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PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, APRIL 8. The,Barl MaNvens presented a Petition from Tidwell, Derbyshire, against the insolvent Act. Urdered to lie upon the table. The Chancery Clerks' Bill and the. St. Pancras Poor Bill were teed a second tithe, and commit ted for the first day atter the Recess. The Felonies on Canals Bills, and some Pri vate Bills, were brought ',p from the noose of Commons by Mr. Lyttelton, Sir George Clerk, Lord Stanley, Mr. Othuriney, and other Mem bers, and read a first time. Thomas's Divorce Bill was reported by the Earl at Shal:esbury, and the amendments agreed BANK OF IRELAND-FTTItTHF.R RESTRICTION OF P.-MIEN Fs. The Bank of Ireland Cash i'avnierits Bill was, (ill Ihe motion of !lie Earl of LIVKRPOOL, read a *evotitl time, and the commitment tiegativi.il Lard hip tlirti ttio%'cd to dispent , e with the Standriit: Orders, hick %tact agreed to, and the 13111 wa• read n third tone and passed. The 'loose adjourned (hiring pleasure.—Alont six o'clock the Lord Chancellor, the Earl of NVcstntoil slid, and the Earl of Shaftestsory, took tlnsir scats as his Albtjesty's Coronkissioneei ; when the Commons attending, Atli' the Corntllis. sion having been re4d, tie Royal A,sent was no tified to the Bank of lieland Gish Payments' the Ft-sight Dist' ihto iou Bill, the lookeeptrb' fill, and rive Private Bitis. _ _ The Ca'rlisle G.s Light Bill Wag read n thind tine, and pAssed ; alter which, the House ad j,,ut tied till Thut sday the 23d instant. HOUSE OF COMMONS. Mr. S. BOURNE presented a Petitioa from the paritili of St. George's, Llatiover-square, against the Parish Clerks' 13111.—Referred to the Committee on the _Bill. Mr. WM. DOUGLAS brought up the Report of the Com mittee on the Scotch Saving Banks, which was ordered to be . re-committed on the 22d of April'. Mr. GRESFELL presented a Petition from the parishes of St. Bennett and ht. Peter against the London Clergy Bill.— Laid on the table. Mr. S. ‘‘ OR 'LEY presented a Petition from Wakefield against the renewal of the Insolvent Debtors' Act.—Refer red to the Committee on that Bill. WOOLLEN MANUFACTURES. Mr. S. WORTLEY then presented a Petition from the Merchants aml Manufacturers of the West Riding of York shire, praying for sonic alteration in the Laws for Stamping Woollen Goods, which was laid on the table. He then in quired of an lion. Member below him, who had moved for Itetiros respecting Wool, whether he intended to propose any incasing* on the subject? Mr. I - LSI:MN/I said, that ha had no reason in moving for those Returns but to show the ratent of the di , tresscs of the agriculturists. Their Complaints bad hitherto received ♦•ery little attention from the House, and he wished to Make et case which would command that attention. Hr had no in trntion of Making any motion on the subject, in vinsequence of a conversation which he had had with one of his Majesty's Moisten. CAMELFORD ELECTION. Mr. MANNING appeared at the Bar with the Report attic Committee appointed to try the merits of the Election for the Boruush of Camelford. The Report was limn brought up and read. It declared Ralph Milhatilw, Esq. and John Bush de Maitland, Esq. to Lave been unduly elected, and the whole election to be null and void. It then added, Om it appeared to the. Committee that most corrupt practices prevailed in the borough of Ca na:ll4rd, but that distinct acts, of bribery had not been suffi ciently established by evidence to justify an appeal to the in terference of the House. The Report having been read,' Mr. MANNING moved that the Speaker do issue his war , Trttrt for the election of two burgesses for the borough of Came'ford, in the room of Ralph Milbanke, Esq. and John push de Maitland, who had been reported not to have been duly elected. Mr. H. SUMNER, in a case of this kind, objected to the House not putting itself in a' situation to try its merits. He should therefore adopt the regular course, and move an Amendment, that the Speaker du not issue his warrant till the t6th of April, intending to follow up that motion by a proposition fur laying the Minutes of the I..ommittee before the House. Mr. MANNING was understood to say that there ought to be a stronger ground than that which the Report of the Com mittee afforded, for adopting such a course. Mr. GRENFELL hoped the Hon.,Nlember would withdraw his motion for postponing the issuing of the Speaker's war rant, as he saw no practical good likely to result from such a postponement, the Committee having declared that uo act of bribery had been sufficiently established by evidence to call for the inter ferenee of the