The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1825-12-23 00:00:00

PASUIONARL6 INTELLIGENCE.

The Duke of Devonshire left town yesterday, foe his seat, Chats-
worth, Derbyshire, where he will entertain a distinguished party
of friends during the Holydays.
The Countess of Brisol arrived yesterday at her house in St.
James's-square, from her seat, Ickworth Park, Suffolk.
The Earl of Thanet has left town for his scat in Kent.
The B shop of Ely has arrived at his house c, Dover-street, from
the Palace, Ely, Cambridirtaffdre. •
The Marquis and Marchioneas of Worcester hare left their seat
in Oxfordshire, for Wentworth, near Staines.
C. P. Thompson, Esq. has arrived at his house In St. James's-
place, from his seat in limos
Walter Burrell, Eaq. M.L. has arri•red at his seat, Knipp Castle,
near Horsham, from Brighton. •
Sir George Wombwell, Be. has left Sherwood Lodge, for
Sattmundham, Suffolk.
General D'Orsey has arrived at the Earl of Blessinton's, in St.
Jamates-square, from Ireland.
Mr. and Mrs. Togood and family left the Waterloo Hotel,
Jermyn-street, yesterday, fee their rest In Somersetshire.
Count Chabot hrs arrived at Miller's Hotel. Jermyn-street, from
the Duke of Buckingham's seat, A i ington. Hants.
Departures from Warren'a Hotel, Regent-street :—Henry Mar-
' terman. Esq. for his seat near Southampton ; and Captain and
Mrs. Bligh, for their seat in Hants.
Departures from the Bath Hotel and Mrs Harvey, for
Bath; John Alt Donald, Esq. for SOodand ; and Wm. Tennant,
Esq. for Brighton.

CONSULTATIONS OF HIS MAJESTY'S
MIIVISTEHS.

Yesterday morning, after breakfast. the Earl of Liver-
pool left his country seat at Coombe Wood, near Kingston,
Surrey, about ten o'clock, in his ttarelling chariot and pair,
to proceed to London, to attend to the important bushiest;
of the State, which has for son* time past required his
constant and incessant atteiviinnp BM Lordship arrived at
his house in Whitehall' at erettli o'clock. During the
day the Noble Earl received freqacnt communications from
the Bank of England as, to the proceedings of the day.
The Secretary to the Treasury was in attendance to trans-
act official business.

About twelve o'clock, Mr. Htirkisson and Mr. Grant,
the President shd Vice-President of the Board of Trade,
attended uponthe Noblitearl, and introduced four gentle-
men to him from thalCity, upon thc important subject
of comme. cc and tra2e, which occupied their attention
till past three o'clock. Tha No Earl afterwards had a
long con'ultation with Viscount Melville, the gar' of
Hatrowhy, and 111.-ailecrAfiry Peel.
At a quarter before live o clock Mr. Thornton, the Bank
Dirt cult, waited upon the Earl of Liverpool, to report the
proceedings of the day, which we understood were very fa-
vourable, and highly satisfactory.
An °tiler in Council was, we understand, agreed upon
on Tuesday. for the purpose otawimilating the coinage of
Ireland with that of England.

