Star. — London, England, 1804-02-14 00:00:00

FRANCE. PRIVATE LITTER, PARIS, JAN." The afferablies by Madame AAAAAA are now tied once io the week at lean; and the circles, at else (stood and the third ConTuPs.twice in the month &deg the winter; each Minitter has betides one patty organized for each month, and one official /lima during the fame period. By Madame MURAT dame b one route in the week, and one TM by T Ma cry Wednefilay, whatnot interrupted by the arrangements of her fupasors. Betides thefe, the Prefidents of the Senate. Thhunate. and Legilla ties Body. and the grand officers of the Legion of Honour, have obtained extra cilkswiwes for dinner pares balls. be. The firll =with of every 'month Ovation's yet the day of diplomatic audience. of military review, and of official dinners. But favourite diplomatic agents, as Lutreassiri. cosiarer, CITTO, be. are often invited to family parties a diftinaion very enviable here, though , by many not confidered very honour able. All diainguiated foreirers, after one dinner with the FIIIIT CONSUL. thief eeedete /rowed continue. during their Ray , to be invited twice in t t e month to the talks of the Prefab of the Palace, and once every three decades to thofe of the Fits? and 'Scone Corsi". General tdoear keeps open table twice in'the week for generals or colonels refiding here, or coming on buti n t is ; officers of inferior rank are Welted once in the week to dine with his aides- ' decamp, who have a table of fury covers paid by Government. A card, figned by the War Minifter, Beaviiiest. le an admittance to this republican hof pirality, even if not invited by Muter. In the diplomacy here. a curious change has lately taken place. 'The wwkil ruler over our few r fons lets 'republic of equality, does not falter any pe than Minifters to be accredited to him ; all Chargé d'Affaires, and other inferior diplomatic agents. can have no other credentials than to the 'Snifter of dee Foreign Department, are to confer with him, and to enjoy no other of the privileges or proteßions 'di' peal's by the laws of nations. and by the cut isms of other countries, sod reiyeeeta of other c ourts, than what this Minifter thinks proper or convenient. • *slit . . D'Otraaer. the Ruffian Charge d'Affaires, is the firft ratan forced to robotic to this incident inoovatioo, st proves that we are not on the bell teems withhisSovereign, i ho. manythink. will relent Sias infuh to a parka, thcagh inferior in rank, trolled with his confidence, :Ind reprefenting him. Caensea.the author of the Rapid ;And impertinent see. Geddon.the official libel publithed lately in the • •esair, has received • thoufand louis d'ors from Bonaearre's private pude, which of courfe does not Baer the fame penury as the public treature. &peak* of the name of Rouvois. who tranflated Vandeeffies, eod parodies, the late Zapf/ . of sew Government, was feat away yefterday morning foe Area, to be em barked for Cayentie, w here he is condemned. epillmet soy trial, by the Grand Judge. so remain for life. There are only two tramples, of the many, of BONAPAILTIN k1er041,7 to reward and liberality in punifhing. P4SLI4MANTAXT PROGEEDINGS. MUIR OF LORDS. MOVIDAY.FEB. l3. s limed Peons who us to to produced as wiowas Is rapport este Claim is die Imo, of .Air.b , c Elarynswo r tb. was lam it tie Bar. .:Ois Mats BM was red a Credal Ono; sod then bass no w i_ll4 . basis Won LsrJtps, they udjourued until three !VON" SIPPOOMIW• HMS OF COMMONS. The Part of Landes improve:man LIU was read a faced time Hid grimed to be colialatted• SLAV , reeve. IWILZIOLFORCI moved, that an humble iddrefs be pee l/NW ip Ids bilsOftg, Frying thee he gay be Facially plakd is Floe areeriops for Om layiag before the Houle. fad Copies of Cormipoodence will* bad alien place between am of his Ma t gampriesof Summed the Oovcroors a the Deka Mods k iw, Wei WM*. IP coMeggetwe of so Addrcfs prsfaated to his .gm the ltia of April, I ypy. He dicraid. that the for mai dingtod to the (awe object, and cap/drat in tifia te rids as that Isiah he bad now the hoarse of inoviop,— _. . . then named. that there be Laid before limb ofin a the Accounts of the camber -f Geri and ton. Pip Wadi had sabred front Africa to the lkltita Wait Wiles. lbso dm dial jaaaary, i 797. to eljansay. 