The National Register. — London, England, 1820-08-06 00:00:00

NEW BANK NOTE ACT. The tting the ACT.Ihr Mejlerther PREVENTION 4st RCiLya.and COUNTERFEII'ING of BANK NOTES:— Whereas the forgery of Bank Notes bath of late very much increased in this kingdom ; and as well far the prevention thereof. as to facilitate the detection of the same, the Governor and Crmpany of the Bank of England, have, after great considera• non. labour, and expence, formed a new plan for printing Bank 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 the top of each Bank Note. in white letters, upon a black. sable, or dark ground. such ground containing white lines intersecting each other. and the numerical amount or sum of each Bank 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. and for the security of the public, be it enacted by the King's most excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of she 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 purpose by the said Governor and Company, and for the use of the said (Go- Werner 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. er 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 aforesaid, without an authority in writing from 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 past of a Bank Note of the description aforesaid; or if any person or petsoN shall, from and after the pinging of this Act, without tech astaboritv as aforesaid, knowingly and without lawful ex cel* binw in his, her, or their custody any silty such plate or in attention. or without such authority as aforesaid, shall knowingly *really ober, publish, dispose of. or put away any such blank Beak Nose. en part of such Bank Note, of the demption afore said. any person so offending in any of the gates aforesaid, and being thereof convicted according to law, she/ be adjudged a felon, and shall be transported for the term of feetheen years. " 2. And. whorl= divers frauds have been praised by making and publishing papers with certain words sod cbseactom so nearly ithembliag - th e Notes of the Govemer Ind COMPOW . the Bank of England. as to appear to ignorant NA trovaty persons to be the Notes of the said Governer Ind Comproly and it is nemesery for the sem* of the public, that such ware eidhe4 Is=g a to th e Nines ef th e said Governor and Company 011ie aforesaid. should be prevented ; be it therefore ihrthar anathad, that if any penes Or persons. from and after the paling of this Aes, shall aggress% cut. etch, scrape, or by any o th er art. means. se device, oaks, or shall cause or procure to be oltroord. cutotehed. scraped, r by any other art, means, or connivance, thaw et shall knowingly or assist in the engra ving, elatings ettNag, cramping. or by any other art, means or contrivance. making, Is upset any piss of copper, brass, steel, iron. pewter, or gamy edoor inetelo. re wood, or upon any other materials. or uponanysitheolthatooever, any line work, as or for the ground-work eta Proosisor3 , Note or Bill of Exchange, the impression taken dies width line work shall be intendod to re semble the grouni-wark da Soak Nose of the said Governor and Company of the tieseslalen ateswead, or any device, the impressies table has isbish shall costaie she words • Bank of England.' In white letters upon a black able, or dark ground, either with or without white or other lines therein, or shall con tain in any part thereof the numerical sum or amount of any Parisian Note or Kill of Exchange, In black and red register work, or shall show the renewal mounts of a Promisory Note or Bat of linehangetor of any part of a Protnisory Note or Bill of Kashoups or shag osossin any word or words, figure or figures. clwastart or dare an, pattern, or pawns, which shall be in elided So woubbe the whale or say part of the matter or °ma mma slimy Sank Note of the drecoption aforesaid, or shall oenteinzti on an sis. d, number, figure, or character, in white on a as dark ground. either with or without white or !thaw which shall be intended to resemble the mime rind non or arneunt in the margin, or ;any other part of any Bank Note of the said Governer Ad Company, without an au thority in writing tor that popes ma hum the said Governor and Company. to be poodosal sid pu by the party accsed • if any penes or pens= &ell, lbw awl after the passing or Of this Act (without sods euthenty as abresoid), use any such .plate. wood. sr other rasisrld so 'waved, cat, etched. scraped, or by any other art. mean% toreentrivance, node, or shall use any other instrument or contrivance for the making or printing upon any paper or other material, any word or woods, figure or figures, character or characters. pattern or which shall be in tended to resemble the whole or any the matter or orna ments of any such note of the said Ooverosr and Company, of the description aforesaid, or any word. figure, or character in white on a black. sable, or clerk ground, either with or wit hout white or other tines therein, which shall be apparently ictended 