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an Art , • all K . of 5 at lip of di et fn u I ai se • sc se of of tt tic th ftl th 07 Pp w tr Cu ct i bi fe • sr • i • 3 J .1 • • ..1 1 1 , 1 • r eerir (..,:::,;-. ~•.,,,...„ ?~^^' THE E MENG STA N _ - LONI FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1818. TUN 1 7 1.1ND54 PRICE OY STOCKS THIS DAT AT TWELVE O . CLDTIC: S per Cent. Reduced per Cent. Cons. shut Cons. foi AeCoUnt, 741 :lei Cent. 87ti 4 per Cent. 95196-5 per Cent. Navy shut Indii Bonds 78 81 pre....—Otunium 1 prem. Exchequer Bills 17 80 pre. .• • The reports on 'Change this. morning are very un'- favoitrable. It is said that the Bank have come to a r..ol r ntionto limit their discounts verycnnsiderstbly, ar;i that yesterday the Directors threw out an im mense number of B Bs belonging to Bankers and in dividuals of the first respectability. This unexpected dete !.ir,.ttion has caused great confusion in the monied market, as it is well known large sums have lately been advanced upon Stock for the s.:ke of keeping up the Funds. Money is now so scarce in' the City, that good Bills are difficult to be cashed at 5 per Cent. It is also said, that the Bank have sus. tended the printing of she Notes for 1819, having it in agitation to issue a new C'l Note of a different de scription from the old ones. The Paris Papers of Tuesday arrived this morn,- ins, but furnish us with nothing of any interest. The Moniteur contains two Official Ordinances, one ap pointing M. Roy to be Minister of Finance ; and another accepting of the resignation of Count COR VETTO, which is stated to have arisen from iil health, and noulinating him, in return for the important ser vices wl,ich he has rendered to the &ate in the ad ministration of the finances, and as a Mark of the Ktsitis satisfaction and particular esteem, Minister •of State and Member of the Privy Council. The 5 per Cents. opened on Monday at 68 fr. 75 c.—fell at one time :is low as 67 tz. 60 c. but ultimately ral lied and closed at 68 fr. 2U c. An Antwerp Journal contains the following article on the State of Trade in that and other toe/us of the Netherlands. It assumes, rather ignorantly, that the distress which they experience is occasioned by the exportation of Coin to the Baltic to Purchase Corn for exportation to England, which is said to return, u )t coin for h, but the produce of its manufactures.l— is as much as to say, that the Netherlanders are parting with their coin to purchase corn for England, purely to oblige us, and beggar them . selves ! Such seasoning needs no refutation. The scarcity of money in the Netherlands is a common evil, with which every State in Europe is at the we sent time more or less afilicted, and which has arisen obviously from the large financial operations which have necessarily attended the recent settling down of the nations into a state of peace: ANTWERP, DI EMBER I. " The fatal effects of the corn trade begin to be felt; money is scarce in &lithe commercial places in the Idagdoin, and the . little fen alaing is at an extravagantly high. rate. TO what shall we attnlate this scarcity of money, unless it be to the exporta tion of coin, for the corn trade with the taltic ? -h h true, that **COM imported does not remain In this cr , mtry, and that It is ebeset all exported !—But whithor is it exported? To England which pays for it In—the produce of its manufactures; and thus this unhappy trade has served at once to deprive the country of . Its coin, which is the soul of commerce, and to rain the oat!oniti • manufactures. " ft - is In vain to say that this trade formerly made the pros perity of Holland. This may be; but at that time the Dutch yr= the raetoes of all Europe; now it is the English. " With another system of Customs, the results of the corn trade would not have been so afßicting ; perhaps they might even have turned to the advantage of the kingdom ; bit with such a system of Customs as we Lave, it is, and always will be. destructive of our ormoneme and our manufacture,. • If we had the Transit, (we lay, if we bad the Transit, be cause we consider it as prohibited, the duties to which it is Mb jsct being equal to a prohibition) it is probable that this trade might have indemnified us for the loss of our manufactures; but at present, when our tnagazines . are leaded with goods, and wore arrive daily, without any hope of a market, it is ivident that trade must languish, and commercial transactions be greatly., limited by the want of ready