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the principle which had been laid down by another Noble Lord (Grenville), that the relit iclion put upon HOUSE OF I.ORDS, MONDAY, MARCH 5. the ea& payments of the Bonk of England, muff in The Royal Marine Mutiny BLit, and tome private Bills were a great meafure tend to influence the payments of brought ap from the Conunalia the Bank of Ireland, fo as to make it iseceffary that . The Greenland FilliFry ores read a fccond time, sad ordered tic committed. a reftriaion Ihould take place there likewife ; and that the pradlice of withholding payment for their The twat private Bills before their Lordihips were paffed it Notes extended in work to all the Country Banking It refpedive Rages. .ord KING Ira/ about to offer !timid( to their Lordatips, but Motile,. A temptation was then given to Bankers :onfrquence of for. intimation Irani another Noble Peer (Lui'd of all defcriptions to increafe their p a p er circulation, aillogliam) he intnialiately fat down. as they had not then the natural check of being PERSONAL EISACISEPOE THE ROYAL AUTHOR ITT. called upon for payment to a certain extent, and the The Order of the Day en the Duke of Yorke's Pri• n a te Bill practice now prevailed Co generally, and to fuch an ate HANCELLO was then moved, when the LORD R left the Woolfack, and addreffed e normous amount, that it called for the molt ferions attention of the Legiflature. it Lordfhips nearly in thcfe words : Lord AUCKLAND commended in the mod flat ° MT LOROS, tering terms the uprightnefs of intention, the general Whenever a Bill has been fubmitted to your Lordetips, la ability and knowledge of the fubjeet which a Right Thiehthe King's intereßs have been in any way involved, the Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Fofter) poffeffed who had predict has been. not to proceed therein without his Majcity's brought forward the meafure in another place but :argent. I obtained, on yefterday, an interview with his Majulty, cou ld not ; at the fame time be induced to give his / mamas repeated this day, and he has given his cadent. et far as negative to the committal of the Bill, as in .12a he regarded his itnereft, that your Lordships &mad proceed with this Bill." thought that no argument had been urg ed b y an y Noble Lord to that effea—the very wife and able Not a word followed this explanation, though the general remarks which he bad heard might as well tendance was one of the fulled we have witnetred. be brought forward for the purple of introducing .f the Oppofition Lords hardly one was abfent from any fpecific motion on another median. Os place. Earl CARYSFORT controverted fevered of the The Bill then went through a Committee, and was pofitions of the Noble Secretary of State, and corn. tdered to he reported. plimented his Noble Relatien (Lord Grenville), for IRISH BANK RESTRICTION SILL. the perfpicuity and ability with which ht: had eluci- On the Order of the Day for the fecund reading of dated the upported the f fajta. He had- hirnielf been one who ae frith Bank Reftriftion Bill , former Bill, but flippored it to be only Lord KING entered into a detail of the objections a temporary meafure of neccility. formerly urged by him to a renewal of the enaftment The LORD CHANCELLOR left the•Woolfack,, of the Bill. As there, however, were merely rep o - and delivered his fentiments very f ull y o p en the fob. :lions of what has already been fubmitted to the jea which was then before their Lordthips. He had public, and as they will come more properly to be alfo given his fupport to the former Bill, under the dated when the queftion (hall have undergone the impreffion which the Noble Lord who (poke loft had neceffary difeuflion before the Committee of the Honfe fo correaly hated, and which he believed was the of Commons, to which the date of the circulation in general feeling of the Houk at that time If one, Ireland is referred, we fliall at prefent confine our- however, were to (peak their fentiments freely upon felves merely to an outline of the proceedings. His the hiftory of Parliament foe thefe dime years pall, Lurdltip particularly alluded to th e dangerous con- they mult, upon mature refleetion, be inclined to fay equences relating