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• - 3‘ , O o • in to ti t ill Pt 111 C .1i rc ui hi • it h si U d tl S CI F tr r. tt C 1 h tc ti Ti h ti ti , I a f r. tl I ` I, j t 1 -n • I 3! • • , • PAP.I.7,I.IIENTARY AOCEEDINGS. HOUSE OF LORDS, APRIL O. The house met this che, on the expiration of the Ea-ter re iess. The LORD CHASCLLLOR took his seat on th.o Woolsack shortly before four o'cluk, and prayers were read by the Lord Bishop of L•NUAVF. Mr. Isebio, Inspector-General of the Imports and Exports, pp resented at the bar, an Account of the Ordinary Revenue s and - Ixpenekture, and of the Extraordinary Resources of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, (the first joint statement of the kind, and taking place in consequence atilt consolidation of the Exchequers), for the year ending the sth of January, lel 8 ; which was ordered to be laid on the table. The Earl of SHAFTESBURY presented a Petition from the Inhabitants of the town and neighbourhood of Aberdeen, pray ing fur the repeal of the Tax upon Leather. The Longitude Act' Amendment. Bill was read the second time, and ordered to be prisated. The E-trl of 1,1 VE lt POOL, by command of his Royal I igh new the rrince Regent, laid upon the table certain Returns (the titles of which were not read;, pursuant to an Order of the I Onus:. Some additional Documents respecting the quantity of Bul lion coined since the commencement of his Majesty*. Reign ; the prices of the same, &c. were, on the motion of the Earl of LIU DERDILE, ordered to be laid before the House. 'Mr. Wat.rocr, from the Secretary of State's Office, presented Copies of the Reports made by the Lord President, the 'Jeri; Justice Clerk, and the Lord Commissioner of the Jury Court, respecting the Courts of Justice in Scotland, which were laid upon the table. Mr. T. B Braustmer was sworn at the Bar, respecting his intended Evidence before a Committee of their ordships. REPORTED NEW PROJECT OF FINANCE. The Earl of LAUDERDALE rose, and observed it was in the recollection of their Lordships that he had, before the recess, given notice of a Motion, on a subject of the highest importance to the Country, namely, its General Currency, or Circulating Me dium. The notice was given for bringing it on, and the House ordered to be summoned for the 14th. Since that period, however, some reports had rather confidently prevailed, of an intention, on the part of his Majesty's Government, to propose some plan of Finance for the consideration of Parliament,, a pro minent feature in which would be an Issue of Stock Debentures. If that were so, it would so totally alter the whole system of circulation in the country, and cause such a change in the subject, that he should hardly find himself called upon to bring forward the proposition of which he had given notice. Upon that ground, therefore, and with a view of ascertaining how tar such a report was founded, upon which would, in a great measure, depend what he should have to propose upon the general subject, he wished to ask the Noble Lord opposite, whether, or how far, there was any truth in the reports, that his Majesty's Government had it in contemplation to propose any material alteration respect to the Paper Circu lation of the Country ? The Earl of LIVERPOOL observed, it could hardly be expected that he should make any remark upon what might have been the subject of mere re port or rumour, as to what may be in the contempla tion of his Majesty's Government to propose. All that he could say on the occasion was, that whatever might be proposed to be brought forward by his Ma jesty's Government on the subject, due notice should be given of such intention. At the same time he wished Noble Lords to be cautious in giving credit to what may come to their ears in that loose and vague way which had been alluded to. The Earl of LAUDERDALE replied, that he must feel the Noble Earl had not given an explicit answer whether any intention existed on the part of his Majesty's Government to bring forward such a plan or not. Neither was what he stated in another way satisfactory upon the point, as that House would' be almost excluded from taking any part in