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consequence of the simplicity of execution in the present Bank Notes, the nerild forl="Y of theta Avis very generally and extensively practised, and that often by persons without money or talent ; and this idea has formed the basis of much of ti , e to ironing used by many of the projectors, whose pl.ns have been under our view. The reverse of this we believe to be the tact ; and from the info , . otation hefts* Its, we feel ourselves warranted in statist; our opinion, that the great quantity of f.,r e d small notes which have lately been found in circulation, have all issued from a very 1,-,w plates only ; and that the fabrication of thrill is chiefly confined to one particular part of the country, and car, ied on by men of skill Mod experience, and possessed of a very cgusider able command of capital. Upon a coriory ob. vation, it appeared remarkable, that whilst so warty titterers are constantly brought to, justice, the actilat forger shriuld very rarely indeed be de• tested. But further investigation has led us to think, that this fact may be accounted for; and wit bout entering into details, which upon this point It is better to avoid, we think that it results .naturally from the lamentable perfection of sys tem to which this fraudulent traffic leas been brought ; and we have seen no reason to doubt that the Directors of the Bank, and their officers, bare used every exertion in their pOwer to bring the actual forgers to justice, though unfortunately without success, except in very tew instances. We cannot refrain, however, from adding to this' statement, our Opinion, that there must be some culpable remissness in the local plice of those districts within which the actual fab r icators of Batik notes are more than suspected to reside, and to carry on their trade with impunity. And before we quit this part of the subject, we-wish -to suggest, for •the consideration of those by whose judgment such a q u estion may be pr o p er ly decided, whether it might not be expedient to of , . fey a very large reward for the appreheosion and rooeicrion of a person actually engaged iu . farging Bank Notes. We are aware of the objections which exist against the system of pecuniary re wards, and are fully impressed with a sense of the evils that may arise !Tom a too general adoption of it. But the circumstances muter which he erinse of forgery exists in this country ate 'pecu liar ; and it appears to us hardly possible that those evils, which might he anticipated from the off r of a reward in the case of some other crimes, could follow from such an offer in this case ; and knowing bow many individuals must be saved from punishment by the convietion of (sae actual forger, we venture to recommend the adoption of this measure, to he concurrent with such an im provement in the form of the note as we hope to see effected. Having been furnished with such information as was within our reach, relative to the sub ject of our inquiry, we, in •the next place, proceeded to examine more in detail the se veral projects submitted to us. In pursuing this examination, we have trot iodolged the vain expectation of findinz any plait for a Bank-note which shalt not -be imitable by the skill of English artists, and ee have considered that it would ,be utterly unsafe to rely for security against forgery upon the employment of any process, the chief merit of which was to consist in its being kept secret ; of which several have been communicated to its. Our object has been to select some plan, of which the.process, when the principles of it are understood, and the machinet y and imple ments provided, shoa'''l he simple enough to be applied without interrt—tion to the extended operations ,1 the Ban : ant should at the same time comprise so mut... of superior at t. as may oppose the greatest 'ossible difficulties , the attett!pts pt the • and way pre >ll. such► . points fif :a ccuracy all4` ~, : :cilence in wm-• 1 sought, t. a certain extent, in a combination of cellence in various particulars ; but chiefly, as we con reive,in the application of a principle beyond the reach of the art of the copper-plate engraver, which in its different processes is possessed of the most formidable power of ;mitotic)». One plan, before 111111(1,d to, as apparently affording this advantage, has been, with the most liberal assistance from the Bank, for some titue past, ill a course of trial for its greater perfection, and with a view to com bi!ta,ion With other improvements, satisfactory experiments of which have already been effected. The result, if our expect;,tions be nor disappoint ed, will afford a specimen of great ingenuity in the fabric of the paper, of great excellence