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PROTESTS.

fort's, Ix WWI HOUSE or Leans, Ott wittmoto TR!
ACT VISO Git•isTlNG • I.H•RTeII To TOL BANK Or
IRISL•NIS.
181, Because this Act sanctions the prolongation of the
Charter of the Bank of Ireland from tlis year is 16, :a rbirb
tune that Corporation might, on notice, have been el.ssolved,
to the year Isl 7, and thus confirms the valuablo a xelusive
privileges it now enjoys for thirty years, on trims most in-
adequate and improvident, as must nitrite flout the following
short statement
'lhe agreement on the part of the Bank, to manage the
public debt of Ireland, free of all charges and expense, gives
the public a sum amounting nearly to 75g51. per stoma, the
constuiseion the Bank at present reeeit es on that account.
Hat the public have gscii to the Bank S per cent. for the
emu 1,.2.50,0utt1. they might have borrow' dat al. t as. lid.
the interest at which money has been actually raised this
year by the Government of Ireland ; 34371. being the differ-
etsce betwixt flo,sokil. the interest of 1,1.70,0001., at s per
cent. and 59,91141., the interest of the said sum at al. is,.. tit.
per tent. must therefore be taken from 7.10n1. the public
halm sequired and it w ill then appear, that an &Hooky of
towel. as the hill amount of the pecuniary comideratiort
given fur the extrusion of this valuable privilege.
Further, the duration of this trilling remnueration is no
way- guarded by the Act ; it may expire within s short time,
and the public, whilst the Bank are in full enjoy went of the
privileges conferred MI them, may lw compelled to 'mike a
new agreement for the charges of that part of the public
debt which may be managed in Ireland ; fur this dm con-
tains ma provision compelling the Bonk of Ireland fo nonage
any past of the public richt after it shall be consolidated with
the debt of Great Britain, an event, which, entice the 7th
Article of betwixt Great Britain and Ireland, may
take place within a very few years.
Because the Act ought, for the credit of the Batik
of Ireland, and the security of the people of that country, to
have expressed, in char and distinct terms, the nature suit
extent of the privileges it eonfers.
It is true, that ihrontaine a clause limiting the circulation
of the Bank of [Mane! to the sum of 9,750,0001. similar to
the clause of the Irish Act of the 37th of the King, ch. SO,
which limited slit circulation of that Bank to I,soo,otiol.
Bu But, as it appears by doentireutsbefom Parliament, that this
Bank has, mita ithstanding the said clause, illegally extend-
ed its circulation, to a slim upwards of 3,0000001. The Act
ought distinctly to have expressed what, in conjunction with
the Irish Actiof the sad, 31st, and 37th years of His Ma-
jesty, it dearly enacts, viz.—That if any sum, exceeding the
sum of 9,750,0001. " shall be borrowed, or taken up by, or
lent, or sorsa, to, the Corporation of the Bank of Ireland,
under their common Seal or otherwise' or for payment of
whioli any Hood, Ihll, ',Vole Cweitant, Agreement, or other
writing, shall be mode, sealexl, or given, then, sail in such
case, all and every., the person or persons who shall be a
member or Members of the raid Corporation, his or their re-
spective heir or heirs, executors, or administrators, shall, in
his or their respective private capacities, he chargeable with,
or liable in proportion to, their set teal shares awl subscrip-
bow, to the repayment of such monies which shall he so
hot rowed, taken up, or lent, with interest for the same, in
such maisper as if such security hail bees a security fur pay-
ment ,Iso much mosey and intemst Ow the sante sealed by
such respective members of such Corporation, and delivered
by torn or them, as their respective arts or deedt, in propor-
tit) to their revere! shares mid sullorciptions, as aforesaid."
adl7, P -ruse we think it nut duty to capri se the strong
PCDOC we : ri affix ger at impropriety of extending the Char-
ter of the Bank of Ireland, by Act of Parliament, without, in
the same Act, drag away that doubt, which, since the pass-
ing of an Act in :beggar 179.1, was known to exist concern-
ing the admissibility of our Burnett Catholic fellow-subjects,
to the .:::ection of that Corporation.
P r must think Gnat those who pretend to feel such alarm
at the idea of granting any martinet of privileges to the
Romeo Catholics of Ireland, were called upon to remove a
doubt, on which their 'Mods, if they arc serious in their pro-
' fen:sums, must dwell with such anxiety. Whilst, ou tie
other hand, cur anxious desire to see ..iir Roman Cetliolo-
fellior -subjects ..,joy, in every respect, the privileges to whirl
their bit t entitles them, makes us deeply regret that
this Act dots nut, in explicit terms, declare their eligibility
to the situation of Governor or Director of thu Dank in
, Ireland. LAUDERDALE.
DU:si DAS.
(Fur the last reason) V.ISSA LI. HOLLAND.