the dis cussion, especially if it were brought forward late in the Session. With respect to that which he had him self given notice of, he could only say, that unless some certain information were afforded him on the question, he should be under the necessity of putting off the notice, for until then they could not know the situation, in these respects, in which the country would be placed. Some distinct information should be given upon the point. In the former Constitution of this country, the power of propounding such mea sures was vested in the Lords of the Articles. The Noble Earl had said, that whatever plan was inten deckto be laid before Parliament on the subject, due notice should be given as to the time of bringing it forward. For the object he (Lord Lauderdale) had stated, it was desirable to know, whether a plan of the kind was intended, but without calling upon the Noble Earl to state, specifically, what the plan was ; because, if such a measure were intended, the whole proposa inquiry, as to objects of utility, would va nish into air. Therefore he must naturally wish for information upon that point before he could properly -move for a Committee of Inquiry as to the subject he had given notice of. The Earl of LIVERPOOL observed, that at pre sent he felt it only necessary to say, or to repeat, that whatever plan may be proposed by his Majesty's Go vernment upon the subject, due notice should be given thereof. But he perfectly coincided with the Noble Earl that such proposition should be brought forward at a period sufficiently early in the Session to afford full time for discussion and consideration. The Earl of LAUDERDALE said, in the way of esplasation, that with respect to his notice, it would. in such a state of things, be a matter of considera tion with him whether or not he should bring his in tended motion forward. Some private or local Bills were brought up from the Commons by Sir M. I:01.1(Es, the Hon. Mr. CIiST, (ieneral TtnoßxloN, and other Members, and were read the first time.—Adjourned till to-morrow. Counsel were heard at the Bar.—Tbe Report was received, and the Bill ordured to be read .i.tbird time to-morrow. On the :Motion of Mr. SMYTH, a Return of the is:umber of lisioks prenmted to the University of Cambridge, under the Copy-right act, specifying in what manner the sante bad been disposed of, was ordered to be laid before the !louse. - The Cork Importation Rill, and the Four-wheeled Carriages Bill, went through Committees, the Reports of which were or dered to be received to-morrow. Mr. W. DOUGLAS preiented a Petition from the Tanner: of Dumfries against the Double Duties on Leather.—Ordered to lie on the table. ' 1101.75 E OF COMIONS. Mr. BLACKBURN presented a Petition from certain Ma nufacturers, residing at and near Manchester, praying to he heard by Counsel against the Bill for regulating the hours of la boor in manufactories.—Ordered to lie on the table. Sir J. 6 R 111 A M presented a Petition from Carlisle against the Labour Regulation BilL—Ordered to lie on the table. Sir W. LEMON presented a Petition from the Tanners and Carriers of against the Leather Tax.—Ordered to lie 0:1 the table. General ASCOYNF., in consequence of a conversation which he had with the Attorney-General, withdrew the notice he had given for a Motion to extend the provisions of a Bill of the 224 and 23d Charles 11. cap. 9, relating to coats of mat. Lord LASCELLES presented a Petition from Skipton, in Yorkshire, against the Cotton Factory Bill.—Ordered to lie on the table. Mx. DAVENPORT presented a Petition from the Inhabi tants of Macclesfield, against the Bill for Regulating the Wages of operative \Vitas/cm—Ordered to lie on the table. Mr. LITTLETON postponed, to that day fortnight, his Motion for revoking the existing Regulations afiecting the Wi dows of Military Officers. Mr. WALPOLE brought up the Report of the Committee on the Jury Courts of Sealant—Ordered to be printed. Leigh's Divorce 84,1 went through a Committee, in which LONDON. ALL MUST BE DRAWN NEXT THURSDAY.