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MARRIAGE ACT.

Lord ELLENBOROUGH snowed, shot the Order of the
Etowah°.kJ he read for their Lordships being summoned for
the comusitlal of the Marrisge Art Aniendnient Bill, fur the
poi poseur discharging it, and fflOeWing it for another day.
114 e did this at the request of the Noble and Learned Lord
en the Woolsack, wins was anxious that the Bill thuitlil not
he committed to the absence of the Noble Evrl at the head
of the Treasury, who was prevented from attending in his
plate by iadisposii

- T►e Order tr/ she Day being read end diseharged—
The Noble Earl moved that it should be renewed fur
Tuesday °tel.—Ordered.
TM .Manslaugter Peniehment Bill went through • Com-
Maim% asd was reported without any Amendment.
Adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, WZDIMIDAY, Imes it.

.M.N.MI.

Sir T. WINNINGTON presenter! a Petition front errtais
Hop Pisan r• w firrefordshure, praysnf fur the repeal of tie
duties ou Hopr.—Ordereirl to be priotral.

POOR LAWS.

Mr. NOLAN postpooed, to the 27th ;aslant, his motion
►elative to the Pour 1A...

FOREIGN SPIRITS.
Mr. CURW EN N0..v.t1 That there be load before the House
an account of she total number of gallons of voile importt
100 England (except Gum 'reload), hoar haunt), I, 1814,
to Janette) 1, 1822 ...Ordered.
Dlr. GitLNFELL wished to how whether it was in.

re.
The order tk• day was Ono read fur ;mating tke de-
bate oo the •
STATE Or THE CURRENCY.
Mr. G. BENNETT wished before he commenced to ban
the Resolution of May 14, 1811, read, that th• Wass
might be fairly is possession of all the circumsnotes.
The Clerk read the Resolution of the Cosimittee, which
purported that ft was their opinion that the promissory notes
of the Hank of England were held is public intimation to
be of equal ratite with the legal' con of the realm, and were
gvnirally accepted as such la all annoy transactions among
the people.

