1891.) 
entirely deprive them of all confidence. 
Dilgrace haa been heaped upon difgrace— 
difeomfiture upon difcomfirure.” He 
inade feveral remarks on Mr, Secretary 
Dundas, and exeerated his want of human 
feeling. “*No perfon,”” he faid, ‘connected 
with adminifiration, had ever evinced {uch 
a total want of humanity ;.no. perfon had 
ever fhed the blood of his fellow. creatures 
with fo little remorfe, to fo little purpofe ; 
in fhort, no perfun had acted the part of 
a general deftroyer of the buman race with 
fo much indifference, ashe Right Hon. 
Gentleman.”?. (Here Mr. Tierney was 
called to order) He then proceeded to 
fay, ** That Minifters were incapable, and 
had excited the general hatved and con- 
tempt of Europe.’’ Mc. Secretary Dun- 
das vindicated his charaéter’ and con- 
duct, againft the infinuations of the laft 
{peaker. : 
Mr. Sheridan condemned a_ practice, 
which, he faid, *‘ was more fyftematically 
followed by Mr. Dundas, than by any 
other member of the Houle ; (viz.) twift- 
ing, perverting, and mifreprefenting, what 
fell from the oppofite fide of the Houle. 
This was a manceuvre perfeéily under- 
ftood by-the Right Hon. Gentieman, 
who never appeared fo much at eafe as 
when he’ -was molt harrafled, and never 
affetted a ftrain of ‘levity fo much as 
when galled to the very heart.”’ © The 
Houle divided, 
For the Amendment 63 
Againft it : 245 
Majority : 182 
The Budget was opened on the 18th of 
February: Mr. Pitt faid, that in produc- 
ing, as was now his duty, to theCommittee, 
the charges for the current year, and the 
Ways and Means by which thofe charges 
were to be defrayed, he fhould notice firft, 
what were the expences which were to be 
met by the two countries, in the propor- 
tion fettled by the late meafure of the 
Union. 
charges whicly belonged exclufively to Ire- 
Jand ; and thofe which attached fingly to 
Great Britain. The charges of the Navy 
amounted this year to 15,800,000]. which 
was an advance of 2,200,000]. ‘beyond 
thofe of the laff year. The reafon of ‘this 
excefs, was, that our naval preparations 
had this year been of neceflity greater, 
and the number of our feamen, of courfe, 
proportionately encreafed. This, he ob- 
ferved, wasa general charge, a proportion 
MonTHiLy Maa. No. 70. 
He fhould next remark on thofe. 
State of Public Affairs in February, 1801. 7 
of which was to be paid by Ireland. 
The Army charges were ;this year 
9,617,0001.3 thofe of the laft year, were 
8,320,000l. «The neceffity of this en- 
creale, he trufted, would be equally obvi- 
ous to all, under the prefent circumftances, 
‘The account would then ftand thus : 
Army charges for 1801, £9,617,000 
Extraordinaries for ditto, 2,500,000 
Ettablifiment tor Ireland, 3,785,000 
eet 
Total military charges, 15,902,000 
The expences of the Ordnance Ettablifh- 
ment for the prefent year would amount 
to 1,639,000}. being an excefs of a few 
thoufands beyond thofe of the former year; 
thofe for Ireland amounted to 299,0001.; 
making a total of 1,938,000l. The Mif- 
cellaneous Services, as they were com- 
monly called, formed, in England, the 
{um of 2,550,0001.; in Ireland,ot 207,000. 
making together a total of 2,757,000). 
He had alfo to propofe, a Vote of Credit 
for this country of 800,000]. and 500,000). 
for Ireland : which he trufted would be 
fuficient for every emergency, and: par- 
ticularly as in the prefent ftate of Europe 
we were prevented from fending our fub- 
fidies to foreign powers. The feveral 
fums which he had enumerated, and- 
which belonged conjointly to both coun- 
tries, amounted to 35,587,0001.. Of this 
fum England was to pay, by agreement, 
15-7ths, and Ireland 2-17th. 
The firtt deficiency which he fhould no- 
tice,was in the produce of theIncome-Tax, 
which had been taken at /even millions, but 
which could not be expected to-produce 
in either year, more than fix millions. 
The difcount on the late loan amounted 
to 40u,oocl. The deficiency in the Malt 
Duty, 400,0¢ol. 
1798, and the Income-Tax of 17995 
1,350,000]. The deficiency in the pro- 
duce of the Confolidated Fund, as calcu- 
lated to April 1801, amounted to no lefs 
than 1,750,000]. It was his determina- 
tion to provide for every deficiency, and to 
fund the largeft poflible quantity of Ex- 
chequer-bills, fo as to leave nothing 
a-float. Tomake good thefe deficiencies, 
and to fund thofe Exchequer-bills, would 
require a fum of 6,610,000]. which, 
added to 35,537,000l. of charges to be 
paid by Great Britain, would give a total 
of 42,197,000l. . 
He had now to ftate to the Committee, 
the manner in which it was meant to - 
meet thofe charges. : 
A ear . The 
On the Afiefiment of. 