in the workmanship, and- of a very peculiar invention, and difficult machinery in the art of printing. IVe confidently hope, that no long time will elapse before eve are enabled to lay before your Royal Highness that result : and we have every reason to know, that the Bank Di rec t ors are s i ncere ly anxious' to adopt any plan, which shall be found, after patient examination, to he worthy of adop tion. In the mean time we have thought it right not to delay informing your Royal Highness of the course of our proceedings. The investigation in which we have been engaged has strengthened rather than removed our feeling of the difficulties with which the whole subject is surrounded. We do not wish to represent those difficulties as pre cluding the propriety of an attempt to remove the existing evils, by a change in the form of the notes issued by the Bank of England ; but we do feel them to be such, as to make if imperative upon those wilt whom the responsibility rests, to he fully satisfied that they snail produce an im provernent, hetnre they vewtire to effect a change All which is humbly submitted to your Royal Hik;huess's consideration and judgment. JOS. BANKS. W LLIA M CONGTIEVE. WILLIAM COURTENAY. DAVI ES GILBERT. .1 ER. II ARMAN. WNT. 11. WOLL:►C'FON. CHARLES HATCH ETV. Sohn-square, Jan. 15, 1619. to the eye of any usiLagtAtiii lB 9 as shisil esyahle him to et E fraufraud by observing , note. the absence of those its in a fabric; In the mass of the schemes nefore us, H:..-t! are, of course, very various degrees of men : ; ~nd we endeavoured to class Them as well as circu;usiauces temsld permit. From a very large portion of them it wri. , oVlutts, a first inspection, that no beittficial result could be expected. Of the whole . number, we find about 12 of superior skill and in geunity, bctt anticipated by others of higher merit ; or merely ingenious, but inapplie ble in pracic. Aod'we consider nine others to be either of f , u.:h originality or ingenious combination of existing means, as to have rrquired our more particular at tention ; and with respect to these much conside- ration has been had, and, in some intances, ini- provements and experiments suggested and tried. lVe have not considered, as decisive against the merit of any particular plan, the single fact, that it may be imitated by superior art and expensive me ng . But when we have found, in the case c►t specimens submitted to us, apparently of great ex- celience. anti the result of a combination of (dicta or tu4chinery, that a very good imitwion has been pr.►d4cced in a very short lime, without any peculiar erpence, and by the application of means only, which are ‘vititin the reach of very many Artists and En gravers in Eugiaud; and when we :aka to how vet y few bands the business of forgery appears to be • • at prest : nt confined, we cannot - doubt that it, the event of Bank Notes being formed fiont Any of such specimens, an equal num ber ar least of persons would very soon in deed be found capable of fabricating those notes to a considerable extent, and with a degree of skill q►►ite sufficie►►t to deceive the public: Ano- t her consideration has also had weight in inducing us to hesitate murk, before :sre vctiture to recom mend any specific plan. The adoption of any I ;tW form of note, presenting pt culiair an d charoc- ieristie but tine imitittiou of which we could not coutidenily feel - to be extremely cult, Would not only not tin moil, but would produce much evil: and would ;,;;;oce a taise se em-icy, by accustoming the puhiic :o rely upOu the appearance of such marks and pectitiAr cha racter, rather than upon a cautious and general observation of the whole note. Our remarks, however, as to imitation, do not apply to all the specimens which have been itifercd to its. There are a few of singular and snitcrior merit, produced by means which it is very intro bahie should ever come within the reach of any forger, and the imitation of which, except by those means, appears in a high degree difficult. :7 , alety, or rather comparative eafety, is to be LONDON JOURNALS. FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. [Morning Chronicle.] AVe understand the Marquis of Bath is to suc ceed Earl Pattlett as Lord Lieutenant of the County of Somerset ; the Earl of Aylesbury is to be the new Knight of the Thistle ; and the Earl of Fife is to he the Lord of his Majesty's Bed chamber, in the room of Lord Paulett. [Morning Herald.] It it currently reported at the Bar, that Lord Eldon has at length determined to resign the Seals. The Noble and Learned Lord will be fol lowed into his retirement by the respect and esteem of every honest man in the kingdom. We have heard that he is to be succeeded by bird Man