The National Register.
London, England, 1816-06-16 00:00:00

STJTE OF THE COINS.
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REPORT OF TIRE LORDS OF THE COMMITTEE Or COUNCIL, AP.
POINTED To TAKE INTO CONSIDERATION THE STATE or THE
COINS Ok"THIS KINGDOM, AND Tor: PRESENT ESTABLISH.
RENT AND CONSTITUTION OE HIS MAJESTV..s HINT, To HIS
ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE REGENT, DATED TILE 21ST
or' HAY, 18111.

At the Council Chamber, Whitehall, 214 t May, 1916 ; by the Right
Lion. the Loris of the Committee of Council, uppouluA to take into
consideration the state of the Coins of this Kingdoin, and the present
Establiabmcnt laid Constitution of his Majesty's Mint :
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His Majesty lacing been pleiseti, by his Order in Council of 7th
February, reeve to three( this Committee to take into consideration the
state of the Coine of this realm, and the present establishment and cone
stitution of hi+ Majesty's Mint; the Committee, in discharge of their
duty, have already eethinitted to his Majesty, their opinions on some of
tier points so referred to them.
A new Mint has, at their recommendation, been erected, and fur-
nished with a most Collllplete and extensive coining apparatus, includ-
ing all the modern improvements, which will, it is presumed, neuter
that estabk hmcnt more efficient.
The report then proceeds to recommend gold coin alone to be the
standard ; and observes, that it has hitherto hewn the practice in his
Majesty's Mint to return to those who import silver for the purpose of
Lavin{; it converted into coin, a quantity of coin equal in weight to the
quantity of standard silver so imported, the expense of coining being
borne by the public. So long as the silver coins were considered to be
the standard coin of the realm, this principle appears to this Conanit-
tee to have been a wise one, and they conceive that it should still be
adhered to in respect of the gold coin, which is now to be declared the
standard coin of the reulni; but the Committee are of opinion, that the
charge of coining the silver coins, as well as a sniall allowance for
seignorage, ought to be deducted; and that his Majesty should be au-
' thorized to direct the Master of his Mint to retain four shillings out of
each pound weight troy of silver coin, hereofter to be coined, for the
charge of braesege and seii,momge, and that the money received for the
same, should be applied to the public service in discharge of the in-
terest of the sums expended in the erection of the new Mint, end in
defraying the general exiwnees of the Mint establishment. In thus
stating the number of pieces to be struck orffroin each pound of silver,
and the amount of the sum to be &dueled for braesage and milometer.
the Committee have, to the beet of their judgment, endeavoured to tlx
on such a raw es will on the one hand be stiffidently high to protect
the new coins, by a small increase of their nominal value, front the
danger of being melted down and converted into bullion when the
market price of silver rise; ; while on the other, it will, they trust, not
be found to be eo low as to afford any encouragement to the issue of
counterfeit coin, if the market price of silver should tad.
Should your !loyal Highness think tit to adopt the plan which the
Committee have tints recommended, they think it would be advisable
that a EMU not lent than ;teem:meal in silver coin should iwtually be
coined, before any issue of new coin take place, vie. 2,000,0u01. for the
use of lireat Britain, and eno,onol. for thw use of Ireland.
It will, however, be necessary. before any further progress cal be
made in the execution of a new silver coinage nn the above principles.
that the legal prohibitions against coining any silver coins of the realm,
or altering the weight of such coins, should be repealed ; and with this
view, the Committer take leave to recommend, that in the Bill to be
proposed to Parliament, provision should be made for the removal of
thuee prohibitions.
The Committee think it right however now to state, as their opinion.
with respect to the silver coins at present in circulation, that it elieuld
be proposed to Parliament to authorize his Nieji sty, *believer lie shell
Fee fit to call in such giver coins, to direct that all such piece s as
be judged by the uthcere of the Mint to Lave been menially mined in het
Majesty's Mint. should he received by tale; and that the holders of
the same should receive in return an equal value by tale of the new
silver coins.

