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THE QUARTERLY JOURNAL us SCI-
ENCE, LITERATURE, and the ARTS; Nu. XIII.
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CONVENT/ :-I. Account of Batavia. its Inhabitants, Com
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ESUMPTION OF CASII PAYMENTS.
Tile Earl of II ARROWBV p►e+rutrd the Report
ear the Lords Committees rapi d by the floosie
to inquire into the stare of the Currency of the
c.itintly, and to asrertnit, how far it may be expe-
thrill for the Rook of Esi4laiitl to resume Cash Pay-
ments at the period prescribed by law, with
their optilions thereupon, &cc.
The Report was read Ity the Clerk at the talrle
with great voluhtltty, It MIIA very brief: It con:t-
alented with stating, that the Lords Committees
hail ettarnisied the matters referred to their con-
sole-ratline, but they now e died the attention of the
House only to one point. They stated that the
Directors of the Bank of England had uodertukett
to pay in email outer of a certain cicseroption. Winch
had hero attended by a very consider.hle drain of
treasure from the Batik, will to'aktoK any :I&
toward. a reliant to a utak ch, ol.stion. They

mot" gli.iuisarti Yllteri.lg tutu oily paruculara On
the mode and period when cash paynirois may be
reguitied wills safety. O.O.lbi,subject they hoped
tiley would be Pliald.-.1 shortly to submit a general
torssistas.t to iii Ustitae, but sus the iii-air time
y were decidedl Of upinl ikit the of
their Lordsiness• wishes would be iinpederl lather
than :iecrleiated by any partial paynisids ; they,
tlierefure, suggested that those which hail been re-
cently propos,d by the Baulk of England, an
oilier occa tl Mlles of specie., should be sus-
pended by legislaiivr authority.
'llse Report bring retell,
Tie Earl Of HARROWIY raid, that to fulfil the
suggesiiwo of the C. e, and for the purpose
of .applying the legislative provision as t ptly sus
pessimists., he should now move ,"fhat the House
shall to-morrow take into consideration the Orders
Nos. 26 and 125, for the purpose of suspending
them, and that the Lords be summoned."
Earl Gael, could not avoid expressing the sur-
prise and astonishment he felt at the motion slow
made by the Noble Earl, unaccompanied as it
was by oily statement of the measure to which it
was in contemplation to resort. The prevent minion
being fr its stature to him wholly unexpected,
prevented I • from bringing to the ituthediate coil-
@toleration of it that judgment which he might have
formed from a enure mature examinatimi of the
subject ; but he thought it was incumbent on the
Noble Earl to accompaisy his motion with some
statentelit which might ail'orel to the !louse t 1 au&
tictrest knowledge of the point on which their Lord-
ships were reipored to legislate. The country was
now resorting upon the fifth year of peace, and on
the twenty-third since the original sospens ccc t of
cash payments, a measure founded on u real or
imaginary principle of necessity, and for the
avowed safety of the Batik of Eioglind. I'lse
same measure was since that time adopted at
different periods for motives of colivenience, belt it
was always understood that tt should finally tenni-
hale sus six months after the restoration of peace.
I lostilstits, however, have ceased, but the principle
of expediency, or of convenience, still contoured to
operate, and cash payments were postponed, at
hist for our year, and afterwards fur two years, hut
at each time with the cutofident assurance of the
Noble Lords opposite, that at the periods sneers.
sively specified, the Bank would be enabled to ful-
fil its engagements with the public. Ile (Lord
Grey) and oilier Noble Lords ventured on each
occasion to exiorsi a distrit-t of those promises, but
his incredulity was treated a silt ridwille; yet now,
wilco an iiiquiry into this subject, Ions; hated by
the Noble Linda apposite, had biro instituted,
and whores the house was leut to ex iirct that
the Comenittee would submit some eidighten-
ed view respecting the early resumption of cash
paymeeits, whieli might revive the hopes sod
restore the confidence of the couoltry, their
expectations were altogether des ipi tad. How
olives !sad they not heard that the delay was ouly
troapurary ? Ile kid littuself heard the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer say, that the Bank was vir•
tually paying in sreie ; but how did this iselespeet-
cel Report eurrespouil with such a statement Pos-
sibly there might hare twine as intention to de-
ceive; the Hou-e bad been assured by the Natile
Lord opt/owe (Earl of Liverpool), mat ea late as
°etiolate. last Alsatsterm Mill. (Willed a confident ex.
etteriva .1) rll6l.lret:tis:d' `be;
I law. Was folk', or was it fraud? Was it

/patrol**. or deceit ? Wore his M.sie,t,•6 Min,. yr,
and the Directors of the 11-ink so stricken swfli It .
