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1 SWEDEW. In the Peek, and fredily will be publinted, By G. and J. Robinfoct, and J. Mawman, London, In One large Volume %tan°, handlamay printed, A New and Iniprov.d Edition of GUTHRIE's SYSTEM of MODERN GEO GRAPHY, or Geographical Grammar. 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STOCKHOLM, MARCH to.—By a Royal Inftruc don to the Court Chancellor, which has appeared here in print to-day, an extenfive and aria ftiper intendance over all the printing of books, and book trade, and circulating libraries of the king dom, is committed to this high office. In (-once quence of which the whole Police, and decifion of all private difputes concerning thefe objeas, falls to it ; and as the prefent deferving Court Chan cellor, Mr. ZIBET, is one of the molt enlightened men •f letters of the Swedifh nation, the belt con fequences for the extenfion of ufeful knowledge of all kinds are espeaed from his adminiftration, in the above branch.—The great merchant, Luso- BIRO, hai received from his MAJESTY an excln five privitege for the preparation of plate glafs, mid the tinning of them, for 25 years. This is the &ft manufaaory of this kind in our country. GRRMANT. , 1: how THE MAYA. MARCN to.—The Govern. went of Freyburg has declared the intelligence to be fa:fe, that the Duke of MODENA had at lali refolved to accept of the Brifgan, as the official accounts from Vienna fay nothing of the accep. ante of the Brifgau by the Duke of MODENA, or the Archduke FERDINAND. SU•SIA, MARCH 119: —The phyfitians of Stutt gard are very bury in making experi m ents of •Galvanifm. Hitherto, however, no remarkable cure has been performed by them in this way.— Among others a Count Wo*Jaen has gone thi ther to be relieved in his hardnefs of bearing. On an enumeration of the inhabitants and cattle which lately took place in Wirtemherg, on the oceafion of a tax upon property, it has been re marked, that the number of people bears a pro portion to that of the cattle as two to one. There are reckoned 65t0,000 inhabitants, and 300,000 head of cattle.—The diflurbances which had broken out in feveral places of I .Virtemberg, are now quite fuppreled, and the fubjefts have re turned to their duty.—A military cartel has been concluded upon between the Palatinate of Bava ria and Wirtemberg. BauNw, Matte' t6.—Since the middle of laf month, quiet has been pretty well reflored in Belgrade, as the Aga of the janifaries'her e has fucceeded in calming their minds, and in reconcil ing the different parties with one another: a note has alto been drawn up, by his means, on the de. mands of the garrifon, and a deputy fent with it to Conftantinople, who, however, when he came towards Niffa, was prevented from pa ffing through by the fon of the murdered Balhaw of Belgrade there, and the latter has further caufed his dif p.itches to be taken ftorn him, and comp e ll e d him to remain with him till an aefwer !hall re turn from Conflantinnple. Since that time it is nltlcreed that the Turks at Lelgrlde are making of defence, and they have carded to rowels ten call% of powder tale of Sencera.ltia. PARLIAMENTARr PROCEEDINGS. HOUSE OF LORDS, FRIDAY, APRIL 9. Counfel was again beard on the Appeal, Frciton v. Lord Dunecnald. Further bearing put off' tn Motday. The Lords ',err ordered to be fcmmoncd fcr Monday neat, on a queftion of order.—Adjourned to Monday. cnarei Ins of cl-fe , ti be brought to that which 147 in the cal 4. e, HOUSE OF COMMONS. The Report of the Dundee Two-penny Scots Bill was re ceived anu agreed to. Leave was given to bring iu a Bill for amending the Laws re lathe to (applying the City of Dublin with Water. Leave was alfo given to bring in a Bill to improve the Nl'fi• gition niche River Medway. The Bill for relieving the Clergy from the Penalties of the ALI of at Hen. VIII. was read a (mond time, and committed for Monday. Sir WM. SCOTT raid, it was his Intention to have the Bill printed as it &mid be amended by the Committee, and then to Rand over till after the recefs. Mr. Bar t R moved for and obtained leave to bring in a Bill for preventing frauds and abufes in the falc and admcafurcruent of foot, antes, and certain other articles of manure. Mr. Fosse; brought up a Bill for the better regulation of the Linen Manufactory of Ireland, which was read a tirit and ordered to be :tad a fecond time on Monday. The Houk went into a Committee on the 23,000 pool. Loan Bill. The Report was ordered to be received to-morrow. The