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The metes of the Bank of England are prineie.
pally issued in advances to Government fur the
wadi* services nag imageries:es to the roetchauts.
upon the &seeing of their bine.
Your Committee hats had so account kid hee
fare them, of advances wade by the &leek to Go.
verassesit, en Land and Molt, Eachetittre Bilks
end ether sectirities, iu every year since the sus-
pension of cash hat tarots ; from shirk. us coin.
pared with the ticeouate laid before the Caminito
tee ef 1797. iu:d it!.teli were the,, carrusiltor k ter
twenty Yento,lt e•ill appear that the yearly advattees
of the Bat.k to Government hare, upraises' average,
ince the it...pension. Wen cousiderel4 letter its
autount than the avenge etnotist of mit tuors friar
to that ...teat, awl the amount of those advent.. s in
the two last 3 rem. theu4ll 'greater iu amount stt
these ef 'sense years immediately preceding, is •
thaw it awl far any of the sits years preceding %lhe
milk tion of cosh payments.
With respbet to the amount of Comnierelardise
.dente, tour Commune rid net think it tearer to
',quire front tee Directors of the Bank e Ache;
sore of [their desolate mouse, being ti Pat'kt s
their private iiilitaaetious as a Conustescial Ceti.
patty, of a hick, witheut °egret rearms. it Jul tit
seam right to demand a disclosure. The late Go.
venter and Depiery.G.vernor, however, at the dei
sire of your Committee, furniiiied a musaporatine
Scale, in progrerstve ourehem, &teeing the itt-
ereit.e of the amount of theii discounts from ti e
year 1790 to 1809, both inelastve. They made a .
request, with which yonr Cointottier hare 1 h.,ught
it proper to comply, that this document might i.t,t
be made public; the Committee therefore have
get—pleced t• in the Appendix to the prisent Be.
pert, Lot have rejoined it, to t:m Hank. Y.ut
Committer, however, have to dare in general
term., that the amount of discoonts has been p Ow
gree.ively increasing sine. the year 1799 ; and that
their amount in the last year (leo% heals a very
hie'. proportion to theirliergest amount in any year
preceding 1;97. Cps* this particular subject,
your Coronitrtee smartly anxious to remark, that
it
the largest amount of tar *mile tititcout.ts by the
hank, if it could bed 'tiered by itrelf, ought
never,
neier, in their jusl,:neeo to be regarded as any
other than 1 great putie benefit; and that it is
only the excess of pep currency thereby iastrei,
lied kept out in rtreulatten, which is to be con-
iiiiered as the c.d.

Bat your Comini. tee must not omit to state one
very important principle, that the mere numerical
return of the amount of Bank notes out iu circula-
tion. cannot be considered as at ali deciding the
qoestion, whether loch paper is or is not exces►ive.
It is iirresssry to have recourse to other tests. The
same amount of paper may at one time be less theca
enough, ■nd at another time more. 'fhe gnaw.
City of currency will vary io nuns dt.
;tee with the extent of trade ; sod the increase
of our trade, which has taken place Siner the sto-
rming. most hare oecrialoweel some increase is
the quantity of our currency. But the quay..
city of currency hears no Axed proportion to
the quantity of cotninucr:ties; and soy itifereuces
imicteding upon such a arippositioo would be en.
ti►-ly erroneous. The eff••rtive currency of the
country depends upon the quickairse of circu:ation.
aw•l the clamber of exchanges performed in a fora
time, as wall as opus, its numerical a.noa:it and
all the circumstances. which hare a tr inlenri to
quicken or to retard the rate of nirculatidu, reader
the same amount of current} more cr less adequate
to the wants of trade. A much smaller amount
required in a high state of public credit. than when
alarms make individuals call to their advances, and
proside .gaiust ocri,teets. by hoarding ; sad in a
period of commercial security sod private COll-1.
drone. than when mutual distrust discourages pro U"
hoary arranzeinruts for ar•y distant time. Bin,
above all. the same amount of currency will be
more or less adegisite. id prelim too to the skill
which the great motley-fierier, po.sess to managing
and *commuting t:ie use of the c.rculating me-
dium. Your Committee ail of opinion, that the
improvement" which hair taken Vice of late year,
in this country, and particularly in the distric.t of
London, with rcAard to the use and economy of
money among bankers, add in is e mode of adjust.
log cnmm•res.l pati whents, must have had a much
greater effect t►.an has hitherto h-en mcnbed to
them. in rendering the gime sang adequate to a
much greater amount of trade as d payments thou
fo•mrily. S on.e of those imp:- remesits will be
found detailrJ in the cv.cleocc, : .01.) coward peen.
cipsul iu iL. incres-,1 u•t of haolters' drafts is
the common I...ymen's of London ; the cowtrfsaate
of brim ti all stun drafts chili,- to a mums.. is.
i-ep:oc'e, afooe they sr- balloted araii:.t each
o her ; the iiiteraiedi,ii• aaeury o' Iwll•trak• es ;
and sev•tal other divine. the procric- of idetidmi
bst.k..rs, are to the mime effect, of rcadt.i-g d