House. Mr. Y. MOORE thought that any case of this nature ought to receive the greatest indignation of the House, and to be followed up by the strictest inquiry. It was not the borough of Ca tnelford, but the character of the House, that was at stake Mr. . MACDONALD conceived, that the only reason which could have authorized the Committee to make a Special Re port to the House, should have been the wish of affording grounds for sonic further step in the business. Now, no such grounds were supplied, and the Report was a most in ane produclion, for it merely stated suspicions and surmises which it declared insufficient rojustify the interference of the House. Why should any delay take place in filling up the lepresentation for the Borough of Camelford ? It could not be from any hope that some measure could be adopted to Drove that that Borough no longer deserved to be connected with the national Representation, for the only cause why the election had been declared void, was not bribery but purity of numbers. Mr.WM.DOUGLAS stated that. the existence of corrupt ion in the Borough of Camelford had been made out most distinctly before the Committee, and in such a manner as deserved the attention of the. House. There were but twenty-three elec -4 Los in that 'Borough, and the power of corroptiou might easily hr exerted wherever there was such a paucity of elec tors. Yet the existence of corruption had been proved in the clearest manner, and they did not conceive the evidence suf. ficient to establish separate acts of bribery. They bad there fore thought that all they could do was to state what ap peared to them to be the case, and to leave,it to the House to take what further steps it pleased. Mr. NIILDNIAY said, that the system of corruption was so nicely kept within hounds in that .Borough, that it was mpossible for the Committee to take hold of any separate circumstance to bring it before the House. There was but one single vote of which they could take hold,and it was considered too unimportant to call fur the interference of the House. Mr. S. BOURNE saw no reason for delaying the warrant, as it appeared that the election had not been declared void on the ground of corruption, and that if the Members returned bad haul a clear majority of votes, their election would have been confirmed. Mr. R. WILBRAHAM contended that it would be useless to send a case like the present to the House, who had no power to examine witnesses upon oath, when a Committee, having that power, had not been able to make out a clear case of bribery. Mr. MACDONALD said, that only two witnesses bad been brought forward to support the charge of bribery, and their evidence had been such that they had both beeu sent -to Ne wee te. After a few words from Lord F. OSBORN, the House di iutd— Fur issuing the Writ .. 103 Fur the postpon e ment l5 Majority in favour of the Motion 98 PREVARICATION. Mr. MANNING itt'escotert two t petitions, one from John F.v..l,iab: and the other from John Chapman, now confined reweave, where they had been sent by a warrant of the Douse, at the recummendation of the Committee appointed to try the merits of the Comelford Election, in consequence f prevarication in the evidence before that Committee. They expressed their deep regret. and claimed tlw iiidnlgence of 11)6 House. The petitiors having been read and laid on the table, Mr. MANNING -ed that John Eveleigh and John Chap wan be brought forthwith to the liar of that House, to be re primanded by Mr. Speaher, and discharged.—Agreed to Mr. P. MOORE then moved, that the Minutes of the Select Committee on the Ceazelford Election he laid before the House. A long and desultory conversation ensued, at the close of which the motion was negatived without a division. IRISH BANK RESTRICTIONS. A Message from the Lords informed the House that their Lordships had agreed to the Irish Bank Resitictions Bill, without any ;intendment. NVESTF.RN gave notice, that after the holidays he should submit a proposition to the House to increase the fre quency of Jail Deliveries. Mr. H. SUMNER - gave notice, that nn the TAU' April, he should wove that certain Acts imposing duties upon Coal be repealed. The Trtlawney Divorce fill went through a Committee. Lofd A. 'TAMIL lON presented a Petition from the OWlltls and Lessees of Coals in Lanarkshire, against any alteration in the duties on Coals.