The Sun. — London, England, 1803-02-12 00:00:00

Al arise!' guy. ie jll9 which :hange P' ne ne ..... .•. ostie gate body o f i ts memberi, and not s the opi nion of a Coimnittte s It was perfedly regular and, proper to app o i nt a c omm i ttee to inquire into fads, and report their opinion thereon, but to ap. point a Committee merely to deliver an opinion, Was an anomaly which he had never heard of before. . , He should be extremely sorry that a Cdmtnittee should be appointed to inquire into the solidity of the Bank, because that would imply doubts of that solidity. His Hon. Friend had said, that a Com snittee so appointed should enter into a large field of inquiry with roped to the general system of Paper Credit. If it was necessary to inquire into the state of Paper Circulation, he had no objection ; but it was not necessary to conned that inquiry with, the present Bill, because it had no conneCtion with it, :nor ought it to be coupled with the Bill now • before the House. His Hon. Friend had said, that he (the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER) had stated, that the Batik expressett„no opinion upon the _sabjed ; his statement was, that' the Bank express ed no wish upon the su bj e d. His Hon. Friend had obserVed, that the Committee which he wished should: be appointed, should ascertain whether the Bank had done their duty ; he (the CHANCELLOR of the .ExcitEOUsa) was convinced that it was the opinion of every one that the Bank had discharged itheirdoty most exemplarily. The Papers upon the .Table clearly proved that the Bank had taken no • unbecoming advantage of the privilege which was the consequence of the Restriction. Every, one knew that Paper was received according to its nominal value, and it afforded a source of consola, .• : tio n , •• amidst all other difficulties. Every one knew that in 1793, when a sudden deficiency of Specie 'was experienced, that a well-timed issue of Palter gave a new spring to Commerce, and pre. „ 'vented every unpleasant consequence which might have resulted from the eircumstaisees of that pe. riod. When the issue of Bank Notes; at the pre sent period, as appeared by the account' upon the Table, was compared with that of other periods, it Would be found that the whole amount at present 1 63000,0001. which, with the exception of 4ioocsoool. of Small Notes, was only r,000,0001. sroore than was issued at the period preceding the Restriction. His Honourable Friend had stated, that every one must • lament the deficiency in the • circulation of Gold ; undoubtedly one would wish •tO •see a due .proportion of Gold and Paper, but surely an equal importance ought to be attached • 'to rapers since it must be considered as one of the primar'y sources of the increased prosperity of Our Commerce. Did his Hon. Friend think that • the mere circulation of gold could make any favou_ tahiC operation l No such things there must be an influx of Bullion to give rise to those favourable Consequences which were expeded. His Hon. Friend tad said, that the renewal of the Bank Charter war merely a financial measure ;. but there could be no doubt that it was 'a measure of great impor. • lance to' the interests of the Community.. His Hon. Friend , had said,, that he did not wish to see too close a conneitiott between the Government and the Bank, nondid he (the CHANtELLOIt of the Exert P.ollEkt;) but what scircutr(stantes had happened to induce his Hon. Friend to make thiit observation ? The fad seas, that the outstanding advances made by the Bank to the Government, at the present moment !:did not amount to a million more than they were preceding the Restridion. Convinced, as he was, 9 1 .0i4,necessity of the present measure, and that it, s so ugh i to be continued until circumstances we re more 'avnurable roi the discontinuance of the Restridion, be eould not agree to the Motion of his Hon. Friend. It was necessary for the House to pause before they got rid of a system, the inconveniences of which they knew, and substituted another for it, the in. .conveniences of which they did not know. Mr. Bn riites explained. Mr. H. THORNTON made some general ob. Servations upon the great importance and extent of the subject under discussion. He seemed to think that in one point of view the Motion of his Hon. Friend opposite' to him (Mr. B.) might have an advantageous effe& At the same time he was fully aware of the great inconvenience, which under the present circumstances, would attend taking off the Restriction ; it might in a great degree operate as a notice, and raise ao universal expedation of the immediate renewal,of monied payments, The shock which this might give to 'Paper Credit may easily be conceived. He felt