120 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1810. 



was but 51. 13s. per cent, and 

 amounted in the whole to 331 ,269/. 

 The ways and means be proposed 

 were— 



£. 

 Additional duties on 



Post OflSce, Id. each 



letter 35,000 



Customs, on tea and 



raisins 70,000 



Stamps for receipts and 



advertisements .... 30,000 

 Wines, only 3d. per 



bottle 100,000 



Regulation of stores. . 18,000 

 Window tax ........ 85,000 



Total . . £.338,000 



Deduct interest and 

 sinking fund on the 

 loan...., 331,269 



Remains a surplus un- 

 touched £.6,731 



Mr. Foster concluded by mov- 

 ing a string of resolutions for im- 

 posing these new taxes, which, 

 after some conversation, were put, 

 and agreed to. 



House of Commons, May 31. 

 Mr. R. Dundas moved the order 

 of the day for the House to re- 

 solve itself into a committee of 

 the whole House upon the affairs 

 of the East India Company. Mr. 

 Creevy opposed the motion, on 

 the ground, that there was not 

 sufficient information before the 

 Housetoenablegentlemen toform 

 any correct opinion on the subject 

 to be considered. The question 

 to be gone into in the commit- 

 tee, was, whether the Parliament 



should give 1,500,000/. of thepub- 

 lic money to the India Company. 

 In order to show how little claim 

 the company had upon the public, 

 he stated briefly the several appli- 

 cations that had been made by the 

 East India Company to that House 

 within the last thirty years ; and he 

 concluded, that as the Company 

 had failed in all its promises to the 

 public, as its debt and its capital 

 hadsoenormouslyincreasedduring 

 the last thirty years, and asno neces- 

 sity existed forgoing into the com- 

 mittee till the House should be in 

 full possession of the requisite in- 

 formation, he meant to oppose the 

 motion of the hon. gentleman, 

 and would take the sense of the 

 House upon it. — Mr. R. Dundas 

 said, that he should not follow 

 the hon. gentleman into his de- 

 tails for the last thirty or forty 

 years; on this point he should 

 only observe, that from the hon. 

 gentleman he had heard it asserted 

 for the first time, that it was a 

 proof of decline for a commercial 

 company to increase its capital for 

 the purposes of trade. The hon. 

 gentleman, towards the close of 

 his speech, had admitted that 

 there was a complete exposition 

 of the affairs of the company 

 down to the latest period already 

 before the House. 



For going into the committee, 

 43. Against it, 7. 



Mr. Dundas stated the causes of 

 the difficulties in which the com- 

 pany found itself involved ; the 

 chief of which arose from the 

 number of bills presented in this 

 country for payment upon their 

 India debt. It had been the ob- 

 ject of the company, however, to 

 confine their loans in India to 



