The National Register.
London, England, 1820-07-16 00:00:00

eur Sing, Conatttutiott anti %Mus•

SUNDAY, JULY 16, 18t0.

with, sad differs not in the principle of execution from
the plan offered by your Petitioner twenty-three years
ago.
"That your Petitioner has seen a Bill, now before your
Right Honourable House, 'elided, • A Bill for the further
Prevention of Verging sad Counterfeiting of Bank Notes,'
in which there are varioes-clanses, calculated, and, as
your Petitiosee believes. and humbly submits intended
to prevent hies hem eammisieg the art of which be was
the original sad ethisiejskia humbly submits, is
au act a puelligitietiee. •
" That to prohibit the esertioi of any modes of En-
graving, on the prstasee efpreventing forgery, stands as
flinch opposed to the propers and improvement of the
arts, and is consequently as impolitic es it would be to
prohibit die-sinking for medals, buttons, sad many brea-
ches of inetallic ornament, on pretext of hindering the
current coin front being stbunterfeited•
"That since the kaid BNI was introduced into the COlll.
moos House of Parliament, your Petitioner bad au inter-
view with the Right Honourable Nicholas Vanailtart,
Chancellor of his Majesty's Encireqner, at which were
present many of the Directors of the Beek of England,
when the'said Bill was shown to your Petitioner, with
different alterations intended to be made therein, by
which it was alleged that }our Petitioner would k at li-
berty to practise his owe art without incurring the penal-
ties of the Bill; but SO alteration was proposed therein
calculated to secure to year Petitioner any remuneration
for his invention,. Which, by the 818, is now appropriated
to the use of the Bank of Erspaed.
"That at that interview it was contended, on the part
of the Bank, that the question of remuneration (if year
Petitioner should be found entitled thereto) was rather of
a public than of a private nature—the protection which
the invention affords being to the public, who beer, ex-
clusively, all looms by Forgery of Balk Notes.
" That your Petitioner, till this time, had thought, in
common with the public, that it was fee the interest and
advantage of the Bank to have the issiegrity of its pager
currency unimptaehabk; especially as the Bank had,
notoriously, for many years, Incurred very great expense
in prosecuting to death the forgers of their Notes.
That your Petitioaervitowever, humbly submits that
the Bank wtR derive emolument from the increased seen-
rity which will be given to the integrity of its Notes, as
also in the article of expense fee Atinsinal prosecutions ;
nod that, therefore, in equity and justice, your Petitioner
Is entitled to receive from the Bask a competent remu-
neration; and also, he humbly conceives, is entitled to re•
ceive from the public remuneration for the benefits which
will result from the diusinitimid number of forgeries, and
from the improvement in public morals, which must fol-
low from the increased didiculty of comnsitiiug a crime,
hitherto suffered to be petpstrated with lausentabie faci-
lity.
" That year Petitioner's Art of Printing Notes from
Blocks, instead of Copper-plates, as hitherto, having been
devised end contrived expressly for that purpose, if the
only Body in the Empire whose employment of that art
could in any wey remunerate the inventor, be suffered to
appropriate his art to its oirrs use, without compensation,
it is impossible that your Petitioner can ever, from being
employed by Country Banks (even if the said Bill did not
put this oat of his power), receive, at the age of upwards
of threescore years, is y competent retanneration for the
exertions put forth by hint in es,pense, labour, and intel.
lest, to perfect an art by the adoption of which (by the
Bulk of England) the Bank Itself and the Nation will
derive so matey benefits.
"'That your Petitioner, therefore, prays that his case
may be taken into ennsideration, .and that he may be
heard by himself, his Apish or Cpnnsel, against the said
Bill. ALVIANDLit TILLUCII."
The Certificates referred to in the above Petition
are in our possession, and we hesitate not to declare,
that the Petitioner's modesty has prevented his
setting them forth with half the force of which he
might have availed himself. The case, in itself, is
one of extreme hardship.—‘n (Underling has appro-
priated to himself the invention (of long standing)
of a man of acknowledged science ' • and not only 19
the praiseworthy inventor refused remuneration by
the Bank of England for the plan he originated, but
by a preventive clause in the New Bank-Note-Act,
he is prohibited from deriving the deserved reward
of his ingenuity in any other -commercial field of
action.—This is altogether villainous!!!

NEW EXTRA POST.
The objections to the Extra Post Pian cannot be too
generally known, nor too uroogly insisted upon.—The
p*ejector had proposed to include all the principal coin-
merciol districts, but changed his mind on a supposition
that they might not all repay the great expence of the new
conveyance. Irony private parson were to form this post,of
course he would not extend it except where it would be
attende.l with a profit, nor dell (tovernittent, if it makes
the measure its own, lit expected to sct un any other
principle. It is understood, that at the Post (Nice they
do nut calculate in a financial view that this measure can
ever succeed on any extended stale, and its injurious
operatton ou piaces.to which it does not extend, is ma-
nifest. If, tor instance, the Extra Post should pay as
esipences to Manchester and Liverpool, bin tun further,
in•vi hat a bittlatiUlli wouldalflCll4llls and tll.lllllrW I 11r4fri.
itt all the neighbouring- districts bt placed, wtw siould

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have speculators in their markets purchasing and pur-
suing all their objects, with information derived by the
Extra Post, which the others could not possibly obtain.
How can it be supposed that this Post would pay for its
eitension to Glasgow, when to reach that city, it would
for near it* miles traverse a country in which an Extra
Post Letter could scarcely ever be expected. Yet a you
sou might leave Manchester after the extra post pm
there, and be in Glasgow the day before the snail coach
letters woutl be delivered, to the great detriment of the
mercantile interests of that city. And if it did extend
to all the large commercial towns, how would the farm-
ing interest be &Mimed? Factors and corn speculators
would possess themselves of the fluctuations at Mark-
lane, and be able to traverse whole counties before the
ordinary post hail arrived. The landed proprietors would
soon have their tenants complaining that they could
never sell except to a disadvantage, to those persons who
come from the towns which the extra post might embrace.
'lite same reasoning applies to every branch of trade.
Unless the extra post be as universal as the mail coaches
and common horse posts, it *ever can be freed from this
objection; and while it is most unlikely to create any new
revenue of importance, the expence will be enormous
for conveyance; for new offices, clerks, letter carriers.
&c. and in this way to be sure it may be a new mime
of patronage. In expose*, and in its exposure to rob.
buy, it is liable to the two great objections which the
establishment of mail coaches overcame. The Metro-
polis may be grievously perplexed by the arrival a two
daily posts, one over-running the other, and if it can be
supposed that the measure were attended with any suc-
cess, the post hours in London would be materially
shortened, for though the ordinary mails would remain,
many persons would be compelled as it were to the use
of the other, and a new taxation would ensue for what
very few appear to desire. The sale of London News-
papers must be greatly diminished, for when those by
the Extra Post have been read at the Subscription Rooms.
which would have one at any expence, what interest
could people take in those by the common post, which
would be one day old? Its short, there is hardly
any general interest which this Extra Post viould not
tend to injure. though its benefit even to a few great
capitalists is obvious, in the advantage which it would
give them over the mass of the community.