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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, Tinasser, JANVART 21. The Duke of SinsEx took the oaths old Ns seat. THE ADDRESS. The Duke of MONTILOSS presented the Answer et his Royal Highness the Prince Regent to the Address of the House, condoling with his Royal Highsteaa on the derrs•e of her late Majesty. He thanked their Lordships fo► the eyinpathy they evinced nu the loss i.urtaitied he the Royal Family *ad the nation, and expressed his confidence in the affectionate attachment of the Hoerr. EVACUATION OF FRANCE. Lord 1101.1. AND requested the Notate Earl oppm site (the Earl of Liverpool) to inform bins when the House might expect to have the Treaties laid before them, which had been promised in the Speech of the Lord. Commissiriners. The Earl of LivEirooL replied, that it had been his intention to have had them !sod upon the table at an earlier 'period of the Srrsia► ; hot the isidispo.ition of a Noble Friend of hie, who was reliable to attend in another place, prevented him. it being his wish that the Treaties should be laid on the tables of both Houses at the same time. 11e, however, expected that on Tuesday next he should be enabled to lay the Treaties on the Valle. CARD OF THE KING'S VERMIN. The Ertl of SHAFTESBURY brought up tlor. Re -port of the 801 l fur the Cure of hir Mrjerty's I Prrroto. . The Earl or I.lvtapoor. brought up a Chum., enacting that troth's% continued iu the present Bill shook! oftect nuy previous statute respecting the ao. aesnbling of Parliameot on the demise of the King, or or the Pritree Regent. This Clause was read twice, anti passed. 'the Report was then received.—Adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS, 'Mtulay, Loamy's , 28. The SIEAIIIIL took the Chair a few minutes before four o'clock. Several Slenihers took the Galls aud their seats. PETITIONS. Sr. WM PHMDAS presented a Petition from the Glasgow Canal Company. fur leave to bring in • Rill to enlarge the powers riniferrsd by the Acts relative thereto.--Reail, sini referred to a Committee. Sir B. WM Guist presented a Petition from certain Mhz. hilanla of the town of Cheltenham, praying for brave to Ming in a Bill to light that limn with Kim—Read, and referred to a Committee. Mr \Vans presented a Petition to the mene purpose linen Gloacester.—Read, and referred to a Committee. Mr SWART WORTLVT prewuted a Petition from the Debtors confined in Turk Castle, complaining of certain hardship in their situation, slid praying tin• HMISr to take their ease into consideration, and giant such relief as they might judge proper.—Read, and orderecVlo lie on the table, and be printed WESTMINSTEIt HUSTINGS.. • The Orikrcollbe fhly having been read fur thor se orostol reading of the Westminster Hustings Bill, the Bill was read • second liner, and ordered to he milted to morrow. PRIVILEGES OF PARLIAMENT. Sir Jam LI Al Al nINTos# said, be held in his hand a Petition of some importance. It reinted to the matter laid before the /louse the night before, be the Speaker. soil refereed to u Committee of lirivileget, and uu which lie understood the Conn mittre were piepared to being in their Report to- It was from eertail persons who alleged, that Mr. Il.diert Christie Burton, elected as Nlem bee in thi• Parliament for Beverley, and now in the custody of the Warden of the Common Pleas, was indelsted n, them in a large sum of money. One branch of their prayer he was aware c,euld not, consistently with the privileges of the /louse, be acceded to—which was, that they should he oil"' ed to be heard by their Counsel at the bar of the House, to chew why the individual in question ought not to be liberated. Rut perhaps the other purl of it W4i entitled to some attention—praying, generally, that the !louse would be pleased to grant such tad as, on consideration of the Peti tioners' case, might seem expedient. The Petition was then brought up oitul read. It was (ruin flue merchants of Hull, stating, in sub stance, that judgment had liven obtained on a bond, with the penalty of 1,0001 in the year INI2, and on other sums since, against B. C. Burton, Esq. of which a very small part had been levied ; that Nlr. Berton had, in eoessequeuce, beets com mitted to prison in the year 1513, and remained since its custody ; swd concluded by 'Keying as Cescribed above. Previous to the question, "'That the Petition do lie on the table'"-- The SPEARED. said, that there appeared an irre gularity in ilw form of the Petition, which sheered the ignorance of the persons concerned in framing it, and co* stitu , ed a material objection, in point of forth, to its t ein.; received by the !louse : the Petition was signed by a person styling hit, ea agent to the Petitioners, and not by the Petitioners