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4me requisite that a thorough tovesligation should take place; in the result of which, it may perhaps appear, that the talisman to w h ich we have trusted is no longer to be relied un ; that there is no short mid expeditious way of extirpating moral evil ; but that, if we wish to suc ceed, we must enter upon the task with a full convic tion of its importance, awl a sincere resolutimi to bend ourselves down to our behour. We mowt in tionre into the character, temper, and mural consti totem. of the individual, and in-Aosta ourselves with his natural or acquired talents, his habit., and his views, in order that we may be enabled to adopt &tido IttraNUTe, for his Improvement, as may be best adapted to I hie case. If lie Ise igooraitt, we must instruct ; if he be obstinate. and arrogant, we t liumili Pe I ;ifhe he indolent, we must rouse him; if lie be despoininig, we must encourage loon : and this, it is evident, canned be acconi philtre' without resorting to different modes of treat. :need, and the full exercise of those initial sod sym pathetic endowments. which subsist lie a greater or less degree lietwrro all human beings us incident to our common nature. In the Wyatt time, this supposed practicability of I .e orientution of punishments to crimes, is oohs voisraltle to the progress of real improvement; as one of its expected conseqiiences is, that Ittiloh 'news should he invariably inflicted, with t siny r. lax dim, wieatrver. That this is the opinion of Ikl6. apparent. fiolll several iia.sagre, ue 1114 isuiks, sod particularly trom the follosiog, where, tinder the hesil of remissibility, he thus es the to run :—"'This is where, wit hough the of f- oiler In.. been punished. yet on aceuttiit of some Itelopietur of his, ilispl qed at a time sulese -44.1(.14 i.e !hunt of the conoment7cment of the punish meld, it may seem expedient to remit a pint of it. Esut this ten scarcely be, if the proportion of the posiiishinent is no other respects what it ought to be. Eke purpose of example is the more important oh ject iii comparison with that of reformation. What ever then is required for the purpose of example, must abide at all events. It is not any reforma t' on the start of the offender, that can warrant the remitting any part of it. If it could, a men would have soothing to do but to reform is iiiii r diately, mod so free himself from the greatest pin of the piiiiisliment which was deemed necessary." To this reasoiling. which, If admitted, would de *troy the very principle of the penitentiary system, and estahlisli an inflexible, 1.1111101111, soil itulls1:11- witsulittg (node or punishment, it may, fur the pre sent, be sufficient to reply, that mail a regular and efficient scale of crimes and punishments has been formed. it would be premature to avail ourselves of our boasted infallibility; mad upon an idea that the jud i tinent given was perfectly just and appli cable to the offence, to punish a criminal to thee full extent of his sentence. la ea Mr. Lruthuw his.. himself admitted, that " under the continuance of the suchen' imperfect *)stem, the sauperty of re missibility may be deemed a useful our; but this," lie adds. " would Lot be the case its any new coo. .trusted *yak's% iu which the rules or proportion 'before laid down sl lel be observed." That in the opiinuu of Mr. Mot bum himself, such period lots not yet arrived, is apparent from his constant mid sun ceselul irtiorts, fur the advancement of every plan that may tend to reform the unhappy offender, nod shorten the period of his captivity ; and till it shwa anise. let a. continue to avail ourselves of the most likely measures in our power, to call the g uilty to reprodaiine, and to soften the calamities of hu man &mime. IMPEUIAL PARLIAMENT. MOUSE OF LOMA, IVLIVNL!DAV, FLunumint 10. Thr usual time for commencing public business in this !louse is live o'cl A k, but this evening the LORD CIIANCSLLUS did wit take his rent cm the M'iumhsesek uwil Hear sits, being engaged. a. we un rotouil. in the C•ouseed holden at Callum-Muse, tw tecriving the Recorder's