ABSTRACT
A T the close of the session of Parliament in 1821, Mr. Wallace, the Vice-President of the Board of Trade, (Mr. Robinson, the present Earl of Ripon, being President,) gave notice that early in the ensuing session he would bring forward his Warehousing Bill. The Committee of the Woollen Trade in London, in consequence, thought it to be their duty to apprise the manufacturers of it, and the subjoined circular was sent to all the manufacturing towns, together with the following letter, signed by Mr. Maitland ;—
" Sir, « London, 16th February, 1822. " The Committee of the woollen trade here have not thought it
expedient to prepare a petition to Parliament for the repeal of the wool tax, and I do not believe any petitions are intended to be sent from Yorkshire. I am, however, of opinion* that whilst the landed interest are making such strenuous exertions to get rid of taxes which they conceive press peculiarly upon themselves, it is expedient that the woollen trade should do all in their power to obtain the repeal of the wool tax, which was imposed to gratify a few leading men in the landed interest, in order to get their support on the malt tax; and if the malt tax should be repealed, the wool tax ought to be repealed with it. I conceive, however, that any representation to Parliament would not now be of any use i the present, but, I fear, temporary prosperity of the woollen trade.
