, reduced duties were, from
the passing of the bill, to be exacted. These articles consisted of what
might be termed the necessaries and luxuries of life; and the duties
were reduced on some to the amount of one hundred per cent. The articles
enumerated in the resolution were agates, or cornelians; ale and beer;
almonds; amber (manufactures of); arrowroot; band-string twist; bailey,
pearled; bast-ropes; twines, and strands; beads: coral; crystal; jet;
beer or mum; blacking; brass manufactures; brass (powder of); brocade
of gold or silver; bronze (manufactures of); bronze-powder; buck-wheat:
butter; buttons; candles; canes; carriages of all sorts; casks;
cassiva-powder; catlings; cheese; china or porcelain; cider; citron;
clocks; copper manufactures; copper or brass wire; cotton; crayons;
crystal (cut and manufactured); cucumbers; fish; gauze of thread; hair,
manufactures of hair or goats' wool, &c.; hams; harp-strings; hats
or bonnets of straw, silk, beaver, felt, &c.; hops; iron and steel,
wrought; japanned or lacquered ware; lace, made by the hand,
&c.; latten-wire; lead (manufactures of); leather (manufactures
of)--calashes, boots, and shoes, of all sorts; linen, or linen and
cotton, viz., cambrics, lawns, damasks, &c.; maize, or Indian corn;
musical instruments; mustard-flower; paper, painted or stained paper,
&c.; pencils, lead and slate; perfumery; perry; pewter; pomatum; pots
of stone; puddings and sausages; rice; sago; seeds, garden, &c.; silk
(manufactures of), &c.; silk-worm gut; skins (articles manufactured of);
soap, hard and soft; spa-ware; spirits, viz., brandy, geneva, and other
foreign spirits, &c.; steel manufactures; tallow; tapioca; tin; tobacco;
tongues; turnery; twine; varnish; wafers; washing-balls; wax (sealing);
whipcord; wire; woollen manufactures. If any of the articles here
enumerated was the production of a British possession, they were to be
admitted at a reduced duty. Thus, while the woollen goods of foreign
countries were to pay L10 for every L100 value, those of British
possessions were only to pay L5. By a third resolution the duties of
customs, chargeable upon certain goods, wares, and merchandise imported
into the United Kingdom, were to cease and determine. These goods,
wares, and merchandise were--living animals: viz., asses, goats, kids,
oxen, and bulls; cows, calves, horses, mares, geldings, colts, foals,
mules, sheep, lambs, swine, and hogs, and sucking-pigs; bacon; beef
(fresh and