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CHAMBER OF PEERS, JANVARY 30,

The do.cut,binti was restetned on the proposition
for an entire abolition of the droit d'aubaine.-
4Me Member spoke in favour of the proposition ;
um t her ognitist it.

The Minister for Foreign alfuirs presented to the
a prgjet de for, adopted by the Chamber
of Deputies, ordaining the erection of a mojorat in
fsv4,tir of the Duke de Richt hen, with a revenue
of 0,000 francs, under the title of a national re-
c 'ten►e,

After this communication, the order of the day
was re,titued, when several Members spoke on the
question. The Chamber then closed the discus.
sion, reserving the reply of the Reporter of the
Special Commission. The proposition wns put to
the vote. and provisionally adopted—the numbers
being 79 for it, and 36 against it.

MADRID, JANUARY 19.

The King, by a decree of the 14th of this month,
addressed to Don Francis Egnia, Minister of War,
has approved the project of a loan of 60 millions of
to•ati!,, presented by the Commission of trusts-
marine recruiting, established at Cadiz. This
decree, which is preceded by a long preamble, in
s•ltich his Majesty recounts the efforts hr has made
for restoring tranquillity in America, and slims the
necessity of making still more for obtaining the
entire pacification of that beautiful part of the
dominions of the Spanish mown chy, contains the
following dispositions :
There shall be opened a loan of 60 millions of
teals. The fowls affected by this loan ure, the tax
of supply ler the war, the taxis on corn and flour,
oid that ors public =memento,. The interest
I:,,,littil on this b.an is rii;lit per cent. payable every

The troth pint of the eariial, or six million.= of
?oats, 31).111 be extinguished every year. The ob..

lipitions of the loan shall he transferable by en.
06,%•Ineat, like the royal vAles and bills of es-
t"' The t:c,!ree concludes thus :

"I he intpgwy the Junta of recruiting, the
nall,ortvice of t:te funds set apart for this loan, and
I,y anal I give, not to divert any of
Itronicts to any other object, nor of with-
-44.0.5ii.g Ott aittninistration of them from the paid
tolitil it shall have wholly reitniiirred
valuta: ill lietertst to the manner putitted out
aul these assutitoces ufft-r to the capitalists of the
Itiovhan a !doper resource for the useful employ.
bent of their funds, iu oitectatiou of t'oe

E BRITI S H PRESS.

LONDON,

THURSDAY, Frenv,tßy 4, 1819.

The character and result of the debate in the
House of Commons, on Tuesday evening. will
enable the country to !Orrin a tolerably correct
ertiniste of the dangers to be apprehended from a
longer continuance of the Restriction on Cash Pay-
n►euts by the Bank of England, and what chances
there are that the present Ministers will apply
themselves seriously to overt the evil. It is evident,
from their owu skewing, that the Administrators
of our Government are reduced to a deplorable
state of imbecility, and their conduct betrays the
vocillatious sod iticonsistencies that must necessa-
rily distinguish men who, having no fixed princi-
ples of their own, suffer themselves to become in-
struments in the hands of crafty speculators, and
pursue the meteor gleam of chance, instead of
establishing sonic rational system to direct their
measures. Since the termination of the war there
have been few points of our domestic policy on
which the Ministers have not deviated widely from
the original course they had proposed to follow.
So determined hove they proved themselves to stick
' to the Treasury Bench, that they have on every
great and important question, and as if lay some
fatality, more particularly its those cases where
they had most loudly vaunted their fruitless, they
have condescended to follow the dicta of their op-
ponents, and have been driven even to propose the
measures they laid previously scouted. Nothing
could be happier than Mr. TIERNEY's allusion to
this roosts lit rearlittesson the part of the Ministers to
adopt the miezgestions and measures of the Oppo-
sition, and subsequently assume to themselves the
whole tort it of the proposition. Thus it is that,
when upbraided with having done nothieg to re-
lieve the country, they unblushingly refer to the
reduction of taxes to the amount of 17 millions
since the close of hostilities, which it can never be
forgotten were repealed against the strenuous ef-
forts of Ministers, by the exertions of the Opposi-
tion, by the strong voice of tl►e country. But
these pilots we shall pass over. and rely solely upon
this question of the Bank Restriction, as a suffi-
cient illustration of their waist of principle and
firmness. During three Seturions they refused all
inquiry into the affairs of the Bank, said began the
present Session with reiterating their determination
of e tVll).4—trot the Batik (for, if we are to believe
these Ministers, they act without any reference to
the private of that great Company), but the
country—from the dangers of such an investigation.
A total revolution, however, almost immediately
took place in their sentimeuta on ibis point, which,
according to their own %hewing, arose in conse-
quence of an intimation of the pleasure of the Batik
Directors. But this implies too great a degradation
of the Ministers; we shall, therefore, with more
kindness to them than they evinced for themselves,
endeavour to rescue their character from so foul a
reproach, and attribute the change altogether to a
deference to what they conceived to be the sen-
timents of the mrijority in the new Parkament.
lucked the feeling in the !louse of Commons iu
favour of an inintediate itiquiry was 110 strong, that

we are connarnt, tl.e or doe
EXCHEQUER heen hardy • (lough to iter.ost in his
original intention of proposing the contintianre of
the Bank ReArietion, witliont 1,1;1)01;114,g the
Wallet to o pretiOtiS inquiry in it Committre of
low he would have been left in a minority.
The motion, therefore, ‘yllich he rubmitted to the
!louse, tills lint a mo•enible device to seeps An
open defeat ; it differed penngli from that of
Mr. TIERNEY to give it on wr fif
is there n mxo in or out of l'ailimmeni who lie heves
that the Mionders would Lave inmle such a 'notion,
were it Slot for Mr. Tiuktieir's ?

