The National Register.
London, England, 1822-02-24 00:00:00

DIVIDF:NDS.

March IS, 11. Hewitt and E. and J. E. Bowman, Nantwich.
.Citeshit bankers-20, J. living, jun. Carlisle, grocer-19, J.
Davies, Nlitcheldean. Gloucestershire. drapzr-21, T. Meatyard,
I:untold] Magna, Dorset, dealer-15, C. Grinstetland J. Lan-
item, llursham, Sussex, bankers-18, W. Biggar. Manchester.
Whaler-16, J. G. Flowers, Leadenhall Street, tailor-25, T.
cClay,Worksup, Nottinghamshire, grocer-16,J. Antler-on, West
Smithfield. bookseller-16, R. Friday, jun., I,lewottli. Middle-
'sex. barge n,aster-16, T. Douglas, Dover. master marina—lG,
T. Vearthey,'Portsmouth, slopseller-16, B. Bove, Tokenhouse
Yard, insuranc2. broker-3U. J. llumdall, Bristol, haberdasher
—16,3. P. Ritlout, Bridpoit, Dorset, linen draper-2, it. Ne.
vifle, Coltnester, dealer-16, C. Coates, New Bond Street,
druggist--16. W. Jenks, Aldermaubury, xilk weaver—tG, J.
•Gale, Paternoster Row, wholesale stationer-21, R. Hulse,
Hind:l4. Leicestershire, grocer—Feb. 26, G. Gardiner, St. John
Street, itutin.en;4er-16, J. 31. Dc Quiros, Size Lane,aucklers-
bury.. merchant.
LLB I'IFICATES to be granted March 16.
S., W.. and J. Gratrix. Manchester, calico printers—if H.
.Payne, Bury St. Edmund's, Sufliilk, grocer—W. Hancock,
'Bury Sc. Edmund's, cab;net uhtker—J. Glover. Eastliope, Salop.
dealer—J. 'l'. Thorne, Plj mouth, crurier—J. H. Lay, Longtoyd
'Midge, Yorkshire, drat..

(:NURSE (4F EN
12 'lO C. F.
it sight, 12 8
koticiilm4l, ti 10
Aithirecii, 12 7
iHambncgli, 31' 6
Altona, 37 7
Pittis, 3 d.tys' siert, 25 60
Ditto, es 90
13niirtlrati‘, es .90
frattlaw t theMaiste, 136
Peteisiluigh, 9 0 U.
'Vicuna, Flo. I 0
Tt•it•st4., Flu. IL/ 18
111.01 36 '
13i11005,34}-11iirvirlims,154

;MANGE, Fria. 19
3.V—liknaltar,3ol
Leghorn, 43i
Malta,4.s—Venice, 27 GO
Naples, 394—Li.bon, 50
Oporto, 50-11dliia,50
Rio Janeiro, 41
Palermo, 119
Thiblin, 8i per Cent.
Cock, 9 per ccht.
Foreign gold in bara.,Bl. 178.

WO. per oz.
New Doolikuus
New Dollars
Silver in barstrtandard, 4s,
!lid.

#'ICE UP STOCKS.
Bawl Stork 2184 ()manna 0.
3 pee Vent. lied. 191 11111).3 per Cent.
3 per Veeit.C..nools VI India Bonds 18
3 pre Vent. '6a India Stook
4 per trot. tsi "Exchequer Bills 2s. prem.
per Ce,,r. \ 1031 C,ws. for Ac. 781
Cow Aim. 20 9-16 Litters. Tickets £2l 18*.

NAT tO NAL REGISTER

LOUD= :
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY Vs.

IMTORTANT COMMUNICATION.