Affefred Taxes Bill was read a fecond time, and com mitted for to-morrow. The Committee on the Beer and Malt Tax Bill was deferred to Tutfday next. The Houk in a Committee went through the Bill for regulat ing the Corn Trade between Great Britain and Ireland; and the report was ordered to be received to-morrow. Mr. Jones withdrew his sake of a motion relative to the Polygar, War, which Rood for the a7th inft. b.:cast-a he under flood &at fufficient information could not be obtained to ground his motion upon within the time. Indeed, he apprehended that War was not likely to terminate before the end of the Sec- Ron ; therefore, he could not name a day for the difeußion of the fubjedt. ASSESSED TAXES. The Order ofthe Day was moved for the Houfe to refolve itfelf into a Committe on the Melted Taxes Bill. Mr. ROBSON oppofed the Speaker's leaving the Chair. He confidered the Taxes brought forward in lieu of the Income Tax as bearing peculiarly hard upon a clafs of the public who were in no refpeft affeßed by the Income Tax. He was per fuaded it would not be in the powcr of the lower defcriptim of Tradefmen to pay the increaly Af felled Taxes. Mr. VA N S ITTART anfwered the objeaions urged by the Hon. Gentleman. Mr. Joan infilled the Miffed Taxes on houfes and windows fell chiefly on thofe who inhabited lane.; and alleys—the Chancellor of the Exchequer in introducing fuch Taxes, was letting fly at the public an boa of Affeffors, an army of Window Peepers—the old Shop Tax, which had been fo obnoxious, was a mere flea-bite to the prefent ones. He therefore hoped the Bill would not be precipitated through the Houle. The CHANCELLOR of the ExcHEoyER Rated, that the Tax on windows and houfes would not attach on any perfons but thofe who paid the In come Tax ; at lean, in fo inconfiderable a degree as fcarcely to be felt. Mr. SHERIDAN obferved, that the Tax on In ' come was extremely partial, and molt fhamefully evaded—he was, therefore, happy it was repealed, but he was not fatisfied how the Chancellor of the Exchequer made it out that the prefent tax would only apply to perfons who were afietred to the Du ties on Income. He was of opinion the Tax was, aridly (peaking, nothing more or lefs than a Com mutation Tax. The CHANCELLOR of the Excasopsa Paid, his itatement had been founded on the moll accurate informationhe could procure. He never had looked upon this as a Commutation Tax, and he denied it was fo. He confidered that there was a capital of 97,000,c001. for which inter& was required, and that the aggregate of the Taxes were to pro vide for it. The effect of the increafed Miffed Taxes, be was convinced, would be as equal as any could he in the ordinary operation of thepria [ ciples of taxation. Mr. Hess , ADDINGTON obferved, that the Chan cellor of the Exchequer had uniformly confidered the Tax on Income as a War Tax—that he had determined to repeal it in the event of Peace— and that he had taken the very firft opportunity of carrying his intention into execution. Mr. WIGLIT recommended that the Afref fed Taxes mould not apply with regard to houfes under 51. a-year rent, or containing lefs than nine or ten windows. The Houfe then went into a Committee. A convcrfhtion took place between the CHANCELLOR of the ExcniVllß, Mr. JONES, Mr. VANSITTART, and Mr. RoasoN, after which the Houle retuned, and the Report was ordered to be received to morrow. RESTRICTION ON THE SANK. The CHMIC[LLOR of the Excitsosaa raid, he rote in purfuance of a notice which he gave on a former day, to move for leave to brinz in a bill to continue, for a time to be limited, the refirietion of payment in fpecie upon. the Bank. It was im poffible for him to fubmit to the Houle fuch a pro pofition without Tome regret, becaufe it was an in terference with the legitimate Nations and opera tions of the effahlifhment of the Bank; but he had the fatisfaition of being fully convinced the mea- Cure he had to fubmit to the confideration of the Houfe, could not furnilh any charge againit any one, or lead the mod timid man to fuppofe that the Bank does not pail's the mon ample means within itfelf to difcharge all its engagements in any manner whatever, which thcy might be called up on, or allowed to do. He was Aced on a former day, Whether it was his intention to move for a preliminary inquiry into this matter? He raid then, he had no fuch intension, and he had no fuch intention now, becaufe it did not appear to him to he necelrary. In the year 1797, when the Houfe was