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'f'.►rlinment. lam happy to see these under dis. ' cuss' ~,,, sod I hope it will not be long ere the House shall he acqoainted with 611 the new pro• cesiws which have been resorted to ; amongst others that notable decision of certain London Magistrates respecting some persons in confinement, two of who►n haul lwesi apprehended °pots warrants previous to the Suspension Act. In ordinary cases of im. prise iiiii rest each person was informed what was the crone alleged egoists( I , and could search for Ilse remedy or redress applicable to his case. But here Ilse patties toeing arrested merely with a view to safe custody, mould know nothing of the mat. ter ; nor, ►t tier slid, mold they avail themselves of it fur their slitence ; all, therefore, that they could do was to acid themselves of the option granted by she Bight Honourable and Learned Gentleman, and this option he was empowered by this Act alone to ;impose. The Act, therefore, being shout to expire 111 the first week of our sitting, It was ass Act of unprralleled oppression to propose to mess iss their !Ilion an option dependant on ass Act of Parliament ell the eve of expiring."—(Hear.) Tile - Sotictiolt.GEozost.—" My Honourable and Learned Friend seems altogether mistaken in the principle of law, upon which he has founded whole speech. Does he for a moment mean to 'weft. that hest a mass been taken up on 11 charge of logli treason, and that such circumstances hail been I.rought to light during his confinement, that he had been discharged upon his own recognizance, there was no persolicusupetent by law to enlarge him upon such recognizance prior to the passing of the late Suspension Act? I apprehend this Act confirms no such power. The power to commit and to dis charge in this manner existed long before 'lsis Act. —(Near, Aear.)—The power created by this Act gas the power of prevesiting the accused being to ought to trial in the usual course of proceeding. If this Act h id never paned. it would have been as conii.eteist to the parties to dispute she legality of the recognizstices, as if it were to con ttttttt until the time of trying the (mesh tttt ..—/ llmnr.)—We are now discussing what dues not concern the merits of this question, nor flow out of its •nactu►rut. Th e Minh!, will therefore determine that this Is not the proper season fur esiteitaining the goes ti'l,l."--( hoar.) Sir W 51. Iluttaounns- 1, I certainly agree that Act cave 00 slew power; the power has been •+c;l oloset vi.l to have existed before. However, Ilse ext-telm.tyr it must, in this case, be considered extrcatel) 4.lljeetinintllle. The Secretary Itftitotr. . . virfentfy has usurped this power, to the prrissolier of throe portier, nor eAtt the Right nun. end Learned 4;alitleilian vastly i.xcillpate I self fr the charge oI oeglect of duty ul out having discharged there n ithout taking duly r.-00g1112,111Cett. The A itureiry-Geserral might to have known, that 1.0 Secretary of State had any power, much less right, tin a charge of high Irrasou, to liberate the moored I/II OWII recogiozatice, Or co iiiiii it him to Li! ; Mach hr. inn any inferior Magirtrate eger cis, such a prerogative. This power Ireliiiigs only to tlw t:otirt of King's Bench. The attempt to justity this coptlnct loot beets equally futile as th e 5.!1e.1.1.1 I. myross on l!ie public mind the weer rity of la.li and alarming measures of an its oho+ Lesitalyd not to pl ung e nn. 1117::111i 11110 1411101$ WIIIIIIIIt came, and keep ilturc 21111011rr11, withulll permittiog their ionisceoci- to lie tiddlalislied, in order that they krep alive those fears and apprehensions to which Administration was indebted for the support of many, otherwise averse to their guilty measures ; unit finally eland, iu the face of the insulted public, to extott loom these persecuted victims recog hisser-es for their appearance and good conduct, as the price of a precarious liberty."—( Much up p lamest. ) Mr. LOCKHART considered these recognizant...lt, if permitted to continue in force, would be directly in coutrailiction of the spirit winch dictated the re peal of the Sii•peintion Act. Sir SAMULI. ROMILLY—" There cannot be a greater impropriety than this act mi the 'bail of the 'Secretary of Stair, in extorting these recogilizsoces, lit ii tone lie was aware the Act authorizing all these iiire,tores why nit the eve of expiring. Nu doubt all think the Roll liar existed too long, mid we, with great p 1 'panty, are dispensing with the usual forum. its ostler to facilitate the progress of it through the /Inure, through tlie extreme urgency of the case, as alleged by his Majesty's Ministers. But "hen did this extreme urgency arise ? not yes fertliq, nor a week, nor a month, nor two mouths ago.