1793; with as pacwhm dm ;WNW K Sham impart in fads thfperOt &web VOIMOTIII COSTS. Soteretery YORKE. meeentod at the Bar Copirs of the Gr a/afar Lemma to Leeds Lieutenants of Lourdes, which had 00 a *Ow day been moved far 111 Mr. T. Oreweille. They were • cowed to lee inia on the motion of Mr. Yorke. who oMermd, dot es tyre }r latle of them wookl take op Lome time, and he wined every menaba to be is poirdilso of • copy. peeviona to die Mention of the Volunteer iteguktion'llth be tbould pet olf .the Ceased mans of the fall from Weduelday to IMday. An Or dm pas se:winningly made to th-t effeet. Mr. CORRY pre notice, that cm Wednefday neat,which he mow found werala be all 0 e day, he thoekl (Windt the lelth Re nown Mb to the eoo of a Committee of die whole Haifa. He thee. moved. that the Haub oo Wand*, reMys Mahatma Committee for that purpofe.—Crrdcred. COTTON SIMI C 1 VI aau TheCHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER rofe ht purfuanee of the notice which he had given on a former occaGon of a motion refpefling the differences (Rifting between the Matters and Workmen in the Cotton Manufaeories. Hit. objea was to propofe a minute enquiry into the nate of there differences, and into the claims of the refpeCtive parties, and this he was of opinion wculd be heft accompliffied by refer ring the ful,;eB to the conlideration of a Committee. It was, be obferved, the more urg ent to adopt that mode of proceeding , as the great - eft difficulties had occurred us the attempts tshich had been made to adjull the difference. Twa years ago a Dill fur the purple had been patted by the Houk', and a general opinion prevailed, and ftich was even that of the par ties themfclves, that it would be found Gaited both to the mailers and to the uorkmen. In that e peaa lion much difappointment had, however, taken place, and the operation of the Bill was fufpended. The fubjee was again preffed, and the cotton wt made an application to Parliament in confequence of the difappointment, but no decillon had bees earned into area J , r/ing laft Soffion. The Bill to which the app li c ation had given rift, was indeed read a Gra time, and font to a Committee above Ilairs, but fo very Ve.tt v..'. the difference of fomen ts thre, *Lai n o further proceedings took place. It was in fag Mum' itepoffittle to bring the gotfticrn .o any thing list: a ieisfa('ory and Eng icltleettitat. The Rate in which the bufinefs was then placed, had led, to another application, and in purfuance of the ve t/net of feveral refpedable perfons engaged in the cotton trade, he had been induced to bring forward the meafure. No mien could undertake to deny that the cafe was of very great importance, not only to thofe concerned in that branch of bufinefs, but to the community at large , and he felt that confidera ble advantage would arife to all front the manner in which the qneßion was to be brought forward. For his own part, he fhould not ex pref. a decided opinion, and all be had to fay was, that if the Bill was found capable of improvement it ought to be amended; and if.not, that it thould be repealed. He concluded with moving, that a Com mittee be appointed to con fider of the molt fpeedy and effeltual mode of adjult ing (itch differences as may be found to e tilt between the makes and workmen employed in the couoo manufaltories. Mr. ROSE laid, it was not his intention to make any kind of oßpolition to the motion. His objea in riling was, to beg that no further delay might be fuffered to take place in the bofinefi ' • but that fome efficacious plan might be ad o p ted, as fpeedily as poi fible. The late alt for adjußing there differences. which the Right Hon. Gentleman alluded to, did, at the time it was brought before Parliament, meet the approbation of all the parties. It was equall and y defired, and equally app roved of, by mailers journeymen. But it was afterwards rendered ilnuer - gatory in an extraordina r y kind of way, by the ma manufsaurers. The Act gave them the power to name perfons who were to decide the differences be tween them and their fervants, and alto to fix upon the place where the parties were to meet. Accor dingly loose of them named panne as arbitrators, who lived aoo miles off. A cafe of this kind was re ferred to him (Mr. Rote) and all the parties were obliged to comeap to London from Lane a fhire, in order to have the matter indifpute fettled. The confequence was, that very heavy expeoces and loft of time were incurred; and fervants complaining of markers mutt have been deprived of all manner of redrefi, if they were liable to be fubjefled to loch great inconveni ences. Thefe perfons then prefented a petition to PatHament. A Committee fat upon it. A Bill was brought in on the report