feared Many. others etisted,, where, from the
• ~f the speech, the Right Honourable Gentleman ' menthe people there would not listen to. The Right •' exigenCier, was to Irma and reduce the national ex-', infittetice of family Anti connection, Ministers were
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lull 4,,en the House the consolatory information, Ilenourable Gentleman soon found that - the pee- ' peuee-[hear, hear!]—to
, liMii it within as small a comitelled lo submit to .wasteful abases in variope, ..
le( et millions a year of was-taxes would be neces- : pled LiVerPoOl Were as averse' fiern the Property i conipasss as the nature of the case.would ellsiw. It . department He concurred with what •had fallen
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~,, for the peace establiahrhent. Tile 'Right 'Hon. ,- 'reeds they Were" iii every- othet part of •the kitig- ' wits to Urge tli!s .necessity, More•thinany other, t t'l frosnMi. Mier int res ctin •the drawbacks
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teoleman had warmly eulogised the patiebee; the 1 dein ; anetollieloild 'and united cry of the whole 'he rose to delieei his sentiments: It was herd ildiell'Westr il'Ar"Yd P‘' g ' upon'
o uce: With regard to the. Property.
tfliratte, and the patilotic'perseverance of the Imo. E.nation against it, he-bad been Compelled to give'ir up. : that the people whO bore, with -such. uneia.lliPled I Tee; hen '
did not wish unneeessarily. to 4i,turb, tee.,
p:,, by which they had enabled the GovernMent to : Having, thus given up his &fling tax, which was by patience, the'privations of 'a state' et wareshoula ,still: mrce-of the dead by traducing Ae meettaryeaf that;
h ale the war to a glorious' conclusion ; and what : far the most productive of enrol the War Taxes, :be 'called on to continue thetfortiesierneaiwber,itiilew ic.hena en arose: be felt toe much respect ear the.
~t; the effect and courequesice of all this ? Why, he (Mr. T.) would he glad to know under what excuse was no longer' tiecessir he light. Hon.,; ma'am of they'd proverb, but in truth were heron.
s,, no less than this—that this very people, who had i pretence' the •
.Right Hon. Gentleman could fa it ly . Geittleinan (the tett` neelloi pfltheY
ccheque r)' bad (pelted to speUk. only in praise of the. Propprty-
L,,,n y Haltered themselves they should' be relieved'• call on" thglotise tic raise ' the sstilkpliet within the snid, that he prince-pi:lly laidaiide the Propeity Tax ;.'firt; all gm geed that be could say. of it...isas that:
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ei a peace, would now find that eleven milhone of ! year. Among the items voted before the recess, Were • here iti ei'iettual uptinlion .tetion certiiin incomes.~' it was...deg; for All the .opprobrious: epithets.
the war taxes were to be continued ; and, if ther was in one tine ten 'millions for Army Extraordiata : But would' any . min lielieve.that there was 'any other that hid been heaped upon it, appeared to hitn•
teem piece any confidence in the forebodings of the ries, which was then said to be all that was wanted * cause for its expiration. than the load 'enduneynisneust i not to. cozy ~up to its desert. In theory it reight
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Rigel ilou. Gentleman, they had every reason to 'on that head, Wonid the Right lion. Gentleman expression of the public vote.* ?—tilene keir!).-ibeeer :beautiful t. tax ' ' di '• '
eel, r themselves that in the short period of four ' say's° 'noir ?--ite believed they
; and yelthe supplies. Surely not." M. Pensonli concluded 'with teat IproPerYty, bat not:ln'g-conetirirbseee emoeeere 7dionneg' %%tins.*
oars dry might again expect the happiness of being 4: weielit time of profound peace to be raised within animation by declaring, if le people were beifruel thet oman should be atm:Wised by persons whop's:.