— (Heir, hear.)—Why, then, did not Miiiis tt.trs 31.1.1 to the suggestion that the Act should only continue to the Ist of December ?—( Hear.) 11 . wild it nut certainly hare rep re I long before this, hail they apprised the Prince Regent of the state of the country, and advised him. us they should have done, to consult Parliament sooner ?—/ Loud op planse.)—No! here fora length of time they have antlered the country to writhe under the lash of the most extraordinary powers ever confided to the hands of the most virtuous Ministry, upon which they Imre ant scrupled to act until within a very few weeks of the meeting of Parliament, when they ought to have known they would be brought to a strict account by the representatives of the people for the scandalous excesses they bud hero guilty of towards our constituents.--( //ear, hear, hear.) — Wt. have heard of neither rebellion, insurrection, nor even commotion since June hist, when the system pus weal by GoVerillTlCitt in sending out their spies end missionaries of sedition to effect corresponding revolutirmary tumults throughout the country, was debuted bv the 'lamest occident, and exposed iu all its enormity iii Happily when these *genitors of the ;roars 'Jerre ceased to be employed by Ministers, all appearance of ibruffcctioto ceased ; yet. notwithelasoling the cry of iudiguat raised in this House and out of doors—notwithstanding the motives fur coercion had confessedly ceased— still, to the eternal disgrace of his Majesty's Mi nisters, the same tyrannical system has been acted upon as before, almost up to the very opening of Parliameid."—( Hear, hear.) 'tlr. B. Bat Itunsr, at considerable length, de feuded (hit conduct of Ad iiiiii 'nitration. It was vain in attempt to infivie tutu the public mind the revoliiiig ideas that the Green Bag 14411 WAN lig but IA I.llllNpirgeV of the Government against the people, as the trials for libel had been denounced as an attruupi to bring the decision of Juries lido contempt. As for Oliver's conduct, it was produc tive of li good, and no injury whatever, al thiiii.4l) incidentally and accidentally introduced to those traitorous aunciations. The arrest of tlic principal persons engaged in these associations was the cause of our restoration to peace and mutual confidence Sir S. RUMMY did not allude to the employ ment of Oliver. The last Report of the Secret Committee had thrown sufficient light upon that subject, where it had been stated, that they laid to lament that some persons had even forgotten themselves so far as to promote the treasons they had been employed to detect anal counteract. — (a bud cry of " I leur." ) —Nor had one of ins Majesty's Ministers scrupled to asiert broadly, that it was lois ditty to employ such persons in such all objectionable way.—( Hear.) Mr. BATHURST :aid, only one bad been alluded to as employed by (;oversiment. Mr. TIERNEY—Mb 31.1jesty's Ministers, he con teotled, were bound to make snit a case to the sotto usotion or Parliament, that, up to the 20tii January ISIS, there exiled a paramount neees.ity for continuing the Superision Act : for if it ap peared the repeal was delayed unnecessarily, the King's Minister* had been godly of a crime against the people of England. Ilow disgraceful was it to any Government to hear such a thorough defence of those wretches, employed es spies in the late transaction, fioun the mouth of a Right lion. Mem ber of Administration !—(/leas.) The Bill was then committed—the Report brought top and received—and the question being put that the Bill be read - the third time. _ . Lord FGLESTONE rose and addressed the Speaker.—" Th e id4ject of the clause I have the honour to propose is 1144 to affect 11w legal remedy which the subjects will have by the general pro visions of the Bill I tun anxious to amend. Ito oh. ject is to release the parties who have entered into recognizances, from ally apprehension of the future consequences of such recogiliz.inces hangingover their heads. Such a provision is w justice due to the irate. resin of the individuals, for whom we cannot but feel concerned and interested. The clause provides, that, whereas divers persons have been taken up and committed to prison upon charges of high treason, against whom Ho proteerlings have been instituted, yet the said parties have lwen induced, in order to obtain their liberation, to cuter into recognizance% to keep the iwace, and s l ip-ar when and where they shall be called upon to isomer such charges us may be pre ferred against them; and whereas it is expedient to ielieve these parties so bound from the effects of such recognizance', it is hereby enacted, that the recognizruces entered into by these parties in couse. quence of warrants signed by the Right llon. Lord Sidinouth, hr