The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1820-12-23 00:00:00

THE NEW BANK .V TES.

The statement which appeared in several of the paper*,
respecting an 'alleged forgery which is said to elitist of the
forthcoming new Hank notes, has bad the effect of etriting
an active Inquiry in the proper quarters. On Thursday •
letter was received by Kinsey, the constable, at the Town-
ball a hose Imo runientality the Bank Directors weer first
ai,' lard of the maise6 directing hi., without delay to
Totet Mr. Death) on the subject. Accordingly at an early
►our yestcrilay morning, he traced that Learned Gentleman
to the Guildhall, at Westminster, where the Court of Kitten
Bens-li is now held, and having seat his name in, was fa-
voured with it cuiderenre.

The Lem mil Gentleman (he say.) questioned him on the
extent of Ii • information respecting the sit ppiist d forgery,
on which lie gave him a description of tiro different kinds
s,( moil., one of whirl, has beets already deseribed by the
public pipers, and the Oilier, he says, has a black border
ruwtd et, and toe body stampri with red letters, which read
comedy on either site, there bring no reverse at all. After
this, the ionslable says, that :Ur Heath drew a note of the
latter descripti ttt (ions ills pocket, who h 1w understood to
be a genuine lane (for we quote his own words) of those that
are now adopted by the Batik, and asked him if there was
tiny iliffereuee between that (meaning the one he beta in
lug haiiil:, •nod the note that he (the con.table) took to be a
foicery. Kinsey J.:arced that he could perceive none. and
now declares that he should tint know the tiro notes apart
egaits. The Learned Genilemaii seemed pleased with his
unsure'', and dismissed him with ■ crown.

A resp.rectable (Semifinal', residing in Fleet-street, on read-
ing the first account of this 'matter, moner,tately perceived
from the description, that the note spoken of was nut the
same that had Men adopted by the Bank at all, and he came
forwsrd in a very c•umm.•udable manner to explain away the
error. From big statement it seems that that note hail been
engraved by ea ingenious American Gentleman, and pre-
sented to the Directors of the Dank, at a time when the
national skill seemed unable to devise any effectual plan for
the counteraction of forgery. It was highly approved of be-
fore the present invert' ))))) and many persons thought it
would be adopted; but it seemed to be the opinion of
the Hank, that common forzers would be unable to ob-
tain the tides:sine machinery necessary for the completion
of the presimt plan, it tequiring (according to a public
statement nude some time b ick) not less than 70,0001. to
purchase the materials. This plan having been rejected,
the public had facilities of olitanimg a view of the Ante-
titan invention, and it is supposed that those mysterious
beings, the forgers of Bank notes, thinking the sasne had
Trees the one received, end announced shortly fur circula-
tion, lia.l availed themselves of those facilities to engrave a
like plate, from which they meats. to inundate all parts of
the kingd.•m as soot, as the new issue took place, runt before
the public could be such competent judges es to detect the
forgery.—lt would be highly desirable it some official coin-
smoieation was made on the subject.

Yestetcliov a Court of Dlrtetar, was Iwlil at the

East India tiout.e, wilt Captaitt C. lIIDEN was
. sworn into the cotutuuthl of the Prinetss Charlotte
t/ !Pules, to Claim .I.reet.
A letter front Italy, to 4 l'. Paper. states, that
a thunder-orate trr.etl elf the head of the
statue of the I'OPK, piaCcti upon the top of the
&witch of St. John of Lateran. This is regarded
. .us au alarmisig Well by the good people of Itoone.
That u amtilar t•torti occurred to the latter TAR..
QUIN, inlairdiately !Afore his hull, at are iafornied
by LIVY.

The Hrnovrrian Government have it in con-
templation to adopt tome nae•aure against the
QuEvr, Paid to be founded upon tire late procrrd•
inga in tatr native u 1 Lcrdo. The agents of that
Governtnent in Pavia have node no petrel of thin

Station for several days 'mgt. It is well known
how temionsly Hanoverian Commissioners ailed in
procuring evidence against, Stid retarding or stop-
ping evidence fur, her MAJESTY ; and since, io
defiance of all their endeavours and those of their

empioyers, the pol.tical drama turned out to be
nu tragedy as they had hoped, but only a rarer—
since the innocence and unprovoked oppression of
the QUEEN, and the consitineht fittpinnt of her
enlightened subjexta in this country, has placed
• her beyond the reach of attacks in England. ex-
cept from the futile abuses of hireling scribes, and
the unmeaning slander of the interested and Mtblig.
Ulna—the scene ►oust be changed, the plut rcuiiiin-
ing the same.

Extracts from private letters from Rio Janeiro.
brought by the lart arrivals from that country :
" Rio Janeiro, October 25.

" What ilia political changes in Portugal may.lead to in
this country,. I am at • loss to conjecture; but at present I
ma under no appecheuithiu of any attempt to revolt here. It
is supposed that this Goveriinn lit will have ou alternative
bat to accede to the wishes of the people in the Mother
country, or lose that kingdom. Amoug various reports in
itireulation, one is, that a slop of the line is getting ready
to tarry the Prince Royal, or bon Miguel, to Lisbon, bust
even this utca.ure may prove too late. If, kowtow, matters
there should reamiu w n state of suspense till klarahal .11e-
vaafond arrives, my opinion is, that there will be a peat
deal of bloodshed. We are waiting anxiously for the nest
arrival from Lisbon, as also to hear bow the British GO..
vernment looks upon the change.
" Rio Janeiro, October 2f,.

" The events in Portugal have excited much interest,
and it is yet doubtful whether the required euneessiona will
be suede by the Government here. On this every thing will
depend. Our wine trade will be benetilml by any cheer I■
the 'abatises between Ibt two countries."

In cousequence of the great depression of trade,
we undersiand that the woolcombers of Bury have
again reduced the price allowed for spinning yarn,
mid bo such a degree as almost to amount to s pro-
hibition, allowing anly 3d. in every shilling's worth
of spun yam