The National Register.
London, England, 1818-04-26 00:00:00

COUNTRY B.INKERS.

On Thursday a meeting of Country Bankers took place at
the cieorge and Vulture, Corribill, for the purpose of taking
into consideration the Bill pending in Parliament, requiring
them to make deposits iu the public binds, or other Govern-
ment securities.

Sir W. Elfurd was called to the chair. He ol►cerved, that
the meeting had been called upou a subject deeply affecting
their interests, and stated that a great number of letters had
been received from country bankers who were unable to at.
tend, expressing their approbation of the object which they
had been staninoned for.

Mr. James, of the house of Galion and James, of Binning..
ham, said, he objected not only to the details, but the princi-
pal of the bill. Mr. James proposed a resolution, expressive
of the light in which the meeting regarded the bill in Parlia-
meut, namely, as an attempt to injure free trade, injarious
to the country banker in particular, and to the public in ge-
neral.

The resolution was agreed to unanimously.
The Chairman, and some other hankers, deprecated every
thing likely to create disunion, and suggested that the reso•
irtion should be divested of every thing likely to give occa-
sion for cavil.

Mr. Payne, of Wells, censured the bill, as did Sit John
Morthick.

The wordy objected to in the resolution were omitted, and
it was then carried unanimoogly.

It wa: agreed that the Chi:rman should write letters to
Lord Liverpool and the Chancellor of the Exchequer, solicit-
ing that they email' appoint a day for an interview with a
deputation upon the subject, and containing the resolutions
to which the meeting had come. _

Mr. Howes, alto was one of those who called the meeting
together, stated, that he had frequent conversations with
Lard Orford, Lord Coupton, and several other noblemen and
gentlemen, who completely entered into the views expressed
in the meetinz, and had declat ed their determination to sup-
port the application to Parliament. It was also mentioned
that the Chancellor of the Exelseqner had intimated that he
wished to have a eOIIIIIIIIIIICatiCIS of the Country
Bankers, in order to bear front them any objections they
to cht have to the bill.

The meeting objected to any thing which did not appear
respectful, but all idea of eotupromise wus diA4 hied. A l'or11.•
mince was appointed with power to act. The power to cum-
protnifr was the okay power withheld.

Sin RICHARD Cuorr's WILL.—The will of the late Sir
Richard Craft, Bart. was proved in Doctor's Commons on the
INtli instant, by the relict, Doctor Bailie, and John Denman,
Esit, the Executors. The personal property was sworn tinder
sixteen thousand pounds. A freehold estate at Somerfurd
Keynes, in the Comity of Wilts, is devised to his eldest AIM
Elnisley Croft. and heirs male with the usual remain.
tiers; ont of which 2001. per annum is given to Lady Croft,
during her life ; and power is a:so given to the Devisee to
eliaree the same with a sum of emo!. for ho wile and children
by his will, Freehold estates in the comities of licreford,
hiidillesex, and the leasehold lisuse in Old Ritrlingtonsstreet,
(the Testator's residence) arc discoed to he 5e1t1,.1,,d the pro.
duce to form part of flit. personality ; the resides„ of which
(after a bequest to the relict. of the 11011S1.110111(111111.111"P,
plate,librais, carriage, and horses, and the. interest of a sons
to beset apart during her life, et bv.tw vett byroad six thousandpounds) is giyessfo the children, w ath the exik titiun of Mr one
inheriting the 1% disbar estate. The wiit t.,late.lt!te 14th
November ISll. There is one Codicil, dated in 181 d. ft des
climes the redemption of the Innd tax of the estate at :comer.
ford Keynes, and charges it with a sum of .iOJ.H. to be added
to the residuary personal estate
Last 'Jock n young man dropped Clown dcrid in the apartment of
a female professor of the science of foretelid-.4 fatale events, restiting
iti the neighitouthood 'rower-greet.