from Bills of the prefent del - ails- that Parliaments have of late been too fond of palling /ion, which if once adopted, even fur a limited time, temporary lows, inafmuch as the &atone: of the were expeaed to be renewed alma as matters of duration of loch meafures frequently induced perfone conrfe. That the reftriaion on the iffur: of cafh in to pals by in filence what they might otherwife op payment of Bank paper was a principal caufe of the pofe in a moll ferious manner. But. admitting as difference in the rate of exchange between this coon- he mull do, that the interference of the Legiflature try and Ireland, and that Bank paper had greatly in loch a, manner with the payments to be made by increafed in confequence of Inch oettriaion, he fob- the Bank, was a great evil, as it evidently in faB is mined, was evident from this circumttance, that in an evil • of a fetious nature, dill he mull fay, that not the year 1796, previous to the palling the Aft of only the neceffity which arofe out of particular cir- Reflriaion, the while Woe of paper from the Bank cumflances with refpea to the Bank, but alto a con of Ireland amounted to about 600,c001. laft year they federation of what was good policy towards the amounted to 2,600p001. and for the preen year they holders of bank notes. bore•the Houle out in paffing had rifen to 2,900,0001. being an increafe for the lel fuch a meafure as that now fubmitted to their Lord twelve months of ocio,cocl. He did not mean to (hips' confederation. If his memory did not miflead oppofe the Bill in its prefent doge, but merely to call him, though the Bill was at fir li for a very limited the attention of the Houle to the evils of which it duriion, it was agreed afterwards by the Legifla was produaive. tare, before the conclufion of the lad war, to extend The Earl of LIMERICK fubmitted, that fo long the term of the Bill to the duration of the war. If as the rentiaion on the Bank of England was eiinti- loch a neceffity elided then, (Steely after having gene slued, it followed as a neeetfory confequence that a on for fuch length of time in this praBice, it would fimilar reariaionfhould aid upon the ilfues from the not be very wife to leave it off fuddenly at any time, Bank of Ireland. much leis at a time when we are threatened, as this The queftion was about to be put, when country now is ; the fudden check put upon the °Fe. Lord GRENVILLE tufo and recapitulated the ration of le weighty a meafure, mull be felt feverely arguments which he had on a former might urged in fome manner or another that their Lordthips per agamlt the prefent meafure. That it followed as a haps are not aware of. It had been Paid by e Noble neceffory confequence of the reariaion put'on the Lord, to whole opinions he certainly paid the highelt Mies from the Bank of England that the Bank of deference and refpeft, that the inductee of the re- Ireland fbould alfo be rellTiae.!, fo far from Cooing flriaion was inch as naturally increafed the circula as an argument in favour of the prefent Bill, went, tion of paper of all defcriptions, but he really could in his mind, to thew the impropriety of fuch a redric- not fee on what folid foundation that argument was tion, even as to the Bank of England. Of courfe, if grounded. He knew very Well that in the natural it were urged that the reariftion on the one mull courfe of things the Bank had a right to give cads for naturally produce a limiter teftritlion on the other, in all the paper which they aided as loon as payment confide-log the neceffity of a real iaion en the Bank (hould be demanded of them; b u t Parliament having. of Ireland there could he no breach of order in coo in its wifdom he would fay, interfered with their mining the propriety of the reariaion on the Bank concerns, laid, " you (ball not give payment in fpecie. of England. This reltriftion had been originally rue- you thall only pay one bank note with another:" and cafionedfolely by a eon on the Neocene Bank,ohich it then became legal for them to withhold paymentfor communicating its influence to other banks in the any notes as far as they might think proper fo to do. neighbourhood, ultimately I . preati to the capital. Of This might be fairly Paid to be an indocement