- Two Prizes of 00,000, 34 other Capitals of #;5,000, £l,OOO, 4-c. and above 1,300 Prize.) of £lOO, C5O, 4c. eic. FRIDAY, APRIL 3, 1818. THE FUNDS. PRICE or STOCKS Tills DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK : Bank Stock shut—Reduced shut—Cons. 80it Cons. for Ac. 80:1-4 per Cent. shut Navy Annuities 106a —Bank Long Antis. shut India Stock shut—lndia Bonds 9`2 93 pr. Exchequer Bills 17 22 pr. The Paris Papers of Tuesday arrived this morning. The Appeal of M. Scheffer against the judgment of condemnation passed upon him, for being the author of the work, entitled " The State of Liberty in France," has only brought down upon him an aggravation of punishment. The cause having been finally heard in the ('our Royale on Monday, the Court sentenced him to be imp, isoned for one year, to pay a fine of 5000 francs, to be placed under the surveillance of the Police for five years, and to fir.d swcurity for his good behaviour in the sum of '2OOO francs. The Chamber of Deputies was occupied the whole of Monday with a Project of Law relative to Perso nal Imprisonment, with respect to which many hu mane ameliorations of the law are proposed. The discussion. of the Budget was also to have been taken up on Monday, but was postponed till the following day. The following is the order in which the leading Members are inscribed to speak upon it—M. DE IA BOURDONNAYE against ; M. LAFITTE for the Budget; MM. LAISNE DE VILLEVEQ.F., and DE BOISCLAI REAUX against ; MM. MORISET, BoIN and NIAGUIER GRANDPRES, &c. for. ' An article in the Lausanne, and another in the Aran Gazette, mention, that the Grand Duke of Bader. had no sooner seen the project of law on the customs introduced into the French Chamber of Deputies, al lowing, in one of its provisions, the transit of mer chandize and colonial produce (passing up the Rhine ' from Holland to Switzei land) through the province of Alsace, than he abolished the transit duties, hither to levied on that part of this trade, which passed through his States. Had he waited a little longer, he would have seen that this article of the Minis terial Project was defeated in the Chamber, and that the French Legislature was either too wise or too generous to claim any portion of this commerce, or to enter into any competition with him for its •ad vantages. The argument, on which the minority of the Chamber supported the policy of the measure seemed to be unanswerable, and the fears of those who opposed it, on the grounds that it would open a door to fraud, and became injurious to the interests of the maritime ports, were shewn to be chimerical. One Member mentioned that, iu the course of a single year, there passed through the French Rhenish pro vinces 240,000 quintals of colonial produce, and that the customs levied in the same time amounted to 3,000,000 of francs. The Duke of RICHELIEU, in the same Sitting, proved that the Swiss, who derived their supply of colonial produce through Holland, by means of the navigation of the Rhine, would not go to Bourdeaux or Marseilles for it, although the route by Alsace was stopped against them ; but that the trade of the Dutch and Swiss merchants would merely pass from the left bank to the right bank of the Rhine, and enrich the subjects of Baden, instead of benefit ing those of France. French 5 per Cents. Monday, G 5 fr. 90 c. PRIVATE LETTERS. " PARIS, MARCH 30. " The communication of the settlement of the Al lied claims has not yet been made to the Chambers. The liquidation of those of Prussia is nut yet con cluded, and the Duke of Wellington leaves Paris be fore it can be brought to a conclusion. The discus sion on the Budget will commence on the lit of April. Every other kind of business is postponed. 