ners, the present Lord Chancellor of Ireland. If this arrangement shall take place, it is added that Sir John Leach will be presented with the Irish Seals, accompanied with a Barony. We think it right to say, that we give this intelli gence exactly in the shape in which it came to us. and we do not demand that a greater degree of credit shall be given to it than what is due to a mere rumour. [New Times.] NVe have been favoured with some more Indian Papers, but not of a date more recent than those avhich reached us exclusively on Sunday. A scar city of money still prevails in the Indian market. The Government 6 per Cent. Securities have ac tually sold at 9 per Cent. discount. The hopes of relief in that part of the world were fixed on an expected shipment of dollars from Engl , nd. The Government Loan was shut by a public notifi cation of the Ilth of August ; and it was tinder stood that the merc ant il e b o d y - i ntended to re• quest of Government a loan on the security of the Company's paper, THEAT It ICAL REGISTER. /Performed Last 2reet. TutrATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANF..—(Y9th time), Brutus: Lu cius Junius, Mr. Kcan : Tarquinia, Mrs. W. West. After which, The Silver Arrow. • THEATVC; ROYAL, CPC,' ENT-GA RDEV.—Rnmen and Juliet : Ro meo, Mr. C. Eemble ; Juliet, Miss O'Neill. After which, Harlequin Munchausen. TO CORnESPONDENTS. JusTTVIAN,—LOLLARD,—and CArtiI.LUS (No. III.),—To- morrow. The NA LYSIS and COMMENTARY on the IssoLvENT DEBTORS' ACT, and other Articles, as soon as possible. We have received Vic:Ws Second Letter, and shall give it an early insertion. PRICE 0 STOCKS TIIIS DAY' AT 1," 3 per Cent. Red. 791+.1 3 per Cent. Cons 7 BrLi 34 per Cent 5184 4 per Cents ....98i 5 per Cent. N. Ann.— lOWA Bank Long Ann.. 20 3. 9-1E4113 ELVP: O.CM,CI{. Irish 5 per Cent. ..109 India Bonds 899. p►. New Annnities 784 Exch. 2d... 18s. 20s pr. Cons. for Acc0unt...79,14 73i M.' ILS. Auttivtb—i Dublin, 1 Guern%ey arid Jersey, 3 Ilambirrgh, I 11(.11;iml DUE-2,Waterford,l Guernsey and Jersebe Sweden, 1 France. HIGH WATER AT LONDCa BRIDGE To.mollnow. Nlorning, 53 minutes after :3. I Evening, IS minutes after 4. THE SUN. SOLENI QUIS nict:itc FA LSI/31 AILIIIk:AT ? LONDON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 26, 1819. The Pjris Papers of Saturday last, wbich were due this morning, have not arrived. CITY, 01111 O . CLOCK.--A Court of flank Directors were summoned to meet this day at one o'clock, for the purpose of laying the new li,nk-note before Ministers for their approba tion, previous to its being issued to the Public Lord LIVERPOOL, the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHB- Quell, Rc. hc. are expected the time appointed Funds rather worse ; Consols 78k, 79. As the Paper Currency of the lank is at pre , sent the chief medium of traffic, and of the pecu niary intercourse of the country, we have thought it our duty to insert at full length, this day, the • Report, published by order of the House of Com mons, relative to the important subject of Forgery Bank NCites, which has extended to so great a degree as - almost to excite universal distrust as to their validity. The Report is highly honourable to the Directors of the Bank, who have been exposed to much factious clamour and vulgar abuse, but who, as appears from this Re port, have been constantly etnployed in the attempt to prevent the crime, and to restore the confidence of . the People. The subject is involved in difficulties which appear to be almoSt nstiperable. The fact that the fraud is " carrie on by men of skill and experience, and possessed of a very considerable command of capital," as stated in the Report, is truly alarming, because the skill and experience slew the danger of imi- tat ion, and the command of capital operates to se cure impunity to the chief culprits. And here we cannot help adverting to the contemptible artifice, or ridiculous weakness, of those who endeavour to excite a false pity in the Public at large, in be half of those who have been detected in the crime of forgery, and are to suffer the sentence of the Law. This whining commiseration has been chiefly confined to the Opposition Prints, as if they had not sufficient scope foE their endeavours to disturb the minds of the People, and thwart the operations of Government, in the defence or palliation of Sedition. If Culprits, who have been prOved to be guilty of crimes which shake the security of public credit, are not to be punished, the LAWS must be rendered in- efficient, and Justice rnav shut up her door!, and leave Delinquency to roam at large, till nothing but universal ruin must ensue. The compassion thus excited by artifice or ignorance is a proof of a corrupt heart or a weak understand- ng, but