Report. come under Mr. Percesar. Liil ; the word revived, th ere fi ne , was only retlinitlant. Lord SIDMOUTH Paid, that in the t itle of the Bill there was an OMII4IIOII, winch ought to be cor rected. Tl a 1;111 referred to another 13i11, wind, in it. turn referred to a third, by which the sown pions of a fourth were to be extended front elections lii rowdies to elections in Wetnininster. The word extended, however, was omitted. He therefore should ))))) yr, that the word. " and extend" be inserted iii the title of the Bill. This amendment was agreed to—llie former Ob jection was forgotten, and the Bill was read the third time and 'passed. It waw ordered to be ...tit to the 1-14.11. e of Commons, with a Message, re questing the House to agree to the amendment. CA RN ATIC ACCOU NTS. Mr. Parkhouse preheated the aotto4l accounts from the C 00000 ntissiithers employee! to merrtaolo the tlebt6 of the Nabob of Arcot.—They were laid on the table. The !louse then adjlornetl. HOUSE OF COMMONS, WYDNFSDAY, Funomatir In• IMPORTATION OF FLAX. Accounts were ordered of the Qiiantii, of nix mid Hemp imported min the United Kingdom Burin; the laid five years. CARNATIC COMMISSIONERS. Mr Etsst.nw presented the 14th Report of the Carnatie Cunitnnatutter., which was nrelered in hr printed. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' ACT. Mr. W. 11. LYTTELTON ',resented • Pelitiou from the Inhabitants of the town of Dudley, in the county of Worcester, against the Insolvent Debtors' Act. The Dina. Member observed, that there hardly one of the Petitioners who hail nut suffered by the uperatiout of this Art, which he concurred with them in thitikiaig was detrimental to the inte rests of trade in general. Tile Petition was ordried to lie on the table. WINDOW TAX IN IRELAND. ........... Sir Just ` STEW4UT prearntea ki Petition from Tyrone, praying for u repeal of the Wiutlow Tug. The lion Baronet preuroteti kl Petition from the :aline pine... respecting the regulation of the Butter Trade.—Butt/ werr inni an the table. WI ST3IINSTER HUSTINGS. StmtuuTti tut.veit the Order of the Day for the thud reidistg of the Webtuthotter Ilustangs Lowil HOLLAND said, that although he was very far loon spree ing Ili. principle 4,1 this Bill, he should, iu the present Mistimes!, confine his °Nei:- twos to a point of twin. The Ltd! purposed to iesive rod continue an expired law, but it did nut rowan', on the face of it, the object of the law thus revised. The Bill wrist to idler the existing law of the COUllify, and yet slid slut declare what the soltrostimis were; so that if any person were to look to this Bill for use rule of his cuoduct on the point to which the 11111 rehired, he should be compelled lu wit the twubeand charnel-houses where rived Avis wale deposited, to nstvrtain its provisions. The Noble sod Learned Lord on the Woulasck, bed often objected to Bills for tint reciting their object, but this was the more requisite when the Bill irferred to nu Act that had expired. sod of which ins traces were ',reserved in the body of the Bill. lie had many objections to uffer to the twits. Liple of the Bill, which had en unjust ex post fade ululation; but these had been w strongly urged on a former evening, by his Noble Frieiol DOW bllll (die Earl of Laudershile), that he should out re• peat them. 'Else Lone , CliasicEt.t.on rose and ispologised to the !loose lot' hating olvtainvil tlitui eu lung, lout it mot• public lousitiv%s that bed cawed his iili.ence. A diersilig to the objection of tile Noble Lord (Mil. I.mA), lie coastriulril that it Cal nut valid. By Proci WI it 10..0i lore's provided, that it c. ,s I,ot I. re hasty In a Bil, fur ci.istiiining an expired At!, iu recite the provisoma of the Act so cum t llor.t.sao did not think the Noble and Learned Lord bad NltOrellirr MCI Inv 4,lijeillOsi. coseceived that, us a matter of experliviecy and peue•C:eiy, the provisiona of the revisit! Act should appesr los tile fire of the Bill. The Eitel of LA UDENUA LE believed, that the Noble seed Learned Lord on the Woolsack had been Lrii iu his statement. Mr. Ih-rereval's referred wily to cars where expired Lillis were “coutit,tard." The Leatiled Lord. theerfore, to !Clasher litr pre rut case u l rplcable, should mine an strieeet!iterea to the 1;111, striking out every word re -1.66.4 to tp.e rectral of the At;. '1 he Luau CH A N LEL LOR irMiarked, that if the %uid couttuutd alone were used, the ease would ..