The Statesman. — London, England, 1823-02-25 00:00:00

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AN ELECTION will take place iu the month 4 April next, for the Admission iuto the School of three Girls and four Boys ; all persons who wish their Children to i be candidates, must apply (between three end five o'clock), 'to the Secretary, by whom they will be furnished with the necessary forms of Certßlestes, &c. which most be returned to him on or before the 10th March. The requisite qualifi cations are, that one or both of the parents must have been bora in Yorkshire, must he now resident within five miles of London, and be in indigent circumstances ; the Children must be upwards of 7 years of age. and when elected will be maintained, clothed, and educated by the Sociery, until they are 1.4 years old. T. HAMILTON. Honorary Secretary. No. $, Henrietta-street, Covent Garden, February 10. 1643. MR. CORBETT'S PUBLICATIONS. BEET, 153. Fleet-street, London. L REGISTER.—Is published the one price Sixpenoe. not hay , postage free, and. therefore. is to try by those only woo live In linear paresis are seat. But, for the Eenie be reached is no other way than Edition is published, and may be e. The Stamped Edition is One Volumes, of recent date, may be lee as above. IMMENTARIES.—This work fns, published in the Svaxesnxst Session of ParHemet. To the .ist of the Acts, which were pass with short remarks on those Acts them. This work states the result testions of importances It con )rittim-uts, on both sides, upon s a good history of the Session.— look back, and to sallow men they maintained. It lies in a rim neat octavo volume of great uii sy that enables one I. read it And, it is sold for Six Shit- Aeries are going on 1111 The ilso ; and the work will be coati- LOPHECIES.—This is a re-print Ashes," written while the Author S. was in Loog liland, where he used his long arm, and kept himself oat of the reach of Sidmouth. These Prophecies contain the Author's opinions as to what would happen to • the country in Cake there were a return to cash-paymeets • without an adjustment of contracts. If he had written now, 1 instead of five years ago,liis description of the consequences Icould not. have beim more exact. When he wrote those Prophecies, and sent them fur publication In England (where ' Ihey were published)„be said :—" Upon these Prophecies, I "ledge my repetation as a politician." They hare been fel filled to the very letter. This was his great and distinct challenge to the Ministry, the Parliament, and the London rress.—Pries Sixpence. 4. PAPER AGAINST GOLD.—This is the history of that grand mystery of iniquity, the Funding System. It was wines in 1810 and 1811, when the Author had been sent to . ?tentage for two years, with a thousand pounds fine, sod • s • yearn reeognixencee ou his head. for having expressed '''l% iimlllpusion at the dogging of Englishmen in the town of y s under a guard et German bayonets. It was after Gibbs i re Led prosecuted him for this, and after lillesboreugh, Grose, Lftliaite and Bailey bed passed tbla terrible 'calmer on MK. It was white he etas in }*isms, in consequence of this • siNewee that he set steedity to work to tear op by the wy •,- '' raob, th at system of fending and of paper-money, Ilk Ida re.dreeneequemose of which he, then, clearly showed. This wedlirk eontalastlie real foundation of all practical knowledge °Antis subject. The author saw, at that distant day, how xtetessary this knowledge would be to the nation; and he sonde provision accordingly. This book has passed through editions. Every young man should read it. Price Flee Ithilliers. A Stereotype Edition. . b. ENO LISH GRAMMA R.—Tbis work, written in Long Island, and published in America and in England, in the year ISIS, has gone through several Editions, and has sold to the amount of about fifty thousand copies, without ever Laving been mentioned in noy review and without scarcely • stay advertisement except in the Author's own publications. Heventures to say that, from this book any person however Illiterate, will he enabled to write correctly in less time than he generally bestowed upon learning the first rudiments of spelling. Numerous are the iestances in which even gen tlemen bavetold me, that. though they had had what is ge /levelly called a liberal education, they had learnt more of Grammar front his hook in a month, than they had ever • learnt before in all their lives. It is entitled, " A Grammar iniended for the use of Schools and of Young Persoes in ge neral; but more especially for the use of Soldiers. Sailors, Appreatices s and Ploughboys. ' But It has now, in this New Edition, an additional part, containing "Six Lessons to Idtatesmen," to warn them against bad writing. These Les sees contain commentaries on the speech of the late Speaker of the House of Commons, which speech was addressed to the Regent on the subject of Peel's Bill. It also contains commentaries on the Regent's Speech; on diplomatic wri