henceforth discharged, in DS full and complete a manner as if none such had ever es. isted ; provided th.ot nothing herein contained shalt affect any other recogniz.nices entered 11110 by the said parties, relative to Hoy other molter, and if any such there be, that those recognizinces Stolll remain in full force and efficacy, as if no such re. !emir as the presesit had ever been granted'." - Lord CASTLEREAGH 'mid, that the object .was not to take auy advantage of those who had been discharged, but to allow them to bring forward any legal objections they might have. Mr. TI lERNEY Saul, that a provision of the wok tine proposed was but u point of humanity atoll justice. II the standing la* could subject them' people to heavy expense and trouble, it was nut too much to expect that something should be done to take this away, and delivrr them from the 'le ce.tt.iiy of 'drench!' on the King's Bench. The ATTORNEY-GENERA L—" It seems to me impossible that any of the persons discharged could have misunderstood the terms of the discharge.— Notice was given to all of them, that their attend ance would not be required ; that notice did not deprive them of the light of um 'king a legal inves tigation of the proceedisig. One or two of them applied to Our for advice on the subject. I 101,1 them they were acquitted of all further attend ance, but for any thing more I was not a fit (into nel for their applicat . . (hi being infin mei! that their recognizance* were discharged, sonic of thesis said, that - would not satisfy them, that they in tended to look for legal redress. I advised them to do so, if they found they kid grounds. In cases of this kind, the patties are never required to ap pear upon their recogitizastees without notice giveit. All of these had got notice that they need not at tend, except one man, who had set out behor the notice arrived. I shall snake one observation mow. 1 he ((modal of the Noble Lord's motion is to repair every evil conceived to be done ler the late Act, and to reduce thing% as lunch as tussible to the state they would have been in bad it not passed. In this view it is quite nugatory. Sup. posing persons were in custody during the stespen riot) of the Habeas Corpus Act, and a Bill for its repeal passed, it should not be a necessary part of its object to discharge all persons confined under it. If any of these were in custody under strong and material charges, they ought to be detained and tried. The Suspension Bill only took away the right of persons imprisoned to be brought to t►ial within a limited time. The repeal of it restores this right. The clause proposed would leave the law precisely as it will lie alter the simple repeal of the Suspension Bill, and is not called fur either on principles of law or humanity." Mr. BRoUGHAat—" The Him. and Learned Gentleman mistakes the object of the clause pro posed. It was by virtue of the last Act alone that Government was enabled to exact recoginzasices.— They say to the parties aggrieved, Go to the Bench.'—The king's Bench will say, You esiteied into these recognizances voluntarily, we can afford you no assistance.'—The recognirince thus stands without a remedy. The last BM con ferred a power of detaining in confinement an un limited time, or of etiforcing a recognizance. In t:0111111011 cases Government can detain a man in prism) only for a short permit, when he may pro cure his enlargement, or establish his innocence; but the late Act (mod to this I wish to call the at tention of the House) c !belled the party either to enter into a recognizance, or continue in pinion as long as the Law Officers might think convenient, deprived of all power to apply for examination to a Court above. The 41e,,igi. of this clause is to place things nearly as possible tie the state they would have been laud the Habeas Corpus Act never been suspended, and iii that cast no recoginzatices would now exist." The SOLICITOR•GENERAI. Stitt, lie would join issue with the lion. Gentle-wan who spoke last on one point. Fie has said, that, because the same were voluntary, the King's Bench would not attend to any application to have them dis charged. The King's Bench would not ask whe ther they were voluntary or involuntary, but whe ther the Magistrate who caused them to be entered into, had lewd power so to do ? The question would be as to the legality of the recognizasters, and the power of the Secretary of State to enforce them. Thiti ground for the necessity of the clause totally fails. Sir NAMULIE. RoMILLY—" My Leurned Fliend says, the Ilan. Gentlemen who spoke before leer rests this question ou the feet of the recognizances having beta entered into voluidarily. It was on this I understood it to rest flout the beginning.