LORD AVIERST.
The proceedings of lefredr."-7:l7;the East India House,
on the motion of Mr. Hume, for the recal of Lord Am-
herst, will doubtless fix the attention of the public.
That Nobleman, holding one of the highest official
functions which die Crown of England can delegate to a
subject—invested with *powers so extensive, that they are
commensurate only with the tremendous responsibility
attending their undue exercise--and removed to such a dis-
tance from these shore*, that half the revolving year is
insufficient to enable him to reply to any matter on which
he is questionel; such as (Sex/Lille Canveroqt-General of
11111111,1 e arraigned in /fie nbe--, before an assembly of
Englishmen, and his disgrace and degradation put to the
vote, not merely without a bearing in his defence, but, in-
credible as it may seem, without even* one particle of evi-
dence adduced or called for in tubstantiation of the charges
alleged against him.
True it is that tidily such an audience, a thing so re-
volting to that innate sense of justice which never deserts
a British bosom, found very few supporters. But what
must be our opinion of the statesman who could make the
prepesal, and found the expediency of the measure upon
hitown pristine letters? Wit bete no manner of doubt
that Mr. Hume mail= private correspondents in every
part of the globe. re, ssellappily, discontented men
everywhere--and we say 'not that in many of our distant
settlements cases of individual oppression are of rare oc-
currence. Persona smarting under a sense of private
wrongs are not, however, the safest authorities in support
of a political accusation.
The motion was, that Lord Amherst be 'walled in con-
sequence of his alleged incapacity, as manifested in his ori-
Floating and in his mode of.eonflucting the Burmese war;
in answer to which it was stated, by the Chairman of
the East India Company, that the Noble Lord's de-
spatches, explaining the reasons of his administration in
those respects, were of so secret a nature, that they had
only been seen by himself end two or three of the Direc-
tors, and could not be, made public without the highest
injury to the aff.irs of the Company. Will it be believed
in any other part of Eutt Utat a Member of the British
House of Commons, aspires to a leading part
in the councils of this nation, and who is even deemed
by many of his countrynten a tit and proper person
to guide the vessel, of the State, should, notwithstand-
ing that Lord Aniherst'a defence is for the present kept
profoundly secret, still persist in a motion for condemning
him? We are neither the advocates nor the accusers of
this Nobleman in relation to the Burmese war, nor in re-
spect of his general administration ; but we shall always
endeavour to hold up to execration any attempt to hunt
down an absent man, &plait whom no evidence b.adduced,
and in favour of whom no bearing is granted.

THE CURRENCY.—The alarm at the supptwition that
the Bank might not be able to pay in specie seems, like
the other alarms that preeeded it, to be wearing off. The
Bank is gradually drawing to itself sovereigns, es well
from the coinage of its bulfkm as from the districts where
sovereigns are found not tokhe wanted. As the one and
two pound notes are also gMting into circulation in London,
the sovereigns are dis by them to a certain degree,
and flow eitllet to the to the districts where they
are required. _ Thus t um produced by the failure
of the country banks, ot traction of their circula-
tion, will be gradually without further inconve-
nience.au The operations of the Bank in procuring rove-
reign., it must b 3 observe kine not merely directed to the
furnishing an immediattOply, but to the obtaining
gold for the dividends to beitaidie the beginning of next
month, in which large see usually paid away. As
the January payment, en . eel the national debt,
amounts to about nine m* s, the effect produced by it
sloe*
will probably terminate the complaints of want of money
lately prevalent. It is probable, indeed, that the circu-
lation will be quite equal to its usual amount, and if 11.
revival of confidence in tbeibenks throughout the country
should take piece, the Bank of England will begin to feel
the necessity of contracting its issues, which it has now so
seasonably extended.
COUNTRY BANKS.—We.leave been faveured with the
following copy of a notice about to be issued by one of the
most respectable country banking-houses in England, to
every customer denominated long winded. We trust their
example will lie universally followed by other establish-
ments.
Should country battlers be true to, and support
each other, deLtol:, —'ll soon be taught that their creditors
are not to be run upon with impunity. The notice is in
the following form :
" al yen. present their tomplimmus to Mr. —, and,
in consequence of the panic which appears likely to spread against
country banks, as it has already done again-4 those of London,
think it necessiey to inform hiso, that they shall at all times prefer
payment of the debt due from hkn in their own notes, or in those
of the respeetaWe country beaistnn their neighbourhood. They
feel it necessary at the seine dine to add, that their clerk has
orders to note the name of any pates to whom assistance has been
rendered, who may pay in Hank of England notes or gold, in order
to prevent those parties from baeleg extended credit in future."—
Couskr. v .
In proof of the falsehood of many of the rumours which
at present prevail in Lomeli, It, may be mentioned that it '
was reported there on Friday that two Scotch banks had
Mopped payment. So far from this being the case, we do I
not believe that a single sovereign has been demanded in
eaehange for a note front the one extremity of Scotland to
the other.—Glosgnae Herald. '
A rumour prevailed in the City yesterday that Govern-
ment had ordered three regiments of cavalry, and as many
of infantry, to be immediately raised. We can positively
assert that there is no foundatio.'whatever for the state-
sent. I