themselves. The Petition was then withdrawn. After some business of another nature had been gone through— Mr. W. WYNN brought up the Report of the Committee of Privileges, appointed the night be fore. It was read by the Clerk, as follows: — Is The Coasminee of Privileges, to whom is was referred 1.0 ex...sine the subj.ci.niatter of the letters addressed to the Speaker. and slimed Robert Christie Bartow, awl to report rue same, sins their opinion thereupon, to the Humor. have .at sad ex/mimed she above letters. They have fussed that the smd Robert Christie Barter is is she custody of the Warden of the CONSO6OO Pisan, nut en uuuuu tiois fur debt. hut uu infuse process, and have resolved that he is entitled to the privilege of Parliament." The Resolution having been read a second time— Mr. W. WYNN said he should lie content to let the Mouse at once udopt the Resolution of the Committee, were it not for the Petition which laid been presented that night on the subject, wliieli he thought required a few remarks. It ap 'tented to him, that, independently of the great defect iii Totem, which rendered it itiadmissible, throe existed DO ground whatever for the prayer it egged. There was no reasonable ditiirence in this sallpect between a custody on final execution, and ou mrsue process. The same principle of the ex peilteory for granting privilege Of POrIOSITICIIt e , i n e il to both cases, and it was ihis-.—that as the &airs mimed by election to serge his country in . ' . 1 ti 4:11a I\ ~! Porhauseut, were the highest which could he sin posed upon any man, so he was out to he prreel►ted Trani diacliarging thesis by the acts of private i►►di vutuals. The Hon. Gentleman then cited two cases in point—one in the year 1676, another io 1707. In the latter care, though the individual in custody on uterine proems fur several debts, had hero 1116. charged out of it, the blouse were by no means disposed to view Ina case wills a partial eye. fur the Tint thing they did after he took his seat was In expel him for an irreligious publication, written by him some •ears before: - Mr. W. WTsrt then moved—" That Mr. Robert Ch►istie Burton be discharged out of the cmtudy of the %yerden of die Fleet Prison." The 'motion was put, and carried unanimously. EXTENTS IN AID. Mr. W. SNITaI moved—•' That there be laid before the House, au Nrconnt of all lExtents in Aid issued from the Itemembrasicer'4 Office, from Janu ary, tam to January, 1819 "—Ordered. LICENSING SYSTEM. Mr. BgststErr said, he had a Petition to present front a publicist in Bristol, complaining of arbi trary conduct its a certain Magistrate in that city, in reftesirig to grant a license fur a house which lied beers licensed during a great number (we believe forty) of years. tautwitlistanding the application had been accompanied 'by the certificate* of the churchwardens of the parish, and all other neces sary documents. lie took that opportunity of givirsg notice 14 his intention to bring in a Bill, after Easter, to regulate the mode of issuing and tasking awry licenses. air. PROTHEROE said he thought the worthy Ma gistrate complained of in the Petition was not ca liable of acting in the tyro 111 l real way imputed to him. Ile considered it dire to any friend, whose character he heard impeached in a place where it was impossible he could speak for himself, to come forward and endeavour to remove the impres sions which usifouisded statements were calculated to produce, if suffered to remain unanswered. Mr. HART Davis shortly defended the character of the Magistrate. Mr. B. BATHURST said. that as far as he under stood the Petition, it was a complaint against is Ma gistrate for refusing to license a victualling house; but surely if arty tyri 1111 l ous or improper conduct had been experienced by the Petitioner, there were other modes of remedying it than applying to Par liament. He learned from the public prints. that. . . .o later than a few days ago, a criminal information had been granted iu tlw Court of King's Bench again* a Magistrate. on the ground alkg. d. The Courts of Law were the proper place for an hob. vidual injured in this way to appeal to; and miles, there was something l►eculta► in the caw, it was toe mud' to trouble the House with what could not be brought before it with propriety in the first in stance. Tire individual complaining should have first applied for redress of his supposed wrung to ■ Court of Law. Mr. lleustrr replied, that the Courts of Law acted in Snell cases of the kind as had hero brought within their cognisance on peculiar Frinciples. and such as were by 110 means calculated to satisfy the parties who conceived themselves injured. They had laid down a rule, and lie was at a loss to tin. der/bind from what source or authority they had derived it, that, ill