The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1818-07-02 00:00:00

TUE QUEEN.

We are sorry to say the Report of the state of
her MAJESTY yesterday was—
" The Qum is sot so well to-day as she was yesterday."
Tuesday evening her MAJESTY. attended by'the
Duchess of Gi.ot:ces reit, the Princess AUGUSTA.
General TaTt.oa, and others, took an airing in her
chaise in Rew Gardens ; her MAJESTY was met in
her ride by the Duke and Duchess of CAMBRIDGE.
Yesterday morning the Duke of KENT, who had
lately arrived in England, paid his dutiful respects
to Isis venerable parent.

ARRIVAL OF
THE DUKE AND DUCHESS OF KENT.

Yesterday morning, between twelve and one
o'clock, their Royal Highnesses the Duke m►d
Duchess of KENT arrived, with their suite. in four
carriages. at Claremont, the seat of the Duchess's
brother, Prince Lioraus, who was in readiness,
with his attendants, to receive his Royal Sister and
the Royal Duke.
Yesterday morning, about ten o'clock, the Duke
of KENT left Claremont in a single hone chaise,
attended by a groom of Prince LeoPot.e'e, mid
proceeded to Kew, to pay his respects to hie Royal
blather. Has Royal Highness, also visited the
Duke and Duchess of CCIMBERLAND. and the Doke
and Duchess of CAMBRIDGE: to the letter he was
introduced. His Royal Highness proceeded fres
Kew to London, and had as interview with the
Pal xce REGENT at Carlton Howe, which hated
about an hour. His Royal Highness afterwards
visited the Duchess of You. sad at a quarter
past five o'clock left York House ou hie return to
Claremont.

Yesterday the Duke and Duchess of GioucEM
TER visited the PRINCE REGENT at Carhop
House.

Yesterday morning the Duke of You left town
for Windsor.

Last evening the Duchess of You rode out in
her curricle.

Yesterd■y the Grand Duke MtcHstL and suite
visited the Royal Menagerie. Exeter 'Chew. and
expressed himself highly gratified at the mitt of
the noble animals and birds composing drat vast
assemblage.

Sir Gsonaa. Lady JIIINTWONaII. mad family,
left town on Tuesday, on a visit to Lard sail Lady
Prrita. Thomism, Ems, am their way ialla No.
folk.

The following distinguished poems were is the
splendid circle that honoured 142,. Bra sile Ileseit.
at Drory-loae, on Tuesday Night
The Dewlaps et mow=. DeraileiserWelMlNlMM. amp*
of Headfivet, Gametes 11110116 ed. Merl sell Coast= of
Mesberoegh, Fart of Ewa. 6r W. sod lAdylteek 2111
sad Cessiees ef Thetingssa. OW et Irsiesenek Lord end
Lady W. Fitseevald, Lard De Deessensilla Wes Is
DrOes, Lama. sad &AGM Tames Mr It.' mei lady
GiOrrd, Hee. Mrs. rear, Mea. Mew W fir Meary
sad the Misses Rem" Mrs. Owes wit Ms. Gemara!
Maeless, Lady W. Wyea, Calmed Illaabith WI lig Ike.
Mr. Sept.

The Surrey Theatre h -*sauced smsether mast
interestiug end effective 14•14rdnimatie ilimisece.
under the title of aleatekli, sr The Mack Balmier.
Mn. Outlet's perfurmaece of Das. Vistramei has
also proved of censiderabite surartioa ; and it is
announced. that Oro Barletta. from Hoisophry
Chaker and Roderick Rendow.will be immediately
brought out.

