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. .. , , "r l ”r " ' nurimumuFirriPlr•!-: -- Rl7-I , r-714 - .` 0 • ilt73` ~~ w, 7•P4M II O7TWrIr - J 4 -.-- A&,4„,...• , 4i. ~....,...,,,..,t ~ ~.. • ;•-. ,-: „)g a. • ~. , 4 • ii lt ,*, ARMY CONTRACTS. Consumerist Depertswat, Troantry Cistesbers, let February, 1831. NOTICE IS GIHEREBVEN to all Persona desi rous of contracting to supply BEEF and MUTTON, _ _ ! • :t " 117110' t , •.` ' . i satICAZZ 1788. - - nul) au" To his Majesty's Land Forces in racks, in the undermentit Bedford, Perks, (including the Town of Hungerford,) Bucks, Cambridge, (including the Town of Newmarket,) Chester, Cornwall, (including Scilly.) Cumberland, Rutland, Derby, Devon, Salop, Dorset, Somerset, Durham, (including Holy Island,) Stafford, Essex, (exclusive of Tilbury Fort) Su ff olk, Gloster, (including the City of Surrey, Bristol,) Sussex, 113nts Warwick, Hereeord, Westmoreland, Hertford, Wilts, Hunts, Worcester, Isle of Man, York, Isle of Wight, North and South Wales. rent, (including Tilbury Fort, in In the several Counties in North the County of Essex,) Britain, Lancaster, I And in the Islands of Alderney, Leicester, Guernsey, and Jersey. That the Deliveries are to commence oe and for the First Day of April next ; that Proposals in Writing, sealed up and marked " Tender for Army Supplies," will be received at this Mice on or before Wednesday, the Second day of March ; bat none will be received after Eleven o'Clock on that Day. Proposals must be made separately for each County and Island, except for the Counties comprising North and South Wales, all of' ' which must be included in one Tender; likewise the islands of Alder ney, Guernsey, and Jersey, as also the several counties in North Bri tain ; and each Proposal must have the Letter which is annexed to the Tender properly filled up, by Two Persons of known Property en gaging to become bound with the Party tendering in the Amount stated in the printed Particulars, for the due performance of the Con tract; and no Proposal will be noticed unless made on a printed Ten der, and the Prices expressed in words at length; and should it so happen, that during the continuance of the Contract no Troops should be supplied by virtue of the same, the Amount of the Stamps on the Contract and Bond, paid In the first instance by the Contractor, will be refunded to him. :antonments, Quarters, and Bor. ed Counties and Islands : Uncoin, Middlesex, Monmouth, Norfolk, Northampton, Northumberland (including Ber wick on Tweed,) Nottingham, Orford, N.B. Printed Forms of Tender may be bad at this Mice, between die Hours of Ten sad Four ; and of the Barrack Masters is the bland. of Guernsey, Jersey, and Man ; and Persons making offers are particularly requested to observe, that the Supplies and Accounts are in future to be made according to the Calendar Months. EAST INDIA HOUSE, 11 1 / 1 February, 1831. THE COURT of 0111E1: MRS of the UNITED 1 COMPANY of MERCHANTS t f ENGLAND, eroding to the E IST INDIES, do hereby give Notice, That a GENERAL COURT of the said Company will be held at their Moan, In Leadenball-street. on WEDNESDAY, the 23d Instant, from Nine &Clock in the Morning until Sits in the Evening, for the ELECTION of a DIRECTOR of the said Company, in the room of SWENY TOONE, Ea+ who bath disqualified. PETER A OBER, Secretary. PORT OF FALMOUTH. By Order of t►e Hos. Commissioners of His Majesty's Customs, Oa Tenney, 22d February, ICH, at Ten o'Clect in the Foreuoon, will be exposed to PUBLIC SALE. At the CUSTOM-HOUSE, in this Port, THE FOLLOWING GOODS, Viz.- 160 04013. BRANDY, 902 ..-- RUM, 27 -- GENEVA, 4 •—••••••-- WINE, 85 Pounds Cigars 5$ Pounds Coffee and Chocolate 181 Tobacco 50 ---- Figs 2 9'2 .. .• Pepper 55 Bottles Cologne Water And some other Articles. Besides, some CONDEMNED BOATS and STORES, viz. a Si ling Boat, a four-oared Galley, two Cutters Mainmasts, and an Oak Fish; a Cutter's Main-boom, and a variety of other condemned The Goods may be viewed the day preceding the Sale. Custom House, Falmouth, Sib February, 11131. SECOND EDITION. APLAN OF PARLIAMENTARY REFORM, By J. T. BARBER BEAUMONT, Esq. F.A.S. One of his Majesty's Jtutices of the Peace for Middlesex and Westminster. l'ublAed by Ridgway, 169, Piccadilly. Price 21. 61. O RANGE and LEMON TREES, Bs. to 18s. each.