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Article PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS. ← Page 7 of 10 →
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Parliamentary Proceedings.
' Of the produce on the duty of paper , for the same time : Of the nett produce of the duty on glass , from the i 5 th of April , to October IO bf tht ' nett produce on slates , stones , and marble , from July 5 , to October J ° bf ' the nett oroduce of the duties on distilleries , and on licences granted to distillers in Scotland , from the 5 th of April , to the 10 th of October , 1794 , m ^ e last session
perpetual : . An account of the total produce of duties of customs , excise , stamps , and incidents for one year : . . . ' . Accounts of the total nett produce of the duties of customs , excise and stamps in England and Scotland , in Hie four quarters , ending 10 th October , I / Aiid an account of the total produce paid into the Exchequer , under the head of incidents , in the four quarters , ending the 10 th of October , 1794 ; and ordered to be laid the table
The titles of all which were read , on . 5 . Mr . Jekyll moved for papers relative to the Prussian subsidy . Rethought no time fitter than the present , to inquire what installments were paid . Mr . Pitt had no objection to satisfy the Honourable Gentleman . The last installment was in the month of September last , and the sum given to his Prussian majesty altogether was 1 , 200 , 000 ! . . Mr . Sheridan made some observations on the London MihtiaBill , which he
very much condemned . _ . ¦ ¦ __' Mr . Alderman Curtis said , that the citizens of London were perfectly satisfied with the late bill . - Mr . Alderman Anderson was of the same opinion . Pie thought no charter or privilege infringed by it ; and that it would be productive of great blessings to the city . Mr . Alderman Le Mesurier defended the bill . Mr . Jekyll wished to know from the Chancellor of the Exchequer , what numthe of Prussiaand made motion to
ber of troops had been supplied by king : a that purpose , together with the motion for papers on the treaty . Mr . Pitt said , there was no official account of the number . Mr . Pot said , it was hardly possible to be ignorant of the services performed for the sums given ; and it was the duty of the House of Commons to make the enquiry . . Mr . Pitt said , no official return could as yet be given , and moved as an amendment , to leave out of the motion this last part which related to the troops , on which , after some debate , the House divided , when there appeared for it
no ,, against it 33 . . Mr . Sheridan then rose to make a motion . The ground , he said , upon which the late bill for suspending the Habeas Corpus act was obtained , was that of a traiteroiis and detestable conspiracy having been said to exist in the country . But this conspiracy , he contended , did not now exist , because the verdicts of the juries who tried the persons for High Treason , had entirely negatived every idea of a conspiracy . readto admit that there libellous and violent writings brought
He was y were forward on the ' trials in evidence , and that many persons were proved to be very disaffected to government ; buthe denied , that any of these things justified the late bill . Mr . Sheridan then went over all the several steps taken by ministers since May 1793 , in order to stop seditious practices , and contended that the whole was a scheme lo create an alarm in the country . He reprobated the system of ies and informerswho went about to
encousp , rage aud stimulate that sedition which they were to make a report of ; and a minister who encouraged them , must have no knowledge of the country except from them . Pie did not deny , but that there were many disaffected persons in the country ; but were the remedies practised likely to check them ? Having spoken a considerable time in a splendid strain of eloquence , he concluded with
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Parliamentary Proceedings.
' Of the produce on the duty of paper , for the same time : Of the nett produce of the duty on glass , from the i 5 th of April , to October IO bf tht ' nett produce on slates , stones , and marble , from July 5 , to October J ° bf ' the nett oroduce of the duties on distilleries , and on licences granted to distillers in Scotland , from the 5 th of April , to the 10 th of October , 1794 , m ^ e last session
perpetual : . An account of the total produce of duties of customs , excise , stamps , and incidents for one year : . . . ' . Accounts of the total nett produce of the duties of customs , excise and stamps in England and Scotland , in Hie four quarters , ending 10 th October , I / Aiid an account of the total produce paid into the Exchequer , under the head of incidents , in the four quarters , ending the 10 th of October , 1794 ; and ordered to be laid the table
The titles of all which were read , on . 5 . Mr . Jekyll moved for papers relative to the Prussian subsidy . Rethought no time fitter than the present , to inquire what installments were paid . Mr . Pitt had no objection to satisfy the Honourable Gentleman . The last installment was in the month of September last , and the sum given to his Prussian majesty altogether was 1 , 200 , 000 ! . . Mr . Sheridan made some observations on the London MihtiaBill , which he
very much condemned . _ . ¦ ¦ __' Mr . Alderman Curtis said , that the citizens of London were perfectly satisfied with the late bill . - Mr . Alderman Anderson was of the same opinion . Pie thought no charter or privilege infringed by it ; and that it would be productive of great blessings to the city . Mr . Alderman Le Mesurier defended the bill . Mr . Jekyll wished to know from the Chancellor of the Exchequer , what numthe of Prussiaand made motion to
ber of troops had been supplied by king : a that purpose , together with the motion for papers on the treaty . Mr . Pitt said , there was no official account of the number . Mr . Pot said , it was hardly possible to be ignorant of the services performed for the sums given ; and it was the duty of the House of Commons to make the enquiry . . Mr . Pitt said , no official return could as yet be given , and moved as an amendment , to leave out of the motion this last part which related to the troops , on which , after some debate , the House divided , when there appeared for it
no ,, against it 33 . . Mr . Sheridan then rose to make a motion . The ground , he said , upon which the late bill for suspending the Habeas Corpus act was obtained , was that of a traiteroiis and detestable conspiracy having been said to exist in the country . But this conspiracy , he contended , did not now exist , because the verdicts of the juries who tried the persons for High Treason , had entirely negatived every idea of a conspiracy . readto admit that there libellous and violent writings brought
He was y were forward on the ' trials in evidence , and that many persons were proved to be very disaffected to government ; buthe denied , that any of these things justified the late bill . Mr . Sheridan then went over all the several steps taken by ministers since May 1793 , in order to stop seditious practices , and contended that the whole was a scheme lo create an alarm in the country . He reprobated the system of ies and informerswho went about to
encousp , rage aud stimulate that sedition which they were to make a report of ; and a minister who encouraged them , must have no knowledge of the country except from them . Pie did not deny , but that there were many disaffected persons in the country ; but were the remedies practised likely to check them ? Having spoken a considerable time in a splendid strain of eloquence , he concluded with