511.14:11
ONE SIIILLIYO CONTAI

I OIVAGE.
mita), OF FITIr SILVER.

28 F.Ow. I 264 gruing
18 I:4w. Il 236
27 FAO. 111, 213
H tn. V 176
1 Hen. VI 142
4 Ilin. VI 176
49 Ilea. VI 142
1 Hen. VIII 118
.74 Btu. vat ......

36 Hen.VIII 60 grains
Z 7 Hen. VIII 40
3 FAIVI. VI 40
3 Fdw. VI vo
G Eavr. VI
t 1:1i& $9
.11 Eli: 83 SB-63
Proposed new coinage 8U S-11

MINH Ifl.

FRENCH PAPERS.

The I)Ae of Willington os Paris ;an on the 7th
instant, haul an =thence of the King, which lastctl two
hours.

A Paris Paper says," We reckoned the day before yes-
terlay (the Itl of.lune) near 5090 English at Ve•saill.,s,
telv.) had asvanbled to see the, playing of the Waters."
Piirate letters from France state, that M. De Cates
was t'a, other day at the Oleon; when a mra, play was
*let is which one of the characters happens to lament
that there are people about the King (henry III.) who
hinlered hint from knowing the truth. No sooner was
this remark utt,rel, than it was thllowed by a loud and
general shout of applause, with so marked application of
0.! cen:atre to the Minister of Mika:, that he shortly
a!h•rwarls left the theatre:.

The only mmt of note who has been taw up in con-
s:Noon* of the late conspiracies in Franee, is the Count
DJ Thianl, formerly atta.•hed to the person of the Duke
of lin4hien ; but, after the death of the latter, one of
Botimtilarte's Clisonberhibt.
Caulaincourt, who was said to be arrested, resides
quietly on his estate in Normandy.
Prepanttions for the marriage of the Duke and Du-
chess of Berry continue to be minutely described by the
French Editors. Five Dukes of the old Noblesse have
bxn chosen to accompany the Doke of Berry to the
Church of Notre Dame, where the marriage ceremony
will be perfonnel, The four witnesses chosen by the
King for the occasion are—Marshal Victor li3r the Army ;
Count Barthelemy for the Peers ; M. 1 1;1 lart for the
Chamber of Deputies ; mid Des•ze for the Court of Cos-
*dim. The Duke of Wellington, Count Woronzow,
the Prince of 11,..55e, as well as several other Generals of
the allied troops, arc to he present at the ceremony.
The Meniftwr of the ith coutains the following ac-
want of the reception of the Duchess De Beni:—
" Her Ito ai Ibzimess entercil Muiseilies on Thursday the
nth of May, at nine o'clock in the morning. The regulations
requiring that she •i Id enter that place lot water, her Royal
Itishoe-s muburked in a boat of the Royal Marine, which con-
denied her to the lintel de Ville. The boat was escorted by
129 fire o ne the National Guard, and 30 Grenadiers of the Le-
giou of the Mouths attic Rhone, with a flag, tier ltoval Iligh-
lieS4 had besides a detachment of the to the
Hotel de Ville.

