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tion of the Csonmissioners it, that. though there have
n sortie made, discoveries excee.ding those isioch
been
*ereoriginally led to believe would he effect-
ed, yet no plan hat been laid before them, that tan
warrant more than a hope, that ultimately some.
thing *ill be hit upon, if not to prevent, at t„
render the crime of forgery More difficult thin, it
now is, This, if I understood the Learned Golf',
man correctly, was his kateritetti, low, nitt,oot
wishing to raise any unpleasant or mischievous feel.
ing ont of door.. I beg leave to a.lt the Leario44
orntleay.,, wiptu the iiitimite eznetiment is likeiv

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111 he sonde, so 11.4ve ot Iletiiustive opinion giver,
(111 the hope which is at present entritairitd ? M 4
Committee is about to be lip' I to .11Veot. ; ;
gple
the affairs of the Bank, it is materiel that it should

be able to report, whether something more than ~
hope, a confident expectation, may be entertained,
that the forgery of one and two pound notes should,
by the art of man, be placed in a state of security
agerittst the urt Of man? When are we likely to t,,
made acquainted with the result of the expert.
went ?'

Mr. CoußTENAir—u I can ray no more than:
what I bare already stated. A pecimen of a note,

possessing, 6111 we thiuk, very great merit indeed, hs.
been, for some time, under our view and considers-
ttttt . It was suggested by a Member of the Corn•
Gentleman of great ingenuity, that tii,
specimen might he improved, by combining it with
Another traprnv,..inent in the lihricatihn of the paper,
In order to ascertain whether the idea could be Car

tied into effect. amine experiment Wait necessary—
which experinientis noes in progress. We have

orris it in a foi ward vtitte, mod d 0 ;;ot Ittmlitate to re.

commend it us it most ingenious contrivance.—
(Hear, hear.)—We have even• realms to in lieve.

fr the etiotence before no, that this improved
form of note, combined with the alteration to the

paper. will br productive of the hegt effects,—
/Hear, hea►.)-1, however, find coneiderahle
culty iu stating the time when the experiment will
he completed. It is in progress at a paper-iiiiii of
great eminence ; and in a mouth's time, perhaps, a
mite will be produced, in such r form a• we can
cifrly recommend to the public—such • firm as
will render the crime of forrery exceedingly diffi-
cult."

Mr. MANNING raid, he would not hate offered •
word on the present occasion, had it lot bee., for
the question asked of his Learned Frietid. He
merely wished to state, that the Bank
were satisfied in their minds, that they could adopt,
with safety ►o the public, the plait recommended
by the Commissioners, sad that they meaut to adopt
it at as early a period as possible.
The motion was theu agreed to.

Sur J. MAccistosti, in rising to move for " •
return of the slumber of forged Notes detected by
the Bank of England, from the 10th of April,
ISIS, to the 9.7 th of January, 1819," begged per-
mission to make a few observations, in eons.-quence
of what had fallen from his Learned Friend. Ir
appeared to him, if he had not very much mewl,-
derstood his Learned Friend—looking to the sub-
stance of what he said—that, with respect to the
practical purpose for which he introduced this sub-
ject, the statement just delivered fully bore oat the
view which; lie entertained of in—( Hear, hettr )
namely, that the only result of the labours of
Board of Commissioners, who had been sitting tor

the last six months, was, their confident expectatio,i
of success from an untried experiment.—/Ilene,
hear.)—lt was clear that the Report placed the
question precisely in that shape, and did not leave
it as it was before, when, in a Report, relative to
the suspension of cash payments, it was stated, that
means might be found, compatible with the exist-
ence of that suspension, to preeeas forgery. But
now nothing was held oat to the House, but the
hope of success from au experiment, not yet tried.
To prevent misapprehension, he would take the
liberty of making one other observation. The
House would be greatly mistaken. if it were sup.
posed, that lie isudervidued the object or result of
the inquiry—for, even on the supposition that tail,
payments would be resumed, improvements in the
structure of Bank notes must be very important.
As paper of the Bank of England would form, for
some time after the resumption of payments in
cash, a considerable portion of the currency of the
kingdom, it would, of course, continue to be at-
tacked by that system of forgery to which the Re-
striction Act had given rise, and it would be found
difficult, even then, to prevent the evil altogether.
But, though the least improvement in the formation
of Bank notes was of importance, still he believed
no reasonable man could imagine, that paper, how-
ever manufactured, could be a proper substitute fur
civolt, or could, under any circumstances, remove
the objections entertained against the suepensitni of
cash payments, leaving entirely out of the question
all reference to the crime of forgery.
Mr. COVATBNAT said, without entering at all
into the general question. he wished only to state,
distinctly, what he imagined he had stated before,
namely, that the note was in sods a considerable
degree of forwardness. and the improvement was
so evident, that it could not be denominated a
mere matter of experiment. The original was a
great improvement on the existing note, but the
Commissioners thought it might be made in we
difficult of imitation, and the improvement -11::-
gested by them was in a state of progress. Th, y
did not cling merely to a vague hope that the linty
would be awful, they firmly believed that, alit is
completed, it would be of infinite advantage. lint
they slid not think it prudent to express thein.,-
too strongly, lest expectation/I, of too sauguiti
nature, should be created.
The motion was then agreed to.
EXCHEQUER BILLS.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER rnr..,,t,'•
for—
s An secoaskof all Exchequer Bills, issued by virtue .4
two Acts of the lost Session of Parliament (for raisins I-
sums of 30p00,0001. and 11,000,0001. by Exchequer
Wassong( and euprovided for."
Mr. GRZOFELL wished to know whether the
whole amount due to the Bank, with reference to
a part of these Exchequer bills had been rid
and, if not the whole, to what extent it had bet'',
liquidated
The CHANCELLOR of the Excacques wkov
the expectation held oat whew the Exchespist
bills were issued was, that a repayment should be
made, out of the supplies of the year 1818, to the
amount a ',comm. Of that sum 5,00,00.4,