of that Committee ; and the Bill was objeaed to by the manufadurers. Va rious meetings were held; frefh °Nations came from feveral quarters ; add the Bill was at UR flopped. Thus every. thing was left in the fame Rate of confufion and difficulty as from the beginning. In confeqrsence, therefore, of every thing he Rated, he wiled to imprefs on the Houfe the necemty of adopting tome plan as fpeedily as poffible ; either to enforce an AQ of Arbitration, or fay it ought not to be carried into effeQ at all. The Cotton Manta fardurers objeaed to the interference of any perfon except that of magiflrates. If fometbing was not fpeedily done, the moft mifchievous confequences might arife. The journeymen filk weavers, finding their complaints had not been heard, and that they could get no redrefs, took the law into their own hands, and committed g re at excel:es. He thought it neeeffary to obferve, t hat the law, which had been evaded in England, was carried into effe& in Scotland, where not a murmur prevailed againll it Mr. Addington's motion was then carried, and the ICommittee appointed. BASIC or I IifITRICTIOII BILL. Mr CORRY moved, that the Honfe do refolve itfelf into a Committee of the whale Route, to take into confidemtiott the Bill for reßriaing the Bank of Ireland from making payments in fpecie. Lord ARCHIBALD HAMILTON declared, that he relloquilbed the refolution he had formed, of propofing the claufe of which he had given notice to the Committee. He felt it the his duty tn affure the Houfe, that he gave up prepofed meafure merely from the effetts produced in his mind, by the molt ferious inveftigation, and the molt mature confideration ; he could not, however, help remark ing, that Ireland was it a very bad Rate, with re fpeQ to its currency, and he thought that the re fladion itfelf was a lamentable national calamity. The increafe of notes, iffued by the I}ask of Ire land, had been rapid and extraordinary, while the circulating medium was either quite difappearing, or had aQually difappeared. The difference of ex change, sot only between Dublin and other parts of Ireland, but between Dublin and this country, was alfo a fubjeit which excited the deepeit regret, and earneftly called for the attention and interfe. rence of the Hoeft. It was a matter of great afto• nithotent, and mull affeft the relations of trade, and the fpirit of enterprize very materially, that the exchange between Dublin and Belfait, a dillance while of o ne hundred mile. only, was at S per cent. that between Dublin and London, which bad been before at 8, as now n o very high as di and 59 per cent. He norlid ark the Right Hon. Gentleman oppofite to him, whether under the prefent circum. ;lances there were any grounds for ft ping, or any profpea that the Bank of Ireland would be able to reforne its parment. Mr. CORRY thanked the Noble Lord for the candour and ability which he had difplayed in the obfervation+ that had fallen from him. He readily admitted the Rate of circulation in Ireland to be a confiderable grievance, and he fhould feel fincere pleafure if means could be found to remedy the prcifures ailing from it ; but it was no lefs true, under every jolt confideratiom tbat the Bank of Ireland was not refponlible for the grievance, nor fir the reftrinion now propofed. Great quantities of paper had been itined, and were in circulation, throughout Ireland ; but they were not fubjed, as in this country, to the controls' of the Bank. !lan) , flrong reaf.ns might be ur7cd in excufe, if not in jullification, of the Bank of Ireland ; yet he did not with to lead the npinicn of the Houfe upon that tub. jet, or be refprinfible I.imrelf for it. One thing Was, however, undeniable : it was impoffible, while the Bank of England continued to be unrifled in its payments, that the Bank of Ireland could pay. He was not aware that the rellriftion was to extend, in Ireland, to a longer period than in England ; but he Ihould go fo far as to maintain that it mutt be continued there while it lalled here. He did not with to detain the Houk at any length ; and what he had Paid had arifen from the refpea which he entertained for the Noble Lord ; btu be could not undertake to enter more at large into the fubjed, which ought 10 be enquired into with the moll care ful attention and the moil authentic means of idly. nudes. The Bask of England had doubled iu sue of notes, while the Bank of Ire lard i had Wrested its paper circulation in a proportion to its capital of four to one. He Ihould