Dario the progress of the late Election for Can-
terbury, Mr. DAVID BOWER, formerly a respectable
silversmith and watchmaker, was conveyed to the
poll-table, from the Kent and Canterbury hospital,
of which establishment he is a patient. and after
giving his vote to Mr. LUMINGTON and Me.BAILIER.
those gentlemen very humanely contributed to/.
each, for his relief: this hand•onte conduct on their
part was immediately followed by Lord CLIFTON,
who contributed a similar ruin, :toff also by Rooter
TOW/AMEND FARQUHAR, Esq. the friend of Mr.
LUSHINGTON.
The friend' of Sir MURRAY MAXWELL dined to-
gether on Tuesday in Willis's Rooms, King-street,
St. Jarties's-squsre. The Chair was tilled by Mr.
E um. Mr. Yetis expressed himself confident
that Sir MURRAY MAXWELL would be return.
ed for Weniiiinater; but although he had co
doubt of Sir M. MAxwELL's fuel success, he
recommended to the numerous assembly who then
heard him to wake the most stressuotti esadsavours
for the furtherance of this most desirable object.
The night was spent in the almost hilarity, mad a
most strenuous determination ems espreseed by wee.
rid peutlemea to gibe every support to Sir iloitioir
MAXWELL.

JOHN THOMSON, Esq. Isle Print, Secretory t•
the Marquis of HASTINGS, is perfonning Tone.
tune 'Maneilho. He came from %Jill with Cop.
taiss FITZCLARENCE, the bearer of dispatches from
the Governor-Geuerol, sod Lauded at Koons, on

the 26th March, where the letter 'proceeded directly
to Alexandria, to embark in the Tagus frigate,
a title the forester went to visit Thebes* said other
parts in Upper Jgypt.
Thaw who are about to visit the Centime*. sod
the Me when of the Medial Pitesssise of this ass.
try, bill derive muffs sushi isArre L.. sod outsoustod
(sow as erne* which is shoThietplisst Member of
The Genette of 11 published yosseslop. The UMW
of Oast valuable work, it appease, Is. lately paid a Visit to
the capital of France bribe miry's@ ostertaisiag 1b
state of the different breathes of MOW, Ise that esootry,
suit the account he hoe even is inellkeiNtly Inktoolliky,
This Number also coolants mess istyotlent dbteeeries.
particularly remedies fur the Asthma, Cauca of the Lip,
Conassuiptios and Cuastilutlomil Sane% Apia, IPfles, and
1/1.4011.• of the Recline, and le asetto of the Eyes;
Remarks on Calsratl and us Fee hspossitiois; Ilsosolfs of
of Sir Arthur B. Fainlknee and 1h hie Dr. Adam. • Ilse
Composition of Dr. Nierria‘s Eater Dopeyeittee ot:e Cahomile
Dr ups, We wield' sad Walker's Drop., saver to
many enquiries we hare remised osopmetiog this *ark, *e
bey to stmt., that it is published 6s OR last day of every
Month, and that at may lie rivals* oismiord of all Buok.
stair„ in the (Initial kistisdem, at the Mote Oar Shilling,

TO THE

--
GOVERNOR, DEPUTY-GOVERNOR,

AN ID
DIRECTORS OF THE BANK OF ENGLAND.