'* The ceremony of the delivery oilier person to Cie French
Authorities took place at the Hotel de Ville, which was cared-
tiered a neutral place. Only the principal Fume! icaaries, ( ie.
neral (Officer:, and other lice:inns of consideration, who liad re-
ceised tiel.ct• from the Master of the Cerereotics at France,
and bearing his seal, were admitted. :1 discharge from 3ti
pieces of Calaaal ; 1111 l ouneed the moment when her Royal High-
ness was assigned by the Prince de San Nicandro, Commis-
sioner of his Majesty the king of the Two Sieilies, to the Duke
de Havre, Ambassador of Fraare. Iler Royal Highness after-
wat ds went to the church of St. Martin ; her carriage, act:aid-
ing to the etiquette of the ceremony, hying drawn by two horses
only. On the sides of her Royal Highness sat the Dueliess de
Lady of Honour, MO the Countess de Is Ferronsiays,
Najd of Honour. I ler Royal Highness rcturue d in the bailie
order to her palace. 'Thirty Now, females, incited by the
Mayor, complimented her Royal I tighcess by presenting her with
}issers. In the evening the city was ilitiminated. Her Royal
Flighitess left for Toulon on Enid iy, May 31, at sea co o'clock
in the morning, escorted bi; the National Goal d and the Royal
thiendarinerie, and attended by the Members of the Municipal
Council part of the way. She received the compliments of the
Constituted Authorities and the inhabitants of Toulon on the
evening of the Yd of June, and left that port next morning with
a salute of 36 pieces of cannon.
" Among other ream's, the city of Marseilles presented to
her Royal Highness three robes, of whirl, one was richly cut-
brook red in gold, another in silver, and a third ir. steel.
" Nothing could be noire touching than the moment when
her Roy al Highness took the isen to sign the act of delivery of
her person. Her rye.% were tilled with tears; she raised them
to Heaven, and a soft melancholy appeared in early feature.
She signed, and her physiognomy regained all its serenity!
However there still remained a trying separation to go through ;
she was &ftly atireted in parting with the Neapolitan ladies
who had accompanied her. She addressed them most tenderly,
and her eyes were again beguiled of tears of the must interest-
ing sensibility."
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The Paris papers of Sunday last announcal the ter-
mination of the trial of General Bonnaire and his Aid-
de-Camp. The Council of War, after the evidence was
closed, sat in deliberation from half-past eight o'clock on
Saturday evening till nine the next morning ; when they
passed sentence a death on the Aid-de-Camp, and of
transportation on the General.
A letter from Paris says, the Prefects, in their Report
to the Minister of the Finance, state, that the people will
be unable to pay the imposts ; and that, therefore, the
<;avernment must be incapable of discharging the con-
tingent to the Allied powers.

Joseph Buonaparte, Marshal Grouchy, and General
Leti•bre I)esnoucttes, arc now residing in Philadelphia.
A Germiur 'Paper contains the tidlowing:—"The news
of the arrival of Prince Blucher at Carlsbad was, unhap-
pily, premature ; he, indeed, quilted Silesia to go to that
town, where a guard of honour has been expecting him
ever since the 19th of this month ; but be could not
reach the place, having fallen ill on t'. road.
From the Pcters!ourg Garettc the French Papers have
copied the Treaty between Russia and Prussia, relative
to Poland. Most of the arrangements were known befbre.
To Austria, Russia cedes certain districts in Eastern
Callicia. Cracow is declared free and independent—:and
the Durby of Warsaw is united to the Russian Empire,
those parts excepted which are ceded to Pntssia. The
Emperor of Russia tales the title of Czar king of Po-
land.

TM? NATIONAL IttGISTER.

PROrixcLas.

