The Sun.
London, England, 1822-09-20 00:00:00

BANK FORGER I CS.

Mr. SOLLY thought it of great importance to the public -to'
know, whether any and what progress had lately been made in
the new plan for the better prevention of forgeries. Was it still'
on trial, or had it been abandoned ?
The Gov EIINOR replied, that as yet no plan had been de-
vised which was likely to have the effect of preventing forgeries;
but it must be gratifying to know that the Bank had, since the
circulation of gold, fewer forgeries than on any former occa.
sion. A short time ago the Bank had all over England but one
person in confinement- on a charge of forgery. The number
was at present very few indeed.
111 r. Sont.l- said, that the Withdra*al of the small notes, and
the substitution of gold coin, must necessarily, by removing
the temptation, have diminished the number of Bank-note for.:
genies. It was, however, possible that the concerns of the
country might again compel the Bank, for' the public interests,.
to resort to a new circulation of small Bank-notes--of course he •
did not mean to anticipate such an event; bat it happened be
fore, and might again occur ; and then it would be a very in-
convenient moment for trying that experiment for the better
prevention of forgery, which at present could be so much bet-
ter attended to. This was the time for making the trial, and'
not when a new issue might take place; and he begged to press
for a distinct answer to his question, as the plan so much talked
of had, he understood, been long on trial. For hinigelf, he'
confessed he .had never been very sanguine about that plan,•
but other plans might be devised; at all events, the present-
time was the best applicable to such a consideration.
Mr. RANDI.E JACKsON entertained no doubt that the
Court of Directors would prosecute every inquiry, and take
every step which appeared calculated to prevent forgeries ; but
what he principally rose to observe upon, was an inference raised
by the Hon. Proprietor ( Mr. Solly) upon an assumption that the
Bank might be again called upon toissue small notes, an event
which that Hon. Proprietor seemed to anticipate as one of dis-;
tressing and desperate necessity. Now he (Mr. Jackson), so
far from concurring in that opinion, was one of those who
thought that a fresh issue of the smaller Bank notes would-
be a very great accommodation to the public.—(lleac l)—So
far from anticipating such an event as one which ought to be
considered as indicating a distressing or desperate necessity,
he thought it would be hailed by the country at large as a
measure of the greatest commercial convenience.—(Hear l)--
As the law stood, (and if he were incorrect in his statementof it,'
the Governor would correct him), the Bank had the volition'
of issuing smaller notes whenever it appeared to them that the
public interests or convenience required such an issue ; and
he knew that whenever they determined to resort to such a
measure it would be received, not as shewing any distress or
ill management, but as a manifestation of their desire to satisfy
the wants of the nation.—(Hear !)--Ile saw no necessity of
reminding his hearers of the calainities which had befallen the
public, owing to the withdrawal of their small notes. With
regard to the question of their forgeries, undoubtedly they
must fluctuate with the amount and particular nature of-the
currency in circulation ; but respecting them he must sty
this—that he had anticipated the increase of that species of
crime, the moment they had by their mode'of proceeding te-.
ducedit to a misdemeanour, and Only consigned the offbnder
to the enjoyment of the blasphemous jollity of Newgate, or
the still greater jollity of Botany Bay. Assisted by the Se,
cretary for the Horne Department, or in' any other quarter,
he still thought that means might he devised, through which,
the Bank might again resort to an issue of small notes with!
greater safety, and he was sure that whenever they did so, the
convenience if not absolute necessity of such a proceeding .
would be generally felt.—(Hear ,
Mr. 501.1. Y, in explanation, said, that he had ne.'-er stated.,.
not ever meant to state, that such a re-issue would imply in-
capacity, distress, or ill management, either on the part of the
Bank or the country. All he wished to urge was the aptitude
of the present moment to make the inquiry to which he had
alluded.

