The National Register.
London, England, 1820-05-07 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer says, that his
late Majesty has left a will. We suppose it was
found by the present King on his late visit to Wind.
sor It is said, that his late Majesty, but a few days
before his mournful calamity, as if conscious of its
approach, ordered a master-key to be made, with
which he lucked up a drawer containing all his-
other keys. This master-key he delivered to Gen.
Taylor, with an injunction to preserve it in his cus-
tody, and deliver it to no one but himself, or in case
of his decease to deliver it only to his successor.
This key General Taylor delivered to the King on
Saturday se'nnight.

From the official return of the income and charges
on the Consolidated Fund for the year ending Ja-
nuary 5, 1820, including Great Britain and Ireland,
it appears that the income fur Great Britain duriug
that period is 41,725,0591. and that the charge
amounts to 46,080,4641., making a deficiency of
4,355,4051. The income for Ireland is stated at
1,251,9031., and the charge at 2,394,3311, show-
ing an excess in the Irish revenue of 1,857,5721. ;
tending of course to lessen the balance against
Great Britain, in making the return gene-
rally for the whole of the United Kingdom, which is
thereby reduced to 2,497,8331. Among the items
of charge on the fund for England are, '210,0001.
for the Duke of Wellington, and 72,8891. for interest
of Exchequer Bills issued to make good the defici-
encies on the Consolidated Fund. The accumulated
amount of the deficiency thr the preceding years is
not given in this return, nor have we the documents
at hand to refer to; but we understand it to be lit-
tle short cf nine millions at the period of making up
the getvaral account, .though, if continued to the
sth April last, the surplus then exhibited by the
official return for the quarter will reduce the total
deficiency on the Consolidated Fund to eight millions.
oneyis so remarkably abundant in the city,that good
bills arc readily discounted at 4, or, in some instan-
ces, per cent.; and, fin very short periods, at 3, or •
even two per cent. This tends to • deprive the
Bank, who never discount at less than 5 per cent.,
of one great source for the. employment of their
capital, and has assisted in procuring, credit for the
report very generally. circulated, that the directors
have finally determined not torcquire from Governs -
ment the payment of the second five millions during
the present year.. The Funds, however, have not
improved since our lust, and its the middle of the
week were mere depressed than they have been for
some time past. The monied interest seems now to be
waiting fur some intimation from authority concern-
ing the financial arrangements fur the year. Should
any plan be devised—of which we coiifess we see very
little probability—of raising the supplies for the
year without.lutving recourse to a loan, the reserve
of capital must seek employment, and finding no
more eligible mode of investment than the funds,
great purchases will be made, and the prices in pm-
pertion raised. A part of that capital is likely to be
directed, however, to the importation of bullion, to
which the high rate of exchange is calculated to
give facility and encouragement. A still greater
inducement is offered in a new mode of business
lately adopted at the Mint, where any person taking
gold in bars may now receive half the weight back
in coin in six days, and the whole in three weeks.
This arrangement, if the exchanges continue to rise,
trill circulate gold coin very generally in the country
long before the period when the Bank of England,
by act of Parliament, will be campelled to pay in
specie. By a return made from the Exchequer, it
appears that the amount of.bills in circulation on
the sth of January, 1820, was 86,303,20 a being
a diminution. compared with the amount in circu-
lation on the sth of January, 1819, of 6,905,2001.
in that portionolthe unfunded debts This diminu-
tion has been principally etfected by the payments
on the late loan, half of which was mad receivable in
exchequer-bills.

Interment of Thisdenvud, Tidd, Davidson.,
and Brunt. —Late on Monday evening the wives of
the above uulortunate men were lotiirmed, by the
Keeper of Newgate, that the bodies of their hus-
bands were buried, and would not be given to then?,
their Petition fur that purpose to the erivy
having been refused. It appears that a channel V.N.d
dug alongside of the subterraneous passage that leads
to the cells, and about seven o'clock in tile evening,
after th.: eoftias had been filled with lime, they were
strongly screwed up, placed in a line with each
other, and immediately strewed o,"_tr with earth,
and finally covered with stones.

AdminiNtration of the efLets. of Mrs. Frances
Shard, late of Torbay-house in the conniy of Devon,

and of H Auy.street, in the eottuty of Middlesex, .
was lately granted to George Made, Esq. the
nominee of his Majesty, for the use and benefit of his
Majesty, the said Nlrs. shard dying int,:statc,
without parent, brother, sister, uncle, aunt, nephew,
niece, cousin-german, or any known relation what-
ever, whereby her estate became escheated to the
Crown; her property sworn under 33,0x01.