we trust that the proverbial goo, sense of the PLapie at large will induce them to despise such deplorable folly, under a full conviction that the safety of the State is the chief consideration, and ought to be firmly main- ained against the machinations of Faction and he weakness of fictitious humanity. We feel great satisfaction in referring our Readers, and the People in general, to the Adver tisement in our Paper this day, stating the Meet ing of Merchants, &c. &c., at MANCHESTER, on the subject of the INSOLVENT DEBTORS' ACT, be cause that subject has been discussed, through the medium of THE SUN, by many very learned, lute!. ligent, and able Correspondents, who are still di recting their efforts towards the same laudable ob ject. We, therefore, may fairly presume, that our Paper has been materi all y instrumental in excitin g attention to a subject of so much im p ortance to the credit of the Country. W e shall onl y add, that our columns shall be always open in support of our COMMERCE and our RELIGION. Sunday morning the Duke of YORK left town for Windsor, on a visit to his Royal Sisters. His Royal Highness remained but a short time, and then proceeded to Gortambury, near St. Alban's, the seat of Earl VERULAM, where he dined, and yesterday joined a shooting party there. His Royal Highness was expected in town to-day, to hold a Levee. On Sunday the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHE• (watt went to North Cray, Kent, on a short visit to Lord CASTLEREAGH, and returned to town in the evening. Yesterday, at half-past eleven o'clock, Vis count CASTLEREAGH arrived in town, at the Fo reign Office, from his seat at North Cray—his health is much improved. Yesterday, at one o'clock, a Cabinet Council was held at the Foreign Office, which was attend ed by all the Cabinet Ministers, except the Loa: CHANceLcon—,they sat till near four o'clock. Yesterday the Governor, the Deputy-Governor, and several of the Directors or the Bank of ling land, waited upon the CHANCELLOR of the Ex- CHEQUEIt, at his house. in Downing-street., German Papers to the Bth instant have arrived. It is stated in'an article, dated Hanover, the 7th, thar,, their Royal Highnesses the Duchesses of CLARENCE and CAMBRIDGE will not return to Eng land prior to their respective accouchements, and that Commissioners will be sent from England to attest the births of the Royal Infants.—The funeral of the late interesting and amiable (preen of Witt• TEMBERG was attended by the KING and the two Princes of OLDENBURG, her Majesty's two sou by her first husband. The disorder that carried off her Majesty turns out to have been the measles. The Pelican has reached Jersey from Buenos Ayres, with intelligence from thence to the sth of November. As General SAN MARTIN had le covered his health, and bad repaired to head quarters, it was expected that be would renew the attack on the Royalists, while the Expedi tion from Valparaiso will attempt a landing at Lima. Lord MILTON'S " complete restoration" to health has been gunounced iv letters frOm Italy of the 22d ult. and therefore it appears that his Constituents are offended because he does not return to him Parliamentary duties. But if his Lordship is to continue on the aide of Opposi tion, be bad better remain abroad. HUNT AND GOD SAVE TIIE Lette r We yesterd a y rece i ve d t h e . f o llowing 0 from an authority on whi. h we depend 5 but t O , late for i nsert i on t h en. I t i s, however' s° b be nourable to th e t own o f M anc h este r, and in°st ' or le so gratifying to the feelings of a loyal P e 3' throughout th e E mp i re , w i t h, we trust, C Oner o tively few exception's, that we readily ad mit if I i I day : here `` M --The ANCHESTER, JAN. 23 --The Thee was last ni g ht h onoure d b y Mister FitiNT ex hi 0 1 1 , ing his Adonis-like person in the Stage 13 "; companied by 'rho/11MS Ch apm nn ,lf and or seller ; Nich 013 3 WI, if wort h, corn-dealer; fin" e d seph Johnson, brush-maker —The b rY n' is r i t s over quietly, with the of a few iron' the Gallery of and !