!floodlit as es slot to know their own condition or
this ittlettillta; tir was it a conisporacy to de-
ceive the. public? either of these summer-
boils must they fall ; there was no vole of the alter-
native through which they coold ...ripe; hot wain.-
thee it were !gnomic-1i or resod the public wit'.
eq,1414. the C sotteis
proposed slot ever) the parses, p tvinents
made should be posiontleil. by a stolen, raertioo of
the legislative antivrity. Instead of making st
in admit... as might have been expected froth that
title of their commission, they recommeisiled the
House to revoke the step that bed heels adopted.
The Bank were to he prohibited from 'laving all
notes issued before the tat of Jaiiii.ary 1817. *lnc!!
floe/ hod wort/Wordy undertattem and that too at
the !veritd of the Session wlc-n diet had been
to look for,tl Report holding nut thlTeretit
end leading to a very cliff rent cont.lorsion. fie
protested against a proceeding so novel and
tratorlinary, which hail nut even the doubtful me-
rit of norsuitig the precedent Intl glow,' in the
year 1797. Such a measure ought to h., groglnii.
ed 'won a stroug anal clear principle of lie.
...essay, for it implied the prestimpf that IIII•P•••4
Patlialtleat were. in Particle in a sitiornary mione.„
the Bank mast submit to utter row. Ois this sub-
leo lie spoke to a great tlisatlvinitage, for the
1-louse were kept ih oiler ignormice of the rient:vtis
to the proceeding. Hr had the ntinost confidence
in several Meinherri of the Committee. Ito' tot
would slot surrender even to them the of
the Standing Orders of the House, withma being ap-
prised of the use that sass td 1* tootle of it. PO it
was not to the Committer that •och a •ttrre!iol.r
Witt( to be effected ; it Wlt., to the 11.11 k of Ell••:t,i11.
81111 to the Ministers of its- Crown, who had already
in grossly abused the public contirielice.—lllror.
hear.)-Ilt was poisible that au shiaoltre nr• visits
might exist for reiroking .1 measure WM. which airy
bad been formerly told, with cireumstio.res lor
exultation, was a preparatory step towards tl.it
final restoration of a metallic currency. The writ.
he may he credulous, but they will at least expeo r
something like consistency ; and if Nltinsiers Wt•ir-•
to let in so indecisive a they were to
blow hot and cold, ai.d prattle with one breath
what they censure lit the 'text. they 'Mot w se-surn
expect from the public doubts, and jealousies, end
sapprehenslons.---(llear, hear, hear.)--.llf they
eroitifmed to ptitsue the hue of policy on slier
subject they had hitherto adopted, evincing
neither a knowledge of the state of the cussss ity.
wisdom in expedients. our rrAtltit:int iii maintain-
ing them, the country must he reduced to is stale,
which mold tn. explained only by a word, which
in their Lordships' House hr should be unwilling
to name.—(liear. hear.)—lf, indeed, the public
necessity required such a measure as was How 1431;4
geoteil, why was not the precedent of 1797 pur-
-1 sued ? The Mi.iisters might, ou their own real' -
sibility, to issue an ford. -; of Cisisocil, as ill 1797.
to present the partial issues of specie, for a Inch
they might sulirequentiv come lame PA: iment
for au indemnity, if on a fair mid full view of the
subj.-et they meted judiciously, and if otherwise, to
submit to correction mod Ceilltal'e. By such a pro-
ceeding every thing would 111 multi its 'sutural
course, and the prkileges of l'arliainent would ant
be wantonly and ulisiecessarily inlnnyed. lie could
not but think, that, its auggesinig tiie present mew.
sure, the Committee had lent themselves improperly
to the Munster., who sienied desirous, un every
occasion, of placiiez Acts of Parliament between
theinselfes mid their constilistunial respoi:sibility
Such was the view lie took of the proposed men.
lure, to which he should not give In. ciniseui.—
(Hear, hear.)