A PROPRIETOR, whose name we could not learn, begged
to express his dissent from the Hon. and Learned Gentleman's
(Mr. Jackson's) opinion, that a re-issue of small notes would,
in the present situation of the country, be of public advantage.
The contrary, in his opinion, would be the result, for the
money market was already overflowing for want of an adequate
employment of capital; ,
and the evil would necessarily be in
creased if an issue of Bank notes were to augment the amount
of money so afloat.
Mr. Youwo submitted that this conversation- was quilt
irregular.
The question was then put upon the usual dividend, which
was unanimously agreed to, and the Court was then adjourned.
The dividend warrants were ordesed 'to be made out on Fri,
day the 11th of October next.

CLERICAL INTELLIGENCE.
The Rev. Benry Tattam, rector of St. Cuthbert's, Beef .)4, •
(to which living he was lately instituted on the nresentat'o3 of
the King), has-been appointed chaplain to the English church
at the Hagtte.
EXETEII, SIFT. 18.—At a private Ordination held by the
Lord Bishop of the-dioeeie, in his chapel, on Sunday. last, the
Rev. William Martin, 8.A., -of Merton College, Oxford, ma* •
admitted to the Holy Order of Priesthood ; and on Monday,
Mr. Martin was instituted ~by his'Lordship'tO the vicarage of
Gwennap, in Cornwall, on the presentation of the Venerable 2`
the Dean and Chapter of Ex.etcr 4',oid by the death oLthe Rev
Livingston Booth.. .• •

FOREIGN INTIMLIGENCE.

PARIS, SEPT. 16.
[From the Constitutiontzel of Sept. 11.]