t of Lord•Castlereagh and the Duke of Wellington ; on despatches of the Marquess Wellesley, and on a charge of • the• Bishop of Winchester. The Author, when he first put forth this book, threw it down as a challenge to all the Re viewers, all the Colleges, and all the Universities. He was well aware whom he had to contend witn. He was dell aware of the infinite pains that would be taken to shut the doer of Schools against his book • but it is curious enough ; that, while the scnoolmasters t hemselves have, in most cases, been afraid to put it into the hands of their scholars, lest they should incur the displeasure of the rich and the peVerfal, those masters do not scruple to use it for the teach 4tig of themselves, in which respect, they certainly act very wisely. The day will come, when this Grammar will be in use thruagisout the kingdom, to the exclusion of mill others ; and, iii the meanwhile, it is a hook of greater sale than that of laity one in England, to posh the sale of which, no one si le exerion has ever been made."—Price Three Shit . Li COTTAGE ECONOMY.—This little work was first i i Jpu ished in numb , rs. Its object is to inculcate industry, so ety. and - all the virtues of domestic life, amongst the lal, wring classes. To teach theta to rely upon their own exertions, for their well being; to instil into their minds the prejit truth, that their happiness mast mainly depend upon their own conduct ; to induce them to reject the visionary notion that any benefit can arise from mere prayers and sup ;Motions without a due exertion of those faculties, which Ood has given them; to convince them that labour and fru. panty are necessary to their state of life: end that their state of life may be made the happiest state, if they have a co pelence therein; to teach them that a sufficiency of good f and good raiment is absolutely necessary to their imp ala/ to 'show them how those necessary things are to secured. This little work, therefore, treats of the brew ing of Seer, the making of Brew!, the keeping of Cows,Pigs, Bees, Ewe!, Goats. Poultry, and Rabbits. It contains re . mods relanie to other matt, rs ; and the Author is well as se id that in proportion that it is extensively read, the la bowers of 11.6 country a ill he virtuous and ha; py. }le has theriemsere to state that about thirty thousand copies of this work have been printed and sold. It has been one of the great objects of his tife to make the labourers of Eng land well off; and this is one of his means of furthering this greet object. Price Two Sl.ihings and Sixpence.—N.B. l'hot e who took part of the work lu Numbers, may have sty odd Numbers that they may want to complete their sets. /. TREATISE ON tiAItDENtNG.—This work pro- Jesses la the title, to relate to Gardening in America. It us, vvritteu iu England the sear before last, in order to ful fil l promise made to his neighbours on Long Island ; but,. with the difference of climate only, it is equally applicable .to be its countries. All the principles are the same ; nn4 this to a book of prineiples. It is useful, also, as a honk 411414 shows, in t..e isost Ari:.ing point of view, the differ- , . OM X, Henrietta-street, U February 10, ISt ' MR. conagrrt • Jbu Visited by J. M. COBBE: / f. f 11 1 HE POLITICAL A. in Two Editions, it ' • any stamp, Cannot go poi . ... obl nge rsa. to nedlath: r eountf a y bil l ;cues of Base who are to be erosi-posts, a Stamped SA • I tattled as newspapers are. 1 . 111114. 7 -Auy Of the beck V ad by olOieation at the 081 1. COLLECTIVE COI i tains all the Comwentariei , 1 ewspaper, during the last b mentaries Is added a Lisi i• Haring the Session, wit appeared to require the all the Bisislons upon pie 4 Ina a notice or all the sr l t , qty such question. It Is a 7I , Ashins the feeder to 100 1. and what opinions the 1 anble compass. It Is ane 4 ty. It is printed in a we; . . • Ateeet destruction to eyes. 86.—N B. The Comment - 31frisesii•ii, this Session aid Mood. ,3. LONG IBLAND PRO; of three " Twopenny Trasht . . . - ' - '' - "JEPPim . ' ewe in the climate of the two countries. However, its great mantis, the inculcation of sound principles with re gard to sewing, planting, and cultivation. The Chapter, on the preparation or land (ander the head of Soil,) should be consulted by every one, who has land to prepare for plant ing, with trees especially. On the cultivation of vines, the Author thinks that all Gardeners ought to read his book.— ' Price Five Shillings. 8. YEARS RESIDENCE IN AMERICA,—This work was written at the end of the first year of the Author's resi dence in Lug Island. The present is the third editition.