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London, England, 1819-03-06 00:00:00

BALANCES IN THE BANK.

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER 'UtVe
notice, that on Monday next, when the II v,.•t•
would have under its coosideratioit the ils:t+
five to the application of the Consolidated Fod,
hr meant to submit a proposition for the purr ic
at
tendering available the public balances in the h
of the Bank.
Mr. GRENFELL inquired whether he was to ni -
derstand that the whole of the public balances., na
the hands of the Bank, were to be rendered a VN°l••
able, in the shape of the interest accruing bola
them, for the public ?
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER replied,
that his arrangement would embrace the balaucts
on the Exchequer Bills account.
Mr. GRENFELL hoped be would not he colkei!
to bring this case again under the considerabon or
Parliament, which lie certainly would do, if the
Right Hon. Geutlemon's plan was merely to hair
a partial affect. Ir it were merely to be contine.!
to the balances upon Exchequer fills, the benerit
to the public would be comparatively of no import-
ance. There were. for instance, the balances iron:
the Cuomo, the Exi-ise, the Post-office, and tin
various public departments, the siccriomt itoeie-t
of which the public ought to receive. The abol‘
ought to be made available.
The CHANCELLOR of this EXCHEQUER said, t
of the current balances in the Bank, which ainstint-
rd to silent seven millions, his plan would rutin-act
about six. • .
The Nassau Salt act, the Wool Impoisst

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Act, the Emit India Goods Act, and the
(Ireland) Goods Act, were severally cotninitied.
lie Reports on Monday.
Mr. TuouAs CO1711111: AT presented a l'etA‘nrt
from the Inhabitants of West Ham against any al-
teration in the Poor's Laws.
The House then adjourned.

FOREIGN INTELLIGI:NcE.

PARIS PAPERS.

!ANA, lltattew 4.
The health of Marshal Gouvion St. Cyr is much better,
amt now offers no cause for apprehrnsino. His Excellency
steeds'', received several of the War Directors.
The bureau of the Chamber of Deputies yesteiday pre•
si o'ed to the Ring the project of the law relative to the ma-
, nf.rr lure of gunpowder, adopted by the Chamber of Deno-
' ies on the day preceding. After mass his Majesty received
the Ministers, Marshals, awl 4mbassailors.
The Duke of Richelieu arrived at Toulouse on the 2flit
of January. Ilia Excellency has assigned to the loan of
Bourdeaux, for charitable purposes, the revenues of the do.
tuition which Las kern decreed to him.
We read in the Gaulle dr Nord the following notice
a It is giving tau much faits, to private letters, ',Olen from
roar Grecian possession! of the roar, to believe ill it a e
should hear mailing more of the INechabites, a numerous
soil inconstant people, who frequently assemble in bodies
:00,000 meta It is not to he doubted that the
lii lii Ibrahim obtained • great victory, but the troops
a. loch he defraud formed but a separate corys, soil Abdul.
rho was made prisoner with his family, was orilv one
f the W chabite Chiefs. At the head of the nation to the
of the deceased Wachalii, from whom the entire
tlieir name She is handsome and enterprising.
au l is revered as their Sovereign."

'l.ll E BIUTI $ll PRE S S.

LONDON,
SATURDAY, MARCH 6, 1819•

The CIIIEV JUSTICE of tie Court of Kior's
Beath was appointed last evening, by lette,4
patent under the great teal, to preside as speaker
in the House of Lords, during the occasional alb-