— %./ Italian Tubeross Roots, O. 6d. per dosen ; Dutch Hyacinths, Nacix , w4Tulips, Iris, du. from Sa. to Bs. pm dozen ; White and Omen 1 t.rkey Cucumber and Spiral Cypress Seed. Is. per packet ; early and !ate Malta Cauliflower; Roman Brocoli,aad Italian Endive Seed,ls. 6d. acket ; New Ballad Oil, Italian Blaccaroni, Anchovies, West -1.!.,111 Hams, and Jessamine Plants, at C. BARROWS, 18 and 19, Pa11a...11. a...11. List*, with prices, may be had per post. X. s. d. 1 01:i 4 9/.1 -ss IiXTHAtiRDINARY BAROAINS IN TABLE CUTLERY AND SILVEit-HANDLED KNIVES A Larg,e Quantity must (under peculiar circumstances) he K converted into cash during the present and early part of the en suing month, at a loss of 40 per cent, upon the manufacturer's net price. Such an opportunity may not occur again for many years. nil are warranted of the first make and quality. Four-inch ivory octagon-bandied table knives and forks, per dozen, of 24 pieces Dessert knives anti forks to match . . . Carving knife and fork to match . . • . Knives without forks, two-thirds of the above price Silver-handled King's pattern table knives, the bandies warranted to weigh 15 dwts• per dozen of knives only 5 8 0 Dessert, solid silver, per pair • • • • . I 0 0 Carving knives and forks, per pair . . . . 1 2 0 Also a few lots of common hone-handled knives, SO ps. 0 12 0 An immense and extensive assortment of Weld's celebrated pe culiar steel cutlery, both large and small ; also the greatest va riety of writing desks, dressing cases, work boxes, Russia leather writing cases, pocket hooks, card cases, jewel and card boxes, bintelle, backgammon men, draft and chess boards, and chess n•eti, the hest steel pens in England, the rhadiographic pens, the celebrated razors, strops, and paste ; all kinds of combs, brushes, soap dishes, and other useful articles of outfit ; steel watch chains, guards, purses, key rings, purse slides, he. about thirty per cent. under the prices usually charged.—Observe ECHI, No. 4, Lead. •nhall.street, the fourth house from Cornbill (removed from opposite tile East India House), where a printed list of prices may be ob tained gratis. COCKLE' ANTIBILIOUS PILLS, for Bilious,. Liver, and Stomach Complaints, indigestion, Sick Head.sche, Ac.— Pat lonised by the following noble and distinguished personages: Grac.• the Duke of Grafton, his Grace the Doke of Manchester, :lieu lion. the Earl of Guilford. Right Hon. Earl of Athlone, Right 11 01.. Log of Roscrimmon, Right lion. Lord Hemlock, Right Hon. L,d Fitzroy. Lord Hartland, Right Rev. Lord Bishop of Durham, Right hr r. Lord Biabopof St. Akaph, Sir Henry Smyth; Bart. James 11 . Wildm a n Eqq. M.P. Matthew Wood, Esq. Ald. M.P. Rev. Dr. Rev. J. F. Grant, Rev. Thomas Scott, Rev. Henry Hutton, JUnil Edgar Rev. William 3larsh, Rev. John Carr,. Rev. J. Iturdell, R e y. J. Edgar, Rev. J. H. Mallory, Rev. John Wilson, Ittl. Rowland Hill, Moja General 'Bentinck,: Colonel Gomer, Colonel Major Bridge, Major Frankland. and Major Lynch. Prepared only by James Cockle, Apothecary, No. 111, New Ormond.' Queen.eousre, London, and sold in boxes at 130, fid, ". I Is, and ;by Barclay and Sons, No. 96, Farriegdan. ; and all respectable Venders throughout England and Wales, ""lard. Ireland, the East and Arest Indies, and the Continents of '"t^Pv and America. Observe, the Stamp on each Box is signed by ya Proprietor. - N°. 13,709. TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 15, 1831. LITERATURE. History of the Bank of •England ; with as Examination of the Question as to the Prolongation of the Exclusive Privi'eges of that Establishment. The very useful object of this tract is, to lay before its readers a brief view of the history and transactions of the Bank of England, in so far as they are of a public character, and to inquire into the expediency of prolonging the Bank's exclusive privileges for an additional term of years. It is not official, but it may be regarded as proceeding from the connections of the Bank, and as a vindication of that estab lishment. Some passages will illustrate the reasonings of these parties. " The iaaners of paper may, by over-issuing, depress the value of the whole currency, gold as well as paper, in the wintry in which the over-issue is made ; but the moment that they do this, gold begins to be sent abroad; and pipe; being returned upon the issuers for payment, they are, in order to prevent the exhaustion of their cof fers, compelled to lessen their issues ; and thus, by raising the value of the currency stop-the drain for bullion. " It