—Ordered to lie on the table. The LORD ADVOCATE of SCOTLAND Legged to ask th e N o w t . Lord apposite when he intended to hring forward the motion of ,he had given notice, for the production of the Opinions of the L iw Officers of the Crown on the case of the Bolough of Aberdeen ? Lord ilAmiuroN said. be should bring the motion for ward in tke week atter the holidays, or withdraw the notice altogether. The intervening time be should take to make up.bis Mind. Mr. fiE'. KDY had sonic time ago !teen told, in answer to a q;iestion which he had asked respecting the state of the t-outts ofJostiee in Seagfand, that impiiries were then in pro gress, the'result of which would soon be submitted to the House. - He wished to know if it were the intention of Go vernment to bring forward any measure founded on those inquiries? The LORD ADVOCATE of,SCOTLAND..regretted that this question had not been asked while some . of his Majesty's Ministers were present. He could not take upon himself to i answer it. ALIEN ACT Mr. HUTCHINSON moved for Returns of all Persons em ployed in Great Britain and Ireland under the Alien Act, and the Salaries paid to them ; and also a Return of the Nutuber of Persons scot out of the Kin4dom under it. Mr. ROBINSON thought a notice ought to have been given of a motion of this kind, and submitted to the Hon. Gentle man the propriety of giving such notice before ha brought - it forward. After a short conversation, in which Mr. BROTIGIIAM and Mr. HUTCHINSON participated, it was agreed that the motion should stand as a notice for Wednesday se'nnight. A petition was presented from the Borough of Milford, praying for a Revision of the Criminal Code.—Ordered to lie on the table. IRISH CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS. Sir H. PARNELL, after some preliminary. observations on the injudicious manner in which the sums voted by this House for the Protestant Charter Schools of Ireland, and sonic other Clearitable Institutions of that country, were expended, mov ed fur an account of the amount of Salaries and Building Ex- Ileum - incurred at the House of Industry, the Foundling Hospital, the Female Orphan Society, the Society for the Education of the Poor, and other Establishments in Dublin, and for the Protestant Charter Schools in - Ireland, which, af- Uzi' few wards from Mr. Charles Grant, were ordered. IRISH INSOLVENT DEBTORS' _ACT. Mr. CHICHESTER presented a petition from the Debtor-Jr confined in the County Gaol of Leitrim, praying the. House riot to allow tho Irish Insolvent Debtors' Act to expire. He suggested that an inquiry into the expediency of renewing the Irish Insolvent Debtors' Act might be devolved on the Committee on the English Insolvent Debtors' Act. Mr. CALCRAFT observed, that the committee on the English Act were already sufficiently occupied. Besides, as Ireland bad a separate Bill, a separate inquiry ought to take place respecting it. Mr. C. GRANT thought the matter ought to be referred to the Committer:lo which the English Insolvent Act was re ferred. The general principle in butte was the same, and the details were uearly the same. tie ss as unwilling to Chow any additional labour on the English Committee, but the evidence respecting Inland worthd out occupy them more than two or three days. Mr. CALCRAFT observed, if they were to enter on the evidence respecting Ireland, they would ran the risk of losing . twit Acta of Parliament. Mr. DAWSON contended there was very little difference in the Insolvent Debtor Law of the two countries. Mr. BROUGHAM said there was no indisposition on his' part, or on that in his Hon. Friends, to extend the benefit of the inquiries made by the Committee to Ireland, hut it ap peared but justice, to the subject itself to refer the Irish Act to another Committee. This, on various accounts, he shewed to be deeirable. Marty petitions, lie remarhed, had been pre sented, or were about to be presented on this subject front Ireland; and the Irish Petitioners would not be satisfied if the same attention were lot paid to them that the English Petitioners were thought entitled to, and a proper Inquiry instituted. Mr. PEEL; as the person who introduced the Irish Insol vent Act, wished to say a few words respecting it. There was no such differeoce between the two Acts as to render any in quiry necessary. The Insolvent Bill of this country had been applied to Ireland without any inquiry. It was merely his wish to assimilate the law of the two countries, on this sub ject, to each ether. Whatever general principles might be established with respect to might . be established with respect to Ireland. Mr. Alderman WOOD conceived the evidence they had al ready had was inapplicable altogether to Ireland. Mr. G. LAMB said, on looking back to the evidence they had already had, above half of it related to the Insolvent Court,and he really thought if they were to ewe, on the Irish Act they would nut be able to get the Bill through this See sion. After a few words from Mr. Dawson and Mr. Calcraft, in explanation, and Sir Henry Parnell, the petition was ordered 'to lie on the table. ADJOURNMENT FOR THE HOLIDAYS. Mr. ROBINSON moved, that the HouSe, at its rising, should adjourn till Wednesday se'nnight. Mr. BROUGHAM did not mean to *object to the motion, but Ile wished to offer a few remarks on the cause of their not adjourning at the time which had been first men tioned. A measure bad been introduced, which they had been given to understand ought to pass with the least possible loss of time; which measure had since been sub jected to an unnecessary, if nut highly prejUdicial delay.