~.t.^~----~- , S(UTCII BURGHS. 51r. BENNLTTwriientrd u Petition from certain Burger-es iu NI usselburgli, puling for ao ultrns. two its the niairogement of their Buigh.—Tilis Petition was 1:44111$11 !he !able. STOR EK EEPERG r. 74: Elt A I.'s DEPA Pill EN r. 4111 111 c loolom of dlr, CA LcitAFF, further Ac. vomits were ordered from the Storrkeeper-General's' Departuteist, s j oecifyilig the salaries paid tip to the Ist of February, ISM, at the several ilrputs or timis in that branch of the public service. USURY LAIIS. Mr. Serjeant ONst;;;;v : roar to make his promised motion fur u repeal of the laws which wrist to place restricttons on the trade in money. In brings hug this subject again under the coussideration of the House, lie was acting not only from t!.r dic tates of his own judgineast and unbiassed °pillion, hot in conforruity with the opinions of the most en lightened ITICII who had written on this subject in vatious parts of Europe and America. It was now, he believed, the Illthelsal opinion that these laws, which restricted the trade iss money, should hr al together repealed. jig 1817, the Assembly of Vll'- 1 ,01..1,1, in the Uuited States of America, had taken this subject into its courideratioti. and he was lima happy to thud, from the speech of the Member a ho had introduced the subject, that the same view which lie had taken of it here, was also the prevail tog view in America. Ile repeated, that he was most happy to find the speech of the Member in Vtrgissia exactly accorded with that which hr had himself already delivered upon this topic. These laws lord been originally enacted, it was said. loon II principle of policy: but. in fact, the framer had no policy whatever in hie enactment.—( Hear.) — These law. had originated in a blind and fanatical perversion of the term Extortioner" in the Scrip tures. It was Irani thence inferred. that to trade in money was unlawful, and that what was called usury ought to he interdicted. A universal con dentisatiurs was, Of course, prossouticed mem all persons who dared—root to take a particular amount of interest, but to take any interest at all it the loan of money, and unfortunately the law mime diately took the subject under its jurisdiction, and several impolitic and absurd enactments were the result. The Ist Statute for the repeal of which he meant to .e was, ulna which passed in the reign of Henry V 111. In the ',receding reigue, all ins terest, of whatever amount, upon tummy, was in a swerinsig manner declined to Le unlawful : but the Act of Henry VIII. was intended to narrow the operation of this priociple, and what was cosssidered usury by that Act as s , to exceed the Inuits of oar per cent. interest. In the reign of Edward VI. this Act was repealed, and all taiterest again declared unlawful. The consequence of this repeal, as re corded by the hotoriaius of the time, was. that the interest of motley (of course by bargains illegally transacted), immediately roar from 10 to lit per cent. In the rvigis id Elizabeth an interest of 10 per cent. revived, although the former Act which denounced it es biota! tool detestable to take ray iuterusat at all, was still suffered to lie on the Statute Book. The iiiple penalty of soy interest o d s still its force as a law, notwalistasiditag the Act td Elizabeth. By subsequent statutes, tlie rate of oisteiest was "educed to 5 per cent.