proceedings instituted against Magistrates fur a breach of their powers in respect of licensing. however arbitrarily these powers might have "seen exercised, no punishment ought to be inflicted, miles, they should have been proved guilty of acting from corrupt motives. When the Petition in question had been put into his hoods, he bad deemed it of sufficient importance to claim the at tention of the House ; nor was the objection well founded that the Petitioner should have, in the fitst instance. applied to a Court of I.ow. Ile had heard of Magistrates acting most cruelly and tyran nically. while at the same time it was toot possible for the objects of their cruelty to have redrees in a Court of Law. It was his thin determination to bring that great question. fora great question he should cull it, under the investigation of Par liament. Mr. COURTENAY hoped his lion. Friend would see that the matter contained in the Petition was so peculiarly a quer of law, as to acknow ledge the propriety of withdrawing it.—( Cries o f I" Withdraw r , ) Mr. HUME said that the House was greatly in debted to the lion. fieutlentan (Mr. Bennett) for having led the way to the production of su c h a valuable mass of information on this important subject, as it had received some years hack. Reading those papers. any one must sec that great evils had existed in the licensing system some time back. perhaps still ; and was it not that that lion. Member had taken up the subject again, he should certainly have deemed it his duty to do so. If that House sat to remedy the general abuses of the (votary. why was it not a proper place to examine into such grievances as that complained of ? Ile thought it the must proper place. I f the Courts of Law were shut in certain cases against indivi duals suffering under an abuse of the powers com mitted to Magistrates, why should they not be al lowed to turn themselves there ? All that had been said of the character of the Magistrate might be true—he might be a man of most exemplary general conduct—and yet iti that individual in stance there might have been some reuse of com plaint against him, or lie might have acted from false views or erroneous impressions. lie depre cated the idea of the Muse shutting its doors against Petitions of that nature. The question was then put that the Petition he read, but Mr. BENNETT intimating Ili* tvi,ll 'hot it should be withdrawn, it was accordingly with drawn. STAMPS, LAND-TAX, Mr. MacporraLu moved that there he laid be fore the Home-- "Ist, Au Aecoont of the Salaries of all Distributors II( Wimps, wad of t►e thstriets to which attached, earl of all other peak sad esitolostaus granted to such respectively, from the sth January, 11117, to Sib homey, 1519, together with se wretiout of the balances to their bawds us the sth April acrd Mb October of earl. year, of sU arrears in their. ►reds ow tbe tub Janitory, 1519, and of the sioutiat of the severities gives ►y each. " 2d, AN Accommt of the same of all &feints of t►e lend Tau, and of' the pro Ats awl etsidoineeta by these enjoyed respectively, Gm the sth Jaosary, III?, to bib Januar), 11119; together with an seamed of the halasees in their bugs en the bib April sad bib °dither of each year, awl of all utters is their hands on lb. bib January, 1119; and shriller executing their office is peesea tr by Jclto!Y." any Nltrulter on the Mort, lie should beg leive. Ordered. without enterinc into the general discussion of the TOW :P.M' OF BgilL Whits. qoestion. to otter some remarks ou what had fallen 1 Sir .1. MACKINTOSH fAII I 4 III biol wished to take from the thee Gentleman. The Commissioners tlw earliest opportunity of offeriug o few übserrs - had considered it to be their (lily to examine all tions on the important Report which had been, a the 'mire's at any time sent in. with the experi few night* since, laid on the table--the Report of l ments mule un them, said to state the 'milt iii their Report. What that result was, was another the Commissioner* appointed to isquire into the most effectual menus of preventing the forgery of quern • . The Hon. Gentleman seemed to have Bank notes. Ile had entered the Reuse the day a li tt l e to i scowe i ee d what was the object of the lwfore with the intention of tekisee up the subject, Report. The Commissioners had eepected that but he postpimed it. observing that the Member their Report would divplease many. Mae) hap.