isacemaify for them to keep so la►ge a deposit of
mots" r forseriy. Within the London district,
it would certainly appear, that a smaller sum of
money is required than formerly, to perform the
same number of exchanges and amount of pay-
ments, if the rate of prices had remained the same.'
It is material also to observe, that bath the policy
of the Bank of Rugland itself, and the compotitiou
of the Country Bank paper, have tended to com-
press the paper of the Bank of England. more slid
more, within London and the adjacent district. All
these cirearnstances must have co-operated to rea-
der a smaller augmentation of Bank of England
paper necessary to supply the demands of our in-
creased trade than might otherwise have been re-
quired ; and chew how impossible it is, from the
numerical amount alone of that paper, to pronounce
whether it is excessive or not : a more sure crite-
rion must be resorted to; and such a criterion.
your Committee have already sliewn, is only to be
ftinnil in the state of the exchauges, and the price
of gold bullion.
The particular circumstances of the two years
which are so remarkable in the recent history of
our circulation. 1793 and 1797, throw great light
upon the principle which your Committee have last
stated.

In the year 1793, the distress was occasioned by
a failure of confidence in the Country circulations
and a conseqnent pressure upon that of London.
The Bank of England did not think it advisable to
enlarge their issues to meet this increased demand.
and their motes, previously issued, circulating less
freely in consequence of the alarm that prevailed.
proved insufficient for the necessary payinrots. In
this crisis, Parliament applied a remedy, very sinii-
ler iu its effect to an enlargement of the advances
and issues of the Bank ; a loan of Exchequer Bills
was authorised to be made to as many mercantile
persons, iiviug good security, as should apply for
them ; and the confidence which this measure dif-
fused, as well as the increased means which it af-
forded of obtaining Bank notes through the sale of
the Exchequer bills. speedily relieved the distress
both of L'lndon and of the country. Without of.
fertlig an opinion upon the expediency of the parti-
cular de in which this operation was effected,
your Committee think it an important illustration
of the principle. that an enlarged accommodation
is the true remedy for that occasional failure of con-
fideace in the country c!istricts, to which our sys-
tem of paper creJit is unavoidably exposed.
The circumstances which occurred in the begin-
ning of the year 1797, were very similar to those of
1793 an alarm of invasion, • run upon the
Couoiry Banks forgolol. the failure of some of them.
and • run upon the Bank of England, forming a
crisis like that of 1793, for which perhaps an ef-
fectual remedy might have been provided, if the
Bank of Entlaud had had courage to extend in-
stead of restricting its accommodations and issue of
notes. So.ne few persons, it appears from the re-
port of the Secret Committee of the Lords, were of
this opinion at the time; mad the late Governor and
Deputy-Governor 011ie Bank stated to your Com-
mittee. that they, and many of the Directors. are
now satisfied, from the experience of the year 1797,
that the dimiautioe of their notes in that emergency
Increased the public distress; an opinion in the
convectors@ of which your Cuounittee entirely
Concur.

