The National Register. — London, England, 1820-08-07 00:00:00

=bo AE W BANK NOTE ACT. The . -.....- ... t t . , ehrg ix fe therr Air 'I. • flirt h.p 7F: VRNTIO :V j , o )liGlNi e "Chi CUITAIERP#WIII4.; of ele i .VA • • Nir•S • ka II N-% 1. -I. ,i •-., Whereas the4mtery of B ink Notes Hata or late - A eery miter increseed in this kingdom ; and a; well for the prevention tilerw4 as to fvilitat:: the detection of the same, tile Governor and Comp my of the Bank of England, have, after great consider:l• tion, labour. and exp.mce, formed a new plan for printing Batik Notes. in which the groundwork of each Bank Note will be black. or coloured, or black and coloured line work, and the words • Bank of England' will be placed at t . .e top of each Bank Note, in white letters, upon a black. sable, or dark ground, such ground containing white lines intersecting each outer, and die numerical amount or sum of each Batik Note in the body of the Note will be printed in black and red register work, and the back of each note will distinctly show the whole contents there • of, except the number and date in a reversed impression ; there. fore, for the better prevention of the forgery of Bank Notes, sad for the security of the poblic, be it enacted by the King's most excellent ale/city, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal. and Commons, in this pre sent Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same. that from and after the passing of this Act. If any person or persons (other than the officers. workmen, servants, and agents for the time being of the said Governor and Com pany, to be authorized and appointed for that purpthe by the said Governor and Company. and for the use of the said Go venter and Company only) shall engrave, cut, etch. scrape, or by any other art, means, or device, make, or shall cause or pro cure to be engraved, cut, etched, scraped or by any other art, means. or device, make, or shall knowingly aid or assist in the engraving. cutting, etching, scraping. or by any other art, ' means, or device, making, in upon any plate of copper, brass, steel. iron, pewter. or of any other metal or mixtures of me tal, or upon wood or other materials, or any other plate what soever. for the purpose of producing a print or impression of all or any part or parts of a Bank Note, or of a blank Bank note, of the said Governor and Company, of the description afore..aid, without an authority in writing Oren the said Governor and Company, or shall use any such plate so engraved, cut, etched, .scraped, or by any other art, means, or device, made, or shall use any other instrument or contrivance for the making or printing any such Bank Note, or blank Bank Note, or part of a Bank Note of the description aforesaid; or if any' person or persons shall, from and after the passing of this Act. without auel authority as aforesaid. knowingly and without lawful ex cuse. hive in his, her, or their custody any sucy such plate or in atroment, or without such authority as aforesaid, shall knowingly or wilfully utter, publish, dispose of, or put away any such blank Bank Note, or part of such Bank Note, of the description afore. said, any person so of in any of the cases aforesaid, and being thereof convicted according to law, shall be adjudged a felon, and shall be transported for the term of fourteen ysass. " e. And whereas divers frauds have been practised by making and publishing papers with certain words and characters so nearly resembling the Notes of the Governor and Company of the Bank of England, as to appear to ignorant and unwary persona to be the Notes of the said Governor and Company and it is necessary for the security of the public, that such prac tices, as wiled to the Notes of the said Governor and Company of the description aforesaid. should be prevented ; be it therefore further enacted. that if any person or persons, from and *tier the passing of this Act, shall engrave. cut. etch, scrape, or by any other art, means, or device. make, or shall cause or procure so be engraved, cut, etched, scraped ? or by any other art, means, or contrivance. make. or shall knowingly or assist in the engra ving. cutting. etching, scraping, or by any other art. means or contrivance, making, in upon any plate of copper. brass, steel. iron. pewter. or of any other metals. or wood, or upon any other materials, or upon any plate whatsoever, any line work, as or for the ground-work of a Promisory Note or Bill of Exchange, the impression taken from which line work shall be intended to re semble the ground-work of-a Bank Note of the said Governor and Company of the' -description aforesaid, or any device, the impression taken 'from which shall contain the words • Bank