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House Of Commons, Financial Measure Of France.
xo . / . per lb . on all other Papers imported . as . per cwt . upon Pasteboards , & c . imported . ios . % d . 3-fourths on Flint Glass imported . Ss . 3-fourths on Materials ufed in making Window Glass . " " A Drawback of % d . 3-fourths , on every foot of Plate Glass Imported . 14 s . 6 d . per cwt . on Flint Glass exported . 9 s . nd . per ditto on Crown ditto exported . $ d . 3-fourthsper foot on French Plate , ditto exported .
, 34 s . on French Plate ditto imported . 95 . nd . on French Window ditto imported . 14 s . per cwt . on other Glass imported . ios . Sd . 3-fourths per cwt . on Plates of Glass not less than 148 5 square inches , made in Great Britain .
A Stamp Duty of 100 / . upon Contracts of Perfons serving as Clerks to Attormes . 100 / . Admittance for every Attorney . 50 / . for Contracts of Clerks to Attorniesin Courts of Conscience . 50 / . for Admittance of Attornies in the Welsh Courts . That the Additional Duties upon Foreign Spirits imported , granted and contmued . by . Actsof 31 Geo . il ! . be made perpetual . Also upon Sugar , by Act 31 Geo . 111 . be made perpetual . Also a Drawback on Sugar , allowed by the said Act , to be made perpetual .
Tliat the said Duties be carried to the Consolidated Fund . After a few observations from Mr . Fox , who was the only Member that spoke on the subject , the Report was ordered to be brought up next day . Feb . 7 . The House resolved itself into a Committee , of the whole House on the Land-tax Bill , ( Mr . Rose having previously moved , that a clause for making up the deficiency of the Land-tax for the last year , and another for exempting , his Majesty ' .- ; Roman Catholic subjects from the payment of a double land-tax , fhould be referred to the consideration of the committee ) Mr . Flobart in the chair , The bill having passed the committee , the report was ordered to be received on Monday .
SLAVE TRADE . Mr . Wilbcrforce said , that probably it might have been imagined by some gentlemen , from the way in which his notice was worded , that it was his intention to move for the total and immediate abolition of the Slave-trade ; but he could assure the House , that . at present that was not his design . His sole object juft now was , to prevent our supplying foreign possessions with slaves imported in British bottoms ; and therefore , however warm certain gentlemen might be against the abolition of the trade in generalas affecting our commercial prosperityyet as the branch of traffic which lie
now-, , wished to ftojJ-was in point of fact annihilated by the present circumstances of Europe , those gentlemen must be lost to all sense of national shame , or concern for the honour of their common nature , if they threw any obstacle into the way of his motion ; and as , on this account , lie did not think it necessary further to trouble the House , he would conclude , by moving for leave to bring in a bill for the purpose he had mentioned .
The Speaker put the question , and observed , according to order , that the motion fhould be referred to a committee . Sir Wm . Young said , that if we abandoned this trade , the other nations of Europe wouid pursue it . That its continuance was even a point of humanity , as when the natives of Africa could no longer sell . their prisoners , they would murder them . He was no friend to political theories which were impossible to be reduced to practice . He doubted not but he should divide with a large majority . Mr . Whitbread . after regretting the thinness of the Housedeclared that he was
, much disappointed at the 'declaration of the honourable gentleman , that he did not mean to bring forward any proposition for the direct and total abolition oi this infamous traffic . The House , in his opinion , ought to shew to the other House of Parliament , that their zeal in this great cause was in no degree abated , and , by thus testifying their own undiminished activity , to bring the other House to some sense of shame , on account of the criminal delay of which it had been guilty . And as no exigency of time , md r . o apprehensions of danger , could extenuate or sanction gross injustice , he trufted
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
House Of Commons, Financial Measure Of France.
xo . / . per lb . on all other Papers imported . as . per cwt . upon Pasteboards , & c . imported . ios . % d . 3-fourths on Flint Glass imported . Ss . 3-fourths on Materials ufed in making Window Glass . " " A Drawback of % d . 3-fourths , on every foot of Plate Glass Imported . 14 s . 6 d . per cwt . on Flint Glass exported . 9 s . nd . per ditto on Crown ditto exported . $ d . 3-fourthsper foot on French Plate , ditto exported .
, 34 s . on French Plate ditto imported . 95 . nd . on French Window ditto imported . 14 s . per cwt . on other Glass imported . ios . Sd . 3-fourths per cwt . on Plates of Glass not less than 148 5 square inches , made in Great Britain .
A Stamp Duty of 100 / . upon Contracts of Perfons serving as Clerks to Attormes . 100 / . Admittance for every Attorney . 50 / . for Contracts of Clerks to Attorniesin Courts of Conscience . 50 / . for Admittance of Attornies in the Welsh Courts . That the Additional Duties upon Foreign Spirits imported , granted and contmued . by . Actsof 31 Geo . il ! . be made perpetual . Also upon Sugar , by Act 31 Geo . 111 . be made perpetual . Also a Drawback on Sugar , allowed by the said Act , to be made perpetual .
Tliat the said Duties be carried to the Consolidated Fund . After a few observations from Mr . Fox , who was the only Member that spoke on the subject , the Report was ordered to be brought up next day . Feb . 7 . The House resolved itself into a Committee , of the whole House on the Land-tax Bill , ( Mr . Rose having previously moved , that a clause for making up the deficiency of the Land-tax for the last year , and another for exempting , his Majesty ' .- ; Roman Catholic subjects from the payment of a double land-tax , fhould be referred to the consideration of the committee ) Mr . Flobart in the chair , The bill having passed the committee , the report was ordered to be received on Monday .
SLAVE TRADE . Mr . Wilbcrforce said , that probably it might have been imagined by some gentlemen , from the way in which his notice was worded , that it was his intention to move for the total and immediate abolition of the Slave-trade ; but he could assure the House , that . at present that was not his design . His sole object juft now was , to prevent our supplying foreign possessions with slaves imported in British bottoms ; and therefore , however warm certain gentlemen might be against the abolition of the trade in generalas affecting our commercial prosperityyet as the branch of traffic which lie
now-, , wished to ftojJ-was in point of fact annihilated by the present circumstances of Europe , those gentlemen must be lost to all sense of national shame , or concern for the honour of their common nature , if they threw any obstacle into the way of his motion ; and as , on this account , lie did not think it necessary further to trouble the House , he would conclude , by moving for leave to bring in a bill for the purpose he had mentioned .
The Speaker put the question , and observed , according to order , that the motion fhould be referred to a committee . Sir Wm . Young said , that if we abandoned this trade , the other nations of Europe wouid pursue it . That its continuance was even a point of humanity , as when the natives of Africa could no longer sell . their prisoners , they would murder them . He was no friend to political theories which were impossible to be reduced to practice . He doubted not but he should divide with a large majority . Mr . Whitbread . after regretting the thinness of the Housedeclared that he was
, much disappointed at the 'declaration of the honourable gentleman , that he did not mean to bring forward any proposition for the direct and total abolition oi this infamous traffic . The House , in his opinion , ought to shew to the other House of Parliament , that their zeal in this great cause was in no degree abated , and , by thus testifying their own undiminished activity , to bring the other House to some sense of shame , on account of the criminal delay of which it had been guilty . And as no exigency of time , md r . o apprehensions of danger , could extenuate or sanction gross injustice , he trufted