to that the neceflity and propriety of the refliiflion at the c:mpany to enlarge their paper circulation. The me period when it W.tf!aid on, he was completely fatif- Cult. however, ithewed that alter having . for fuch a lied ; but he was equally aware of the impropriety of length of time had a reftriaion upon their cats pay continuing it fo long as Bankers chofe, who would ments, and under all the eircurnthances of the times, thus be enabkd to avoid the eepence of keeping mo- they had only extended their floating paper fromabout ney on hand for which they of cootie mutt pay toe- twelve millions (what it might be pveraged at for reit.—One of the great evils felt in Ireland from this Come time before the reftrietton's taking place) to lyttern, he was ati.iid, was extending itfclf to this abooteigliteenmillions,the prefent eflimated amount. country—he meant the praElice t f army agents dii- The fame train of reafoning, however, could not he tributing among their em ployer,' private paper inliead appliedtocountrybankers as that which wasapplicable ofcafh. if it did take root in this country, its con- to the Bank of Ireland, or the Bark of Engiond.-- ferrences mutt be doubly dellru6ive, owing to the They were not authorifed by law to refute payment great extent to which fuch a fyftern might be carried. in cafh for any of their paper ; they might get rid of His Lordfbip difopproved much of the continuance an urea in the firft inflance by pleading in a Court of the reftriaion in either of the countries. He of Law, that they had made a tender of payment in thought that the gradual abolition of it would be pro national bank notes, but throe bodies would be af dative of the molt benciciol confequences. terwards liable to incarceration if they did not pro Lord HAWKESBU KY expected farprize at the cure cads to the amount of the bank notes in queftion. oppofitian of both the Noble Lords, who had in fah It had been foppoled by a Noble Lord, who !poke agreed that the refliiaion on the Bank of Irelond early in the debate, that fome parliamentary tegula. could not be removed *foie that on the Bank of Eng tion Oswald be adopted to eaifine the amount of paper land remained in force. He expefled from the No- to be iffued by country bankers within certain limits ; ble Lord who (poke lag, that his oppofition would that, he thought, had better be left to the mutual rather have come in the mode which he had given confidence *lath people entettained z mongit each the Hcufe reafon to eteeEt—in the int mof a motion other than to attempt to regutee it by any interfe. re l at ive to the lanes of Bank Paper in this Country. rence of the Legiflattne. Potthe (anis:vice, in a That evils did exitt, in this repeet, in Ireland. he commercial fettle. was Co marifed th it a man might was lorry to fay he was convinced. He could, how. apply to many fentibie and wealthy pedals bsioeen ever, by no mews agree that thole eviis had commis. Templehar and WEherhapel the the loan cf nicated themfelres to this country. That the extraor- upon an elate, and he would ant he aide to obtain dinary iffucs of paper had been produaive of the the money until the conveyan.cr or nthcr petkris be evils alledged, he was fati•ficd. 1 oa t they were not longing to the lase had done their part in °se bi.tnefs, folely to be attributed to that cattle, he thought there and yet, if the very fame perfrms as ere plied to in could be no doubt. During the preen reign the de- a commercial way by a pet Inn who pre dozed a pocket mind for frocie had greatly exceeded that in any for- book full of notes, if they were ro the ame Loa ..f mer period, being twenty millions of recoinage, and 'coca". and the hand wt i•ing IT.T Tori hl , e what it forty lam millions of new coinage. into the year amid be, the whole amrann Mould be it. tautly poid 700 the coinage had amounted to thlrty-two down. This confi,icr,r, in tr.i c tv.a• hint' honour ram, he•ri ,n at the rate of two maons p e r annum, able to the refills al.O aasil upO a fuch atri r 11e ever at the time when we were, from Continental and Bankers were an tat:co.ciy connt4Tion‘, advancing con;iderable lubfidies to our men as lon g as they u-n their geiittitic rrt Alitc.., and when, from the f.tbtrc of tire: haeveil, ; foundation, we were to encourage the imp. Tta:irin of corn . the money out inn ., into this c•aintiy. a.al t . par for it in fpeeie. It : fecutitees, keeping a t C...t.:T.cy • I cilia at v. liold be fern, tlicret 're, that the dines had been them to anfaet es e• nn,.'