of England,' in white letters upon a black, sable, or dark ground, either with or without white or other lines therein, or shall con tain in any inn thereof the numerical sum or amount of any Promisory Note or Bill of Exchange, in black and red register work, or shall show he reversed contents of a Promisory Note or Bill of Exchange or of any part of a Promisory Note or Bill of Exchange, or shaU contain any word or words, figure or figures. character or characters, pattern. or patterns, which shall be in tended to resemble the whole or any part of the matter or orna ments of any Bank Note of the description aforesaid, or shall contain any word, number, figure, or character. in white on a black. sable. or dark ground. either with or without white or other lines therein, which shall be intended to resemble the nume rical sum or amount in the margin, or /any other part of any Rank Note of the said Governo r a nd Com p an y , without an au- thorityin writing for that purpose from the said Governor and Company. to be produced and proved by the party accused ; or if any person or persons shall, .from and after the passing of this Act (without such authority as aforesaid), use any such Three. wood, we other material so engraved, cut, etched, scraped, or by arty outer art. means, or connivance, made, or shall use any other instrument or contrivance for the Making or printing- upon any paper or other material, any word or words, figure or figures. character or characters, pattern or patterns, winch shall be in tended to resemble the whole or any part of the matter or orna ments of any such note of the said Governor and Company, of the description aforesaid. or any word. figure, or character in white on a black, sable, or dark ground, either with or without white or other tines therein. which shall be apparently intended to resemble the numerical sum or amount in the margin, or any other part of' any Bank Note of the said Governor and Company ; or if anypaten or persons shall, from and after the passing of this Act. without such authority, knowingly have in his. her, or their custody or possession, any such plate or instrument. or shall knowingly and wilfully utter, publish, or dispose of, or put away any paper or other material containing any such word or words, figure or figures, character or characters, pattern or pat terns. as aforesaid, or shall knowingly or willingly hate in is, her, or their custody or poe - sasion. any paper or other material containing any such word or words, figure or figures, character or characters, pattern or patterns as aforesaid (without lawful excuse. the proof whereof shall lie upon the person accused). every person so offendine in auy of die case, aforesaid. and being convicted thereof accordmg to law, shall be adjudged a felon, and shall be transported for the term of fourteen years. " 3. And .whereas it is expedient, that the name or names of the person or persons intrusted and authorized by the said Go. venter and Company to sign Bank- Notes on behalf of the said Governor and Vanpany to legn Bank Notes on behalf of the said Governor and Company, should be impressed by machinery upon Bank Notes of the description aforesaid. in such form as may from time to time he adopted by the said Governor and .Com. pany, instead of being subscribed in the hind-writing of such person oe persons respectively : And whereas doubts may arise respecting he validity of such Nola ; be it therefore declared and enacted, that alt Bank Notes of the said Governor and Company of the description aforesaid, whereon the name or names of any parson or persons intrusted or authorised to sign such Notes on behalf of the said Governor and Convene , . shall or may be im pressed by machinery provided for that purpose by the said Governor and Cowardly, and with the authority of the said Governor and Company, shall be and be taken to be good and valid to all inteths and purposes, as if such notes bed been sub scribedin the proper band writing of the person or persons intrus• led or authorized .by the said Governor and Company to sign the /Mile respectitely, end shall be deensel and taken to be *lit TtIZ NATIONAL REGISTER,. - Notes within the meaning of all laws and statutes whatsoever. and shall avid may be describe I us Bank Sim* in all indictments and other criminal and civil proceedings whatsoever ; any jlaw. stat44ol usage tot e contrary isotwitliAanding. s • ..16 . • .4. COMPORT TO RE LD D BATC MAIDENS RELO RS A 10) RED lIAI. " We find nothing in it worthy of extracting" is a very common expression with Reviewers—how different must be the estimation of the book from which we extract the following two articles: it has for some tune been before