called upon to confiim the Order in Council rellriSing the payments is fpecie of the Bank, a Committee was inaituted for purpofes different from thole which bore upon the qucition now. A Committee was then appointed, and their Report proved that which could not now be contelled, the folvency of the Bank, and its ample fufficiency to tlifchar4e all demands that could be made upon it. This was one of the parpoas for which the Commit':: was appointed, and for which there was 1;t1w no necc(Uty whatcver. The Committee was appointed alto for another purpofe, and was inftruaed upon another point: u To inquire into the necallity which produced the Order in Council, upon which the re ftridiontook place ;" the grounds of which were fo notorious to all mankind that he need not enlarge upon them, and it was now for the deliberate confideration and difpaffionate re fledion of the 'four; to decide whether it was now proper to continue that meafure for a limited pe riod. Upon thefe topics an inquiry took place at the time the meafure was adopted, hot an inquiry was not neceffary under the prefent circumftances. The reafons for the continuance of the reftritlion he thould fhortly Rate to the Houfe. The courfe of Exchange between this and foreign countries, was difadvantageous to us; the export trade was 4 ' now, and had been for tome months, con fi derably at a Rand ; and a confiderable time muti elapfe be fore we had our returns from the export ? after it flail have been returned to its channel, the courfe, he trolled, would be rapid. There was no inquiry neceffary however for this purpofe, becaufe the thing was perfedly clear. Nor wouldit be neceffary to inquire, while the courfe of exchange was dill advantageous to us, whetherto diminifh the amount of our circulating calls, would or would net in creafe that difadvantage ? for that was alto mani left ; and that the opening of payment in gold at the Bank would have this effeet, was clear from this circumllance, that for lateral months pall,l there had been carried on a trade in the purchafe of Guineas, in this country, with a view to their ex portation. It was therefore upon the grounds of the Rate of exchange between this and foreign coun tries, and part of our export trade being "confider ably at a Rand, and our not having, oor being likely to have, for tome months, returns for export trade, and the praiftice of exporting coin likely to take place, that he thought it his duty to recom mend to the Houle to continue the reftliaion on the Bank. There was another confideration which operated very ftrongly on his mind, that the entire command we had polfeffed over the markets of the Continent for fo long a time could not be expelled to continue in the fame degree : com petition mull be expelled—we mutt meet with ri vals, alid on this account every facility fhould he given to our merchants, and this could be done in no way fo effeOually, as by continuing to them the advantages, and indeed affording an augmenta tion of difcount, that was likely to be one of the effeas of the continuance of the reftriaion. There were therefore, as appeared to him, ftrong reafons for the adoption of this meafure, ariling out of the circumfiances of this country at the prefent time. It prontifed to be produtlive of effential benefit to the country at large, by the affillance which it would give to merchants, aad it would be the means of avoiding a probable evil, and of altering the Courfe of Exchange : and lie was not aware of any inconvenience that was likely to re fult from it, at leaft none to any confiderable amount. We had bad the experience of four or five years of unufual difficulty, by which the mea fore of rellriaion had produced beneficial effeas. The credit of the Bank in the mean time, had un dergone no diminution whatever, but on the con trary bank notes had maintained their reputation, and had been received readily in payment on all occafions. There were, however,forne c irc umflances which lie could not help obferving, and laying Come Rrefs upon. When it was thought expedient to in creafe the circulating calls of the country, an appli cation was made to the Bank, and they called in their one and two pound notes, and faid they would pay them in calls, and out of the Soo,oool. thuspaid to individuals who held there notes, and who were entitled to have cafh for them, 400,0301. were, by the choice of thefe individuals, received in paper. After this proof of confidence, and manifeftation of reliance on