ore., more called upoh to evert their uttnoet eneigtei the year: The Right Hon: 'Gentleman had alloded to themselves, mien:might be done: In chit case,'' seised. more t g han4in nisitorial powers; for his own
in the same sort of warfare by which they hadgained ' tothe•Comniitteelii 1791. What was that 'Commit. the Ministers niay'he as • prodigal and "estiavit4itnt as ii part he wesdifmucli,rather be summoned before.the•
• much honour and praise from 'the Right' lien.: tee-? By the manlier in which he had talked of it, • they.pltrase.• The House may be as subservient as . Bench of Biahops,• to be widened as to his belief
tietclettian. How such information should happen the House might be led to suppose .it was a Commit.. they could 'wish in, voting' lavish and uncontrolled .in the doctrinal points of religion, than appear be •
to he deemed such a " God send" as by the cheers it tee of the whole House like that in Which they were auptilieti at theirnid; flir if like nation Was but'onisn fore the Commissioners under the Property to
esa tirod it appeared to be to a great part of the' then sitting—no such thing. It was such 'a ComMit- * true to itself, it 'would compel an • attention to its ' answer their questions as to the exact amount of his
Jleuse, he was at a Ines to conceive. Th+3llouse, he tee 'as he (Mr. t) had for the last ifotir `years been : interest, and command avetteetion of the matte eke ' world y moods end chattels. [heard and Iduildera
vas sure, would recollect ire had repeatedty told his i continually recommending to the Right Honourable ' pertiCe'vihkh. ahinVcturttreliieve thelortning 'of the The hancellor of the. Exchequer seemed resolv.
!rlajcst)'s .Mitlistels that whenever peace' arrived Gentleman and his colleagues, viz. a Committee to . Empire.—Cfiede, bear)]- j that it ehould not quit the•stage without eclat,. *stud
tiwy wut..id find themselves in a .tr.te of great em. i consider of the finances of the country '• a Commit. i - Mr. MARRIATT remarked epee the injurious was determined bye catch-clap, on the cruelties-of
biers•nete. Ile knew they must, and he believed i tee, the Members of which would look all the dull-' consequences to the West India Planter, from the the Act of. King- William, which was never pat-in
tires. fed most seusiirly Olt ne was on that bead : culties of our situation boldly in the face, and would regulation of the drawback which it'appeared was in force, to do, all in his power to procure for it a•
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be false prophet. It was not, tine -ever, big futon.' seriously and deliberately recommend the proper men= contemplation. This would operate as .it had done 'handsome retirement,. *threat had beenetudions.
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tarn to throw any impediment in their way which • sure) to remove thein. The Right Henourable Gem- before,- to-stve• the foreigner, now that the markets' lrheld oat that It might on some future emergency
should add to their enibarrasSmetit ; on' the coil- tlethan, however.; chosea different course. Mr. Pitt ' were threwa epees adecided advantage over the Bd.' be, revived, but' he, (Mr: Baring, would newer give.
trary, lie would roach rather do every thing in • would not have done so. In the Committee of 1791, ! tl,ll trader. ! his consent, unless. ire had the misfortune of witness.
lit power to assist them in gettieg out of it.—. , *Teel document necessary to probe the subject to the ! Sir4OIIN.NFACIAORT- rete-tii. L./Within of •lifet- ing ' a
.repetition of the dreadful crisis we had just
W:ten he said this, he*spuke sincerely ; and iir order , bottom was laid before them; and every Member . intreduction of the Ways, arid Means previously to passed. illear,.hcar !)
to rehire that sincerity to the (louse, it nag' neteri- ' knew as well what he was. going to Toles as well as the discussion of the' Supply. . With reference to ' Mr. ROS,E, after what .had just fallen from the
try he should give his tandlri opinion of the plan Mr. Pitt himself did : and yet the .I.tight Honoteable , tkr.two milflovii contemplated from 1441 W—how Hon. Gentleman, felt himself called spat to say a
(WC submitted to the consideration of the House by i Gentleman comes end trumpetsforth praises on Ills was it to be obtained when the revenue of thet feW.woirdein defense of a financial expedient, which.
