The National Register. — London, England, 1819-01-10 00:00:00

BULLION. A century since. in Janoary 1718, the Lords Com nfssioncrs of 'l'mle TO flantatimis were directed to lay beNire the House of Commens, " the Aceonnts Of exported to foreign parts, from 1698 to 1715, distinguishing to what parts such Bullion had been ex ported, with their observations thereupon." At this dime, t , v), several old l'reatimes were revived, aad new ones published, relative to geld and silver. cidestvouring to develop: and esnose " the real cause of the present scarcity of gold and silver coin, tke." and wtth the purpose of giving "irite information, to those in authority, of the real stnte of the case." It wits then proposed to prohibit the exportation of lel Bullion, and that all should be coined of a certain staf.dard„ with freo liberty to export such coin, and also wrought platt.•. At that period the par of silver with gold was much above the present; to the East Indies and in China 14s. sofsilvc.r were equal to u guinea of gold. In 17 itg, silver was at ss. 94 an oz. and at 3s. 11a. The exportation of silver to the East Indies was much thought of as injurious and a principal cause of the itvareity, supposing it to go to purchase chintz and ca licoes, coffee, tea, china, and japan ware; all then called ",foreign *vet:flotilla." Sir Isaac Newton's Report, of n short time preceding this date, was referred to: 1.1 nn. of silver were reck oned to be the equivalent of one ounce of gold ; and they were disposed to consider silver as the standard of vilue, and gold as tnerebandize only, and its price re lathe to silver variable, as it has ever been. The 20s. pieces of gold, coined by Charles I. were become worth 235. (id. gold having advanced 7 per -cent. Guineas, first coined at the restoration, at 20s. had risen to 218. 6t1.; but this tide was then turning, through a scarcity felt of silver, and as increased value in exchange with gold east of the Cape of Good Hope, and by the gold mines of Brazil increasing their pm ducts, while those of silver in Spanish South Anwrica ha.) lid len ofi . O. the 21st of September. 1717, Sir Isaac Newton presented his tern, in which he stated, that in China and Japan, a pound of gold being worth but iOlh. of silver, and in Hindustan but 12, was a cause of the drain of silver from all Europe. In Spain ilh. of gold was then worth 161 b. of silver ; the current of silver therefore flowed from Peru, through Spain and Britain, to the eastern regions. The price of exportable silver bullion was at that time (1717-8) 2d. to 3d. an oa. higher than that of our silver in coin, which caused themselting or export of the current coin. A proclamation at this time at tempted to reduce the value of gold, by ordering no snore than 21a. in silver to be given for a guinea ; but the effect produced by this, did not answer to the ex poet atinns formed of it. In the House of Lords,en the 28d of January, 1718, the' scarcity of silver money was attributed by Earl Stanhope—to the increasing luxury of silver plate—to the exports to the East Indies and to clandestine ex portation to" the Continent. In the year 1717, the East India Company had exported 3,000,000 ors. of silver, more than all the imports of that year. The Lords could do nothing in the matter, but " pass a Bill" to prevent the " melting down of the silver species." Their Lordships might with as much eflixt have passed another Bill, to prevent the raising up of the Iceman species. The current of the precious metals has for some time past sot strongly towards Russia, whither they arc gone Colon London, Holland, Paris, Hamburgh, and Ber lin, in great quantities, to the Imperial Mint at Pe-' tersbusgh, with a profit very encouraging on this tran sit to all who have been engaged in the practice. United State Papers to the 11th ult have been reached. Among the further documents communicated to Congress by the Pjesident, is a detailed Report of the trial of Arbuthnot and Ambrister. It appears from the conclusion of the proceedings in the