Is absolutely imperative upon Government to interfere, to pro tect the interests of those who cannot protect themselves, either by com pelling all individuals applying for stamps for rotes, to give security for their payment, or, by making sure, in some other way, that they have the means of relying them, and that the circulation of the notes will be a benefit, and not an Injury to the public. " A security of this sort has been exacted in the case of the Bank of England ; and the whole 14,688,0001. lent by the Bank to Govern ment, must be sacrificed before the holders of her notes can sustain the smallest loss. The system of taking securities having been found to answer so well in the case of the Bans of England, is a powerful argu ment in favour of its extension. Were securities taken from the coun. try banks, their ultimate failure, in the capacity of banks of issue, would be rendered impossible; and a degree of solidity would be given to our money system, which it is idle to expect it can ever attain, so long as it continues on its present footing. " The unjust liabilities imposed upon the Bank of England by the existing system, place her in a situation of great difficulty and hazard. They oblige her to provide a supply of coin and bullion, not for her own exigencies only, but for those of all the country banks; and what is harder still, they expose her, to be deeply injured by any misconduct on the part of the latter, as well as by the distress in which they may be accidentally involved. In consequence, her free action is at all times in some degree impeded ; and her power to render assist. area to the banking and mercantile interests in periods of dis credit, is materially diminished. The country banks keep but a small supply of coin in their coffers. They are all, how ever, holders to a greater or less extent, of government securities; and whenever any circumstance occurs, to occasion a demand upon them far coin, they immediately sell or pledge the whole or a portion of their stock, wry the notes to the Bane to be exchanged, and then any the specie to the country. Hence when any suspicions are entertained of the credit of the country banks:, or when a panic originates amongst the holders of their notes, as was the case in 1793 and 1825, the whole of them retreat upon the Bank of England, and 700 ter 800 conduits are opened, to draw off the specie of that establishment, which +nay thus, it is evident, incur the risk of stoppage without having done any thing wrong. It was not the drain for gold front abroad, but the drain for gold from the country, that nearly exhausted the Bank's coffers in 1825, and forced her to issue about a million of one and two pound notes. The currency cannot possibly be in a sound healthy state, while the Bank of England, and, throu,th her, public credit, are placed in so perilous a situation. And as nothing whatever is gained by the present system, as it is productive of great insecurity ard expense to all parties, without having a single countervailing sdvar tage to recommend it, it should certainly be put an end to, by making Bank of England paper legal tender for the paper of the country banks." " This great establishment, which has long been the pri cipal bank of deposit and circulation, not in this country only, but in Europe, was founded in 1694. Its principal projector was Mr. William Paterson, an enterprising and intelligent Scotch gentleman, who was afterwards engaged in the ill-fated colony at Darien. - Government being at the time much distressed foe want of money, partly froi.: the defects and abuses in the system of taxation, and partly from the difficulty of bor rowing, because of the supposed instability of the revolutionary esm blishment, the Bank grew out of a loan of 1,900,0001. for the public service. The subscribers, besides receiving eight per cent. on the sum advanced as interest, and 48001. a year as the expense of management, in all 100,0001. a year, were incorporated into a Society denominated the Governor and Contpany of fix Bank of England. The thane' is dated the 27th of July, 1894." " The Corporation is prohibited from engaging in any sort of commercial undertaking, other than dealing in bills of exchange, and in gold and sliver. It is authorized to advance money upon the security of goods or merchandise pledged to it ; and to sell, by public auction, such goods as are not redeemed within a specified