sence of the LORD CHANCELLOR. This appoint-
ment had been ;mode in consequence of the Lola
CHIEF BARON being required to leave town oil the
necessary duties of the present circuit. This is the
second instance during the short period that
has hitherto elapsed of the Session, in which
a Commoner has been Coosiittited Prolocuior.
or Speaker of the House of Lords, and coo-
enlisted in such a manner as not to affect in
the slightest degree the rights of the dist'''.
guialied individual first appointed to sit in time
place I.f the LORD CUANctLLOR. It may there-
fore seem to admit of some doubt, on the return
of the CHIEIr BARON to London, to which of the
Learned Gentlemen the honour of presiding on the
%Youlsack, doting the continuance or the 1.6a0
iudisposition, should belong.
In the noose of CoMmooi the Miscellaneous
Estimates were brought forward in 3 Committee of
Supply by Mr. Anautgaot ; but of thee, several
item!, which appeared of a questionable nature,
were withdrawn from the immediate consideration
of the Committee, in consequence, we most pre-
sume, or the absence of Lord CAsTLERi!
Even the postponement of a vote of politic
money, under the present circumstatice of doi.
Irre and poverty that pervade the working part
of the community, mist be coasidettd a partial ad-
vantage, becauSe it may draw attention to the
mews of the proposition, and give time for the
operatton of a Inure just and generous feeling to-
wards the people ; but in this instance we may he
permitted to lament the event for the cause of It,
for tee are sorry to state that the absence of Lord
Caw:LP:BEACH was occasioned by the death of his
youligest sister, Lady ELLBIINOROUGH. Without
the Noble Lord's assistance on the T ry Bench,
Lis colleagues evince a timidity and indecision in
action highly ludicrous, and seem to be either once-
with their own intentions, or afraid to
give them utterance.
IVe litre to congratulate our military friends
a statement elicited lust eight from Lon! PALMER-
SION by Mr. LYTTELTON, respecting the oath to
be ir. future required from officers o.r the half-psy
list. In the oath hitherto exacted, the officer, in
qualifying liiinself for receiving his half-pay, wee
obliged to swear that he held no office whatever,
civil or military, under the Crown ; but now lie
shall be required to swear, that be does not hold
office under the Crown, of which the awned salary
dots wit exceed three times the amount of his half-
cay. Having touched on tiny subject, we cannot
tinbear calling the attention of the Members of
the (louse of Commons to the enormous amount
41 the half-pay and pension list of the army and
teisy, which, according to Lord CASTLEREAGIe's
liwincial statement in the House of Common.,
*, not less than four millions. With this dis-
p,,,,ition of die public money, we certainly are not
invosed to quarrel, because it becomes a generous
pi ople to acknowledge with gratitude the faithful
services of their warriors ; but in our mind this
sum might be safely and considensby diminished
by recalling to active service, as circumstances and
vacancies May permit, the half-pay officeas, who
feel their present state of inaction repugnant to
their habits and desires, and are anxiously looking
for a return to their former corps. It was promised

revealed's). in the thrum of Cistamons that such *
system wool' lie pursued, yet we find its every
successive Gazelle men who bare area no service,
and have sin claim upon the gratitude of the
country, suffered to enter the army, and rise in the
profession by purchase, to the esclutiois and injury
of thousands of brave fellows who have distinguished
themselves nobly in every quarter of the world.—
Nothing could be rtirer than to consider the officers
on the half-pay of every regiment, where they have
not gone out 4, receiving the difference," as still
forming part of their resin ctive corps ; and as they
should of right, during the continuance of the
war estahloihnient, have the advantage of every
vacancy ()eel:7ring in the series above them, en let
them enjoy the same advantage now, although the
circismstatices of the country rendered it necessary
to place them on the half-pay list. By such a mea-
sure, justice would be done to these meritorious
individuals, the debt of gratitude would be best
absolved, and the country would be rapidly and
effectually relieved front the heavy louden of the
half-pay and pension list, now amounting to four
millions a year.

We have received Paris Paper of Monday and
Tuesday lest, from which we have made some
extracts.—The French funds still continue to
Call. The five per Cent,. ',pelted oil Monday at
67 1. 51) c. and dosed ut ts 6 1. 91C. Bank stuck
remains at 1,490 r. .

A Dutch Mad has arrived with Papers to the 3i
irstrtht. Letters from Aix-la-Chapelle complain
of the, ilitclitie of commerce, in consequence of the
prohibition of importatiou into France, Italy, and
Brabant. 'floe evil, they add, is aggravated by
the general use of machinery, by which above
a thousand families are thrown out of employment
and reduced to Advices from Batinia, of
the 30th October, state, that there w,oi io that
port an amazing number of English and American
vessels at that date.