--cs present legal standard, a n d (lowa to the time of the statute of Attire, the same Moot principle of restriction and priority is still suffered to prevail. The of these legislative provisions was severe and oppressive; they bore heavy upon individuals of all classes in timer of distress, tool compelled individuals to iat,e money by iseinuigies, and to resort to a disadvarita geous sale of estates, thr the pecuniary accommo dation which they at the mornerit required. Ac tions of Tort were brought against, and heavy pe nalties incurred by men who attempted, a straight-forward way, to raise money be the pay ment of airy thing over the legal rate of interest. The last Parhametaary Committee winch sat tor this subject, entered into a full a n d minute investi gation of the whole questton. They called before them, and had the evidence of the most experienced men who had coissidered the subject; they had even !rehire them gists', whose opinions were tether favourable to the existing laws, a n d in the result they were of opiniuss a repeal was isrceauiry. Ile recollected the observation of one Gentleman, that lie would, iu half an hour, refute the iutiuciple of Mr. Bribillat3l ' S excellyht book op tliiwsubjr ci ; hut lie also remembered that the %%hole tissue of reasioo ing with which the gent lemasi aueutptcol to enforce hi. opitrioto, went rather tooist at the view whielthe (.11r. Serjeonit °endow) took of the question.—( //nor.) —l)r. Ad tin Smith, who wa% by far the ablest 111411 who had first defrodeol these laws, load sub.etivrotl), with the comolunr winch brlun s lo il great mood, a lt ere d L o i s lopinioio, 111111 14 1 / 1 6WO - 111 litira.ll a Cllttvert to the necessity of ri repeal. 'l•he present Opribitioll of the Usury Laws was fatal to private interests, and prejudicial to public ours. It compelled per sons Weise 12, 13. 14, and Li per relit. for motley in the way of atltluilirs, 111111 these too for three and four lire% not mimed by the gr.utoor, Fry the grantee of the aimuity. The last Committee hail had the evidence of great lauded dealers to skew the disedvantages to property which resulted from 1110 law mos it now stood. The Hon. and Learned Ilenibe►, lifter making an observation iar a low tone of voice. on the practice of Coe Court of Chancery when questions respecting the furor ot• these ainiunies Calite under its jurisdiction, moved for leave to toting in a Bill to repeal those laws which regulate or restrain the rate of interest fur money.—/ hear, hear.) Ilumr., io secooding this inotior., expo his hearty coticurretoce iu ;he step taken by the Ilion. and Learned Member. It struck him as being angular indeed, that while one man who held property in lan d , Olitsitid b e a ll o w e d t o d o ,. poise ol• it at tiny price he could get. while Alisoitlir , , who had property iu houses, should . have the Hattie latitude, while in fact, the holder of every other species of ploperty should be allowtol to du with it just HS lie pleased, the holder of 000000 V , %holt was the representative of property, should be alone restricted. to triefrill4 to tlll.l tiuullult • , it Wall right to bear iu mind that the holder of lands and houses was possessed of a ptoprity, the value of• which fluctuated according to the Capacity of the owner to snake them avoidable. Although this country had flourished under the operation of va rious restrictive Acts, yet lie hoped unit wino any of them was found in j urious or DO lime would be lost iii moolilYirset or repe:olootg it. Ile hoped that with respect to the Usury Laws, she time had mow suited when die labours of able men 11.1111 atllicirutly developed the true principles of economy, so as to IleiriClobtralef tlie inutility and absurdity of Otiose laws, which wel.t to re►tnct the rate of interest oar moory. Ile had no doubt the Iluuse would adopt any measure which was CHICO. lilted to advance Ilse general prosperity of the eon. pier, and lie thought that to this, particular 'I tioli, the rate of interest should he let•t It, tie tines cretion of individuals, wool that the trinural of die restretion would have a salutary elfsct. Seljeant ONsioniv then obtained heave to Lorin;; iu the Bill. Ile immediately brought it in. It wito read a first lime, ordered to be read a second time on NI onnlis v next, ottod to be limited, PETITION ItE-sPLCTING , MR. WYNDHAM QUIN. Oil the Mutton WILSON. the order for the intrlitlasier of NI!. V1)11460111 114 d . o•ehurged. The Hon. Mover havoqz sti l ted that he inillerstoml 1I r. Quni woe now on his way t o P ar h aw / q .t, and might he expected in his place to.inurrow. NOTTINGHAM ELECTION PETITION. Mr. littouGHAM 44444 row motion hi defer the consideration of the Nottinglimit I'ctitiom. 