— , It contains a journal of the weather for that year ; and it contains s journal kept by an Intetigent person, who went to visit the settlement of Mr. Birkbeck. It contains a descrip tion of the Agriculture, the Roads, the Manors, the Govern went, the Laws and Customs of the country. The Author published the work there,, as well as here. He gives an account of his own experiments in the cultivation of the Swedish Turnip, which he there cultivated by transplanta tion ander that burning sun, and the field-cultivation of which useful plant he was the first to introduce into that . country. He therein, performed a service to that cowry. greater, he is satisfied, than ever wag performed In Its see-' vice, by any - other foreigner; and he rcflects with pleasure thom he was =le to render meet a service to those who made his life so happy, while it was necessary fur him to flue from the dungeons of Sidmouth. This book contains all in formetion necessary for those who are about to emigrate to, America. It lays all the disadvantages, as well as the ad vantages before them. It tells them no romantic tale; but brings them fairly acquainted with the people cud with the country.—Prise Pk& Shillings. 9. CORBETT'S SERMONS.—The subjects are, I. Hy pools), and Cruelty; 2. Drunkenness; 3. Bribery; 4. Op pression; 6. Unjust Judges ; 6. The Sluggard ; 7. The Murderer; 8. The Gamester; 9. Public Robitery; 10. The Unnatural Mother • 11. The Siu of forbidding Marriage; 19. On the Duties of Parsons, and on the Institution and ob ject of Tythes.—These Semmes were published separately, while selling in Numbers, some of them exceeded others in point of sale; but upon the whole, considering them as lo dependent publications. upwards of a hundred and fifty thousand of these Sermons Nave been Sold ; and the Author is satisfied that they have already done more real good then all the Sermons that have been published or preached in Englar.d for the last hundred years. Ile Is well aware of the mass of prejudice which a proud and frightened Aris tocracy ; an interested and still more frightened body of an other description : an innumerable band living upon the labour of the people talie:o.y; and a corrupt time-serving, envious, lying, and meli•:•nant Press : he is wel aware of the mass of prejudice which all *hese combined have been able to excite against him ; but he, at the same time, knows, that lo numerous iostances these Sermons have been put into the hands of their own Sons and Daughters by men who detest the Author on account of his abhorrence of time political system, which causes them to fatten and the people to perish.—The whole collection forms a neat vo lume.—Pries Three Shillings and Sixpence. 10. TULL'S FAMOUS WORK ox me HORSE HOEING HUMAN JR Y.—This work, which was in an old fashioned folio volume, Mr. Coaacrr has re-published, in a close printed octavo volume. From this wort he learn ed ell his knowledge of the principles of Agriculture. All tae numerous volumes on this science, whiett he bad read before he read this work, he found to be of no value. He was anxious, therefore, to enable others to dip at the same fountain, at which he had dipped himself, and which had been to him the =He of so much delight. Tote was the father of the Drill Husbandry, not only in England. but in the world. His book is a book of real knowledge. The style, itself, is a thing iallnitAy usefel fro young pedple, la this day of affected expreseapa and fake , breatemit in writing: bat the philosophy of the work is inestimably tra inable. —There is a short introduction by Mr. Con HEM containing so =coda of experiments of his own, and of others, founded on Tull's principles. The work is extreniely interesting, =containing the History of the disisevery of the Drill Ilusbandry.—Price Thirteen Shilling. and Sixpence. N.B. These works are to be had of .1. M. COBIIeTr. 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To be viewed on Monday preceding, and mornings of sale, and catutogues had, price one shilling, without which no person will he admitted, of Mr. Vilnius's, Throgutorton street, opposite the Auction Mart. THE IRISH BEACON BOND. , (FROM VIC DUSLIN RIMMING POST OP SATURDAY.) 'The Patriot announced, in a recent NumMir, that it was in possession of an Affidavit, explanatory of the man cer in which a Newspaper Ettablislunent in ihiceity has been founded, and proutiaing, in due time, to lay this Af fidavit before the l'ublic. In further elut idation of 'IAA mysterious alfsir. it returns to the charge. and says— It hai .been isisintutied to u., that we kivo th.rwril in fanatic itm, with respect to certain tien•lenp-n,:n a misfirr that should prevent our exposure of it. We siletutily de clare that our information—which is th.t cony of ant davit, of occurrences subsequent to the period —(witlonst particelarising, we will be understoo-) 7 -is the elks source—and fully sufficient it is—of our knowledge of tt.e facts to svhiels we have alluded. Very shortly a Gentleman, whose 11011011 S, we la ment, are considered as opposed to those of Lord Welles ley—shortly that Gentleman shall receive a Lvter, in li:s own band writing , to an individual who has ha I the indiscretion—(a blot on his character that will not hr easily rubbed out in the opinion of our respected friend), to let it fall into hostile hands. In