— They were told that they must pass this Bill without ob, serving the usual forms, the observance of which, if not fatal to its utility, would create an obstacle to its suc cessful operations of a most .formidable nature. When the Ministers in that House first determined on bringing in the Bill to restrict the Bank of England from continuing 1 heir partial payments in cash,.they forgot that a, similar measure would - be necessary for Ireland. Thus tine -day was lost.. Then a second day was lost on its being brought in, owing. to their colleagues in the other House being ignorant of its existence. .Two days were thus suffered to - pass, which with one day, which could not he avoided -aft4i theißill was intro duced, lett the Bank of Ireland expospOre a drain on it fur three days altogether, two of which might.havebeen saved. The arrival of the Black-Rod litre intemapted' the speech of the Hon. and Learned Gentleman. The Deputy {'alter of the Black Rod summoned Are House to the House of Peers, to hear the Royal Assent given Coormission to the Bank of Ireland' Further Reatrietion Bill. On his return, the Speaker stated the Royal Assent to have been given in the wind form to that and : to several other public Acts, for which see the Lords.. The SPEAKER called on Mr Brougham treproceed.• Mr. BROUGHAM had no further Obsef rat itms to :make, but had thought it right Jo take this opportunity of noticing the delay which had taken place through the course pursued , . by his Majesty's Ministers. The 'notion that the lipase at its rising should adjourn to Wednesday se'nnight was,then pot and agreed to. The third reading of the Members' Quaiification Bill was postponed till Friday, April 23. The LORD ADVOCATE obtained leave to bring in a Bill to prevent the sale of Church Patronage in Scotland. lie afterwards brought in the Bill, whieh was read a first and ordered to be read a second time on the 23,1 of April. REPRIMAND FOR PREVARICATION. John Chapman and John Eveleigh having been brought front Netvgate. were placed at the Bar, when The SPEAKER addressed them as follows: — "John Chapman and John Eveleigh, you have both been reported to this House by the Select Committee, appointed to try the merits of a retition complaining of an undue, return for the Forough of Camelford, as having given false evi dence. By that Committee you were ordered into tha custody of the Serjeant-at.Arms, and you n•ere commit ted by this House to Ntwgate. Your Petitions Intro since been received, praying to Lie discharged front coufincmento— both exprets acets tegiet for the ini , cooduct of Whith hake been guilty. Much is it to be lamented that, the feel ings with which you are now i inpressed did Ina earlier mani fest themselves to inspire you with some regard for a fair character, and inure respect for the oath by which you had sworn to tell the truth. You, John Chapman, in excuse of your conduct, have pleaded your youth and ignorance of the forms of this House:- and YOll. .teiiiit Eveleigh, have Pleaded that you preitaricated from not having cal redly understood the purport of he questions put to pin. But eircum stances,,neither rls,the one case nor in the other, can eit her account for, or extenuate the offence which you have commit ted. If, however, your repentance and regret be sincere, your own reflections will be your bitterest punishment ; they will remind you of the d.sgrace which you have brought upon yourselves through deviating from the strict path ; and the broad contrast between the_lenity shown you by this House, and the deprnvity of your conduct, ever present to your minds, will I hope suggest to you both, that truth and honesty can alone furnish the means by which this stain can be -re pored, and your characters re established. lam now to in form you that von are bath dischargetl. paying your fees." The SPEAKER'S reprimand was ordered to be entered on the Journals. Sir EDWARD KNATCHBULL presented a Petition from the Growers of Corn and Occupiers of Laud iu the county of Kent, praying for protection. Mr. WESTERN moved for an Account of the total Num ber of Persons tried at the last Quarter Sessions of the Peace in England and Wales, specifying the offence of which they were convicted, and the sentence pronounced on them, and of the Number of those who were nut prosecuted and against whom Bills were not found.