Dr. ROBERT MORRISON, attached to the Embassy.

PAGE.

[Original.]

IX. Observations on PARISH REGISTERS and the MARRIAGE

of..NON-CONFORMISTS; with the Outlines of a

BILL (humbly proposed) for Establishing a more cer-

tain and general REGISTER of MARRIAGES, BIRTHS,

and DEATHS in each PARISH. To which is added

the celebrated EDICT of LOUIS XVI. King of France,

in 1787, for the VERIFICATION of the MARRIAGES,

BIRTHS, and DEATHS of the NON-CATHOLICS.

[Original]

X. NOTES on a VISIT made to some of the PRISONS in

SCOTLAND, and the NORTH of ENGLAND, in com-

pany with ELIZABETH FRY; with some general Ob-

servations on the Subject of PRISON DISCIPline.

By JOSEPH JOHN GURNEY. Second Edition.

XI. Remarks on the CESSION of the FLORIDAS to the

UNITED STATES of AMERICA, and on the necessity

of acquiring the ISLAND of CUBA by GREAT BRITAIN.

By J. FREEMAN RATTENBURY, Esq., Second Edi-

tion, with considerable additions. (Printed exlusively

in the Pamphleteer.)

XII. Two TABLES, (with Explanations) illustrative of the

SPEECHES of the Rt. Hon. the EARL of LIVERPOOL,

and the Rt. Hon. the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEquer,

showing the RATES of EXCHANGE on HAMBURGH,

compared with the amount of BANK NOTES, and the

PRICE of GOLD, and with the FOREIGN EXPENDIture,

and the VALUE of GRAIN imported from the year

1793 to 1819. [Original]

139

207

228

261

281

CONTENTS OF NO. XXX.

PAGE.

I. The DEFENCES of the WHIGS; a new Edition, with a

Preface. By THOMAS, LORD ERSKINE.

287

II. REPORT of the Select Committee of the House of Com-

mons, appointed to consider of so much of the CRIMINAL

Laws as relates to CAPITAL PUNISHMENT in FELONIES. 349

III. Comments on some recent POLITICAL DISCUSSIONS, with

an Exposure of the FALLACY of the SINKING FUND.

By A. H. CHAMBERS, Banker, Bond Street. Author

of "The Resumption of Cash Payments."

IV. A Concise HISTORY of TITHES, with an Inquiry how

far a FORCED MAINTENANCE for the Ministers of Re-

ligion is warranted by the examples and precepts of

JESUS CHRIST and his Apostles. By JOSEPH STORRS

FRY.

V. Notes on a VISIT made to some of the PRISONS in

SCOTLAND and the NORTH of ENGLAND, in company

with ELIZABETH FRY; with some general observations

on the subject of PRISON DISCIPLINE. By JOSEPH

JOHN GURNEY. (Second Edition. Continued from

NO. XXIX.)

VI. Of the IMPRACTICABILITY of the RESUMPTION of CASH

PAYMENTS; of the SUFFICIENCY of a REPRESENTATIVE

CURRENCY in this Country, under due regulations;

and of the DANGER of a REDUCTION of the CIRCULAT-

ING MEDIUM, in the present state of things. By SIR

WILLIAM CONGREVE, BART. M. P.

367

. 393

415

437

PAGE.

VII. REFLECTIONS on the LIBERTY of the PRESS in GREAT

BRITAIN; translated from the German of the ccle-

brated F. Von GENTZ, Aulic-Counsellor to the Em-

peror

of Austria, and Author of Fragments on the Ba-

lance of Power," &c.

VIII. GERMANY AND THE REVOLUTION. BY PROFESSOR

GOERRES, late Editor of the Rhenish Mercury.

Translated liberally, (from the German Pamphlet,

lately suppressed by the Prussian Government,) exclu-

sively for the Pamphleteer.

455

. 497

IX. ELEMENTS of a PLAN for the LIQUIDATION of the PUB-

LIC DEBT of the UNITED KINGDOM; being the

Draught of a Declaration submitted to the attention of

the Landed, Funded, and every other Description of

Proprietor, of the United Kingdom. With an Intro-

ductory Address. By RICHARD HEATHFIELD, Gent. 577

X. REPORT of the SELECT COMMITTEE of the HOUSE of

COMMONS, appointed to inquire into the STATE and

DESCRIPTION of Gaols and other places of Confine-

ment.

XI. A GENERAL CLASSED CATALOGUE of the PAMPHLETS

printed in the FIRST THIRTY NUMBERS of the PAM-

PHLETEER.

601

607

NOTICE.

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The Nos. are published in sufficiently rapid succession to allow
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OP

THE SPEECH

OF

THE RIGHT HONORABLE

THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER

ON

FINANCE;

COMPRISING

THE FINANCE RESOLUTIONS FOR THE YEAR 1819.

LONDON:

VOL. XV.

Pam.

NO XXIX.

A

SUBSTANCE

OF

THE SPEECH,

&c. &c.

THE House having resolved itself into a Committee on the Reports of the Finance Committee, the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER rose and observed, that when the financial arrangements of the year were brought before the House, it was usual to enter into some general statement of the situation of the country with respect to its revenue and resources; but that in the present session, of which so great a part had been occupied in most important investigations connected with these subjects, he thought it would be desirable to take a more extended view of them. He had endeavoured in the Finance Resolutions, which on a former night he had introduced, for the purpose of being printed, to lay the subject before them in a short and perspicuous manner, avoiding altogether those technical expressions which might interfere with a clear understanding of the general result. He had avoided any particular reference to the Consolidated Fund and other appropriations of the revenue, as the great and leading question was, whether the public Income, considered in a collected view, was answerable to the Expenditure. The Finance Committee, whose labors the House must highly appreciate, had addressed themselves to the question in the same comprehensive view; and it was on their Reports these Resolutions, which he had the honor to propose, were founded. The first Resolution stated, that since the termination of the war in 1815, Taxes in Great Britain and Ireland, which yielded a revenue of upwards of