It appears to your Committee. that the' experi-
enee of the Bank of Engload in the years 1793 and
1797, contrasted with the facts which hav4 been
stated in the present Report, suggests • distinction
most important to be kept is view, between that
demand nrou the Bank for gold for the supply of
the domestic channels of circulation, sometimes a
very great and sudden one, which is occasioned by
• temporary failure of confidence ; and that drain
upon the Bank for gold which grows out of an 111).
favourable state of the foreign exchanges. The
former, while the Bank maintains its high credit,
series likely to be beet relieved by • judicious in-
forme of accommodation to the country the latter,
so long u the Batik does not pay in specie, ought
to suggest to the Directors a questton. whether
their issues may not be already too abundant.
Your Committee have much satisfaction in think-
ing, that the Directors are perfectly aware that
they may err by a too scanty supply in a period of
elegising credit. And your Committee are dearly
of opinion, that although it ought to be the geom.
ral policy of the Bank Directors to diminish their
paper in the toroidal' the long continuance of • high
price bf bullion and a very unfavourable exchange,
yet it is esential to the commercial interests of this
country, sad to the general fulfilment of 'lbw
mercantile engagements which a free issue of pa-
per may have occasioned, that the accustomed de-
gree of accommodation to the merchants should
ant be suddenly and materially reduced; and that
if any general and serious difficulty. or apprehen-
sion on this subject should arise, et may, in the
judgment of your Committee, be counteracted
without danger, and with advantage to the public,
by • liberality in the issue of Bank of England
paper proportioned to the urgency of the particular
occasion. Coder such circumstances, it belongs to
the Batik to take likewise into their own conside-
ration, how far it may be practicable. consistently
with • due regard to the invinediate interests of the
publie service. rather to reduce their paper by a
gradual reduction of their advances to Government,
than by too soddenly abridging the discounts to
the merchants.

2. Before your Committee proceed to detail
what they have collected with respect to the amount
of Countey Book fiver, they flout observe, that
a.. lowt us the cash payments of the Bank are sus-
pended, the a hole piper of this Country 131111kerg
14 a superstructure raised upon the for:Motion of
the paper of the Batik of England. The same
check, which the convertibility into specie, under
a better system, provides against the excess of any
part of the p iper circulation, is, during the present
avirtein, provided a_sainst ■n excess of Conotry
Bank paper, In its convertibility into Bank of Eng.
I ind paper. if an excess of paper be issued in a
country district, while the London circulation
d.••snot its 'Lie proportiou, there be a
I,cal rise of prices in that country district, hot
ol London rri:l r.t.o lin as berme. Those who
V-ve ped?!. r. •:.sir hand, will prefer
• •! "ia•••••,too. where t',.•, w 111 C Cht.34l/er, 1111.1
•• e• reiion that (7,toltry pater upon tne
1, ...kcr ,nu us.u'•l i•, sin :.i.•tusn•l fro.n him
Larsk Li s..i.ut, Loottlou ; sod

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thns, the excess of Country parr being contintl•
ally returned upon the issuers fur Bank of En-
gland paper, the quantity of the latter !mew;
sarily and effectually limits the qamitity of the
former. This is illustrated by the account which
has been already given of the excess, and subse-
quent litnitstiou, of the paper of the Scotch Banks,
about the year 1763. If the Bank of England
paper itself should at any time, during the suspen-
sion of cash payments, be issued to excess, a cor-
responding excess may be issued of Country Bank
paper, why]) will not 1w checked ; the foundation
being enlarged, the superstructure admits of a pro-
portionate extension. And thus, under such a sys-
tem, the excess of Bank of England paper will pro-
duce its etfeet upon prices, not merely in the ratio
of it. own increase, but in • much higher pro-
portion.