'There is no hope that the Concordat can be discussed this Session." " BIKI MARCH 20. " After long discussions, it has at last been decided, that our bankers are not to supply the loan to Go vernment. It will be transacted in England, with the banking-house of Rothschild and Berandon, as was at first intended. The Ministry, say the friends of the Government, does not wish to draw money from the pockets of the subject, but to bring money from abroad into this country. It appears likewise, that our bankers had demanded a security of their debt from the States ; but this national representation exists in prospect, and nothing announces that a na tional representation will not so soon he organized. " It is believed that Prince Hardenberg will not return from the provinces of the Rhine, till after the Congress of Aix-la-Chapelle." In the House of Peers last night, the Earl of LAU DERDALE pressed Lord LIVERPOOL, by repeated en quiries to State, whether it is the intention of Go vernment to make any alteration in the circulating medium of the country, by the issue of Stock Deben tures, as has for some time been currently reported Lord LivearooL, however, evaded the question, on the ground that the time for explanation as to the financial measures of Government, is not yet arrived. The Prussian Loan, it appears, has at length been concluded with the House of ROTHSCHILD and Co. The Finance Minister of the King of PRUSSIA is arrived in this country for the purpose of making the final arrangements. The 5,000,0001. sterling are to be taken at three different prices, viz. 70, 724,-. and 75, and the payment is to be made by ten instalments. ' A Bayonne Banker has been in the French capital fur some time, endeavouring to negociate a loan, on account of FERDINAND VII. of 200 millions of francs, to meet the arrears and exigencies of the State. Though the above sum is the one mentioned, it was, however, understood, that a sm.lller amount would be ac cepted, if it could be obtained. Proposals on this sub ject had also been made to Messrs. Itoriv:citiLD, BA . RING and HOPE, but the Spanish KING's Agents had sotne reason to think that despotic Governments were not the best suited for this kind of negotiation. It is curious, when the FRENCH KING had to go from home to obtain his loan, that King FERDINAND should now make Paris the theatre of his money transactions. • Yesterday morning the Dukes of YORK and OLA RENCK, and . Mince of HEsse-Ifossucnc, visited her MAJEsTv, at the Queen's- Palace. The Duchess of CIA/KOESTER deed svith her MAJESTY yesterday. In the evening her MAJESTY had a select party. Yesterday the Earl of LIVERPOOL and Viscount' CASTLERE.tGII had audiences of the PRINCE REGENT at Carltoc-house. • The. Prince ofHEsse-HomzEno dined with the Earl of yesterday. Wednesday came on the election of a Verderer of the New Forest, on the vacancy occasioned by the death of the late flight Hon. G. lto3E—when HENAN" COMBE COMPTON, list'. of Manor house, near Ring.' wood, was declared duly elected. Some of the German Journals assert, that the French Minister of Police. M. DR CAZE, has contrived to purchase the manuscript from which the works that appeared in London, under the title of .Iforiu renu de St. Helene, were printed. The greatest astonishment was excited, it seems, on its being four.. to be in the hand. writing of a certain person, to whom Madame DE STA EL, whose amanuensis he was,' used to dictate : the corrections were in Maclaine DE STA EL'S own hand-writing. BONA PARTS, to whom the work is said to have been sent to St. Helena,. disowns it. Yesterday as Mr. JOTIN ScitLYErt, of Mile-end, was in the act of climbing over the paling to get into his garden, he happened to slip off, and falling on his head, dislocated his neck ; he was carried immediately to the London Hospital, where he expired. Yesterday morning an old man, carter to Mr. PA rosit, of Edmonton, crossing the road, going to work, was run down by a cars that happened to be pa-sing at the time, when one of the wheels went ever his head, and killed him on the spot. l' peal fi, hi FORGERY OF BANK Nores . Secre ts a It is impossible to contemplate the f to lei sej4 this crime, and the numerous victi ms to th e . ° i g . stele the 1 ontempu laws of society, occasioned by the c • bi e 11 l m i g ht hat ner in which our great circulating medium i s , making it factured by the Bank, without me ut most j eer - hops in the Metropolis the Ar t 4 '4' dress, an d lindignamtioe s n. tuns, S, that In so w i t h the c tendered in payment, are so numerou i ts . , d rind is almost impossible to carry on busin ee .1 .