The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1822-05-03 00:00:00

EITZINSION OF THEIR CHARTER.

Yewerday a very numerous meeting of the Proprietors of
Batik stock ass held at the Batik. When the clock sonck
twelve du: Chairman toil Iris ►eat, land t•rmediately after
iuformeil the Court of Proprietor, that since they were last
aosenthled the Dank Directors had received a counnianicatiou
from Government, On lite ►ubject of the extension of their
Charter. The letter wa: aidiell .. Liverpool and Vanaittart.o
It stated, that au consequence of various cudereatatrus held
with the Dos (dorm, the Government bad to inform the Bunk
that en exteustou of their Charter would he grained, on run-
aidea that, iu the Act for the purpose of effecting that ()b-
-ird, they would consent to the insertion of a clause, eu_
sibling any number of persima. not ',oolitic within 65 miles
of London. to form hum,. Ives into banking complaier.
Nothing contain. d in the Act ?lipoid aired the debt dee to
the Bank by Governs:lent ; and in consideration for that re.
lanntiou of their privileges, so itzten.ion of their Charter for
to years should be granted. Ile had further to acquaint
them 0121 the Director a had Color to a Reputation of ncccd.
tog to tile propuaition, in ease it should meet the coucurrence
of the Court of Promo-lora
Mr.ttllAW said that 1.1 this rommuaicatio■ the Court of
Proptielors bail souther roomer of the proper coulidrure
reptant it by Him in the diserr lion of the Directors. They
I ludi uniturnily Into futon! to attend clerkly out only to
the particular interims of the Pinprictors, but to the
wirer extensive samisen 411. the Halloo. How far iu tine
ptettieular instance they had done so 111011111 be • subject
for the.ezertise of individual judgment. He, foe one, was
perfectly Cot.lrtit. 011 former urfavOlbt. •lied an extrusion
. of their Charter was nought, it could ouly he obtained by •
henry doodler', mid, ruusequentl). ■t a (unutterable peen-
, iriary loss ~ but, in this installer, the extension of then.
Chatter had been unattended by :iny of Owe(' dialdiltaidattd.
Ile ahuold, thrretuee, beg to propose the following New.
1101911:
i .. that the Cour: of Providers hart liesid the terms

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epos whirl AA, Chatter is to be elfeeira. anti !bat Ihei
approve of the LIMO ; that the Court of I).r. cwt. he. i.
strutted 10 ctn., lb. proposed serstogewsit iva, .{y,.etr
to
It should
erapo
übtiiamd to mite t:tbe 'sut tiuiue kor:ttnit to p
isseOlajd,;ll,ll.m.l 114 lit 4.
il ".. $.11,;
Dioll of this Court."

Mr. PAYNE concurred entirely in tie rentiat• ar 15.
Ron. Proprietor who hail jest spoke.., aii.l eppioso ~f
Resolution he bad proposed. lie am comm.-id 'lot"
j., all other iustaiices, justice bad Lem aunt to the Pr.iiie
tors by ilie Court of Directors.
Mr. HOARE coes.dered thi proposed terms me whioi,
their Charter would be PrlllPored • great boo., roil ti.si
would prove %uglily timid to the country.
Mr. YOUNG confeased that he did mil poewits so emn.
mehrisaire a mind, os at cure to jump to a ridel..lljo.. so a.,
that imporient subj ci. It appeared toll,. • matte. tleraW.
in; 'mous ronsideratlon, that ii., Meth P *bro.
serreilder into the baud* of (milers a pitri'af thew
Besides, they would do well io comitler the efferi ~.pat
peodmre upon the country; for he w.ubt "lA, graft,:
wheilic.• they thought lLit hauls en.4141Y;,,ic Ile ILL.',
paper with the amine Net-wily to the C.W.0., a. th.. tier •
Enfant' ? Thus wiis a questiou wpm wheels he might do,
eousidecehly, but be should mil iirrapy the Hine ,„• It,,
Proprietors. However, one ithaervaliou be soot mg,
namely—that if the prooPstA pump -11C4reded, mod li,ll
ii) banker, commenced to c;reolate mot.%
"seam would be, that the Rank of England must
them to.', • practice which had bee% so ataeh•detiteeriii!.
He might be wiong iu what be simrd.—if so, be .M. 0.1,
glad to be set right; but be hoped before the Coors cone IA
their dual demi mination, that argue lime world be given, is
order to forst a root sad deliberate opinion.