— It was said that sit option was given to the party, either to remain in custody or to enter into a re cogoizance, and that having chosen the latter, it was voluntary. But I apprehend, notwithstasiding, that the power of exactilig them was derived from the Bill for the siispro,imi. Indeed, this was hot to be contradicted. The Secretary of State might say to a person accused, There is u charge against you, and unless you enter into recognizaucts, I'll dentin you.'—The accused could not foresee how long this detention might last ; and the Secretary of State might say to himself, ' An Act of I'ai ha went • arms me with the alternative of taking re cognizance', or detaining in impriso ttttt eta ; if I make too large an use of the latter, no matter; I'll get a Bill of Isidemitity'." The Arroaa EY-GENERAL, in explanation, said, that it had been his intention to discharge all the recoguizances, but the parties them-elves bud made some objections to this' on point, of low. His sole res-on for nut iostaidly discharging theta all a as, to give the parties the opportunity that they con ceived nrcessloy for pr, ocrly stating their legal ob jections, and arguing the legality of the effair. Sir WILLIAM BURROUGHs—" It is moat un reasonable that a wan charged with treason should be diachnrged without being allowed any oppor musty of clearing his fame and re-establishing his character. Ile g.ws back to society with an injured reputation, and a stain ou his back ; vet numbers were now reduced to this condition, If the persona, whose case we are now considering, were taken up, without any design of instituting prosecutions, those concerned in it were guilty of a gross abuse of power." Lord FOI.KSTONE—" If the Attorney-General twill say, that lie will move in the Court of King's Besets, that the parties bound be no more called ma for appearance, I will give up ihi clause—but I will nut du this for any private assurance to the parties." The ATTORNEY-GENP.nAI,—" The parties were hound to appear oil the first day of Term, and so ou fr day to day. They were minced not to ensue; but they did come. I told them their re cognizance, would be discharged; they interposed legal ri g hts. For this reason I did not apply to the Kssig's Bench ; but I have no hesitation in promising to do so ou au curly opportunity." The Bill was then read the third time, passed, and ordired to be moo sip to the Lord... Lord Fut.stsroteE—" I rise to present a Petition against severity and cruelty iii ininrovonnent. It is one of the pei‘ons arre-twel under the Suspen sion of the. Habeas Corpus, and not drawn up with Ow sort of ~piro that freetpieistl utionicterises peti tion% of this li:store." The Clerk then proceeded to read the Petition.— It stated, that the 1 3 —r, nn inhabitant of Not tingham tar 01q years, had time children and a mother of the age of ninety, dependant ass lam fur support—that lie was arrested an the 10th of June— that lie hail given no resistance to the officers, slat from motives of fear, but in obedience to the pre cept• of Jesus Christ—that the officers pi-no-riled to s e arch Ins house—that, before the Magistratvs, he u•krd a copy of the warrant for so doing, but was rellised —that in prisms be received nothing but head Heal water, except from his wife—that lie was immured with a felon in a damp dungeon, with a wrung stilithurrous smell—that, in consequence, lie had suffered an attack on his lungs, the effects of which, he feared, would continue fur the remainder of his life. Lord FOLKSTONE here rose, end said, that as Gentlemen did not seem inclined to hear the un read, its object was to complain of harsh treat ment received (luring impriso 1111 l ent mule'. the Sus. pension Bill. It had been repeatedly said, that ilw suspension gave no slew powers of commitment. Granting that. here was a ens. , of ill-treatineiit iu the extreme doer tinder its a:un•t . Dl the ille gality of twarebilig a house will tas warrant, there could be no coconut. !lad the officers been killed on the spot it could scarcely be said to be an illegal act. Mr. OSBORN E said it was quite irregular to in terrupt the reading of a Petition. Mr. B. Bx•rituitsT said, that iii his opinion the Petition aim au improper one—but if the Noble Lord thought it contained nothing objectionable, he might move to have it ;milted. Lord FOLKSTON E—" When I first rose, I ex pressly ►tared that the Petition contained n othi ng objectiosiable—tiothing disrespectful to the House. I intended to move for the printing of it." The Petition was resumed ; the latter part stated that the Petitioner was hurried away after our hour's notice, on a warrant front the Secretary of State, having diains pnt on his hands and feet, winds, however, on his remonstrating, the Officer said might just appear on him. Lind FotatsTone—" Tins