case of the latter, that the court decided he should be shot, but afterwards co•isidered and revoked the decision, and ordered that ho should rc sive stripes cm his bare back, and be confined, with a ball and chain, to hard labour for 12 calendar months. General Jackson censured the second, and approved the first, 'and ordered both prisoners to be executed without delay. If implicit credit were to attach to the assertions of The National Intelligrneer, a Commercial Treaty has been actually concluded between Great Britain and the United States, and The New York Gazette acids, that it is to last ten years. The time assigned for bringing the treaty to a termination, the 20th of October, renders the genre highly improbable, as it was positively announced by the President in his NJ essagc on the opening of Congress, that the Treaty was then, the 16th of No. Temi,er, ander pending negociation. The price of gr.lin continues to fall in most of the d e p artments of France, and the Government has in eo n: k quence been calied upon to allow it to be exported. A similar fall has taken place in Cie/many. r " THE NATIONAL REGTsTEit THE REVENUE. OFFICIAL sT ATM! ENT. Mottract of the Not l*rioliire of the Reveette of Groat Britain, for ll'. Quarter. osirlitt sth Juts. ISIS and Is 111. respectively, exelo..ivr stienr of 11•ar *Dite.es:- Ist& IRIS. Custer:ls • .E.3.0!7,6 , 21 2,465.654 Exen, - - N. 499.611 6/23K.A$E1 s , amps - 1.566.53: 1,5.7 1 .55 e fast ()inv. . . 319,0tt0 • 31.9,0rx1 Aresied 'rases - • 24600)17 2.503478 Lind Tr.ses - 333.6 1 4 40t1,566 Nliballancotts - • "2.5.5.318 135.381 Z. 13,471.764 13.3911,:61 The above is a cheering •talemen', upon which we take leave to rilllgf 011114 Ille CI . STOSP4.-11 appear.. epnit the compsialive view of the Cit , tn tr.'. Revenue for the two cut r•••;condine Quartcri, that thi re has been a less receipt in the Quarter just expired than in the enrrespontbne Warier last year; but that Quartet Wa• swelled by an anticipated pasnient mum sugar ditties to Or amount of shoot 700,0001., which would otherwise not have lice" p.tid till the next or the following Quartcr. title, thesefore, thi% .141.1.t1y Ists. the rteript of the Quarter ended on Tin:inlay %rid exceed th it (tithe col re•pooditt;t Quarte r. Exeisk.—The hie rase in the Quartrt just expired beyond the e.arevpnti.ling Q... 111 tar, in 7.04,36E1. STANlP.:—Underliek 11;41 tho:r.• Is a deereate, but to a very trilling ailment —shoo: 311,0001. POST OFFI4E.-118 fcry;itt of the two fin:Wets iv exactly the •:tmc. A.sE..sigo TAXER.—There is all inereamr of 13,7611. be yowl llir Corrtsposolirg Qoar . L %NO TAX Vi.—Ao Hurtease .151,1621. bed and the Quarter Inst year. NI ISC ELI.4IIk SOCB.—Euseter this bead their is a difference of above 120,0001. hi favour of the eon espondine quarter last year, butt this is to be &tuatara to a large repayment of inquest moues.. Th e akh o .e Q u arter psc.ents an eNCI , II of 126,9911. beyond the Revenue of the earl spontlim; Llaarter last •ar, uhieh was dtrllMr 11 4 very productive oily, and ultieb, if we recol lect right, alto tied an opportunity for indulging some predie. nuns by Bin means favourable to Use Quarter just ended— how well ihry have liet.u . veriti...ll me new .how. . . Th.• ticticieiscy iq this (anal tcr, ar srpeat (this being the large balk:.estiN payinrin of tliviitystils), is about pii; much l.•+s than w•.t• anticipated. . _ . • This suns include: between 600,000/. and 700,0001. paid np in anticipation of the sugar duties, which would not, in the ordinary cour.e of payment, have been reeeie..il till the next, or the following quart..t. The NI iseellantous also includes a large incitl.nt LI repay ment of iiiipzeaz. money. Si ov LAP Disco e n . rite Nurencierz Ca recspoadiwt of the 2911 i Ull, gives the folroa mg as a11.111.1111c :—" A hat maker, of Cassel, stained Maillieli. has discovered a method of manor:it:toting fell so 55 to make it impenetrable to the stioke of a sabre in the hatuls t the strongest cuirassier, and even to a ninsket..l,all. This