Tmr T.IIIMITIIS.—We are informed that the tauld:tea in
the viein ty of Nottingham have resumed their millets cross.
practirea off anse.bro siting. The following is an extra .t
teller from \ut,otchai,d teed Monday last, on this nitidea sant
*abject :—" lam sorry to inform you, that the -ystent of ante-
breaking recomaienced this marnieg about two o'clock ; in
lace frames warc broken at New Radioed, near this tow', work.
Mc al Wayno•ati's ; nice of them were lit own, the rest of them
bloat ti to ildlereett people. The cause assigned for destroy-
ing these frames is, that he hail just sold nine to the workmen,
to be worked out by stopping one-third of the work. There
was on at med party, upwards of 30, and signioris plaeed at
different avenues, while the work of destruetion went forward.
I have just seen W—, and, from what he say*, there are
great hopes they will be forttel met; but one of our Magistl ales
has behaved very ill, in refusing to grant a wart ant, briar( Sun-
day. 'There will he no security for pi operty in our business,
or any tither, until the law is clearly defined, that the county,
Invoked, or district, shall make good all property wantonly or
maliciously demroveil and 44 the sy dem is spreading in so
loony parts of the kingdom, we ire sorprizial that the Home
Secretary of Slate should not see it Would take away every mo-
tive of revenge ac nest personal property."
Some meetings have taken place in the neighbourhood of
Alslisorough, in Norfolk, supposed with a a iew to mischief,
but nothing serious has oveurred. And we trust that those
viii-guided penile will see that outrages nerer did nor ever can
produce relief from any evil of which they complain ; but that
they are sore to involve the authors of thergi e s.„ieedy punish-
ment and ruin.
One accounts from Edinburgh notice some twmultoons pro-
ceedings on the part of the lower orders which have recently
taken place in that city, particnlarly on the 4th lust. rim the
celebration of his Maiests's Birth-day. The Eitiohorgh eforrt4-
pond, at gays—" Various individuals were observed to advance
against the Palice Officers in a way as it' they were the objects
of every good mall's hostility: and in the enrages which this
spirit led tok, many of the persoos in the middle ranks of life
seemed to derive no small share of amusement. We shall for
bear at present from stating the facts which have coins to our
knowledge."
As Mr. It. Lee, of North Shields, was a few days sine.' en-
deavouring to save two children from beit.g can over by a
waggon, he fell under it himself, and was killed oil the spot.
A few days an accidental fire took place at Abergeldie-
house, North Britain, the seat of P. Gordon. Esq. by which the
principal part of that truly hospitable mansion was tinfortimately
burnt to the ground, The tire, wo understand, took place in
the housekeeper's room, and, from thence communicating to
the root', had attained considerable strength before it was dis-
covered, so that all the efforts made to sari' the lower part of
the house pruscd inetfeetual ; and the only part of the boiltling
that remains is the tower or castle, containing the dining-room,
library, &e.
As two men of the name of Holden, brothers, of Brighton,
were standing tint in a small boat of their own, on Monday, fur
Worthing, a gust of wind upset their bark ; and though the
most prompt assistance from the shore was rendered, both pe-
rishes'. One of the bodies was pieked up, and brought in, but
the means prescribed by the Humane Society were insufficient
to restore animation.

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Ot children baptized at Barnsley daring the last month,
St were females.

A few days since, at Chapel End, Walthamstow, a man of de-
cent appearance called at the house of Mr. Laver, a solicitor,
and remiestril shelter front the rain, saying he was ou his way
to Clinsgford. Dlrs. Laver, who with another Lady and a lit-
tle boy were the only persons in the house, basing admitted
him, he asked for some spirits, saying he was cold and wet. lie
then said lie was thirsty, and asked for sonic more spirits in
water. He told them he had travelled in Spain, Portugal, See.
and shortly affected to fall asleep. Mrs. Laver, being rather
surprised at this, kept her (le on him, and observed he was
nut asleep. She then told him, as the rain haul skated, and it
was au intricate road to Cliingford, and getting late, he had
better proceed; auldiug, that it might also be dangerous. Upon
this, he palled out a pistol, and presented it to her, saying.
" Have 1 reason to be afraid ?" He then pulled out another,
presented it to the other Laity, and made a similar remark.
One of them, in the mean time, whispered to the boy to fetch
Mr. Laver, who, w ith a friend, was at a neighbour's. On their
approach to the horse, they saw one of the Ladies wave a hand-
kei chief at the window, and presently heard the report of a
pistol. Mr. Lavers (tient' first entered the house. and seeing
a man lying on the floor, demanded the reason of his intrusion
and conduct, but he made no reply. lle had shot himself, and
wits speechless. He ; roved to be a person who had kept a
bookseller& shop in Isedeross-street, Barbican, and is supposed
to have been deranged. _ _ _

A sery large package, which arrived from Dieppe by one of
the packets a few days ago, was es:smiled at the CIIStOIII house,
Brgliton, and found to contain several models of horses heads
o• a prodigious size, firmed of plaister of Paris. The insigni-
fi ant value of these articles, compared with the espences of
their removal, in freichtage. Oie. gave rise to a suspicion in the
Lisps ctor that occasioned them to he examined, when they
were found to contain two valuable clocks, several rich articles
French poreelaiu, silk shoes, &c. the duties upon which
any, not to som-thing considerable. The invention, altogether,
w is an ingeni nos one, and the French horses were vary near
pri•sing toit-fr.c
Tun usscx Worr.—An animal, which has of late excited
nw. h w nriermegi in the neighdourhood of Lewes, amid by many
2401 though to be a scoff, continues to elude the pursuit of his
mimeo otts enemies. At three o'clock last Wednesday morning,
. Walker, Esq. late High Sheriff, accompanied by nearly
,we hundred persons, took the field with his to hounds,with
a v.ew of hunting down and killing this mischievous animal;
bat u, va n. as they could not trace hint to his cos cr. Satiated
set h the blood of sheep and lambs, lie has spared the flocks
for several nights past, and it is supposed feasted on game,
which he ran get in abundance in Stormier Park, one of his
haunts. This destructive creature, which is uncommonly swift
of foot, anti avoids man, it is said, was brought from France by
one of our packets, and made his escape as they were getting
him on shore.

According to the oh'ervations of several German *Orono-
mers, upon the spots which the 5011. A disk exhibits at this period,
nue of tl.ein is of a comidei able size ; it resembles a Groupe or
snis.ll 61:mils lying dose tor titer, and has at least the breadth
of he diameter of the earth. Another ',pot is very obscure.
and surrounded by a lighter shadow.—There are six spots in
the whole.

'FurLots were sold last week at Gravesend for ts. each, snf-
frient for sic or seven people; ut another time the like
fuh would have fetched a guinea or nwirc.—They have been
proportionably cheap in the metropolis. Lobsters ako are iu
great plenty, and reasonable; the iniddling.sized ones telling
truth bd. to b. each.

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From the LONDON GAZETTE, Tuesday, June lb

At the Court at Carlton•house, the Bth of June, 1816; present, his
Royal ll:Kim:ma the Prince Regent in CeaineiL
Thib day the Right 'lan. Rdward Thornton was, by command of his
Royal 111,:hnesa thd Prince Regent, in the name and on the behalf of
his Majcity, sworn of hit Nlapaity's moat honourable Privy Councilb
and took tua place at the hoard aro

Crown-Olfre,J.fre 11.
Nvw Nrmurit, to I..rve in l'Auranstmer.
Borough of Newton—Hit:tom Gurney. fiat. of the city of Norwich,
and of Glotic.iter-phice, in the county of MithilLeex, In the room of
BarrinKton rope Blachfont. Esy. d,ceusxl•
Borough of Itidshall, otherwise Mitchell—The Right Hon. 'nog
Hamilton, commonly called I.oni Binning.

BANKRUPTS.
11. P. SfLVESTITR. of Newport, Salop, printer, July 1, 2. 23, at thi
Red Lion, Newport. Att.;. Ilenbow and Co. Lincoln's-inn.
T. Witiol.tawonalt, of Boylan.laWaine, York, tanner, June IC 42
the Stafford Anns. \Yak.:field. 29, July 2.3, at the King's ({cads
Barnsley, York. Att. Mr. liartltxt. Rartholomew-close.
M. A swittw, 4.f Nlanclim.ter, bru.hontker. July In. 12, 21, at the
Bridgewater Arras, Manchester. Ants. Milne and Parry, Temp Lt..
T. Tut: MAW, of Dawlish. Devon. tailor. June is, 25..Itily`M. at the
London Hotel, West Teignmouth. Att. :4r. Pairbank. Stark-inn.
J. SMITH. late of Sa‘intindhatit. Suffolk, brewer. June 24, 24. July
23. at the Bell, Saxanundham. Att. Mr. Alexander, Carey-etret..
late of Hurst, Lancashire, hat-rnanuf.icturer. July 10.
IC 23, at the White Ileac, Alaricileiter. Att.. Clarke and Co. Chan.
eery-lane.
W. Ilastii.rov and M. AGAR. of Riches-wort, I,ime-street, mere
chants. June 15, 22, July 43, at Guildhall. Au. Mr. Ilealitl4.
I .awrence-lane.
T. Fantigow, K. Grri.tr, and 11. Inacts. of Birmingham, HUT*
(nouns, June ?R. '29. July 23, at the Castle Inn, Birmingham. At
Swaine and Co. Old Jewry.
W. RrLEY. of Worcester. linen-draper. June 20, 21, July 23, at the
Stir and Garter, Wnrcerer. Att. Ylr. Beeke, Brram'N-huildMga.
J. W2noe, of I.eominster, Herefodshire, l:op-merchant. JHrte V7O
tra. July 23. at the Star and Quiet, IVorcoster. Att. Mr. Becker
Ilream's-buildings.
M. THOMAS. of Westburpupon-Trynt. Gloucerenhire, innholdee.
June 25. 27, July 23, at the Buiti:llet 'ravern, Bristol Att.. Poold
and ('o. Gray's-um-square.
M. A. HILL and P. PR.\ TT, of Msruthe,aer, milliners. July 10, IC
23, at the White !Dar, Maack-A:tr. A. Hurd and Co. temple.
W. BROW'S ant A. WALTAIL, of Bristol, merchants. July 3, 4. 2To
at the White Lion, Bristtil. Arts. Vizard &Co. Lincoln's-inn-fields.
W. IiAIOA. of Barnsley. Yorktihire, , June IS, at the Strad-on!
Anns. Wakefield. 2:4July 23, at tfireTiliig's Head, Barnsley. Atli
Bleir.dale and Co. New-inn.
T.

..lEryEnrcs. of Hanley, Stafford. grocer. July 1, 2. VT, at the
otfice of Mr. Dent, Stone. Am. Leigh and Co. New Bridge-street.
I. Tarton, of Newcastle-tinder-Lyme. wine-dealer, July 1, 2.25, at
the &Ivor Mr. Dent, Stone. Atts. Leigh and Co. New Bridge-at.
H. C/lAI'M AN, of New-mad. Si. Garage's in the East. carman. June
Is, 22, July 23, at Guildhall Mt. Mr. Carter, Lord Mapes
Court Office-
DIVIDENDS AT GUILDHALL.
Jhly 2. J. Taylor. late of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, linen-draper.
July 9, W. A. Spurrier. of Bristol. mercer.
July 2, W. Seymour, of the Cresoent, Minority, merchant.
July 9, W. Gledhill, of Jerrnyn-str,vt. St. Ja.-nees, warehol.sernat:
July 9., F.. and E. Stephens. late of Oxford-street, genera & gilder&
July 2. W. Cansdell, of Haekney-road. carpenter.
July 2,3. B. Wise, of Taplow Mills, Itockinghamshire,ymper-maker.
July 2, T. Bound!, of SL Edmund's Buq, tallow-chandler.
June 29, D. C. Marsh and Co. of Heading, bankers.
July 2, T. W. 11. Brandon, of Stoekwell•green, coach-master.
July 2, D. Trott, of the Old 'Change, calico-printer.
July 2.G. Hoare and J. Delralle, of Ludgate-hill, tobacconist/ft
June IS. F. and F. Thompson. of PaternOster-row. brokers.
July 4. C. S. Dud, of Milk-stro-t. Cheapside. warehousemen:
June vs, J. Tyennan. of Bristol, silk-mercer.
June 25, J. Free, of Standon. Hertfordshire, stationer.
July 2, It. Ford. late of Worcester, milliner.
July 4, J. Joseph, of Cornwall-row, and of Curties Halfpenny Hatt%
Lviulieth, iron-founder.
July 6, S. Taylor. of Otendon-stren, and of Guernsey. merchant