GGIITLVIIRO-1 have suffered some time to elapse since
the decistoi or the Court of King. Bench, lest it should
appear that, had 1 addressed you at the moment of my de-
feat, the disappointment arising from it might have in itat•
ell my feelings, or warped my jodrinent. I Batter myself
it has had nu such effect, nor, indeed, Call I see any reason
shy it Should, since the victory you have gaited (if it can
be called • victory) ham not been obtained by a strict legal
examination into the merits of the core, but arose merely
from the circumstances of my not having, in the opinion of
Loud Ellenborough, given you sulfide...l timely notice, to
prepare and produce your half-yearly account, and fr,,m
my out havine opposed at the Court held oa the 19th of
March, the dividend then proposed, or having moved any
increase to it. Piuw we will, if you please, examine the
force and meaning of these two objections. With respect
to the Gee, I must observe, that I think it fair to conclude,
that had the space of two days been inssiffleirct to have en-
abled the Governor of the Bank to produce the account 1
bad demanded of him, he satorally, when I called upon
him for his answer to that demand, would have told me so;
bat sensibly eamigls, be WIG perfectly silent on this point,
and 1 conceive for two 'Keenest reasons He well knew
that the Bank of England, from the regularity and ecru.
racy with which their account" are, and most be kept, could
at may time, with the metier of eves a angle day, produce
those amounts, amid by no means wanted that time for pre.
garatiou which might reasonably be required by au
isidivi-
deal, or soy body of men, SDI trained to such exact and
regular betide. He also most have been teusible, that to
qualify himself properly to proposes particular Dividend to
the Court of Proprietors, his decision as to the guntleis of
that Deateleaset, could only rest me a previous investigation of
the peelits of the trails fur the preceding half year, amid a
strict balsam of debtor sad creditor. The orpiment, tlwre-
fere, in my *hi way of thinking, is coaclusive, that had
he Woo imbued to praise" a balance sheet in the Kopek.-
Ines a notice of teressly.four hours would have enabled Gifu
So Oa so, as wellas we if twenty-four days, or reels tarot y.
bar mestle. Having thus disposed of this objection, I will
proceed to the consideration of the other. What eel could
it have aaswered. had I, an almost tinkouwn individual in the
Cowart of Proprietors, nod without an atom of iiitioroce
Share, presumed to differ is opinion from the Directors,
sod attempted to persuade my fellow Proprietors to follow
my eassapk? I was out conscious of possessing any poetess
of oratory to produce such aa effect, and indeed had 1 felt
myself endowed with the eloquence of a Tully or Demos-
theists, a Pitt or a Fox, I should utterly have despaired of
inducing the Court to do what, fur half a century (with
perhaps ale or two exceptions), it has lint been in the habit
of dais'. Besides, 1 bad no authentic doeumisits on which
I could ground an opinion, fur though the Court by the
11111 b By-Law, Is expressly appointed to be held for taking
tab emaelderatioti the slate and condition of the Corpo-
ration, the Directors have sower thought fit to furnish the
Proprietors with th. uecessary, or toderd any paper., An
exec lean this injunction of the By-law. But iu misfit'
to this very sufficient reason fur my silence ill the Court, 1
had souther, reeiltiog from an •ppretiensiou I could nut
hut essterlain, that being resolved its apply to the Court of
HMO Beach, that Court might straw an inference against
me, had I moved for so increase of Dividend without stir.
comilisg, sad thereby proved that the Proprietors would not
cosintammer any interference with the opinion of the Direc-
tors- The sole object 1 had in view was to appeal to the
laws of my (notary; and as from every consideration I could
give the eshjeef, after repeated personals of the late Ili(. Al-
lardice/ very able Treatise on it, 1 found that no less than
two Ada of Palliators', and oar By-Law of the Company,
ordaisod, that a division of all the profit. of the trade should
he made from time to time (that is haltyearly), Among the
Propristan, ace:tiding to their different shares, 1 felt that
all l had so do was to apply to the Court of King's Boatel,
ra compel the proper execution of these Acts. 1 could nisi
few a atorment ammeter with the Learned Counsel of the
Book, is Ike opinion which be is said in a printed account
rig • very remarkable debate iu September, me, to have
prownsomd, that the.. Acts of Parliament were oe.olete,