—Ordered. A variety of Papers were moved for respecting the Convic tions for illicit Distillations, the Number of Licensed Stills in Scotland, And the amount of Duties paid by them, &c. Mr. EASTCOUItT (in the absence of Mr. Coiatettay) with drew his two Bills for the Protection of Parochial Benctit So cieties and Friendly Societies, and moved for leave to briog ,in a Bill incorporating the provisions of both these Bills in one.—Leave was given, the Bill Ist ought in, read a first time, and ordered to be read a second time on the 26th inst. Sir W. BURROUNES presented a Petition from Tannton, for an Improrement Of the . Law of Debtor and Crsditor. Lard EBRINGTON moved for a Return of the Surcharges on account of the Husbandry Horse Duty, from April 5, ISIS, to April 5, 1819. • Lord F.•OSBORNE presented a Petition from Royston, against any alteration in the Coal Duties. , HAYIMARKET. Mr. G. LAMB obtained leave to hying in at Bill for tt , e Removal of the Haymarket to the East Side erf the Regent's Park. The Minutes of Evidence liefor, the Brewers' Committee were Paid before the 1-louse, and o►dered to be printed. Adjourned to Wed:le - id:I), the 2.lst April iastant. LITERARY REVIEW. REPLY to the LETTER to the Right Honourable ROBERT PEEL, on the PERNICIOUS EFFECTS of a VARIABLE STANDARD of VALUE. Svo. pages 63. We take an early opportunity of laying before our Readers some extracts from a val►table Pamphlet in reply to the Letter to Mr. Pe,st., which bas just appeared. The work is well written, and the argu►nents it brings forward deserve the serious attention o► every person who takes an interest in this important-subject. The pamphlet commences as follows : SlR—When - I heard-that one of Mr.. Peel's learned con stituents had addressed a Letter to him on the-present state of our Currency, I looked forwaril.with impatience to the ;,ra tificatlikn I should receive from the perusal of it. I expected to see, if not new facts disclosed, at least the old ones metho dically arranged, and conclusions from them logically deduc ed, with coolness and precision; removing some of the ob stacles, and dispelling some of the doubts, with which this in teresting and abstruse subject abounds. I need not tell those who hare read your letter, that I have been disappointed. You have, kowever, done that which I certainly did not expect ; you have made this dry and calculating subject a vehicle for no very liberal observations upon the conduct of the preset - A Chancellor of our'Exchequer ; and you have proved that a saying which you quote, and which I had hitherto regarded as a mere hyperbole, has some too imitation in human nature; that even the propositions of Euclid would become subjrcts of controversy, if the passions and interests of mankind were affected by the result. You say, at the outset, that the present Chancellor of the Exchequer maintains doctrines which are at variance with writers hitherto regarded as the greatest authorities in po litical economy: But you have not named these autho rities—you have not quoted them. In your. whole hook I cannot find such authors cited. For I suppose you do not mean to include the late' publication by Mr. Ricardo ; or a short extract from a Oeech of Mr. Canning's, however elo quent; or the resolutions of the late Mr. Horner, among the works regarded hitherto as of the greatest authoiby in poli tical economy. You then complain, that the opposers of your opinions deny the fundaaiental.ptincipfes which are alleged in support of them; and often seek to involve the question in darkness and mystery, by bringing forward frets apparently at variance with those principles. And this you calf " a practice highly disingenuous, and unworthy of the station and character of those who resort to it."