that the preaeot was no t ime for the adoption of such a measure,- neither would there be a suf f icient interval for the necessary Preparation allowed to the Bank. Notwithstand lng he felt in this manner, he at the same time was Impressed with a degree 'of parliamentary jealousy Can the occasion, and he must say, that all his doubts on the subjeCt were not yet satisfied; however, he agreed with his Right lion. Friend' (the CHANC IL L. I.OR of the Exosfstav Ea) in his great point, namely ) that the Bank could not with perfed safety be opened, txeept the Exchange was favourable to this Coon. try ; b ut h e was of opinion, that the'first favour tSeason shOuld he taken advantage of for open. ing the Bank ; and he was not prepared to say that it was the duty of the Fiouse to wait for ever for it '7—the contrary, in a great degree, might now ?pinion. The meaSure in question was now con. timed for th ree or four years, and its continuance firt another year was p ro p os ed. In this view of he ease it may he important to consider, whether favourable opportunity, in that interval, might not present itself. His then adverted to the conse cSences of too great an issue of Paper, and the eon. flexion of that circumstance with an unfavourable state of the Exchange, with resped to which it un. questionably had a disadvantageous aft:ft ; and in th is view of the question, an observation made by an Hon, Gentleman, had evidently a great deal of commo n sense in it. A Moderate issue of Paper in the Country would have the effect of improving the state of the Exchange; and he alluded to the duty incumbent on the Country, tuStto distress, or do airy thing to impair the Public Credit ; and in this vi ew they seemed to observe an exiu!t medium', which he conceived to be a leading'cause why, not. Wit h"anding Great Britain made ' a freer use of Paper 'than any ot h er C ountr y i n Eur o pe, it was able to maintain its Public Credit vigoristia and unimpaired. The CILINCELLOR of tit EXCHEQUER, after shortly ennyinscnting the siOlitic6 of his Fein; ;us S in question, sato ; ne nad one obsert , ation to older upon what had fallen' front him, relative to the efred of the P.eSiridibry upon' the 'Exchange. His Hon. Friend must he aware, that .at the periods in which the - Rtstridion originally took place, namely, in the years 1797'and t 798, the state of the Exchange was highly favourable ro this Coun try ; and; that it was not until after the harvest of 1799, that the Exchange became unfavourable ; and he considered it as of material importance, that the Public should be aware, that the Course of Exchange was by no •means unfavourable during the ' whole time of the Restridion continuing. The Question being called for, was then put, and the original Motion'agreed to. The ArTORNEr-GiNERAL then preSented the Clause, the nature of which he had described in the early part of the debate, and which . was agreed to ' by the House. The Chairman then left the Chair, and the House resumed, when the Report was forthwith received, the Amendments agreed to by the House, aria the Bill ordered to be read a• third time on Monday, if engrossed. Some private business was then disposed of, in the course of which the Heydon Port Bill was read a sesond time, and referred to the consideration of a Seled Committee. The list of those Members who• had been chosen to form the Court of East India Judicature on the part of the Lower House, was then presented, and read from the Chair. Among the names we noticed thOse of the following Members. W. Wilberforce, Esq. W. Sturges, Esq. W. Smith,. fun. Esq. 1-.. H. Strutt, Esq. G. Wood, Esq, Hon. R. Rider, D. Linghain, Esq. . Sir. W. Pultenev,,Bart. H. I3ankes, Esq.. C. S. f.cleYre ?. I. H. Browne, Esq. W. M. Pin. Esq. 1-lon. J. Scott, Sir E H. Hartopp, Bart. Hon.• W. A. Townshend, T. Stanley, Esq. and C. Adams; t.sq. Sir J. Pm:Aerie, Bart. • On the Motion of Mr. SARGENT, a new Writ . was ordered to be issued for the. Borough of Yar mouth, in the Comity of.Southampron, for a Bur gess to serve in Parliament, in the room of JAMES PATRICK MURRAY, Esq. who has accepted the Otfice of Steward of His Majesty's Manor of East Hendred, in the County of Berks. The Committees of Supply and Ways and Means were deferred till Monday,, to which day (at ten o'clock) the House adjourned. MARS. A.R.RIVIED. bUlt. Holland 'a French tiamburgh o PRICE OF !)TOCKS, TalS IiA,Y AT TWILVIL O'CLOCK. THE SUN. • - 40LILIA Qt.) IS DICES.