The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1819-11-09 00:00:00

LONDON,
TUESDAY, blavamaia e.

When the Act of the. rest Session of Parliament
for regulating the mode of resuming cash irsytnerits
by the Itsi,k .tif England had received the almost
Unanimous sanction of the Legislature, we did not
expect that the principles which then stewed to
have been established would within the space of a
few months become once more the topics of control.
tiny. We at that time conceived the; not only were
the great general principles on which the plan rug-
-rated by the Committees was founded universally
recognised, but that the several Members of both
Houses, to whose expressions on such subjects moot
importance is attached, were understood to have so
far pledged themselves to the enforcement of the
plan, that uo hope was left to the opponents of the .
measures that they could by any theoretical refire-.
*citations induce Pailiament to forego 'the only
chance we have of ever having a metallic foundation
given to our system of paper 'credit. :The Ministers
on that occasion ingenuously confessed and retracted
their former errors. and solemnly and unequivo-
ally declared that theyconsidered the arrangement
then about to be made as.fival ; nay, Lord Ctiorr I.E.
attagit even asserted, that he particularly aproved
of the Ist of February as the day on which the Outs
seas to Continence its operation. because is Perlis-
meat would probably not be Convened until late in
Jatimuy, 'sin 'time tiould be afforded for interfering
• iviih tlw arrangement, of preventing the measure
from Coining into action.
Yet, notwailisusedista this evident determination
of- the' Marina's:lnd Pailisoteiit to abide ty the
iilatelproprii...We ' ire' , infut stied that several ins
10441/11Liifflalile. GOT .ks,e conceived the pros
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Pf."!fel f fkt•JigeOe prospect of Stlrefilll which Ike'
decisive alemseres of Parliament could hold Teit.ll.
the PctiffhWers. and which alone might pretreat,
them from trying the experiment, there does flail
,kitthe present circumstances of thr.bullion market'
exist any one point on which they could establish,
• case to justify Parliament in acting with such:
incousirtency. The foreign exchanges have,
aisles the close of the last Session been progressively
improtiog. in the same proportion the price of gold
'mad silver has hero felling. and for the two lost
months, with a very slight exception, the market
price and milli price of bullion have beets equal.
.This was at least • good omen, and proved 'how
feasible was the Measure of recurring to cash pay.
Mem,. when the Bask and Parliament concurred
in removing the obstacles. At no time was it
doubted but list the measure must be attended •
-with some serious embarrassments to the commer-:
cite! said trading interests of the country, and
that property must in the transition experience
.otterations in value that to some individuals might
iproveof the most fatal tonvequence. The Bank
'of England educed its issues considerably, and
:the country banks did the same, but probably in •
far greatcr:pfoportion and with greater rapidity.
The country has in consequence felt very consider.
abledistiess, end the evils Ave been estelitred which
• were anticipated, and which, from the wry snout
cause, afflicted the country in the year 1816. The
preseut price of gold shrews that the diminution in the
'circulating medium has been effected to the utmost
extent that could he necessary, and that in fact the
country Ass artstergose the sacrifices' which were
tequi,r,eil its the purchase of the traneitiota from •
• piper tce a otetithe
,ciirrency. Had the Bank, in
rik!6,'repuxted cash poements,'w heti its coffers were
so well previtiffortlieemetgency. we should out,
in 181, have *gain experienced the commercial
1111t1 political effects of a second sudden diminution
of our cireeljAtioesnedioni. But is there a man of
ordinary undersistalutg-iii the country who would
conecietitioti.fy riOitamend.that no advantage should
:be token of the great sacrifices already schieved
that our I urieticy shopld !gain be unmeuraily en-
larged, that an artificial impulse should again be
given to ourinteroarand external commerce, that
speculation in trade should be again encouraged,
that consuls should be once more unnaturally
raised to Bt, that in short our former artificial sys-
tem of overtrading and of fallacious finance should
once again• be holstered up, for no other purpose
than to give . birtli to false hopes and delusive
I.projects in themetion at large. while the Bank alone
sekerely enjoyed the solid advantages p—la there
limy man iu the country who would honestly recoil'.
-,enend this, learning from past events the evils that
.Pesult from the constant variations in the value of
property whitilLanust attend a paper system—and
knowing, from the experience of 1816 and 1819,
that • metallic curreasey.catinot be at length esta-
blished withookitgieting noon the country the se-
. permit calamities These calamities, as had been
miticipated, we have endured ; • well-founded
hope pond* to their speedy terminatiou, and not
by such means all the advocates or an extended
paper system !esolci!econimetid. Such a system
might indeed, and probably would restore at. apps-
riet elate of trauyutllity and prosperity, but the
• appearance would be temporary and fallacious, and
the same causes would again as certainly induce the
same course of privations and distorbance.

Upon this point we have dwelt thus at length,
because, front the late partial rise in the price of
gold bullion, we entertain a belief that the flank
lies increased it. issues beyond what, in the present
state of the country, ought to be considered the
proper amount of the controlling currency of the
country, and any further increase might seriously
equips rrr r its owu proceedings under the Act of the
last Session.

On the lit of February next the Bank will
be liable to be called upon to pay for its notes
ingots of gold. assayed and stamped at the rate
,of 81.. 1111 ounce. but in quantities not less
than 6p ounces. Thus no person Can call upon
the Bank for gold unless he is enabled to purchase
• quantity of it to the value of 2431. The market
price of gold is at present V. 18s. an ounce, so
that no person while the market price remains at
this rate will call upon the Batik fur sold unless
he is disposed to make • present to the Bank of pi.
This being the caw, we are surprised at seeing in
some of the -daily papers expressions of alarm
lest the coffers of the Bank might be exheustrd
by what are strangely called partial payments. In
the first place, it is quite impossible to conceive any
man so krverie iu his disposition as to prefer pur-
chasing gold from the Bank at •Is. in large and
certain quantities, while lie can procure it in any
market in Europe for 781. in such quantities as lie.
May find convenient. But, should much a perverse
being actually /mist. should some of those rival
powers that haunt the imaginations of certain
people be wilting to sacrifice thret shillings an
ounce for the pleasure of eAdctstipg, tbe cyffers of
thie 4iNik of:V.milead. it ito not wavy diffioult to die.
cover which prr-seoulfl beirst *to 47.00 644;7
tlie memo*. gyoug,:se tbteSaak.B.apenols.4ag
vt..:.• tie ‘,1•91 tot

bareier. foe by a judicious assuagement or its owu
if**TS ro!n_st..all times teisslates—tis -ballioa
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t expiretiou vf the peeip4 pp,
rivvi:kised by Ise for restricting the &WADI* roil;
•tiosi of cabli payasents.

it canna hove escaped the notice of our readers
that the last Bulletin of our beloved KING'S health
differs materially from the series of the preceding
medical reports for a considerable time. At the
era of the formation of the Regency. only a few
years ago, i!everal of the Medical Gentlemen were
of opinion. that his Maigwetr's .constitution was
as good as that of the generality of men about
fifty yesrs of axe. and the tenor of the subsequent
Pulletius of his MA.IRSTV's bodily health has beta
hitherto in conformity with this opinion. We see
pow, with ill tilt regret that she memory of his
.virtues and goodness snail mite in every heart ind
mind, that hisconsiitotiowat length begins to Meld
to the pressure of time. Hit MAJZSTY is in the
Mit year of hissige.

A Flanders Mail has arrived, with Papers from
Brugge!' I. the#M iustaut, from which we hare made

We have received Boston Papers to the 2d of
October. The following ere extracts

From tie Boston Palllations, of October 1.
ALEXANDRIA, AUGUST 41.

We see many fine looking young wen every
day passing this place fur the head-quarters of the
►evolutionary artuy of Texas. •nd it appears that
!mashers are continually passing through Appo.
hues, Cat/shouts Mount, and Long Praiser.
A Gentleman fron► Bermuda informs us that
the fever was very Lad at St. George's and Retail-
ton—nearly one-fifth of the garrison and inhabi-
tants have fallen

Madras Papers have been received to the begin.
Mug ofJuoe. They communicate rogue interestill
particulate respecting the siege of the fortress of
Assearghur, the fall of which we sonoutlced in our
Paper of the:9o;h of last month.