The Earl of FIARROWIIIf Said, that there was on
proceeding before the House to pistil.), bun iii fol-
lowing the Noble Earl throng!' the several topics to
which lie hail alluded, liut still the observations tif
the Noble Earl were of such a nature as seemed to
require some explanation. It was not necessary for
him on the present occasion to ascertain whether
Ithe proceedings of his Majesty's Ministers and of
the Directors of the Bank have hitherto been
founded in " fraud tot ignorance." oppor-
tunities would striae for discussiog this pianit. hot
he thought it necessary to vote, that he had given
notice of Isis intrusion to move the suspension of the
Starling Order., not as one of his Meljerit)% Mai*.
ters, but as Chairman of the Committee, acting
under the waanintores instruction of its AL sobers.
The Noble &s al (fires) suggested, that on this oc-
casion the precedent of 1797 ought to be pureueil.
and that an Order of Council should be issued to
restrain all payments its specie ; but there WOl3 shim
difference between the cal- am it shod ha 1797 and
now, that at the hornier perioit was not
sittisig. But what would be said it his Majesty's
Nliiiisters had issued such au cadet on the present
rieciision. at a time when Committees of both
Ilinoscs of Paileameist were engaged I.s the loves s.
gallon of this subject ? To the Noble Earl'. ideas
there reemed to be *nine teicosonstency between the
present suggest ton of the Cirismittr Alla the tilisret
fur which it was expressly ; but this So-
coosistency must vanish if it was considered that by
pet mating these partial issues of specie, tie tuna
obi act of their common wishes. the eventual re-
turn to cosh paytoeuts, might be retarded. but eutahl
not be accelerated.—fHear.)—The Noble Earl Ism(
supposed that such a measure as din present Ml-
plied • deficiency in the Bunk towards ineeinsk: its
public engagements, but the durct rrr,-,se Mat slit,
&O.—(Hear, hear, fruit the Marquis of Lou.
limns-J.—But the measure was iseecia•itty. breams.,
on the return of cash payments it was expedient
that the Bank should have as large a qadltelly •
obviated.ttleastt treasure
sexlllllVeithrawursrepstosil
utitrec, mush
dtoi shimatuc wouldcusuue
he
lly
drawn oft' by partial µOaten's.
The Earl of LAUDIRDA LE hogged have to Hat,'
out (act, w eu.wer to all expiersoo•• wiucu had hllru
Yentas the Noble Earl (114rrots to)). The Noll*
Earl had stated, that lie acted under the unstii,uuus

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direction of the Committee, but if this implied that
he (the Earl of Lauderdale) had given his assent
to the present Report, lie could only say, that
though he should not oppose the measure founded
on it, he by no means gave his full consent to it.
Ai it Member of the Secret Committee, he was
bound rot to express his reasons in public either

for or against the measure.
Lord llostratro said, he should not enter into
the merits of the question involved in the Kern,
although in desisting from it, he was not gloried
by the rebuke of the Noble Earl (Ilarrowhy),
who in she beginniug of his speech represented alt
remarks upon Was irregular. lie feared that the
Noble Earl had himself fallen into a tar greater
irregularity, in requiring the House to suspend
the Standing Orders without sufficient ,I4ltlet. Ile
should not, however, speak to the merits of a mea-
sure, of which in truth he could know nothing ;
but for that very tenon', he should protest against
the suspension of the Standing Orders, when the
object of such inotitet was the Poroduction of a
measure on which the Douse were studiously kept
in ignorance. There were only two occotootta in
which they could be justified iu suspending the
Owlets : one, where the Douse were well AVIA(' of
the grounds on which they were procrethiog ; ,suet
the other, where they hall a firm colottolooice In
those who proposed the measure, and who wart
'llll6lO to show that mobil% shoat of the ac-
tive operation of Parliament could effect the
proposed object. It was centrist. Imwrver, fcoriti
what load been said by his Noble Foetid, the
Earl of Lauderdale, that none of the Commit.
tee could feel himself justified in giving the
'louse any information upon the subject. \l'ere
their Lordships this to suffer theni•rle• s to lit led
blindfolded in au It a matter, and should they not
raker require of the Ministers of the Crown to act
on their responsibility, if the necessity were so impe-
rative, than to suffer the dearest privileges of Parini.
went to be alwogated ? The Noble Earl opposite
had stated, that between the case of 1797 and the
present there was no similitude. Of that precedent
he was never inclined to speak with respect, for to it
he ottributed, and feared he should still have cause
to attribute, many of the severest evila of this coun-
try ; but when the Noble Earl undertook to draw
a distinction from the circumstance that Podia-
tarot was not sitting when the Order of Council
was issued, in 179/, he seemed to have forgotten
that the Order was issued on Saturday, and that
Parliament suet out the blonds). or Tuesday fol.