the Right Ilonournble Gentleman. By this, the own:plan; as if it could bear a degree of:comparison , courry, with'
the loss of taxes' lest yeahlesosed, bad been attended with the happiest consequences,
lligto ;ton. Gentleman first called on the House for I with that of 1791. The first call in it for five mil- ! was 770.0001. less thin the- beeerese of thiSinkifig. which owed .its origin to prrifonnd wisdom,, and
six millions, to make good the war 'taxes • and then ! lions was, he insisted, a barefaced one. The Right i Fund-[)fear !I-seeds/sive of the Loan of 1811, : which was at that time- the happiest discovery that
hie millinni more,which were to Ise considered in the linuourable Gentleman takes the war taxes at tittle ' which in all reduced it 1,070,0001. below that could have been devised. The Right Rona Gentle.
light of war taxes in the time of peace.' This be must 1 full amount, as available assets for four years. How Fund ?—pieer !j—and yet in this state, and .without man had been mainly concerned in its adoption, and :
poles! /ugliest; for if be did not greally mistake this 1 then did be distinguish, or how could he pretend.to : having the'nteatts of furnishing• hei unpaid quota of in. order to prove his assertion of its excellence, re•
plan, it was by much the most uttpurliamentary one I say sai 'were to took on that as a time of peace or : 1,000,0061. when ast resonrced had altogether : called to the recollection of the House the dreadful.
he had ever seen or heard of. The Rouse would eb. t wat ? The House would, in his opinion, betray its , failed,. and she was without" one shilling( to' make a*. state of the credit of the nation, when the S per
serve theme was not a sill& document, not a worst i trust if they voted this'sam without a Committee.— 1 prevision for her own esiablishniente. she vies,. fore ! cents. were at 47, being'B percent. lower than at
of information before them to warrant the assertion, i He be 00 means intended to say that Ministers were I. sooth, to he called on for alurther aid of 2,000,000 i. t 4, most disastrous. period of the America(' war.
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cm! it was the most advantageous way for Parliament right or wrong, but a Committee wakastaselotely 15e.... !to unite with the general exigenciel of .tite. Enipire.:l.The consetwence et. resorting.. to the_Properti Tax
t,, proceed at the present' nioment by ralsinga large cessery. The Right II onouv.abl e Gentleman thought i —[horn- !].-The fact Wjilli• a .consolidation of the: was
,the restoration of the- credit of tbecountry ;
.7,•,!,, or in other words, the whole of the supplies it was enough if he got theenoneys and for the House : delve of bosh countries mutt takiplace, theipteieet4, without it, it would have been impossible to hare
~;i:,:ii the year. in his opinion a Loin would lire to consider the street) afterwards; but we ought to tlotiblelitytiem could not be 'pursued. At' the time'. Continnedarconteet that-had now been brought to so
lel infinitely preferable, and far bettei• suited to{ Weir our means are equal to our *ants; and -if they of the-Union withiretand, her debe was but front'. glorious a conclusion. The. public, he copceived;
i.e circumstauces*of the count iy. Ile thee spoke, t are tint, we should endeavour to make our wnnts '2B to 30,000,000!., and at the patient moment it t bed aside a bad bargain in giving op the Property
le said, in the hearing of many who 'knew noiltingl subservient to our means. Ile" was confident there; had increased to e 32,000,0001: He would, there.. Tax, as no other would be so productive, and at the
of Meat had passed, but thrnoe.b the NeWipapers ; I was nosuch surplus as six. millions, which the Chan- ; fore, protest against the House being led away by i same tune-upunepprestive as the-Property .Tax, when
Dot those who were presek ie the !louse before the i cellor of; the Exchequer boasted of; and be warned the fallacy of seeking' any relief-from the Irish' 4.stii= properly- modified. It was' true that the sth of
I.se adjournment tooth place, vinuti; do. him the jit's.• i the Ilonseigaitist voting this money, which might Wishnick. The only' ways of sliciwini:t die 'ropier; April was the period at which, by the existing Act,
~re to recollect, that at that pct ;oil, ulten'tlie house " draw the couttiry intri difficulties which it would not ! how to bear terrge' ',lst the weight of evil's they must 1 it would expire, but it was not the meaning of Par..
