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TMVOIWE.
Witnesses were eximinnl nt the Bar in Thomas's divorce
rase, and the Bill was mina a see 1 tirue.,
tAIMINAL coon.
'file Duke of GIUM7O3I 4ifTlMlliell It Petition front the
Towle of Ipswich, prqiun fur a r. yiatou of the Cranitial
Coda.
CATHOLIC CLAIMS.
Lord Singh/Urn lir...tented a P. Minn from the Lord
Mayor, Aldermen, and Sheriffs of the City of Dublin,
ar3lllllli OW claim. of the Bunion CAltolics.—Laid WI the
t .ble
The Mineral Bill, and the Quarter Seasions Di-
vision 8.11, were committed, awl ordered fur a third
reading
CASE OF ARBUTHNOT AND A MBRISTEIR.
Th (.1 LANSDOW4 cm, iodic... that WI 3 con.
veno lit .Isy, sour after 114, fecess, he should muse for the
proatictioa Or all correap...oleate that had taken place be-
twee% Hie British G•.veriuucul soil that of Oar Visited States
of America, ill r44....ence i i the occupation of the Flo. Ohs
br t ae In' .p. of the litter, mud the execution of two British
s4.l4.Tts by she ...der. of the Aisewitars General. Thin
the
s he
410, not po intuit front any feeling ofdistrust i
ty of the conduct pursued by its Maksty's Ministria,
as tar thy pfirillOSe of b 3 sabjiel ofinch eminent
nart.cular biotite of Parliament.
BANK RESTRICTION.
Mr. PERI. :ilia from the House of Coin-
ing's, brought up a Btll fur prevrotiog all partial
hours of gold by the 134rik of Euglaisd.
This being read a fiat lints
The Earl of A itituWßV rose, in pursuance of the
Order of the Dn, ur move that the House &wild
take tido its ronsiderati iiii revisit) Standing Orders
thereto specitied,for the purposenfintspendiug them.
His object sir snaking this motor. woo In rouble the
Bille which was Uri read' frosts tits Woolsack. to
pass through all the arOnil.atages this everring; that
the measure might he brought into active oertation
with the knot pomade loss of tinter.
.1•16 subject
had beers before' their Lordships on the preceding
cream* it was therefore necessary fax hilU merely
to observe. that whenever the proper period
should arrive for the Batik to resume its pay.
meats is specie, it would he. absolutely limes.
sary Ad it should have a certain amount of
treasure in its coffers preparatory to such a step.
Should any circumstance ias the mean
,tiine trod to
diminish that ruin by draining ulf ca..n in Vllllll
ilaytnent,, it must ttece•aar;ly tend to retard the
filial renal' of II metallic currency. as in pru-
point'si as the supply of specie WAS so
much longer hole wonl3 the 13 ink rewure
to
cinnidete the amount necessary f Iliri,illl4
all its emogemeins. Such was the eff..et of the
partial visitieni4 uuw rinskiiig by the Bank, awl
whirls, iii the einsr-e of the last year, actually drained
the Bank of from tire in six millions in gold, with-
out advaticing to the slightest degree towards the te-
estiblishinent of a metallic currency ill this country.
Ile kit it, however, necessary for him to stale, that
the measure now proposed was not revised either
for the convenietice or the profit of the Bank, for
he did not hesitate to soy, that whatever loss may
accrue to the Bank as an individual Compully, by
Issuing gold la sine rote, and repurchasing it at
ati,ither coosiderably higher, this consideration alone,
unconnected with views of public 14tivtilitage, ought
1.01 10 influence Parliament in its pi tiery4l•
N•.tther did it originate in any iilea
that the t Ink irwitireil icily SrritiUll liclllgrr, if the
present measure Mil not receive their Lorifsliiiis' ap-
Probitlimi. lit this respect, the protein case differ-
ed limo that of 1797, because a Hauges 41441 at
that period actually exist, that if this Is4uik
wet e
requited to pay all its notes in species it wwwiti iic
unable to meet its esigsgemeins with the puhlh
and that if payments were not suspeoded, the
would Ire utterly drained of its treasure. 'Chic
Bank was at 0116 11101.11:11i possessed of treasure,
more than sufficient to pay all the note. For which
it had eitga,ted with the public; but it iltot tree-
sure were suffered to be drained off, it would int.
pose on the Bank the necessity of colleen, g more,
which must eventually impede the hoot ist-intiption
of cash payments. it wa, olnious that if souls au
object were detteultle, no time 'tmb, Ise I. st ill
currying it into effect. soil that nu case called more
iinperintsuly fur the noose Is' ouperseile its usual
forms that the present. lie therefore ribose
the suspension of the Standing Orders, with a view
to tie 'tossing of the Bill.
Earl Gatiy said, it was not Isis intention to
trouble their Lordships ut any length upon the sub-
ject now before them, farther than to elite.. that
alt the pi eveding evening expressed his
4)ltitiOnts wills regent 10 this measure, he had heard
notion-4 Mlles that could induce litin to alter Isis
opinions; nor had any thiiig (akin from the Noble
E.,il which coclil excite in his wind nil in.
cre.ssetl respect for the mode in which the finais. sal
tiva.ures of this ctiuntry hail heels fur some time
cuoductral. 'rite gronnila of the present Measure
were, iis raet, a eustileniootioti of all the steps
ballet to taken Ity the 11.,.k pien.srotitry to the se-
suinpiimi of cosh pisysorsits, but he could not
thick of tittering more at length into the futons of
it, fur lie leased lie should stand single in his oppo-
piano to it. lie learnt! lie cools) not prevail upon
any Noble Lord present to coocitr with hint in sun-
tiissent; lie therefore rose merelv to discharge his
disiy, in entering Ma most decided protest against
die measure.
The Etrl of LtTl ternoi. said, lie should
.so fir
follow the example of the Noble I:a1, as slot to
oiteriisto tie unlit! attic subject now belere their