lowing.—( Hear, hear.) —The Notole F.atl seemed
also to forget, that in orailig the present necessity,
he was instituting n suit against the Bank ; for if
the measure of partial payments were wise, why
should the disco tom of the Directors be impeach-
ed ? and if founded in error, let the !louse town-
der that it was to I)11). Very Directors, who %vete
equally ignorant of what belonged to their owl' in-
terests awl to the public service, that it was agate
*ought to repose an utilitnited confidence. It
was imposoble to escape thus dilemma. As
a kleniber of 11.011.iment lie cool.] nut consent to
Ilse pretstait measure, mot compared the title of the
Coin-Mute, which was appointed oith reference to
the I U•1111111/i. ref cash payments, with the prevent
suggo .not, which went to prevent all cash linty tarots
‘,ll.otettrr. The ileeessity of such a measure was
sety possible, but the onus rubandi lay with the
411.1mst.r party, will mother Committee our !Until-
Iris b .1 it right to cctinire the confidtoce of Parlia-
tarot
The It: rtl of I.leutpoot. said lie should not
enter into the wmet,il (11.4:usiqou of Ibis subject. A
Committee had Leen appointed is their Lordships,
and also by the other Ilause of Parbanient, to in-
stitute an inquiry into the affoirs of the Batik,
and both of these Committees had during two
the pur•ited the lovestigation with asiceasing
assiduity. Their Lordships' Committee now, boa.
ever, declared, that they a. re not as yet able to
lay the result of their deliberations before the
House, hut that they should do an very shortly,
awl in tls• inreArn having observed a proceetlmg
going au which they thought injurious to the pad.-
lie Uttered, they came forward and suggested a
precastionary measure, which alone would enable
the !louse to entertain a general project fur the final
arringenieut of this important matter. Th. Com-
mittee did not make any proposal relative to the
*stoutsl determination of the Douse, but they
asked for a 'precautionary measare to counteract a
proceeding. *lncite if suffered to continue in opt-
ration, might prevent the speedy accomplishment
of the Krum! wish**. The Noble Earl opposite
(Earl Grey) had asked, why an Order of Council
lawh soot been issued ; but if bus Majesty's Ministers
bail so acted, what hours of ileclaination had not
hero directed against them fur it proceeding so
utietsstitutional.---(ffear, hear.)---There was
nu tesestildance between the Ares tut case and
that of the year 1717. At that period Priebe-
tarot knew tootling of the state of the Batik, but
Ministers were.apprised of the dangers that thleat-
coed the Batik by the Director's, they acted upon
the emergency, and then threw thenistlves on
Parliament for indruititty. hut now Co 'tires
on this verysebject were actually sitting. and in
such a case would it be enduied that the Privy
Council, olio as such could be supposed to know
itoithilig of the Altus of the liank—fllear, tear,
from the Marquis ry. Lunsiluten)—would it be
endured that Moil-ter' should Pottlere between
the Book and the Pat hutment, rod divest the latter
of its peculiar authority ?—(lleur, hear.)—The
measure now proposed was merely temporary and
precautionary, but whether tight or wrong, the
idea of havieg the Council interfere was wholly to-
consistent wills every constitutional principle. Its
this opinion he was too singular, for even Its 1797,
when the case offered much stronger grounds fur
the prompt interference of the Privy Council, he re-
membered having heard Mr. Fox say in the Douse
of Cutumons that the Privy Council ought not even
then to hove interfered, and that the House of Com-
mons alone had the power of issuing such su order.
lie differed indeed with Nlr. Fox at that period,
and still thought that the Privy Council was fully
justified in issuing the order at that time. The
Noble Earl (Grey; bad Contended that nothin4
short of urgent necessity, as in 1797, should justify
the present measure. With regard to the necesso-v
of 1797. he should not enter into any inquiry, but
with reference to the present measure, he should
distinctly state, that it was inertly a question of
propriety, sod sous by no 111,e1111 groutotied
sou
a principle of trecesatly.—(lleac, hear, hear.;—

The Bank were fully 'etiableil to meet their en- ,
gagrments with the pfiblic—( Hear, hear)—hat
the proposed measure isas'one which the public in-
terests required, and adopted ut all, should be
adopted as sown as possible.
