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DOLLARS.

On the second reading of the all to prevent the
counterfeiting of do lars ;
Mr. PRINCE P opposed the principle of the BM.
He began by taking notice of the several issues
made by the Bank, of dollars, and their refusal af-
terwards to take many of them back. He then oll•
served, that, fur the first time, Parliament was calla
upon to sanction a proceeding, which declared, that
certain pieces of coin sheuid not be counterfeited;
and, he would ask, what security was there tl-at
these pieces of coio were not counterfeits? .No
coin should be suffered to circulate under the sanc-
tion of Parliament, which did not come from the
mint. This money was coined by an individual at
Birmingham ; who could tell to what an extent
this money might not Me coined there I or how rnanr
counterfeits might net be made A coining MAd' ito
was to be exported to Denmark ; whO could tell
but in that country counterfeit money migat not be
coined and sent over here Ile objelled to thbse
pieces, because they had the Kir.g's image on them;
because they took away from His Majesty's prero-
gative ; and because there was no check as to tFe
quantity which might be issued. He hoped that
some regulation might be made to corred the s
specie of the country. Silver was brought over here
from France, and circulated at less than its real va-
lue. lie earnestly hoped the Committee of the
Privy Council would make some report on the
coinage of the country.
Mr. STURGESS BOURNE said, that the new
donors were issued solely by, and on the credit of,
the Bank of England. No person could be com-
pelled to take them. They ought rather to be con-
sidered as notes issued by the ilank, than as coin.
If any loss accrued by means of counterfeits, the
Bank, and not the public, were the sufferers. The
Hon. Gentleman might as well resist a bill for pre-
venting the forgery of Bank paper, as this Bill; for
it was merely to protect the Bank agqinst counter-
feits, in the tokens which they issuej. They did
nut purport to be the coin of the realm; they
were merely medals beating the King's head on one
side.

Sir M. BLOX AM said this was the first ti ne he
had heard of any silver coin being bonen from
France to be circulated here. -

The Bill was then read a second time, and order-
ed to be committed to-morrow.
Mr. ALEXANDER brought up the Report of '
the Corn Exportation Regulation Bill, which was I
received, and the Bill ordered to be read s third
time to-morrow. •
The Committees of Supply and Wart and Meani4
were put off till Wednesday. 1
The Irish Linen Regulation Bill was read a thirdl
time and passed.
It was ordered that the House should to-morrowl
resolve itself into a Committee on the Cotton Mann-,
fsZturers

SLAVE TRADE.
Mr.WILBF.RFORCE moved the Order of

day, for the further consideration of the Report os
the Slave Trade Abolition Bill, and then moved that
Counsel be called in upon the same.
e
Mr. DENT said, that since the Union with r.• land, there were many members in that House why
had never seen the evidence taken some years before
at the bar of the House. This was a thing th;.
Members were entitled and therefore he wish..
the Hon. Member would put off the consideration LI
this business fora longer time.
Mr. WILBERFORCE shortly replied ; atEa
which the motioa was agreed to, and Counsel wen ,
called in.
Mr. Pi OOT having been heard. Mr. Pxotir■ wo
going to reply; when Mr. F, ;Ara rose, aid proposal
it the farther hearing of Counsel should be post.
poned to afford the Petitioners time to prepare.
Mr. PITT' objeaed, alleging that the case ltii '
been fully argued, that the amise was alreadg
possession of sufficient information upon the sohjr‘
and that there was no reason to expect that the iu•
ther argument of Counsel would throw ai.y new.ligt
upon it.
The question being put, that the Bill be engroosea-
a division took place, when there appearinl-1
Ayes 52 ; Noes 9.
The Bill was then ordered to be read a shad VA
on Wednesday. Adjourned.

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THE BRITISH PRESS.

LONDON,
TUESDAY, ittN6l6.

The Division in the House of Lords, last night,
spew the second reading of the Defence Bill, was
wawa more favourable for the MI stsrsa, than his
most sanguine friends erpeaed. The numbers were,
for the bill, I 5-I,—;tgainst it, b 9, including Prories
Majority, 85. The Marquis of S 1 AFFORD voted
by Proxy with the hitt+ isrxs. Thus, we see the
Coalition has lost one of its leading Members, and
is already beginning to crumble away.

We are informed, that there is a strong garrison
of Freark at the Hague ; but that in every other
town of Holland, there are but ten men and an
(Aker, all the other French troops being drawn to
the frontiers of Prussia.