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 any person or persons shall. from and after the passing of this Act. without such authority, knowingly have in his, her. or their custody or on, any such plate or instrument, or shall knowingly 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 lime in - his. her. or their custody or possession, any paper or other material containing any such word or words, figure or figures, character or characters, patters or patterns as aforesaid (without lawful excuse. the proof whereof shall lie upon the person accused), every . person so offendinh in auy of the Mies atbresaid, and being convicted thereof according to law, shall be adjudged a felon, and shall be transported for the tom 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. tremor and Company to sign Bank Notes on behalf of the said Governor and Company to sign 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 be adopted by the said Governor and ;Com pany, instead of being subscribed in the hand-writing of such person or persons respectively And whereas doubts may arise respecting the validity of such Notes ; be it therefore declared and enacted, that all Bank Notes of the said Governor and Company of the description aforesaid, whereon the name or names of any wroon or persons intrusted or authorised to sign such Notes on behalf of the said Governor and Company, shall or may . be im pressed by machinery provided he that purpose by the said Governor and Company, and with the authority of the said Governor and Company, shall be and be takcu to be good and valid to all intents and purposes, as if such notes bad been sub scribedin tbe.proper hand writing of the person or persons ietrus• fed or authasased by the said Governor and Company to sign Use seas teipairely, and shall is deemed and taiga to be Beak THE NATIONAL REGISTER._ - - ---- Notes within the meaning of all laws and statutes whatsoever, and shell and may be describe I as Bank Notes in all indictments and other criminal and civil proceeding► whatsoever ; any law. statute,,or user to the contrary notwithstanding. COMFORT TO OLD BATCHELORS AND RED HAIRED MAIDENS. " 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 thr some time 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 : It : It:. But for the Extracts—the first is in proof of the comparatively happy, because less anxious, life of a man without a family, and we give it for the comfort of such of our unhappy readers, reminding them that the comfort of a con nubial life are not 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 home, a toardly young man, and Tiges, another of the sages, that was unities:ad, which estate was better, marriage or a single life: Solon commended matri mony, Thales preferred the other: and when he perceived that he could not perswade Solon by reason and argument to be of his opinion, he practised this device. When their tante was ended, being both at Tholes his house, Thales went fsrth and caused one to faine an errand to him, and say as lie had instructed him. as though nee came from Athens, where Solon's dwelling was; this man like a stranger, as these wise men were talking together within the house, knoek eth at the doore ; Tholes knell him in : the man faineth a message to him from a friend of his at Athens : Solon hearing him say that hee caine from Athens : Solon hearing him say that bee came frail' Athens, went forth of the next room to him, and asked what news from Athens? Little news (quoth lie) but as I came forth of the city, I saw the senatours and R rincipati men of Athens going to the bunall of a young man. Solon going into the other rooms again. and musing who this should be, being in some doubt lest peradventure this should be his sonne, commit forth to hini spine, and asked him who it should be that was dead ? He answered that he had forgotten his mine, but it was the onely sonne of a notable man in Athens, and that for the reverence and love that they did beare to his father, all die nobilitie and principal' men of the city went to his burial'. Then Solon greatly confused and troubled in minde, goeth from him againe, fearing his owne bonne, and being faire out of quiet, returned' to aske him, whether 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 he might heart it againe. And after Solon had reckoned up the names of a great many of the principall men of the city, and the other denying them to be die man. he cane at last to his own name. and asked whether he were not called Solon ? And when the other affirmed nut to be the name of the father of this young man that was dead, Solon cryeth out upon his onely sonne, anti maketh great lamentation ; he taireth his haire, and beateth his head against the wal. and doth all things that men use to do in easy ot calamitie. W hen Thales had beheld him &Awhile in this passion. be of good comfort, Solon, (saith lie) thy mine ; but now you see 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 