The Marquis of LANSDOWN (lid not rise to pro
long the present consersattoo. hot lest the present
proposition might be attended with sante degree of
disadvantage to the Bank, if an apprehension of its
incapability to meet its engagements went abroad,
it ought to be distinctly onderstood that the mea-
sure was not founded in necessity. It by no means
sense from any ouppoeed inability of the. Batik,
because the Bank was perfectly able to fulfil all its
engagements.--(Near, hear.)
T art GREY—•It had been stated by the Noble
Lords opposite, anti was repeated by his Noble
Friend who just sat down. that the resent measure
arose from no principle of necessity, but it appeared
that the Bank were so improvident in their null-
stiles int in require Parliament to I a proceed-
ing which had not long since been vaunted by the
Noble birds opposite as the prelude to the resump-
tion of cash payments. But could tt be believed
that there was nu necessity, when the Home wit-
nessed the haste with which the measure was to be
e.trtail ? If there were no tieressity, why was Par-
liamelit called upon to interfere in a manlier so
summary and so inerniststeot with their privi-
leges ? Why were those Orders to he suspended
which hail been imposed originally to ensure
a plover deliberation ? War inconvenience, as
It was represented. of such importance as the
abrogation of their safeguirds ? The Noble Esrl
then adverted to the propriety of Ministers having,
oil their own responsibility, issued an Order of Coma-
-61, which woulti have left Parliament sufficient
time to deliberate on the subject. and concluded by
touring the adjournment of the House.
The Earl of LAUDERDALE. in a few words,
stated, that the Batik was perfectly able to fulfil its
engagements.
The Amendment was then put and negatived,
and the original Motius carried without a division.
Adjourned.

HOOSE OF COMMONS, Nlowiny, Amt. S.

A person from the Office of the Accountant-General of
the Court of Chancery incanted • return of the effects of
suitors in the same office, which was laid on the table.
ANGLESEA LIGHT-HOUSE, der.
The Aneesea Light-llouse, and Liverpool Harbour lin-
pruvement Balls, were read the third time, and passed.
WATER COMPANIES.
Mr. M. A TAYLOR said, he had a Petition to present
from the West Middlesex Water Company, and the Propri-
etors of the Grand Junction Canal, praying for leave to
present a Petition ,fur a Bill, to enable them to take mea-
sures fur supplying water at reduced rates. He trusted, he
raid, that the example of these two bodies would he fol.
rap by the other Water Companies of the metropolis,
and that they would at length see its inhabitants were nut
to be imposed opus, and that they were resolved, if
they could nut have water from the Companies at the same
rate **formerly, to procure it for themselves on the cheapest
terms they could. The Petition was teed aud laid un the
table.
LONDON CLERGY.
Sir R. irtsson said, he bade Petition to present from
the Parish of Sr. Michael's, Queenhillie, of the City of
London, against the London Clergy Rill. It wrs milord by
the majority of the inhabitants, who alleged that their
Rector derived from different sources a gross incense
of
3001 a-year, or 2201. clear, after paying his Curate a sti-
pend of SOL per annum, and other Irifinc dedoictionia.
Mr. C. Down, submitted that it was irregular for Mem-
bers to va.l the miller of Petitions, that were afterwards to
he read by the lb use.
Mr. LAXITON observed that it was perfectly consistent
with regularity, sot that he *Untold act precisely in the same
manner with • Petition to the same I Met be held in his
bend.
The SPeAReR expressed his opinion, that a Member's
reading any part, us the whole of a Petition, with which he
was inirurtsd, did nut riolste any rule of usage. With re-
reel to the reeding by the Clerk, it was a subsequent

question. '
The Petition was then read, and rifened to the Com.
miner on the Hill.
Mr. I.4onreottl said he hell in his band a similar Peti-
tion from the Parish of St. Leonel d, &latch' ap. The parish
iti question, he proceeded to °leerier, did nut contain 20t)
Isolates, it was loaded with a charge of TOOL n year for poor
rater, to which many of the occupiers were unable to coffin.
bate—the It, eter was non•reyitli lit, and, iii addition to that
impeller, enjoyed the living of Stoke Newington, and other
prefcnurnt; the Petitioner■ therefore prayed, that the Btll
enlarging his incense might nut pass into a law.
Mr. %V nuaws presented a Petition to the same import,
from another Parish, the name of %%Inch we were unable to
collect.
The two Petition■ were aaaaaa Ily nail, and laid ow t►e
table.