us, but other subjects have prevented our earlier notice of it. The publi cation is intitled " The Retrospective Review," and professes to give extracts front only those works whose antiquity renders them worthy of the Book. worm's It : R It:. But fur the Extracts—the first is in proof of the comparatively happy, because less anxious, life of a man without a family, and we dive it for the comfort of such ot our unhappy readers, reminding them that the comfort of a con nubial life are nut enumerated, and can be properly estimated only by those who have tasted them. " There was a disputation on a time between this Solon, who was married and had one onely sonne, a toardly young man, and Tholes, another of the sages, that was uninanied. winch estate was better. marriage or a single life: Solon commended matri mony, Thales preferred the other: and when lie perceived that lie could not perswade Solon by ream and argument to be of his opinion, he practises' this device. When their mike was ended, being both at Thales his house, Thalos went forth and caused one to faire an errand to him, and say as he had instructed him, as though hee Caine from Athens, where Solon's dwelling was; this nain like a stranger, as these wise men were talking together within the house, knocketh at the duore; Tliales letteth hini in : the man faineth a message to him from a friend of his at Athens : Solon hearing him say that hee came from Athens : Solon hearing hint say that hee came from Athens, went forth of the next room to him, and asked what news from Athens? Little news (quail he) but as I came forth of the city, I saw the senatoura and principal' men of Athens going to the bunall of a young man. Solon going into the other roome again, and musing who this should be, being in some doubt lest peradventure this should be his sonne, cometh forth to him againe, and asked him who it should be that was dead ? He answered that he had forgotten his name, but it was the onely some of a notable man In Athens. and that for the reverence and love that they did beare to his father, all the nobilitie and principall men of the city went to his burial'. Then Solon greatly confused and troubled in minds, goeth from Win againe, fearing his owne some, and being tine out of quiet, returneth to aske him, whethet he could not call to remembrance the name of this young man's father, if he heard it reckoned ? He answered, that he thought he could remember his name. if lie might heave it againe. And after Solon had reckoned up the names of a great many of the principal' men of the city, and the other denying them to be the man, he came at last to his own name. and asked whether he were not called Solon ? And when the other affirmed that to be the name of the father of this young man that was dead. Solon cryeth out upon his onely sonne. and maketh great lamentation c he taireth his haire, said beateth hie head against the we]. and doth all things that men use to do in cases ot'calaniitie. When '!'hales had beheld him a while in This trdoo• be of good esololons Solon, (saith he) thy sonne livet h ; c now you toe by your owne example what evil' things are Incident to marriage. " The second Extract is a complimentary article to red haired ladies ; and if it afford an idea to any sighing swain, whose Dulcinea may possess locks of so classic hue we shall be gratified. " Glorious fruit of the essence of the most beautiful' visible being ! intelligent reflection of the radical) tire of nature ! image of the sun, the most perfect ! I am not so brutish as to mistake for my queen, the slaughter of him that my ancestors acknow. 'alga' fur their god. Athens oemoaned the fall of her crown, in me ruins of Apollo's temple.; Rome ceased to command the world, when she denyed incense to the light; and Bitantiuin first beim to inslave mankind, when she woke for her arms those ot the sun's sister : as long as Persia did homage to this universal' spirit, for the rayes that she held from him, foure thousand yeares could not make old the vigour of her monarchy ; but being ready to see his images broken, be took sanctuary in Pequin tram the abuses of Babylon." " A brave head, covered with red hair, is nothing else but the sun in the midst of his rays; or the sun himself is onely a great eye under a red periwig; yet all die world speaks ill of it, because few have the honour to be so. And amongst a hundred ladies, you shall hardly find one, because they being sent from Heaven to command, it's necessary there should be more sub jects than sovereigns. Do we not see. that all things in nature are more or less noble, according as they are more or lease red; amongst the elements, be that contains the most essence, and the least