It has not been in the poser of your Committee
to obtain such information as might enable them
to state, with any thing like accuracy. the amount
of Country Hook paper in circulation. But they
are led wider, from all the evidence they have been
able to procure on this subject, nut only that a
great number of new Country Broke has been esta-
blished within these last two years, but also that the
amount of issues of those which are of an older
standing has in general been very considerably in-
creased whilst, on the other hand, the high state of
mercantile and publio credit, the proportionate fa-
cility of converting at short notice all public une
commercial securities into Bank of England paper,
joined to the preference generally given within the
limits of its own circulation to the paper of a well-
established Country Bank over that of the Bank of
England, have probably not rendered it necessary
for them to keep any large permanent deposits of
Bank of England paper in their hands. And it
seems reasonable to believe, that the total amount
of the unproductivestock of all the Country Banks,
consisting of specie and Book of England paper, is
much less at this period, under a carculetiou vastly
incressed in extent, than it was before the restric-
tion of 1797. The temptation to establish Country
Banks, and issue promissory notes, has therefore
greatly increased. Sonic conjecture as to the pro-
bable total amount of those issues, or at least as to
their recent increase, may be formed, as your Com-
nsittee conceive, from the amount of the duties paid
fer stamps on the re-issuable notes of Country Banks
in Great Britain. The total amount of these duties
for the year ended on the 10th of October 1808,
appears to have been 60,5321. 15s. 3d.; ■nd for the
year ended ou the 10th 0ct.1809,175.1291.17x. 7d.
It must, however, be observed, that ou the loth Oct.
1808. these duties experienced an augmentation
somewhat exceeding 1-3 d ; and that some regulations
were made, imposing limitations with respect to the
re-issue of all notes not exceeding two pouuds two
shillings, the effect of which has been to produce a
much more than ordinary demand for stamps on
notes of this denomination within the year 1809.
Owing to this circumstance, it appears itapowible
to ascertois what may have bee° the real increase
in the circulation of the notes, hot exceeding two
pounds two shilling.. within the last year; but
with respect to the notes of s higher value, no al-
teration having been made in the law as to their re-
issue. the following comparison affords the best
statement that can be collected from the documents
before the Committee, of the addition made in the
year 1809 to the number of those notes.

Number of Cavalry Bask Notes eseetttlioa 41. midi,
stamped ia the years neliati the loth of October too*,
sal ugh of October Aso% respectively.

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I.M.
1109.
No. NO.
Exceeding el. es. sod not exceeding 51. sal. 66607 I fis4,ii7J
Exceed* sl. se. end net exceeding itel 194,47 s Siluilosti
&weeding 24/1. and eat exceed* 301 •••• 9,i?::
Exceeding 301. and not exceeding sol — t. 4.4
Exceeding Md. and not exceeding tool —. 2,611

Assuming that the notes in the two first or these
classes were all issued for the lowest denomination
to which the duties respectively attach. and such
as are most commonly met with in the circulation
of Country paper, viz. Notes of SI. and 101. (al-
though in the second class there is a considerable
cumber of 201.) and even omitting altogether from
the comparison the notes of the three last clusea,
the issue of which your Committee understands is
in fact confined to the chartered Banks of Scot-
land. the result would be, that, exclusive of any
increase in the number of notes under 21. its. the
amount of Country Bank paper stamped to the year
ended the 10th of October 1809, has exceeded
that of the year ended on the lath of Oct. 1808.
in the sum of 3,098;3401. Your Committee can
form no positive conjecture as to the amount of
Country Bank paper cancelled and withdrawn
from circulation in the course of the last year.
But considering that it is the interest and prat,.
lice of the Country Bankers to use the same
notes as long as possible ; that, as the law now
stands, there is ao limitation of time to the re-is.
suing of those not exceeding 21. 21.; and that all
above that amount are re-issuable fur three years
from the date of their first issuing; it appears dif-
ficult to suppose that the amount of notes above
21.'24. eanzieled in 1409. mild be equal to the
whole amount stamped in 1808: but even upon
that supposition, there would still be an increase
for itio:t in the notes of SI. and tot. alone, to the
amount above specified of 3,0900401., to which
most he added an increase within the same pe-
riod of Bunk of England notes to the amount of
about 1,000.u001.. making in the year tOO% an
addition W the whole of between four and five mil-
l' to the circulation of Great Britaio alone, de-
ducting only the gold which may have been with•
drawn in the course of that year from actual circu-
lation, which cannot have been very considerable,
soil also making an allowance for some increase in
the amount of such Country patter. as, though
stamped. may not be in actual circulation. This
increase in the general paper currency in last
year. even after these deductions, would probably
be little short of the amount which. in *lntuit any
one year since the discovery of America, has
been added to the circulating coin of the
whole of Europe. Although. as your Cotn-
'inure has already hail occasion to oh-
s•rve, no certain conclusion con be drawn
from the numerical amount of paper in circillatioo,
considered abstractedly from all other circumstan-
ce., either as to such paper being iii excess, or still
less us to the proportion of such excess; yet they
insist remark, that the fact of any very grim mud
ri:sid increase i 0 that amount, wheu coupled and

