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1819 June 10
Collectanea Colonies

Morning Chronicle 10 June 1819. Debate on Budget 9 June
Extract from Sir Robert Wilson's Speech.

Sir Robert Wilson said, that if he had wished to
see a public commotion in this country, he should
support, not only the Resolutions before the House,
but all the measures of his Majesty's Ministers.
Though the Chancellor of the Exchequer conceived
he was secure in his taxation by the Holy Alliance
in front, & a strong army in his rear, the public
creditor might, in the end, be willing to exchange
these securities for the old system
of the country. It was overwrought taxation
in France which produced a convulsion,
which lopped off two-thirds of the present
debt; & though the successor of that system
boasted that the gullotin was a min, and produced
money by that expedient, he was at
last paid in his own coin. When the French
Armies entered Prussia, their Generals raised
money where the Prussian financiers thought
nothing was to be found, but the people
repaid themselves by the punishment of
their oppressors. It was possible to lay on
taxes; but if they did not take warning
from decrease, decline and discontent, a
convulsion would ensue. He attributed a
great part of the expence thrown on the
public, on account of the colonies, to improvident
management. He had been attached
to the corps which captured the Cape
of Good Hope. They found that Colony,
with a well paid Army of 4,000 men, an
improving city embellished with new works;

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Date_1	1819-06-10	Marginal Summary Numbering
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Folio number	102	Info in main headings field	Collectanea Colonies
Image	001	Titles	Morning Chronicle 10 June 1819 / Debate on Budget 9 June / Extract from Sir Robert Wilson's Speech
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