matter of substance, is the tire, because of his colour; gold bath received of his dye. the honour to reign over the maenads ; and of all the planets, the sun is most considerable, onely be ' cause he is most red; the hairy annets which doth fly up and down the skies, at the death of heroes. are they not the rod nurs tacheoes of the gods, that they pluck off for griefe ? Castor and Pollux, those lode fires that make seamen foretell the end of a storm, can they be any thing else than the red hairs of Juno, which she, in token of love sends to Neptune? In fine, had it not been for the desire men had to power* the fleece of a red sheep, the glory of thirty demi-gods would be in the cradle of those things that never were born. And (a ship being yet but a recent invention) Americus would have told %lb that the world huh fours parts. Apollo, Venus. and Love, the fairest divini tyes of the pantheon, are crimson red ; and Jupiter is brown but by accident, because of the smoke of his thunder, which hath blackt him. But if the examples of mythologic do not satifie the obstinate, let them consult history. Sampson, whose strength hung at his locks, did he not receive his miraculous energy trues the rednesse of his hair? Did not the destinies make Use con servation of the empire of Athens, depend upon one red hair of Nisus ? And God. would he not have sent the light of faith to the ffithropians, if he could have found amongst them but one red ? One would not doubt of the excellency of those persons, if one considered, that alt men were not made by men, and for whose forming God himself choose and kneaded the substance, were red. Adam. that was created by God's own hand, ought to be the most secomplisht of men—he was red. And all perfect philosophy ought to teach us. that nature which inclines to the most perfection, alwaies endeavours, in forming a man, to make a red one, just as she aspires to make gold by making of mercury, but she seldom hits upon it. An archer is not esteemed un skilful', who letting thirty arrows the, but five or six hits the mark. As the best batianced consti:ution that which' is between fleg matick and melancholly, one must needs be very happy to hit exactly an invisnble point. The flaxen and the black are besides it ; that iii to say, t se fickle and the obstinate ; between tech is the nordim, alter.: wisdom, in favour of red men, bath lodged vettue, so their flesh is much more' delicate, their blood more pure, their spirits more 'clarified, and consequently their intellest more aomplehed, because of the perfect mixture of these foure qualities. This, IS the reason _.• Mr. D. why red men become not so soon grey as those that are black, as if nature were angry and unwiling to destroy that, which she took a pleasure in making. In troth, I seldom see a flaxen head of hair, but I th' ko ' a dista ff ill periwig' But I grant, that fair wutten when young, are • but as soon as their ~r . „ip oully ink that their flesh ;di i tsel in I th a t a beard ? I speak not black beards, for tis well known, if the ill weare any, it cannot be but very dark. Since then we must al e slaves to beauty, is it not far better to be deprived of our freedom by golden chains, then by hempen cords, or iron fetters?" FROM TUESDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE. .-..-m ! BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. J. Bolt and G. Jones, Bath, grocers. BANKRUP'I'S. J. Barrow, Bramell, Cheshire. dealer. Solicitors. Messrs. Appleby and Sergaint, Gray's Inn. J. Housman. Broinsgrove, Worcestershire. wool dealer. Sol. - Wheeler, Castle Street, Holborn. 1. Thornton, Kirkeaton, Yorkshire, victualler. Sols. Messrs. debt' and Sergeant, Gray's Inn. _. Hall. North Shields. mister mariner. Sots. Messrs. Mit chell and Francis, Sun Court, Cornhill. DIVIDENDS. Aug. 25, B. Smith and N. Redhead, Penrith. banken-22. I. and R. Corny. East India Chambers, merchants—l 2. J. 1.. Cope. Kingston upon Hull, merchant-12, J. Woodroof. Gun Street, Liberty of the Old Artillery G round, turner-25, J. Barnes. Portsea. bufider--26. J. S. Rains. Wapping Wall. merchaut -24. J. Bragg. Weymouth and Melcombe Regis, mercer -12, H. Wwldington, Bridge Street, 131ackfriars, merchant-26, T. H. Smith, Oxford, linen draper-26. J. Swainson, Manor Row, East Smithfield, merchant-25, T. Freame, Worcester, cabinet maker—Sept. 7. W. Fanner, Walsall, Staffordshire, innholder —7, J. Wood, Walsall, Staffordshire, factor. CERTIFICATES to be granted Aug. 22. G. Stock, Bristol, cabinet maker—T. E. Ilenshaw. Derby currier—E. Steven Aintree. Lancashire, sail maker—H. and W. Carpenter. Alresford. Southampton, brewers—C. Willis. Hatton. Garden, scrivener—A. liolmes and 11. White, Chesterfield. and