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Another Remlotion of the one Committee was read,
which staled it as their °pinyon, that the political and com-
mercial situaliou of the country was reason ettositJh to se.
tonsil fur the state uf the exchanges at the time, Ilithoot re.
' ferriog to the h'gh price of bullion.
Mr. G. RENNET!' then proceeded. He was anxious to
explain the reasons of the vole ha Wad about to give. He had
tang held the opinions which he still eatert•inerioa the sub-
ject before them. But he bad retaMed them withio his own
mind, partly induced by their seemiag singularity, when
compared with those of almost all the Members shout him,
partly be he felt that be was nut old enough iu Farb.-
wog to 'future to oppose himself to the almost untied sense
of the House. The consequences, however, had bets far
greater is importance than he bad ever Inaggiord. Measures
had hero taken mach laid produced vast. calamities, and
though he was not prepared to 'retrace his steps, iiiid outdo
all which had been done, yet' be felt that inquiry iota the
terrible causes of their distress liras yet desirable-, and that it
would be uu less just them perhaps it was predicable to find
out a proper remedy. Me had heard the Right lion. Geode-
iota lent night with pliessore describe the evils which sprang
oat uf the first change in the carreitcy. -No one knew het.
ter then that Right Hon: Grallemau bow to deitribe wit',
troth and vigour the enurmities to winch that first measure
of restriction bad given birth. But veldt what temper could
the Right Hon. Gentlemen coudoet such a discourse—with
• what temper (-mid his friends on his left listen to loon, when
it was conerderrd that it was their act and deed upon which
be demented, that they were the masagiug Guveritoieut under
• which the measure bed bent contrived soil put into its leatie-
! ful opecatien hum fist to laste-that !bey were the piety who
• had cheated the creditor at one time by lowering the standard,
slid them had cheated the debtor at another by as violeollyrais.
lag it— that au classed' persons in the state had escaped the
evil of their conduct, Ar had passed entirely asheirt by them.
He then proceeded to sheer what was the mato ef depredation
to which the currency had (ellen at the time Miehterseaused
the House to pan the Resolution which the Clerk Auk read.
hi 1793, lad from that to 1797, the dollar was 4e. lid. iu
• 1813 the same dollar was Is. The ounce of silver, which in
1707 was 5.. was in 1813 risen to Is. id.; the ounce of
gold, which at the former perlo I was 31. 17ii. lojd. at the
latter was 5/. 10s. 10lierii in 1793 wis 6e. 9el. the Winchester
bushel, in 1813 it was 14s. 4d. On the ge of ten 'ea.,'
ending 1793, it was 6s. 4.1.; of other ten years, eliding 1819,
it was itt. Gil There was nu essential article among the con.
yeah-sees of life whirls had not bees equally afficted by the
depreciation. The Right Hon. Gentleman talked much of
the danger of !peaking faith with the pub'ic creditor. No
one was more anxious to preserve that faith unbroken. put
it was Ismeuteble that G cot bad no sense of such a
psinciple to, prevent them from cheating every creditor in
the kingdom ia.1797 ; it was lamentable tbat,they hod no
such principle to ',strobe them from 'cheating every debtor
iii 1819. Wit besides three, there Was an inteimediate eel
of robbery peepetrated by Lord htanhope's Bill • f 1811. The
Suepenetuis Act before that poly affeded the public creditor.
As to individual affairs it was not them at all applicable.—
Lord Kiag, hog the necessity of cluing himself justice
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against the. of hire property by the enor mops depie:cia.
mos, gear null to • looker who was his agent, 'that in fis•
tore be would "seed the (ululated of the old engagemeuts
to be made good in bard coin, ureter the depreciation tope ac-
counted for, so that he mialit receive the value which he had
bargained ti tale. Geed nmeid then stepped forerahl, and
eootrary to anything that ever was beard of interference itialte
affeies of private min, passed a law to make the Batik paper a
legal tender. This bad never been dope, "wen in Germany—on,
seer yet with the assignam of France—nor the debased paper
circulations of AlUitiel.• And now, forsooth, theGorernmeol
would time forth and taunt the claim of the debtor, who
prayed not to be compelled to pay more than his contract. Let
Me Howse consider what was now the situation of every inth-
"ideal who had made money au engagement betwero 1803
and 1813 That was the situation of all those who had family
engagements--elueeties or annuities to pay to childree,- oe
"'Memento to widows? Why in every cage the charge was
doohlrei. What then were they to say of a law which had
doubled every debt and mortgage in the country—which heft
an enormously cheated every public and private debtor its
the country--which required that the funilholder Amid he
paid twice the amount which he had advanced, suit by coos,-
qornee added 3or 400 millions to the whole debt ? Pi.blic
faith was grxid—let it he kept with the kingdom at large.
He would vote for the inquiry, to see if It were possible that
some balance might be struck and the couutry relieved from
a claim of repayment beyond what it had ever received. it
was said that the pasties had themselves to blame—that the
depredation was full) korown to them at the time they en-
tered into their contrects. It might be known to some Mem-
bers to lOW House who were political econoeilsts—but how
could the public have understood it when litre Was the vote
of the House declaring that there was no depreciation-at all !
The freaks and varmint of Ministers on the octillion *crepes
less remarkable. The Chancellor of the Exchequer risked
Ins foi time on the resolution. The Noble Matelots Near him
&atom, that gold hail risen, but paper had not declined.
Lords Eldon and Liverpool spoke with equal confidence. It
was true that the return of cash payments had beets frequently
promised, but what confidence could say of the public have—
what expectation of such a Measure •fter the 'quoted sub.
terrines and postponements? Certainly no one ever anti-
cipated the evil of the
cash payments when they did come. The Right Hem Gent.
had last night referred to the time of William, attd the Act
brought in by Mr. Montague, whose abilities as a Statesmen
no one would deity. But let the hazardous condition of the •
State at that period he considered.' The demo tottered on
the head of the w --flee bonds of Government were just
then loosened by the toes of the Queen—the peace sad seen.
my of Government Were put in peril by a detestable Tory
Action, who bad newly brought on as much mischief to
the miler) as their successors bad actually operated is the
last 50 year.. But then what was the extent of Mr. Mon-
torte's wafture, and of the affairs to whit li it applied?—
The whole curreocy celled is was five millions; the Whole
expense of reissuing it IN a restored state was 2,400,0001.—
The whole revenue d that period was about 5,500,0001.
There was little or ho debt : 'when William died it only
am iunted to four millions, the interest upon which was
200,0001. Now the debt was 800 millions, the annual lute.
reel 31 millions, the total revenue 60 mi bons. The whole
debt and eapeuditure extracted from the people betweeu
1688 and 1702, was little more than 70 milkiest,. Now to
value these sums in torn was, as had ten e rounded by his
liou. Friend the Member for Ease; the proper way of
bringing the queatiou of expense to the test upon a long pea
nod of years. There could be no better method devised for
detecting the fluctuations of the currency. Ile then pro-
ceeded to compare the expenses of 1793 with 1813 and the
present period by that measure. The taxes iu 1793 were
17 millions, out of which 8 millions went to pay the hem-
real of the debt and keep up the sinking fand. The total
income of the country bail been taken Ly the Noble Lord
at the bead of the Tiessury iu the exaggerated amoral of
250 millions. The toaea were auw 73 toirlion., intlailling
poor and county rates, and all other charge., prices Vela(
the same as in CM. Taxation, therefore, which was Ong
in three then, was now one in six; and yet Gentli mew
could be still surprised how it was that the country was
suffering so gird distress. The plain reason was, that they
were muse all their debts and incombrdices doubly. It
Wad now a common orcurreuee for es-tetra to be yielded Bp,
the old proprietors being perfectly beggared, sail the pro.
pert) assigned entirely to the emitters. They beard of such
things in every company. How should it be otherwise ?
hire* were at ouo-balf, while the elchis ea tie, in no-
minal dimwit, exactly the same as heroic. But oho
I es old say how moth the public hail 10.4 by those varied'
flurtastious ? Did auy mau suppose that the thirty.illie •
Inil loos made by this Bank since the restriction, did nut
come out uf this pillage of akr people ? lie did not iherefule
• blatoe the Bauk ; they only made a tessoneble and piufitable

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