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EXCHECILLER PALL OFPIC4, Feb. 17, 1818. 'TO DE PzUD OFD'. - , • .fk•telsrttarr.l7, 181 e. All .EXCHEQUER BILLS dated ku:Osegonth orpscem ber, 1814. r ,, , ...pa - Aids, 1814 4 $4 Geo. - 111. Cap. 39 . .fospply, 1116, 1.12,4C10,0116, 556e - 6:III. Cap. 4. rrifelE. LORDS COMMISIONERS of lIIS TREARTRY Iting given dire ions t.ir Y e of the Principal of the above-mentioned EXCHE-, Ougu BILLS witloUti iut i t (Ilbe thrroon, at the Ex cheritier BitiPfliee in the keceiptotExclaquer, New Palace - • lard, Westminster, on Thursday, the ,Ist: day of March, IrziS; Attentlitite 4411' i aaiii . (ficuidays and Ilniiclays excepted) until, call inrlit4ng the 1J tl, March, ' froM ten &clerk 'in the 'morning, till one in the 'after:- no in, fer the pi:wrote- of receiving the same; and, fur the greatei disp!teh, the hearnfe said Bills are desired to place each .description of Bills iu, separate Lists (whirl; are to be obtained at this °dice) classing them in,the Order•of their Tespective dates, such es era 'for , tbeie'alueAnniunt being ' .I;Anneric_ally ort.anged, and specifying thy prieteiral_sums and iaterebt duo thereon, computed front, lAtt esoludisig.the days I'm "chid they are respectively datecl,•,ts, the :mid 2111, day of Ttferch • inouAT, When the interest unit the • s4ll bearers (being holders or riot) are indispensahly re gaited to indorse each Bill with theirinnal signatureil and •to write their names ; and residence stt, the bottom of each Separate List-; and they are .utoreever required to attend the Exchequer dull Ofljce for payment, and to receive the new Bills, and give the Receipts for the same. If anrof the holders of the aforesaid Bills shetild he de sirous of, •recelring payment of the principol4o4 interest, ' previouts to the said 21st dayef March, they nray beftecorn .' Merlin ed- on computing the interilst to the .lay on which they wish to he }raid, and leaving the said Bills for examination one day prior thereto. , Such persons as may he desirous of having new. Exchequer Bills in whole at in part of payment of principal, upon 'marking new Binh ant) mentioning the amount at the bottom .of their Lists, delivered on or before Fr iday the 15th March, may he accommodated with new Bills, payaisle to or Order, carrying an In terest of three pence half4enny by the day, orapvery one poundi, which said new Bills will bear dates the said VIA day of March, and will be del:vered, together with tho interest dee in respect of the : Bills so ilestredio be ex changed, 'un Friday, the 24d 0,4 Y. of March, and the fol lowing days. The Exchequer Mlle to be . iSstiedin Exchan;e, and made payable to Or order; as ehove , roentinutd, may be either transferred by endorsement, or wril he paid to the. Bearer if tbolitavii shall not he filed up. N. 11. All Exchequer Bills dated prior to Deceinher 1814, }tare Wen edrecti . .so4 to be paid nil', and the interest thereon bus ceased. IMPERIAL PARLIANIENT. , .HousE.OF LORDS, FlttbaY rza. la, The cotise of Wicklow p. torney.GdiutAt was 11 CUM postponed. The Archhishop of CASHEL took the usual oaths and his • scat in the I,6rd e.L.1,101' was introduced as Earl of St. Germain's, in she 'mmo , lllllll. • viol; presented the Candion Settlement, which was laid on the table. . rrte %dour's-mart:at - nut Oa r - Glalis linty bill itrere read a tecond time.—Adjourntid till Monday. 110 USE OF.c-COMMONS. Lon! Gower's Indemnify Bill was read a third time anti tliC motion. of 'Mr. ABERCROMBIE, a new Writ 'was - uniefed for the Election of a Member to serve in the present firrtlic Itorough of Caine, iq the room of Joseph Eicii wh:i has , qtrepted the °lliac -of Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds. Mr, CRANE presented a Report of the .progress made in • idtiorinir the site for the ereetiotrof the now-Votat.Orticcc ' The Es - cherpter Rills Dill for raising 11,090,6901. for the ser vice of the itresent 'year arid a Bill fon ng eoutitmi certain on mail, were rea d a erst time, and ordered to he read a second thou on Monday., The lntligullitl was, read a third time and passed. THE DANK ACT. The CnatctiLt.ott tot the Excnactuan moved the order of the day, for a Committee of the - whole House on the. Bank Aet ; and on his mot* it w. is ordered, that the correspondence • between -she Treasury and the Directors- vhould be referred to this Committee. (4 the questiun that t)ie, , Speaker should leave the chair, igr.. 7 / 4 tr.t.tvet,L, after 'some nbservationa on the „great amount of the Unclaimed Dividends Jn the hands of the Book, asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he meant to propose any.new arrangetnent 'on 0113 sybject ? The C HANCELLOR or, the EXCEIe Ultii. did not think' it possible to make any arrangement on this subject, which would be any considerable saving: to the public, The House then resolved itself into the Coin- roittee. The CH A N CRLLOR of the ExcneAuee, previous to moving the Resolution which he meant to pro. pose to the Committee, went into some details relative to the situation of the Bank with respect to the smut advanced by it for the public service. lie observed that the profits which the Bank de rived from the deposits of public money would be materially decreased in consequence of the peace. Referring to 'the correspondence which bad taken place between the Treasury and the he stated, that no disrespect was meaut.to the lionse'by this interference on the pert of Mi nisters in a matter which was at the time the sub ject of deliberntimi in Parliament. An advance Nvas at present proposed to be made by the Bank for the public service, to, the - amount of 6,00010001. at the rate of per cent. , C 0111.• paring thin rate of interest with that at which money was 'to be procured in tiny other way, lie calculated that it would be .a saving to the pub lic of 210,0001. The Right Hon. Gentleman then expatiated on the advantages of refraining et thislinse to press upon the money-market by a Joao. Well-informed men, who had eccurately caleelated it, stated, that if no loam was Ma d e for 3 yetirs. the effect would be to support the poblia credit to such an extent, that the 3 per cents would rise as high as 80. But supposing even that they rose to 75, the effect would be, rum., in the space of time which be had mention- . ed, there. venuld,he a saving'to the public, to the amount of 2,000,0001• The House kilt N r n ,,eh the capita! of the c ountry J iw i brrj,t ,Wupi b y th e increase of the public debt witifn4 the sJet yitars. It was now necessary to retricAly the evil ; and by the.proposetVarrangement, its t%vo •from this time, at leaSt 28 millions would be added to the 'capital of the enuntrY bY: (11 '; - bursements 7 'front the Si n ki n i. ; Frog:; I#y re fraining -,Tr'4'ol a Loan, the hist chance was given. to the country to recover speedily fi'Pou the distress under which it at present I:tbottred. He then entered into a discussion of rlri important . advantages to he del ived fIOIH the Sinking Fund, Which, when allowed to accumulates for a ntiniber of years-, caused such. 'millet-ease of capital as was not to he obtained by any other -means, and ,ts sometimes even to produce a temporary Mean senience to rho public by its amontit, unless' laid out gradnally. 'As:to the town vihi t h 001 e. proposed that the Bank'shotrld advance, had been - eldubtful to sonic Gentlemen whether, in the' present stale of itts . atrairS, 'afford so much ,as was regnired.. But when it was.concidered, th a t 'Of '21 . .000,0001: (the ainount of: the , diminu tion of: - the unfunded debt made the last•,year) 16,500,0001. hurl been employed ii i the anwittst.of outstanding Excheyter Bills,-of which so-great an amount was held by the Bank, it wend el he'allOwed that the advance 'to the public of the sunOvhielr he had mentioned, could not occasion' an s . } , Inconvenienee.. The 'Right Hon. Gentleman then reeapittdafed the statement which he ints4c. Ott Monday last, as to the state of the Finances, In addition to tlie 21,000,0001. of the unfunded, ,which ! had been paid city asbe had mentioned, there was as inueli more _paid up of . the other arrears of. debt 4 au that on the whole, in round numbers, not q letts' than from 41,000,0004 t0 . .42,000,0001. had:alto gether, been paid7Olf Tait yeltr ilhe trite! of the grants of last year WaS about' 83,000,0 0 01. ur 84,000;0001., 'of which not' abore one hair had been required for' the services of the year, which had enabled Government to lay out the renmiuder in the reduction of debt. --•Tbis was certainly a very, ,consolatory statement. The total exit, risks of the present year. were not, ebriffiiltl;tl at inure than 28,000,000 L, .or Considerabte reductions hail already been made towards corning at the pe:ananent peace establishment. The great sums which the Bank had received by-the,,paying off of Exchequer Bills, would enable the proptved advance by them to be made without any litmus venienee fct the'pulitic', by obliging the Daniel() discounts. :There was one alteration which he intended, with regard to the interest of Exchequer Bills, which it Was important the publk should know. The rate of interest allowed upon 4he Exchequer BillSlSSiled laSt year, was threepence halfpenny a•day. 