not, at that moment, fay whether the proportion was a p ro p er one, for m would depend upon the internal and peculiar uch cir. cumtlances of the country ; and impreffed with that, as well as with other important confiderations, he fhouM referee himfclf for the future difcuffion of the queflion. Lord HENRY PETTY thought it a very extraor dinary circumstance, that the Bank of Ireland fhould ' at prefent iffue five times as much paper as k did in the year 1797. while it was evident that the Bank l of Engitud iffued only one fifth more within the fame period. The Right Hon. Gentleman had ob (erred. that he was not refponfible for the conduit of the Bank, but Purely the Houfe was refponfible for what the Bank of Ireland might do, and was bound to exercife the ftrifteß vigilance in prevent. ing what might eventually prove exceedingly inju. rious to the laurels of the whole country. The caufe of the circulation in Ireland, which had been Col juftly reprefented as a serious grievance, might forbe traced to the deprec iation of the Bank paper ; he would venture to fay, tint it could not be found in the balance of trade, fine the exports were afcer tained to exceed, in a great degree. the imports.— The evil, in fait, involved the im poffibility of a remedy, and its own in creafe and multiplicationto For while the merchants and traders continued be accommodated by the Bank, they would go °mend the evil would naturally increafe. It mould tot be forgotten, that the dividends had been at 61, and the bonus at s per cent. He expreffed his fincere hopes, that Come efficient remedy would be fpeedily I found and applied, whether the circulation could I be narrowed, or Come other mode could be adopted. Mr. FORSTER thought the prelim Bill was a neeeffary consequence ache Bill here, which rellrift ed the Bank of England from making.payments. In Inland, the circulaung medium was in a wretched ' Rate. There was not a fingle !haling to be ken [ throughout many parts of the country, and of copper there was very little except in the northern parts. — The want of gold was alfo feverely felt in the linen trade ; and the bleachers, who carried on their bufi nets entirely by fpecie felt it moll. They began at a very confiderable lots, lance they were obliged to purchafe guineas at a premium of zs. 4.d. In loch a fituation. the Houle could not but feel the necefiity of making every poffible enquiry into the fubjeft, and of providing a speedy and adequate remedy. He thought it was the incumbent duty of the Houfe to invefiigate the caufes of the increafe of the rate of [ exchange in Ireland; and that if any were found to cliff, that the Houle ought to apply all its wifdam to [ remedy the evil. He fiucerely wished, that the Gam- demen of that Bench (pointing to the Treafory Bench) would take it up, as the invefiigation and remedy of the evil would afford more real benefit to I [ the trade of that country, than any utestfure they 1 1 'could poffihly adopt. Mr. VANSITTART °Verve& that it was c 0.., tainly the duty of thole conneßed with the Treasury, to bellow every attention in their power to this im.l portant fubjea, and it was their fincere wills to do fo ; but he owned that he was far from being able to judge, at prefent, of the prop er remedy; and he thought that none had, as yet, been propofed upon the fubjeß. From all that had been Meted, it ap- I pcared to him not to be perfealy confifient to Rate [ the great difproportion, an point of refiriftion, ins , pored upon the Bank of England, and that of Ire , land, as the caufe of the difpaeity in the exchange of the two countries. Mr. H. THORNTON Paid, that it appeared to him to be a fubjel of the highell importance. and [that at the fame time it !truck him in the fame light as it had done every Gentleman who had fpoken ; I o nly that he thought the remedy was more fimple than it was apprehended by many. The great cir culation of notes, and the fcarcity of gold. were the clinks of the increafe of exchange in Ireland. He knew, that is the aorthern parts of that country, the rate of as. 4d. was given for a guinea of gold, which amounted to about to pet cent. The (late of Ire land differed very materially from that of England. The Bank of England was a Corporation, which Ten dered an account to Parliament from time to time. and had, in lea, the power of regulating the whole paper currency of England, which was not the cafe with the Bank of Ireland. This, he thought, ought to be taken into Confederation. The whole fu ply