The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1819-05-15 00:00:00

COURT OF ASSIZES OP PAM

TRIAL OF CANTILLON AND MARINE?.

The Duke of Wellington, the attempt on whim
person is the subject of the present trial, was at
the head of a hut of 62 witnesses, selected by the
Public Minister in France, the Netherlands, mud
London. The Duke of 'Wellington, it is said,
has written a letter to the Keeper of the Seals, in
which lie says he will obey the tunttoont if his at-
tendance he considered absolutely necessary, LA
that lie thought his personal presence totally unne-
cessary, and that Colonel Murray, Colonel Burgh.
his coachman and footman, who were eyc-ait+
news of the fact, will give the most circumstantial
and positive details. It appears that this excuse
has been accepted.
The English witnesses were not present at the
opening of the trial, but they are hourly expected.
They will inttke their depositions to-morrow. Lord
Kiminird, a Scots Peer, over whom the Duke ha.
no authority, has not appeared. The women
Guyet and Cauchais-Leinalre, stud the girl Julie
Fremont, the tnistreas of Ciutilloti, have not yet
answered the cal: of witnesses.

After the reading of the cet of occusstion. which
occupied several hours, the AdrocAte-General, Co-
lona), stated the ease to the Jury with grew; clear:.
ness and precision,

The Prisoner, Cantillon, alas the first put In tilt
interrogatory. Al. Lanni', the President, ex.mitsei
him upon all the fJcts of the vase. He denied with
energy fill the charge+ alleged against him, and
accounted for the tioo frmcs seen it; his posiessior,
since Ins last return to PArIS, as having beets won Jr.
play. Marinet protested against his arrest. Lora
Kinnaird had persuaded hun that if be foll.nve.l
hun France, he would gee that sto attetnpt Vin 4
made upon his liberly.
The President and the Advocate-General ob-
served, that from the moment such stills charges
were made against him as an accomplice, it became
a duty to comprehead him in the prosecutiol
against the prisicipAi delinquctit.
11. Marinet repelled the charges with wertrt4

LONDON.

SATURDAY. MAT lA, 1819.

We last Might received the Paris Poets or Too-
day. The trial of the persons charged stn an
attempt wt the life of the Dukr of WELLisieToN
has commenced. A ~ketch of the proceedings of the
fir,t dry t. givrn its our extract*. Fifteen witnesses,
Drarseux. ti' fur:now of the Duke of
WELLINGTON, were xatuiried. its evidence is

very AM contrad►cting s materiel point in
th.• net of arcti.ation. The ect stab.. that the bell
Sired at the Duke pawed through the window* of
0- carri.rgr, which wrre dotes, and consequently
lift uo n..rk or trace behind. The witness deposed

that :hr gl..1:0, were up.
Ti Five ref, Cent. Consols on Moods, were
.661 1.--Bank Actions 1,508.

We have ►eceived Now OrLoos Papers to the
.28th of March.

A letter front Washiogtoq, Citing nn outline of
the Treaty lately comaloded with Spiiu, aasn—
•' The 24,11 of Jossisary. 1819, is arlected fur regti-
Wing the validity of grants by Sitanult authority ;
all Lc fore that day are declared valid by the Treaty,
►ubsequeot to that day are void."

The Brussels and Frankfurt Papers which
have arrived repeat the rumour of a political
agitation on the Continent, affecting the litubility
of the prevent reigning family of Sweden. The
son of the Ex-liiNG of SWIDSN is the net :iew of
the E•eitivror ALEXANDEIt, and this single circum-
stance may serve to solve the mystery.

We noticed in our Paper of yesterday that
Mr. PEEL has postpoie-41 till Finiay next his coo.
*ion for taking the Report of the Bank Committee
into the consideration of the House of COMMOIie.
It will thus happen that the debate on the same
snhjict will take place in both Houses of Parlia-
ment on the same night. 'Phis we consider an un-
fortunate concurrence, bath as it regards the fair
consideration of the question, and the impression
which the debates on it in rxrliantent will probably
produce on the country. In eve►y important div.
ctorion in either House, it is usual for the Meal-
hers of the other to be present at it, by which
:neon, the theoretic science of the Lords, and Ilia
practical information of the Common', become as
!nippily blended as if they at is one hawse, and
participated in the saw discussion; and errors
wilidt may haw: passed unnoticed in • debate in
our Muse, are likely by the opportunity afforded
for reflection, to be detected or avoided is the su b-
quent debate in the other. This eminent advan-
tage us lost by the mammon of the_filebine in
Houses. flat with respect to the influence
Rely to be produced an the politic mind by the
proceedings in Parliatne•t, ►t is evident that if a
debate tabs Place on the same night in both
Rouses, the speeches of the Members roust he
considerably curtsileil, their statements, exposi-
tions, and arguments, abbreviated or contricied,
and the general effect proportionably diminished.
The subject of currency, foreign exchanges, end
pnces of hollion, as one of the must intricate which
,hastra bten submitted to the consideration of