time. " The Charter of the Bank of England. when first granted, was to continue for eleven years certain, or till a year's notice after the Ist of August, 1706, The Charter was further prolonged in 1897. In 1708, the Bank having advanced 400,0001. for the public service, without interest, the exclusive privileges of the were prolonged till 1733. And In consequence of various C° 37: si n t e i t a :made at different times, the exclusive privileges of the Bank have been continued by suc cessive renewals, to a year's notice, after the Ist of August, 1833. The lost renewal was made in 1800, by the act 40th Geo. 111. cap. 28, in masideranoa of an advance by the Bank to the public of three millions fir six years without interest." " The Bank of England has been frequently affected by panics amongst the holders of is notes. In 1745 the alarm occasioned by the advance of the Highlanders under the Pretender as far as Derby, led to a run upon the Bank • and in order to gain time to concert measures for averting the run, the Directors adopted the device of paying in shil lings and sixpences. " During the tremendous riots In June, 1780, the Bank incurred con siderable danger. Had the mob attacked the establishment at the com mencement of the riots, the consequences might have proved fatal.— Luckily, however, they delayed their attack till time had been afforded for providing a force sufficient to ensure its safety. Since that period a considerable military force is nightly placed in the interior of the Bank, as a protection In any emergency that may occur. " The ear 1797 is, however, the most important epoch in the recent history of f the Bank. Owing partly to events connected with the war in which we were thenongaged—to loans to the Emperor of Germany— to bills drawn on the Treasury at home by the British agents abroad— and partly, and chiefly, perhaps, to the advances most unwillingly made by the Bank to Government, which prevented the Directors from hay. ing a sufficient controul over their issues, the exchanges became unfa vourable in 1795, and in that and the following year large sums in species were drawn front the Bank. In the latter end of 1796 and the beginning of 1797, considerable apprehensions were entertained of ht. vasion, and rumours were propagated of descents having been actually made on the coast. In consequence of the fears that were thus excited, runs were made on the ptovineial hanks in different parts of the coma. try ; and some of them having failed, the panic became general, sew extended itself to London. Demands for cash poured in upon the Bank front all quarters ; and on Saturday, the 25th of February, 1797, she had only 1,272,0001 of cash and bullion in her coffers, with every prospect of a violent run taking place on the following Monday. In this emergency an order in council was issued on Sunday, the 24th, pro hibiting the Directors from paying their notes in cash until the sense of Parliament had been taken on the subject. And after Parliament met, and the measure had been much discussed, it was agreed to continue the restriction till six months after the signature of a definitive treaty of peace. •` Parliament being sitting at the time, a Coalmines was immediately appointed to examine the affairs of the Batik ; and their report put to rest whatever doubts might have been entertained with respect to the solvency of the esublishment, by shewing that at the moment whets the order in council appeared, the Bank was possessed of property, includ ing the debts from Government, to the amount of 15,613,6901. after all claims upon it had been deducted. " A great diversity of opinion has been entertained with respect to the policy of the return to the old standard, in 1819. By one party it has been represented as a wise and politic measure, they contend that Mr. Peel's Act not only put an end to those fluctuations in the value of money, which bad previously been productive OP great mischief, and gave effect to the solemn engagements into which the pablie had entered with the national creditor, but that it did this without riding anything material to the national burdens. But another, end perhaps.. more numerous party, take a totally different view of this measure; they contend that the public was not really bOund to return io cash payments at the old standard at the termination of the wart tint the return has very greatly enhanced the value of the