Although our own letters make us doubt the
-reports which have been spread these three days,
and Which may yet continue several days, of the
fo•rnplete annihilation of the Greeks, we cannot
dispense ..with giving the reports contrary to our
own, and in which we do not place credit.
Tutr.sTe, SEPT. 2.—A vessel which arrived
'yesterday from Corfu says, the Gazette of Augs.
-burg has brought us dreadful news from the
Morea.* • Chourschid has penetrated into it with
the amnesty of Scio in his hand. The gold
.of the English has accomplished what the sword
of the Turks .could not. Numbers of fugitives
,endeavour to reach the islands ; and the fate of
:he Jews will be also that of the Greeks. It is
in vain 'to hope for any moderation on the part
-of the 'irritated Mussulthen, even if the Sultan
. desired it. The' Morea' Will be one vast sepulchre.
This catastrophe was so sudden, that many per-
sons suppose Lord Strangford hurried the Sultan to
Knish the affair before the opening of the Congress.
The Greeks in this town have got a gleam of
hope ; they say that the Turkish fleet which ap-
yeared off Patras, and which took on board the
Dew Captain Pacha on the. 7th of August, was
defeated on the 13th, to the south of the Mores,
by the Greek fleet.t.
A Journal has announced the seizure ofa second
•part of the Leltres runes Cent Jours, by M. Ben.
jamin Constant. Another Journal denies this,
and the curious pamphlet of M.Gonstant is still
.0 be procured at the elder ilecilet's, Quad des
A ogustios.
The 25th Regiment of •the Line, canting from
Strasburgh anti going towards the South of France,
traversed within these few days the Department
of the Ain. Several other regiments have also
'passed through Macon, to go, by Lyons, to the
. South of France.
The 'Journal du Nord (Lille,) of the 14th,
published an article communicated to it of the fol.
iowilig tenor :
" The 59th Regiment, coming from Belle-Ile-
-En-Mer, was received with French cordiality
:by the troops of the garrison ; a joy a little too
animated, and which was checked at the moment,
has given occasion to malicious people to suppose
that certain cries were heard, which are only
used by conspirators. Such reports are wholly
false. •The 59th Regiment equals the garrison
of Lille in .zeal and devotion to the King, and
-will follow, on ail occasions, the example which
;he troops of the 16th. Military Division have
;Dever ceased, since the restoration, to give the
Army."
. • The same Journal had announced the arrival
of -M. de la Fayette at M. le Baron de Brigade's,
at'Atiappes; it has since retracted this, but In its
i-etra,ctatiou there is a false allegation.
cc It is not AL de la Fayette," it says, 6C but
1. le..Comte de Latour Maubourg, Peer of
France,- Aide-de.Camp to General Lafayette at
the epoch of theßevolution, and,.like him, grand.
father Madame Brigade." :•.4f4'.F:2Cho du NOrd
informs• us, however, that the-person "whparrived
at M. le Brignde's., at Anappes)-r is-le Comte
Charles de Maubourg, lieutenant in the Gardes-
du.Corps, anti father-in-law- of :this honourable
DepotY.
M. de la. Fayette is at lik-estate'of Lagrange.
Le Baron de Cords, Mirechal-du.Camp, In.
..snectOrGeneral of Artillery., set out at 4 o'clock,
Ana the morning of. the sth, from, Perpignan for
Mont-Louis, wherelte is to be occupied with the
.operation; for,:Which he was sent into this De-
partment. 11f.de Montfort, Marechal.clu.camp,
Ins,pector orligineers, arrived at Perpignan the
same day, in order to execute a similar mission
for the Department to which this General Officer
attached.
It is said that M. Bellart, the Procureur
,General, having obtained leave of absence, has
set Puton a journey through Italy.—(Constitu-
,tionnet.)
We have advices from the Viscount de Mont.
..Inorency, Ambassador from the Court of France
-to the Congreis, dated the Bth of Septeinber.
His Excellency had already been admitted to an
antlience of the Emperor of Austria, and had
held conferences with the Foreign Ministers as-
s;Prnbied at Vienna. The Emperor Alexander
arrived there on the 7th. The conferences at
Vienna are merely preliminary, and all important
. deliberations will be postponed until the Congress
sheet at Verona.—(kioniteur.)
The Austrian Observer of the 6th inst. con-
',.fi'rrits. the report of the plague having made an
:Of:inning progress in Albania,. and addi that it
tits- 'extended its ravages to Epirus and the
NlOreit. All the inhabitants of Janina have
atandoned that town, and two of them, who had
taken refuge in Delvino, have communicated the
• contagion there..
•-,A.t.1 the lonian Islands in the neighbourhood I
tif Corfu have beeh protected by the establish.'
meat of_ a quarantine of fifteen days, and the
usual quarantine regulations were strictly ob.
wyeil in the ports of the Adriatic.—( Journal
ILI 'Mats.)

In its last sitting the General Council of the
'Department d Calvados decided to petition the

c We have letters from Leghorn, of the 4th of September,
whicch inform us that an lonian vessel, commanded by Captain
left Spezzia on August 10th, and arrived at Leghorn on
bptsmber Ist, and brought news confirming what we said in
the Cowalutionne2 of Sept 14th. The Turks, according to
a)1 the Journals, had penetrated into the Peloponnesus, but
had been three times successively defeated, and obliged to re-
tire on Corinth, which it was hoped they would soon be obliged
to evacuate.
•Our correspondent adds, that the Turkish military chest fell
Into the hands-of the Greeks, and that Tchar Hadgi Ali Pacha,
fJrrnerly Grand Vizir and Commander in Chief (and not
Maunowd Pacha), perished in the battle of Aug. 7. The Ger-
man Journals, which announced the ruin of the Greeks, have
only:spoken of what might follow the entrance of the Turks ;
while our information, later than theirs by several days, gives
the details of mhat actually followed. To-morrow we will give
our rctaders the Bulletins of the Greek victories.--(Note of the
Editor of the Con4itutionnel.)
t The news of this victory must be false. Captain Vidali
-ow the Greek fleet leave Hydra on the lgth August ; it could
not therefore be at the south of the Morea on the 13th.----(Note
cif ht,e Editor of the Con.ytitutionnd)