Parliameml ; and, notwithstanding its extreme in-
terest to the general welfare of the communites
one on which, we will venture to iity, the great body
of the penple of this country reytire instruction
much more than on any other point of their general
policy. This information will be most satisfecto-
rily Hurl readily obtained from the reports of par-
liamentary proceeding', as they are published in
the irewspispers; it would, therefore, be highly
desirable, that these reports should be us full mud !
comprehensive as possible, ond that the speeches
delivered is) either House only net be injuriously
abbreviated, by the necessity of publishing at the
same time sketches of those that shall have been I
spoken in the other.
The Resolutions which Lord Ileattowsx ;me-
poses to more in the Douse of Lord., and ?Ir.
Peers. in the Douse of Commons, will, of cour-e, I
he affirmatiory of the opieions expre.sed in the Re-
ports of the re-pretive Committees, and of the
therein contained, respectitig what ap-
peared to them the least dangerous mode of
surnitig cash payments by the Batik of Englaird. I
Of these opinions and suggestions our readers are I
already fully apprised : they will, therefore, probe-
bly be surprised, that rumours should obtain err-
culation and credit, that the Directors of the
Bank mean to exert themselves strenuously in tip.
1.04.1600 to their being made the ground-wink of
any legislative groin wo. IVhatever °bier lions the
public may entertain to a plan which postpones fur
several year. (without expseseiug &finite tie-
I
nod) the Pitt (.1:11 to a wholisurne metabie circulating
oiedmin, the Moak have cectaiitly no just r cube of
comprJihr, mare periwularly as the Directors have
usairrritiry declared trot merely their readistess to
re.us).e cash pay merits at any moment desired by
Parliament, but even eresined to lenient the &faired-
sees of the Legtslature iti cheekreg their cash-
P*.Oug Plateeirettit• by the harsh measure of et
reetosclieass They are proposed to hr protected I
from moots wf any kind until February urxtt
and such sire Use terms proposed of prying at 4/. Is.
au ounce, and is not keeopiantions than 60 ounces ,
el gold, that even thee, it is manifest, if they act
with ordinary diseretiee, no gold will be demanded
of them. This price will combose malted to the
gold of the Bank until October 11110, when it will
tall to 3/. 19'. 6n. As the Brink will couttnue to
evielbe their own discretion over their issues, it is
no less crition that even at this prier ino gold will
be requited of them ; su that 111 fact the resins lion i
on cash pa, ments will be continued till May, 1821,
when the Bank price of gold will be allowed to fall
to the mutt price. or 3/ 17s. 1014. Even then the
public are not to have the full Iseitent of a perfectly
cooly* rtihle paper currency, because. sf the sugges-
tion of the Com:1101W Report be adopted, the Bank
will not be allowed to Isaac lees than 60 ounces of
gold ; or, if that of the Lords be preferred, not less
than 30 ounces. Tine regulation es•is evidently
devised as a protection to the Bank, and that the
Directors should have strfficirot time to remedy
their recruit error of partial payments, and refill
their exhaustr.d c.iliers at a fair end moderate price.
The expediency of retaining to the Batik au ade-
quate train)l over their issues, renders the im-
mediate repayeireitt ef sonic part of the debt due
by the Government to that Corporation absolutely
necessary ; best the amonot or repayment within
the pieserit year is as net a subject for speculation. I
On this will principally depend the extent of the
loan which is about to be contracted. But in pro,
portion Hs a power is gives) to the Bank of control-
ling its issues, and thereby of regulating nut only
the price of gold, but the mortey-value of all
other connuninlitier, care Await' be taken that thiS I
power be not abused. It would be well that or
power should be gradually given, as it is Attended
that the resumption of cash payments should be
gradual, and therefore it probably would nut be
prudent to repay to the Bank more than five mil- 1
lions now, to be followed by is repayment to an
tunsl amount soon after the commencement of the
gold issues, and so on, as to the discretion of Par-
liament may seem fit. It may be imagined tlist
the evils of an extrov.ve reduction in the issues of
the Batik would he obviated by the facility enjoyed
by the public of taking gold bullion to the Mint,
aid having it coined without further expense than
the 10,s of interest for the time occupied jii the
coinage; but it must be considered that such a re-
duction in the paler currency as, under existing
circuoustatices, and with the constant demand of the
Bank in the market, would reduce bunion to, or
below the Mint 140', must he felt to a far greater
extei.t in every other branch of trade whereni•
the relative supply mot demand shall have under-
gone no variation. By the proposed arrangement
it Anti be very touch to the advaistege of the Bank
to decrease its issues below that amorait which is
reintred for the purposes of dontestic commerce,
and it is no less the interest of the country that the
reduction, even to this precise puha, eliould he blow
and equable. It would, therefore, be highly inju-
dicious to throw at nice into the hands of the Batik
the absolute control over its own issues., cud the
consequent power of pursuing its own tuteresto
exclusive of those of the public.

Yesterday evening hitr 'loyal Highness the
PRINCE REeE%T urruired at Carlton HOUSE Crum
Prevlituti.
;.Ir. CALcitAFT etti not Uhl.' to attend the House
of Commons dorm.; the lust fortnight, "II"' "-
growns for his urine not oppessing in the lints of the
late interpotan divisions.

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