currency; and that this enhancement, by adding proportionally to the fixed burdens laid on the industrious classes, has indeed been most injurious to their in terests." PRICE 7n. The extent and diversity of the mischiefs can neither be enumerated nor described--and will only he duly esti mated when us an effect, the commerce of the country has departed to America, France, &c. In truth, as to any British interest, it has already departed : for though cirried on, it is without profit to merchants and manufacturers, and does not afford subsistence to the operatives. Will nothing short of utter and universal stagnation satisfy those who live and fatten on annuities, sinecures, pensions, die ? 6` In order to guard against a recurrence of the wide-spread mischief and ruin, produced by this and the previous bankruptcies of the coon. . tcesartnere try banks, it was resolved, in 1828, with consent of the Bank of England, to make a change in the law of 1706, Braking the nurnbet of is banki establishments to six only. And it waste icily enacted, tisatheaosferth any number of partners mlOt form einsdres into meociations, to carry on the business of Issnkftig, any wbcre not within 66 miles of London. Ihe Directors of the Bank of England came, at the same time, to the resolution of establishing trees in some of thorneipal WWII': and, at this moment, branch. are established in louorster, Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds Liverpool, Bristol, Exeter, Newcastle-ots-'fyne, Bull, Norwich, &c.'. This apologist of the Bank and the Peal System, then ban the hardihood to assert, that these branches have been useful. We should be glad to know to whom, for they are merely the laughing stock of the country. " The greater part of the paper of the Bank has generally, indeed, been issued in the way of advances et hems to Government, upon me curity of certain branches of the renew, and la the purchase of Ex chequer bills and bullion ; but bee inns damask the medium of dis counts to individuals have, notwitheionibobsen tioneldemble. Amens the papers laid by the Bank beim IPmellammt in 1797, was a souls of the cast and bullion in her cones during every quarter of a year, for several years previous to the restriction. Cash and Bullion in the Bank, Bills Discounted, and Advances to Government. Cash and Bal. Bills Aver. Advance Dates. Hon in hand. discounted. to Government. 1793 September £8,836,000 £2,065,000 49,4116,780 1794 September 1795 September 5,792,000 1,887,000 10,197,4100 17106 September " Subsequently to 1797, the advances to Government were still larger. They were, during the five years ending with 1818, as follows 1814 ... A 30,149,000 11817 .. ..C27,347,000 1915 26,494,000 1818 ... 28,061,000 1816 ... M,541,000 " In 1819. provision was made for reducing the amount of these ad vances ; and they are not at present, excluding the advance on account of the dead weight, much above a third of their amount in 18I& It should also be observed, that during the greater part of the war the ad vances were not nearly so great, and did not, indeed, reach eighties millions until the latter part of 1811; " In point of fact, however, a very large part of these advances has been nominal only, or, which the same thing, has been virtually can celled by the balances of public money in the hands of the Bank. Thus, from 1806 to 1810, both inclusive, the average advances to Government amounted to 14,492,0701. But t he average balance of public money in the possession of the Bank, during the same peeks', amounted to about 11,000,0001. so that the real advance was equal only to the difference betwe en these two sums, or to about 3,500,0001. " It was agreed in 1807, that the Bank should,' in consi deration of the advantages derived from the public balances, continue the loan of three millions' made to government in 1800 for six years, without interest, on the same terms, till six months after the signature of a definitive treaty of peace. In 1816 this sum was finally inanporated with the debt due by government to the Bank. at an interest of dam pa cent. Tn 1818 the public balances bad fallen to arm mildew; and they have been still further reduced, in consequence of memo= that were then adopted. In 1825 they amounted at an avenge as 5,247,3141. and in 1829, m 3,882,6521. " Previously to 1786, the Bank received an allowance on account of the management of the public debt, that is, for trouble in paying the dividends, superintending the transfer of stock, &c. of 5621. 