. But he fiefs iii f rnporti••n 1;,,c, the year 1797, when the Re- I CA . C, in the liton7cit . t, sm., ii e picralr. : ( , n the I! an% r, mmenc,l , that rcittiair , n, he I lie at Accommooo n though'', tr... C..; that .t Neil ai"t worth I.a aI • •i. , )., • a , a. 5 .: . , eontv.ts.e. I. • I patrefs a fartlor.g m'ne than •t.it ' The :Al ut CA RNAP VO.v. ea..e his fapport to was endetted by C. 1 0 ;1 s L , t 4 PARLIAMENTARr PROCEEDINGS. die drawer and the acceptor. This (Orions off,p-ing was fupported in the world for fome time, by palling it to one of thole fort of bankers who open houfes without any flock of their own , and a ft e rwa rds fpe . culate upon the money of others. Say it is by confi. dente, or fay it is by manoeuvre, or what you may, thefe people may be able for fume time to fupport a falfe and groundlefs degree of credit. But the etre& of the operations before their Lordfbips did nut in the (lighten degree tend to countenance any body of men whatfoever, but the national banks of the two countries. A modification in the reftriSion, or a gradual reduction, was recommended by a Noble Lord (Lord Grenville), and, no doubt, it had its weight with the Houfe ; but, though that might be broughu forward afterwards as a feparate proporvion, he did not hear any reafon brought forward, which . could induce him to fay. 4 , I will not vote fur the committal of the Bill." It was a plain quellion, nod e involved not only the inters is of the Bank of Ireland, but alto that of the Government of Ireland, including alto every perfon who inhabited that country, and who, as a loyal perfon, replied a troll in the papei which had the Government of the country as its guarantee. He begged pardon of their Loidth'its for having gone at filch length into a detail of the obfervations which occurred to his mind opus the fubjeft, and if they fhould tend in any degree to con vince their Lordfhips of the expediency of the mea fare, he would find himfclf exceedingly gratified by the idea that his obfervations could be made tervice able to the country and to the nate ; if not, he mutt only lament, that the exertions of hi mind were not equal to the comprehenfion of the tubjet. His Lordfhip returned his feat on tie woolfick, and after a few words of explanation. the Bill. was ordered to be committed.—Adjourned. 4 ' FRi CE FEllts. Th All the reports of peace la . ely circulated are with- brow out foundation. The Court of London has rejefted to T b l c the lilt propotitions for peace. Tt The preparations for the invation of England con- their tinue without interruption ; and the departure of fa Bon PART is daily expeded to take place . The whole 1177,71 Confuter Guard has now been ordered for the coaft. Attached to the Army of England is a field printing ; office, the Dire for of which has orders to leave Paris vats at a moment's notice. CH On the 6th intl. the Fier'. Consul had a long con- dui ference with fevers] Generals; amongft others, with General MAR moor, deitined to command the French 1 troops in Holland. wstt Several companies of artillery, of miners, and hombadiers, have been ordered from Mentz to 8010 I' lope, betides feveral necetTary things for preparing c' d whi a held hofpital at St. Omer. Two hundred and fifty Tailors of the Confular re it a Guard are at Rotten. The National flotilla at Boulogne is now, id Oderine, I commanded b,y Admiral LA Caosse, who formerly att was the Captain General at Guadaloupe. Admiral Of Bette - is rather better, and, flould he continue to his . amend, will afro= his former Ration. Citizen CuvaLtas, who commands the legion of orc the guides and interpreters, deftined for the expedi- tion againa England. has publitlied a concife but ' , firm% Proclamation, in Englifh and French, ad• thi dreffed to thofe who are enlifted, or wills to enlift, in this legion, and pattieularly the Trills Emigrants in fro France. This Proclamation is fixed up in all the of public places, and at the corners