was called on to vote '2l Milli4isiA, lie had expressly I easily get rid of. I endure, would be to set the example d'reducingelter lliament that no events should inducnthetn to con.
told [Lem they were all war' taxes, • and it now aP. 1 • The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER cen• . expenditure which they were called upon to supply. ' dime it. As to the disclosure which it. was said it
reared clearly to he the case; frir, after the spvede of I tended, that both by policy .and practice, he was i --[Bette 1. . obliged persons to make of their income,. this obser.
te,s Right Mu. Gentlemen, this 'debt, he defied-ally t Justified in the course which he had pursued, both Sir .1. SHAW animadverted on the Resolution rest mallet) was only true when applied to small trades.
oat, to say that he coned' know whether it was a ion the present occasion, and previous to Christmas.' lative tO shops and warehouses. Froth this revenant mina, whom it obliged to make a return of all-their
'reach of a war charatier'or of' a peace character.— ! With respect'to the Sinking Fund, the plan which he t a sum of 50,000!. was expe'cled: Now this. tax had) profits. As, touthee persons, the whole amount of ,
l:,• wants to reisell'oiitliOns in a time of profound I had that night proposed, was in exact conformity I been altempted`b.y Mr. Pile 15.yisays:4101 and, after I any • man's income- was not shewo by MS return.
i, pr-e with all thivr*oritt. What, said Mr. T. can with the plan which he hail before stated. As to the: one year's experience,• it was nellnquiShede. as• it l This was a poinein which the present Property Tan.
le lair moire (a pe,44tvg this reeasuie at the pre-! observations of the lino. Geotlernan opposite (Mr. I operated open an unfit close in society to bear such al was an improveMent• upon the. Income Tax, which'
stet mee.ent ? He ha' Oil the )louse it was he.' Whitbread) he could only observe, that he had no i burden. From his own immediate obeervatilin in the, was first introduced. The Property Tex had been
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raise the Properly Tai Weald expire on the' intention to throw any imputation upon the Getle- , Metropolis, he ceuldsafidi say, they were of. all ; advantageous- to. the country, -to the stockholders,
s'h of April.—Thee ITrilt;w Must, therefore, ' mite alluded to, but having been in some measure a others' the molt iticninitetent to he exposed tefreshe and the manufacturers, for withoutit.the manufac-
provide the money now'. `Phi's' leisrlosiied to be the party to the rise of price in beer, he felt it incmuberit ; burdens; He therelbte (*injured the Right'' itoti: I tares of this couotry, might hare been- permanently
case. There was no acc;islinsifoe sect'. a measure at :on him to disclaim all participation in the cot[. Gentlenisn'toabindonthat Resolution: . • excluded from the continent,. and he lamented it was
pre ant, amid the Right lien. Gentleinati was not tinuance of that price;
f The CHANCELLOR, of the EXCHEQUER not the intention of Parliament to continue it, at least
warranted in calling siii.tWe'llou,;e for such a sum of ' Mr. PONtiONBY—" lan not rise,•Sir, so much , said, the tax imposed on the present
.occasion' was ifor the present year, under modifiCatione. •
money. Tlio real tact-was, Ile'. waisted it to catry for the purposeof objecting to the Resolutions before different from that inteoffuced by Mr. Mt. The i Mr. C. GRANT said, that if the system of fi.
him en a certain time lort01;;arilf if he .olAjoed it, .4 you, as to the comment upon some parts of the Right former plait alluded to was rated according to the; nonce which had been so strongly recommended by
he (J! r. T.) 'should not he surtirUed to' see another lieu. Gent.'s (the Clianceltor
,of the Exeliegeer).l rents of the pieties.