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The CHAIRMAN wished to observe, -in Ivey tis..spil
bad fallen from the Huth Proprietor mho had !est lo use
that the country bankers would dictator severeftwa--3,1
that, although the Rank of Easelaud bad the pacer t.. i..es
one pound notes, it was sot their intentioulis do 50..--fltest
Mr. RAN DLE JACKSON slid, that allibmith
was more sensible than Issunself of the dancers likely In vs„.
b .th to the Beak and the country from the persona-A paw,
yet if he bad no other objection, be should be otiosely op.
posed to this pattial surrender of their
Chador,
four
die
aversion lie entertained to tamperiug with the( rust as.
thinsl institution. lie venerated the Rank, no SIC4/111:1
of the sacredness of its charset•r, and for harlot! ken se
long the hallowed bite of the inert-mettle hiterests. I4c could
not then avoid viewing this innovation with terror sail shwa;
and he bettered lutist rtntestn in Ail not cx!et, for oh,
potpie of effecting any aersir.rment, however r.lametisge.
cus at the moment, would run the risk of injailas 'het
',violent Institution, and depriving nietuanttle men u( tint
ancient sone:nary to retire to with conlideace when 'ter.,
delostec schemes shall have accomplished their own
time. lir knee the Bank hod powerful enerni,, 1.0 taNi
if the Government lied prop iced ti measure mu • awn
orierous stools -lie Bomb in the once...chests Lever of ab toe
they would be found to laud the Minister. p.a.% Oa
been devised, as was stated, to relieve Ilia burdens of sera
culture Their meat doormat. were aabsittlinili and 1611 tars
sympathised silts thee mace thee Ilwe did. One of the
relic • assigned fir this dieters% was the pat/anted eirealt.
hum for which much blame was attatoliel to the hest.
This bad been frequeutly stated in another Owe; awl eh. .t
in Hon. Friend of his had ctlitiplumed thei tie Bark hal
beets feelaly defended, he did Ilia mean It mmeare
Directors, who, he knew, rat in Parliament eq iistlearielest
senators, hut of the dastatilly rind dialluanstrabk tunnel rt
high functionsties, wine allowed the hawk to be ran dose,
and those insinuations to go forth to prejudice tier pabna
mind. Auoilwr cause of the ilistrem ha" been ruesde..d
the operation of that masonic commonly brain by! the
name of Mr. Peel's Bill. Ile outsides ed the memos', intro-
duced by that Right Het. Gentleanci ‘a hoer loops paha.
bly had not yet sufialded iheirtekee, • tifft, was Meg
chalacter hut still greater promise) a &wad and woos sera-
owe. He was she more maxima le still that opium* new,
because 12 years back he had depreeated the toe speedy p-
halli to cash payments; let the vies et beget} had la.
crea.ed to sloth an sanest, that they were cdatatmill, re.
prtiochelf, sal there mos seatreely at etattefies for the
dime that the Beet were not etleimbtiked is she pali.,c
pipe!. as merJervia. A regard, thew, thr tier Ireton Own.
ter, cs weU as Relived of hoorsoity, induee4 tt rtitAtt
the measure; earl Irit were in error, it watt di at • row.
runs and humane Tone. Eat'alth regard to the immediate
object before them: if, in dual events of the praytord
plan, batiks flourished, it would tieccasarly ditaioith the
circulation of the Nati tttt al bone ; but if the reverse were the
rase, the conseqftences would be deceitful, from the norauTults
insolseneles. On the whole, he did not ree one sceniulla of
!wearily 111 the thing. 1 here V/3111 110 teeotil) 111
plication of partners in any Working rouver3 l'Apertfurc
proved that it always carried along wall it the •ieds of 11,
owe dissolution. Hoot:Yee, as km. uppotilum we: like'y to
be • feeble one, if the Hum. Member WOlll,l slier owe word is
his Resolution, he rhould hare his pour bupp,or. 7he altera-
tion Ise wished war, that the Coun " consented.' ms, uut
approved" the terms—for he lucked Lyon it Si a phiu ra-
ther to be submitted to than desire J.