of capital was now concent r e d in the Bank of Eng land, and by restraining the quantity of paper circu lated, it maintained its price ; whereas in Ireland, each country bank was induced, by its cufiomers, to promote the doing of paper, without any difpofition being thewn to retrain that extensive circulation. — It thus followed, that the remedy was to limit the principal banks in the circulation of paper s . wherever they appeared to Lave too great a monopoly, and make all the paper exchangeable for that iffiled by the principal bank : this would have the effea of keeping the exchange in proper order. He would even fay, that foch paper lhould be exchangeable fur the paper due.' bj the Dank of England; for much coauthor, and conliderable mercantile cala mity might arife, unlcfs fame agreement took place amotig!i thole engaged in trade. He believed that fnmet.ung might be done by Parliament in this re title& As to the Bill before the Houfe, perhaps it might be prudent only to allow it to operate for a Ikon time. He only threw out theft obfervations generally. as he intended to go more at length into the fii'ojeet, at a future Rage; but, at prefent, he thought it fidlicient to fay, that the unfavourable course of exchange in Ireland was produced by too great a quantity of paper being in circulation. Lord CASTLEREAGH laid, that it was neeef fary to tilt this circumftancc to the bottom, and to difcufs it in its own merits. The non payment of gold teemed to him to be • _ _ the unfavourable exchange. firilliog the operation of the od, as the Hon. Gentlem. thought this important and of 'Le molt ahtlrule to w Houle could be tioned. beyond the reach of pailiai did not think that the ranted to Cupp , fe that k per cent. on gold, which a hle exchange. He owned land was in a very critical to exit. In the Ninth ul were entered into fnr gold, which was furnithed by I the Bank of Ireland ; for the old habits of the northern parts of that country were continued, though the means of a ready fupply were cut off, by the reftriaion on the bank of this cou was lion The The price of a guin ea, he apprehended. raifed confiderably beyond its true value, while great quantities of fpecie were locked up in the Bank, and in the private hoards of individuals, apprehenfive from the fintation of affairs and of the threatened invation. This alfo gave encouragement to forgery. To theta caufes he attributed the unfavourable ex change as much as to the great inereafe of paper.—. Such a great com mercial body s the Bank of Ire. land. depended mu ch upon its credit, and was con. duffed by many refpellable Gentlemen in the fame manner as the Bank of this Country, and therefore he deprecated the throwing fo unjutt an imputation upon them, as to fuppofe that they have increafed their ifine of Notes fo much as to produce a deprecia. tion of to per cent. on t heir paper. He doubted very much if even foreign tranfaSions were materially af &fled by the fcarcity of gold. As to tranfwftions in the North of Ireland, the fcarcity of gold was a cit.. comae= which was always taken into view at the time of making a bargain, or fettling the price of a commodity. The linen weaver will confider the kite of the demand for his commodities both at home and abroad, and will no doubt take fuch a medium into his notice when fixing his price. He doubted whe ther it was in the pnwer of Parliament to apply any remedy to the evil complained of,,but be had no rex fon to think that we need entertain any gloomy proC• pea of induftry being dircouraged, or commerce be ing materially affefted by it. It was no new com plaint in the North of Ireland, for when he belonged to the Government of that country. the inconveni ence of paying in gold occafionid a conftant charge againft Parliament, and a bounty was alfo paid to procure it. The current exchange from the North of Ireland to London, was at pretent ro6. when that of Dublin was 116, which circumttance could alone be attributed to the fcarcity of guineas. occafioned by the manner of tranfaaing buknefs in the Northern parts. Mr. FORSTER explained, and (aid, that the Li nen Drapers of Armagh. had on one occafino met and petitioned the Bank to prevent the purchafe of guineas, and they had the foated that it occafioned them a lofs of to per cent..that what he had (aid relative to thir bounty on gold. did not depend folely upon his own knowledge, for the refoluttons ' he alluded to were unanimous and carried by about too of the principal drapers in the