11. stated du hi* ICUS4)II GM' OW postpotielortit, that lie war linable to tbid the dgelit of wee of the Petitionetp— bust that at atl event* lie would bring the quebtion forward to-morrow, whit. ther he discovered the agent tminght of not. MALT AND PENSION DUTIES. ..... On the ' mnnou ul NIG I.utiiNGION, the Malt and Peast.ioti Doles recd a second tiuse, mud ordered to be committuil to-biorrow. TRANSPORTATION OF CONVICTS. Mr. Alderman Wool.) • (I for nu Account of the annual expeme of the Tramportation of Con vict.. to New South %Vale% and its lepelideticirs. since the year 1813. The Worthy Alderman ob.- Mut as those accounts were made up to the year 1816. he istillerstuml there would be ton objec tion to their production, to) far as they were made op. An humble Address to his Itoyal Niglio's , . the Mince Worm, fur the production oh these act:mints, was agrectrto. ELECTION BALLOT. The Sri:At:ER rrlllisioleat the House, that two Eleciluo Baloos stood fur to-itiorrnw. EXCH EQU ER BILLS. Mr. I.usifftstrroN brought t.k the Exchequer 81111 KU fur 1819. It wars resd is first time, kkokl ordered fur 11 second rearlim; to-morrow. The Muse turn auljourtked. FOBEIGN LVTELLIGENCE. prints slitulisineo, and 3,137 Ina s•tisiu ipts , • 11... t Veiws ill in which ere .11000; that of Dijon, .elawli contains .15.1100. The number of Istwariesti the Delia. i.iirists is I, .n.r.. •re for the moot port, if nut altogether, open tos the public. Private tette. A f llvrisn mention that Coliniel 51a.seit. leach has heels rasusleinneil fur the rent ut his life to impf 'need ill it fort re.o. In Spain the Enzliil Journal, are stun. piirsuol with ninre viKuer than any work, 'named iu the loulex t 4 the lisquissi. Outs. Al to from Bay. tate, that sere,' individnab .1,.. %Au, ,„,„ • time hack, were escutteil frog Ilse B.aep.r Primoces Si, Valladolid, accused of being its plicate.' its the conspiracy of Grin rat ftenovales, whirls Vali suppresses' about tau years since) have been lo.ofrocr4 Int suffer : tither , of thesis have been smut to the %irrigate of C,uta, souse for the spice of two years. MADRID, ./AIIILAIIT 28. The official columns of our Grizeff„, contain the toilos. lo t State Paper, addressed by the Illoister of War, Dun Praire.. Etttia, to the 'lusi•tt•r 4.f Stale au•l Foreign Affairs:— " Ity nit Order, dated the 2:ld,f December last, the King declares the neccesity of adopitog Measures calculated to prevent the evils which exist In the Tralu.,ttlasitic posses . gs in cooteslneoCe of fors'itstsrs repairitiz to those pro rioters to take !tart to die iiistirirettosi to the soppott of which they etnittibute, Niro r by perstionil es. vice, by in trigue', or by furnishing the Insurgents wills arms, Immo -000 ships, soul other warlike supplier; without which relief teampoillity would hare bleu already seetured w the majority of those provinces.' • " Ilia 3lsjesly having soh:milled this subject to the con•i- iteration of the Supreme of %Var. the biller, in their n•posl of the 22.1 of Dteember last, acknowledged the Impelling% necessity of enfiavisit the totality of the laws ngaii et all foreignets iii the Colonies, who might be taken with truss in their hands, uud. r the Insorgent haunt's, as also against those who might (tinted' ILt m with supplies of anus, au,iuiitiuu or ship., i i suppot t the ittstairei two which unhappily tonhuurs In raison ►oslie quarters uf those ♦aluable possessimte ; whorls individuals 13,1: ClIlle:11-411113111E, by the mini( detest:odr mean•, lis sass. their fortunes ou the rlllll and complete droll,ilion of the stroprus dent %objects of his %Isje•ty in Am. rice. Jostler, policy, and trinity, equally demand the adoption of !Isis iigiouus law, outs% ithstainling the clemettey of his ;Majesty, who, exeleistsag his sovert IV power, had sleigord it/ erAld par duos, sot]. has dispensed with the severity 4.f die laws in favour uf many 01 his Amerleati sub:pets, who had rendered themselves amtulable to punisl lit ; his Nlajest), however, was desirous that they shook] he treated Ili children who had - hems llrditcra by Ilie influence 44 perfidious suggestitios, *Well had caused iticui to ilestate um the path of without' honour, and slut as 111115 who hail been guilty of die ina xpli- Cable crime of treason ; but this Garotte might sot to be ex tended to fureiztteas illegally cum! l. tits.sitiorli as they cannot excite sootier listrlest in the !mod of los Nlajesty, mid consequently cattout iu•el with the estate clemency ss his moors) subjects. " The Council filially stated, that, agreeably to the ac. know:edged principles of the mover., rights of ustions, She foreign individual, also by his uwi will introduces him self Mtn the tens itory of env Sovereign oh:firers, for the purpose of dietorbing the public prate, and of cut 1111 l 'Mug excesses or Ili/Ill's, subjects 111111.clf, by his trim., to the audrotity mid jos isilict iiiii of ilw tosiiihy in which Ite reu dens biatself godly, without its being in the power of Isis own Governinent to claim liiiu, or in any inanni r to prevent his pitioshitierit. In eunsrgarotc, the Ding declares, that all adventurer; who may be taketi its the Trant.Atlaidie possession., sash sink ill their hands, unfit r Ilse Insurgent baimeis, #or who may have furnished the 111.stirgeuts with warlike supplies. shall be seitiener.: to the pani of death, and the whole of their pioperty to be confiscated; this punish:limit bi or: that ...seta by the laws to 11141 class of er 11111 l tale w 1111 are out to lie included in the amitesties Kt:sated by Lie Alajesay. " At the Palace, Jen. la, Dll9 " It wits out until ths 23.1 islstsut, that the King learned, by its • Xil:11/ldinary moo Is 1 Me 'bath of tilt august moth. rat 'tome, im the 2.1 instant. The Court I s is tune tom 111011 10. aloe for six mutat Its. It is lit-t 414 (Id, dial thirteen individuals, implicated in the affair of Valencia, weir shut us' the 21st Outlaw in that town. 'llse greatest tranquillity l'Clgla thereat this nrumeist. 11.0113URGII MAILS. U. PETERSRURGEI, JANUARY 13. The faitn of the C • tee of the Siiikinz Fund was closed yesterday; GS millions of roubles have tn en sub. scribed. Tbis sum in !link a,sigtiata is to be burnt. 'Elie Bank :nisi : mats involuted as paper Cairn ucy, and nu inte rest waa paid for theist; hit the builds issued fur the shove sum pay interest. Mr the :realer part of the loan has Lees subscribed by foreign capitalists, who of cumse receive intrust fl the FIIIRIIICe Department. With the mild winter that we have had hitherto, the Gulf of Finland is still open, even the harbour of Nurva is taut yet (Wit PARIS PAPERS. PARIS, VVIIRUART 7. LAM morning the King veeiveill the no, id oilcans, 3Lkilume Ihr Dm' loess, and fllpsoirnwigelle .111.leatic A French traveller now iu Egypt, has dewovcred at a die tube of about nine boors j...srsiey Its the fled Se a , au an cient city built in the isinustusos, betweers the 211 h and 2511 r degrees of latitude. There are still 4011 houses ems vs. istruee. Ain.mg the rums are found kill ples dedicated to vers..usrltviasities. 'lliere are eleven statues, aml variants ruins of saltless. lie has also discovered the auciesit sta. lions that were app.inted WI the route ihsough the Desert, going from the Rid Sea to the Valley of the Nile. 'limier slaliuos are at regular distances of Moe hours between each. This smite is undoubtedly one of those traversed by the cutsHnrrce of loam, a commerce whirls was so flourishing ■t the time of the I...rides, and under the first Enwraps.. The Williiloll is How ascertained of the a tura ald mune, of which sees certain Lwewlealge was bad tor sertral ages.