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Report Of The Proceedings Of The British Parliament.
HOUSE OF COMMONS . MONDAY , MAY 7 . COLONEL SMOLLET presented a Memorial and Petition from the Freeholders , Justices of the Peace , & c . & c . of the County of Dumbarton , in Scotland , the objec 5 t of which was , to pray the House to lay an equal and direct tax upon kind of propertyreal and personaland to continue it
every , , in . force throughout the war , as it appeared to them the best and only true mode ot" raising the supplies within the year , without having recourse to a joan . The Memorial also stated , that the petitioners wsrs ready to come forward and subjeft their real and personal property to the proposed tax . _ Mr . Buxton said , that he could not allow the petition to be received without expressing his sincere concurrence in the mode of taxation which it submitted to the House .
IM . IS 01 U . RS OF WAR . ' . Wednesday , 9 . Mr . Bootle brought up the report of the Committee to whom the papers relative to prisoners of war were referred ; the substance of'whose resolutions was : ist . That the charge of cruelty to French prisoners of war brought against this country was wholly without foundation , and could onlyhave been fabricated by the enenit ' as a justification of their own inhuman treatment of English prisoners , zd . That the English prisoners in France
are treated with a degree of rigour arid inhumanity unexampled in any war , and unwarranted by the law of nations . 3 . That the British government has always been anxious to open cartels for the exchange of prisoners of war j and , though for this purpose , their terms had been fair , equitable , and agreeable to the spirit of such treaties , the obstinacy and illiberal demands of the French government had frustrated all negotiations . The Committee further resolved , That the principles of the law of nations had been grossly violated in the person of Sir Sidney Smith .
SALE OF THE LAND-TAX . Mr . Pitt having moved the recommitment of the bill for the Redemption of the Laud-tax , Lord Sheffield , Sir John Sinclair , and Mr . Dennison opposed the principle of the bill in toto . Mr . joimes thought the measure the commencement of a system that would fri g hten the landed interest , and alienate their affections from the
government . He therefore hoped the gentlemen of landed property in that house would , using vulgar language , ' make a strong pull , a long pull , and a pull all together , ' and defeat this measure . He thought Mr . Pitt ought to call on every man in the country for one tenth of his real property , to defend the remainder . Mr . Btirdon supported the measure ; as did Colonel Elford and Mr . Ellison . The latter gentleman recommended the petition from Dumbartonshire ,
on the subject of an equal tax on all property , to the serious consideration' of the Ri ght Honourable Gentleman , Mr . Pitt ; and urged , as one reason for the speedy adoption of such a measure , that in the extensive district where he had been a commissioner , the only complaint against the assessed taxes had been , that they were not equal . The question being put on the Speaker ' s leaving the chair , the House divided , Ayes , 114 . Noes 17 . Majority , 97 . —The House then resolved itself into a '
, Committee on the bill with the amendments . ARMED ASSOCIATIONS . Thursday , 10 . Mr . Dundas observed , that many of the Associated Corps had expressed a wish to be etubled to assemble together in large bodies , for the
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Report Of The Proceedings Of The British Parliament.
HOUSE OF COMMONS . MONDAY , MAY 7 . COLONEL SMOLLET presented a Memorial and Petition from the Freeholders , Justices of the Peace , & c . & c . of the County of Dumbarton , in Scotland , the objec 5 t of which was , to pray the House to lay an equal and direct tax upon kind of propertyreal and personaland to continue it
every , , in . force throughout the war , as it appeared to them the best and only true mode ot" raising the supplies within the year , without having recourse to a joan . The Memorial also stated , that the petitioners wsrs ready to come forward and subjeft their real and personal property to the proposed tax . _ Mr . Buxton said , that he could not allow the petition to be received without expressing his sincere concurrence in the mode of taxation which it submitted to the House .
IM . IS 01 U . RS OF WAR . ' . Wednesday , 9 . Mr . Bootle brought up the report of the Committee to whom the papers relative to prisoners of war were referred ; the substance of'whose resolutions was : ist . That the charge of cruelty to French prisoners of war brought against this country was wholly without foundation , and could onlyhave been fabricated by the enenit ' as a justification of their own inhuman treatment of English prisoners , zd . That the English prisoners in France
are treated with a degree of rigour arid inhumanity unexampled in any war , and unwarranted by the law of nations . 3 . That the British government has always been anxious to open cartels for the exchange of prisoners of war j and , though for this purpose , their terms had been fair , equitable , and agreeable to the spirit of such treaties , the obstinacy and illiberal demands of the French government had frustrated all negotiations . The Committee further resolved , That the principles of the law of nations had been grossly violated in the person of Sir Sidney Smith .
SALE OF THE LAND-TAX . Mr . Pitt having moved the recommitment of the bill for the Redemption of the Laud-tax , Lord Sheffield , Sir John Sinclair , and Mr . Dennison opposed the principle of the bill in toto . Mr . joimes thought the measure the commencement of a system that would fri g hten the landed interest , and alienate their affections from the
government . He therefore hoped the gentlemen of landed property in that house would , using vulgar language , ' make a strong pull , a long pull , and a pull all together , ' and defeat this measure . He thought Mr . Pitt ought to call on every man in the country for one tenth of his real property , to defend the remainder . Mr . Btirdon supported the measure ; as did Colonel Elford and Mr . Ellison . The latter gentleman recommended the petition from Dumbartonshire ,
on the subject of an equal tax on all property , to the serious consideration' of the Ri ght Honourable Gentleman , Mr . Pitt ; and urged , as one reason for the speedy adoption of such a measure , that in the extensive district where he had been a commissioner , the only complaint against the assessed taxes had been , that they were not equal . The question being put on the Speaker ' s leaving the chair , the House divided , Ayes , 114 . Noes 17 . Majority , 97 . —The House then resolved itself into a '
, Committee on the bill with the amendments . ARMED ASSOCIATIONS . Thursday , 10 . Mr . Dundas observed , that many of the Associated Corps had expressed a wish to be etubled to assemble together in large bodies , for the