CXTEENTH TIME.
linurni-ROYAL, 114Y-M.4RKET.

THIS EVENING, SATURDAY, Autilct 18, will Ix pcs-

f.wwied a New Pl 4, called
THE DOUBTFUL SON ; OR, SECRETS OF A
PALACE.
The Principal ammeters by Mr. C. Kon;ble, Mr. Sowerby,
Mr. Stanley, Mr. Eyre, Mr. Carr, Mr. Farley. Mrs. Glover,
Miss H. Kelly, and Mns Gibbs.
After wltieb, a Comic Pie e, la One Art, called
A DAY AFTER THE WEDDING.

Colonel Freelove, Mr. Jones , Lady Ebiabelb FreelOte,
Mn. Gibbs.
To which will be added (sib line), a Belgique-Tragic Opera,

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in One Act, enlled

BOMRASTFS iURIOSO !
Artssorninoes (King of Utopia), Mr. Mathews ; Foshos
(Minister of State), Mr. Taylor; General Boinlisstes, Mr.
DistallEns, Miss 11. Kelly.

THE SECOND NIGHT OF MR. RRAHAM'S
ENGAGEMENT.
LYCEUM iIIEATRE.-..ENGLISIi OPFER.

THIS EVENING, SATURDAY,
_Augnet.lB, wiit be per-

formed the Osumi; 0114;a of
FALSE ALARMS.

Sir Damon Gayland, Mr..Peitsetn".';—Edgar Gayland, Mr.
Braham (in which character be will introduce " Said a Smile
to a Ttar,' accompanied by himself on the Grand Piano-
forte ; in Art H. the favourite ballad of " My Heart with
Lore is brining," and the duet of " Vire le Rid!" with Miss
Kelly, ; and in tel 111 the celeWntril Song of " The Last
Words of Maranon ,") Toro Siwfeit,,Alr .1 Smith; Lieut. Mc.
Larry, Mr. Turpin. Lady Gayland, Miss E. Bolton; Caro-
line bedlry, Mrs. Orgcr ; Emily, Mrs. Bland Susan, bliss
Kelly.
Affter which, a Grand Panborniusie Ballet of Action, called
KNAPSCHOI• ; or, THE FOREST FIEND.
Knapstiwu (Can ping Baron Ravlnibrig)r Mr. Robert;
Conrad (Banns Rovenbere, Mr Overdid. Louring' (Baroness
Rosenberg), Miss Lisppiuu; Jeaunette (her Sister), Miss C.
Bristow.

The New Growl \yock•Hemic ReviosCoaiic Ballet of Actin',
called Jack the Cifnt•Killar, Was again received with uai:
venal applause, and will be repeated every evraiug till farther
notice, Moseley excepted.
The Comic Opera of The Haunted Tower, in which Mr.
Brahma performed the pait of Lord William, treeing been
received wtlh rapturous applause by am overflowing audience,
will he repeated on Monday rest.
♦ New illelu-Dremseilic Opera, in three acts, is in rehearsal.

THE B3RITISH• PRE S.S.

LONDON,
SATURDAY. AVOUST I.