'rinse which were to be now issued would only bear interest at the rate of three pence farthing a day: Altho'-this might afpear a . very trifling elinntintion, yet 'it would tieve'to the public about 200,000/. a year. There wits it fur- Alter alliattion..proposed . as to the new issue of _Exchequer Bills. h:was,inteniled that theyshosild :be made payable to order, and. should be trans ferred by indorsation, instead of being 'lrons-, lerablC•merely by deli Very as tinay. The' Riglit Bon. Getttletn,in concluded by moving' a Resolu tion for.f. 'Leave to bring in a Bill to continue and amend the Wink Act." Mr, Batixes approved very molls Of tile Nil- . postal advance by the Bank.' 1n t.;he proaress of. the bill, he irate idea to move thdt only ;..1 . 1. per cent. shnnlai he allow,ell asinterest tin'on it • Sir J. NIMPOUT thqught that the Bank derived such advantage front the Act which suspended their'payment its specie, that they ought to ad vance the 6,000,004 trithout any interest at till, during the tinte.of the continuance of that Ac,t.• Mr. GRUNFELL• agreed that it was 'proper to have recourse to the. Bank for the sum that was reptired. tie repeated several of his stateuleats in stipport of his opinion, that 'the • Bank was over-paid- for performing very trifling servieeS, La the Public, Anil thought the J. bud. no right even to a farthing ot interest charged . upon tlic Loap. MANNMI SUppOrted the Motion. After a few obso vatitins from Mr. Tierney, the, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Thompson, Mr, Forbes, Mr. Grenfell, and Mr. Manning; the Re.iolution war carried. Sir Itoamii liettoti; asked whether the salaries of the Commissioners of Excise an,l Customs in Scotland had not been raised since the opening of tlitspresent Session ? Tilt CHANCELLOR of the rACIIEQUER that the the hull taktll place reecot)y, ill co se- quence of represent:4l6o4;s of an older date, to which it had been. thought proper to_aceetle,,on account of the. greut increase whit:4 hard taken plisse in the duties of those. offices. Mr. 13RotIGHAM now saw the inanity or all the professions of Ministers in favour of economy, and of all their boasted plans of retrenchment. It 'at last turned out, that whilst making these deciara. tions, they we employell, not in reducing, but in increasing salaries,. This was defended on the grouud of an augmentation ut tintietr; but had not every Article of necessity undergone a pro portionate diminution of }nice ? Mr. Gattuwax thought that the lion. Gentle man appeared to have waited for an opportunity to make a speech, and had given a most unfair re presentation of what hail fallen from hia Right [lon. Ftiend. He had pot a question, and re ceived an answer as to the fact itself, but not the ground on which it had occurred ; and yet he bad taken occasion to get up and make a speech, having no relation whatever to the obicct before the House, in tinier to misrepresent the conduct of Ministers. If there %vas any thing wrong in the Act of his Right Hen. Friend, let him not be condemned until a full explanation of .the whole case had 'been heard. Mr. litiouGnam begged leave to state the rea son why he had made some observations` on the' answer of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The Right lion. Gentleman could certainly not be lg.. norant that, in a Committee of Supply, any (pel t ion relative to the disposal of public money might be discussed. Mr. GOULIIURN observed, that the House were not in a Committee of Slipply i and that th e H uu . not in s -•• 41. • tientleman was therefore wrong by his own 'hewing. k Mr. TIVRNEY thought it was clear, from what had come froth the Chancellor of the Exehetiaer,. that instead of retrenching and dintinishiog Wigs, his Majesty's Aliuiliters 444 been inertding them.. !little said the Commissioners bail more td da, • To this his Hon. Friend objected, that theyliad less t* pay. lie would now ssk that Right -lion. Gentleman a •qiiestion, re specting the'Colonial Depeetinent.7 Wes it nett tended that the third Secretary of State i-,•who harp only been created on account of the -overflow of busiuess during the pressure of the War; ehooid surrender his functions now that we were at peace? or • what -regulations and, reductions would :be adopted with respect to that office? Lord CasTee e LAG H complained of the use which wits grade of the answer obtained from his - Right Hon, Friend: Ministers 'were . ifispOsed to tve every inforination in :their power; and to lend themselves Willingly to. anyltujoiry., when that'in.. didgetice, for it was one on their part, Was used liberally,. Mit if such conduct nal adopted to-' winds them, it would induce them not to telar . frimi the strict discipline of Parlienient. The flon. Member had acted as if impatient to create an