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British Parliament.
g ive rise , expressed his earnest wish that a longer period than three or tour days might be allowed for its examination and discussion . Mr . Dundas alluded to a part of Mr . W . Smith's speech , and said , that the merchants of Edinburgh , Glasgow , and Liverpool , coincided with Ministers in sentiments upon the subject . 7 'he Chancellor of the Exchequer , althoug h convinced that never was there a subject of greater importance , in all its aspects and in all its consequences , ht
ag itated within the walls of the House , said , that he should not have thoug it incumbent upon him , in the present stage of the business , to have troubled gentlemen with any observations , were it not from a desire to place some particulars touched upon that night in a proper ' point of- view . _ The arguments used by some gentlemen in the course of the debate , he said , were only calculated to excite prejudice , and beget misconception . The propriety of raising the lies within the washoweverin generalconceded .
supp year , , , Except the Hon . Baronet , who opened the debate , nobody seemed disposed to contest the princip le . If it was admitted that such an increase of the taxes on consumption as would produce ten millions within the year is impracticable , it follows , he said , that there is no other mode but a tax-upon property , so far as it can be discovered . The contribution must lay then either upon capital or on income . _ . ' - -.
An Honourable Gentleman ( Mr . Smith ) said , that he was against all disclosure ; how then is he to ascertain the amount of commercial capital-, the profit of which , he thought , might justly be made to contribute ? Would he be contented with that loose declaration , which experience had proved to be favourable to evasion ? Was it not then a matter of great concernment , was it not a sub eft worthy of grave deliberation , to consider . what means ought to be devised to render the measure proposed as efficient as possible
to the public service ? The surveyor , he said , was not the person on whose discretion any assessment was to depend ; he was to assist the Commissioners with information , and to discharge that duty which his oath prescribes—of preventing evasion where it mig ht be within his knowleeige that it was attempted . The Chancellor of the Exchequer took a review ofthe most prominent objections urged against the Bill . The inequalities objected to ithe said ,
, are not peculiar to its nature ; they arise from our social state ifsejf-j and the correction of that order we cannot , as we ought not , attempt to corredt . — . He concluded a speech of two hours , with defending the meeting at the Mansion-House ; the motives of those who called and promoted it could be founded only on the purest patriotism and most perfeft disinterestedness . The House then divided—For the further consideration of the report 18 3
—Against it 13—Majority 160 . Dec . 17 . —In the House of Lords several Bills received the Royal Assent by commission ; and the bill for continuing the British militia-in Ireland read a first time . On the order of the day , in the House of Commons , for going into a Committee on the bill for imposing a tax upon Income , being read , Mr . Tierney wished to know whether it was intended to go into a Committee on . this measure that niht ? To which enquiry he was answered by the
Chang cellor ofthe Exchequer in the affirmative . It was opposed by Mr . W . Smith ; and on the question for the Speaker to leave the Chair being put , the House divided—Against it 3—For it 116 . . Lord Hawkesbury contended that the preamble of the bill should be postponed as a matter of course . This met with Mr . Tierney ' s opposition . Sir Wm . Pulteney reduced what he had to say upon the subject to the following enquiries : 1 st . Whether it was a measure ' that could be adopted
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British Parliament.
g ive rise , expressed his earnest wish that a longer period than three or tour days might be allowed for its examination and discussion . Mr . Dundas alluded to a part of Mr . W . Smith's speech , and said , that the merchants of Edinburgh , Glasgow , and Liverpool , coincided with Ministers in sentiments upon the subject . 7 'he Chancellor of the Exchequer , althoug h convinced that never was there a subject of greater importance , in all its aspects and in all its consequences , ht
ag itated within the walls of the House , said , that he should not have thoug it incumbent upon him , in the present stage of the business , to have troubled gentlemen with any observations , were it not from a desire to place some particulars touched upon that night in a proper ' point of- view . _ The arguments used by some gentlemen in the course of the debate , he said , were only calculated to excite prejudice , and beget misconception . The propriety of raising the lies within the washoweverin generalconceded .
supp year , , , Except the Hon . Baronet , who opened the debate , nobody seemed disposed to contest the princip le . If it was admitted that such an increase of the taxes on consumption as would produce ten millions within the year is impracticable , it follows , he said , that there is no other mode but a tax-upon property , so far as it can be discovered . The contribution must lay then either upon capital or on income . _ . ' - -.
An Honourable Gentleman ( Mr . Smith ) said , that he was against all disclosure ; how then is he to ascertain the amount of commercial capital-, the profit of which , he thought , might justly be made to contribute ? Would he be contented with that loose declaration , which experience had proved to be favourable to evasion ? Was it not then a matter of great concernment , was it not a sub eft worthy of grave deliberation , to consider . what means ought to be devised to render the measure proposed as efficient as possible
to the public service ? The surveyor , he said , was not the person on whose discretion any assessment was to depend ; he was to assist the Commissioners with information , and to discharge that duty which his oath prescribes—of preventing evasion where it mig ht be within his knowleeige that it was attempted . The Chancellor of the Exchequer took a review ofthe most prominent objections urged against the Bill . The inequalities objected to ithe said ,
, are not peculiar to its nature ; they arise from our social state ifsejf-j and the correction of that order we cannot , as we ought not , attempt to corredt . — . He concluded a speech of two hours , with defending the meeting at the Mansion-House ; the motives of those who called and promoted it could be founded only on the purest patriotism and most perfeft disinterestedness . The House then divided—For the further consideration of the report 18 3
—Against it 13—Majority 160 . Dec . 17 . —In the House of Lords several Bills received the Royal Assent by commission ; and the bill for continuing the British militia-in Ireland read a first time . On the order of the day , in the House of Commons , for going into a Committee on the bill for imposing a tax upon Income , being read , Mr . Tierney wished to know whether it was intended to go into a Committee on . this measure that niht ? To which enquiry he was answered by the
Chang cellor ofthe Exchequer in the affirmative . It was opposed by Mr . W . Smith ; and on the question for the Speaker to leave the Chair being put , the House divided—Against it 3—For it 116 . . Lord Hawkesbury contended that the preamble of the bill should be postponed as a matter of course . This met with Mr . Tierney ' s opposition . Sir Wm . Pulteney reduced what he had to say upon the subject to the following enquiries : 1 st . Whether it was a measure ' that could be adopted