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increafing duty from 10,000]. to 100,000. 
which feemed to him to be periectly equi- 
table and juft. He did not mean to pro- 
pole any additional duty where the pro- 
perty amounted to lefsthin 6001. Where 
the property amounted to 6001. and from 
thence to 10001. he propofed an additional 
duty of 3!. which he eitimated would pro- 
duce 5,279!. From roool. to 20001. anad- 
ditional duty cf rol. eftimated at 14,950). 
From 20001. to socol. an additional duty 
of 201. eltimated at 25,2501. From soool, ' 
to 10,009!. an additional duty of 301. efti- 
matet at +14,707l. From = 19,000l. to 
15,0001. an additional duty of sol. efti 
mated at 9,000!. And {fo on in proportion 
from 15,000]. to 169,c00l. uponwhich he 
propofed a duty of ggol. eftimated toge- 
ther at 55.5531. amounting in the whole 
to 124.4491. which he would take at 
¥20,000l. The next tax he had to pro- 
pofe was a duty of 2s. upon deeds, in ad- 
dition to that which had been already 
made a part of the ways and means of the 
year. The produce of th's he eftimated 
at 62.0001. An additional duty of sos. 
6d. each on ale licences, on which he ob- 
ferved, no additional tax had been im- 
poled fince the year 1784 3 he eftimated 
this at 32,0001. An additional duty of 
6d. per pack on cards, and 2s. 6d. per pair 
on dice, he eftimated at 20,0001. The 
whole of thefe fums amounted '0 234,000). 
The fveral refolutions paffed the com- 
mittee, and the report was ordered to be 
received on the morrow. 
On the motion of Mr. Addington, on 
the 21 of May, the Houfe refolved itfelf 
into a committee, to confider of his Ma 
jeliy’s meflage, relative to the annuity of 
20001. on the Baronels of Abercromby, 
and the two next heirs male in fucceffion 
of the la‘e General Sir Ralph Abercromby, 
who fhail inherit the titl. The meflage 
being read, Mr. Addington moved that 
the annual fum of 2000]. be granted out 
of the confolidated fund to his Majefty for 
the purpo’es mentioned in his, Majeity’s 
meffage; and pro ofed to fill up the blank, 
for the date of its commencement, with 
the words 21ft of March 1801, being fa- 
tisfied «is the with of every one, that it 
takes place from the day on which the 
country was deprived of the fervices of 
that gallant officer. Mr. Addirgton then 
propofed two refolutions to. thar effed, 
which were unanimoufly agreed to, and 
the report ordered *o be received. 
Mr. Attorney-General moved on the 
27th of May, toe bring in ‘A Bill to 
indemnify fuch perfons as had fince the 
aft of February 1793, been infirumental 
‘State of Public Affuirs in Fune, 180t. 
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in apprehending and detaining or caufing 
to be detained in prifon, in Great Britain, 
any perions on fufpicions of H:gh treafon, 
or otherwife.”” The motion was agreed 
to without a divifion, and the Bill ordered. 
accordingly. 
The fiith day of June, the order of the 
day for the Houfe to refolve itfelf into a 
Committee on the above Bili. Sir Francis 
Burdett prefented petitions from Jofper 
Moore and four other perfons, who fuf- 
fered grievous hardfhips in different pri- 
fons under that fufpenfion, as did like. 
wife Mr. Jekyll from one other perfon 
under fimilar circumflances ; which being 
ordered to lie on the table, the Attorney 
General moved, that the Speaker do leave 
the chair. Mr. Jeckyll oppofed the mo- 
tion, and went into a variety of arguments 
to fhew. the unconftitutional tendency, im- 
policy, and inexpediency of the meafure, 
in which he was ably fupported by Mr. 
Grey, Mr. Tierney, Sir William Pulteney, 
‘ 
Mr. Horne Tooke, and many other 
Members. Mr. Windham, for the mo- 
tion, contended that the meafure was 
wife, ju@, and conititutional; in which 
he was followed by Mr. Attorney-Gene- 
ral, Mr. Solicitor-General, Sir William: 
Elford, and other Members, when the 
Houfe divided on the guettion, ‘*that the 
Speaker do Itave the Chair,” Ayes 172—~ 
Noes 38—Majority 134. 
The Secretary at War (Mr. Yorke) 
having moved, that the Houfe fhould res 
folve itlelf into a Committce of Supply on 
the 8th of June, and the Speaker, in 
courfe, having left the chair, faid, “ it 
was his duty to call the attention of the 
Committee to the meafure recommenced 
by his Majefty’s meflage on Friday.”” He 
then went into a copious difplay of the 
national advantages to be derived from 
fo falutary an inftitarion, as a RoyalCollege 
for military, inftruétion,.confifting of a 
fenior and junior departments; the firk 
compoied of thirty officers, to be inftruét- 
ed in the duties of the general ftaff of the 
army; the fecond to confilt of three hun- 
dred fludents, from fourteen to fixteen 
years of ace; fifty of whom to be cadets 
of the Eait India~-Company ; one hundred, 
the fons of noblemen and gentlemen; one 
hun:ired, the fons of officers in actual. fer- 
vice; and fifty, the fons of officers dead 
or difabled in the fervice, who were left 
in pecuniary diftrefs.. He concluded by. 
moving his firft refolution, that a fum of. 
30,000]. be granted to his Majefty towards | 
the expenc:s of the fame He then moved 
his fecopd refolution, that 84271. 2s. od. 
be granted, in addition:to 25,0001, vorcde 
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