The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1819-05-20 00:00:00

PMPERIAL PAR LIAMEAT.

HOUSE OF LORDS, Wtnntsoaw, MAT 19.
ROYAL ASSENT.
The Royal Moroi was this day given by Commission t•
the Excise Licenses Bill, the India Goods Bill, the Alkali
Dimes R.lt, the Commlidated Fund Produce Bill, the Qosr-
ter Sessions Division Bill, the Caruatic COMMiniaMen Bills
the °bogus/ Assay flMce Rill, the Claims sm croon Bill,
the Felonies un Canals Bill, the Scokh Jury Court Bill. the
Chelsea Church Bill, the Nimrod' Select Vestries Bill,
Wilford's Divorce. Clitheruiv's Divorce, Thomas's Divorces
soil Trrlawncy's Divorce Bills, the Aberdeeu Court-buuse
Bill, and a grail niombtr of Road Bills, and othedi of a pri-
vate atul lural nature.
The total number of sills, public sad private, that received
lbw Royal Assent amounted to SIITit-MINS!
The Coniniisbi tttt erg were, the LORD CIiANCLLLOII, Inc

Earl of SHAt TI !BURY, anut.L4pq MeLviu.s.

APPLA L.
In the case of O'Grady r. the Attorney-General of ire-
land, were fluidly heard for the A pistlling.
Further proceedings were psistponed Sill skis, den.'werk.
lin Ihr motion of the Earl of Latii:mtnaav, the Evidence
and Appendix attached to the Report of the Committee of
the Wm., of Corn were ordered to be printed.
Earl BROWNLOW presented a Petition frosts the City of
Doman against the renewaLof the Insolvent Debtura'
Laid on the table.
The RtVentlf Payments 818 was read the Hind time and
passed.
MFSS.,GE FROM THE COMMONS
Slr R.Van~han,and others from the Hume of Omission.,
Amts.:Jo up two private Bilk, which were severally seed a
Hest lithe.

CM WIRY SWEERF.RS.
The Report of the Chimney Sweepers Reptlalion Rill
was Mooch, up and agreed to, and the third rrad,uC Asti/
loos 31oriday —The Lords are ordered to be sommoiird.
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CURRINCY 01: THE COUNTRY.

The Earl of LavutilmAl.s: expressed an
desire that some of his Majesty's Ministers would
take an opportunity, previous to the debate on Fri-
day on the affairs of the Batik.to give Jli explanation
of a passage in a paper delivered non the Commit.
to of Sscresy, signed by Wm. Wellesley Pole,
Master and Worker of Ilia Majesty's Mut. The
possihly be surmised that he, having
been a Member of the Bank Committee, should
crime to the House for an explanation of this paper,
beat it had not been delivered to the Coin ::: i t tee
until the last dry of its sitting. He should not
press the Noble Lord opposite (Lord Weit -
Isitil) for use explailatton, because that Noble Lord
Wan not a Member of the Committee, but he hoped
ilia he would be so kind as to apprise. his colleagues
acr the present request. The pass.ige to which he
minded was thi.—
" A• tittle Is an silver coil of the realm recognised is a
_Ntaiidarol, there tilers:low cannot be any effect produced
upon the relative prices of Kohl suet silver bullion in the
market by the present mode of coining and issuing our
surer
t root of fart, the relative proportion% of the Iwo metals
ul the 'wicket fur the tune years whirls have elapsed since
the Comas, Act paned, hate kept to very nearly the old
111ut pruprimus."
The paper then Went on to Si), that in 1817 the
price of silver was in the proportion of 15-Y7 to
gold, and gave a twice of 5.. 1(1. an ounce; in
1818, in the proportion of 15-005. giving ss. 1141.;
sod m 1819, in the proportion or 1-1.56/4, giving
84. 2VI. The first paragraph was false, because
them was .• silver standard mcoginsed, to the
amount of 40s. Mr. Mushett's evidence was op.
posed to all of it. ie diet nut deny that he un-
derstood the meaning of the passage ; but lie had
',hewn it to half a deitea persons, and they under-
stood it differently. He was desirous it should be
explaiired, that the debate should not be frittered
away byluguing 011 (Ilia matter. This was not the
only point en which that paper would require ex-
planation. It stated that copper *as cowed and
issued at an expense of abour72 per cent. Of this
he tied not beret Iltadre ; fur he had always, under-
stood that the value of copper in coin diffeted hum
its value in the market only by the cost of coinage.
'There was no seignoryfre ; but a distinction should
always be takets 'sets evu seignoruge and hrassoge.
The former implied that a remain portion of se.
ursine was derived W the 6over ttttt rot from the
errioage, the !nitre meant only the actual cost of
*visaing. The raisers relative to the contract with
Mr. Bolton. relative to the copper coin, which lie
had moved for yesterday, would, be ballad, 1/2tion be
I aid on the
The Earl of WESTMORLAND said Oust the Noble
'Earl had given a sulticteist reason why be should
soot undertake to give him espleual ou
passage in the paper allotted to. lie had not had
the tumour of bring a !Wernher of the Secret 'Com-
mittee. 'llut lie should couinsuisicate the nature of
the Noble Earl's application to has colleagues. who
hr doubted lint would be enabled 'olive loll] a sa-
tisfactory explanation.
The House then adjourned.