.What he' now proposed was' Gentleaen.oa the other side had Imo adopted, not.
adjournment. l'he. House vrikild ieriat'othefe (fiat' Speech;, and` to' eipreti my distiPtirobation of thli.i merely 3s. lid. upon each window. Tiber* could he only the war tams bUt a part of Able Taw
hefcre the late urijr.'nr timent took, ploc'e, he had se- mode of proceedilig width; he has adopted. ,ffe no objectiotitO. such a tax. With reference to what would we now Neon mortgaged. Al4lintirti Pro.
rlouslc warned Oa in of the riliscjah that niisltt arise has said,•Sir,..and in that' I most. cordially agree with, had fallen (rent the Boni Baronet -opposite (Sir' J. 1 petty Tax, which htk been resigned, many Gentle.
!''r-al .h.,io so full of cootie), nee iititiorstre. lie him,-that the people of this conotrYs with cheerful- NeliPartreetative to the financial state of Ireland, men•appeared to -feel: about it as Falstaff did about .
toil protested ii,,iiiiii,t siting so larojti;tgifiiai 2.1 ness, submitted to the heavy berthens imposed open, it only showed, dig frefietbilkTniit fbrnish tier own I Peas, be was afraid of that gunpowder Percy•
millions, without it being astertafttedais' o tile Man. them—burthens which, indeed, were unexampled i' quota, it wasthimore-initkiiititre ien tlieni tentakel mien although be was. dead." As.to the term tin.,
Tht deans which *ore- calledroustitutional,. 'if it had been only supported by.
nor in which it %% is to be expended ; inillnidii the in their pressure in this or any other country. And up the defibiency.
night lion. Gentleniall refuSed fic.;ansiver certain how, Sir, delve the people remunerated for this' un-; for, at the-Orient. nattMente were inceinplisle, and Mr. Pitt and his admirere, he should. not have been.
eteetions on viliech. it
.was deemed Tintiorloot to re- limited' cal:II-dee& Why, by their Reinesentee!, therefore could not tikpiodieetWitli any satisfaction. surprised at thoGentlenten who -gauntly differed fro.
',ire information, he (Mr. 'l'.) had advised the, tives being, at a moment of peace, Milled on' to sroteiThe observation, of the Mon, Gfentlematt..(Sli. Mar-1
mime calling it unconstitutional. Those. Gentlemen,,
!louse to grant no mnitey till they' received an' an. away immense sums out of their pockets, without.' ryatt) upon the subject _or, the drewbacke, and its: however, who- had' generally voted with Mr. Fee,
'ever all such points as they deemed it necessary for • the-Minister condescending to inform them for what] operation on the West India. trader, would 'elegy. be' and supported the increase of that tax to Ilepiete
t: e puteie gand to have ascertained:. Lord Castle. services, or to what amount such a pecuniary obviated by the cessation of the• Property Tee,. which 'mato- could. hardly oonceive that Mr. Fox woug
lealt was now expected sery soon ; 'alien' he tir- supply was either applicable or neteistiry.—, plir.
,lie' relived that clas.s.frode a'
,gteater pressure than the • have so greatly increased a fax that he con!** red
it was caltad unparliametantry to
vied it was likely lie would have it in his power to (the Ciuleceller of the Exchequer)' say, whether it other by possibility couldinfilet. This Wait the Swot' unconstitutional.
•zil•e arch information as **child nearly ascertaiii was for the military establishment ?-No. For the stage of the' Reiolution, tit wooldt be °pint for die. 'vote supplies trefoil s full statement had hien made
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e !,nt menet,. would eientually. be wanted, and for naval?- tNcr. For the
.colonial?—No. Then for, cession antf shadificatioli in itteped of what would be. our. naval and military expend[.
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itat esismocies or contingencies it might be reqdisite What was it? No particular Platt" was specified; Mr. BARING thought that the Chileceftor ortlii cure. It was evident, however, that in the present
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•0 provMe : However, it was evident that thb whole there was nothing
.before them to c_,,lieck. or
_or,-,,. F4chetine.r was, undei a great fallacy it' he expected ,circurretances of thtecountry;;" this was absolutely int. .
in tittle ofpeace thit tazCs tsrduld eontininv teti ,pos.ible for the Chancellor of the Exchequer to do.