un fair impression;in the House, or out of it,lhist sisters Were employed in nothing bite in incteiiing salaries!. But that system Of questioning, itud avail themselves'of prematiire answers, ve - es pretty: iti ell understood by the public, and•woeld not-yield the Gentlemen ;opposite more than at five minutes' triumph. His Majesty Ministers would be COM. pelled to make. tip their minds to their. line of ,puhlie,duty, and state it clearly to thellouie, and then abstain from giving'premat tire aniitver, ropy/ que,t tle applauded the Gentlemen opnostie for their eai.;ea de4s after intoi mation ; t ey scented iiitipOSed to tokt: the pte , elit an .actiVe. le s ion of Parliament, bin le thentiko to. Work f a i r lY. IJe would-put : it : to Gentleman's own taste and juonent, wi.ether hein'ul not ino,t eminently laded every at tentpu he had made to exercise his ingenuity at the C:yeliSe. c,,f ail! 'itraSCoftile [louse: die would..advisehintinot to rely on his dexterity, itt whtch he had been peculiarly unfortunate, but t t o follow:the fair coarse o usual Pal'.liAmenta4 proceedings. lie had really .stiact:eded so - Olin his 111111104Uvres, that he recottiMetaled him, for his owe sake, to abandon them altogether. Mr. PRESTON said a few words ; the House then resumed, and have was given to bring in a Bill aceordiug to the Resolution. .Sir ROBE/ VT flanoN should wish to ask another question, whether the Law Officers of the Crown in Scotland, and other Law Officers of the Crown, 'lied lately experienced any rise in their salaries'? The CIIANCP.LLOR of the EXCIILQUF.R, after so many .questions hod been put. and answered,. did not think himself bound to give a reply. Mr. TIEItNEY felt DS much as any one the im propriety of pressing Pertain .qustions upon Meth bers of "Government: But here .it related to a 'simple fact, wheti , a mere negative,. it in his power, would relieve the Right lion.•Geretlenian front. all difficulty. If answers were denied to fair yiestioes, •and the 'systeM were to go on, -he should, Without givitie any notice, hour by hour, and clay by day, make any notion he thonglit proper on the rlloSt. important subjectsivonvinced , that he should meet with The support of all those, who thought justly in the liaise. Lord CASTLERItAGIi complained that the 11:glit .110nonrable . thnititintan'pta question that required inquiriei before they could henitiwcred, and then got into . violent —he should call it, animation, because a reply was not given. if he would put , questions of that nature he utust take the Cott- , tletilletneS. And if, wheu questions were answer ed, the Answer ,was used, in the mariner in which it lied been done to,night, Miaisters would have no 0111fT46011rse left, but to - adhere to the dry practise of Parliament, and not reply without sufficient cause having been shown why the information should be given. Tihe the merits of both sides of the ques- A im would be brought into view. .Hon. Gentle men were "not to infer from what had been s a id, the absence of all economy on the pare of Minis terc " He was sure he svotild be able to satisfy the country ultimately that those Hon. Gentlemen were not infallible opinions which they formed.. 13ot this way of putting questions and supt.radding clamour 'upon Wein would drive Go. vernmeut to deny•that, which if otherwise treated they would' be found disposed t6-concede. • Mr. TIEINEY stated, 'that if; at the end•of the week, no statement was given Of the redhetien which was• to take place iothe War Department, he shoid, make motion on the subject. The 1-lonse having then gone into a Coniniittee of Ways and Means,' The CHANCEI:I.OII Of the Excuiewee.propoSed a Resoletion fora applying' the six millions ad vanced by the 'Bent( to his Majesty,. to m a k• e good the supplies of the year.—Agreed to, and thereport ordered to be received on Monday. The report'Of the Freehold Estate Bill svgs re ceived, and the 13111 ordeeed for a third reading en Moodily. . • The Cape 'Of Good "'Hope Trade Bill went through a Cammittee..---Reptirt on Monday. HosiussoN, after a series of explanations on the propriety and necessity of-altering the Act Of the '44th af.the King, relative to Crown - Leases, !paved for leave to bring in a Bill for better regu lating the' offites of Receivers of the CrOWn Rents: Mr. Pees Tote repeated his observations on, pile alreadfully.impeverished ,state of the 'country,— He considered, the intended Bill to be nothing more than e branch .of 'that system of patronage possessed by the oligarchy of the country.