Last esening the Secret Committee was appointed
in the (louse of Commons by ballot I sod when
the names of the Members (fur which we refer to
oar Report of the proceedings in she Bowel are
considered, and the proportion between those who are
either Ministers, or avowedly the supporters of Mi-
nisters, and their avowed opponents is weighed,
some idea may be formed of the justice of Mr.
TIERS EY'S fears, that the whole proceeding on the
part of the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, not-
withstanding his air of sincerity, was meant as a
mockery, or, as Mr. SHERIDAN happily expressed
it, " knocking the brains out" of the Committee.
There are fourteen Members on one side, and
seven on the other. The result of an inquiry
intrusted to • Committee so constituted, may
easily he anticipated. The Report will Aanctimi all
theopinions, crude and vague, respecting the cur-
rency of the country and the foreign exchanges,
which have at any time escaped the lips of the
CHA NCELLOR of the EXCHSW VER. or the sagacious
superintendent of his Majesty's MIDI. These
Gentlemen will feel themselves bound in honour to
maintain their doctrines, if they chance to remem-
ber them, and as the Committee is constituted,
other voters can scarcely hope to be heard. It soy
person accuse us of entertatimig thoughts unjust,-
tiably desponding on this subject, we shall refer
him to the Reports of the Select Committee of the
last Parliament on the finance of the (AK:idly,
which was constituted by ballot, and near!). of the
Same MattiMl% as the present, and if, softer perus-
ing these precious specimens of the wi.doin :ind
integrity of a Ministerial Committee, he shall hntte
for more independence and energy from that which
is now formed, we can only admire his unwearied
confide lice, and contrast it with our own incre-
dulity.

Paris Papers of Sunday last pare arrived. Tl.e
project of the law for grsiding a national
prose to the Duke de Ittcurt.tEu has passed the
Chamber of Deputies, and was pte,ented to the
KING on Saturday.—An article from Madlid
states, that the Spanish (ioversiment has opened
10011 of sixty millions of reels (about ']25,0001) at
Cadiz, for which the taxes on con► and public
amusements are rendered liable. The banditti of
Spain are every day becoming more formidable.
They have entered Old Castile, and a body of iOO
men has established astir between Burgos and Val-
ladolid. _ _

The French Five per Cents. on Saturday were,
69 f. atz, c. Bank Stock, 1,4971 f.

The Danish Government has concluded at Ham-
burgh a loan of six millions of marks bunco. The
conditions are not known. We marvel bow the
CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER could have omit-
t.d the statement of this new pecuniary transac-
tion of a foreign Goverutnent, when alluding on
Tuesday evening to the causes for continuing the
Rank Restriction.
The f;a:etie de France states. that the present
GRAND SEtossoft was born in 1782, and mounted
the throne in 1806. This Prince displays superior
genius, a strong mind, and great firmness. Dur-
ing two years he has succeeded in reducing the
Janc.aries lo • strict obedience. All the Paellas
and rebel agents have been compelled to submit,
and the most obstinate have lost their lives. He
has abolished hereditary places, and limited the
power of the GRAND VIZIR ; he superintends his
Divan, and directs every thing himself. He main-
tains a great number of secret emissaries through-
out the extent of his empire, and adopt. his Ines-
sures before hisVizi a and 311taibters cats snake their
reports to him.
_ _

A letter lately passed through the Ilamburgh
post-offire, bearing this address-4' To H. M.
Muhornet 11. Emperor. relit/jog nt Constantinople."
Doctor EDWARD BROMLEY IS kippoiiitetl Navel
Officer at Vali Diemen.

Treasury Order respecting Certificates of Growth.
" Treasury Chambers, Jahuary It, 1919,
" Gr./1114NC 31 —The Lords COMlllillqillll,llll of his 01.4jes-
ly's Tyranny havinglowl under eunsiderat your Report of
30th ultimo, On the fusilier application of the Chamber of
Commerce at Greenock, respecting the Certificates 4.f
C;rowils, granted by his Majesty's Consuls of the shipment
of Colton in the Visited Stales—my Lords are pleased to
limbos ise you to admit all Certificates of Growth similar in
purport to the one enclos44l iu the applicatiou of the Cham-
ber of Commerce, and my Lords will request his Maiody'«
Secretsry of State to write to his Majesty's Cumuli abroad,
directing them as future to grant Certificates ill street con.
fortuity with the 4211 Section of the Order in Council of the
lith April, 1803.
(Signed) " GEO. HARRISON.
a Commissioners of Customs"
(COPY.)
TO ALL WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME.
K. & P.-40 Bales.

I, Jame. MI(1131111111, Eaq. his iritantsi;;Majeaty% Conan' for
the Stair mod City of New Yolk, do hereby certify. that
of the City of New York, Merchant, has
vhipped on hoard Ike " " of
now in the Purl of New York, and about to and fur
the following Meichandire, •iz. prly
Bale* Up/and Georgia Cotten soothed for alergin
and further enferanla clines that the avid
klerehandi.s. 64 the growth or produce of the Coiled Stater,
a. he believe..
10 faith and testimony whereof, 1 the said Consul, have
hereunto art my hand, mid affixed my seal of oairr, at the
City of New York, ibis Jay of iu the
year of our Lord, 181 , &e.
(Stet) (Signed) JAMES BUCHANAN.

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