The Sun.
London, England, 1812-04-21 00:00:00

COLONEL M4MAHON.

Mr. FIoRNEH postponed the motion of which he
bad given . notice for Wednesday next, reLitive to
Col. Al ‘Mahon, to Wednesday settnight.
GOLD COIN BILL.
Mr. WITARToN appeared at the Bar of the Home
with the Report of the Committee on the Gold Coin
Bill.

On .the motion that it be brought up,
Mr. POLE CAREW argued against the former part
of the Bill, and expressed his wish that it could be
omitted.
Sir T. TURTON spoke at considerable length
against the Bill, and particulaily with resped to its
operation in Ireland. .He condemned the intimate
connedion k filch existed between Government
and the Bank, which he feared would be fatal to
both.

Mr. TAYLOR would have great difficulty in vot-
ing for the Bill, because it virtually made Bank
notes a legal tender. He adverted to the cases -of
France and Austria, and maintained, that, by ana-
logy, the same evil consequences with respect to our
paper were to be, dreaded in this country.
A Member, whose nanie'we could not learn, ex-
pressed his apprehension that 'die Bid would in-
crease the influence of the Ministers of. the Crown.
He allowed, however, that it went to remedy a DUM-
bet of evils in the North of Ireland, and there-
fore, unless a bt-nter measure were suggested, he
would not vote_against it, •
. Lord _Foi..xsToNE contended warMly 'against the
Bill. rl..munguther bad qualities it made that Crime.
which watt no-moral guilt. It would' tend also to
increase the munber of forgeries. The number of
persons, Prosecuted for-forgery on the Bank of Eng-
land for fourteen years before the restriction on ca,b
payments was tour ; the number for fourteen years
since the restriction was 471. The tendency of the
present Bill would be to increase this evil. If pass-
ed, it would be nugatory, for persons might still
sell guineas for country bank notes, and those coun-
try bank notes might be exchanged for notes of the
Bank of England. The exchisive currency of paper was
frequently attended with, serious losses to the poor. If
a labourer in the country received a note or two fi-
his:wages, at the end of the week, it might easily
happen, that, in returning home on a wet night,
they might be so softened with the rain as to be-
come mere pap, and not negotiable.—He had heard
of a poor, man, who having put a few notes on the
shelf of his cupboard, in the neighbourhood of some
bread and cheese, found in the morning, to his no
small affliction, that the rats had eaten not only his
bread and cheese but the notes al3o.—{A laugh. j---
Gentlemen might laugh ; but this was a very seri-
ous.case. The Noble Lord proceeded to state a
number of further objections to the measure, arid
expressed his determination to vote against it. He
concluded by moving as an amendMent, that the
Report should be brought up on that day " six
moot ha.-

Mr. SIMEON oi.vosed the Amendment, and re.
plied .to the arguments of the last Speaker.
Sir J. NEWPORT greatly disapproved of the
,Bill
altogether, the report of which it was now pro-
posed to bring up.
Mr. M'NAUGHTON defended the principle of the
Bill.
M 4. G. JOHNSTONE spoke at some length against
the measure.

Mr. N. VANSITTART expressed a conviction that
the Bill ought to pass, as much benefit had been de-
rived from a similar measure in England, while
Many inconveniences were felt from the want of it
in Ireland.

Mr. HORNER opposed the principle of the Bill,
and contended that it'would not be found to remove
the evil it was intended to meet, which evil, unless
a proper remedy-were applied, would only be aggra-
vated, as in other countries, by such officious legii-
lative enactments. He also contended, that after all
that had been said on the improved state of the ex-
changes, and' the reduced. price of gold, the ex-
changes were now more against this country with
.Hamburgh, Amsterdam, and Paris, and the price of
gold higher, than when the Bullion COmmittee
made their report twoyeais ago.
Mr. A. BARING had great objections to the present
system, which, if not altered in time, appeared
to get past all remedy.

The House then dilrided on the bringing up of the
:eport. •

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The report was thee brought tr• ii, -and several new
clauses were propoSed, which were rejeded with-
put a division.

On the motion of the CHANCELLOR of the Ex-
CuziatiEß, the Bill was recommitted for
,the pur-
pose of making some verbal ri mendmen s, which
b,.ing agreed to, the report was again brought up,
and the Bill ordered to be read a third time ibis day,
The Committee on the Irish Population Bill was
postponed to this day.

The other Orders of the Day were then dilposed
of, and the House adjourned at Two o'Clock:.

Miss BURNEY, from whose forthcoming Novel
(Trails of Nature) so much pleasure is anticipAtecl,
is the second daughter Of Dr, BURNEY, and sister to
Madame D'AußLAir, Author of 11.elitia' and Ce-
cilia. --