* •ALSUJA AUDJIAT f LONDON, FEBRUARY 12, 1803* WE have this morning received Now-York Papers to the 2 Ist of De.:ember. The Port of Nrz.u-Orican: having been shut against the Ame. rican Trade, has created very lively sensations throughout the United States, but more particularly in Ke ntucky. These Papers contain no recent intelligence re spefling Si. Domingo. Hrs MAJr:iTY %VIII bold a Levee next Wednev. day. The li.o . stm. FAmt LI; are expected to remain in town doting the whole of next week. By the ~,Threrva, a Botany Bay ship, arrived of Dover, we are advised that the extra ships, Lord Eldon and Minerva, outward bound, arrived at the Cape the zoth of Onaher last, and the Skelton Castle the 2. sth of that month. The Lord hia'vt was 'getting under way the 4th November, anti the Skelton Castle on the loth was only waiting a fiir wind to put to sea. • YeSterday a Court' of Direetors was held at the East India l - louse, which adj , iurned at six o'clock till Wednesday next. Yels terday Mr. RICHARD HARDING, the Purser of the Honourable E ast I n di a C ompan y' s s hi p t h e Eilhiiiitone, Capt. MILLIKEN CRAIG, attended the Inha-lionsny, and received his final, Dispatches for the Givetnthent of Bombay, Nviih which he itn mcdiately proceeded to join the said ship. PAsll.:sl , :ratS 'I%Y Tlllt EtrHlNSTol4l.—Messrs. fond, gliaW, Page, Liverl.:y, Davii, Etiginton,and Browne, Cadet ; itg.d Mr. joint PeVac, tr•;:e Manner. MI : the. extra Ships taken up this season are now dispatched, except the Budd4,l and the Union ; the former is destined to Sr. Helena and Bombay, and the latter to Madras they are both appointed to be in the Downs on the 2311 inst. about which time they will be dispatched. The Marquis ana marchioness of A B ERCORN gave a grand Ball and Supper on Wednesday Even ing at their house in Grosvenor-square, which His Royal Highness the PRINCE of WALES honoured with his presence. Some of the Papers, we obierve, indulge them selves in observations upon the late State Trials, which we think in the highest degree indecorous and reprehensible. The Bishop of WORC ESTER has set a no ble ex ample to his venerable Brethren of the . Bench, in completing the Library at his Episcopal Palace, and leaving it as an heir-loom to his Successor. If modesty has prevented thii estimable Prelate from including his own Works in the Colledion, it will be materially defedive in point of Theology, Mo rals, Criticism, and Learning. Two hundred Marines have arrived at Sheerness to guard the Dock-yard ; a system infinitely better calculated to prated His Majesty's Naval-yard, than thst heretofore adopted, of having the yard watched - at night by the labourers who h a d been ern loyed at work nil the day, and who" on tha t account ; must be incompetent to vigilance all night. NAVAL -NEW& PLirMOUT//, Fii.la SAltko this evenineto the Wesfiirard, chder Sealed Orders, the Beltrisle s or 7+ guns, Copt. J. WiIITIIT : her destination is mot known, but it is reported that she carries Dispatches, PORTSMOUTH, Fru. Ir. ARRIVED the Gvverhor Alihi, Cyn„EEN, and 7'Zr/inch Asoz LA., from Demerara, with colfee - and sugar, for London ; Kersey, Mora:As, from Bristol ; and nu, TvlosEs, from London. Put in to this Port, with the kiss of boom square. sail, and other damage, the indiatcy, WHITE, from Newcastle. FEB. 11. THE Liox, TE E 1., which sailed from hence for Ancona, arrived there the ISch January, and proceeded from thence to Venice, where she arrived on the zoth. Ai-rived the Lydia, NtcHOLSOrT, frotit Flail ; and Caihrs:ne aq'd Mary,, KNIGHTS, from Roche.ster. Sailed the Vigilant, DeitkY, fur Lynn; Triton, DE MONT, for Boston ; Alaicu, ANDERSON, for Whitby ; Thomas aid Mary, Go§t: Ex, .and SEIEMIERD, for Leith ; BkoNttiv, for 11611. DE4L, FED. SAILED His Majesty's Sloop Arrow, for Ports mouth, and the Hon. East India Company's ship Windham for Ceylon. Remain. His Majesty's Ship Immortalite, and Bloodhound Gun.brib. Yesterday the Committee proceeded to try the University of Dublin Petition. Mr. FANE, Chair. man. The Counsel for the Sitting Member (the Hon. GEORGE KNox), are Mr. ADAM aid Serjeant LENS; for Mr. PLUNKET (the Petitioner), Mr. PLOMER, Mr. DAMP t ERE, and Mr. NOLAN. The ground of the Petition is, that the Representatives of the University of Dublin, and it feed of any U verbity, such as Oxford, Cambridge, &e, mist be a 'real Member of each University ; whereas the said Hon. GEORGE KNOX never had been such Member of any University, and was only an ho. notary Member Member of the University of Dublin, on having obtained therein' the. honorary degree of Dollar of Laws. A private Letter from Paris says, that ootwith standing what - • the French Journals have asserted to '`the contrary, it is certain that the title of Majesty has been discu4Sed.in the Senate; that LANIU IN EAS spoke against it, and that it hai for a monsent . been tirootd. it is also certain, th'at Listrtur. NEM has been threatened, lfhe