..ivct now was to get the nuttier without show. rect. the items which map be stated.w Not one -end that . . .
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producttr as during
for what purposes it would be wanted • and of serviCee Was Leiden their tub to cbriepa' re With,
had told' them
. ''refer t- Ihe-sWeePiiig and lolSlt'iltateelehri-which a reduction from an expenditure Qf 80 mill
beam 1
nr. FILF.M A NTLL: boa, the Right Honourable
the "II? ' it wee 're °;lnsnitsis e'totillittl ;Gentleman ou the floor (Mratinteh
tinted venture to say, that inch a precept. or o
e; eas perfectly, „exemptee in the, practice of Par- were uttered. And hew, did di, Rlght no. nedrablit thillittea annually should not be very sensibly felt he ;that the country would be. mote distressed. freet tin
The' alteyetion in the' ;Mee of print- itixes'ishiah were to be impesed, than from the Pro., r
:;itv. To raise the supplies within the year was Gentleman tempt. the-Haute to'sictot.. heepeoposie. dre'reVittue;
' ' b merely stating the expences of a peace stens by the fall of bread; it it were not artificially perty 'rim which bid been abandoned. This was,
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The Right Rop. Gent. had made a fine.funeral oration
'over the Pruitetq'Tak. Lje ntorlitist nil n'la. a-
n &w as certainty the ahem. -:of 'elf haniatte reri-
sorters.' BLit in MIS case-it' could sdarMy•he op-
plied, tut 'the Right lion. Centleman liad'given the
House to understand, that his bantling was " not
dead but sleepeth ;" and that, if we were not very
much oat of luck's way, we might 'seelit reiive'akain
in four years' in an 'its 'pristine vigour:
.Wheti the
Right ifon.Gentleinin, previous to thesadjournmefit,
was asked when the Property Tax would esPire,
he was at a loss for an answer; he did 'not knots
whether it would expire on the, btll of April or
not; soon after he said it would expire at thit,
time; afterWardi he was in dotifit upOn the
subject; but as soon as ever helm& got his 2f Mil.

eitablishMent, at a rneitd sum of 10,006,001; an-
nattily, The whole expence of the forme, peace
establishment, together with the• interest .of the
debt, fell several millions shotl of this amount, and
yet such a. sum wit now to ht voted by anticipation
Tar four years, wftlinat the s;ightest Parliamentary
ductunent in its justification. To such a proceed-
ing he would never consent. The [tense rouki ne-
ver arrive at, or know the
,real. bearing .of the
finances of the country, without ftl prerinus.adop•
lion by such, a Committee as, had been called foi by.
his (tight lion. Friend. For his own pat t, he was at
a lass tn see what the Objection:to such a mode.of
proceeling could be.—With reference to the increase
of their colonial possesitoos*. the fact may be so; but
he would deny it in a military. point of view. Look
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lupported (which be sincerely hoped Would not be
, the case), must also produce a powerful effect upon
Abe existing system of taxation. A Gentlemen4s an.
nual income might be reduced from 30001. to 20001.
'and in time of peace he might be able live as coma
fortably. upon the smaller sum as in time, of war
upon the larger, but it was by no means the same
thing to the revenue, which must sustain a consider=
able reduction. The Honourable Member objected
to the present slovenly.mpde of conducting the pub.
lic.bniluess, not merely because it ,was productive of
inconvenience in the particular case, but because it
might by future Chancellors of ;the Etc !teener be
drawn into a mischievous precedent. Nothing was
offered but general assertions of increased establish-
ments for our Colonies, without an' particulars

ai.;hl lion. Gentleman condescended to be a
~,,,,e communicative, the business would per-
'.,Q; ;,ire been settled, and the public acquainted
%.11 the intentions of the tiade before this tithe.—
~!1 rspect to the plan of the Hight Hon. Gentle.
ino, he should reserve his opinion fin smite future