the g4nl: Paper, and eftablilbment of the full Credit of the Bank, there was no kill caufe to apprehend that the Baik Paper would not continue to nuintain its Credit, He knew there was in this country a great diverfity of opinion with refpeit to the mode in which the Bank ought to be permitted to re new their money payments : form Gentlemen, he believed, were of opinion they Ihould pay cafh for Notes of a fmall denomination, but here he willed it to be remeMbered, that until there was an abun dant. fupply of cafh, an evil might refult from this —for if the ii. and 21. Notes were paid in cafh, and afterwards a general anxiety were to be en tertained on the fudden, for cafh, Bank Bills of loot or wool. would be brought in for there and 21. Notes, and this would introduce the very inconvenience intended to be avoided. By this fort of reftraint of the meafure, the circul ition would be interrupted materially, and then the Country Bank Paper, for fmall furs, would be the only currency. Not that he meant to throw any dif credit on the Country Banks, but he was Rating this as the probable effect of opening the money payment at the Bank for fmall Notes, in the mere poffible event of any fudden anxiety for calls. He did not know whether he had made himfelf clear to the Houk, but what he meant to imprefs upon the Houle was this, that by direaing the Bank to pay in cafh (mall Notes, the probable, or rather poffible effect would be, that of creating an unli mited demand for fuck (mall Notes in exchange for large ones, and thus a rick would be run of their being takcn out of circulation, which would be a con fiderable inconvenience. He did not think it was neceffary for him to go more minutely into the fubjed. He had affigned the reafons why it appeared to him this meafure was neceffary.— Thofe were, the Courfe of Exchange being at prefent againft us; part of our trade at a Rand, in a great 'mature, and from another, no Returns could be expelted Coon : all which inconveniences might be increafcd, but could not be dimiuifhed by opening payments in fpecie at the Bank. On the other hand, he knew of no material inconve nience that would arife from the continuance of the reflriaion. Under all thefe circumftances, which were indeed unavoidable, be thought it would be prudent for us to wait a while, to tee the confequence and effeeds of Peace, to give time to our Merchants to form their connedions on the Continent; to take time to fee the commercial relations in which different countries will Rand towards each other y to obtuse all dais things, and to reflex on them, before we opened paymenti in calh at the Bank. When there were loch ad vantages likely to refult on the one hand, and without any material inconvenience, and while, on the other, it was poffible that Come evil refult, he was apprehenlive the Houle would agi,e with him in opinion, that this rellriaion ought to be continued. He fhould therefore now move-- " That the different Ads of Parliament by that reltridion had been enforced from time to time, for the 101 l four years, be read"—which be. ing done pro forma, he moved, " That leave h. , given to bring in a Bill to continue, for a time to be limited, the reftriflions in the laid Aft on the Bank of England," &c. Mr. Jou Es Ciid, it did not appear to him tiro the Right Hon. Gentleman had advanced one folid reafon for renewing the meafure he propofed, - cept that which regarded the commercial relation, of the country. On that ground perhaps the ie newal of the refirietions might be proper ;,and had the Hon. Gentleman relied the ncceility of it on that alone, he fhould not have made any objethon to it. With refpeet to our commercial relations with France, he remarked with regret that not a word was raid upon the fubjeft in either die Preli minary or Definitive Treaty. There were feretal reafons why the continuation of this refiridion must be highly injurious to the public. There W. 16 a feeling belonging to him, in common with many others, that he had rather fee the King's picture on a bit of gold than an aftrat. The Chancellor of the Exchequer appeared as if he was afraid of the trade of guineas, but he ought rather to be afraid of Iffignatr. If the Bank was equal to eie payment of cafh, as the Right Hon. Gentlern.in Rated—if its refources were fo great as was rept e fented—why not pay at - once? There was fume Inyf tery in the bufinefs which required an explanation. He walled the Houfe might be informed what the profits were which