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not feel insensible of the possibility of 
* change without improvement.” —The 
same maxim will also apply to the long 
list of reduction of taxes, proclaimed by 
the Chancellor of the Exchequer, on 
the 28th Feb., and hailed with such 
universal accord by all classes of per- 
sons. The comfort and enjoyment of a 
community, no more follows, as a con- 
sequent effect of a remission of taxes, 
than improvement follows change: all 
taxation might be abolished, and priva- 
tion and misery might still prevail : but, 
as a matter of history, and, at the same 
time, adding our mite of approbation, 
in the most unqualified degree, for the 
sincerity and goodness of the intention 
(let our opinion be, and the result of the 
measures prove as they may), we here 
exhibit a list of all the reductions of 
taxes, which have been made since the 
Session of Parliament 1821; including 
those proposed to be made during the 
present Session. 
Taxes Reduced. 
Session of 1821. 
Horses used in Husbandry.— 
Repealed ....... « £480,000 
Session of 1822. 
Malt, 3s. 6d. per bush. to 2s. 6d. 1,400,000 
Rates.—Amount- 
Salt, 30s. per cwt. to 26s........ 1,300,000 
Remainder to cease 5th. Jan. 
LOZ D rebate kis BN AN eR 300,000 
Leather, 3d. per lb. to 13d. .... 300,000 
Tonnage Duty on Shipping, 7e- 
PIGALC Owasso; gros ors t+ fo acas9 oY 160,000 
Hearth and Window Duty in 
Treland, repealed . 150,000 
Partial repeal of Union Duties i in 
Treland, repealed ......-..4+.- 150,000 
Session of 1823. 
Spirits in Ireland and Scotland, 
CU Detigier BULNS. Se. HERR e ts 800,000 
Partial repeal of Assessed Taxes 2,360,000 
Session of 1824, 
Rum, from Ils. 74d. per gal. to 
10s. 6d. pe 150,000 
Coals, Coastways, partial, aie 100,000 
Raw Silk, 5s. Gd. per lb. to 3s. 
Pivown do: 12s 67.to,78. G2. fae 
Horn Sheep’s Wool, 6d. per lb. 
PRTDRL Ge fates tects wainig 350,000 
Law Stamps repealed . .-- 200,000 
Session of 1825. 
Hemp, 9s. 4d. per ewt. to 4s.8d. 100,000 
Tron, ‘7. 10s. per ton to 20s. 50,000 
British Plant. Coffee ls. per ib. 
dO Gay i155 --- 150,000 
Rum, 10s. 6d. “per cal, es 8s. ... 225,000 
Wine, French, Ils. pat per 
Lal. 20. OSes clans «i> 52 800,000 
Wine, Port, &c. 7s. td. to As. 
British Spirits, distilled from 
malt, 10s. 6d. to 5s. 2... f 750,000 
Ditto from grain 10s, 6d. to 6s. 
Cider 30s. per hhd. to 10s. .... 20,000 
Mules carrying Coals ......... 137 
Four-wheel Carriages drawn by 
AEDONICR) 25's ve secs sce Punt es $57 
Topics of the Month : — Politics and Political Economy. 
f April 1, 
Occasional. waiters ........... 1,343 
Ditto (PrO0M Ss e542 taleenaei ne! —_—_ 
Coachmakers’ licences ......... 354 
Carriages sold by commission. . 3,391 
Taxed Carts, assessed at 27s.each 18,913 
635,936 Houses for Window 
Duty, not having more than 91,000 
seven Windows ........ ++. 
171,739 Houses, assessed for 
House Tax, at Rentals une b 144,000 
der 10/. per annum, ...... 
Total since 182]..... £10,675,000 
As a set-off to this flattering flourishing 
view of the financial condition of Great 
Britain, 12,000 men have been added to 
the standing army ; and when an honour- 
able member of the Commons, in a Com- 
mittee of Supply, moved the following 
propositions ; wiz. “ that 86,438 regular 
troops, 9,000 royal marines, 7,800 ar- 
tillery (in addition to the troops serving 
in India), together with 53,258 enrolled 
militia, yeomanry and volunteers in 
Treland; 55,000 militia, and 43,000 
yeomanry and volunteers in Great 
Britain,—must be unnecessary in time 
of peace, and incompatible with a free 
constitution, and the rights and liberties 
of the people,” only eight out of 658 
members were in their places to ap- 
prove of the propositions, whilst 102 
were present to express their dissent 
from it!!!” 
Q. Put these together, by simple ad- 
dition, they make 110 out of 658 ; that 
is to say, one-sixth part only of the hon. 
members of the hon, House, present at 
the discussion of so momentous a ques- 
tion. Does this not go far towards 
proving, that the persons. composing 
that house have some other motives for 
bribing and intriguing for a seat there, 
than mere zeal for the service of their 
country ? and that they must have some 
stronger inducement than solicitude for 
the security of the lives, liberties and 
property of their constituents, to induce 
them to forego occasionally their ease 
or their enjoyments, by occupying the 
seats they have by such honourable 
means procured ? 
_ E. With respect to the Irish com- 
pact, it ought in candour to be acknow- 
ledged, that though affirmed on one 
hand, it is denied on the other, and that 
the proof i is not yet made out: and the 
explanations and expositions are worth 
some attention, which were given at 
that recent most extraordinary meet- 
ing—where, though the Electors of 
Westminster lost their petition, they 
gained more than: an equivalent, since 
the demagogue, whose contentious tur- 
bulence. so. long has. frustrated every 
hope and measure of the: friends. of 
liberty, 