money. What has resulted, what will result, from this state of things? Numbers of our merchants ruined by bankruptcies; our ntaou fsztories shut up, or languishing; our industry ruined; thou sands of workmen reduced to want, loudly demanding employ ment and food; and to - complete the evil, our monied men, whom the stagnation of our commerce does net escape, with dtaw their wv.alth from circulation !" Yesterday, about half-past one o'clock, the PRINCE REGENT left Carltou-house for Brighton. Yesterday TURNZRELLI, tse celebrated Sculptor, bad the honour of having his Bust of her Late MA JESTY inspected by the PRINCE REGENT, at Carlton At the Meeting of Common Council, yesterday, . Mr. FA VRLL moved a series of Resolutions, &which will be found in the•front of our Paper) on which a Petition was afterwards founded, praying Parliament to institute an enquiry into the proprietT of Revising the Penal Code of the country. The pacture which 'these Resolutions exhibit of the rapid increase of Crimes, both in number and malignity, during recent Tears, arising chiefly, as the Commoa Council justly • safer, from that Revolting severity and inequality in our Penal Laws, which makes a strict and uni- Pm execution of them utterly 'impracticable, is truly appalling. The Resolutions appear to us to be extremely well drawn up ; in their exposition of facts, clear and unanswerable—in, their language, feeling yet temperate—and we doubt not that they will have a great and leading effect on the nation at large. It is to be hoped that the Petition of the Common Council of London will be speedily fol lowed up by Petitions to the same effect from every other Corporate Body in the Kingdom. NAVAL INTELIJGENCE. ' • FALMOpiII, DECEMBER P. Wind variable.—Arrived the Prince Ernest packet, with a Mail from Lisbon, in nine days: and his Ma jelly's ship Lae, from a cruise. PLYMOUTH, DECEMBER 9. Wind E.--Sailed the Tartar, HUNTER, for New Orleans; and the Urania, HUTCHINSON, for St. Vin cent's.—The (a) Sven skiled yesterday morning for London, the wind being then S.W. POOLE, DECEMBER 10. The Perseverance, PURDALZ, from hence to Hali fax, was spoke the 4th ultimo, in 1at.46. SO. 10ng.40. had lost a man overboard—otherwise all well. PORTSMOUTH, DECEMBER 10. Wind N. E. blows fresh.—Arrived his Majesty's ships Sorer, LAPWING, and LEVEN, from the East ward; LINNET, from a eruize, having captured on the 9th instant, a smuggling boat, with 350 tubs on boards Also arrived the Mayflower, ELLIsON, from Dantzic ; Retrench, —, from the Downs ; Minerva, Wi LLTON, from Antwerp; William, RICE, from Sun derland, with loss of bowsprit; and some other ves sels from the Eastward. A number of outward bound vessels were passing down Channel this day. DEAL, DECEMBER 10. Wind N. E.—Arrived the John, JACKSON, from : Newcastle, and sailed for Jamaica. Came down from the River and sailed, the Probity, COOPER, for Lis bon ; Lord Cranstoun, for Jamaica ; Crisis, BitArrit- , WA ITE, for the West Indies; Tiger, PowELL, for Pal mouth, &c. Enterprize, BLAIN, for Jamaica; and Britannia, SHARP, for St. Rites. DOVER, DECEMBER 10. Sailed last night the Lord Duncan packet, for Os .end, with a Mail and l ass •ngers. Arrived last night the King George pucka:. Captain Ktiao, and Lady Castlereagh, Cap_ain AIAWLL, from Calais, with passengers; also the Lord Sidmouth, Captain PEAKE, from Ostend, with a Mail and passengers. Sailed this mot ning the Lc rd Duncan packet, Capt. HAMILTON*, and Lady Castiereagh, for Calais with passengers. Arrived this evening the Lady Jane' James, Capt. HAYWARD s iTOM CIIRIS, with. passengers. —Lord CASTLEREAGH iS expected LO arrive here in a day or two, from Calais. RAMSO.VrE, DECEMBER 10. Wind E.—Sailed the remainder of the trade bound Westward. HOLYHEAD, DECEMBER S. Wind W. by N. blowing hard.—About eighty sail of outward-bound and other vessels have arrived in the harbour, and remain wind-bound. CUSTO •',IIOUSF. LONDON,. DECEMBER 10. Suers meaty) Itswaane--The General Murray, Carrington, from Antwerp; Flora, Parry, from Hamburgh ; Mari, Webster, from Gijon Roberts. Pyle, fraln Petersburgh ; and Lord Li verpool, Ellis, from Rotterdam. Ourwaine—The John Dougan, Leggett, for Trleste • the Re becca, Rowe, for St. Thomas's; Preston, Hall, for Ges so.; and Emelie, Kerckhove, for Antwerp. atm= Ourwaans—The Prince Regent, Benson, for Lis bon ; Union, Thomas, for St. Mary's; Amelia, Coruflessin, fur liamburgh ; Diana, Jay, for !dogadore; Rosana, Snow, for Boston; Henry William, Worts, for