The National Register.
London, England, 1808-02-15 00:00:00

wi:DNEsn.ty, FEB. 10.

Mr. Fawkener, the. Clerk of the Privy Council, presented an
Account of the l'ees and t;ratnities paid by persons for carrying
on the Foreign Trade from May, 150.3, to December last, show-
ing the apportioinneat of the same.—Ordered to be printed.
Lord Temple gave teak:, that on Nlonday he should move for
a copy of a Note of .1l r. Pinclney, the late American Ambas-
sador, to Lardy ll:Aland and Auckland, dated the :Bst of Decem-
ber, ISO 6, relative to the Treaty beta ecu tireat Britain and
America.
!,I r. Sheridan intimated that on Monday he should move for
Copies of all or any Correspondence that had passed between
Mini-ter; mid the Prince of Denmark, upon the Surrender of
Copenhagen, relative to our retaining, possession of that fortress.
THE CU 4.SCELLOR a Tin; ENCIIEQUER stated, that he felt
great sati ifaction at being utile to state to the Committee the fa-
vourable arrangement lie hail made with Cie Bank. The ar-
rangement to wriich he alluded had arisco from the suggestion of
the Fillanee Committee of last Session; and it embraced three
ditferent subjects. The tirst was the management of the Public
Debt; 'ldly, The allow ance to the Ban:. fur that management ;
and lasth , The Unclaimed Dividends, and Unclaimed Lottery
Pritc•, remaiuiog the custody of the Bank, The Bight lion.
Gentleman Ora aunt Oa to describe the sums to he allowed the
Bank for the management of the Public Debt, at the rate of
3.1:1/. per million, a- it at present stood. When the debt should
ba feather redsced the allowance was then meant to be -10/.
per million. This arrangensent would eventually prove a sav-
ia4 0fte2,900/. or ti5,:00!. a year. The next point was, the
advance by the Bank of 3,000,0:1W. during the war. This came
loan the advantages the Bank enjoyed in possessing the balances
of the Public money. It appeared from the most accurate cal-
culation, that these balances amotimed to something between
eleven and twelve millions, from w [licit, however, there fell to
he deducted 600,0 t 0/. being a deposit on account of America.
It amounted in the whole, he believd, to ten millions and a
half, deducting the above SUM, lle then described the amount
of the Unclaimed Dividends front 1791, as amounting to
400,0001. ; and the three millions as the profit of the Bank on
the deposits of (lovernment in their hands. After some fur:her
obr•erval ions, the Right lion. “entleinan concluded by moving,
" That towards the Supply granted to his Mikiestv, a sum of
600,000/. of Unclaimed Dividends, and Undemanded Lottery
Prize,,, be granted.''—lle stated he should move the other Re-
solution after this preliminary one should be agreed

On the question 6eing. put, :lift. /144 It ES, the Chairman of the
Finance Committee, commended the object of the ltight Hon.
Gentleman had in viers, on the principal that it Was nothing but
fair that the Public should have the use of its own. money. A
Letter bargain might have been made, and it would not have
been detrimental or injurious to the Bank. He conceived, that
a reduction ought to have taken place in the allow ances pro-
posed to the Bank on the management of the Public Debt, as
the advance from the Bank of the three millious, without inte-
reA, might indure for a long time, at least until the end of the
ar.

MR, TirnNEE did not approve of the Ite3olutions, and urged,
that the Bank ought, from the public balance therein depo-ited,
to take the nuinagenient of the national debt ithont and charge.
Mr. Banked and the Chancellor of the Lxchequer e.~plaiurd,
w hen the Resolutions were agreed to, and the Report ordered to
be received to-aiwo we—Adjourned.