§ Mr. Huskisson brought in the bill for imposing an additional duty on salt, which he moved to be read a first time.
§ Lord Wm. Russellsaid, that as he deemed the bill to be bad in principle, he must object to its being entertained at all, though, as there was other important business before them, he would not push his opposition so. far as to take the sense of the house upon it in the present stage. He thought it came with a peculiarly bad grace in a time of such distress, that there were societies forming in the metropolis, and other places, for the purpose of supplying the poor with provisions upon moderate terms, to which this tax would oppose no small impediment.—The bill was then read a. first time.