- tor Exeter (Mr. Courteous'', Chaarillara of theacein. Minus persons must naturally have been dimplitniii cid missios) was not in his place, that that llotiourible that their plans did lint obtain the appiultio- Gentleman might have an importunity of hearing lion of the seven Commissioners ; but the latter did not wish to conceal the number of failures from the end answering, if he thought proper , the reworks lie was about to offer on the Report.in winch he had public, lest, by possibility, hopes might hr euter honor so large a share. The ihquiry had originated milted of the iesults too sanguine to be realised—. in a measure of lois. last Sessinie adopted, cm tautly, and they 'resolved, before bringing in the Report. not with the vain soul integioarY hope of rendering which in a short time they expected to be en the imitation of Batik notes a thieg impossible. aided to do, to lay before Parliament an ac but a thing of greatly increased difficulty ; and count fife what they had done already. Here be which. lie "Ped. he was lint too ennfidelat iii he - might he permitted to observe, that much injury lieving, would infallibly lead to one 11( two edema- had been done, by the propagstion of stotemesit", Cages—either that means would be devised fur the in wine,' it was asserted, that. if the Directors construction of Bank notes of extreme difficulty in of Use Batik hail pleased, they might have resorted imitation, soul it consequent protection of the public to measures which would, in a great degree, have from the rapid increase of fermi' mod crime, or a prevented the forgery of Batik notes. This asset demonstration or the impracticability of such a lion was unfounded—and, he believed. DO 604 of PI". the HecevvalY of getting rid of the piper men in the country were more ominous than the system, with its present multiplied evils. and Directors of the Bank were. to remedy the „ di es of returning to payments in cash by the far as lay in their power. The plane submitted to Bank of Engles's'. Though he had from the be- the Directors. in many instances. displayed great iii. gii 00000 lg . apprehended that the latter would be the r tv, but none of them. lie thought. could be es. conclusion iirtived at in pursuing the inquiry he sentially useful to the public. Amongst those sped. had tweet had the confidence to suppose that his mens that were laid before die Commissioners, there own views of the case would be so rentarkiffil, cots- were several, which they thought deserved to be firmed, avid receive the strongest 141OCO011 OOHS the di s ti ngu ish e d from the general mass sent to them Report on the table.—( Hear, hew.) —lle had ear- for inspection. The Learned Geoalemen was cos ear expected that a Board, constituted with the ex. reef in saving. that only seise of the whole 'loather pits' view of devising every possible improvement w ere such, ay. in the opinion of the Commissioners, in the forma • of Bank lintel (and of a Board like and with a view to the object of their inquiry. de that, compelled of scientific men—(Hears/--slid served particular totemic'''. Notwithetseding this, of others whom he knew to he most respectable. be the degree of talent which the itoptiry had elicited, never wished to speak hut in terms of respect), was very great indeed. Performunces, exhibiting should have established, as the result of their hi. the greatest possible excellence of workmanship, hours, a demonstration of the facility with which had been executed in this coulitry, soil had also the best finished note. most approaching to perfec- been sent from abroad, particularly from the time could be imitated, and the depravity and Mi' (tinted States of America. It was sinfortunitte eery that most therefore ever result from • paper (and lie mentioned this particularly, because, in system of currency, and the further suspension of the minds of gentlemen, certein specimens had cash payments. He thought the Report was a de- greater weight than others) that many efforts, how. miniveration of the necessity ,if rentruuelog such a ever ingenious they might appear, slid not. on ex system to all who valued the credit, the morality, and amnions:on, seem calculated to produce the effect the lives of the people above may other object.— desired. Some Gentlemen imagined that one par. /Hear. hear. )--Ile should then proceed to a ticiller specimen, others that a plan of a differeut few remarks on the matter of the Report. The description, would, if properly attended to, pro substance of it, if lie understood it, was. that duce the end which the Commissioners were seek about two hundred projects bail been laid before t ing. He could only say, that oil which were sub. the Bank and the Commissioners together; that I mated to their comederetiou, had been sertipoilimslv ell of those laid before the Bank hail been by tloot examined, and that the most anxious desire filled body rejected, lin the opinion of the Commis- the mind. of the Commissioners to fulfil the stoners properly rejected ; that of all the rest sub- purpose for which they were embodied. One mitted to the C . : vs themselves. Moe nasty great fallacy. as