Fr:day, at 12 tklock, was the time appointed
by the Earl of Live:peel .and the Chancellor-of the
Eseliequer for an interview with " the Merchants,
.Backers, and Holders of 5 per Cent. Stock." The
anti-room was ..crawded to auffocatien, and it was
nesrly half-past P.: before .the room in which the
.111ini:ters were, was opened. The Earl of Liverpool
*then said, that the Chancellor of the Exchequer and
valid the meeting, for the purpose of
communicating the ititcutitins of Government res-:
Teutitig ae transfer of the Z, per Cents.—he would
-read the- .priiposiiion over to the company, and he
weul.l afterwards deliver it to the Governor of the

THE NATIONAL REGISTER

Bank, who was present, to be made as public as pos-
sible. He begged, however, to premise, that the
meeting was not called with a view to promote dis-
cussion, but simply to hear the proposal of Govern-
ment.—Lord Liverpool then read as follows:
". new Stock of 4 per Cent. to be created, the
interest of which to be payable on the sth January
and sth July, and not to be paid off before the sth
January, 189.9—ia which Stock 1031. to 'be given for
every 1001. of 5 per Cent. The first dividend on
the new Stock to be payable ou the sth January,
5•23. Books to be opened at the Bank of England
from Monday the 4th of larch, to Saturday the
IGth of March, for the purpose of receiving the
names of such parties as dissent from this arrange-
ment, and every one who does not so signify his dis-
' sent, to be held as acceding to it—but those parties
who may be out of the United Kingdom to be
allowed till the Ist of June to signify their dissent,
and to a more distant period if out of Europe. The
dividends on the 5 per Cents. to be paid up to the
sth July, 182'2, at which time the paying off the
Stock of such as dissent, to commence in numerical
order, as they appear on the books, and to be conti-
nued at such times and i❑ such manner as Parlia-
ment shall direct."

After having read this document a second time,
the Earl of Liverpool said, (in answer to a gentle-
man who had no wish to "promote discussion," but
was anxious to know how trustees were to act who
had 5 per Cents. standing in their names), that the
Act of Purl iament would contain a clause authorizing
such trustees to exercise their judgment, and indem-
nifying them from any consequent suit at law.
The Earl of Liverpool and the Chancellor of the
Exchequer then left the room, and the meeting dis-
persed.

The proposed reduction of the interest of the
Five per Cent. Stock cannot be justified by anything
less than a quilib!e, and if Ministers were brought
in a body before the Insolvent Debtors' Court, they
would certainly be remanded, for having given a
preference to a part of the public creditors. By way
of elucidation, take any one period, and it will be
found that THE RELATIVE PRICES 01 STOCK HAVE

BEEN VERY NEARLY EQUAL TO THE RELATIVE IN-
TERESTS-RMI it would be just as fair for the S per
Cents. to 'he paid off at 601. fur every 100:., as for
the 5 per Cents. to be paid off at par, above which
most of the present holders have bought in. As to
the bond being discharged by the payment of the
par price, a justification of the measure is like the
keeper of a gaming-table returning the amount
staked, to a fortunate gambler, and telling him he
has no right to grumble, for he had got back again
all he advanced. Besides, we might very well cau-
tion the holders of the 3 and 4 per Cents. as to the
precedent established—we might remind them of
the fable of the carpenter, who went into a woad,
and requested of the House of Commons-of-Trees
permission to take far himself simply a handle for
his axe—the handle was granted at once, and the
whole wood was felled by the aid of the thotghtless
bion. If Government, determined to adhere to
their expensive and unnecessary establishments, find
an act of roguery necessary to suppm theta, let
them act impartially—the funded debt, to make use
of round numbers, we will take at 900 millions, the
5 per Cents. at 150 millions, the robbery to be com-
mitted upon the public craditor at one million and
a half per auttum—if, then, the funded property
must submit to any breach of faith at all, let the
5 per Cents. bear their proportion, and let the other
Stocks do the same; or in c.:.:ra words, as the 5 per
Cents. constitute one sixth of the debt, let them be
saddled with one sixth of the diminution of income,
but not made the sacrifice to the interest of the
holders of :3 and 4 per Cent. Stock.

The accounts received on Thursday from the
South of Ireland, consist of details of various out-
amongst them an attack on the barracks of
Listowell, in which a small body of military were

stationed. The insurgents condurted themselves in
a most daring manner, but they were repulsed with
loss. A detachment of ten soldiers who were
within hearing of the firing, promptly hastened to
the assistance of the military, but in attempting to
cross the river three of them were untimtunAdy
drowned. The insurgcntss, it is said, appeared re-
gularly drilled, and acted systematically. Monday
se'nnight a numba of the deluded peasantry went
to the demesne of Mr. Courteney's agent, where
several ploti4lis were at work, and ordered the
ploughmen to desist, who obeyed the command.—
On Thursday night following the Whiteboys
second time visited Water Castle, and entirely de-
molished the house.