The Res.,lntim' was accordingly altered avid cash !;is it
amended ►left iinauisnoualy.
Mr. SULLY wished to know if the idea had to eti
dolled of obtaining a note diet would locrease the
culiy, if nut •Irfy th► power of isoitai ion?

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The CII I It3IA N aurneeeJ Itutt at was nut the introt.un
of the 11311 k to ills Ile finial 110C1.

The Como t the■ adjourned.

FOREIGN IN re LLIGENCE.

PARIS PAPERS.

raRTs. APRIL 29.
A letter from Corinth, dated February 211 s, r..hrots tl•e
pervious summits that that city had b.en already decian4
by law the mildew* of the Prueissossal dose:want
Greece. 7•he initials& Congress originally held at Antes, tel
treasferred sts seat to Epidaurus, where it motoolgstrel rot
the 12th of January, the Provisional Constitutsun et Getter.
Out the 27th of the same mouth, it also published ass Acs
atioual ludepeadeuce, and of the installation of the l'u'
vssiossal Governmeut, in which after describing the Jejune.
and oppression a 'ltch forced the Greeks to take up arm..
it ►aye—" Such are the causes of the war which we bre,. !se.
compelled to a ndertske actin.' the Turks. Far from be est
founded on demagogiral or rebellious principles. (at
owing its motives to the private lawman of a few iu.n►n
duals, this war is a sationli and meted -war. It bas no otter
object than the restoration of the nation, sad its re-inst.te.
mint in those rights of property. konone, sad life, wb.t.
are enjoyed by our civilised neighbours, but which had
torn from the Greeks by a despot ling power." After tae., •,
shut prorlatu■tiou of independeace, the Nations, e. • • • •
dissolved itself, and depumted its power into the
the Executive Council, which is now established .t
Braids • the natural stie..gth of this place, it is the
its some respects the centre of Greece, Am it command.
two seas that dash its shores, and slrforan the isms, •
speedy communication stub the isles th, as well as with sl.
the roosts of the Grecian Continent.
Faruca FUNDs, APRIL t4o.—Five per Cent. cors,ls
opened at SS f.; highest, 88 f. 20 r. ; elore.l, 87 f. 75 t.
ENCRANOR ON lANDON.-011e 1110111 h, es f.—rbfee
utoutbs, 24 f. SS c.--%Cours Awl hes t pril

SPANISH PAPERS AND FLANDERS NAIL

most Aran, H.
When General Berton !cached tl s coeit, te-
port was spread shat he had irilasedisirqy eniharto•
fur England. Doubtless he way deire to lute
believed so, but we can slims that he is stal
this neighbourhood.
The live or six French issovosts who ore in iht
district, enjoying the protection, which oar heti
afford to strangers, are gone talliiticit, is cum,
cpsence, it island, of she ceniosisepuiceb of the Au•
itioritiesat Boyonor, toot we cassoot believe that
is the eete;eseste it wo•lti be a eilwardly condewri•
sion on oleeithttl, the peettelide bo-g ooterov

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which the Freoch.Goveriont affords to those who,
at Beyonne and other parte on the frontier*, are la.
bluffing to disfutb the tronyoillity of Spain.' There
We 96 Spanish emigrants now in Bayonne and the
wiciwty, and all the rtaionstrenceeof out Canonl have
Deep uulfecteal to get them sent further. into the
interior. Quelled* still resides in that city, though
concealed, bot this precaution is disdained.hy many
Officers and Ecclesiastics who walk oprely about
:be street. and employ thernsclves in writing false-
hoods is Spain to alarm and mislead the unwary.
The secret Junta of Bayonne continues to forth-tit
the troubles in Navarre. Two Captains commis-
sions, signed by Equis, were lately intercepted and
tent), horses and some smmunit have heen seat
to the insurgents. These facts ere indisputable, mod
she Government sheold he made acquainted with
them that it may be put an end to such scan-
dalous proceedings at once. If the Mrs* think
:0 disturb our tranquillity by protecting a Que-
ried•, let us iu our. turn protect a Berton, snit we
*ball see who will lose the most in this kind of war.