North. It ap peared evident to him, that fuch a bounty being paid. gold mutt injure both domeßse and foreign trent: *Elkins. He thought, that from what had been Paid, both of the public and private Banks of Ireland, the 'Houk were called on imp_e 'molly to enter upon a fair, full, and ferious dila:Moo of the Mike at tome future period I for he had no doubt that the *Wiens of the Houfe would find remedies for the growing evil, or at leaß that they would be enabled to fay, that they had done their duty. and the people of that country would be more fatisfied, when they under- Rood that nothing further could be done. Lord CASTLEREAGH and Mr. CORRY fere raft y explained. . Mr. JOHNSTON obferved, that the difference in the exchange betwixt Belfaß and Dublin, might be as well attributed to the depreciation of paper, as to the deficiency of gold. Bullioa might be conveyed front this country to Belfalt and coined there, the only charge being the ezpence of conveyance and a lot . . of intereft. which altogether would only amount to a lofs of one and a half per cent. He thought it, however, important that they fhould all concur, if there was really an evil elating, and endeavour to produce an immediate remedy. Lord CASTLEREAGH be gg ed the Honoura. I 1 ble Gentleman to advert, that the price of bullion I was conlidcrably above its Ilandard value, fo that that additional ezpence, together with the charge of coining it in Ireland, mull be taken into his com putation. Lord DUNLOE could not fay at what rate but. lion could be conveyed from this country to Ireland; but he recollated when it was once found necclfary to convey Come from London to Dublin, that the con• trait was made at the rate of 3 per nat. and he be• tiered that another contrail was entered into at : per cent. He congratulated the Houfe on this lubje3 having been brought forward at the prefent time. and ail - 0 on the moderation obferved throughout. which he hoped would he attended with the happick I I confNuences. He trolled that the matter would not ' be allowed to rel, but that it lhould be examined by a fele& Committee above (lairs ; and that fuch an invelligation Should not only relate to the mere et change of Ireland, but comprehend alfo the (late cf the fairer currency of that country; becaufe he unit ed with an Hon. Member in opinion, that no fuch thing as a real coined Silver Wiling was to be found from one end of Ireland to the other. The till which had authorized private Bankers to iltoe what were called Silver Notes, had been fufpended, to the great inconvenience of individuals, many poor Pe"' pie being obliged to purchafe more of an article 11140 they really required, merely owing to the deficiency of fuch a circulation. Mr. ALEXANDER (aid, he concurred with the Noble Lord who had jolt fpoke. that great income nience was felt in Ireland on account of deficiency in the falser coinage. The landlords in the North ot Ireland mull, in general. be paid in gold, and tore the the weaver mull neceffarily and naturally intik for a like payment fur his commodities. This qutk lion, therefore, involved in it confiderable difficaind and hardthips felt by the inhabitants ot Ireland , stla he believed the fan.e inconvenience would be cqual l i felt in this country, sa et e the landlords uniformly itniverfall.y to inlid for payment of their rents in fr. Nothing buck him ' forcibly as the ratit wholly I;CP4efled with cie. Nothing (truck him more forcibly as Inc ..--- e. He difapproved of re. of the pleat orniffion of paper currency in Irelan , It Bill to a very (bort peri . o ne m ealure which had been adopted by the Ba x man had propoled. He there ;he meant the cuilom they had of &fount° to d delicate fribieEl. was one at one per cent. under the legal intered. This c which the attention of tl , e tom , he thottght, enabled and encouraged the pi" rat It was, perhaps, an evil banks to ilf..e notes to greater advantage; and t mentary interference. He long a s the Bank of Ireland Ibould continue fo Pei ion. Gentleman was war- dilcount, it would be found very difficult to curc asi . was a depreciation of ten e v il c o mp lained of. occafioned the trufavoura The Houfe then went into a C ommittee, and ha I that the fituation of Ire- Report WAS ordered to be received to morrow . • tie d nate, for any circulation The Portnizal Indemnity Bill was read a of Ireland, A tranfaitions time, and pall-ed.—Adjourned. V•u Pet 3 Pet 4 Per 5 Per _ _ _ ir. As Debt, NI !At, date joint Jose I Hal it v mm at 1 ism