A Common Hall was held yesterday at Guildhall,
for the eleilion of Sheriffs for the City of London
aad County of Middlesex, Chamberlain Bridge-
Masters, Aleconncrs, and Auditors of the City's
Cash for the year ensuing, when
Thomas Griffiths, Esq. citizen and cloth-worker,
and James Ephraim, Luke Islealson, Esq. citizen
and draper, were eleded Sheriffs of this City and
county t.f Middlesex for the year ensuing.
Richard Clark, &q. was re-eletted Chamberlain.
John William G ala Sin, and Samuel Marriott, were
rie-eledted Bridge-Pilasters.
Messrs. Enever, Sanders, Lambard, and Brook,
were re-elettcd Aleconners.

Messrs. Nicholson, Mcrae, Shone,',and Hayward,
were elected Auditors.
After which a Ccrurt of Aldermen was held for
the purpose of swearing in the Chamberlain and the
Bridge-M4sters, and for issuing the several orders
for salssies, and the precept for Michaelmas day
nest, for the eleiion of a Lord Mayor for the year
ensuing.
The rulers of the Watermen's and Ughterrnen's
ipserpany, who were elected at the last court. at-
rtitlti
,raLnesd were sworn into offi
ceThel Right
the Lord Mayor, eleven Alderrne:-.,
Recorder, Sheriffs, Common Serjeanr, the Town
Cleric, and the other city officers, attended the Com-
won Hall and Court of Aldermen.

Oispatthes have been received at the Admiralty
Office from Lord WILLIAM STUART, Commander
of the fleet off Ostend, brought to Yarmouth by the
Sewheeek lugger. They state, as we have been in-
formed, that within these few days the enemy made
a shim as if something had been intended from
Iflushing.l9Dn the 16th, the wind being easterly,
three praams,three schooners, and 20 schuyts, haul-
ed out of Ostend, and anchored in the Road, under
the.protedion of their own. guns. At the same time
a great number of the !lying artillery were posted
bstw •en Blankenbourg and Ostend; but the principal
doer squadron was placed, by Lord Wit.t.ta tt
O toair. in se judicious a situation to the eastward
of Blankenboarg, that had they attempted to make
their passage from Flushing, they must have been
greatly annoyed. The wind. however, having
alf!eil in the evening. all the vessels retired the neat
morning into the hatbJur, vrbe-e they are now
ly-
-log They :,re very numerous, but are so close to-
gether, that it is in.pos;ibk to count them eiaaly.
About 150 hare been counted.

Cptat hiartiAl was herd on Trilby last, on
board Li Sa:vadar del .11:449. of Ito guns, Vice-
Admiral Yourw, in Ilarnaasa ; 11L-ar Admiral Sur•
iron President, it. I to: at. Faq. Judge Advocate,
em fi•ur stamen of th.t Ifoologoe, ol 74
.guns, for
illettiny, Arc. on bmard that ship of Brest, is her late
(raise on cation, and for coaspiring to sour& r
their offszcimd run away with the ship. After a
which lss:ed the wbnle day, and being heard
;a their defence. and the ch trges being fully proved,
the Coast found them all four Goilty, when sentence
diadb ism immediately passed on them by the
liidgo *Advocate with great solemnity, and they
nreresentenced to be hanged at the yardarm of such
air mils as the Lords Commissioners of the Ad-
They were immediately put
Litt auer27:ifite Provost Martial, and closely
inefose ea hoard the flag ship.
Vestival has caused two officers of his
Sem to he sited at Ostend, for not having con-
defied theilselves properly during the late engage-
ment with the fleet of Sir Sidney Smith. They are
mei smarm mart to fleshing, there to be judged
by a council of war.
The laspner Napoleon homes witlr the con-
sent et the Pope, or sari emend Cleriaion Mi.sivaa-
viot to China, and to * East ladies, to propagate
pbe Roman Catholic Neligioer.
The &maw Politer woo the last of that body to
Mlle she oath of fidelity us the Emperom Lassies-
ads has Whim incepted that oath, sod is reurod
into Brittany.
A. paphise, printed is the north of Germ ay,

" on the lave theeovevect
amid shirk/way that have &Cowell," has
a grata natation. Its sale is Yvaace is

Ike Yesseharesiry in Tore any have begun their
IN for Chita Vecchia, along the conic of the

ingliekesiiiisariee spend shoot the mon absurd
pons concerning the patriot Whale. One *iay he
kongsd IdasseU, said the next they kill him in a
W, For to days past the Parisian cockneys
tie low amend with artery that a certain retina-
-1 smifrant had cur of )/.bee's ears in A duel, in
s. leas de, &inlays. naiad ii, that Mthee
Nimes to possess -his ears, as well as the esteem of
(potion), eatire.--(Joerwei dos Defeateato).
Dutiag the late German fairs at Franck-fort and
drip, sewed thousand downs of sauff-bases have
no sold, with the portraits of Picheßru, Moreau,
losers, the Duke of &Wien, and other con-
sumed/ sr aelliNed conspirators. They have sold
cheap, because English gold has made up the
and lose to the fabricators of these
togicsoas productione.-.4Jeerriei b Pens).