A history of the political life of the rt. hon. W. Pitt, by John Gifford

disclaim all knowledge of the Expedition to Egypt---
Their perfidy and duplicity exposed in their commu-
nications with the Porte--- Contradiction between their
declarations and those of Ruffin, their Ambassador, at
Constantinople---Ruffin produces a Letter, avowing the
object of the Expedition to Egypt to be the punishment
of the Beys for injuries committed on Frenchmen---
Talleyrand denies this to the Turkish Ambassador, at
Paris, and declares the conquest of Malta to be the sole
object of the Expedition --- Falsehoods contained in the
French Manifesto proved by the intercepted letters from
the French army in Egypt--- The Military' conscription
extended to the conquered countries---Partial insurrections
in the Netherlands---Insolence of Garat, the French Envoy
at Naples---Demands the release of all Traitors, imprisoned
for their crimes---The King of Naples prepares for war---
Enters the Roman Territory--- Is defeated at Porto
Fornio--- Concludes an armistice with the French---
Leaves his Capital, and retires to Sicily--- Popular tumults
excited by the French at Naples---A revolution effected
on French principles--- The Neapolitan Republic pro-
claimed--- Meeting of Parliament---The King's Speech---.
Thanks voted to Nelson and his followers---The Admiral
is created BARON NELSON OF THE NILE--- Committee
of Supply--- Mr. Pitt details the expences of the coming
year, and the means of providing for them---Flourishing
state of Commerce--- Large increase of Exports and
Imports---Mr. Pitt adverts to the frauds which had been
practised to defeat the project of the Triple Assessment---
Proposes a new scheme of Finance--- The Tax upon
Income--- Measures proposed for rendering it effective---
Powers of Commissioners under the Act--- Reflections on
the multiplication of Oaths occasioned by the Revenue
Laws--- Estimated amount of the Tax, ten millions---
Grounds of that Estimate.-- Advantages of raising a large

portion of the Supplies within the year--- The energy of
the Parliament the cause of National prosperity--- Mr.
Pitt confutes the notion that a Commercial people cannot
be a Warlike people--- Pronounces an eulogy on the
British Constitution--- Mr. Tierney opposes the Tax---
Resolutions proposed by Mr. Pitt carried without a divi-
sion--- Remarks on the unequal operation of the Tax
upon Income---Farther debates on the subject---The Bill
opposed by Sir John Sinclair, Sir Francis Baring, and
Mr. William Smith---The fallacy of Sir John Sinclair's
arguments exposed--- Mr. Pitt justifies the Tax---Com-
ments on the inconsistency of Mr. Smith in admitting
the justice of the principle, and opposing every mea-
sure for carrying it into effect---Corrects his mistatements
on the distinctions of society---Reprobates all new-fangled
notions respecting Equality--- Proves Mr. Smith's argu-
ments to extend to an equal distribution of property---
Defends the Bill from the imputation of establishing a
Tithe Explains the difference between Tithe and the
contribution of a Tenth part of Income to be levied by the
Act---Argument examined relative to the different effects
of the Tax on permanent and on temporary estates---
The Bill passes the Commons--- Is opposed in the Lords
by the Duke of Bedford, and Lords Suffolk and Holland---
Manly conduct of Lord Grenville---Mistaken position of
Lord Holland--- Assertion of the Duke of Bedford
respecting Tithes contradicted by the Chancellor--- Bill
passed into a Law Farther Supplies---New Taxes---
Subsidy to Russia---Opposed by Mr. Tierney---Mr. Pitt
repels the conclusions drawn by Mr. Tierney regarding
the object of the war, and the intentions of the Cabinet---
Reflections on the evil tendency of the writings of the
French Economists and Philosophists---The inconsistency
of Mr. Tierney's arguments detected, and the confusion
of his ideas exposed, by Mr. Pitt---Mr. Pitt draws a just

character of the French Republic---Seditious Societies---
Papers respecting them referred to a Secret Committee---
Report of that Committee---It unfolds a complicated scene
of sedition and treason---Plan, and object, of the Societies,
to establish a Democratic Republic in Great Britain with
the assistance of France---Their Address to the French
Directory---The London Corresponding Society abandon
the project of annual Parliaments, and universal suffrage,
for still more Revolutionary schemes---United Irishmen
form Societies in England---Administer unlawful Oaths---
Many of them enter the Naval service---Plans for mur-
dering their officers, and for carrying their ships into an
enemy's port---Swear to murder the Protestants---Plan for
exciting an insurrection in London--- and for seizing,
at the same moment, the two Houses of Parliament,
the Tower, and the Bank---Mr. Pitt introduces two Bills,
one for renewing the Bill to enable the King to detain
persons suspected of Treason, and another for the sup-
pression of Seditious Societies---Proposes to empower the
King to imprison such persons in any one of his Gaols---
Members of Secret Societies rendered liable to fine,
imprisonment, or transportation, according to the nature
of their offence--- Proprietors of houses at which such
Societies are held subjected to a fine---All lectures and
discussions at which money is taken for admission pro-
hibited--- Printers compelled to affix their names to hand-
bills---All presses to be registered---These Bills passed
into Laws.

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