returning that L•tter to hint, which we hope to he enabled to do in a day or two, we shall satisfy him that, from the iito. , ,ent it came into our possession, no human eye has beheld i , Lord SOMERS said he had to present to their Lord ships a petition from several fr emitters of the county of Hereford, the principal object of which was to pray that the House would adopt such measures as might serve to relieve theta from the. distresses under which the agri culturol interests: of the country were now suffering. On the subject of title petition he felt it uece•sary to make some observations. Such pars of it as prayed relief front the distresses that were known universally to prevail, :stet with, his warmest support ; but the petition con tained many other allegations from which his mind eke 'ether revol'ed, and it was on that ground, that after the petition had been adopted by the Meeting, he refused 'to put. Isis 'signature to it. He felt it necessary to state the particulars of this business to the House. A Requi sition had been sent to the Sheriff to convene a County Meeting. but be declined doing so; but as the law which went to prevent public mteet►ngs provided that meetings might be convened by other authorities besides those of .Sheriffs, be was r.•quired to call a meeting, and not wishing to add to the restraints which Parliament had thrown in the way of sock meetings, he complied with the request made to hint, and aid convene the meeting in question. There were at that meeting two respe. t..ble gentlemen entertaining sentiments limn-able to the lio vernment, who proposed certain resolutions, having for their object the relief of agricultural (doors% and they carefully avoided every other topic ; and at •the same time he felt it his duty to recommend that every person who attended there should be allowed freely to deliver his sentiments. After the first resolutions had been moved and seecettletl by gentlemen belonging to the county, a gentleman well known oat of the coon y—He meant Mr. Cubbett, and who said he was a freehol ter, came forwardand delivered his sentiments at a considerable length and with considerable ability. His manner was not violent, bat his matter was extremely objection able. He moved such a petition as had been prepased by him and carried at Norwich, and he certainly was very roughly handled. Several successive amen Intents were afterwards pre posed, and at length, at a late boar in the evening, one of these amendments was agreed to. It preceded the motion of Mr. Cobbett, and beca•he the petition of the meeting. He lemented that ou that day there bad not been more gentlemen pre sent who were favourable to the Administration, for if there had, he was sure that petition would nut have been carried. It now remained for him to say something in favour of one part of the petition: he could assure their Lordships that. in the part of the country where be resided, the distress of the agriculturists was so great. that no property could he sold, nor could the business of agriculture be carried on st Rh any pro*pect of profit or success. He hail no doubt but every thing would he right by and by; but as thing- stood at present, the agii cultural interests could nut go on, unless that interest were assisted by some efficient means or other. During the war the farmers of England • flourished, an 1 they were enabled to hear their share of the public burdens atreekoot difficefly.• Theo lied all that Rine borne, and were still obliged in bear the burden of ellofUlollll taxes, which fell-almost exclusively on them. 041. of the prin cipal s eases of the present distress was the passing of that Bill called Mr. Peel's Act. which, by making a great al teration in the currency of the country, lessened the video of property beyond measure. Under the sanction of Parliament men made their bargains and arrange ments ; and then Parliament passed a law which almost reduced them to ruin. He knew a gentleman, whose father bad left him a fine estate, in the expectation that, as the eldest a• o, he would be better provided for than any of the others; and in consequence of what he hail to pay out of it as portions to the others, the estate was worth notbing to hint. He a twitted that it was Ines' essential to keep up the credit of the country; but at the same time he must say that the public creditor ought not to be the only person who should derive advantage from the present state of things; and he wished to know why the land in its present distressed state should be obliged to bear the greatest share of the public burdens. Those burdens sorely ought to be shared by the other classes of the community. The burdens on land were borne by the occupier; bat a miser, not possessing a foot of land, and having 200,000/. in the funds, did no t contribu.c one farthing to the poor rates, hut the land owners and their tenants paid most enormously; and he would put it to their Lordships, whether, consistently with common justice, this