The National Register.
London, England, 1811-04-28 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER,

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

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- HOUSE OF LORDS.

'WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24.
The House met this day, pursuant to adjournment.
The Earl of Li v k:rt POOL rose to give notice, now that k was
officially ascertained that .Portugal was evacuated by the French,
that he should move the ti aniss of the House to Lord Viscount
Wellington and the Ar...y undetr his command, on Friday
seat.
On the motion of the Earl of LAIIDER I) ALP, the Dwelling-
40iise Rohbe7y. Privately Stealing, Navigable Canals, avid Bri-
tish and frish Bkach Grounds Robbery Bills, were ordered to
be read a second time on Wednesday, May.—Adjuurned.

THURSDAY, APRIL 25.
Their Lordship.; forwarded the Bills on the table, hi •leir re-
spective stages, and then adjourned.

FRIDAY, APRIL• 26.

Their Lordships were occupied in the discussion of the Berke-
ley Peerage fr&in half-past one till six o'clock, during a part of
which time the Countess of Berkeley was interrogated.

LORD WELLINGTON.

The Earl of LIVER root. in an animated speech, wherein he
set forth the brilliant Inuits of Lord Wellington, in driving the
French Armies out of Portugal, moved the Thanks of the House
tehim accordingly.
Earl GR Mt in a most eloquent strain seconded the motion, and
it was carried nern. con.
The like motion of Thank, was voted so Marshal Beresfsrd,
and to all tke Officers and Soldiers serving in Portugal ; and the
other Orders of the Day being disposed cf, the House ad-
journed.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

MONDAY, APRIL 2e.

The I-Toisse met this day, pursuant to adjutant:4M. The
Limerick Fleetion stood first on the Orders of the .I)ay ; it was
therefore necestary that one hundred Members sholiki be pre-
sent before four o Cock, in order to ballot, and to appoint a
Committee; For y-five 'll,Ternbers, however, only appearing, the
House ctinsequentli adjourned.

TUESDAY, APRT? 23.
The House again adjourned for want of Members.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24.

The SVEANER having taken the chair at three o'clotk, and
there being preAent above itiO Members, the Limerick Election
Committee wab !yawed for.

• The Flux z.-• went into a Committee of Way; and Means, arid
agreed to a kesolution sanctioning the Loan contracted for the
mice of Ireland.

Mr.VA :4 si.r.t ART gave notice, that in case the resolutions
i wended to be moved by Mr. Horner, on the Bullion Report,
abquld he rejected ley dot liotne, it was h;s itite,ntion to propose
eitt:er resolutions, the suiistance of which he should conunu-
Licate on Frikluy. Ttritieii moved for some other payers,
fiek:cit were graet4.--The How then adjourned.
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IoI,'I4V4TAWIt'InAY, APRIT. 25.
The Avon C' {1 Bill was read a third time and paised.
• "Nlr. MA-n iyert rose to make his promised motion for an
account of the i.atnbf,:- of Exchequer Bills held by the Bunk of
F.ngland. That disc +tint trade Of the Lank ?hiving been cut short
by their roost 0147J:tar and be. t customer.; having found their
*fay into the Bette,lll# they !lOW carne into the market, bon, ht
up .f..xcaecluerliii.i, vrbieh hoes fin intervflt, teltA paid with their
own-paper, w:Aelt. cost them •notting, but which the public
neither wished for ; the amount thus monopolised
by the Bank •arnounted•to seventeen millions. In Mr. Marry,
att's Opinion the Exchequer Bills might be subservient 'to mere
useful purprfts thun the prollts of the Bank, and the itterease of
a paper circulation, which was now 24 millions. lithe Y.sehl-
quer .Bills were put into -a form tit for circulation, and were
made to pay even a low( r interest than now,.they might •pass as
Bank notes do now ; they, would he received more willinoly
than Bank notes, would naturally help to check their rxhothitant
issue, and the country.certainly would be better inclined-to re-
cc ivo Bills paving interest, than Bank nova paying
n9(te conei ide.i with moving. foe an account of
e•.Exikaiu • Its tLe Bank from 17:.47 to the-latest
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Mr. MA NNI NG spoke in defence of the Bank Directors, am!
said they never purchased these Bills at premium, nor until
money WAS greatly wanting in the market.
After Mr. MAR R 1,-A•rr had said a few words in reply, the
motion was put and negatived.—Adjourned:

FRIDAY, APR7L
BULLION REPORT.

Mr. VANISSTTAIYT rose, and submitted to the House a long
cOncatenated series of Resolutions (opposed to those of Mr.
Horner), part of which ran as follows :—That the rights of his
Majesty, as to the monies of the realm, constituted an essential
branch of the Royal Prerogative, although the exercise of it had,
occasionally been rtJulatecl by Parliament that the Promissory
Notes of the Bank were always deemed payable in specie,
until the restriction put upon the Bank, by Government, i 4,
1797: that such Promissory Notes had constantly been held 46
valid iu pout of payments:- that wars had been carried on in
the usual manner, previous to November 180 G and the Sumin. r
of 1807; since which commercial intercourses lad become Ini-
zardous and precarious: that our Naval and 1%, Hilary Expenditure
had of late greatly increased : that currency to the amount or
57,000,C001- hal been cr,ined,in gold, during his Maj':sty's reign:
that the restriction on payn,--rits in specie should be removed,
whenever an improvement should take effect in the state of our
commercial relations ; but that it would be high, inexpedient to
remove swill restriction at the present time.
After a desultory conversation between the.Chanct lior of the
Exchequer, Mr. Abercrombie, Mr. Thornton, Sir T. ltirton,
Mr. P. Moore, Mr. Vansittart, and Mr. Hutchinson, the Order
of the Day for the House resolving itself into a Committe on
the Bullion Report, was fixed for next Wednesday.—Mr.
Vansittart's Resolutions- were, ordered to be
printed.