of the Rivets, and tit attracts many curious perfons to read it. The Arch• pu hilltop of Path has publilhed a paitoral admonition its relative to the approaching jubilee, which will be ne obferved in this city, from the roth of March to the of loth of Aptil. On the sth inflant, an embargo was laid at Bour- fel deans on all fhips, either belonging to foreigners or la to Frenchmen. It is yet uncertain how long this fr, =Ware feverity will continue. tit Letters from Brett of the nth lift month, fay, w that on the 27th they experienced there a dreadful cc form, which continued during the whole day. They Pa expel that Admiral CORNWALLIS has Coffered fo di much from this tempeft, that he is unable to continue tr the blockade. in • General MARTIOWT is gone to take the command rIl of the troops of Holland. tt Several regiments, deftined for the coati, hare been R ordered to march for Italy. General joitnett, the 01 new Commander in Chief in that country, is arrived at at Milan. It is laid that the troops in Italy will (non h be put in movement, and undertake an expedition t , which 6sall furprife all Europe. The Italian grenadiers of the Confular Guard do t 1 too duty for the other Confuls, but only for BONA- I PARTS, as Prefident over the Italian Republic. The number of troops in Upper Ita l y is not fo a great as was reported : but the garrifons of Mantua, n Verona, and Perchiera, have been augmented with fi feveral thoufand men. An Englifh milliner who efcaped from Verdun, bas been arrefted at Metz, and broke an arm in at- tempting to efcape. He is fent in chains to Paris, having broken his parole. a Several Englifh prifoners had obtained permiffion r to telide at Paris ; but Bos• aaaaa has now written i to the Direaor of Police, REAL, and ordered eve: y 1 iEugliffiman, without exception, to leave Paris for ; Verdun. Es en the ri.h Englith manufiteurer, Have. who. before the war, tranfported property to t a large amount to France, and ellablithed two ma- i • nufattories, one at Paris, and the other at Mons, has I of been excepted :—through fear of ill treatment from his countrymen and fellow prifoners, he has been carried to Mons inftead of Verdun, where he is to remain under the care of two gens d'artnes, whom 4 be is to pay. The Prefeas of La Vendee have ordered all the Mayors to be particularly careful in their vigilance over foreign travellers and merchants, who may probably be English (pies in dilguife. All forpeenrii perfons are immediately to be arrefted, and feveral have iv contiquence been imprifoned : amongft others, the Dutch recruiting officer, LAPR ANDS. Several perfons inculpated in a confpiracy have been arrefted. It is reported that the famous Chesuan Chief is lately arrived from England, but has hither- to efcaped the purfuit of the Police.' General Beoemonvitzr, our Minifter at Madrid, is expetted here to occupy a place in the Senate. The Counfellor of State, Rs Al, is appointed Di- ' reElor General over the Policeoinder the Grand Judge. General Moat-tea is nominated one of the four Generals of the Confular Guard, and will therefore reform his command in Hanover. While the Minitter TALLEY ILAN D was ill, the FIRST Censor. enquired daily concerning his health, and fent to him his own phyfician. Citizen CAILLAU tranfalted bufinefs for T ALLEY kAS o dating Ls in. This year budget, which has been laid before the Finance Seaion of the Tribunate, proputes, amongst other changes, a Resit, in imitation of that of the late Farmer General, to collea feveral indirea contri- butions. In the difeuftion concerning the immediate Ger- i man nobility, as well as the equality of votes at Ratitbon. our Government, after tome explanation of the Marquis Lti it his t, has acceded to the opinion of Priam. Yetterday, was repreferated at the Theatre Francais' for the II time, I:llr.ant the Conrser,:r, or the La nding is Ens",ml, a Drama, in five stets, by DU•A L. Every thiniz t_. the honour of BGN A PARTE and againfl England v g reatly applauded. The piece boav-Ivr, nerniihed to Ie rerrefied again. Pt Corfu is orinteil an rffLial paper called 71v NoifiteuT of she Jean The new Contlitit , f the ftc-,:ibiic or the Seven Illands is allarTfatif. The i s.c.n pt;icipal ifiands, Corfu. Ceffaionia, Zatite, St. MAUTA.Ceritv), Ithaca, and Pato, have tilt right to cot.,tl;utr•nal noli:ary, the other iflands ail be ineorpura:ed with them.