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only generally observe, that he had always considered it a safet
and a better course to derive principles from experience than to
lay down speculative principles to act upon, and to try whether
those principles woulc: operate to produce the good expected from
them. With respect to this second child offered by the Noble
Earl for adoption, he should merely now say that he did not ob-
j ct to the printing of the Resolutions, but at the same time he
wished expressly to guard himself from the supposition that he
thereby approved of them.
The Far! of LAUDERDALE said it was highly satisfactory to
him to hei+ r the Noble Earl on the other side decline to .adopt this
second child of his Noble Friend, but he still thought that to vote
the printing of these Resolutions would be giving a sanction to
them which the House ought to pause long before they agreed to.
lie co;ild bring evidence to prove at their Lordships bar, if the
subject was gone into, that three per Cent. Consuls had been
bought at fifty •seven for gold, and at sixty-four for paper.—ft
was als3 notorious, that there were shops in this Metropolis
where two prices were regularly noted in gold and in paper. He
was old-fashioned enough to believe that gold was necessary to a
sound and healthy circulation; and he thought the House ought
not to give currefic.v to the loctrines contained in the Resolu-
tions of his Noble Friend, by ordering them to he printed.
The Resoltitions were ordered to be printed.—Adjourned till
Thursday.

THURSDAY, MI 18.
Their Lordships met early, and beard an Appeal from Scot-
land, Lieut.-Colonel Alexander M'Donald v. Captain George
Elder. Sir Samuel Romilly was heard f,,r the appellant, Mr.
Grant and Mr. Drougham for the respondent, and Sir Samuel
Roulilly again in reply. After which, further proceedmgs were
postpOncd till to-morrow. _
In the Irish Areal, Dobbyn v. the Irish Attorney-General,
the decree of the Irish Clianc-ny, after some observations from
the LORD CHAN cELLoit, was armed.
In tbg cause of a Wrif of Error, Hill v. Meeson, the judgment
of the Court below was affirmed with costs, 1331.

NIL Smith, from the Directors of Qreeiwich Hospital, pre-
sented an Account of the Prize Money paid since the Ist of
January 1809, pursuant to an Order of tbeir Lordships.
It was, on the niotion•of the Earl of LAUDERDALE, ordered
that an Account of the Out-standing Notes of the Bank, refer-
ring with distinction to those above and below SI. be laid befost
their Lordships.—Adjourned.

FRIDAY, JULY 19.
No business of any importance occurred this day.

SATIIIDAT, JULY 20.

Mr. Wit A %TON and a Deputation from the Commons brought
up the Bank Note and Gold Coin Bill, with several amend-
ments made by the Commons; which, upon the Motion of
Lord LIViR P 001" were ordered to be taken into consideration
on lionday next (to..morrow), abd their Lordships summoned
thereon. _ _ _

Th.! Interchanje Bill was ordered to be read a third
time on Altruslay.—.Adjourned bo Monday.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

MONDAY, JULY 15.
GOLD COIN AND PAPER CURRENCY.
On the motion from the Chair, that the Gold Coin,lMO*
read a second time, .
Mr. EDY.N arose. lle felt himself somewhat embarrassed
on la subject otsuch importance, and which had been so very
ably discussi.d by both Houses;
_nor :would he have troubled
the House-iwitir his opinion, had he not deemed it .his duty to
make opposition to a measure, to which he could neither accede
in prnicipie nor feeling, and Which was totally inadequate to
perform the main object of its constitution. Ile would not
cc nsidur what were the opinions of his Majesty's Ministers upon
the subject, nor even what were the opinions Of the .Publie
tt-
sYlf; but, by • every estimate and calculation which could .be
made, it sp;peared that the paper money was, depreciated. The
measure adopted to heill that want proposed nothing. There
was a maximum required to give stabtlity to any legislative mea-
sure. The Restriction MU of 1797 was hurtful in its establish-
ment, and injurious in its ?continuance;
.and the measure ie•
tendtAl to remedy the evils which it had created, only tended to
make them more lasting. it was only a patch-work. where
nevi regulation Was required, extending itself not into Ireland,
which was considered us a part Of Great Britain. jj id his Ma-
jesty's Ministers avow their desire of making Bank-notes. a
legal tender ? Assuredly they hinted at it, but they had not the
firmness to make the experiment. To constitute a real cur-
rency from Bank-notes might exist awhile in tte Journals of

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