should-§peak again to the Mlle . purport. This letter further states, : that among the novelties introduced by the Con. solar Government, is the mode of p a yin g it s : debts. Jr has a large sum of money to pay t h e English Government: on atcount of French prison., ers, for the liquidation of which, it is going to adapt a measure which is more remarkable for its ingenet. ty than its justice. Previous to the Revolution, a considerable stun was lodged in the English funds by the Government of the Canton of Berne, It was lodged in the name of the .two iirogyeer. These Officers having been abolished during the Revolution, and the English Government not chuaing to pay the money to their successors, whom they did not acknowledge, it 'has remained in the Funds. The French Government has resolved, that there shall again be two 'Avers in the : Canton of Berne, expressly for the purpose of assigning over their right to the money aboee-mentioned ; which they destine to pay. the English,Government, for feeding their Prisoners. The Company's ship the. Hindostan, wrecked . near Margate, has lately suffered so materially, that it has been foundliteceasary to abandon her, there being not the smallest hope of getting any thing mine out of her bold. The ship now ties in such a situation that she must soon go to pitees, , all the beams having given way, and the sea making fair breaches over her.. The j silver is the most material thing that has been saved, which was effeded with the utmost hazard and difficulty: - Eleven of the 'chests are lodged in the Treasury, ,and two are abandoned in the ship, as every effort is now deemed useless. The Company's Officers have in conse. qttenee left the wreck, as hav& also the gun,brigs, which went down for the purpose of proteffing the property, Lord MEL v is expeaad to he present at the first representaticin of the hereof the North. Mrs. BILL INGTON . xs a°little indisposed, and unable to attend her duty at the Opera House. In justice to this admirable Performer, it -should be observed, that she is less subject than Most we have known to the imilisporinow too often incidental to great Singers. KEMIII. ft went from Madrid to Valencia and Bar. celona, and returns home . by the South of France. He will probably stay some time at Paris, as several pf the chief Mims were not in that Capital during his former sojourn. - ICzataLE 7 S return to his native country seems to give great alarm to some of our aetom, but why we cannot conceive, - as we can never be brought to think that there can be the smallest comparison - be. tweet) him and them. The next char:l6ler which Captain CAI/I:FIELD is expected to perform at Covent-Garden Theatre, is Ranger, a charaCter very well suited: to - the ease and vivacity of his general manner. From the intangeree which generally abounds in the Fashion('lle Prints, we may expect to hear-how many pinches' of siirif skita Lard takes in it day, mitt whether such a La.tyllrefers twit or A Paper, remarkable for Forhidkable now'extends its Repotti to .finlbliv.sviztre i un the confines of Podiertii arm! ,x::; =' =.." ~~ _. `titlP..l' OF kitcrWr; MATCH: Ir. La. ~ ernE rims fet. tSQ. . • 'Defendant appeared tin Court in' quence of. a notice - Setw to ilia Solicitor, would be required to take. the • judgment Court, for a Misdemeanor, namely, that of a Challenge. to fight,a' Duel, with Captain ,' mantle, some time ago, while the one was . • tain, and the other Lieutenant of His Majesi, ship the Gangei, for which a Criminal Informatll.. had been filed against bin), and on which he 11,1 suffered Judgment to pass by Defatilt. • Mr. Etts:-.l:l*E on behalf of the Defendant, said, it. would be quite impossible fOr Jilin to addiess'their Lordships to-day on this subjed, neither did be, fie! he Was called spin so .to do,' accotding to the tides and praetice of the Coitrt:'. Mr. Ake via now it ..- Court to receive its judgnient on an intbrination.; He produced Affidavits, which were read on hli be half when be was. in Coutt on a former day, when the . Affidavit ,on which the Information was ob.; tained, was also read ;, since- that time;. arm.; ther Aklavit had been ramie by his , Profecittor; and the • constant course Wet' to 4111 div to an swer it, and which the Couit afforded to woken wars, and se the case always stood over until the Affidavits might be considered, and then the Couni.: sel had an opportunity of addressing the Court Upon the ,whOle matter as it stood before their Lordshir: The notice served by order of Mr.l3icknel, the S:4 licitor for the prosecution, Was only last night , served on the Defendant'aSolicitor, and, front that Gentleman it was brought to Mr, withoiir any copy of the last Affidavit