The Lotto eft4TICELLOII.—The late attack of
the gout which his Lordship weir visited with, was
considered to he slight, bat unfortunately it has
turned out to be the reverse, as it has lodged in
one of his knees, which has caused Much anxiety,
for formerly when attacked with this disease, it
fixed io the extremities (the feet). It is at present
vrry doubtful whether his Lordship will he able
to pres'ule in his several public capacities until
. .

after the holiday..
The name of It. A. CRICKITT, E-(1. war omitted.
in the Majority upon Sir J. M aciLlNTosn's motion.
.1. 11. (MAITLAND, Esq. voted in the Majority on
the same motion.

The High Sheriff has fixed Tuesday, the td of
Much, fur the election of a Member for the County
Tipperary. Thure will be a sharp court-et between
tl.e late Representative, the Hon. FRANCIS A
130110W:1i I►aITTIE, brother to the Rt. Hem Lord
DONN ALLY and the Rt. I 10ti.W11.1.1 AM 13,thwet.r.,
Colonel of the Tipperary Militia, and at present
Member fur Clonmel.--( Limerick Paper.)

It is rronaikable that the greater part of the
German iiewvpapers have dews as their proprietors
anti principal Editors, for instance, the Gazette of
the lice Totca of Frankfurt, the German Alinerea,
the Journal of Germany, the Melanges Foreign
Literature, the Free Speaker, the I lammonia, the
Filitographic Archives, the Gazette of Cassel, and
stone others.

following paragraph is extracted front tl,c
Journal des Debats :
" The pi...Winn:in of death is denounced in England
against the (sbricatura of Bank notes, although it is very easy
to counterfeit them. Mr. Hone, to prove this, has imitated
them with surprising perfection. The paper, the character.,
the ciphers, the figures.
that the must accurate eye might be deceived. Only that
lie has put a chosen of persons banging, in place sit the ini-
tial letters of the Dank, and instead of the signature of the
Director 'the signing clerk), be has counterfeited the name
of the public hangman. This is a species of criticism in
whirls the French do nut indulge ; we have out so nine,' taste
or humour, we do nut wive our pleassestrirs (sum the
rhumb-yard, nue display our wit on the gallows. Shakspeare
enchants his audience by making a grave-digger jest upon
the skulls of the dead. Mollie kaolin huw to move the
hearts by airenereet le and faithful painting of every pliss;1111
l'..eghaifi is as much above Fiance as Sasitspcare is above
Racine."

arr of the paragraph seems to compre-
leaill the torture and design of Mr. 1-10Nih's ioota-
til,o of the flank note Ha much as Ire understands
the glare scene in Hamlet, of which it is most evident
he is profoundly ignorant. This, however, he rally
shares with the generality of his countrymen, who
have for the most pail taken their Oleos of flit Moil
of Avon from the frivolous comments of I'ot:rattly.
The French, in their notions of dramatic t outpost-
lour, carefully exclude every idea of actual exist-
ence, and consider the stage rather ns the represer,
tali VP Of all imaginary creation than 1131
to " hold the mirror up to Nature." This is ti.c
case at least wish their tragedies. In their ideal
amid, a grave-digger would probably br s ►e-
vere moralist, conveying instructions more by
words than actions. loorml ol• bring rendered
callous by familiarity with scenes of drain, he would
acquire a sensibility that nature or previous habits
urver gave !inn and the sublime apostrophe of
Hamlet to the skull of }'.rifle, instead of flowing
from the philosophic Prince, lierghtened by a cut,
trust with the indifference of the grave-digger,
would no doubt, according to the rules of the French
school, have caught our delighted fancies Its the
mouth of a less noble personage, and have taught
us to forget his leathern apron soil spade, in admi-
ration of Ins moral dignity. We. however, shall
not quarrel wish them, nor net like she bigots of
old, who felt no rajoymesit in their own senisinents,
unless they could compel even• one cl'e to entertain
the same opinions. SHA IgSPEA RE, a utli all his faults,
shall Still he dear to us, even though every cleric sin
the Continent were to pronounce hint and the con-
current trete of this country to Ins favour imrliacuus.

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