--Clients Eacyclopeefigne Accounts fruits the banks ut the Mississippi state that the mammoth, a munetrous alianial hitherto known wily by name, anal of which no other trace hss been found than some of its bones, bar been discovered actually in existence, to the western deserts of North America. According Im the de, scripheeos given of it, this colossus of hlw animal kingdom is nut eatuivs routs ; it live► un vegetables, but more par 64'11- elderly sot a eertaia species of trees, of whirls it rats the leaves, the bask, Alllll even t h e trunk. It carver lies down, anal sleeps leaning fur auppurt against a tree. It has rather the shape of a weld boor, litters feet high, than of an ele phant. Ilia body is covered by a hairy skims, au.l has nu burn. The ./,errant etc let 1 anrarie contains the names of the priori pal lebraliea in France. The m o st considerable are the King's, las Paris. containing 800,000 volumes, of which 50,000 are manuscript. The yof Saint Genevieve, in Paris, in which there are 110,1 1 00 printed volumes, mud 2,000 maituser,pts; the library of Lyons, cuuta►seiug 106,000 volumes; that of llour.lessoix, which possesses 1115, 1 101 1 ; the 31agarint hbiary, its Paris, en which ate 00,000 THE BFtITI S FI PRES S. LONDON, THURSDAY, i•isieti.tair IL 1919. The funds experienc e I a further decline yester day, though nut to auy considerable extent, pro bably (ruin the causes whoa! we noticed in our Paper of Alnioluy last. The ciicurnstatice, ilow ever, gave vise in the city to many rutriourx, to which by a very usual and natural operation, it was in its turn attributed. It was alleged that Mr. VANSITTABT rs about to resign his office of Chancellor of the Exchequer ; hut au Evening Paper that affects to he well informed on such !nat ters, because it occasionally receives its rollout:nods from the Treasury. undertakes to deny the cor ►ecturss or this rumour. The resignation of Mr. ANSITTART might, 110 doubt, alarm those who live by tlot: delusions of a paper system. but while the First Lord of the Treasury determines to up hold the system, it matters little who may be Chancellor of the Exchequer. It was also re ported that a luau would be rt quired to meet the supply of the present year ; hist most alarming of all io the speculators, it was aiserted that a new In he J.lnpietl. Nothing hiss yet fulleu from the NI - misters in Parliament to justify either of these statements. But from Lord CASTLEIMAGU'Ii financial reptiot, it is evident that a son. wit Its* Oleo from twelve to thirteen wakens will be required from the money mai kit, in aid of the available reveuvies of the country, to meet the extiavagant stopply that will be demanded from Par hasitrot. This corcornstance, however, instead of de pit ssing the emu ket, us a luau its former times used to du, ought under the pot-sell aspect of affairs tend to exhilarate the Gentlemen that compose it, the more particularly as it affords u complete refutation of the third utarearre report, relative to a projrt•lcd ch..ngc tit the timiticiil pyidrai. Nil change 4:1 take phice until Perlistnrott shall, with a ' , mill i ( hand, cut down the propo‘ed estimates, introduce into every depeutmeist of the State a .ioccre rtr Live economy, and if at the present riannei.t it should be found impossible to extend relief to s „ impoverished people, to prevent at least an isitiroce! of the public debt. It is not Olity cruel lit li,! extreme, after so burdensome a war, to cootimse in the fourth year of profound peace a v ! .teiri of hp rowing, but it is resulting to coin:nun ‘ei,,e. The gica ler nur 1 10-1 bees bore Immo, the sherd,' be our present eli-letsroruiet.t;: but our NI.. oi.terp, viewing the subject with the distorted ey e of self-intrrest, assert the direct contrary. TN y argue un the principle, that as we have fur so lung a time supported all enormous ekpritditurc, w e ought still to continue it, although seen' they eau skew no necessity fur it beyond that of tosiutsiiiiiiic uutiistrrial patronage. Lookiog to the weight cf our luxes, Mild the west numbers of norpitifitabl e labourers whore we support, who eats be surprised at the pressiire of* poor's rates, and the increaseohprolreit-lit?ltlsa OsWmontheput.. lic to propose inquiries, mad affect urlooti foruSeat • to mitigate the rids that press upon the people, while Ministers are permitted to pursue their ca reer of extravagance. We cannot dud words saf. ficieutly strong to express our astonishment, that is the present pacific aspect, both foreign and do• • mestic, of this empire—a hilt our conamereem strug gling