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V'MBER 9845

NOTICE is hereby given, by the LORDS
COMMISSIONERS of HIS MAJESTY'S TREA-
SCRY, that all Persons desirous of signifying...their Assenr
10 receive .C 3 106. per Centuni Annuities, in lieu of £4 pet
Centrun Annuities, directed to be paid off, in pursitance of
,tlteaolution of the House of Commons, of the 44tbs Fe-
brultrY, 1824, in the manner therein specified, must signify
saw Assent on or before the 6th April, 1824, to the Govei-
°Or end Company of the Banks of England, or of Ireland,
Itcording as the Dividends may be payable.

Forms for expressing such Assent have been sent to the
."rf'+'al Country Bankers in Great Britain and Ireland ; and
'''"T also be had of the Postmasters of every Market Town
Great Britain and Ireland, as well as the Banks of Eng-
and Ireland respectively.

11. B. The Assents addressed to the Banks of England and
Ireland •respectively will be delivered free of Postage ; but
"•re must be taken that they are put into the Post-Office in
utfhoient time to be delivered in London or in Dublin, as the
case may be, on or before the 6th April, 18711-.

THIS is to give notice, that in Pursuance
of Directions from the COMMISSIONERS fur VIC-
TUALLING. HIS MAJESTY'S NAVY, I shall be ready at this
)444, on TUESDAY, the 234 instant, t• receive Tenders
writing (sealed up), from such Persons as will undertake t•
Peel:Mast the HIDES, (except what may be wanted for the
Deck Yard), and FAT that may be produced from the Oxen
144tghtered for the service of His Majesty's Victualling De-
Pertinent at. Portsmouth, from the Ist day of April next en-
14Ing, until the 30th day. of Juno following.
The Tenders to contain distinct prices, expressed in words
-* length for each article.—The same to be paid for at
the end of each month.
WILLIAM MELLISH.
"'dwell...Deck, March 11, 1824.

TO THE PROPRIETORS OF EAST INDIA STOCE.iI
LADIES AND GNI4TLEISILX,
I'leg leave to inform you, that Tuesday, the
23d inst. is fixed for the ELECTION of a DIRECTOR
ofyouraffairs, and I earnestly and respectfully entreat the
honour of your attendance at the Indiallouse, on that day, in
my favour.
- cannot,
tiring in adequate terms, express my gratitude for the
tattering reception with which I have uniformly been honoured
my canvass, or for the zealous and unreruitted exertions
my highly valued friends. A continuance of the same energy
annot fail, under your kind auspices, to command success ;
and,' should I attain the object of my ambition, I beg you to
be assured that my utmost attention shall be devoted to an active
and conscientious discharge of the various duties which are in-
Yeirei in that distinguished trust.
I have the honour to be, Ladies and Gentlemen,
Your most obliged faithful Servant,
J. PETTY MUSPRATT.
New Broad-street, March 11, 1024.
Mr. Muspratt's Committee will sit daily at the City of Lon-
Alou Tavern, where all Communications affecting his interest
-will be thankfully received.

RICUARDSON, GOODLUCK, and CO.
respectfully acquaint the Public that the SECOND
.I)AT .of DRAWING the STATE LOTTERY will •be
NEXT WEDNESDAY. There are FIVE PRIZES offta,ooo''
in._.the.Wheet, and the Two First-drawn Prizes will gash re-
ceive ,C 20,000 in addition.

SHARES, warranted Undrawn, are Selling, in a variety
of Numbers, at their Office, No. 104, the Corner of BANK
BUILDINGS, CORNHILL.

SLAVERY, &c. ! ! !
This Day was published. price 3s.
eOMMENTA RY on MR. CLARKSON'S
" THOUGHTS an EMANCIPATION," &c. with an
Appendix, exhibiting some new and accurate Information on
subjects connected with the Pamphlet..
By the Rev. JOHN HAMPDEN, A. 13.
Also,

I. CONSIDERATIONS ou the ABOLITION of *NEGRO
SLAVERY:, and the MEANS of PRACTICALLY EFFECT-
ING IT. By J. F. Barham, Esq. Third Etlithos, price Ss. 84.
4• An APOLOGY for WEST INDIANS, and REFLEC-
I'IONS on the POLICY of GREAT BRITAIN'S INTER-
PERRNCE in. the INTERNAL CONCERNS of the WEST
INDIA. COLONIES. By F. G. Smyth, Esq, price it.
Published for Ridgway', Piccadilly..