is a necessary collie tience of the Act of Suspension—these bids are highly deserving of the attention of the House, not to attend to them will be a dereliction of their duty. I mean to move for a Committee of the House to moune into the matter of the Petition." Mr. BEN NETT said, that this system . was not eon tined in its operations to one individual ; he would wish that he had the petitions of other individuals who had been similarly treated—loaded with irmis, mid thrown into damp unwholsome dungeons. As a Representative of the people of England, he was I nil to iiiquire Imo the grievances of the people of England." Lord CASTLEREA GH said, that the most epistle course with respect to this petition would be to give notice of a time. Lord FotaisToria; then presented another Peti tion from the same person, and certain inhatiotilldB 'A the town of Nottingham. It ails renal, and averred, that the first com pliant:int was a man of peaccablii, iirriong, trious habits, incapable of forming dangerous or treasonable designs. Lord For.RaTostr. gave notice of a motion for a cmottlittvo or the House on Thursday next, to take. Into consideration the mailer of these Petitions. Lord MILTON presesited a Petition from the in habitants of the town of Leeds, praying for the advantage of gas lights. Lord A. HAMILTON desired to learn from the Noble Lord, whether he meant to lay before the House papers relating in the Reform at Montrose; mid (us we understood) gave notice of a motion for the production of these papers on the Wilt of Fe bruary. Mr. BENNETT presented a Petition from the parish of St. Andrew's, Holborn, against the fur ther employment of Climbing Boys. Mr. V. FITZGERALD" I rise to give notice of motion for a Bill to suspend the operation, for a certain time, of part of a Bill passed last Ses s ion, for the more deliberate investigation of County Presentments, xllll the expenditure on county-works in Ireland—that pot which directs the appointment of surveyors for the different counties to examine and report on works. Nearly 100 persons applied for these situations, but so few were found duly qualified, that the Board constituted to examine their pretensions, declined granting soy crrtiticatrs, ■nd advised the suspension of this part of the Act." Mr. AaEacaomaY--"Phe former system that hag prevailed in Ireland, has been one of extiensive jobbing. The llon. Gentleman's speech did tint Indicate any design on the part of that Governinent to take tip the business seriously. A vast deal of trouble was taken nit this head last Sersimt ; the only measure that resulted from that, was a Bill now advised to be suspended without any siihstitute pro posed. I am confident of the candour of the Right Hon. Gentleman. I would be glad to learn, whether any pains were actually and holm fide taken by the proper authorities, to give effect to the provisions of the Bill. Oise would expect that in Ireland, when it was known there were conaortuble pl Act . % to be disposed of, there would he crowds of candi dates. lam sorry there have not been more. Vas stifficient notice given to the well-qualified ? If Gentlemen will step forward with another Bill. Boil give it effectual support, I will agree to the suspen sion of the present one ; but if the affair be left afloat, to be taken up by any body, I must with hold my assent from the measure contemplated." Mr. VESEY FITZGERALD expressed his resolu tion not to withdraw his attention front thy subject, but to bring forward another fill in the course of the Session. Mr. vindicated the conduct of the Irish Government against the insinuations of the Ulm. Gentleman. The Act had empowered the appoint ment of county surveyors, with a salary of ;bg. and, in smile cases, not less thin% 5001. a-year ; the whole ore of these consisted iii their competency. The Lord Lieutettatit hart accordingly appointed three Commissioners, avoiding all persons inter ested. The ottly iiistructions given to these were to examine qualiticatioiis iinpartially—and to sel ect, with a view to merit, only 32 candidates; that local connections and reco iiiii endations would he. an o b. jrction. The Commissioners were, NI r.Teltivil, who had been iirevailtol upon to come Irmo Seni LI. 14 that purpose ;11ajor Taylor; and Ali.. Johnson, t lie architect. For weeks they devoted tram eight to wine hours a-day to the pet formative of the duty assigned them. Nitietv-five candidates lippeared, but those of great abilities would not bestow the time required, and withdrew their names. Of those who remained, the Board asserted an taw were possessed of the neces.ary experience and !aria bell knowledge, that they deemtd it their duty to re commend the suspension of the operation of this part of the Act. Tilli officer is entirely