forezisiene_e—w.L. I il ettor inenufactuters, work ' log sixteen hours out of the tireoly-fussr, caritiut earn suf f icient to support life—while our pour houses are filled to. suffecqmat, soil the poor's rates isacreasing throughout the country, to the manifest destruction of agriculture—with every thing to in duces confidence in the faith of our Allies, and no. thing to disturb the trantiallity of the country but the abhorrence of public extravagence—yet that Ott. der such ,ciicomoances a Minister of the Crown should fed himself justified, in the face of Paths , orient and the country, in asserting that it was ash solutely necessary to support a warlike attitude re. gulling an expe n diture of nearly TWIIIITY•0111 MILLIONS ! Let the people con.iiler this, slid then instruct their Representatives how they shall at t. Lust n i g h t , i n the House of Commons, 4r. Serjeant Orist.uw obtained leave to Ining in a Bill to repeal the lams that utfect to regulate the rate if interest iii this country. We are iiJppy to add, that n o oppristrion w liatever was made to tt e Learned Serjeant's motion. The Bill was brought in, read a first time, and twirled to be printed. A more extended ti;scu-sion, involving the prin ciple of the measure, will probably take place on Monday night, when the Bill is ordered for the second reading. We shall, for the ',resent, content ourselves with remarking, that those Gentleintu who may feel an unwillingness to repeal the exist ing laws, will fled some difficulty in sliewing heir they operate to prevent the ',metier of usury. The expedients ror avoiding their provisions are so numerous and effectual, that they might be roust dered a dead letter, were it not fur the vexatious im pediments they interpose in all pecuniary transac tions, and the very ruinous and winter-spiry expense to which they subject those who are least able to bear it. Serjeant ONsLow's exertions in legislation, particularly in extending the berieficiel influence of toe 111,1Icas Corpus Act, have been already highly appreciated by his country. Si..ould he now sneerer/ in opening the money market for the inure exten sive employment of capital, lie will borecontribut ed not le►s essentially to the general good of society. We have r,ceived Paris Patters of Sunday last. They contain 811 official Declaration, of ti.e 14th of Jaituary, 1819, from the Minister of ti:e King of SPAIN, denouncing the utmost severity of the law of nations against all foreign adventurers who shall be taken with arms in their hands, under the flag of the South American Insurgents. They Shall instantly suffer the penalty of death, and their propr;ty be confiscated to the King of SPAIN. . . The French 5 per Cents. closed on Satturdsy rt 70 f. 85 c.; Bank Stock 1,5481. 75c. Two Iflainhurgh Mails have vrtived, with PJ ri to the L.:(1 iu►taot.—lt is stated under the 1100 of Vienna, that the PRINCE REGENT of ENG'. OD Will visit the Cootinent in the ensuing suninirt, hating been ath i.etl to use the waters of Ca I.bto, fur the benefit of his health; und that the King of PRUSSIA will pats the spring und vtionnier at liatfea, iieur fur the beuetit of the waturs of that place. Tile President of the Board of enlit , ol and tl.• Nlaster 4 , 1 the 11r..t attenticil at the Patsce itt:cr.tca's Court yeaterday. The faihroing ere some farther tall-arts frau' Papers rebyteti tug the Book, !muted by order of the House of C011%1'10114 : The total nomber of persons prosecuted he she 1 1"k1fridn the 10th of April, 1818, to the !:8111 January, 1,119, smt Con victed fur Iti:owingly uttering or !maiming forged notes. U4—acquitted 123. The number of persons momitel by the Mint for coun terfeiting the coils, or ntiering counterfeit coin, between the 1018 April, 1818, and 2811 s January, 1819,14 273. Ihe lle autount ot Bank ants cur-illation in Ihr half year /7141411111 111 Juur, auclusoe, 1797, W 10,b21,5741. DO. ('rears July to December is the 4111T11. year, 1141 4 . 0 51/. Du. from January to June, 1817, 37.339.7681. Do. from July to December, Do. from January lu June, 1818, 27.954,.;591. from July to lkeember, 28,482,8581. 4 ?