The Sun.
London, England, 1826-05-20 00:00:00

per nos who felt that they were under the guarantee of the English
6.fivernitteiat.
:or. LUSHINGTON said, that an answer had not been re-
tuned ma this Leathject from the Treasury until very lately. So
has Honourable irriend could not sooner have presented the peti-
I'boo. Uje ecgogted that that answer was not of a more satisfactory
nature, and be recollected that on a ffirtner occasion, he and. hie
Honourable :Friend the. Member for Knaresborough had success; e.
advocated a similar cause for another colony, when the Eiirl
BethurSsuade a communication which completely conciliated the
fectintts4ote,parties concerned,' .kle 4144404ffift,: in the present
insane., hkejulitice tveuld'be.done;
Mr. ELOCE, in allusion to the ohservation of the Right lion.
the Chwietiloe of the Exchequer; 'meld, he had heard ft with stir-
prise, and ilimildoven now be, glad to hear in what part of the
history of the peper curreimy of this country's colonial aequisitibn,
a precedent was to be found fur no anomalous and startling a pro •
petition., .. .
lIERIIIES should recommend the postponement of the
discussion until the documents were before the House.. This sir.
lotion bed netee.bieo at par, save at one period„7.in consequence
of the measures resorted to by the tlieit Dutch. Goverimient. The
deterioretion of the chrrency was attribiltable, to. its not being pay-
able op demand. 14, ippeared the Dutch residents had established
lately a very salutary prevision for adjusting the difficulties which
had *risen from this Mixed currently, by making Is. fid.. British,
equal to 4s. papa cttirency of the country, which provision would
fiend-eertaluly to redress, in soine degree, the evil complained of.
If the.parties holding these notes were to be now entitled to re-
ceive 4e.. in save, it *Mild be doing a manifest injury to the pub-
.4k. He hoped the time Was not distant when an issue of coin
-would relieve the currency of the colony front its embarraasmente,
and it was iatended by' Government to make that circulation uni-
form throughout the colony.
Mr. BARING agreed in the propriety of a new and better or-
' ganited currency id 'the colony. Already an ordinance of the
Cape of Gifothlittpe. Government had ordered Spanish dollars
to be taken at 4;S. 4d. The over issue of one million of rix-dollare
by the British Aleyeiument, under Lord Caledon, had mainly oe..
easioned the inetniyenietice and the depreciation of the colonial
• eurreecy. He hoped Parliament would not hesitate, by its re-
ception.of ,the petition,, to mark the 'conviction it entertained of
the imprepriety under any circumstances of such over-issues. He,
hoped the Hon. Gentleman would agree to the appointment of a
Commission, over which lie might very fitly preside, with the
advantage of bringing before. the Committee much important offi-
cial information. As to Colonel Bird, it was clear he had no
right to expect that he should receive four shillings for paper rix-
doll/ire issued for 45., but really worth at the time they were re-
ceived but British.
TheVetition was read, and, purported to be from Colonel Bird,
..of the Cape of Good .Elope, complaining of the depression in the
currency of that colony.
Mr..-BABING presented a Petition from the Manufacturing
Cotton Spinners of Glasgow, praying that the House would
Send to them in their distressed situation some suitable measure o