the Bank Diredors had been making ever fince the Roppage of payment ; and he wiffied the Houfe to confider the extenfive trade of forgery that had been carried on lince the WU. ing of fmall notes ; no lets that feventy Clerks be longing to the Bank had been going about the country to profecute for forgery, and numbers of perfons fuffered for that crime. All this was the effeft of ailing paper inflead of gold. If a man • in bufinefs fhould happen to take twenty or thirty notes in the courfe of a day, the probability was, that two or three of them were forged ; he muff fullain the lots of thole; he had no redrefs at the Bank. An inflance occurred, to his knowledge, of a perfon having taken a bad Sol. note, and the Bank would live him no mini's for it. He jetted to having fo important a queftion as this dif cuffed in a thin Houle, and wifhed the Right Hon. Gentleman would paufe upon it, and thew that the commercial relation with other countries was his principal reafon for bringing it forward, and the meafure fhould have his flipport. Sir Roa s ts r Pasxs obferved, that the firs time the reftridion in queftion had been peopled, it excited confidcrabJe alarm in the country, all of 4 which had long fubfided. He fully agreed in every reafon advanced by the Chancellor of tile Exchequer in fuppoit cf this meafure; befides which, he mull obfcrve, that our trade had of lat: years encreafed three-fold ; there was propa:y now going from hand to hand in the country, of the value of no lefs a rum than three thoufand millions, and there was comparatively very little cafh in the country; therefore, if the rellridinn did not continue, and Bank Notes were not to be W ilted, there would be no circulating medium for the convenience of trade. But if the meafure now propofed was improper, the Houle would have heard objeltions made to it from without doors ; no fuck thing was done ; no Petitions lay on the table againft it. Befides, the Bank had ataintaht. ed its ci edit, even with fplendour, ever fince this rearidion. He gave his thanks to the tali Admi niftration for this meafure, which if they had not adopted, it was impoffible to fay what thould have been done. General Gescotoss, in answer to an obferva tion from Mr. Jones, faid, the thinner's of the Houk might be attributed to the itterruption which its ordinary proceedings had met with from a Gentleman near - him. lie then faid, that the encreafed iffue of Bank of England Notes had the happier! effel in Liverpool, where they were pro. duaive of the greatell benefit, and where they had Anodic/ up all the Country Bank Notes, bec4ufe thoie of the Bank of England were as good as cat them. Dr. LAWRENCE faid, he would ark the Honout able Gentleman, who talked fo much about mcn being hanged for forgeries, whether there was not alfo an offence, called coining, which amounted to High Treafon, and for which many men were to be, and many had been hanged, as well as for making what he was pleafed to call qffignies. The meafure in quellion had been juftified by an over ruling neceffity ; it rofe out of the peculiar junc ture of public a ffairs, and not from any mifc,,n duet on the part of the Bank. If the cpteflion %%as a new one—if the meafure was now for the &it time propofed to be adopted—he certainly rhould not think the arguments of the Right Hon. Gen tleman fufficient to jail) , it. But as it was done in the time of war and public difficulty, we fhotll not now, at a period of returning peace, v n onr Export Trade was nearly Ilationary, and the Conde of Exchange againft us, run the rifle of that danger that might arile from the Bank being com pelled to pay in cant. We fhould wait for the re turn of precious metals into the country ; and until foreigners, who had hoards lying by them, should bring it among us. The taking off this rc firiaion thould be done gradually, and the afire of fmall notes might be limited from time to tint,:. Mr. TIERNEY did not rife to enter into this quer tion, but merely to Rate that his opinion on it re mained unaltered. He conferred it was a bittli.tts which could not be remedied on a fudden, and therefore he would not &kit to a reftriai.ni for a rhort time; but he thought the matter thoold have been previoufly fubmittcd to a Committte, in order to enquire how far and how long the ie. Itrktion might be. That had been formerl y done. A Committee had pointed out the danger of tak ing off the reftriaion during the War: it flto old therefore now be !hewn by a Committee, why it