—And is it really disingenuous to bring forward facts ? And why ? Bs cause they are apparently at variance with certain disputed principles. If they are apparently so, are they not prima fade evidence against these principles; and should nut those who advance such principles show that the variance is only apparent ? But you have here admitled, in the very outset. what perhaps you did nut intend, that there are facts at va riance with your theory: and though you assert, that it_ is unworthy of persons of station and character, meaning the Chancellor of the Exchequer, to state those facts, the people of England will, 1 believe, think differently, and prefer one sound fact to a thousand plausible theories. I thought, in deed, that theage'of theory against fact had bong since pass ed away, nor do I believe that since the days of Bacon such an objection has been made in any inqniry, which professed to be an investigation of te,ith. You attempt then to draw an invidious comparisna be- tween the late Mu. Perceval and the present ClLineellor of the Exchequer: though done perhaps with the same View which induced youtto engage in this controversy, it will not: make much impression on those who recollect that the snli ject is better understood now than it .was in the time of that lamented Minister. Much has been since written ; much spoken 0[1.4; the 'experiment has been much longer tried. and, therefore, Mr. Vansittart is warranted in speaking with more confident{: on it than his predecessor ventured to do. But your object seems to be,'not to satisfy the tinder .standing, but to engage the passiwns on your side, in the first instance ; and, therefore, you eulogize the dead, and accuse the living of sophistry, delusion, and the denial of the soundest maxims of political economy: and you pursue this strain thrmith forty pages of melancholy declamation, intermingled with charges of ", injustice under colour of right" of stip- porting " pernicious doctrines"—of imposing, on the country a currency, which you say causes the distresses of the lower orders, the difficulties of the Clergy in collecting their tithes, and even' the heavy burdens of the poor-rates: lo short, every inconvenience or calamity which can rouse the pas sions of the people you ascribe to the alleged depreciation of our paper currency, nut, in rrfutaLiOn of this, I must take rite liberty of steling rine short faltl, hon•cret offetisive it le to you to have facts stated when in opposition ta., your thei' ries, arid it is this : that about two year s ag o, for twelve successive months uninterruptedly, our paper currency W 36 not only not d e prenit,i, but actually was advanced is ea ltier during all that dine, ahave one of those precious metals %Ole!' you state to be the tree and only criteria of its worth. I speak of the period from April, 1816, to April, 1817. Da ri 4 thewhele of that period the Bank-note would have pprehased in the bullion market more silver bullion than its nominal value. You must admit, therefore, according to your own principle' that, during the whole of that period, the Bank-note eiali undepreciated. That during the entire of those twelVc months, at least, we had a paper currency at its full and le" gitimate value. Yet did net all those evils which you ascribt to a depreciated currency exist during that period ? they not prevail to 'a mi;ch greater degree th an they do al. present ? Were not the low wages of the agriculturist, the difficulties about tithes, the burdens of the poor laws, S' e ' &c. as much felt and complained of then as they are noW ? Probably you, Sir, were not aware of the fact, that flan k ' notes and Bullion were then at par., It might have escal' ed your observation that the happy epoch liad arrived wbefl your ardent wishes were realized, when the halcyon s eas° returned, and our Bank-notes floated buoyantly face of the silver tide. You prabebly, indeed, at that ti alg did not trouble yourself with inquiries into political ecerl°°”. Mr. Peel was not then your representative. And you srcre f : I may presume, reposing yourself calmly and unarnbitioosu -top Latimer; on the Ethics of Aristotle, or the Sermons of Bid without anticipating that trim such 16re you slw aid i ev make extracts for so grand a purpose as removing' a liji. , stcr' and giviteg a new member to the Cabinet of Great Drlt'llt: at But to return to the fact, the old Mint price of sil ver ' t lf it, before the late silver coinage, was ss. 2d. Once' tlss our Bank-rote would purbhase silver at that price, Y ° ' l „ m aid r admit, according to your own principles, that it undepreciated. If it would purchase silver at a still I`' is on the stir price, you most adroit, according to your own Pri iteir C : r and to the principles of all others who maintain the s a ' t :' oeloions on this subject which you dpi, that the Ban k-rirjt ai would be enhanced, even ' above its nominal value. S a7 ' l l ' i r the year 1816, on the 26th of April, the price of bar • WIIS but ss. i d. an ounce; in June, but ss. I'1• 53. pt. ; then it fell so 10, that in October i t was but O w and before the end Of that month to 4s. 11 -Id• I" ,e ' • vember it again rose to ss. and before the. 9d of the 53 d, moh fell again to 4s. !lid. In January, 1317, It `V as ' s ,;, l l9 