fact has been proved by minter -01111 trial*. Ile offered to discover the secret to ant Govern ment fur a suitable recompence, but no aural ion was paikl to it. A report of this invention, however, leached St. Petersburg, and Mr. Maitlich was invited to present himself to the Emperor of Rus*iii at Ais-la.Chapelle. The Russian Generals being satisfied if the truth of his assertions, he has been invited to establish in Russia a mairufactory of this felt upon the moat liberal terms." A COMMON Scut") l— Mary was lately tried b. fo.st the Raitiar re City Cowl, on an indictment as a Co 1.... n. Scold! The Jury, after a consultation of an hour and a half, returned their verdict of Gniity.—The punishment for a " COIIIIIIOII Scold," agreeably to the law of Daltiasure, is a puhiie siockiug ! SI A 534411 Y JUSTICF.—It is stated in The American Village Reeord,r, that a pedlar at Easton was discovered to have tau negro children in his cart. On examination, one of the little sufferers was fonnd to have been clammed in. in such a manner, that his ear was rubbed off! The people indignantly rose and cut off the fellow's ear.—" I ant no advocate," adds ;/'he Recorder," for the violation of the laws, but from my heart I can't feel sorry for him!" The writer of a letter town Port Jackson, (New Smith %Vales) lately received at Plynumtli-Jock, says=" The work here is not hard ; the hours are flora six to three. Rich mid poor ran do much better here than in England ; the enmity abound* in fiuit ; peaches Id. per dozen; meat 7d. per lb.; wheat 6*. per bushel; fouls (alive) 2s. bd. per couple. The hulls are so al dant that *wine are fed on then,. New South Wales holds out stieli advantages to pei • suns of industry and character, that I shall never think of returning to England. Plenty offish here, bait none of them resemble the fish of England, except the mullet anti bream. " The river Ilawkesbury is broader than Hamotize, and sometimes rises tu or 50 feet, overflowing all its bank.. A Late inundation has been productive of cousideriae mischief to the harvest. It is dreadful to a contemplative mind to observe the distress of Mob *eses here, in one of the finest spots on the globe. arising from the abominable practice of drinking rem to excess, to obtain which no means are left untried. NO man's house is safe ; you are sure of it wing your premiers rubbed, unless a person is left in them as a guard during your absence. The Methodist connexion, of which I am a member. is very small; Mr. Lee is the preacher, iievery pious, good man. Sunday-sehouls are established, as well as a school wherein 40 girls are clothed and supported. The Governor of this place, and his lady, are both from Devon.Jslre. A panty has lately been despatched across the Blue Mountains to explore the country, but no news his arrived from thesis for their two niontlis. When the trews of Use death of the Princess Charlotte arrived here, the gun.. batteries at Port Philip, &r. fired minute guns, and the bells tiled an hour at sun-rise and sun-set. The gentry attended the Governor to church in deep =lining, &c." In the village of Kat.clianonka, in she district of Liskinsh, in Russia, a peasant woman was lately delivered of a child, having four hands and four feet. Its body, from the bream , . was divided into two parts joined to each other. The was baptized, and lived two days: the mother was in lIIIU danger whatever. In purulence of a Jaw of Peter L, !da tive to these kind of phenomena, the body was sent to Pe. iersburgh, to be deposited in the cabinet of *the Imperial A radomy of Sciences. A Jewish merchant from Hambingh having recently, in a ht of melancholy, cut his throat at an inn in Frankfort, they were going, according to the ii.age of the City, to give his body to a Theatre of Anatomy ; but the Hebrew Community porelia , cd it fun 3000 ilorius., in order to bury It in limit own stint:try. JAN 10 • LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF KINON BEN( 11, J T. NUNN AND OTIILUI, ASSIGNEE.; Or 81.:NAUN AND