290 
This statement, for the first time, 
shews the proportion levied on lands 
distinct from that levied on houses, 
&c.; and I have arranged the counties 
in order of total population, with num- 
bers of reference to the numerical order 
of the number ‘of families returned as 
employed in agriculture in each county; 
this order of arrangement will be seen 
to exhibit the total amount of the as- 
sessment in a more striking and in- 
teresting point of view, than when the 
counties are arranged in alphabetical 
order ; the same statement also exhibits 
the number of inhabited houses in each 
county, and the proportion thereof, in 
each, assessed for house-tax, at from 
50/. to 400/. per annum, according to a 
return made to parliament, and ordered 
to be printed on the 3d of June last; 
this exhibition will be seen to be in- 
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teresting, not only as a matter of fact, 
of the number of houses assessed at the 
rates specified, but as shewing again the 
great partiality, or inequality, and in- 
compatibility of the system of taxing in 
general in this great country. I have 
appended a note to the statement, which 
shews that in the year ending April Sth, 
1822, out of 2,088,156 houses inhabit- 
ed, the occupiers of 1,446,002, (nearly 
three-fourths of the whole) were too im- 
poverished to contribute to direct tax- 
ation; and that of 437,626 that were 
assessed, the total assessment amounting 
to 1,180,250/.; 43,845 rated at 50/. per 
annum and upwards, contribute nearly 
one-half the amount, and the metropolis 
alone considerably more than one-third, 
as will be seen by the following: state- 
ment, viz. 
Proportion In all other Total Amount 
Total Number asssessed, in the Parts of of 
Li At an Average of Metropolis. England & Wales. Assessment. 
£.55 per Amum ........-.-+ 12,829 8,395 4,434 £.99,793 
G2 tie ds nad ava mint os ole (ape Asse 8,748 5,955 2,793 80,554 
fee AR ene Slash Teena 4,710 3,121 1,689 50,043 
SEARO 5 Centers bite! > ATSB 2,821 1,327 51,203 
SD e's Aetaniea Ph orsrctatotatere'e vews 1,652 1,139 513 22,133 
TOSS sats Raed Vase ee 3,611 2,666 945 54,103 
115 ee 812 617 195 13,230 
125 -- 1,490 1,187 303 26,372 
LBD: rise hate ues sis iatoretieahysiene ms 746 575 171 14,267 . 
DAs wo faqlotexeipinn “if 487 398 89 10,002 
Wee iticts cag kina sirisininy teh aie = 1,075 932 143 23,604 
SER a Toth isin: wnt tala aialate) 6 aeintald Roy he 311 41 8,214 
WUD #5 sess vinta, of we: cimiolnioles aenes 233 203 30 5,775 
185 . 319 281 38 9,193 
195 100 92 8 2,762 
210 909 816 93 27,243 
BO Bi his alelate wilde tee 210 199 11 6,846 
B50 seta ces INS Re 355 529 26 12,570 
270 tise os Sfosieiele 107 97 10 4,092 
QOD seit cos 80 72 8 3,287 
SS eT ae eee 330 310 20 15,193 
350 . 158 146 12 8,393 
AND =e otra gta kaio ake. ala sinin bias ges 374 360 14 21,194 
} 43,845 31,022 12,823 £570,061 
All others ..........+.... 393,781, averaging 31 shillings each. 610,189 
Total Number assessed... .. 437,626 
Total Assessment... £1,180,250 
On a careful examination of this sub- 
ject, it will be seen that in the whole 
county of Norfolk'there is no house 
returned as assessed, exceeding 160/. 
per annum, and in the whole of the 
counties of Suffolk and Durham, none 
exceeding 110/. per annum. Thus Holk- 
ham, one of the finest residences in the 
British dominions, although occupied 
by a whig ; and Lambton-hall, in Dur- 
ham, another whig residence, do not 
contribute equal to the residence of a 
common shopkeeper in the metropolis ; 
and again, there are’ numerous houses 
in the metropolis which yield a rental of 
two, three, or 400/. per annum, let out 
into chambers or counting-houses which 
do not contribute at all, whilst the 
anxious shopkeeper next door is com- 
pelled to contribute 10, 15, or 202. per 
annum, and in numerous instances’ at 
the expense of privation and distress 
there are other reflexions also grow out 
of anattention to this return. It seems 
incredible, 
