The Sun.
London, England, 1814-04-27 00:00:00

IMPERIAL. PA R LIAMINT.

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'HOUSE OF LORDS, TetsnA)r; AMT. 2G: -
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In a Committee of Pri%.-ilege on tlye Barnwell Peerage
Claiw, Mr. nail -was heard at ,one length fOr the Claimant.
The further hearing of this Caust Wa4.teserved for this day
se'nnight.
In she - Appeal Case, " Ilerthurn v. Calendar, Bart." the
Loan CnANeeLLon and Lord RhotfsnAtx delivered as their
opid;m, that it •woutd be 'proper in part to reverse and. in
part to remit the Decree of the Court of Session in Scotland.
Judgment, however, was.deferred until to-morrow, in order
that the terms thereof might bidetermined.
The' LAUbBEDALE presented a Petition from an
Appell-mt, against a Decree of the Court of Session, who bad
refnsed to grant Ccssio gownruni, Praying' to be heard on
thr sth of Jone•trext: The Respciddt;lit was caved to tlie
!ter, and at be made no nhjeetion to theicause being fixed for
that day, it was fixed for the sth of june.nceordinily.

• ' GOLD COIN 814-4.-
The Earl of•.La vt:nroot. haVing moved the third
reading of the (Sold Coin -
The Earl of LAUDERDALE remarked, that it was
extraordinary
.that Ministers, without any expla-.
nation to Parliament of the inconvenience which
'had arisen frorn the former temporary Act on this
'subject having expired, had proposed this dill for
its revival. As to. another branch of the laW
nearly connected with the Bill before the House,
Lis Lordship 'observed, that without some al-
teratiOn in the existing law, the Bank would
be obliged to "pay in Gold within Six months
after a treaty of peace. Whether or no this
was practicable he should trot then decide ;
hut .he hoped that' if his Majesty's Ministers
Wished- to. propose any new enactment on this
subject, they would not do -it without a full pre-
vious eXamination of 'the subject, in both Houses
of Parliament: It was certainly most.necessary,
that in time of peace- this country should not be
without sonic fixed and determinate currency; and
that. some regulation should be adopted with re-
gard to those 900 self-constituted banks, who in-.
undated the country with a currency which had no
limits but that of the corivenienee of the issues.—
He was of opinion' that thiS,SUbjett, on a full in
'(complicated as it' appleaved •at the ‘first
glimpse), would be' found Witlithi.difficulty. .He
had on this' subject addressdtl 'it letter to the NO-.
ble Lard opppsite to him"; to impress hint with'tbe
i:nimrtance. of the subject.: In the thin state of
the House at that time, he. Should be wasting the
time of their Lordships and his own, if he at-
tempted to enter minutely ijibkthe discussion of
the subject. a 9bc . .
The Earl of ;Ltvintrooti,renw ,aeu, that no .
conveniences mi,ght_have heel:felt since the ex-
piration of the last. Act on the Subject, because,
perhaps, that expirafibn was unknown to the
public. Lillis Bill, be thought, might be passed to
continue . pro tenzpore the law, without at, all
pledging any Lord: to, a particular conduct, at
the time which might \shortly occur When the
whole law, on' this subject might beimore hilly
revised.. He agreed, that in timeof peace it would
be advisable to recur to,the principles, at least of
the ancient state of the currency of the' Coun-
try, but at the present' moment the question
was one of considerable delicacy. The extra-
ordinary circumstances of Estrope had placed
the currency of this country in an artificial situa-
tion in which that of no other country bad
ever been placed, and he was convinced that with-
out the innovations, which had be;en made in the
old system, the.nation would not have been able
to have made- the exertions Which tor some time
tad- been necessary, especially for the present
year. Whether this opinion were correct or not,
Iris Majestys Government had a strong desire,- on
the -restoration of Peace, to consider the state of
the currency.
.He.should abstain froth stating any
particular course, but nothing would be proposed
to Parliament before hotb Houses had. the fullest
,means of forming 'a
judgment on the subject. The
bill was then read a third time.
I-IgLLSTOIS' ELECTION BILL.
The Earl of STANHOPE proposed' the first read-
ing of this Bill, as there wave seine petitions to
be presented against it, which could not be- re-
ceived' before thefirst reading'. The principle of
the Bill was excellent, but as to 'its propriety in
the particular instance, from ignorance of the
facts, he was unable to form any opinion. The
reason why he took part in the Bill was to skew
he badpo'hostility to it, as-be had apposed a simi-
lar pne in the' last Session, ',which was then
thrown out, in pursuance: of an excellent maxim
of their Lordships, never to proceed on, evidence
taken by the Commons, but to examine their
own witnesses. The Bill was read a first time.—
AdjoUrnecL