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With a short View of some Experiments, which will be described in the Author's new. Book how in the pres. • Printed fo. + . lll Autlx,r, and sokt er eventh and Mania, Nfiddla-row,Holb4rii, when the Nara** of Subscribers to toe New Ware are received. A ItY 23 1803. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. --- , HOUSE OF LORDS: TUESDAY, ere. 22. The ke of MONTROSE, pursuant to a ruse pn .tice h. id given, now rose to move a congratula tory el dress to his Majesty, on the discovery and fruse ..eon of the late wicked conspiracy, wlech aimee t his Majesty's most sacred life, and the subs?: on of his Majesty's Government. He was 41 certa let upon this subjeet there could he but one sent; eint in the House : for, was it possible to con temf lafe the Neale and private virtues of his Ma jesty Seithout feeling the utmost horror and indig nation at any attempt or design against his most sa cred ilie—a life endeared to us by the experience of the inestimable blessings which, during his mild reigr e and auspicious -government, we so pre-emi nently enjoyed ? What then must be the bonitels of our daestation of so atrocious a design as that of &pre. mg us of his parental protection, and of des troying our invaluable Constitution, which placed us in so elevated a point of view in the list of na tions= and of which his Majesty's uniform conduct telide4 to preservd inviolate ! He was sensible that the sapred life of our most gracious Sovereign could not'{i the sole object which the conspirators had in vitere i but the destruetion of that Constitution of whine he composed a part. kor who could enter tain kith any other view an intention hostee to tie existence of a Monarch, whose tender regard for tile interests of his people, whose attachment to our Constitution, and whose royal virtues in every point of view, claimed the warmest love and admiration ? The history of iingland auld not furnish an in stante of any Sovereign so justly endeared to his people, as his present Majesty. The Noble Lord then moved, That an Address be presented to his b.ltlty, congratulating his Majesty, &c. &c. CAMDEN seconded the Motion, and fol lowed the Noble Duke in a high culogium on his Majesty, and the blAsings derived from the influ ence of his Royal virtues. The propriety of the Address, he said, must be evident to every Noble Lord, and the present time the most eligible for pre ' sensing it, when the trials and execution of those traitors had taken place, and consequently could not have any den& upon their fate. He was sensi ble that there was but one opinion in the House, and he believed in the country (with the exception,. if any, of a very few indeed), respe&ing the just indignation which the late horrid conspiracy ex cited, and the joy which its discovery and frustra tion' occasioned. He concluded by observing, the utmost gratitude was due for this fresh interposition of Divine Providence in our favour ; a just sense of which should be impressed . on the minds of all his Majesty's subjects. The motion for the Address was then put and car ried. 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His Lordship nemt adverted to some fexprtsiions which had fallen from the Noble Lord opposite him, that the measure must have proceeded from an application on the part of the Bank, or in conse quence of some accommodation offered to Govern-. punt. He contended, that the Bank never made any such application ; nor was Government aduated by any motive, but that of keeping in our hands, at the present moment, when bullion' was so scarce, and the country had been drained of stich large sums of money, a sufficient stock of cash to answer any emergency. He concluded, by stating it to be en tirely a measure of pnrliamentbry . L i ord KING said, that strong reasons should be given for adopting a Bill of such very great impor tance, and which so materially concerned the credit land the ptoperty of the country. He had heard no reasons on the subjed calculate,l to impress his mind with a sense of the propriety or necessity of the mea sure, nor. could he feel satisfied with those assigned by the Noble Secretary of State. Ms Lordship then read an extract from the London Prix: Courrant, which he observed was published twice a week, and from which authority he stated the price of bullion and course• of exchange from the year l7i:ro On this subject his Lordship displayed a very consider able degree of knowledge, and drew this inference, that the restridion of the Bank from paying in spe cie was found to operate on the course of exchange, by comparing those periods when it issued specie with those at which it did not. He next adverted to the condud of the Bank Diredors, who had.cer tainly afted with great moderation and prudence, notwithstanding Cie powers'whicli this Bill conferred on them of multiplying notes ; but the same could not be said in regard to the Bank of Ireland, whose notes had increased to a most enormous • degree. The consequence was this : that the course of ex change with I)uhlin was 15 and ; per cent. His Lordship gave his most decided opposition to the Bill. The Earl of MOIRA said, that the arguments be had made use of on a former day were not answered, nor was his opinion on the subjel altered by any thing advanced by the Nobl: i'ecretary of State. PRICr SI,XPENCE. His Lordship then procee led to recapitulate the sev.