--Leave was 'even to bring- in the Bill. PRIVATF,LY STEALItiCi IN SHOPS. Skuuttr. ROMILLY move6l fora repeal of as much of that Act' of King William as takes away the benefit of Clergy from persons privately steal ing in shops. The Learned Gentleman entered into a series of details, to skew that this Act, as i t n o w stood, put the life of a man r at the mercy of any ignorant or unfeeling shopkeeper; or, on the other hand, it afforded him an opportunity of indicting him only for larceny ; so that it left 'such persons the privilege of determining whether ft ' Jetty thief should be capitally indicted or not.— L c ove given to bring itt a • Bill. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER obtained leave to bring in a Bill to continue the Clergy Residence Act of Isl 4. After a few word from General THnutTurr, respecting the nece,ssity of Compelling t he Clergy to reside on their bene fi ces, an(igivlug the Laity the right of appeal to, the .Bishop, wheu they could Hut, in certain cases, obtain justice front al t ; inlctior orders, tie !d hi Clergy would - be compelled to do duty twice o ' l Sundays, in a►ery Chu►ch in the Kingdom, and to read tl►e senice according to the Rubric. . •Ad• ; . jynyned till Monday.' • ' MAILS. 'AnsrvEn--2 Guernsey and Jersey, I Dublin, 1 Waterford. Dur—l France, I Il.uuburgb, I Holland 2 Gotteubuqh, Guerusey and Jersey, I Waterford. PRICE Oi THIS DAY AT r F STOCKS WELVP. India Ilonds,'Ss pr. Eiclieq.Bills, is. dis. R, , -Pr.' Oranium, 18 .. / z Ditto fur Payment,' rthir.fint Cons. for Account, 61ii Bank Stock, 3 par Cont. Red. Gl;s ferient. Cum, 614 4 pur Co)ts..76i 771 per Cont. Navy Aun. 96111 Lack L. Ann. 1.5/ .1 COURSE OF EXI'II:INGE, FRIDAY, FER. le. Anistel dam r. , ii to, at Sight AbiNiertlain . i.......... .. 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Among Monsieur Pitta's other charges. ago ; ." its, Ise asserted the'lle Opposition were ''merely person's in, the pay-of Minitters, who broug ht . forward Motions, as concerted 'before-hand , il l : ordef to afford the latter' t h e triumphs of 1 . 3 00 refutation. Monsieur Fillet . warns Europe 001 to be humbugged by, these mariceuvres, or b 7 tlits acrimony of the Opposition, 'which lie says is ni l pretence, like thc heat of rival Barristers iv- a law-snit. We were-hitherto inclined to clasqh ji imputation upon our, Patriot s among th e othcr. . . :groundless libels of Monsieur Pillet, but the r ec en t debates in Parliament have staggered. our faith. It Stilts Certain that Mr. BitiitlGHAW is•pilli n t! • into Lord CArTLERELOWS' hands, and we snsilec` from the legal habits of the Hon. Gentleman) . . , theMe-woutd not do this but for reasoO4 some" thing similar to those hinted at by M. Pi Lt. a-r. 1 .11 . e Spanish question for example ; — no to o d es i r ons 4 being thought 'a Statesman would have so r idien* . lonsly committed himself for nothing: lie Moi l either have acted on a private understanding, Or no no understanding at all. FOr our parts, were we . .3li - . nisters, we should think we could not rewardl oo handsomely for such attacks. An opposition like the present is worth half a million a-year to any . ' Administration ; %vitae, to the public, 'they sr ° literally worth less than nil. We sho r uld' not lin . surprised that the debates of Thursday and . Ye p `` . terday got Monsieur Pillet into such credit' ailei sell a large Second Edition of his work. ihe-Publie will rejoice to.observe, from di° Report of_ die Debate in the H ouse o f Commfli g last night, that Ministrs have announced a dote r ' minatton to set their faces against the system ni badgering which their opponents have chosen tc" dilopt"—a system calculated to bring the dignity of Parliament into contempt, to destroy the to influence which its wise, free, and manly disc" - sions ought to have in Europe, to impede the bu si ' Bess of the Country, and introduce the bickering s . of a Vestry-room for the grave de li berations " t the British Senate. it is notorious that touc tl ' inconveniency and evil resulted from tilc indulgence in this petulent couise last SO' . con, and it only remains for Lord CASTIAd itEAGN to let it go to the sense of the ftottec fo r decision, whether it will support Mnister s' that form of procedure which is ccinsistent With. the ancient and established mks of Parliamen t ? or sanction the special pleading, quibbling, ° lid : teaziog tactics wished to be subetituted. Since Mr.TizeNEY has stated that " he sliatd( l, without giving any notice, hour by hour, anittlO by day, make any motion he thotigra prop4r c n . the mast important subjects," it is incumbent On, the House to.convince that Geatlematt, th-at will not suffer - him So to trifle with its ri me I°4 functions ; 40 . to ‘ik-aste timt v ot ght in pr o ' L. t- :-..,t;;;n2t - a Tii;rsl at 114)t