of the ProsteutoN Captaip Freemantle, sd that he had 1 3 bad no op' i iar. tuna) , of reading a syllable of it, and whichl. he understood was to• be read in Court to.alay; understood, from what fell from his Lotdshipi that the prosecutor asked fur no time to file . any Affidi, sit, when the Defendant was formerly befilre th.c •Court for judgment, and the Prosectitoras Counsel was just about to address the Court on the.eireurn stances of th'e case as it then stood before the Court, and when he was doing so, not desirlog td alter any of them by Affidavit on the part of the ProseCutor, the Court Were_ pleased to fefer tote matter to the Lords of the Admiralty, but that; Mr. ERsKINE contended, did not invest them with the right of filing further Affidavitv on the part Of the person interested in the prosecution; and tliai was a matter which he left for their Lordships' con.. sideration. But if \their Lordships should - b4"' opinion that this last Affidavit on behalf of the +drill secution should be received, then, most undoubtetl.: ly, he, on the part of the Defendant, had a to look at and cOusider the Matter of that to enable him to address the Court before its mer,t was pronounced. Mr. Givltnow said, he, dill trot very well tin,ita... stand his Learned Friet.d, Mr. EitiK. t .; Lord Ei.t.EN.nottourni asked if there ,were objeCtions to this matter standing over until the next Term ? Mr. JARVis observed, that if this had bet:o tha proseeution of an individual, he must have had ar opportunity of answering the Arldiviti which 41 been made on behalf of the Defeldant when he cattie to receive the Judgment of the Court . , and Ws all that - tray propased 01\ the part of this PrOslia eion. This was not the Prosecution of Captairi Freemantle, but was institurt,%l by cyder of {l et ; Lords of the When the Conk ilesik - ci this matter might be judged of by the LordS tti trio Admiralty, it was not sapposed that that ble Board would decide the ease ort the partial tatement of One of the parties,' and therefOre theY ailed on Captain Fremantle to answer the Gets hey were stated in . the Affidavits of. Lietitenaht Rice. Had they done otherWiSe, they woOki ) 3 4.56 done wrong, and therefore they 1a called on Cap:: thin Freemantle for his Affidavit in answer, and thi4 he submitted was the only correct coorse the miralty could have taken; Mr. Justice LAw&ENCE said the Court had nn., thing to do with the course which the Admiralty ha,t been`pleased to take ; the ease had been ittbrnitttfi to them, and they were to. determine whether it was to b e brought. to that Court again ; and if they' chtfse that the Defendant should receive the judg.; meet of the Court, he'must Teceive it , and if the Prosecutor wanted an opportunity for ansvOcting !hi affidavit of the Defendant, be was entitled to it but the Court Must nOt hear what passed before the Adthiralty, it w.a.saufficient for the. Cotirt to .learn that the Admiralty chose to call f:lr the judgment of the Court on the Defendant. Mr,. Jhitvis said, timt all which the Admiralty wished, was to put the affidavit whicli Captain Fre mantle, had made, in the way of being 'read to the Colin before judginent, which would hive been thi case, of course. ) ; in a proseottion at the instances of an individual. It was then ordered, .that the matter shoilfd.liatici over until the first Menday in the next Term, anti that the affidavit oh behalf of the "Prosecution should be filed, according to the usual prat ice Orr such occasions;. to afford th e D e f en d ant an opportunity of taking a copy of it. Yesterday . the Right Hon. the totiil•Miii'titi presided 'an a 'Watdinnte, held at 81.; Mary• Magda. len's Clittrch, 'Fish-strecN for the, Eleiiion . of 'art Aldernian of Castle Thvn trd Ward, in the rood of Mr. RtouY, derea.;ed. On th e show of hands bring, put, it appeared that jott.vofAiit Esq.. A Sugar Baker, was unanitnonsly'eleoed, Mr. AL t.x.. ANorn. having withdrawn his appoiitinn• I)ied, on Friday the 4th of Febinary instant, the Rev. SAMMIIII, GWEIV.TH MARSH,' NC . VitAf Of Ylantiden i in E'4SCX, after a severe and painful ill ness, skhith he bore stiitis ckristian fortitntle and patient resignation, most trtrly lamented by sirrvivb,g relatives and friends. IVlANsiort-liotstt.—:-Several stinp4teeperg were fine L t , p. can't, for nOf (leafing , the etww and- ite. fruni their doofs. st; irritc-Ot plc E, • Fl. To re.:C nut rr. --Vester.. clay . Janteti Ruffy,, n taaster cifiritley,slveeper in lking4treet, Drur)+-I;The, w; chirgei his spi)retit ice ; and the charge hring fl de out Itv the evidence ot the levy and hit nciulher,--th e pltister vvas tonvitted in the veinaity afid Etiefilvete w'det!!‘i to 4:e eancttilexi: