The National Register.
London, England, 1818-11-08 00:00:00

Various opinions continue to be stated respecting the
probability of the Bank of England payin, in specie;
bat, as they arc derived fewa individual; who have
generally an interest in raising or (lc:pressing tied rands,
they are citadel to leis consideration. Three a-amours,
however, are -Arad on this subject that perhaps deserve
tuentioning, viz 1. That Ike standard will be silver,
to be made a 12 01 tender to the tunnunt of 1001.-
0. That the Bank shall be at liberty to issue gold pieces
at the current value of -11. Is. 9d. per ounce, the pre-
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sent standard being 31. 1 Ts. IN I. .3. That an office for
the sale of specie will he established at the Bullion Of-
fice in the Bank, where it may be bought and sold like
regular article of trade. After the wanner in which
the anintry has been.drained of its standard
believe that shopkeepers and traders will rejoice in the

Telicf now likely to be afforded to commetce. It cer-
tainly never was is contemplation far us tolocoree the
coiners to foreign Stites; and, supposing the Gold To.
kens to pass among, us for .:10s. while its intrinsic value
does mot exceed 18s. there will be no dauga °fits Stal-
ing so reedy a passage to distant tarts.

The whole of the infantry of the llr!tish Army of

Occupation, with the exception of the Guards and the
52d regiment (left in possession of the French fortresses
until the 15th instant) have been embarked at, and
sailed from Calais, in the s'n.irt space of 73 honrs.L---
- Thay are all safely landed in England. The total
number, including men, women, and children, amount
to very nearly 15,000 persons, besides 630 horsey.
The Hastings, Litt Indianian, is arrived in the
Channel, having on beard an Dir.txr of the ship Cabalva,
who states that a great part of her cargo would i.e
saved, if the weather should have proved moderate.—
The crew, with the exception of those mentioned in a
former account, ware all sail!.
A meeting has taken place at Rochester, the object of
'Welch is to rake out Lord llinninge.'s election for that
Lorough illegal, on account of his Lordship 'a being the
.oldcist son of a Scotch Peer. The meeting appears to
as to have been wholly in error upon this point. 1' .e
eldest eon of a Scotch Pe?r was ineligible to represent a
Srigeh borough in the Parliament of that kinanlom ;
and by an Act passed in the Parliament of Scotland,
which is recited and ratified by the Act of Union, sth
.of Queen Anise, rh. 8. sec. F.t., it is enacted, that none
shall be capable of representing a Scotch borough in
the Btitish Parliament, who was not before capable of
representing it in that of Seotland. Hence the eldest
son of a Scotch Peer cannot represent a Scotch shire or
burgh ; but there is no law to disqualify him from sit-
ting for a English shire or borough. See Hatsel, vol.
ii page 18, text and notes :—" This question," he
says, "is now set sit rest.' It is futile, thereiiire, in
the electors of itoshester to try to &snub it.
DOVER, NOV. a—The arrivals in the last t a.° days
from Frimee have not been so Kraft as i.er,.•tafore, and
have consisted entirely of artillery, (flat, drivers and
bone artillery) with large quantities of orduance stores,
field piecesi carriages and pontoons. Tice 2 vessels
which caine in yesterday and to-day brought 605 men,

t 'Women, 104 children, and 530 horses. A 4 won as
thr eielyni.at ion of the urtillero is eMnirletes.l, the cavalry
,vill intim4iatelv follow. Yesterday the 57th are gist
Regiments came iu front Deal I.ndßantsgate ; the latter
marched this morning to Hy the; the 57th are gone
into the heights barrarks until the route arrives for
them to proceed to Iralaid. Yesterday-the Right Hon.
114 Part of Liverpool held a Harbour Session here, and
off in the evening her Wollner Castle..
Parliament is further prorogued front the 14th of
November to the :29th of December.
An Order of Council was published in the Gazette of
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