- ' e ve foun time since, Mt. Knott, a respectable -;":1 I his firm Blackfriars-road, wa s so much annoved*, .. '' o f the Ba tbrgeries, that he se& to the Bank to ere-:'''' soperinter would send an Inspector of Notes, to it i s i e ,: .47 But WI the forged from those that w ere genu i ne, as e r : ' l Di' could see any difference ;or at ;ray tee e. . , , 41 .::' . , • ss urance discovering the guilty titterers. -e .: t he In Mr. Knott having taken 1.0 less that 4". e fiq : () the pal i notesp in one day, the B an k con d escueiel • . `: ens is di with his request, and sent an Ins.pecter, ....!.:: s wi , e s she been y long n th. i o n witlhhi The person 0 bp sh etar o sn p inedn til w l th a hn f e n u m r o g ate ed d,eir , " , :t i e7i ..,. 4c: . :r; : ".. . lessieste a fit to I it jecreat iin questioned pa it from the hands of the B an k Inee ee . ...: ' that tc into his mouth, and swallowed it, lie c e i . tliisernin detained, and as the circumstance arse.... e ... of ten some bustle in the neighbourhood it o impra , wa s re ', till other tradesmen appeared, and :ecogueeil. 1 .: 13ank 1 i e as the same individual who had i mpost! erce. tkez 4 , to rem withArged Brink note:. This , Several of the fOrgery frauds being iced eel Fuolie I him by the parties who had suffered, he se e e esausand to be tried at Te tors t THF. KINGSTON Assl7rs, ueeeent Where, on the Ist instant, ..ro‘a Jaka rta • ekes cop pl.taj z i guilty to the charge of having uttered a Firee m i d the forged Bank Note, knowing it to be forgel ar.ci r e artery, entenced to transportation for fourteen ve.e 0 1 1797, II the same day, James. Richardson was coreur. oi r s having had fin get/ Bank Notes to th e extern o'iee e very in five pounds in his posse s sio n , k now i ng t h em v. it which i damage forged, and was sentenced to transportatiot for Er. "Flitch I teen years. to the I OI.D BAILEY SESSIONS. Public •' The following prisoners are to be tried at thee, But i sent Sessions for forging Bane of England .I . ei,t Directu fur uttering them, knowing them to hefored: to call 1 Swan Nelson, aged 19, on . four separate charge, cower' concerning forged One Pound Notes. DETECT George Downes, aged 18, on one charge for tle Beek same offence. hue b Richard Raiford, aged 26, for fbrging or utteq , :g islue, I a forged Note for Ten Pounds. the pe Thomas Smith, aged 20, and Jchit Roger!, agel:9, same c on, four charges respecting forged Ott Ponied Nem rence i Matthias Maker, on two charges for forged (su iohed • Pound Notes. . kadini Thomas Thomson, age.! 17, on charges nespeeee rents twenty One Pound Notes ; further With others whose names are not yet in the Cs. We leadar. sent L m I low long is the p u bli c to b e a b use d w i t h lees Arint w petition of a crime which the Bank Directors see Art bound. by every obli ga ti on o f J ust i ce an d M or i ce , left a to put an end to? —o r , if . i t b e i m p oss ibl e t o mere fend to the it entirely, to diminish the number by ins:ea:silt:lc of pri! difficulty ? Is it rot criminal to hold out tempta6se culati to the unprincipled to perpetrate a crime which ca bUdit.l thing can prevent but the fear of punishment? dually The Invention that was offered to the Bank hy/E Direr TILLOCII. in the year 1797, had precisely the. tee feel, of Testimony which alone can satisfy the 1 1 .1:: ~ acres to the value of any plan contemplated for that is... their tare purpose; dad perhaps there cannot be (.....1 tails upon record such an example of disintertee! .- niinc , rality and magnanimity as was exhibited by ...'.-:- • feel I cipal British Engravers in certifying. eaeh to er.• your self, that he could not make a copy .of Me TIL- LOCH ' S Specimen. When this fact is contraete with TI the conduct of the then Directors of the 8.r..k, it tills the mind of every cJiisiJerate pe:son wi± n , Corn small degree of surprise. The Directors ~,f :h.: ki.ok proc called in the First Engravers for the preiesc ci to th hearing their opinion on Mr. Tutocx's Art, and brie) nqn then to set their own opinion in opposition to i:' — i the They may be, and no doubt are, welt qualified to that direct the commercial concerns of that Great 'key; tutu but it will not be allowed by any that they are . ere It petent even to give an opinion on s uch a queeee. -4 eel 1 that which was discussed by Messrs. Ilse rite 1:.:• rico LER a LANDSEER, BIRNE, SLIARP, and Lowes, tee Pm of tl Bark, on the 4th of July, 1797, and with ‘‘:.