A meeting of the British inhabitsnts of Madras
was held at the Exchange on the &tlt sof Ably, A.
Scum Esq. in the Chair, whets an Address was
moved, and unanimously agreed to, congratulating
the Marquis of HASTINGS upon the eminent sue.
cery which had distinguished his Lordship's mea-
sures since he assumed the Government of British
India. The Arhiress was prepared by a Committee
of fourteen gentlemen, among whom were, Major-
General LANG. Sir S•lit EL TOLLER, J.STATILY,
Lieut.-Col. the Ilion. 1. STANHOPE, C. 8..
Lieut.-Col. CONWAY, (;.11.. MAc-
GREGOft 4luaea•Y, C. 8., &c. &c. Another Ad-
dress was also voted, congratulating the Noble blur-
guts on the high Industry honours conterred upon
him by his most gracious Sovereign, and requestirig,
on their behalf, Isis Lordship's accepiaoce of a star
of the Order of the Ba►h, set in dimswildv, os a
tukeu of their respect and esteem.

Yesterday Lord CAsTLEREAuII and 111 r. MARL.
MAU lied rudireue,S of the PRINCE IitaLPIT, et
Curlion House.

Yesterday, it holf-pato three o'clock, his Royal
flightiets the PanccE REGLNT left town for
Wiodeur.

Yesterday, at two o'clock, his Royal Highness
11w Duke of You left town for Window.

It is probable that LUML-411cItLitta, the recently
appointed Lord Lieutemont of the West Riding of
the County of York, will speedily be called to the
House of Peer', as it is a very unusual, if not an
altogether unprecedented circumstance, for • Cow-
moiler to hold the office of Lord Lieutenant of an
English County or 'Wing.

The %Vigton Comity Address has been transmit-
ted by the High Sheriff to the Earl of THANET, to
be presented to the PRINCE REGENT. No artifices
or magisterial uremia were resorted to for signatures;
upwards of six thousand respectable and indepen-
dent Gentletuen and Yeomen spontaneously signed
this Address, and which, we trust, will carry con-
viction to the 'Throne.
The Congress of Vienna will. it is said, be for-
mally opened on the 161 h of this month, and the
first conference will be held there on the 20th.
A letter is published in the Constitationel, pur-
porting to hare been received in ['aria from Frank.
ort, which states that the Court of Vienna had
pressed upon the King of WritTESIBERO the expe-
diency of 'postponing the giving a Cutistitution to
his people until after the emigres' should have
decided upon the soterpretation to be given to
the 13th article of the Federal Act, relative to
Representative Constitutions. The King of Win-
Titismixtt, however, it is said. in some degree t.l-
- at the dictatorial style of the application,
paid no attention to it, and completed the Comm-
swim, without further delay. Austria, discontented
with this step, sent a Minister to Warsaw to
comp/obi to the Emperor of Russia ; but the
Kung of WIRTEMBERG going thither sa person,
satisfied the Emperor of the expediency of the
measure he had adopted ; and the result was, the
complete approbation by the Emperor of Russia
of the conduct of the King of Wiltl'l4El4G,
nod of the Wartemberg Constitution. If this
account his cortect. we cannot be surprised that the
Emperor of Rusibt• should take advantage of. the,
disposition eviiiced by the German Gavermileeits
of making him the minter of their disputes,;l
hut it is iillanNoiblr for us not. to stew
with dritrust said jealousy the vast hammer. which
au manual a powarof imerferettee must necessarily
give thii ambitions Monarch. iq tjOitetiuji, the. ageits
of so tire iunifou of tifir4te.

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011110W4A POETRY.

atinigti..ll/0/11e.s.
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4seat of Freedom! chased *l4
Go forth, toy friend! from kw. chine'
From EA.. shores—the loud alai* sad Love,
And generous victors—like the ..Rte mow.:
Pounce on the sleety that yet would rivet chi's**,
And drive the despots frum the western plans,'
Glory awaits thee! Ireland, proud sill
And history crown with D'Evert us, Godfrey's• Nine!
Like him, with reason more—aor 'genius ksts--
Nor energy, nor ought, that-ca,, soppiess
The darning ardeorin thy hifiy aunt!
Go forth! it owns hot Virtue's hie.* ce•trill'
Fraught with the page's lore—the Christisn's Wes--
The Warrior's Arslusur—all that sunk can souse !
ernes his wish, Infidels to cope io aver—
'Tie Shine with fligets--Tyrauts—blood;.-r for!
Who from thy talismanic pm jarred record,
Skull flee like night frusnday's allisnteut
And the blest genius of Iby watts< plains,
Shall crows with victory her illustrious trains'