bulcinea may possess locks of so classic hue we shall be gratified. " Glorious fruit of the essence of die most beautiful' visible being ! intelligent reflection of the radical' fire of nature ! image of the sun, the most perfect I I am not so brutish as to mistake for my queen, the daughter of him that my ancestors acknow ledged for their god. Athens oemoaned the fall of her crown, in the ruins of Apollo's temple,; Home ceaied to command the world, when she denyed incense to the light; and Bumentium first began to inslave mankind. when she woke for her arms those of the sun's sister : as long as Persia did homage to this universal' spirit, for the rayes that she held from him, foure thousand yours could not make old the vigour of her monarchy . ; but being ready to see his images broken, he took sanctuary in Pequin from 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 only a great eye under a red periwig; yet all the world speaks ill of it, because few havethe honour to be so. And amongst a hundred ladies, you shall hardly . find one, because they being sent twin Heaven to command, it's necessary there should be more sub jects than sovereigns. Do we not see, that all timings in nature are more or less noble, according as they are more or lease red ; amongst the elements, he that contains the most essence, and the least matter of substance, is the fire, because of his colour ; gold hash received of his dye, the honour to reign over time 'rattails ; and of all the planets. the sun is most considerable, onely be cause he is most red ; the hairy comets which doth fly up and down the skies, at the death of heroes. are they not the red mus tacheoes of die gods, that they pluck off for griefe ? Castor and Pollux. those little 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 possesse 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 it recent invention) Americus would have told us that the world bath Wore parts. Apollo, Venus, and Love, the fairest divini tyes of the pantheon, art crimson red ; and Jupiter is brown but by accident, because of the smoke of his thunder, which hash blackt him. But if the examples of inythologie do not satifie the obstinate, let them consult history. Sampson, whose strength hung at his locks, did he not receive his miraculous energy from the rednesse of his hair ? Did not the destinies make the 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 die Ethiopians, if he could have found amongst them but one red ? One would not doubt of the excellency of those persons. it' one considered, that all men were not made by men, and for whose forming God himself choose and Imeided the substance, were red. Adam, that was created by God's own hand, ought to be the most accomplisht 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 • red one, jest as she aspires to make gold by making of mercury, but she seldom hits upon it. An archer is not c.0.-met' un skilful!, who letting:luny arrows the. but five or six hits the mark. As the best beneficed coastitution that which is between fleg matiok and inelancholly, one must needs be very happy to hit exactly an invissible point. The fl axen and the black are besides it ; that is to say, the fickle and the obstinate ; between tote is the medim, where wisdom, in favour of red men, bath lodged venue, so their flesh is much more delicate, their blood more pure, their spirits more clari fi ed, and consequently th eir uudect more acsoce i .lshed, because of .be perfect raiature cfthesclatus qualities. Timid Is the reason why red men become not so won envy as those that are black, u if nature were angry and unwiling to destroy that, which she took a pleasure '.n making. In troth. I seldom see a flaxen head of hair, but I think of a distaff ill periwig'd. But 1 grant, that fair women *hen they are young, are pleasing; but as soon as their checks begin logrow woolly, would one it think that their flesh divides itself into little threads to make them a !mud ? I speak not of black beards, for tit well known, if the devil! weare any, it cannot be but very dark. Since then we must all become 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. ...mm, BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. J. Bolt and G. Jones, Bath, grocers. BANKRUPTS. J. Barrow, Braman, . Cheshire , denier. Solicitors, Messrs. Appleby and Sergeant. Gray's Inn. J. Housman. Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, wool dealer. Sol. Mr. Wheeler, Castle Street, Holborn. D. Thornton, Kidreaton, Yorkshire, victualler. Sols. Messrs. Appleby and Sergeant, Gray's Inn. .1. Hall, North Shields, master mariner. Sc. b Messrs. Mit chell and Francis, Sun C ourt, Cornhill. DIVIDENDS. _ . .... Aug. 25, B. Smith and N. Redhead, Penrith, bankers -22, 1. and R. Convey, East India Chambers, merchants-12. J. L. Cope, Kingston upon Hull, merchant-12, J. Woodroof, Gun Street, Liberty of the Old Artillery Ground. turner-25, J. Barnes. Foam, builder-26, J. S. Reins, Wapping Wall, merchant 24, J. Bragg, Weymouth and Melcombe Regis, mercer -12, H, Waddington. Bridge Street, Ulackfriart. merchant-26. T. R. Smith, Ostiird, linen draper-26. J. Swainson, Manor How. East Smithfield, merchant-25, T. Freame. Worcester, cabinet maker—Sept. 7, W. Farmer, Walsall, Staffordshire. innhoklee —7,, J. Wood, Walsall. Staffordshire, factor. CERTIFICATES to be granted Aug. 22. G. Stock, Bristol, cabinet maker—T. E. I lenshaw, Derby currier—E. Steven., Aintree. Lancashire. sail maker—ll. and W. Carpenter, Alresford, Southampton, brewers—C. Willis, Hatton. Garden, scrivener—A. Holmes and H. White, Chesterfield, and T. 'Tindall, Chester Le Street, Durham, hat manufacturers. AGRICULTURAL REPORT FOR JULY: From the extreme variations of the weather in the course of the mouth, the Wheat and all other kinds of grain have greatly suffered, particularly in those diets km where they are heavy on she ground. Tee tabs in many parts fell in such torrents as to lay all the growing crops, except the Beans, as the as if the heaviest roller had passed over them. Such of these as had 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 must therefore suffer most in their samples. The Peas are generally abundant—but the Beans lost their bloom by the night.frosts and will prove defective.— Should the tine warm weather continue, the general har vest will commence earlier than was looked for. Potatoes are likely to prove very productive. The Hay, where they fed late, in many of the gracing comities, has been ill got up, and in some low lands, totally spoiled. The 'Eurnips are a snore general and plumbing plant than has been known for several seasons past—but from their defective produce last year, fewer Swedes have been I sown in the Eastern District. The latter math Grass is ' abundant. The Hop plantations, though somewhat cleansed by the late thunder storms, ate nut expected to average a third of a crop. The Wool market is better fur most kinds, particularly for the cross fleeces between the Southdown and Leicester. Smithfield, notwithsiaud. ing its full supplies, has Vela up goo.' priers for prime Beef and Mutton. Lamb and Veal are rather lo aer. le Lean Stock but little business 1144 been done through the month, except for good conditioned store Lambs and Wedders, for which there is a brisk demand and honey Cart Cults are worth more money. THUNDER STORM. Abont 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 hied, the lightniug was awfully vivid, and the rain poured down in torrents. This storm lasted nearly two hours. The effect generally was much the same as in Lon don, except on the Bath road, where it woe 044 accom panied by rain. Such was the ungovernable state of ide horses is many of the mists, that the coachmen were obliged to put up, deeming it imps toletit to proceed. Part of the electric fluid fell on two houses, Nos. 12 and 13, in 'Polhill Street, Liquorpool Street, and shivered the chimney pots to pieces, and broke in the serried flour of so. 12, shivered the cupboard dour to pieces, nod set several parts of the shattered wood on fire. The houses art small, being only the two floors, with one room on a dorw. There were two beds in the room, and the family were in bed, who tieing terribly alarmed, got up, and fortunately extin guished the ftre. and they sat up the retwainder of the night in fear nod trembling. At the alijoining house, No. IS, the electric fluid broke through the roof and ceilings, caught the beli-wire, which was iron, and descended by it to the street door, destroyed the wire and cranks, leaving it black mark of smoke along the wall, as if from gun-powder ; an ozier cradle that was on the first floor was scorched all over, and some of the clothes caught foe; fortunately the child was in bed with Us mother at the time. An old man who slept in the room, and a ho was enable to walk for six wet Its before from rheumatic pains, received such sin electric shock, that he ,lumped out of bed, ran down stairs, and recovered the Use of his limbs, so he is now as well as ever he was in his life. 'fhc hair on his wife's head was very much singed, but she received no other injury. The fluid, after tte,cending as far as the street dour, shivered Open the parlour dour, and took a 4ifection along the passage wail, which it tore along to the back door, caught the lock nod hingt s, all of which it wrenched °frond threw the door into pieces into the yard, leaving a strong smell all ever the house, its if caused by gun powder. However, their losses were well recompensed, ha for during the whole of Tuesday the street was crowded, and two persons, nt the door of No. IS, had mamas:li loth) as tbry could to receive the pence of hundreds of gentlemen and others, who were admitted to seethe effects produced by the lightmog. New BARRACKS AT STOCKPORIC:-TIIC fixindia tions of a very large barracks have been laid, tola the erection is now carrying on with great rapidity, oa the road to Marple, about half a mile from Stock• poll.