10s. a mil lion. In 1786, thb allowance was reduced to 4501. a tnillion, the Bank being, at the same time, entitled to a considerable allowance for her trouble in receiving contributions on loans, lotteries, &c. This, how ever, had been long regarded as a very improvident arrangement on the part of the public ; but it was acquiesced in till 1808, when the allow ance on account of management was reduced to 3401. a million on 600 millions of the public debt; and to 3001. a million on all that it ex ceed that sum, exclusive of some separate allowances for annuities, &c." "In 1803 the Bank lost, through a fraud committed by one of her principal cashiers, Mr. Astlett, no less than 300,0001. And our readers are all aware of the large sums she recently lost by the forgeries of Fauntleroy the banker. " Besides the transactions already alluded to, the Bank entered, ea the 20th March, 1823, into an eagsgement with goventment with respect to the public pensions sad annuities, or so they have been more commonly termed the dead weight. At the end of the war the naval and military pensions, superannuated allowances. Ike. amounted to above five millions a year. They would, of course, have Men gradually lessened and ultimately extinguished by the death of the perdee. But it was resolved, in 1822, to attempt to spread the burden equally over the whole period of forty-five years, during which it was calculated the annuities would continue to decrease. To effect this pur pose it was supposed that upon Government offering to pay 2,11141,41101. a yam for forty-five years, capitalists would be found who would under sake to pay the entire annuities, according to a graduated sadm timely determined upon, making the first year a payment of 4,999,9991. and gradually decreasing the payments until the forty-fifth aid last year, when they were to amount to only 300,0001 This suppeddon was not. however, realised. No capitalists were found wWiog to enter Into such distant engagements. But in 1823 the Bank aped , am UM. diden of receiving an annuity of 585,7401. for forty-four yarn, aim owing on the sth April, 1823, to pay, on account of the pensions, lke. at different specified periods, between the years 1823 and 182$, both in elusive, the sum of 13,089,4191. " The Bank discounted private bills at five per ant, during nearly the whole period from her establishment till 1824, when the rate was reduced to 4 per cent. In 1826 it was raised to 5 per ant; but was again reduced to 4 per cent. In 1828, at which it continues. " Previously to 1759, the Bank of England issued no notes for less thin 201. She began to issue 101. notes in 1759; M. notes in 1793; and 11. and 21. notes in March, 1797. The question as to the prolongation of the charter of the bank, is one of the very highest importance. Its decision cannot fall materially to effect the interests of the public as well as those of the Bank Cot. potation. " It is universally admitted that, under the circumstances in= we have only to choose between the Bank of England and a Bank, or a Bank established by Government, and responsible only kf it. Those who argue in favour of the establishment of a Natiosal Hank, rely principally on the saving which they think it might be sip& to produce to the public. The interest of the capital 6f 14,088,0001 lest by the Bank of Ragland to Government at 3 per tent. amounts to 410,0001. a year, there being besides, u already seen, a sum of about 260,00111. a year pa id: to the Bank foe managing the public debt ; and it is coincided that were a National Bank established, both these sums, satessdils together to 700,000 L a year, might be :laved to the public. It haw, however, that the stamp duty of about 80,0001. a year paya ble by the Bank of England. which might probably be . estimated at 300,0001; making together 380,0001. must be deducted from the above sum or/00,0001; and we believe we may safely add to the deductions to be made from the &apprised gains, a futher sum of 100,0001 a year for the expense to which the National Bank would be put in procuring supplies of bullion and coin, and in regulating her loans; so that the entire gain resulting from the supposed elapse could not amount, on the most exaggerated estimate, to above 328,0001." Amount of Bank-notes in cireulatkm airy ten years, from 1800 to 1830 , 1 8 00—February 31 August 