instru mental to give effect to the duller parts of the Act. The suspension was only intended to continue till the end of the Session. ADERCROMBY—" The !louse must now be sitisti-il of the i•incerity and exertions of the Irish Government." Sir JUNKY FArtiset.z. stated, that when he dis cussed this subject on a former occasion with the Right Honourable Gentleman opposite (\lr. Peel), they both fully concurred in the necessity of there being an effectual control on the amoduitment of the county surveyors, en us to have efficient per sons to discharge the responsible ditties assigned to them ler the Act. He by no means concurred in the reason that the Act should be suspended, because persons could not he got to fill these offices, though there was certainly something in the allusion made to presentments loving only received at the Summer Assizes. It' some steps were not taken to secure an efficient control over the pecu niary expenditure of the counties, the whole spirit of the former Act would be evaded!. He would undertake to say, that many persons, to fill the office of surveyor, would be found!, if the enjoin !need attached to it was more generally known. For instance, the gentleman who superintended and manned the great works on the new Holyhead rood, and who would be competent to fill any of th e s e officer, was content to devote his services in this way fur 130/. a-year, and so. a-day for Ins ex penses, while irersontally on the spot. ile was quite satisfisd that if no effectual control were had upon the Grand Jury presentments in Ireland, the fast Act would produce no one benefit to the country, With reference to these matters in Ireland, he had no hesitation in saying, that the Weise had no con ception of the nature and extent of the abuses now existing in that country. The Report on winch the last Act war founded, presented nothing like the whole of the ease; if this were developed, the I louse, he was convinced, would not delay one instant the application of an adequate remedy. The real fact was, that there was use species of fraud, trick, and perjury, which it was not the practice to resort to lit the course of these presentments. This state of thugs, no man connected with the proceedings in Ireland, could deity, and when the aunts levied by such means exceeded half a million a year, the House would see the necessity of probing the mat ter to the bottom. It was the usual practice, he feared, to look too much towards the men who procured the presentenrots, and too little towards those who had to pay for them; great discontent was the consequence of such a system in Ireland, and there was no species of taxation fell more op pressively thins this on the community. They were willing to pay a fair contribution, but the I-inn-- idly felt a strong prejudice agaitist the wln.ie ;1 . 111(11 lury system, when they said the manner nn elm. 11 the poltlic money twos applied nr rather misapplied: IL concluded by preasslig strongly on the Hight lion. Cirntleineu opposite, the necessity of ilitroiltielsiv, 14 1111'11.411 1., wit vii would give efficacy hr the wholesome provisions of the Act of last Sessmo.—(lleor.i I cave was then given to luring in the Bill, which was ehortly afterwards brought 111, mall a rim awl leconil time, and ordered to be committed on Sa turday ',ext. INTERNAL STATE OF TIIE COUNTRY. Lord CA•TLEREAGII ittrgor.l to alter his notice of the a.liottronteot of the I loose tar Alooday to Saturday next. lie preferrenl the earlier give effect to the Royal Assent, which was then ex pected to he given to the ineastite for the repeal of the Act of last Session (the Suspension of the (Is bell, Corpus Ac;`,. On Monday the communica tion from the Crown, relative to the internal state of the country, might be expected, and he Ronk/ immediately mitt proceeding ui namely, that it ler referred to a Select Committee. Perhaps on Settiolity st cmainunication might be brought (lowa. Mr. TtERNET—" But will the Committee be appointed on Saturday or Monday ?" Lord CASTLEREAGH replied on Moiolay ; and that of course the appointment of the Cmintittee must precede any step oil the communication fruits the Crown. RESUMPTION OF C.IsII PAYMENTS BY THE Mr. GRENFF.I.I.