great burden should fall ex clusively OH the landed interest? The Act of Elizabeth stated, that the poor tax should be laid on every inhabit ant of the country, and the occupiers of laud and houses ; and Lord Kenyon had said on one occasion, in the Court of King's Bench, that the assessment on the poor rates ought to be made in such a way that each inhabitant of the country ought to be made to pay in proportion to his ahility and hit property. But according to the present system, a man whose whole property consisted in !limey might evade the payment. But the poor rates were not the only burdens which fell ultimo exclusively on land : it was subject to all the expences attending the improve ment of ptisons ; and as the moneyed property of the country was enormously increased, it ought to contri bute to this as sr ell as to other expenses. Having now stated the facts of the petition in which he concurred, and those from which he dissented, he should conclude by I resenting it to their Lordships. The petition was read by the Clerk. It purported to have been agreed to on the J•h of January At a Con•tty Meeting of the freeholders of Herefordshire, and besides relief from agricultural distress, it prayed their Lordships to enter into an examination of the distresses of the country with a view to an a:just:tient of all contracts be tween detours and creditors, and the placing of all parties on an equal footing a ith retard to the public burdens,— The petition also recommended economy in the collection of the Revenue, and a reduction of the Army to the scale of 17112.—Ordered to lie on the table. Lord SOMERS next presented a petition from the traders of Hereford against the Insolvent l)ub•ors' Act. The Earl of DARNLEY said, be felt it necessary to make some remarks on what had just fallen from the Noble lewd. He was sure that the sentiments which Mr. ttohb.•tt hail been so snece•aful in bringing forward at public meetings could never be acted upon in Parlia ment. With regard to petitions generally, witich prayed merely for the rebel of the agricultural in.ccest, he hail in tlie county to which he belonged always apposed au. petitions, because be kratar it was taut iu the looser of Parliament to give the relief that was called for. 'the distresounfortunately existed to a very great degree, but he saw no possibility of removing it iu any other way ex cept by an alteration of the currency. He sl►ould he happy if all•kinds of property were made to I•ay their fair proportion of the poor rates, but be was sute that even a plan of this kind would afford only a small extent of relief to agriculture. He also believed that the repeal of Mr. Peel's Bill would remove the greater part of the difficulties under which agriculture was *offering ; becans then the cultivators of laud would be eaablzd to dispos: ~,.. - ~_ - MARRIAGE ACT. The Archbishop of CANTERBURY brought up a Report from the Committee appointed to inquire into the State of the Laws respecting Marriages, the object of which was, that the Coo 111 l i:tce might be allowed. to re port from time to time. His Brace then presented the Report, in which the Committee stated that a consider able time might elapse before they should be able to come to a complete consideration of the sereral points on which they w k e pursuing their examination ; and they submitted to fl,e House whether it would not, in the mean time, be advisable to introduce a Bill to legalize marriages that may hereafter be contracted, with the exception of the nullity clause. His Grace further stated that the Committee were anxious at once to remove se veral of the objections that had been made to the Act of last Session, so far as regarded the prospective clauses. and were likely to affect the morals of the country, and that they bad drawn up a short Act for that purpose. Ho then presonte I the Bill. Lord ELLENBOROUGH conceived it to be of the 11;gliest importance that t .eir Lordships should consider the nature of this Bill. In his opinion, the effect of ti.e Bill would be, to place the country in the very same sitna lion in which it had been with respect to marriages before the passing of the Act; it would be placed under the operation of the old Marriage Law; whereas he thought it would be better even to allow the Marriage Act of last Sessiou to operate as the permanent law of the coml . ry. The Bill was then read a first time. The Earl of DARNLEY presented a petition from Sheffield against the Insolvent Debtors' Act. Similar petitions were presented from Barnsley, Halifax, and oda. r places. The Earl of SHAFTESBURY presented a petition from Cartharthen. praying relief from Agricultural Mi tres.. On the n o•ion of the Archbishop of CANTERBURY, the Hal to legalize Marriages solemnised by licenses granted by Surrogates since the passing of the Act of last Sesiun, was read a second time. RELATIOIWS WITH FOREIGN STATES. Tice Marquis of LA.NSDOWN rose to put the quev lions of velitch he had given notice on Thursday last.