Naples; Onyx, Walker, for Trinidad, &e. ; Alleluia, Lynn, for Bombay, dec.; the Xiric Louise, Picr.iot, for Rouen ; Enigheden, Madsen, for Elsinore ; and Flora, Wallis, for Griefswald. We are sorry to learn that Mr. Glantrs, of Ham- I mersosith, the active and worth; Magistrate, on being I called upon a few days since, in his official capacity, I to interfere in a case of assault, was himself attacked I by one of the parties, who was in a state of brutal intoxication, in the most outrageous manner, and is consequence of a fall which he received in the scufde, had two of .his left ribs broken, and was otherwise much bruised. The person guilty of this shameful outrage was taken into custody, and, afterwards, for want of bail, committed to prison to take his trial at the Quarter Sessions; but Mr. GIRDLER, with laudable humanity, on learning that he had a wife and six children, two of them twins, of which she hasl just been delivered; and, on the man's expressing great contrition for his conduct, has consented to his libera tion, and relinquished the prosecution. If the Prizes in the Lottery be to be paid in Bank Notes, Ulm sells them—if in Guineas or Sovereigns, his counter is sure to echo with the ring of them—if in Wine, hie merchant supplies it—and if in Houses, he throws open the doors to us—look at his list of Capitals, and this cannot be (Jellied. Is it any won der then that his Offices are just now besieged with suitors for the Four Stock Prizes of £30,000 in the present Lottery, Two of which may fall to one Ticket nn the First Day, the 15th instant ? The Public do Recoiled that HAZARD and Co. sold both the Thirty Thousands last Lottery ; it is proved by HAzsans' increase in their Sale, which is greater this Lottery than for many years past. NEXT Toss- DaLthe first-drawn Prize will be entitled to £30,000 Three per Cent. Consols, on which day Four Thou sand Tickets will be drawn.—HAZARD and Co.'s Offices, Royal Exchange Gate, 26, Cornhill, and 324, Oxford-street. Botaas--Chalkige from Turner to Martin.—'timer went to Burn's, in Windmill -street, on Wednesday, to challenge Martin, the conquetor of Strouins, for 100 guineas a side, providing Mar- tin would reduce himself to a conditirsigkt/ Burn replied, that It was time enough to deliver the challenge when the man would be fit to come to London and answer for himself; but it was ra ther quick upon him as yet.—Ths match, however, will qo doubt be made. _ Penzsriummes.—Yesterday a man, named James Acorn, Un. dertook for a wager to carry one hundred weight and a half one mile in fifteen minutes. The spot which was fined on was tits City Road, where numbers of persons assembled to witness the transaction. He completed his task within three quarters of a minute of the given time. SHrrurtzt.n CUM CArrga Sazw..-Early yesterday morning the Stewards of the Club began their arrangements of the Cattle in Mr. Sadler's Yard, and soon after nine o'clock the three Judges chosen for deciding the Premiums, entered the Yard ; their names arc :—Mr. John Banister, Butcher, of Windsor, Berke; Ms Daniel Larratt, Grazier, of Thurlby, Lincolnshire; and Mr. Francis Whitfield, of East Stour, Kent • they were employed until the afternoon in examining the A nimals, and 'then made their award of the Premiums, but too late for allow ing the Yard to be opened to visitors before dark. Earl Bridge. water, Sir William Curtis, and many others, had sent in stock since our last account, and the Spew, although not so filled witk Animals as on warns former occasions, Is considered to yield to no former ono in the many_exceliencics which it presents. CORN EXOftAtital, MARE-LANS, DEC. 1 h—Several vessels arrived this morniqg from the Sufolk and Norfolk coast, chiefly laden with Wheat and Batley; and a large quantity of each being left over from Monday, the supply far exceeded the demand: in consequence of which, our prices have declined 2s, per quarter from Monday's currency, and at that re duction a very small proportion of what appeared could be disposed of. Oats were dull sale, and Is. per quarter cheaper. In Peas and Beaus there is no. iateration. • , cammoN coUNGIL. Yesterday a Court of Common Council was held at the Council Chamber, Guildhall, for the purpose, amongst other things, of "considering the propriety of petitioning Parliament to revise the criminal ctide, in which numerous petty offences are visited with the same punishment as the most atrocious murders ; and as minor offenders are seldom executed accord ing to