it appeared to him, pervaded were held deserving of their serious consideration a great trimly of the plans presented to the Corn. and exarniiiatioe, though twelve more were praised meal:ewers lin their approbation. It was this-- on recount of the ingenuity displayed in their iii• that several of the applicants made use of a vast venti 0000 ; and of these nine, but one recommended deal of machinery, to produce a particular effect. by the Commissioners as worthy of experiment ; for which, they imagisied, could not he perfected, with. though it was not said expressly that the other right out the laid of the same machinery. Many Gentle. were rejected, yet. if lie understood the language meta presented a detailed account of the machinery used, they were deemed not to be above imitation. by which their notes were Formed, which, perlimps, It followed then. that, in the opinion of the Com.' satisfied the Commissioners, that the effect could missionere,of all the inventions laid before the Bank, not be so well produced. taw with so much feci. during a space of twenty years, not one was likely pity. as by the means resorted to by those artists. to itin ti oo 'oh in a great degree the danger of forgery. But, in almost every instance, the applicants lied and of all those laid before themselves, hut one. forgotten, that imitative notes might be produced, And in describing the effect's which might possibly though not So well executed. nor in in short a time, follow from the trial of that one. the Commissooners yet correct enough to deceive the public, by means had spoken with the newt nice and rfUIIUIO4II, can- widely different. Tile Commissioners often found lion. Ile praised them for doing so; it was worthy that souse moot in g enious men did not attend to of their character, end creditable and honourable that particular. Notee. in sanitation of theirs, to them ; but, lie would repeat it, '. had adopt- might, however. be made, not indeed of such ex - - - * the ' they tutu ed every lotus of caution that English language could shard. The terms of the Report, in gesierul, were most guardrd, as if the Commissioners were fearful of exciting hopes which ill one passage they seemed to have given room for. The Honourable Member then alluded to, mud quoted the terms of the Report respecting the project under trial. He contended that the carelessness of the public, as an °listable to the prevention of forgeries, was no stew discovery, and which could not but be expected to exist under any form of note. To state that cir cumstance (lie continued) W 4 a direct obstacle to the supprespiois of f_irgery, WO almost elating the impos sibility of the latter. That very circumstance was oue of the causes of the invention of money. The two last sentences of the Report in particular seem ed torlaiiip all the expectations, and extinguish all the hopes raised by the former part. It was useless to press these considerations further, but he could riot see how ally Member of Pailiauseut could con. seta to a continuauce of the paper system, and to commit the lives of the people to the hopes of en expected improvement front one new project, es pecially after the failure of so many former ones. 11.. could not, therefore, but conclude thit the result of the inquiries of the Commission amounted almost to nothing. It skewed one thing, that there was but one triode of . soppreining forgeries—and the question would henceforth be, whether for sup. posed advantages in trade and commerce, they should hazard the principles, the morals, and life of the subject. It was for the Chancellor of the Exchequer to put these in opposite scales, and observe their operation and value.—( Hear, hear.) 1816, the Chancellor of the Exchequer pre. veiled on the House to continue the Rank Restri , !. hose Act, the result of which was fifty capital executions, fur the crime of forgery, in three years. The question at present was, whether that House of COII4IIIOIIII should follow the guides which misled their predecessors, and whether they should meat to keeping up the restrictions on cash payments, without a demonstration of the expediency and Ile. ce-sity of the mealier% and of the advantages in its train, which would compensate for the eras it had unquestionably, and would continue to genenste. The Lesreied Member then moved for... " A return of the together penitent preereisSe4 by the Bank of &llama Sow %grin Bonk Wes, god fur Strifes le poseerrioto ett forted Bask warm, Cruet leth April, 11111, A 27th Jeggery, lade—disSingsishger the eisseber egewiegrd fur rack oftener, and theme egisvieted of MO*, its their pus. engem forged Doles, perm-nag to he $l. leek seers sod apwsrt., sod olistinguirbitie Ow capita) presesettges free these at sn Warier nature ^--Ordered. Mr. CeVRIENAT