— The house, he was sure, must be aware that it was not his wish or intention to put any questant to the Noble Earl opposite, with a view al' procuring a disclosure of transactions which night now he passing between oar Governntent and other conatries ; nor did he want to as certain whether a groun I existed for avoiding a discus •ion on this subj-ct, particularly after the fortunate ex preesioss of the public opinion that latela: took plate.— The question he had to submit to the Noble Earl, was one so which ass answer must he most anxiously desired ay all who wished twat the threatened distaikance of public peace might be averted. Tile question was, whether a Lops was entertained by his Majesty's Minis ters that the peace between France and Spain could it s ' avoided ? Upon the answer of the Noble Earl to this question, must depend whether be (Lord Lanielown) should take all further step on this subject. He did no: think that any consideretion of public duty would prevent the Noble Earl from answering this question. The Earl of LIVERPOOL replied, that on the first day of the Sessioa he gave an explanation respecting the state of our telatiors with foreign countries, so far as was consistent with his public duty. He then said that the thaar was not closed against interposition on oar par•, anal that he should deprecate any discussion, which coula lead to no goad purpose, but might produce great in converdences Evety disposition existed on the part of his Majesty's Got eminent to preserve the general peace of Europe, so far as it could be done. He should, how ever, deprecate any thing like premature discussion on. the subject, and in a lditiou to the general feeling tbi: lutist prevail respecting it, he must state that special air- . eunastancem hate recently occurred which would make him deprecate more strongly than ever any discussion on the present state of our f 'reign relations. When the pro- • per time cause, his Majesty's Ministers would be ready to give every necessary explanation. He must undoubt edly have the preservaeion of peace always in view, but he must again deprecate all discussion, and in that idea be was borne out by the forbearance which Parliament had already shown on this point. The Marquess of LANSI)OWN said, that what had been . t.tst stated by the Noble Earl, precluded any general observation on his part respecting the state of France an I Spain; but there was one more question which he felt' himself justified in putting to the Noble 'Earl, because lie was sure an answer to it would give great satisfaction t i the country. It was whether, in the coaraeof the tiega elation' which preceded the recent events, there was any condition or understanding obligatory on England, as to any pirt, she might take in the cents et, after the same simile' commence' He wished to know whether this country ea+ unshackled as to the course she might think proi•er to take in the event of such contest. The Earl of LIVERPOOL replied, that it was impos-i -ble for him to give en answer to this question. witheei entering into a general line of policy, which the present loccasion did not call fur; but he bat no difficulty in say ing, that this country had not entered into any obliga tion, nor would the be justified in doing so, which utigi.t prevent the tiovernmant from hereafter pursuing rich a I line of conduct as might he deemed most advisealle. Lord ELLEN BOROUGH said, that after what had fallen front the Noble Lord, it would ba impassible for bins to press the question drat had been pat to him. Bet after the Speech delivered by the King of France to his Chambers, he must in candour give it as his opinion, that he could not eutertain any view of the possibility of tee minating the pre sent differences betwe is France and Spain. He shouid again take an opportunity of speaking on this subject when the impels were laid before the hause. He fully eoncurre , iwitte the Noble-Earl in his desire fur the meisuenanie of peace, and lie would ever earnestly deprecate any war that was not called for by the people. But he mu a say, that if any determinatioo had been niacifested on the part tit England to induce the Spaniards to snake the scaliest dev'atian is their Consti tution, that would have been a step greatly to be depre cated, and would be as objectionable as the interference of the Allied Pewees. liese thecnnversation ended, and the honse adjoorne!. [For proceedings in the Commons We 3d page.] l'es'erat• the dispatches for Madras and Chiaa, bv the ship CAA., were clo.,ed at the East Ind.a House, ..n t delivered to the Printer of that ship. In consegitenee of fraaJs having been committed hy persons als.c.shcling with bills of e:ichaitge, after given drafts fur the same which were retie:* payineii:, the hankers have come to a resubsiiint oat to take dr N for hills, but to regnire that thq should either be paid I bank notes ur looney, or be al 4es:el for payment a. bauker's. - 1 1i -.l.i.di, ,y o ri ~~~ ~~,. 111. r . `,