As light proceeds in swiftness from the Sun,
(Erin, thou art the source whence glories •un')
Do thou exulting urge thy noble resurse •
Britain applauds thee!—Freedum gist! thee forte!
Age, youth, end mosabood--Bcauly'a virgin arms
Are reis'd to Heaven in prayer--pare as their gewins—
That thou, the delegate of Frerd.,m, dear,
Agent of Erin, Mill shalt persevere'
The scourge of Tyrants—and, the rod—
The arm of Vengeance—and, the friend of Gni!
Wersprearling like this inn in glorious pride,
Till far and "car shun pool's! bleat Fieerlum's lids,
From plains by Orionco's swampy /bore,
%There on Panansa's rocks the billows tusr—s
Whilst Monte:nines wide and rich dour;,,
Lost peace and happiness shall find 'Amu!
Ou tow'rs of Hemet), while snilliusis
Shall wave green banners (rum the Eisner/del isle
And highest Andes' summit, clad in snows,
Shall chew the ristrq'ring flag to freedom. fon
High un " Ins Ulfolle of clouds 'twill be uufairol. '
" And Peace and Freedom speak to half the mole."
November 7, 1.19.

41, lk

• Gorlfrey, of 801 e.% is ohom originated the tea-
•Lain•t thr Infidels in thelluly land. He was aarnste4 Dl
Chri•teuduw. .

..MD..-

THE PMINCASS OF.WILES.

Colonel St. Leger. bee Chamberlain, has
ft Cbri.i
a letter, dieted Lyons, from brr Unyol Hilltmsf«, -
sirtiig the necepary preparations to he mode for h.r
reception ill. Krnbiligton-palace. Stir name r.
early part of December pa- lilt probable ',reed of
her arrival.

Mr. Henry grougliam, the Princess's Irrl.l
viaer, is said to have alto received a consuluotcst•on
front the **me quarter ; and that Gentleman, it ;.
added, has already stet tf Gar I.yosas, rio

The state•l►►►ruess still remains in the hoc& of
Mr. Lavine, who rrcrt►rd rnnnter•order at Ilir
tonsorial it was about to hr slopped.
Report says that Colonel St. Leger has written to
the Princess of Wales, tendering the resig.4tisso of
his official situation, on the plus of ill health.

ii

Our letter from Dover, (Lord Nov. 7 Ciondayl,
say•—.4 much regret we tnotlevahand nor
Royal visitors leder the Castle toemorrow. llrt
Royal Highness the Dukr of C L A REN P: was swum
in a freeman of this ancient town and port, u. Fl I.
day afternoon, at the Guildhall, before the Mayor,
Recorder, arid Corporation ur dire form assembled,
and most graciously rupre►ard himself highly gra-
tified by this mark of attention so very hatirtsurrielv
p►e►euted. His Royal Ilighneilt tint' the skstinti!y
tires, proceeded Is, the Siolp Fintrl, where a siihripthi
dinner was provided by the Nliryor, and the evetuor
wan palsied to time most happy and convivial tnunt.er,
to the great salisfactioreof the wilile gue►t, mint all tie-
company, consisting of the Recorder, nerdy every
tutinber of Ilse Corporation, Slit tirade; of t he Govero-
merit depnvlruetit, the verideot unval and u►rfuary
Officers, the Clergy, ai.d several principal Inhsbt!-
■nts."

Miss STEPURNR, nu her return from the North.
spent some do's ou a visit at Bishop Thorpe,
in Yorkshire, the magnificent seat of the Arch-
bishop oA YORE.
A few days since the Dowager Lady Gotss • -
lived at Fule Place, Sussex, uu a visit to her son,
Lord Viscuptit GAGE.
Arrivals at Edinburgh—
The Earl of Glasgow wad Lady Almost% Bslie, stu
sad Miss Claveripc -- Roebuck, Esti
Orpartures—
tits Excellency the Persian Ambsoador and sues.
The assembly at the Royal Hotel, Plyisvul'h. on
Wediierd:iy last, under the patiunage of the VOVIP.
ttss of MottLEY„ was more tainieron.ly attsude I
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