said, that though it wee II looter of batiefactiuti to him to hear the opisies of .. _ celletd workmitiship. nor with the same quickness but still with sufficient facility to answer the put • pose of the forgers. The Learned Gentleman thought that the Commissioners had used language which seemed to imply that they despaired of effecting the object of their investigation. In their anxiety. not to raise the hopes of the public he youd their proper limits, it was possible they might have adopted expressions which intimated des, - dency on the subject. But certainly, though this might have bents the case, despair was not their feeling. The six Gentlemen who were joined with him in the Commission, expected. front the expe riment mentioned at the end of the Report. the most beneficial result.—(Hear, hear, lies r.) — They hoped that a cute would be produced, which it would be almost impossible to imitate, so as to de ceive the public.— (I lear , hear.)—To rely on any secret process, which only the person devising it could lie acquainted with, was impossible—tor. whit the att of min produced, the art of matt could imitate. The point the Commissioners had there fore to consider was, the various degrees of diffi culty. It would he improper, at the present mo ment, to state, that they did not think well of those , plans which they had set apart. It was only neces sary fur hint to speak of that which it had been thought, in the first instance, expedient to try. They had made experitneuts on one only, and on that they rested with a confident hope that it would answer their expectations. They felt, however, that the plan which they had selected was susceptible of improvements, which indeed appeared to be the case even with the best and most prontisiog , plans that had been brought under their notice. ['hose improvements were now in progress—aud he had the 'satisfaction of Plating, that, since the date of the Report, the probability of a litAly beneficial result had increased. The opinion of the seven Cornwell.. slimier. which they embodied in their Report, was this, that the ides that • note could be produced. so hood to imitate, that a counterfeit must necessarily, and on the mometit. be detected, was not well founded—but still, that they believed the plait they had laid hold of, if adopted, would render the crime of forgery intluitely more difficult than at present. This was a fair and hottest statement of the opinion of the CommoNioorre. What further improvement. they might make, he would not now seldom to en.. ticipate, because he did taut wish to raise the hopes of the coeutry too high—at the same lime, he could assure the Hooey that the Coitintissiuners did tint despair of a successful terinination of their labours. —( Neer. Mir./ Mr. Taassr—gd According to the statement of . Om Learned Gentleman. the retail of the itlvestirt- tion of the Csonmissioners it, that. though there hav e n so r tie made, discoveries excee.ding those isio c h been *ereoriginally led to believe would he effect ed, yet no plan hat been laid before them, that ta n warrant more than a hope, that ultimately some. thing *ill be hit upon, if not to prevent, at t „ render the crime of forgery More difficult thin, it now is, This, if I understood the Learned Golf', man correctly, was his kateritetti, low, nitt,oot wishing to raise any unpleasant or mischievous feel. ing ont of door.. I beg leave to a.lt the Leario4 4 o rn tl eay .,, wiptu the iiitimite eznetiment is likeiv - - 111 he sonde, so 11.4ve ot Iletiiustive opinion giver, (111 the hope which is at present entritairitd ? M 4 Committee is about to be lip ' I to .11Veot. ; ; gple the affairs of the Bank, it is materiel that it should be able to report, whether something more th an ~ hope, a confident expectation, may be entertained, that the forgery of one and two pound notes should, by the art of man, be placed in a state of security agerittst the urt Of man? When are we likely t o t,, made acquainted with the result of the expert. went ?' Mr. CoußTENAir— u I can ray no more than: what I bare already stated. A pecimen of a note, possessing, 6111 we thiuk, very great merit indeed, hs. been, for some time, under our view and considers ttttt . It was suggested by a Member of the Corn• Gentleman of great ingenuity, that tii, specimen might he improved, by combining it wi t h An oth e r traprnv,..inent in the lihricatihn of the paper, In order to ascertain whether the idea could be Car tied into effect. amine experiment Wait necessary— which experinientis noes in progress. We have orris it in a foi ward vtitte, mod d 0 ;;ot Ittmlitate to re. commend it us it most ingenious contrivance.— (Hear, hear.)