1810—February sll _ _ 14;46;176 118,1111111,100 NO ' ••• I/ moo • ••••••••• •• 18 20—Koromy 116 ...... _ August is 1830—February 26 . ............. These details will qualify our readers to judge of the bank qUestion in the discussions likely to arise about the renewal of the charter. The author writes as an advocate of the Bank, and his book in that interest has great merit, candour, and perspicuity. PARLIAMENTARY REFORM. Immense public meetings took place last week at Leeds and Halifax, the most populous and intelligent districts of the kingdom, when a aeries of resolutions were passed unanimously, in favour of reform in Parliament, and vote by ballot. In truth, all the great meetings have decided for ballot ; and its admission is indispeusible, if the wishes of the people, and, we might add, if common sense govern those who ate to put forward the measure. Lord John Russell ought to be made to feel that any compromising, half-measure, such as he has heretofore advocated, w tit t uin his fame and the ministry. Halifax, Wolverhampton, %Yalu], Shields, Leeds, Man che-ter, Dudley, Ashton, Stockport, Sheffield, Birmingham, have now put in their claims to representation, and owns seeking the distinction, will of course be preferred. W. wonder that nothing is heard of Loughborough, Chester field, Flolvwell, Bromegrove, Henley, Kidderminder, Hinckley, Barnsley, Huddersfield, (icole, Brighton, Wor thing, Margate, Rametpte. Mlrylebone,Greenwich, Graves end, &c. &c. The Cornish borougfii *ad towns, who know so much of the abuse s, have been laudably enetg Parliamentary Reform, now so openly and meritoriously ad:ocated, was in 179'2—.3, held by the Pitt administra tion highly seditious. In those years Holt, of Newark was sentenced to two years' imprisonment for printing the Duke of Richmond's Letter on Reform ; Phillips, of Lei cester, to eighteen months, for vending another work on the same subject; and Winterbotham, a Dissenting Minis terof Plymouth ; for two years, for reflecting on the co: - ruptione of Parliament in a sermotr; Gilbert Wakefield to two years, for a pamphlet on the same doctrines. Vaughan, Master of the Grammar School at Leices ter, was prosecuted to destruction, even to death, by t h close corporation of that place, for reprinting Cowper on Loyalty and Porteous on War. The Dean of St. Asaph also was prosecuted for a dialogue on Parliamentary Reform. Muir, Palmer, Gerald, Margorot, and Skirving, were at Edinburgh transported for 14 years as mere advocates of this very reform; and even the famous high treasons of Hardy, Tooke, Thelwall, &c. had no object but Parliamentary Re , form, which the constructive law of a venal Judge sought to make treason ! Prosecutions and punishments made, Loa - ever, no converts, and changed no opinions; but on the con ' Crary, they proved the weakness of the cause which they professed to support by irrational means, and by re-actiou produced the results which we witness in 1831 ! (From the Limerick Chronicle of February 9.) The head.quarters of the 90th Light Infantry arrived at Bpithesd on Meoday, in the Amity transport, from Corfu, after a period of ten yeses' service up the Mediterranean. The following officers have al.o come bane r—Major Dixon, Captain 0. Wilson, Lieutenant H. Ensign E. Eyton, Dr. Hathwaith, Quartermaster Maitland and fam y. The order was at one time actually given for the reserve companies of regiments serving in the Mauritius to proceed forthwith to join at bead.quartas, but subsequently rescinded, and the 87th Irish Fusileers ordered in their stead. Lieutenant Collis, of the 99th regiment, returned home from the Mauritius in the Tweed frigate, commanded by Lord John Church bill, a few days since, after an absence front his native country of more than ten years. This officer went out with the 83d regiment in 1819, to the Isle of France, and was subsequently promoted Into his present corps. Captain Constantine Yeoman, of the 89th Reserve, has returned from leave of absence in England, and resumed the command and payment of his company, at Clare Castle. The Reserve Companies of the loth regiment have obtained upwards of thirty excellent recruits from the immediate vicinity of Clare. The 80th regiment is still recruiting at Ennis. Tapper Toohey, a fine-looking man, and a notorious pugilt.t, was lately enlisted at /anis, by the party of the 50th regiment stationed there, and on joining the corps at Templemore, knocked down a co. loar.serjeant, and otherwise o miscoodacted himself, for which he re ceived 250 lashes The 2d West India regitnentis ordered to embark at Ream, for th e Honduras. 