1801.] 
gree than any that had preceded it—a 
difgrace this country never before expe- 
rienced. With relpect to the Catholics of 
Ireland, he thought a Catholic man and 
a Proteftant man ought alike to have the 
original rights of man. He then took a 
view of the ftate of Ireland, and faid, 
when he looked at the Union, he could not 
do it but with regret, left we may, by the 
connection, be brought to the fame de- 
graded ftate.. I would (faid Mr. Fox) 
have a Catholic to have as much power 
and as much influence in the empire, as a 
Proteftant—this I call Catholic Emanci- 
pation. When you do not~give- them a 
right to become members of Parliament, 
you give them nothing—while they are 
excluded from this houfe, they are not vir- 
tually reprefented. After a {peech of near 
four hours, he concluded by trufting the 
Houfe would go into the inquiry. 
Mr. Pitt faid a few words in explana- 
tion. 
Mr. Addington intreated the indulgence 
of the Houfe in a few words of reply to 
the honourableMember who {poke laft but 
one. The honourableMember had thought 
fit to make fome allufions to him-and_ his 
colleagues, and to affert that they ftood 
pledged to purfue the fame mealures as 
their predeceffors. But he could affure 
the honourable Member and that Houfe, 
that he was not pledged to fupport or 
reject any fet of mealures merely becaufe 
they were or were not thole of any par- 
ticular fet of men; nor did he feel him- 
felf bound by any principle, except that 
of an earneft and honourable wifh for the 
fervice of his fovereign and the advan- 
tage of his country. With refpect to 
the fubjeét of peace with the enemy, he 
could affure the honourable Member his 
Majefty’s Minifters were earneftly dif- 
pofed to that defirable object, and deter- 
mined to oppofe nothing, on their parts, 
unfair or unreafonable to impede an event 
fo devoutly to be wifhed. ‘They had no 
reafon to imagine the enemy indifpofed 
for peace, or defirous of throwing in its 
way any infurmountabie obftacles. 
Mr. Grey ‘fhortly and ably replied, 
and at half paft four in the morning the 
Houle divided. For the motion 105— 
Againt it 301. 
The Houfe having refolved itfelf into 
a Committee of Ways and Means on 
the 1ft of April, Mr. Corry proceed- 
ed to take a comprehenfive view of 
the revenue and the expences of the fifter- 
kingdom. He obierved, that the charges 
of the Trifh Government ought to be re- 
garded in a two-fold point of view. In 
State of Public Affairs in April, 18or. 
357 
the firft place, as appertaining to Iréland 
exclufively ; and fecondly, as’ invoivine a 
participation and conjoint account with 
the Government of Great Britain. The 
feparate debt of Ireland, previous to the 
war, was 36,000,0col. At that period 
the proportion between the relative debts 
of the two kingdoms was as to 1 to 1005 
but now it ftood as 1 to 10, which af- 
forded an incontrovertible proof that Ire- 
land had a full proportion of the com- 
mon burden of theempire. The intereft 
on the Irith debt, including the finking~ 
fund, amounted to 1,625,900]. The mi- 
litary expenditure of Ireland he eftimated 
at 4.,150,0c0l, and the feparate charges at 
2,396,000l. which, with various other dif- 
buriements of a civil nature, would give a 
total of 7,106,000]. “Vhere was a vote 
of credit for 600,000!. From the ac- 
counts which had been prefented to the 
Houfe, it appeared that, antecedent to the 
union, there was a balance of 1,697,000. 
conftituting a fum of 2,297,000]. appli- 
cable to the finances of the current year. 
In confequence of the ftoppage of the 
diftilieries there muft neceflarily be a great 
defalcation in the malt-:duty, which muft 
increafe the whole debt to the amount of 
7,628,0001. The amount of taxes there- 
fore neceflary to be voted for the fervice 
of Ireland, would be 183,0001. The fum- 
total to be' provided after the reduction of 
the exports and imports, &c. would be 
263,000l. Mr. Corry proceeded to ftate 
the ways and means by which he pro- 
pofed to provide for the above charges. 
The firft article of taxation, which he pro= 
pofed, was, an additional duty of 2s. per 
cwt. on fugars, which he eltimated would 
produce a revenue of 24,c0l. On teas, 
he propofed an additional duty of 20 per 
cent on all teas under 2s. 6d. per Ib. 
and a duty of 35 per cent on teas above 
that price. The next article of taxation 
was, an additional duty on ftamps for 
notes, bills of exchange, receipts, bonds, 
&c. from which he anticipated an ad- 
ditional revenue of 50,0001. He next 
proceeded to the fubject of coals import. 
ed into freland. Previous to the a&t of 
union, coals exported from this country 
to Ireland paid a duty here of 17,000]. 
This, by the provifions of the act of 
union, could no longer: be levied in this 
country. He therefore fhould propofe to 
transfer it to Ireland, to be paid on their 
importation into that kingdom. As to the 
liquors ufed in Iveland, he fhould ef@imate 
the revenue arifing from this branch at 
10,000). : 
After a few words from Sir John Par- 
nell, 