law, crimes have been thereby increased rather than diminished; and praying that a more rigorous system of poison discipline may be adopted, whereby capital punishment may be mitigated and criminals reformed." The knowledge that the above subject was to be brought forward occasioned, a considerable influx of strangers, and immediately after the Chair was taken by the LORD MAYOR, the Court was crowded below the Bar. After the minutes of the last Court had been read, and some matters of minor importance had been disposed of, Mr. FAA'ELL rose to introduce the motion of which he had given notice. He began by expres..ing a hope that he should be ahle to adduce sufficient reasons for the motion which he intended to submit to the Court, and for the petition founded upon it, which Was to be presented to the Honourable the House of Commons. The question was one of considerable, indeed of paramount importance, as every question, must be which had for its object a material change in the laws of a country. He would freely admit ',that no nation ought to consent to a change of es-: tablished laws without the most - mature considera-: don. That he had not run hastily upon the present. measure would be obvious to all who recollected that some moths had elapsed since it was first brought before the notice of the Court. There could not be any charge of premature action against him. It was, however, fortunate that this delay had taken place, for within the last few months, nay he might add, within the last few days, the opiition of the public seemed to have turned in support of his object. The publi: mind was now perhaps in some degree, from the influence of recent circumstances, particu larly turned towards the criminal code; and from the concurrence of that general feeling with his own, he anticipated the most complete slums. He would admit, that it required some clear proof, to induce any public body to depart from long established laws and customs ; but he trusted he should be able to adduce those proofs before he sat down. If in performing this task he had to apologize for his own insufficiency, not being a graduate of any of the Inns of Court, yet at least he needed no apology for the cause he advocated. The revisal of our criminal code was a circumstance long looked for; the want of it was long felt and acknowledged by the highest authorities in the country. Its waiJ was felt in Par liament—it was admitted in Courtsof Justice—it was proved by the decisions of Juries, and even by the charges of Judges.' In fact, in every circle the evils arising from the want of the revision, were admitted, though it still happened that that revision was not yet accomplished. In the task'svbkh h g bad under• . . taken he found that his laboters were very much lightened by the exertions - of Akofe.whcetad graie before him inthe pursuit of the.samesakiject, Resides' the laudable exertions of seiietirtirttnent men, -be had to acknowledge the povirerfut aid sif the public press, from which this important cause had derived much able support. The time seemed now w . be arrived when something was. require'd tube done; for when the authority of the Judgec,. armed with the full powers of the laws, were insufficient th - tatisi their due execution, then he conceived it was high time that they should be revised. It was, he consi dered, a fortunate circumstance that the niattersvas brought both) e the present Court—by no authority could the matter in Its present stage be more coqi petently judged; for if the Parliament had - to try an 'issue upon one or all of those criminal laws, they could not get a better Jury to decide, than that body whom he had the honour of addressing. They were all men of age sufficient to form a judgment. They 'were men interested in the protection of their fellow citizens from every species of public or private vio lence—and that they were men of experience might be deduced from the circumstance, that eight times in every year the King issued his commission to the ,Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Recorder, for the trial of such offences as should be committed within the City and County; for though there were some of the Judges of the land directed to assist, yet they were only to be considered as assistants or assessors.