DUN,. V. FARQUHAR. This was an action up i the ease far been It of worrantry in the performance of a omtrr.et. for the purent , e of pipes of Red Spanish Wine. warranted by eir defendant to be go oil and merchant. able, but which turned out k be sour and unmerehantebl. • wh ere b y the pintitit% hen, upon the re•slle of the 'pod; 1,5471 ' . Eta. 4 4. The eircums:ar,ces of the cue. as stated by Mr. iilarryat, and sus 'Aired in evidence, were wc follow : atessr.. Benson. Barn and Co. went Wine Merchants. residing Landon, and were in the habit of supplying wine for the eras of his lieleaty's Army and Navy, great part of which was procur d roan Spain. In the year 1809 the plantiA et:sok:yea the 4.er:tidied, then residing in Gibraltar, as their aost, pnrchas.: Catalonian sad other Spanish wines ; and ns at that tint • great part of Spain was occupied by Peewit troops, who were evending e try where. and were appmatt.ing Catalonia. it was appashended th..t the usual sup• ply from that province to Englar.d would be cut otir: Considerable numbers of Spaniards. who Were rwolnietors of vineyards, had token refuge in the garrison of Gibraltar ; and th- plaintiffs, desirous o f purchasing to much wine and bran dy as could he obtained frca t Spain et the time, as a (-onside-able advattee in the prices was ap. prehended front the eitetimstances rebore ronitioned, wrote b , dtfendant, and cmatnisstoned him to pi:etas:to the amount of 3 or tioo teas of mini ,•nil merchantable w:,wr and b-emlivs. on the best (MIS hecogalil tffct. and ship them as rapidly as possible for England; directing. Lim ut tl.e sone time to send thtnt m tow ta,ks, to lour s•weral hlitior al hoops .3f iron on each, and to have the wines forti fied with brandy. wt they were not Illy light or tints wines, to cause them to keep on th voyage. o. ring at the same tint: to the defend ant, that if he e mid bat undertake rite commission, he was to hand it ova to another penem. The defendant :weepteil the commission ar.d engxred to ItiNl it ; and wrote to the plantiffs, sta•ing that be would take a shase in the Adventure if the consigmnent should land 'l'o this the plentiffs answ:ne 1, by stating it was better fsr him to re..t content with his omunission. as it was not worth while to confuse atavisms fur the sake of the small profits that m:.aht acerac from the small glare he proposed t. take in the adventure, but desiring him to do the best he could. promising they should always be satisfied with what he should do for them. and leaving him at Rill discretion to art for their interests to the best of his power. The defendant aceordiroly purchased and marigned to them on beard the sit;p Proteus, glio pipes, and .T:4 hogsheads of Catalonian wine, which he stated to be good and merchantable, and which he invoiced at V 751. IF. Stl. being 561, per pipe; and the charges of plimage,Creight, and other costs. sutinunte Ito 11311 lya. 24. But on the arrlvz of the Protean , . the Clll7O of which the plaintiff had mid while on her voyage, the wine was so very inferior, being pricked and untrarchant able, the purchasers refused to take it, and they were obliged to all it for exportation to fikaath America. at 151. per pipe ; althoug h they had accepted and paid the drafts of the defendant to the full amount already stated. The wine was in old casks, great quantity was in Don. sequence lust by leakage, anti the qatility injureul by the consequent tillage: neither OM it appear that it was suffeiently fortified with brandy for the vo!age, as directed ; and th.