STOCK EXCOANGE.—Three o'clock.—The Ra.•
tunda has been crowded wish country people who
are selling Navy Stock, the produce of which is
chiefly invested in Co isols, but not a few take away
their money. If the enormous sums which the Mi-
nister's pain will throw into Foreign Stock, and
the number of persons who will carry their capital
to other countries, are considered. it becomes very
questionable whether the real saving will amount
even to one-fourth of the sum gained by a reduction
of the interest upon funded property. 'ram the
present temper of the fundholdem, as far as it can be
ascertained, it seems quite probable that many mil-
lions will disappear that way The stockholder -xho
had 1001. in the Five per Cents. will now receive
841. Every description of Foreign Stock has risen.
Spanish Bonds are at this moment done as high as 60
to 604, and were it not fin. the dread of fbrgeries
(it being believed that several forged Bonds are in
the market), they would have been still higher.—
Consols -& per Cents, 981—Navy 5 per Cents, 1031
—Spanish Old Bonds, 59k—Ditto New Bonds, 601
—Danish, 85 —Prussian, 881 i.
Gibraltar papers to the Ist inst. arrived yesterday
morning. They supply same details on Spanish
affairs, the general tenor of which has been pre-
viously known. The servile rebellion at Navarre
is stated to be at an end. Such of the insurgent
leaders as are not in custody have fled into France.
The reported pacification between the Porte and
Persia, and the rumour of the death of the Persian
Prince, who:n it was said was found dead under
suspicious circumstances in his tent, are now posi-
tively denied in some %veil informed foreign journals.
By a recent decree of the Spanish Cortes, all
Spanish vessels employed in the slave trade are to
be forfeited, and the owners, fitters-out, master :=,
and ofliceis, condemned to ten years' labour on the
publi:.: works. All foreigners entering Spanish p,,r:s
with slaves on board shall be liable to the same re•
nalties, and all slaves fiaind on board shall be st.t
free. ._ _ . .

In Bath and its neighbourhood persons arc now
offering brandy and hollands for sale at low prices,
for the purpose of laying infJrniations against the
purchasers. Two informations of this nature have
lately been heard at the Guildhall, and the parties
fined in 1001 and costs.
The Board for victualling the Navy is to be new
modelled, for which purpose a patent is now passing
the great seal, and the whole routine of the office
is to undergo a revision, particularly in the exami-
nation of and passing the accounts of l'ursers. The
number of clerks in this ollice is consideaahly ro-
duced, upwards of thirty having been dischar;ed
during the last week, some of whom it is sail, %vi:l
be allowed small pensions.
The Duchess of Montfort (the consort of Jerome
Buonaparte) has had the good luck to gain a cause
that was brought before the tribunal of Paris. She
recovers by the verdict an estate worth 461.,000f.
nearly 20,0001. sterling.
A very numerous meeting of farmers took place
at the Swan Inn, Chichester, Mr. Stephen NVoold-
ridge in the Chair. About 200 persons, as ma::y
the room could contain at the tables, dined. r
dinner the farmers, who were not able to find room
at the Swan, came from the other market thinners I.:r
the purpose of hearing the discussion which was ex-
pected. us the causes, extent, and remedy of the
present distress under which the agricultural 1104
suffered.
WHITS AND COGNOVITS...-.-ID the King's Bench
—The following important order was made by the
Judges on Wednesday last :
" Hilary Term, 2d and Sd George ath.—ln order to prevent
the fraudulent issuing of any Wnt of Execution, without .5
Judgment to support-It is ordered, that the sealer of writscd
this Court 61101 not seal any writ of Fled t uei.b, ur Captits
Satisfacienduin, without having the Judgment paper, post
ea
inquisition, produced to him. And it is further ordered, that the
, or
attorney concerned for the plaintiff in the cause, or bib agent.
shall, upon bailable 'mane process, and every writ of attachment,.
Filen Films, and Capias at. Satisfacienduni, inch): se the place in
abode and addition of the party against whom the writ is issuebs
(or such other description of him as such attorney or agent may
be able to give.) And it is also ordered, that no judgicent be
signed upon any Cognovit without being produced to the clink of
Ate docket, and (after the taxation of the costs) filed with Ma."

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