ledge, and when he should next visit his learned University of
Pavia, he would shew in what estimation he held them, and
exclaim, " how charming is Divine philosophy. It is not harsh
and crabbed as dull fools suppose, but musical," and in per-
fect
harmony with the morals and wishes of the Court of
Vienna ! With respect to the transaction with Austria, if
a future society of antiquarians, two thousand years hence,
were to have no other proof of its existence than the Bill
before the House, they might construe it a thousand different
ways. There was nothing to shew that money had been given
to Austria by this country. The guarantee of two loans was
mentioned : after which his Imperial Majesty declared, that
he would pay 2,500,0001., and then it was said that it might be
as well to give up 'keeping a separate account. It was now
some years sines those loans had taken place: were their Lord-
ships aware what the suns really was ? Those loans had been
contracted, the one in 1795, anti the other in 1797, and we had
undertaken to guarantee them on two grounds. The first, be-
cause it would afford facilities to Austria to bring her resources
into the field against the common enemy ; and the second, be-
cause we were told, the securities offered by that Power were
as solid as the Bank of England. The terms were said to be
so advantageous to the country, that we could sue the Empe-
ror in his own Courts; he had given bonds, mortgages, every
thing that was required, and we could not possibly lose one
penny. Now, although these loans were intended to enable
Austria eo bring her armies into the field, it was' a feet that
part of them had actually not been paid till after she had
concluded a separate peace with the enemy : for the second
loan was dated in May, and the Treaty of Campo Formio
in April. These two loans amounted to more than six mil-
lions. We had guaranteed the payment of the interest, and
an annuity for twenty-five years. The twenty-five years were
now expired, so that we had paid the whole of the annuity,
amounting to at least five millions, for he did net think that
Austria had paid more than one year out of the 25. Twelve
millions and a half had thus been drawn from this country, and
she was now saddling herself with a perpetual annuity of
250,0001., which, taken at the
_present value of money, required
a capital of at least five millions. The whole amount of the
money granted by this country to Austria was therefore not
less than 17,500,0001., without taking into consideration the
compound interest. For this we received two millions and a
half ! The nature of such a transaction his Imperial Majesty
did not choose to describe, nor the Bill either. But he had
heard it said that the money coming to us was to be considered
a God-send. Suppose that he held a promisory note for
10,0001., and he wished he did, from some eminent merchant
in the City, and that on enquiring from a friend on the other
side of 'Temple-bar about the character of the man, he re-
ceived this answer :—" Oh ! he is a most honourable, ho-
nest, and virtuous individual, a real Sir Andrew Freeport.—
II is house is one of the safest, bat if you ever get one thousand
pounds out of your ten thousand, you may consider it a God.
send.,, Such was the language held to the country. As
the Bill was worded, it was not known whether the money paid
be' Austria was a composition for a debt, or a present from the
Emperor to the British people. The matter seemed even to
appear as one of favour on his part. He disapproved of such
a delusion, and the manner in which the money was received,
was calculated to confirm it. It •was received as a shower of
gold—Here it comes ! here it is—fall to—does the Church want
any thing ?.--does the Crown want any thing ?—does Science
want any thing ?—take it use it—and the whole was imme-
diately to fly away and the country to lose ell advantage from
it. He did not mean to say that the application of this mo.
ney was wrong, but that it should not have been proposed
out of the Austrian Loan. If Parliament thought that
Churches were wanted, let sums be granted for their erection ;
but he could not help considering it strange that our Church
which was the richest in the world, should be the only one
which never did am thing for itself. As to the money thus
obtained from Austria, those from whom it had originally come
were to have no share of it. He did not see why the people of
England should be like Gidson's fleece, to be plucked by every
body. The Noble Lord then objected to the appointment of a
Commission to direct the application of the grant for repairing
and embellishing Windsor Castle. It would be relieving the Le-
gal and Constitutional Servants of the Crown, and throwing the
responsibility upon Parliament. It would be derogatory to the
honour of the Crown, by implying a jealousy which Parliament
had never felt- It was said that it would secure the advan-
agtereane.d
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.that there wa7