3 Leammala cobasi I. Reed, wbecommanded the fifth:Light Infantry le appointed to the command of the 14th regiment, sad Lieut.. Col. T. Renew, from half-pay of the Coldstream Guards, is appointed to co: , • mend the 88th. Captain G. Flacons, half-pay, is appointed Military Secretary to Maim. General Sir -Willoughby Cottos, at Jamaica, vice Brevet Major Has, half-pay. Major J. C. Smith, balf.pay, is appointed Brigade Major in the western diftriet, bead quarters, Armagh. The following appointments have been made on the general recruit. ing establishment in both weenier :—Lient. Plunkett 84th regiment, to Londonderry; Lieut. Tiller, 99th regiment, to Cavan; Lieut. M•Leed, King's Royals, to Edinburgh ; Lieut. Leslie, 4241 Royal Mgh lenders, to Aberdeen Lieut. Pickthorn, 78th regiment, to BAWL Lieut. George Francis, Adjutant to the Bristol recruiting district; Lieut. Lindner, frith regiment, to Racial • Lieut. Edwards, 98th regi ment, to Leicester ; Lieut. Lewis, King's loyal*, to Exeter; and Limn. Gleeson, 90th regiment, to Devises. The following are the new appointments In the ordinance depict mentst—Pri —a4pal Sterekeepes, Hon. Capt. H. Duncan ; Secretary to the Master-Grano', Lieut. Colonel Cooper; Aid-de-Camp to the Mesta General, Lieut. Col. C. Yorke; Secretary to the Board of Ordi. nonce, Richard Byham, Esq. SMALL-Pox avfnirs•rtort.—The attention of Parliament, and the Corporate Medical Authorities, seems to be demanded to the continually multiplied eases of Small pox after vaccination. Within a few years after the intro duction of vaccination, the occasional cases of variola were explained away; and though these led to doubts of security, yet hope banished fear, and suspicion was laid asleep. 'But every week and every day now afford cues of severe small pox in persons in mature life, who thirty years ago were vaccinated by Dr. Jenner and his immediate friends, in which the vaccine pustule passed through its regular stages to the complete satisfaction of competent and experienced inoculator.. There is, however, now no neighbourhood where the subject is not awakening attention, and few fami lies in which severe, often afflicting, and even fatal cases of small-pox are not occurring. In short, in every society and family circle, the subject commands attention, and is a source of inquietude ; and it is no longer to be dissembled, that equivocation and palliation are opposed by facets which forbid respect to them. If vaccination is only a temporary secu rity, let that doctrine be formally promulgated and the ope ration be repeated. If the spurious sorts are so ambiguous es to deceive, let that point be fully investigated. Or if some oonatitations are secured and others not, accurate dis crimination ought to determine the differences. The writer of this paragraph had a large family vaccinated by Jenner, Woodville and Ring, yet one of his sous, vaccinated by Jenner, not long since, suffered a severe attack of natural small-pox in his twenty-fourth year ; and his attention being thus drawn to the circumstance, he found it was an occur rence known to the whole Faculty. Parliament having sanctioned Jenner's discovery, and bestowed on him munifi cent rewards, seems to be the proper authority to conduct this iDquity ; if not, then it would be a fit duty for either of the Royal Colleges. But whoever does it, it ought to be done, and at once. LOW Melbourne has sold his house in Whitehall to Mr. Apr Ellis for 35,00Q1. The house was put into its•present state for the Duke of York, who, in consequence of its being without a court-yard, exchanged with Lord Melbourne for a manifioo in . Picnadilly, the prevent Albany. The family of the Duke of Beaufort hare, within theke few days, been plunged into deep affliction by des unexpected demise of Lady Isabella Ann Kingman., their Graces'aixth daughter, a highly accomplished and beautiful l yourig lady, who dxpi;P osiato 2d instant, at her noble father's. seat, •Badorititoh. Hie ladyiliip, who war in her 23d year, 'wad She wife of Tlessas'Henry IClagtcote, F.sq. if 3 lllnptsore Castle, to whom she was married in April 1928. Lady Isabella was niece to the Marquis of Stafford, and Lords Charles, Norberne Berkeley, Edward, John, and Fitzroy Somerset.