•ral points he urged against the Bill on its first reading, and enforced his arguments by references to several papers which lay on the table. He pointed out ateerror which appeared in r e Acton nt respecting the Consolidated Fund, which he said arnse from a laudable motive of itispirihg conti dence, by holdint oat a flatt•ring prospect to the country ; but when the case was found to he other wise, the effeft of the delUsion would be more severely felt. He then reasoned at considerable length on the state of our finances, and answered the Noble Sc:cretary of State's arguments respeding the necessity of the measure. He said it was 1 proceeding which could not be justified on any principle of justice; that it was a gross violation of private property, and an heavy oppression on the creditors of the Bank. For if any person who holds the notes ofthe Bank of England has Occa sion to convert them into cash, he has no cipher means of doing so, but by purchasing merchamlize, and selling it rn another country ; and upon *Let principle of equity canwe compel any person whd has lodged his money in the Bank, cn the fahh of a public contract sandlioned by Parliament, to hare recourse to such an expedient f o r t h e recovery,..of., his property ? His Lordship next took a comprd hensive view of the paper-circulation of the country, and its depieciated state, together with the extrzor din:try issue of Eschequet Bills, and inferred, that the Course of Exchange, which was a principal rex. f - '• • eon assigned fcr adopting this measure, was Mate- Wally affeCted by the restrietion on the Bank, and he t • was confident would continue so as long as that measure remained in force. He concluded, by ea pressing his decided disapprobation cf the bill. The Earl of WESTMORELAND arose, not, he said, to go into any discussion of the solidity and stability of the Bank, because no one Noble Lord appeared to entertain any question about it, nor should he feel it necessary to enquire whether the first imposition of a restrietiori upon the Bank was or was not a violation of property, a breach of contrati—whether it was equitable or inequitable, just or unjust. The necessity of it had been suffi ciently established; the peculiar run upon the Bank in 1797, when the first Restriction Bill was intro duced, and the scarcity of bullion in the country, occasioned by the large sums sent out of it to pay the armies and fleets, and to discharge the large subsidies payable to the Emperor and other foreign Princes our allies, made it inahpensibly necessary, and the beneficial consequences that had been felt by all commercial men, as the result of its operation in 1797, and theseveral subsequent renewals of it, at once proved that its expediency, its policy, and its wisdois were equal to its necessity. He would not. therefore; waste the time of their Lordships by going intoany enlarged reasoning upon those points, which were upon the face of them incontrovertible: all he should aim at would he to endeavour 'to take off the im pression of some charges and insinuative§which the Noble Lord opposite to him (Lord Rawdon) had cast upon Ministers, and upon Goderainent ; but the profound personal respe& Ire entertained for that Noble Lord would induce him to speak in as tern perate and guarded a manner as possible. In the first place, that Noble Lord had stilt contended in support of a charge which he had brought forward against Ministers in a ferreter day's debate, and which' had been then most satisfaCtorily explained and refut ed, and again answered in the most dire& and explicit terms by his Noble Friend near him (Lord Pelham), viz. that the-Bill appeared to him either to be now abbut to be renewed at the reqnisiticn of the Directors of the Bank of England, or that it was a compromise between them and Government, found ed on principles of mutual accommodation. This was, his Lordship said, a pretty strong charge of a sort cf corrupt connivance between the supposed parties,, and the Noble L 6-41 opposite to him had endeavoured to give it colour, by putting a hype thetical case of the sort cf bargain that Mightiest been made between the Bank and Ministers. Ln order, however, to lead the House to believe this insinuation, he should have thought it would have been necessary to have endeavoured to support it by something like evidence, and not rest itw holly on mere supposition. V here was the Houst to look for proof of any such compromise ? Not one word about it appeared in 'any of the various papers laid on the table, -printed copies of which were in their Lord ship's hands. And did any proof arise from ;,ny one of that House ? Who had heard a syllable that tended to give it credibility ? Did it. appear from any part of the conduct of the Bank, while acting under the operation of the for mer Bills of Restriction ? Directly the contrary ; the Bank had not immoderately multiplied the number of Bank notes in circulation. They had increased the circulation to no greater extent than the necessity of the market indispensiblv required. This being the case, surely a Noble Lord of so much weight and authority as the noble Lord op. posite, should have had something like strong co- dente of the fact, before he had ventured to throw out an insinuation so injurious to the credit of a most respectable commercial body, a body not only unimpeachable as to their solidity and stability, but irreproachable' in every part of their conduct since they were first granted a charter. With regard to the course of the exchanges having been against this country, that did not, in his mind, amount to any thing like proof that the com merce and prosperity of this country were not, for 'he last five years, .and at present, as high as they had been stated to be by a :Minister elsewhere. On the contrary, he and every man might see, that where there was no influx of bullion into this coun try, the price must be consequently high in preper ticn to its scarcity; and this was t h e more felt hem on account of the iromerix drains of specie that had been experienced by us, in the venous and larat sums exported to the Continent, and crt the difTerint grounds which he had already mentioned. Cho great reason, that hod occasioned the necessity of the till being first natrodueed,vras the alarm of the Coun try Banks, which had circulated such a prodigious number of notes, that en ,nalkaed run was v :44, ~•. ~:~ • • K ! 1 4 k, e J , . 4i .Al‘ ~. 1 % ' -** 'I. 104 , ; • • .~ . F