{ U he ,; rY ' ghts of Mau,'---' No Corn La WI; &C' ie O f After the Play was over, ;he iniliont o ' rtn , r t„ the respectabl e p art o f t h e ao ili enc e horst I°,l'l, in an universal cry for G6d save the which was snug by the whole of the p rn ,: li a re Persona, joined in full chorus by the dn e jolt standing uncovered, with the exception °' ale and his three f o ll owers , notwi t h sta nding e , repeated crie s f rom every part of the 11°', , tre take off your h a t s ,' stand np," for sbameibis On their obsti na t e re f usa l to comply wi th call, the cry b ecame genera l , tutu the rwO ok ' turn 'em ou t 1' A n d a few loyal s ouls the n 1° of the trouble of t urn i ng Hunt atit! his gang. 00" the Box. pt " But now comes the cream of the joke' nearly the clos e o f t h e fi rst act o f the r Hunt and his p a rty aga i n entere d t he 13 ' few faint attempts were made from some °' , • the party who bad b e e n previously stationeti Gallery to cheer them, but they were in etiln of drowned by hisses an d groans from every P i r i f re the House. At the conclusion of the a ct p —je llie was again an universal cry for God sa i t . v Anb King,' and the Performers came forward, snare"s it with greater energy, if possible, than bei e . o During the second singing, Hunt and h is , t o . f not liking the sample they had already fel t " a lt MAnchester audien ce , actua ll y stood up an d to ilia c. g, off their bats. Th e audience which together this night by the appearance of 19 u LI Booth in the Honey Moon, was respectable lit-et numerous, and never was a perform a oce b e ! received, nor God save the King' called lot 1 ad more unanimous manner. Th u s has Mr, flitnrobe a true specimen of the feelings towards bit" " 100 , respectable and loyal inhabit 4nts of this PoP orr y town, and we suspect he will not be in I' again to pollute ow' streets with his presence' FOR THE SUN. MISS O'NEILL. Mll. Eprroa,—ln consequence of a .malicious represeflitr; tion, industriously sent to some of the Public Paperst 3ssert that a Performer of Covent-Garden Theatre had resig,ed io Articles in consequence of my r e fu s i ng t o play with be r think it a duty to that Public who accept my humble ef f4 ..e ' r with so much indulgence, to state that I never had an ' ll4 c Con to appear with any Performer in the Theatr e , ~Pt 11 1 in any instance presumed to interfere in the cast of piece 4 ' which belongs to the Proprietors and Managers, and not td myself. I beg leave to declare, that I never decline a character tAi with reluctance, and from a conviction that I cannot so re' present it as to deserve that favour I uniformly experience' In furtherance of thi s asser ti on , I su bj o i n my re fuol f Mary Streart, addressed to Mr. Harris, in answer t° 111° earnest application on the subject, which refusal was wri tte id it at a time when I cou ld h ave no id ea t h at any statemen t w° ll come before the Public. I am, Sir, your's, &c. E. O'NEI Clarges-street, January 15, 1319 ' MY DEAR MR. HARRIS,—YOII must be convinced of my r e 3• diners to oblige you, and my great repugnance to r efuse a ll character in which I con:d appear without destroying there t ; putation I have gai ne d ; I t h ere f ore trust that you will 37;01" A my wishes of not performing the part of Mary Stuart. I l ! ac i '' again read it with th e grea t es t attent i on , an d %iish if to accept it ; but I find that it is out of my power to l m ake single eject in it. With this impression, you wi °fit' trust, any further press it upon me. Believe me, it ever was, and still is, my earliest 10 511 f° do all in my power to forward the interests of Covent-Gar den, but I cannot entirely sacrifice my feelings by aPP ea l jr t 6 . nightly before a Public, to whom I owe so much , an" wards whom I feel so grateful, in characters in which the.; is not a single opportunity fur discharging what I thi nk bu my duty. In the meantime, Believe me your's, &c. To H. Harris, Esq. SHIP NEWS. DEAL, JAY. 25.—Put hack the whole °' hif outward-bound that sailed yesterdays vCCePt to Majesty's ship Tribune, which ship still keel' s . n g• sea. It blew bard at intervals last night, d" ri tr which the Essex East Indianian parted from b 11og anchor. The Vansittart East Indiatton, , 0 parted twice this afternoon, and bas jus t Ict at another anchor, which appeals to hold ber present. PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 25 —lt has blown a1 1e ,, 9 1 gale all day, with tremendous gusts froir • S. S.W., and still continues. Two wherries ut /s ti r in the harbour tide, during the gale of last nig r 6 . and this morning, and three persons `" drowned. MARRIED. ttet Colo 13 , On the 29th of August, 1818, at Bombay, Lieut. D. Leighton, Adjutant-General on the Bombay Estahliso rnent, to Isabella Constintia Williams; and on the a] , day, Major W. P. Tucher, Deputy-Quarter-Master-OenZtori to her sister, Clarissa E. Williams, two daug hters of I' Thomas Williams, Esq. of Keppel-street, Russell-s !care. DIED. On the 17th inst. of an indan.mation in his bowel', rich Genrgc Presley , aged 37, of the firm of Pressey an d Oxford-street. - at LONDON: Printed bpi. B. CARSTAIRS , of N u. 29, . 6 „ e A, Ormond-street, Qin:en-square: and publish ed bV "ra..4 SCP.IPPS, of No. 7, South 11101 ton-street, at THK rs t 9) Office, No. 112, Strand ; %%Imre Advettisetnents, Letters, &c. (post-paid) must be addressed. E. O'NEILL• 1 ft" -I