— From the acquaintance then of the citizens with the laws in this manner, it could not be denied that they were men who had some considerable experience in them; yet, with all this, he was most willing to ad mit, that the subject was one of great difficulty ; and it occurred to him, that on no former occasion did the Court require to repeat that motto which be had seen, Domine dirige nos: (the motto of the City Arms.) He would freely admit, that at the termination of the war, there was in general a large harvest of clime— caused perhaps by the sudden change from prospe rous circumstances to those of adversity, which that event was, calculated to produce. Many men on such occasions became distressed who were before in dependent, and would have continued honest ; but it too often happened, that poverty made the worst of these rogues ; and hence it might be said, that war and poverty were two gr eat sources of crime. There were certain species of-crime from which the feeling mind turned on all occasions, and to which the ap -Iplication of the highest 'punishments of our laws were not tco severe: these were murder, aggravated midnight robberies, and others of that nature, which went to destroy the very existence of society. These were, as they ought to be, punishable with the ut most penalty ; but there were others which, though highly reprehensible, and to which every effectual check should be put, which he conceived did not call for so severe a measure of punishment. When the public authorities, acting for the whole community,l deprived a fellow creature of life for one of these of fences, it should be considered that they, and not only they, but the whole of those who had delegated their united power to them, were answerable for- their con 14uct before that DiviNk BEING, who would require Irons their hands a strict account of that blood which was shed without absolute necessity In saying thus much upon the subject, he was aware that he had to follow in the path of men who were infinitely supe rior to him in the meantof effecting the same object. II: stood over the ashes of the dead, and he as a., con tented the Come would .L^ as inclined as he w drop si tear to the memory of departew G ar. 34 d he' they recollected the vast exertions of that great good mad—he need hardly mention the name et inille--(cries (if hear Marl—whose coietata seemed to have been to contribute in eve ; y the comfort and happiness of his fellow n en - , Companyhad fi in ns talk ed . w ti' upon hia di aSir present Killia n subj ect , j°a"6:t ever found in him (Sir Samuel Romilly) th e tree dent seal fat the promotion of an oLject which seemed to think so much required. in our laws. 7 loss of that excellent man; he had no doubt, u•a s , plored by the Common Council as emu • c, as b y country. they would, he felt satisfied, be . to pay every tribute of respect to his tresnose; as he conceived, they cotdd not better do so tls s emulating his humane example—by carryi ng e e fect, as far as in them lay, that wish white' ere dear to his heart—(Hear, hear.)—By rescuing from undeserved punishment, be rescuing e s from vice, objects which wee foremost in v: they would be erecting to his memory rnserate Issiwe durable than billets of brass-01ra:- . n for this digression from the pare set but it was impossible to consider it with associating the mite of that great man, who wet iegir h dliti by ng i: i h human e attention shed nma . by his hi o gh n to cll eve r y aract thing era wb and statir than could tenchto alleviate the sufferings end Fear the happiness of his fellow men (Hear, hear.)--t r tering then upon the proof that the laws of e I country Were more severe and less discriminae 4g `apportioning the punishment to the crime tha n i. , other civilized nation, he should have occasice 'give to the Court the names of many of the ant ties from which he drew his arguments. Wien. mentioned this great severity and inequality of English law, he did not wish to be understood meaning to contend, that there were not other e tries where the severity and inequality of the law carried-to greater excess, but that there wes noLe, try, possessing the same intelligence and civi:izatia which carried these principles so far. •No dezet, ns instances of unjust severity co':ld be iuldec -Among the Hindoos, he had read that the crime disturbing a Brahmin at a game of chess was r nished with death, and that the same fate awer him who gathered a particular spice before be tribute! but he knew of no criminal laws in among civilized.nations that were to severe as of Eirgland. He supported his areument by r ring to the authotities of Sir Thomas Moore, th ron Montesquieu, Dr. Johnson, Mr. Justice stone, Mr. Fox, Mr. Pitt, Dr. Pair, teed