—" Sir. I wish to put a question to the Right Ilan. (gent. oppoe?te (the ChanceHai of the Exchequer), which is of the greatest import mice to the co 11111 l trete!, agricultural, and monied interests of the c•itictry, and it is one to which a full, immediate, and explieit mower is must desir able. It is know'. that, according to the eiistiosir Law. the Bank is hound to resume cash payment* on the sth July next. Though, +according to past declarations oo this subject (if they are to be de pended oil), no doubt ought to otist that the Batiks would at the appointed time resume their cash pay ments; vet it is tin less certain that a great doubt does in fact exist lit the public mind on this sub ject, and particularly among that class in the city called the nonmed interest. It is highly tlesitalste that this dolibt should be now TellloVt d be fact, it el Id not last one moment longer dam se WWI fairly in the power of Government to decide and speak out upon the point. Nobody e d!! a practical know li-tlge of what has been lately doing in the City of Loittlim, can for am instant doubt the imperative necessity of stopping the system of speculations and gambling in the foods which indecision OIT this subject created. lit these speculations, those who were acquainted with the matters passing between the Bank and the Govein mem, had, of course, a decided advantage over others who were totally in the (lark on liir business. I hope, therefore, I shall not be deemed intrusise iii asking the Right Hon. Gentleman opposite, at this moment, aliether any thing has occurred, or is likely to occur, to prevent the Bank ries 1111 l iteg cash payments at the appointed time ? This is MY first question—land I have to put another very nitwit connected with the same subject. The House is /Mare that the Bank, in 1816, gave two hums far they are stlo%! improper ir called) to the puhlic--ime of diem .16,iw0,u.04./..1 .I . l•mr rent ‘1,.. ••• tier. 3,000,000/. without any interest. One of dim, 'wt.:tine due on the sth of April. It was also kitowis that one of the couditions of the advance, es it was coiled, was, that the Bank should hold the inalia.:e. meld of the public accounts mud payments of the county ; to lung as it managed these us eJunts, the re lics went. lie 6,000,000/. may be postponed—but the etle.:t of this arratigeinent fur the Batik may lie suppotcM, whets I state, that at nonne period in may one ys sr, for the last twelve years, bas the Bank held less of the public money, on au gr. than 11,000,000/. in their hands, that is, L 1 ..000,000/. over the aggregate unionist of both luaus. Frss:n this view of the subject, it was impot taut that Goverristient should come to some proper understattiliug with the Bank, and be unfettered in its orrangentratt, relative to toe public monies. I wish, therefore; to know, whet her any arrangement is in progresa for disieltarging these two tidy:liter% or tither of then ? sir whether the Right Hon. Gentleman means to take any step towards a revision of his system with the Bank ? Au answer to both these questions will, I conceive, be important to the public."—(llear, hear.) The CIIANCELLOR of the ExCHEour.n. sifter 'l,•- peal I 'IL! both questions, replied as follows: " I wish to gave tny answers to the Hottourables Getitletnati's questions in so positive and distinct if milliner, as still leave no doubt us to the explanatiost I mean to give. 11'itli reference to the first questwit, I have to :mover, that the Bank have made th st ample preparations to resume their cash pay ments at the appointed time. And I also belie tes that there is nothing either in the intermit or exter nal situation of the country which can interpose to prevent this resumption; hut I certainly have the means of knowing that there are financial measures now pending among other nations, of so extraordi nary and extrusive a frond, which, If :taunted ist their full force, might justify a call to Pauli:lntent to continue the Batik restriction 011 eats wents so long us the operation of the measures to which I refer are pending among other States. I repeat, that there is nothing in the 'internal or ex ternal situation of time country to interpose an ob. stecle to the resumption of cash pas memo, fur which the Bank have made ample preparations ; but that those financial measures to which I allude abroad, may be of so extesisile a nature as to make it expedient to continee during their effect the Re sjriction Act. As to the second question put by the Honourable Gentleman. I have to soy, that arrange ments are itt (smarty:dation for the liquidation et the loan of 6,000,000/. ; but I 010 sure the House will see no necessity of hurry stab reference to the 3,000,0001. which is. iis eft'. ct, s gift from the Bunk to the itinionit of imerest it is worth. I see no necessity for the public to pet an end to that loan without receiving some equivalent in another way. I hope this explanation a ill be deemed satis factory." 1 1 r . 'I it:RN EY —" It is any thing hut satisfactory to me. F what the littstlit Hon. Gentlenia. , says, the Batik are in a situation to pay their on.- standing limes tit cash. At such a moment. woe would bitlipo•ethey would tee the necessity of evil tractivg their lialier issue : itmead of doing which, himever, we find them t ss. nsliug it. The IN''t