CEUTA, APRIL 4.
The uncle and the nephew continue as before.
Zird visits the capital of the Empire, and Sultanas;
remains near Tangier. Tetuan gives daily fresh
proofs of attachment to the cause of Zted.
!MADRID, APRIL 18.
His Majesty's health continues to improve.—
Modred Papers. April 18.)
AUGSBURG, 4PRIL 44.
The latest accounts from Italy say, that the Nea-
politan Government has succeeded in discovering,
io • town in Sicily. a concealed depot of above
100.008 muskets.
Numerous arrests continue to take place at
Palermo.
Accounts from Ancona say. that 63 Greek fugi-
tives from Mirvolunghi have arrived at that port 111
the most wretched condition. fits Holmes., with
his accestumed beneficence, immediately sent as-
sistance to these nuforturiate persons.
VIENNA, APRIL 18.
Several of the first merchants of this city have
formally coritrodrcted the report of a new loan to he
contracted for by our Government. We learn from
a respectable source, that the question of a new loan
is entirely subordinate to that of war or peace, or to
that of the participation of our Government in the
war, if it should take place. Up to this moment
there is no movement of any importance among the
troops. The rumour's of the council of war have
Milled° been limited to orders to the commanders
of several corps to have their regiments ready to
march at the fist notice. These orders have been
given tn about 28 regiments, which, in case of need,
will reinforce our army of observation on the fiuu-
tier. of Turkey.
The Prussian Minister at our Court lately had a
long interview with Prince Metter-inch, after which
hr dispatched a courier to Berlin.
VIINNA, APRIL 19.
We are authorised to declare that the article
dated " from the Danube, 14th April," inserted in
the Allgesseine Zeitung of the 15th init. is from
the beginning to the end nothing more than an
safeendedfiction, both with respect to what island
in it of the present disposition of the Porte,
and of the pretended subject of the negnciatiou• Of
M. de Tatischeff at Vienna."—(Austrian 06-
ser, rer, April so,)
AUSTRIAN PONDS:
April 17..—Metatheises141; Beak 669..
18.—Metalliques741• ' Bank 661.
19.—Mclalligave 74 3.14; Bank 660.
BRUSSELS, APRIL 27.
Letters from Trieste of the most eecesit date,
make no mention of the report spread at 111arseilles,
of the general insurrection said to have taken
place in the loMan Islands.—(Brussels Papers,
April SO.)

DUTCH MAIL.

, ses swsu. #Plit 46.
We leant that is emateitamsee ofiedere trap the
French illinietut of War, severe( datachweems if
troops, both cairalry aisd infaairy, are' ring s.
part from Ave &dims its the deowrtatbist .f the
north, to repair to fsCirfifY, where general dialferne-
tipo prevails among the inhabitants, in amsequelsee
of the nomenius Ares, which a'pread terror throagh
the province., and which are **ideally the work of
the most stroti6lllMstignity. It is remarkable that
the French Royalists mecum the Liberals of those
excesiri, while the hater lay them to the charge of
the unconstitutional Royalists. Such are the me-
lancholy (*egg/adieus of party spirit !

XIIRRIIBtRO. APRIL RO.
The Russian souther° army hes now began to
move, to take op more concentrated positions be-
tween the Bog and the Dniester. It is to be rein-
forced by several corps from the western army, by
which its entire force is to be raised to 150,000
men. Count Wittgesistein's head-quarters will he
removed from Tulcsin to Broiling. The van of this
army will lake ■ position between lismirick
and Itsseh Row, on the Deivster, but it is not to
pass that river at present. Besides ibis army, a
large lf my of reserve, comisosed of divifidll/111 and re-
giments ~ have proceeded during the winter
from the ~,cc:ior of Russia towards the southern
department., will assemble between the Bog and
the Dniester.
The amount of the force is estimated at 60,0n0
;nen, which, if hostilities lake place, will be em-
barked 3t Chersim nod Niculajew, to be conveyed
by the Black Seu, sod landed at the mouth of the
ainsibe.