—We have even• realms to in lieve. fr the etiotence before no, that this improved form of note, combined with the alteration to the paper. will br productive of the hegt effects,— /Hear, hea►.)-1, however, find coneiderahle culty iu stating the time when the experiment will he completed. It is in progress at a paper-iiiiii of great eminence ; and in a mouth's time, perhaps, a mite will be produced, in such r form a• we can cifrly recommend to the public—such • firm as will render the crime of forrery exceedingly diffi cult." Mr. MANNING raid, he would not hate offered • word on the present occasion, had it lot bee., for the question asked of his Learned Frietid. He merely wished to state, that the Bank were satisfied in their minds, that they could adopt, with safety ►o the public, the plait recommended by the Commissioners, sad that they meaut to adopt it at as early a period as possible. The motion was theu agreed to. Sur J. MAccistosti, in rising to move for " • return of the slumber of forged Notes detected by the Bank of England, from the 10th of April, ISIS, to the 9.7 th of January, 1819," begged per mission to make a few observations, in eons.-quence of what had fallen from his Learned Friend. Ir appeared to him, if he had not very much mewl,- derstood his Learned Friend—looking to the sub stance of what he said—that, with respect to the practical purpose for which he introduced this sub ject, the statement just delivered fully bore oat the view which; lie entertained of in—( Hear, hettr ) namely, that the only result of the labours of Board of Commissioners, who had been sitting tor the last six months, was, their confident expectatio,i of success from an untried experiment.—/Ilene, hear.)—lt was clear that the Report placed the question precisely in that shape, and did not leave it as it was before, when, in a Report, relative to the suspension of cash payments, it was stated, that means might be found, compatible with the exist ence of that suspension, to preeeas forgery. But now nothing was held oat to the House, but the hope of success from au experiment, not yet tried. To prevent misapprehension, he would take the liberty of making one other observation. The House would be greatly mistaken. if it were sup. posed, that lie isudervidued the object or result of the inquiry —for, even on the supposition that tail, payments would be resumed, improvements in the structure of Bank notes must be very important. As paper of the Bank of England would form, for some time after the resumption of payments in cash, a considerable portion of the currency of the kingdom, it would, of course, continue to be at tacked by that system of forgery to which the Re striction Act had given rise, and it would be found difficult, even then, to prevent the evil altogether. But, though the least improvement in the formation of Bank notes was of importance, still he believed no reasonable man could imagine, that paper, how ever manufactured, could be a proper substitute fur civolt, or could, under any circumstances, remove the objections entertained against the suepensitni of cash payments, leaving entirely out of the question all reference to the crime of forgery. Mr. COVATBNAT said, without entering at all into the general question. he wished only to state, distinctly, what he imagined he had stated before, namely, that the note was in sods a considerable degree of forwardness. and the improvement was so evident, that it could not be denominated a mere matter of experiment. The original was a great improvement on the existing note, but the Commissioners thought it might be made in we difficult of imitation, and the improvement -11::- gested by them was in a state of progress. Th, y did not cling merely to a vague hope that the linty would be awful, they firmly believed that, alit is completed, it would be of infinite advantage. lint they slid not think it prudent to express thein. , - too strongly, lest expectation/I, of too sauguiti nature, should be created. The motion was then agreed to. EXCHEQUER BILLS. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER rnr..,,t,'• for— s An secoaskof all Exchequer Bills, issued by virtu e .4 two Acts of the lost Session of Parliament (for raisins I sums of 30p00,0001. and 11,000,0001. by Exchequer Wassong( and euprovided for." Mr. GRZOFELL wished to know whether the whole amount due to the Bank, with reference to a part of these Exchequer bills had been rid and, if not the whole, to what extent it had bet'' , liquidated The CHANCELLOR of the Excacques wkov the expectation held oat whew the Exchespist bills were issued was, that a repayment should be made, out of the supplies of the year 1818, to the amount a ',comm. Of that sum 5,00,00.4, 1 1 C 0 • • • t It I. C I. II le • t. IC 111 - ut r. or ve 01 nr 111 'e t oir a rV ,te t nrt ; 6,1 rt e rf tit lis,r the G peel , il'4