Gre. Earl Grey, Lord Holland, Marquis of Lens/pyre, Ponsonby. Mr. Wilberforce, and many others. The Master of the Rolls, Sir William Grant, he named the first witness he would call. On his authority. sliewed that the harshness of the punishment away operated to prevent proseciiime and to indnceJ to let the accused escape with impunity, by upon themselves to exercise a discretion never in them. He had given it as his opinion, that in tidy aimed 'tete of civilization which this country, attained, -the-penishment of death was too severe be. iedided. for many of those offences for which :141.4t0w -awarded. - The Emperor Alexander ,hitmeztvviteess. He had abolished the punisle of death in his dominions ; excepting in cases of son and murder. He would nest call the ttorpev-General. lie .was disposed to new Gristinallessae in_ anienstance. It, seemed curie that in the case of the foulest murder that had beewconansittedu-of,Strurder axed rape—the acs should e be z istiffered .to . escape through the of Wager of Bated!—The Attorney-General given notice, that. he meant to move for leave bring in a bill to alter this law. There he mi, mean to stop ; but he (Mr.. Favell) should pahaes able, by 'and bye, to sheer that there were a few e laws which wanted revising as well as that. Sir ' Blackstone and-Mr. Fox had beep favourable to a revision ; and. Mr. Wilberforce had stated it to I been the wish e( e )lr, rat to subnie the whole Pe Code tc the revision of some able lawyer. To di the increase of crime, he then read from the C. 7 Returns the lists.of convictions, committals, and cutions, -within the last six years, for London -Middlesex. Froth these Returns, it would be see.s. there had been a great increase of crime, and e: daily of juvenile delinquency. The committals, would be seen, exceeded in the last year kose 1805 in more than the ratio of three to one. Besi. these ' he added, there was to be observed the w derful increase in the crime of forgery, which and was, in fact, spreading, as it were, in proport to the severity with which it was visited. Theme bet of forged. Ll Bank-notes.discovered by the - Bank, of England, between January 1, 1814, and April 1% 11$18, were as follow : Years. Amount. Years. Annan. 1814 1815 • 14,085 t 1817 • 18,451 And from January 1, to April 10, From the mhte increaseis this, he conceived, of capital nceive p it fair l ymuingishhtmbeentswas non denducede.e, that hest, nor et-all a good mode, of suppressing crime. The Noble Secreteij of State had said the ebjectice to the severity of the laws were answered by Elf; cir cumstance of its being competent for the prcseceter to reduce the value of the property stolen, and dee punish_ an offender for the smaller offence. however, he objected to. If he were robbed of petty to the amount cif £5, and prosecntesl the die: for stealing to the amount .of thirty-nine shilliree, he was guilty of 'something very Eke perjury. Tie came before the Coart with a lie in his mouth, at xc was sworn to " tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing hut the truth." Some of the existing lees were so little suited to the times, that they we:e solutcly ridiculous. There was one, for instant, Iwhich precluded the Lord Mayor of London Eyes having more than two courses at his table; and the was another for the encouragement of Our woes manufactories, by ivhich coats were forbidden to made too scanty! He thought ou eels Statute should prosecute the Gentlemen Dandies for ee wearing coats .provided with the legal broad cont, .totismal flaps. There were also laws forbiddietel old discharged soldier to ask alms in his red cr.; and for granting bene fi t of clergy in certain we; in which, according to these, a man, if able to eel his name, though convicte d of a capital °Tree ought not to be hanged. The severity of tier l e: had long Leto a nzettcr of complaint. • OIL • Rant tioit • 111 1 tot 1 7 the P' t 44 . ' le L p ools sr best 4 isbnv 1 - • yariet !as(' • to oftthe u e dit • : • e, ller • .er, CTI,.. is /cm e yr V.e.l. or al inlet; fJu cri puoi • , J. rai n Ably states. men e mar,• uc s dt EX . at e tr an s, i alipi sien beved isnhe• j 1 fia Jul of O f chi t°°2 bills ccll t he s: gar ao cc. what the .•1 t hat c ot 1 .rirte spin 111 S r . goo 4 await then be 1)..t; Lig s • num • p u n rise coo , the E. cou e Mac rea ireav --c wue, li of 1 Ile w 2, tamed ed, ority.. kip avvird NI .ceJ•.:r:t v takil cal er wl tat in 1.. 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