The heed-quarters of the Austrian army Sr. still
et Moistlow, mud time of the guards at Minsk. It
is not yet exactly known which divisions of the
wrsterti army arc to reinforce 0).4 of the south.

HAGUE. APRIL es.

Several new Petitions have bre* prebentord to the
Second Chatuber of the Statra General. praying
fur the adoption of 111411 r measures to proiect
culture. anti clii.tiges• is, the laws relative to the
corn trade. Ott this occasion gill/11h: HOVIIJOrp rt.
quested !cave to tlepoait in the bureau* metnorild
*inch he liad'eouipwed on the corn trade. %%byre
his honourable cel!eques welt it. Mo

THE S fi PI tE S S.

LON DON,
FRIDAY, MAY 3. Ism

Lord NORMANDY repeated his motion last night
in the House of Commons, for the abolition of one
of the Postmasters-General of England. It will he
recollected that the Noble Lord's former motion ou
the same subject was refused by a majority so very
inconsiderable, that the Minster'', if they bad any
respect for the dignity of the Crown, and the rad
opinion of the House of Commons, ought not to
have permitted site. question to Mr grain agitated.
Their unwillingness to accede to the wishes of the
How; and of the country they last night attetispted
tb excuse, by stating, that au inquiry had been in-

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aGfettM iota the i3d(s of the Aid thin
therefore preyed the flouve to suspend i BO?'
opinion upon the. subject until the result or pfi
investigation should be ascertained. It waiiMW-.
ever well observed by Mr. BANES., whO *real
in favour of the motion, that this incioiry had
reference solely in the details of the offices end
did not iu any degree affect the priwciple of the
proposed abolition of anti of the Postmasters, upon
which l'arliarnent was fully competent to deter-
mine. Mr. STUART Worri.Be, who voted sgiinst
the.abolition ors :the former occasion, declared Ins
intention lost night of supporting the proposition.
The discussion was continued wail after eleven
o'clock, when upon o• division the Ministers were
left in a Minority of FIFTEEN. The numbers
for the motion were 816; against it 801. This is
the most serious defeat sustained by the present
Ministers since the rejection of the scheme for con-
tinuing the property tax.
A ineetiug of the Proprietors of Bank Stock
was held yesterday, when the plan for prolonging
the charter for ten years beyoud the year 1833,
when by the existing law the monopoly would
1 crave, received their sanction. The conditions of
this Imola had been 'heady made known to the
' public by the Merged* of LONDONDERRY. Mr.
GeartesiLt. alluded to the occurrence last night in
the House of Commons, and expressed his deter-
initiation' of guying every opposition in his power to
the proposed arrangement. He feels, in common
with many other Members of Parliament, that the
Lord, of the Treasury have not required from the
Bank an adequate compensation to the public for
this extension of the monopoly, and that in parti-
cular they ought to have insisted upon the Bank's
discounting at four per cent. Upon this point we
are apprised of the opinions generally entertained
by the Directors. We doubt very much whether
• reduction in the rate of discount would very
much facilitate the obtaining of money by farmers
or other persons, anti every one must be aware that ,
on enlargement of issues must depend upon the
feeliogs of the Bank Directors, and their views of
the security of their establishment, and could not
be trecessarily promoted by an alteration in the
rate of interest. Moreover, who can pretend to say
that the currency of the country is at this moment
permanently settled, or' that it would be safe for
the Bank to speculate largely in the rdvaoce of
money ?