I'. Tindall. Ckester Le Street, Durham. hat nianutacturers. —.all AGRICULTURAL REPORT FOR JULY; From the extreme vaeiationa of the weather in the course of the mo►rth. the IVheat and all other kinds of pain have greatly suffered, particularly in those dist' iris where they are heavy on the wound. tae rain in ►rnuty parts fell in such toirenra as to lay all the growing Crops, except the Beans, as fist as if the heaviest roller had passed over them. Such of these as bad not been kept clean from weeds will suffer much in their quality, al though the fine weather recently set in may be expected to prove beneficial by bringing the Wheats early to the sickle. Barley and Oats being heaviest on the ground. and ain't therefore stetter most in their samples. The Peas are generally abundant—but the Beans lust their bloom by the night•lro►ts and will prove defective. — Should the fine warm weather continue, the general liar. vest will co 11111 l ence earlier than was looked for. Potatoes are likely to prove very productive. The Hay, where they fed lam; in nanny of the grazing counties, has been ill got up, and in souse low lands, foully spoiled. The 'turnips are a more general and panellising plant than has been known for several seasons past—but front thei► defective produce last year, fewer Swedes have been sown in the I:Arleen Diatsict. The latter-math Grass is abundant. The Hop plantations, though somewhat cleansed by the late thunder storms, are not exprovd to average a third of a crop. The Wool market is better for most kinds, particularly fur the cross fleeces 'between the Soutleduwn and Leicester. S 11l i l litield, nut w itlastanda ing its full supplies, has kept up goo.' prices for prune Beef and Mutton. Lamb and Veal arc rather lo aer. in Lean Stock but little business has been done through the month, except fur good conditioned store LOW)* and Wedders, her which there is a brisk demand ; and honey Cart Cults are worth more money. TR UNDER STORM. About eleven o'clock on Sunday night, the Metropolis was visited by one of the most tremendous thunder storms that have occurred for some time. The peals of thunder were very loud. the liAlitning was awfully vivid, and the rain poured 'doom in torrents. This storm lasted nearly two hours. The erect geuerally was much the same as in 1•1111 dim, except on the Bath road, where it was nut ;twins pained by rain. Such was the ungovernable state of tiie horses in many of the mails, that the coachmen were obliged to put up, deeming it imps udent to proceed. Part of the electric fluid fell on two houses, Nos. 12 and 13, in Tuthill Street, Liquorpond Street, and shivered the chimney pots to pieces, and broke In the second flour of No. It, shivered the cupboard dour to pieces, uud set several parts of the shattered wood on fire. The houses err small, being Only the two floors, with one room on it floor. There acme two bids iu the room, and the family were is bed, who being terribly alarmed, got up, and fortunately extin guished the fire, and they sat up the remainder of the night in fear and trembling. At the adjoining house, No. IS, the electric fluid broke through the roof and ceilings, caught the bell-wire, which was iron, and descended by it to the strrrt door, destroyed the wire and cranks, leavinh a black mark of smoke along the wall, as if from gun-powder; an osier cradle that was on the first floor was scorched ull over, and some of the clothes caught fire; fortunately the rlailul was in t.ed with its mother at the time. An uld mail who slept um the room, and who was unable to walk for six weeks befoul from rheumatic pains, received such an electric shock, that he jumped out of bed, ran don't stairs, and recovered the toe of his limbs, so he is mow as will as ever he was in horde. The hair uu his wife's head was very much singed, but she received no other injury. The fluid, after descending as far us the street door, shivered open the parlour, do.o, and took a direction alungibe passage wall, which it tore along to the back door, caught the lock and kenos, all of which it wrenched or, and threw the door into pieces into the yard, leaving a strong smell all over the house, as if caused by gun powder. However, their losses were well recompensed. tot for during the w hole of Tuesday the street was crowded, and two persons, at the door of No. 13, had as much to do as they could to receive the pence of hundreds of gentlemen and others, who were admitted to seethe effects Fork( sil by the lightning. _ — NEW BARRACKS AT STOCKPORT.••••••The founda tions of a very large barracks have been laid, and the erection is now carryivg on with great rapidity. on the mad to Maple, abcut half a male from Stork• .port. .