l and afterwaids ss. Id.; in March, as. id.; and i" 1 ss. lid. All this time, therefore, our Bank-notes, as " iu ' pared with this precious metal, were actually hi; her ur than they purprted to be. o king; These facts, I apprehend, you will deem retry' P v°v 0 „,0 but you cannot controvert them. You rust reP e ' it deelamatioo, and say, that we bring forward facts aPP 4f- iiio . at variance with your principles; and you "' ay ' veil his ;lenity for a reader of Aristotle, call this a tries of sopo,, try ; but I feel confident, that the ratio nal mind of L ariv liahmen will respect solid facts much more O a " this , theories which are at variance with experience• rr° ,, u r ke ,ene matter still more plain, if, during the period I aaje b , ( „e tioned, you had sent some pound notes t o be ci , la , "e( ht bar would have got but 205. for each; but, if l'oug f that . silver with them, you wouldhave got a grea ter Weig ht metal. Thus the notes would have purchased a weight of silver than their nomina l value; Oat t wo uld have actually purchased mor e of one of the pre ci° ,l metals than so many new Mint s h illi ng s, at the old staaci3r''s if melted down, would have sold for. Therefore, kill rifig period, the Bank,noles, instead of being in a state A' &lift it; ciation, were in - a state of enhancement ; and, com pared w silver, their real saline was greater than their nominal v3l`'el, Suppose, then, that one of those Geutlemene who, lik e fancied his notes were depreciated, and who, thee' in payment, complained, that he had not. got iced a iled value which he was entitled to, hed, however, been prevo on, by a friend, to take a thousand pou nda in these It° witis the bullion market, and that he •had bought bar ailee • base r them. Ile would then, in lieu of the Batik note; brought home to his house a much greater weight silver than if he had exchanged them for one thousanid P 1 9 ‘. ` 001 ,1, shillings fresh front the Mint, at the ‘dil .s tan : arE w ou ld tie net this satisfy him as to the value of the es j; can j lUt still insist that they were depreciated? It hr _ e o f hie only say, ;that such a man renott ue e s the evidenc t w senses. He Secs the silver there, which h e ; 11 0 change for his Bank-notes he ascertai ns its wel ed A O' knows that if it were to be coined at th e Niint, it woo th sG dace a greater number of shillings than the angal!'etri, e Bank notes which he gave for it. Coul.l lie deny, l " it r ar tire liauli-note was worth as mach and m ove 1 ,14 " 1 [Co be continued.] •rated. ----7 SMITHFIET,D, APrtir. 9. • sr 13r— ifr Our Market was but thinly supplied with PI 04 0 this morning, the sale of which was very mull, 31t I f shr e l; fered at lower prices than , last week. The slievf ' , i i i ,ed , t , was also small, and prices lower. Pork has also detwoi,f4, price since our last. V( al remains norninal.--"Tb, of /12 „e iii.the Hay . Market was by no means Irrisk, the 1"4 the /f,•••• article having risen considerably. - Clover t000l"' 1 priciiwi as last week. Straw was very dull sale at noo o n 3 bers The annexed is a correct statement of the Nom Priees atmarket . , 11,0 0( 11 (To sink the (Val ; per Rtune ()I 5 6 ,j, to 1 9. _ sel• Beef , 4s. t;d. to 55 4 , 1. I Ve.... ..... ss. , J. 50 69. Mutton .. Ss. 6d. to :is Sd. I Pork ,:. • 4 59 ' 6 Beasts \'-• ~ 0 0 , 4 CATTt.6 AT MARlttrr . h •'" .''alv Calves , - - 0 O' 41'° I ..‘IIA 511 d I,ain 5. HAY AND STRAW PER 1 -` 0 OtO i fay. ... 0 0 toL7 7 0 Clover• • ,6 6 0 • 3 Stvaw 4:2 10 0 to x. o ------ 77 - 4" ---- . COURSE. OF EXCHANUE, THU ItanA, Ilr•-' C. t". 1 1 7 Ainst, Jam - Ditto, at Sig); t ...................... :: 1 1 4 gVP 4 Rotterdam .............................. 1 4 s3 c NioP ei .1 bur 't t: e'P g 4 ... ....... •34, 4 '' Co• ............ 24 ' 34 J (ii• Ai wait Paris, 3 Day's siglA .. .................... 2 3 9`' . 2 11§' Ditto ; .................................. e 4 9 5 0 [l9. fiourdeaux, ditto ........................ , 24 V , mo nCl e Frankfort on the Mal a ................ . • 142 F ' :61fe 4';I ! l e Nla.lrid, ........... . ....... . ......... . • 3 8 4 ofec l,4 l , Cadiz .......................... 39-1 oratV Rillioa. ... 33 ............................... 33 ::,eviiii: ..... 34 (til)raltat• terimpt ............................ • 3 it 8 :.t”gborli Gertfla • Malta... Paler/km ....... P er os# Lisbon . (Ivorto ................................... 571 Rio Janeiro .. . ............... ....... 1 tablin.... . Cork ..•, .. 12.1 er Colt. Agiti attic Batik on ßULLl O pet:Cent. N. A p er (44 rt ur4al Gold, in Cain........ : ...... . " 5 . .. Po.o 0 Nw Doliars .......................... :*_;ilver, lit gars .............. . ........... 5