— The nrthnd'i Greek religirn is the religion rf the State: the ROIII4I. Catholic rel nis pra.t , ..-: . 4 and a every other m• de of worthip tolcrar e d. . itAV 1 t prafcrabes the paivilealges to be gtanted to e isa.o may feltle its do. alands. HOUSE OP COMMONS. The Houfe, in a Committee, went through the Meese Medily Bill, and the Scotch B.mkrept Law Bill; the rtports were received, and the Bills ordered tope read a thinl time to-morrow. The hill for ri.guLiting the ages of perform to be admitted into Sacred Orders in Ireland, was read a kcond time, and ordered to be committed on Wednefday neat. The Mutiny Bill was read a third time, and palled, . . . DUTY. Mr. WESTERN raid, that be undcrftood it to be the intention of Comment, either to increafe the amount at the piclent duty on malt. or to reduce the duty on beer. He would With to know from Tome of his Mijcity's fitinifters lf Inch was their intention, Mask he was of optinuo that no Welt alteration ought to take place. The CHASCELLOR of the EXCHEQUF.R ftld,that he could effort the Hon. Oentkosan that Govtrnment had neither the in tention of propollog any additional duty on the one, or a redneticia of duty laid on the other of the commodities alluded to. IRISH AFFAIRS• Mr. CORRY moved that the Hoofe do on tome early day go Into a Committee, to take into confide:ration the tries Duty Ads, pottiest:a:ly the duties on ;alt, bops,and cesala—Ordered Mr. CORRY brought up the Irtib Confolidohn Duty Ad, whiel was read a Brit time, and ordered to be read a fecond time to-morrow. Mr. CORRY alto bri.ustst up the trills and EoglUh Commer cial Redprowstion Ad, fur charging certain itscre,fest en nut walling duties on a - uusts imported into Ireland, which was real a sglt,and ordered lobe read a fez ond time to-xnorr ove.--A,jourued. LONDON• TUESDAY, MARCH 6. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONF 0 Cf.nCR I CaF.S. for snooty. 531—Ditto, for April 56—Osmium 3114 Old s per Cent. 89; 89 PILICF. OF STOCKS YESTERDAY. 3"per C. Rad. Aaa. Slut Short Ana. 3 5-t6 3 per C Coaf. 55111 I Imp. A:a. rye 4 pa Ceat.73ift I Ontaium t diL 5 pa Lat. Ns, y 8j $ Lottery Vaal 171. Er. 5 pa . CCM. t7ys, Stag I ConL for Apra 56 5 1 Lang atm. Stu' In the Houfe of Lords lad night, the LORD CHA'. cu Lox made a mod fatisfaidlry communication re. freeing his KIJIITY. His Lordiltip dittineth deed, that he bad had an interview with his Ma J . IT on Sunday, and another yetterday ; that he explained to his MAJMITT the nature of the Dttke of Yosa's Ettate Bill then before the liouft, and th It his MA . trey had given his content to the proceeding, fo far as the Crown wasconcerned. This was an indite& but, at the fame time l an explicit atrurance, fuund4l upon perfonal aced' and obfervation, that Lis MA. je STY is pettedly competent to the excreife of the Royal Funetions. The Bulktin &own this day at St. James's is as follow's: • " Q2cest's Palsec. Mardi 6, 184. " Ifu ifnzarr it jai: age in a fivouralk quay." (Sivird at irfore.) Yeßerday we announced that the French at Cuba were preparing to attack Neffeu. The follov.iv, - , letter empties Nose information on the fuNeft • Xr/Aa, New Providtoce , Jaw I: " We are in a flats of alarm here. and the Militia is turned out twice 1 day. We have learnt that the French are embarking two thoufand regular troops for this place.. Wl.•en the intelligence reached U'. we were in a defencelefs Nate—not a man of war near us ; the Governor abfent; the nails that were in Government fervice out at tea, and die tro( ;" fickly. that not more than fifty men were fit fa duty. What a dreadful fituatian ! A seti,l was immediately fent after tl.e Governor. one to I sol..ca for attlance, and oihfrs ordered to be fired A floop of boa mr. arrived ye:leid..v. hick will be of great fcraiee. As fo , n d 1". the G"O n r arrives, Ma:t. a : Law will be declared, wi•ch ‘‘..l n-ucls ;cc tl•e , r faltty. IV.. eli re',; cr. It tl La.n 1.4.41;5.q we Ih al Le in A! 1,1,1 r I I.ILIteS A ra • • Ica ink tl i tOr 1.4.114 ac •U 1.!„ t. r ti CI ;7, 11.1?! . . n ttr. , • fr• in 1,1.. f. . t.. N. 111.4.1. mwc 1.4..1:. I