-ry was Avery .e!son to be lieve. that the wir.e was, at rah aping. of a very inferior tqual:ty to what was ordero I.y the plaintiffs, and warranted by the citfennant. The house of Benson and, Co. had commenced a forting action against the defendant far the Teepee: y of the loss thus sustained by his neg— ligence, but became bank amt, and the assignees (of whom the present plaintiff, a plainer in the house, was one) renewed the action fur the benefit of the estate. Mr. Seadett, for the defendant, contended. that the resent action could not be maintained, inasmuch as the transactica. on which the action was founded took place near ten years since, thereby the de. fendant was prevented from bringing forward such evidence as could have clearly proved, had it been brought to trial sooner, that there was no negligence whatever on his part. and that he had faithfully performed leis duty. Neither was it probable to it;fer any fdhurc on his part. as I.e was a partner in the oentnre, and lutist be equally lia ble to loss with the plaintiff', in case of its failwe • and further, that the bad quality of the wine was tilt to be impute d to any negligence on his part, but to the failure of the vintage in the zut.cetiirg year. which wee generally 1.4 J in Spain. Mr. Justice If ulroyd summed up the eridence fee the Jury ; ob serving, that although the lapse of time since I•9e cr ieof tifii.n.ction accrued was no bar to the action itself, still o long a (May my :t ne cessarily dcbae.the deiktidant of the opportunity of bringing for ward many witnesses fur his defence, to disprove any negligence en his part, and at chew dist he had performed his contract to the best of his power. which must have afforded much more latistiwtory evidence to a .luty that any thing he could now be able to adduce. His Lord ship then de fired them to couple this consideration with the whole of the testimony. which he summed up accurately, and find a verdict to the beat of their judgment. The jary, without any delay, found for the defendant. The following are the Rules which that highly esteemed Judge Sir 311althew Hale, !let to himself at the entry into Ills employment of a Judge (and which ate 'Vet d by Bil Lop Bus ur tr, his histot ion, to have been copied from the osigival under his awn hand); "Things necessary to be continually had in remembrance. 1. That in the administration of Justice I am intru,ted fur God, the King, and Country ; and thesefore, S. That it be done-1. Uprightly. 2. Deliberately. 3. Reso lutely. 3. 'Mat I rest not upon my OWil untlen..tanding and strength, but ithplore and rest upon the direction and stieng,th of Cod. 4. That in the execution of Justice, I catefully lay aside my own passions, and nut give way to them, however pro eked. 5. That I be wholly intent upon the business 1 am about, remitt ing all other cares and thoughts as 11115c:401' able, ar.ci intc:rui tit 6. That I autf2r not myself to be prepossess,l with any judgintut at all, till the whop business and both parties he heard. 7. That I never engage myself in the beginning of any cause, but reserve myself unprejudiced till the whole be heard. H. That in Inisine , s capital. though my nature prompt me to pity, yet to consider that there is also a pay due to the country. 9. That I he not too rigid in matters purely eonsclentiour, a here all the harm is diversity of judgment. M. 'That 1 be not biassed with compassion to the poor, or favour to the rich, in point of justice. That popular, or Court applause, or distaste, have no infl ence into any thing I do in point of distribution et' justice. 12. Not to be solicitous what men will say or think, so IC:11; as I keep myself exactly according to the rule of Justice. 13. Ii in criminals it be a measuring cast, to incline to mercy and acquittal. 14. In criminals that consist merely in words, a hen no more Farm ensues, moderation is no injustice. IS. In criminals of blued, if the fact b.: evident, severity is justice. IG. To abhor all private solicitations, of what kind soevcr, and ley whomsoever, in matters depending. 11. To charge my servants—l. Not to interoose in any bittint ss whatsoever. 2. Not to take more than their known fees. 3. Net to give any undue precedence to causes. 4. Not to rector:me:A Counsel. . • . 18. To be than and sparing at meals, that 1 may be the fluor for business. Some time elute a Moniengser to the India Board, • matt ad aneed in year%, with a large family, bad the misfortune to break Ins thigh ; Mr. Canning on beams of his calansity, g 4. ucrouslj ;col Wan 50i.