IPROTIMIT IN ?HZ INOUSZ or LOADS, ON TNT SICONO
ILZ•DINS: OF TNT SILL TO eitotunn, FOR • LI-
MITED TINT, TUC DISTILLATION OF GR•111 IN
111•14ING SPIRITS.
Ist, Because, when we consider that the price of wheat
was not higher than 7Q5. per quarter, nor the pries of barley
more than aos. on the vth of May, about which time it was
first proposed to stop the ilietilleries, under the pretended
notion of an npprou Mint scarcity, and that the price of
wheat woo yte. tid. and of barley, CM- 9d. en the tat of Jan.
1602, at "tech time the prohibition, impesed in Dec. 1601,
was done away by the Legis!piture ; it is obvious that this
measure proceeds upon grounds perfectly different from
thine pioLibitions which were enforced iu the 35th, 36th,
and Atilt years of His Majesty's reign.
Beaton, as we learn from the Report of the Committee,
commoner .ited to this Hunuby the Rouse of Commons, that
flips mums. was recommended " with a view to apply as
speed) a relief as possible to the c- se of the West India
',tauter.," end that nothing in the evidence before them
cool(' hat • induced them to 'propose a measure in hurtful;
neat pendent of that itonsideration, we feel it our duty to pro-
test against • principle so aural and dangerous u that of de-
miring the agriculturist of the benefit he derives from the
demand created by the distilleries, fir the sole purpose of a
temporary KIM( to the distresses of soy other chasm of the
CLOUSITII nay.
Derange we see great raises to reprohate, in the strongest
teems, that principle of coromertgell,vislatiou, la ow foe the
61st time adapted, which sautioes the temporary relief of
these who have embarted their'repital is one 'wench of in-
dustry, by imposing 11, tidships on those whose capital is ea-
gaged in promoting the national prosperity through the
wens of another branch of isdustry.
It spiders Is. us, diSt, if the pi ire of cotton goods were at
say time la drama so low, from the abuoilente of the stock in
land, the they were sold at a lets to the manufaetitrers, it
wooki be a system new sod injaelose to prohibit, ea that ec-
eourit, critate elutes of the community from snaring weed-
lettelotk. Let it is upon this prisciple.ihet tic industry of
the farmer, cheer emotions are georrally mcloin.lotaKed to
be the most beneficial to the Comm ty, is no* to be de-
press.,:, fm the porpose of affording an uncertain, aud,- at
hest, a temorary relief to the West lades planter.
LAUDERDALE,
SUFFOLK sod ir.aksH IRE,

FROM SATURDAY NICHrS GAZETTE.

Atirtint!ifet 11100.
Cory of a letter front ftCar. Admiral the Honourable Sir Alm
ander Cochrane., K. H. COutmattler is Chicrof • His Ma.

jetty's ship anti vek.eis at the leeward Islands, to the
11,morrablo W. W. Pule, dated ou board the Belleisle,
Carlisle-Bny, May 1,
St —r loettnor the copy of a letter frogs Captain Sherrill,
of flit Majesty's sloop, Lily, giving an moms( of the capture
of a French brig letter of morgue, pierced for eighteen guns,
front Itouriiraux hound to Gutdalanipe ; also an English brig,
her prize, both of which were taken by nut knowing that this
Island of Deseatto was in our pOSItIOIOII, where the armed
Lc.; tan fur protection. I have the honour to he, Ss:.
(Signed) ALEX. COCHRANE.
17i. Majesty's shop Lilc, '/corolla, April tt, tent.
Ai ft— rhis morning the squadron under my command, as
pet reptarest the French tits of nisrque brig,
1.-an Jacques, pierced fur eighteen gent, only • it
long Min.-pounders, thirty-sin days front ligurdcsits,
to tiMsdaltouire.
I hair, great pleasure in tearing tettinsony of the gallant
conduct of the Mutanabitioe, which, front being Inc a.hvail,
was sliablcil to bring the enemy to close action, ohligial
bins to stroke just as the other vessels came up.
Siring alltlifitr brig to windward, the boats of the mood-
s-on i.,iri•tint in chase: and, I ant happy to nay, that, al.
'60.101.111 Orr fore end aft, and absnakoted. they succeeded
Lt natioguisktin; the ihc proves to he the brig Div-

tl e: a of literreol, at d cca.t, to hptel. ft Paste:aloes under
of the paste, bet al not sit 1 till docent. four hours
after the e4•lllrcly Lad burr up front Car:oeie bal, and C.Jlllle-
ques.ily fres a 211tureil hy dna brig.
I Lave alttafaction in addle; this service eras perform rot
widluld loos ou onr aide ; the enemy had one man nimueled.
The capture uf the Jea.i Jacques is Vibe taunt impeirtanee,
as she Pas sent out fir the mpreiis purpose of a nisinz iti
these seas, and, from bur superior sziOnz, wind' peer Cli
a grist annoyance to the trade.
I have the hornier to be 144. e.
W. 11. SUERWIFF
• Lily, Captain Stiarriff ; Express, Lieutenant i)owci s ;
and Niessaiihinne, Lieutenant Jilek.oll.
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To C W. Nrshoss, Esq. Cmptsin of I-;is MAI sty's
ship ii:lpises, and sea. (Myer, Deseada.

Whitehall, June 25, Isola.
The King bas been graciously pleased to give and grunt
unto IN, of Greet Georg e street, in the City of
Westminster, Chief Clerk in the Irish Exchever-Htfire, his
royal license aud authority, that be and his issue isiny hence-
forth use the surname of Houghton only ; grm ided HIP Ma-
je.lo said coner,sion and declaration he registered in his
College of Arms, utbern ise to he void and of noise MAI.