of taste he was an admirer of monarchy, baeLr:e othewoanrean
re-
quired fortitude of decision and the otherithriplieity of design.
As he walked down to the House, he might easily show proes
that Committees of taste, however able the indPricluals of whom,
they were composed might be, had never produced any thing
calculated to do honour to the country. He objected to the pro-
posed Commission therefore on grounds of taste, but still more
on Constitutional principles. The Noble Baron then brlefly
adverted to the Revolution of 1683; stated that he wished
to teach Ministers, on strong grounds, that those who go-
rerned this country should have the confidence of Parlia-
ment, and strongly objected to that- conduct which only
consulted the convenience of the moment. He should now
move that the Bill be re-committed, with the intention, if it.
should be so done, to propose an alteration in the Preamble.
He should not, however, press his motion to a division, though
he hoped he should. not be told, " What, you move an amend-
ment in a Money Bill." Had any one when he first came to
that House made such a remark, he would have been called to
order. He only stated this to make their Lordships understand.
where they were going to. -As to the Bill itself, he only wished
that every thing in it should be deer and open.
The Earl of LIVERPOOL, after having listened with all
the attention in his power to the speech of the Noble Baron,
was utterly at a lose to know what objection lie had to the
phraseology of the Bill. He expected to have heard some ex-
pressions pointed out as not giving a clear meaning, but that
had not been done, and in fact there was no want of pespi-
cuity in the wording that he could perceive. No one could
suppose that such a Bill should be drawn in a manner ungra-
cious to one of the parties. What did' it do ? It mentioned
transactions respecting two loans granted by Acts of Parlia-
ment: those Acts were referred to in the preamble ; it was
then stated' that we had guaranteed those loans; and lastly,
that the country accepted a composition in lieu of its full de-
mands. What obscurity was there in this? But the real
object of the Noble Lord- had been to read the House a.
lecture on the original transaction with Austria. There
would hare been no objection to such a course had the
task been fully anti fairly performed. But the Noble
Baron had stated all that was unfavourable to the Emperor,
and kept in the back ground all that redounded to his credit
and honour. The Noble Lord said, that the whole of the
sums expended by this country for Austria amounted to
17,500,0001. He (the Earl of Liverpool) thought it was
more. Were the compound interest taken into consideration
the total would not be less than twenty millions. Would it
' not be supposed from the manner in which the Noble Lord had
spoken of the transaction, and of the Bill; that instead of being
placed uuder the martini of events, wars, and necessities,
which made it doubtful whether-we retained-a right to make a
claim upon him, the Emperor of Austria had contracted a com-
mon debt with us in 1797, from which we were now letting
him off without proper payment. He would not stop to in-
quire whether it would have been better originally to give
the money to Austria as a subsidy rather than a loan. The
latter had been preferred by a Statesman, for whom he enter-
tained the highest respect, and who had acted with the best
intentions; but liee(Lord Liverpool) conceived it would have
been better to make it a subsidy than a loan, and he had no
doubt that those who had voted the latter at' the time would
have equally consented' to granted the former. Let it be consi-
dered what had been the situation and conduct of Austria after
the treaty of Campo Forme:). She had engaged into four wars
with. France, the first of which had been closed by the battles of
Marengo and Hohenlinden, the second by -that of Austerlitz,
the third by that of Wagram, and the last by those glorious
events which had placed Europe in its present state. The Noble
Lord had charged Austria with having concluded' the peace
of Campo Formic) in violation of herengagernents ; but there
was no man in this country who would not say that she had
fought to the very last, and that making peace had `been a le-lat-
ter of necessity, and so violation of her engagements: When
that Power was seen always ready to rise whenever its situa-
tion allowed it, had not' this country a right to remember
its efforts and- service& In three of those wars, hesides.
England bad granted her subsidies •withbet making any men-
tion of the former loans: Nay, he would 'refer the Noble Lord
WlVOsite to themselves: When they were in office they had
offered -a subsidy to Austria if - she -would 'march ; Austria did
notemarch, and the subsidy was not granted. Bitt after that
they, heellinuielated ,chargetewhich she' had 'made; They had
paid considerable sums ofeooney.to her, and.had'never claimed
ON Account- ofeeheee bane. He did not blithe .th'era for having