It Mll4 stated yesterday, that a Moailer► of the
13th instant had !wen received, in which it is an-
nounced, that Boa ?ARTS will revoke the Berlin
and Milan Decrees, if Great Britain ara rescind
her Orders in Council.

An armed transport arrived on Wednesday at
Plymouth. from Gijon, which sire quitted on the
loth. but she does not bring any news. As Gijon
is not more than 300 miles from the positions oc-
cupied by our troops, the transport might have
brough►news from them as late as the 6th or 6th.

The Decree for regulating the duties on certain
articles of Colonial and East India produce im-
ported into France, which we inserted yesterday. is
the subject of much speculation in the City. A con-
firmation of it is said to have been received in let-
ters from Paris ; which state, that the Moaitear of
the eth alludes to the tarif which we published,
and gives an explanatory article upon it.

The troops who compose the advance guard of
the French army •opposed to Lord Maw Nrivotts
are chiefly the Conscripts of time present year, but
embodied since the year Me. This in a great
measure accounts for the desertions that so frequently
occur among them, and which has brought nut
only privates, but officers, over to the British lines.
The main body and reserve of the French consists
wholly of veterans ; men who have seen danger in
every shape, and who have shared in the must de-
sperate campaigns since the Revolution.
The losses throughout the French army have
been se great since BON A rAirre's Imperial Acces-
sion, that by a late account, accurately taken, of
the present population of France, it appears that
the females now exceed the males in number by
more thanfier million,!
There is strong reason to h-lieve that the arrange-
ment for the filching, of Prisoners between this
country and France, is finally settlsa.
We are still without any fresh advoces from Lerd
WE 1.1.1 N

It is not true. as has been stated in some of the
Papers, that Addresses have been prepared or pro-
posed by Officers bi;h is the army, praying thin His
MAIRSTY would be graciously pleased to replace
the Duke of YORK in the office of CuminAnder-iii-
Chief of the army.
!lit MAJESTY, under his sign manual, has gra-
ciously restored the castle of Rectory, and the exten-
sive demesne and other estates thereunto appertain-
ing, in the county of IVexford, to liens llsavev,
Esq. brother to Mr. ISAGeNALI. HARVEY. who for-
feited them, with his life, to the Crown, by his con-
duct during the late Irish rebellion.
Advice. have been received front Rio Janeiro ;
and by the same opportunity. dispatches of a very
flattering nature have been transmitted to his Ex-
cellency Dow Doatano ne SOUZA, at this Court.
We understand thst the Palma Raceme has con-
ferred upon brow one of the highest titular distinc-
tionsin the gift of the House of BRAGARZA, with the
Grand Cross of the Tower and Sword. He is also
raised from the rank of Minister to that of Ambassa-
dor. By a former Treaty with this country, it was
stipulated that the Representatives of the two Sove-
reigns at their respective capitals. should not be
furnished with credentials in a higher character
than that of Minister. Under the present Treaty
this restriction has been removed; the article re-
specting it. hiovever, requiring that both the public
i4ents should sustain the same dignity, it is there-
fore to be pressimed, that when the nor Treaty was
lately transmitted to the Brazils. it ass accompanied
with the regular authority, inve.tslig Lord STRANG-
Iona wills illy kgitorill fit:l:twos at ti-. Court of
Jat.ci;..

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I.IIIES,
WRITTE`f OW lIWIWG IWYOKWED THAT IgHD trtio • 410X1, MINT. AT GLASGOW, HAD WEI., 1417‘..••
WY LIGHTNING.•

%%lint monument may hope to 'mod,
Or where may glory place her haw,
When, struck by the AlasighWs baud,
This Trophy tumbles to the dust '
Alas : the works of bowie
But weakly minister to (*mei
When fate prescribes ea short an ho. 1!
To NuLson's monumental name.
Bat Nerdy shall the work perform.
While Art and Bakke, blushing, weep,
TroAdor mocks the thunder stone,
And braves the subjugated deep!
That mountain, at whole bur he fell,
Records the parting sigh;
Awl Nile shall Pic LSO to's triumph tc::,
Till time sod earthly glory Jie.

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