• .'" bee priaicn Messrs. BARTOLOEZI, SMITH, HOWARI`, BA. and SIRE, HOLLOWAY, BLAKE, Peer, Bon, .v.. 1 '. . 7 ed 1 Engravers distingui s h e d i n th e i r varioas braee"-:; 11101 Cos concurred. rep Will it be said that the then En t ^,ravet - f , 7 ::4 to I Bank and some of his friend: were afr.U.l:2: ti: . tie adoption of Mr. Tteeoczt' s plan might ea:: , ' •'::m to the for lose his situation, and th a t i n c ons equeee s'n:e "i ti o oi those efforts were put in practice with wl.i. l a iege air( public bodies are sometimes charged? The idetap- of wl pears preposterous ; for the Bank could feel ra de..- ticulty in providing fo r any pe r son who n:ight lose evi his situation from no fa u lt of his own, but mere. , ). Ai the from a change of system in the business of the et' hank.--We may also add, for none can hen. i h se know the fact than the person who writes the presect article, that the idea of supplanting the 133-11 .0 at Engraver never entered the wind of Mr. Tit teen.— w lie merely wished to dispose of, to the B.lak, tie c; .. . COTTON MANUFACTURERS. Mr. WILLIAM SMITH presented a Petition from 400 persons engaged in Cotton-spinning, at Ashton under-Lyne; and another from Hyley-bridge, signed by 4,000 persons employed in Cotton manufacture, praying that the Bill before the House, for regulating the hours of labour in the several branches of the cotton manufacture, might be adopted. The Ilo nourable Member bore testimony to the temperate and respectful language of the Petitioners.—Those Peti tions were ordered to lie on the table. Mr. J. SMITH, in presenting a Petition to the same effect from the workmen employed in the Cutton Ma nufactory at New Lanark, in Scotland, took occasion to observe, that he had had an opportunity of seeing the individuals who signed this Petition at the manu factory where they worked, in the absence of their employer (Mr. Owen), and he could say, that he never met with a more moral, well conducted, or' cheerfully industrious set of people than they evi dently were. These Petitioners naturally deprecated the system which prevailed in other Manufactories, of employing people for fourteen or fifteen hours each day, with only an interval of forty minutes to take their meals. They stated that they themselves, under a more humane and benevolent system, worked only for ten hours and a half each day, and were allowed two hours for their meals ; adding, that they did more work within the time they were employed, than those who were compelled to work for two hours longer every day, because they proceeded in their work with more zeal and activity for the benefit of the employer, from whom they experienced such kindness. Having seen those Petitioners, he could declare that they were, without exception, the most respectable and intelli gent individuals he had ever observed in the same walk of life. The Petition was laid on the table. PARLIAMENTARY REFORM. Lord STANLEY presented several Petitions from Royston, praying fo: the establishment of Annual Parliaments and Universal Suffrage.—Ordered to lie on the Table ; as were 286 Petitions of the same na ture, presented from Bristol by Mr. PROTII EROE—The Hon. Member observed, that he had conversed with several of those Petitioners, upon the subject to which their Petitions referred; and although they had not been able to persuade him that he ought to adopt their opinions, he felt it due to their character to de clare, that they did not appear to be actuated by any improper design—but to act from a conviction that the establishment of Annual Parliaments and Uni versal Suffrage was the best mode of restoring and preserving the purity of that House. Mr. MELLISH presented a Petition from certain inhabitants of Pancras Palish in favour of the Pancras Poor Bill.—Ordered to lie on the table. Mr. Alderman WOOD gave notice of his intention to move, on Friday the 10th instant, for leave to bring in a Bill for the Improvement of the Fishery, the Trade and Commerce of the United Kingdum.—Adjourned. THE EVENING STAR,