uoreeiolly when 1 cumaidtied that on a very recent occasion,
Cho atimagent remake imitate bad been given that the
hart of King's Beneh entertained nu such idea, alien
it wisely sad homily decided, that as there was an un-
repeated law, Orin to the Appellee in a case of mur-
der a right to a bagel of battle, that right, however
the "swam of it may be contrary to reason, must be ad-
mites& sad asforevd. To every Director of the Batik of
Nagbad it awl be said, as our Blessed Saviour said to the
Lawyer..." What is written in the Law How
r and, as a further rule for his conduct, the
Nam Mae Isperucter tells him, that it is out uuly required
of lAmaimrthf
" that they should be faithful, but that they
should gore an accoont of their etewardship." The Direc-
tors et the Bank of England are, to all intents nod porPuses,
!the mere stewards alit. arida for the po oprietuse, whose in-
terest sad advantage they are, by their election to their uflieet
mod by the oath they are required to lake fur the due caret,-
tins of it, bound by every tic of honour to promote. I only
ask, se at fest, whether filice du their duly ?—n hat regard and
enisideratiou they pay to the pecollar interest of that not
tueousiderable class of Proprietors, *hp, by virtue of family
settlements and trusts, hold their Stuck only fur their lives,
and who went to a plain understanding to be deeply fore.
rested in the ion of that part of the Statute of Qileell
Anne, which has the words four the lime being!" I would
wish the firmness's to whom this paper is addiessed, to give
me, if they ran, a satisfactory vindication of their emidoct
iu allottiug .luring the period of nine years, from 1807 to
1816, to this clan of Proprietors amongst others, • Divideud
of only 10 per Cent. and thee Goat the vast accumulation of
profit during those years, suddenly giving a bonus of 25 per
Cent. Stock, the benefit of which was lust to those who, from
the common course of mortality, had died during the nine
years, and fell to the lot of others, who from the short time
they bad held their Stack, bad little or no claim to it. A
very erosible friend of moue has observed to me, that as be is
a life Proprietor, be has, with respect to this Woos, received
whet belonged to his predecessor, and with respect to any
&tore our, say leave to his successor what belongs iu him.
self. It has bees no small satisfaction to me, Getitletneu, to
lied Oat gong the variety of persona with oleos I hove
osemerard during tlio last two years us the subject of Sauk
Block, sot a Mogi, individual has bees found who could
siontrovert the powerful argument against the justice of
poor condote remating from your treatment of this &scrip-
t's* of Proprietors. It is greatly to he lamented, that sock
as apathy sod Whams/ to their own Warms has pre-
masa ogees( the Pleprielore of Book Stock for se soul years,
that ale Setifigrarfp CUOMO bald for the express purpose of
atop dote em eiderstion the fade and condition of She
theyaratehs, have bees attended, gement ly speaking, only
by a masks set of Proprietors, who, from their local and
marseisol madame near the Book, amid their personal cc.
eptsbessar, aid, perhaps, aseenstaie counesiuu with time Di.
rodere,lisee mit hem disposed to scrub a i se their conduct with
MINN nicety mad miasma which would have operated ae a
cheek um it,esd would homessured the doe enemas. *ethos.
ham, by which aimed ought to have beam regulated, The Di-
rectors Amid reflect that there an many Prupriseem who are
hien aiy ettowdosee at the Courts, sad thee*, sok.
Cdorsdactiss poet is what peon there. Mr. Alleraper
atm, that of the 21600 Proprietura,who In bie dap be mks-
bated were entitled to vote, a fourth part were osproissied wi-
dow, aodspinaters,who front sootier, of &Story do bog Weed
the deltheeedose, and that there we,, USW MI6
whit from Mel eirealbstaacea Mame passe thilliteliel=
ma the /Hrectwea to feel thestiseltes lo be Ida gemillor maw
our the rapreseolatites of these absent wages? Bat base
they "hewn, by any attention to their interest ima any
siou, that they ass eititkd to that conditenee which hoe bees
so trionephaistly said nosh. to be placed is their ? • How
can we reams but from what we limbo ?" mad we holm, also !
so little from their avowed system of conemalestat (which
always implies mystery), that we have as Means of forming
• proper, our indeed any judgment. this coeniannicatinm, in-
deed, and that a most important ode, was formed from .hem
by she examination that took place before the Committees
of Lords and Commons, of the then Governor sot' Directors
the NjUks ill the rest 17171 In ogosespience of the tier!