It was intimated by the GOVIMNOR, in answer
to ■n obseivation shade by Mr. YOUNG, a Pre•
prietor, that the Directois of the Bank of Eng-
land did not mean to take ■dvantage of the right
secured to them of inning notes under five potintfli.
This resolution must exercise a considerable influ-
ence upon the project of enlarging the issues of
country bankers, far the boon intended to these
establishments of paying their owes, not in gold,
hut in the notes of the Bank of England, would
tend to no useful purpose if the Directors did not
provide them with notes of equal denominations
with the small notes which they are invited to issue.

We hot night received German Riper* to the
25th alt. The latest accounts of the owe of the
owl/0001km* between Turkey sod Ruvvia leave the
poodiou of peace or war jubt where it was.

Madrid Papers to the 19th last stale that Ge-
neral MIRTON has sought refuge iu the north of
Spin, 11th Irun.

A Flanders Blaii has arrived with Milieu from
Brussels to the 30th last.

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The Paris Papers of Holiday have arrived. The
funds declined at the claw of the ma►ket on that
day. These Papers communicate nothiug else of
any interest.

The Dublin Pipers of Tuesday have been re-
ceived at our Office. They solitqt the Government
and the upper classes of society to exert themselves
for the relief of the south-west of Ireland, portico..
birly the county of Clare, now become the prey of
pestilence and famine. It is expected the Lord
Mayor of Oubliu will lose no time to convene a
public meeting to raise a subscription for the relief
of the suffering districts. The Limerick Papers,
of the 47th, mentiop several recent outrages in that
county., They are. only, we hope, the expiring
efforts of that frantic system which has so long
graced that fair portion of the island.

An 'recount of Lincoln Horse Fair, given in an-
other part of nor Paper, forms a crisArsin with Ih I
dismal reports of fairs' and marliers lately preserried
iu the colour's% of tlsv Provincial Paper's.

lan night MT. ATM, the King'. messenger, left
town with ibignitehes fur Munich.

Yesterday morning a messenger arrived in Londe°
from Vienna with dispatches for Prihee F.ersa-
it AZY, the Ambassador from the EuiPirar of AUS.
TRI4 19 our Court. The same tuesseager also
brought .dirpatteltee from Mr. GORDO/4,4W Charge
d'Alligires at Vienna.
TUR FUNDS.—The meeting at the Bank yodel.
day Inn caused • rise of I per cent. in Bank Stock,
but as there was no mention of diaeoenting at 4 per
cent. or any other money arrangement. it eaweed
no other alteration. Causal' were 78L Inc ma.
uey. mud 78Th for the account. Iteifirced 7711;
Navy 1033; 4 per .Ceists. 925; Long Annuities
19 I 1-16. Foreign Seca/luta steady ; Spatial'
(til a 64 ex die. Danish 85#; Promo* SO $6.
At the ctose Of the &kik' Cuit:tols ere PIS mid
lot account

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frASIMOADLF PA RTI ZS.
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The Doke or NoefuN iyilastertain the, Thai end
Durbist of RedKpr.l, and 'rite party of dial itseui*hed
p'ersonages, uu Sunday sett, mkt his Low to St. Jaanea's-
square.

Mrs. Shipley entertainer) the Duke of Backiryhern sad a
selecepsrly at dlimer yesterday, at her bouse is Peon street.
Grumenor-rquare.
The Fy! of Eira(nine has issued cards of favinrtion for
so entertainment ou the 12th instant, at his house is St,
James'. square.
14n4yrseurge Caaeadieh gives a rout Ibis evening at Bur-
finitouHanue, Piccadilly.
Lord Crag gay, an elegant entertainment on Wednesday
to Earl.cmiarer. the Earl and Counts,. Co.prr. Lind and
Lady Ilfor.pe,,i, Sir William cad Lady A'Court, Sir Hum.
phey 2• t Mr. Heailirme, Mr. Cato. k'ortescues
at his home Dover-stn et
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'lli re
Eitel aird.Cinent.as of Derby have issued cards of in-
vitation for an entertainment tt•goorrow, at their house is
Groaarnot-rquare.
George Phillip., Esq. M.P. has issued cards of invitation
for a parry on Sunday neat, at his house in Musat.aired.