The Sun.
London, England, 1810-08-14 00:00:00

4):1t '<tog, t f l►titlgit the
vr:a iiott such .ait ihcreased deinand may recently have
essted in greater force than at former periods,. et in
the former wars' and convulsions of the. Continent,
they must have eXisted in'such a degree as to produce.
some effect. Sir I.raricis Baring has very justly re-
ferted to the seven years war and to the American
war, and remarks, that no want of Bull,on was
then felt in this country. - And upon referring for a
cotirse of years to the-tables which are published for
the use of the merchants, such as Lloyd's Liqs, and
Wettenhall's Course of Exchange, your Committee
have found that,from the middle of the. year 1773,
when the refortnatior of the gold coin took place,
till about the middle c: the year 1799, two years af-
ter the suspension of the cash payMents of the-Bank,
the market price of standard gold in bin remained
• steadily uniform at the price.of 3k 17s. 6d, (being,
with the small allowance for loss by detention at the
Mint, equal to the Mint' price of 31. 17s, 10.) with
the exception of one year, from May 1783 to May
1.784; when it was occasionally 31. 18s. _During
the same period it is to be noticed, the price of Por-
tugal gold coin was occasionally .as high as 41. 2s. ;,
and your Committee also observe, that it was stated
to the Lords' Committee in 1797 by Mr. Abraham
Newland, that the Bank had been frequently obliged
to buy , gold higher than the Mint price, and upon
one particular occasion gave as much for a small
quantity, which their agent 'procured from Portugal,
as 41. Bs. But your Committee find, that the price
of standard gold in bars was never for any length of
time materially.above the Mint price, during the
whole period of 24 years wnich elapsed from the re-
formation of: the gold coin to the suspension of the
cash 'payment of the, Bank. The two most rerna.
k-
able periods prior to the present, when the market
price of gold in this country has exceeded our Mint
price, were in the reign of King William, when the
silver coin was very much worn below its standard,
and in the early patt.of his present Majesty's reign,
when the gold coin was very much worn below its
standard. In both' those periods,
.the excess of the
market price of gold above its Mint price,was found
to be owing to the bad
.state of the currency ; and in-,
both instances, the reformation of the currency et.,
feEtually lowered the market price of gold to the
level of the Mint,-price. DUring the whole of the
years 1796 and 1797, in which
.there was such a
scacity of gold occasioned by the great demands of
the country Bankers in order increase their deposits,,
the market pric,e of gold never
.rose above the Mint
price.

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[To be continued.]

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ARRIVED-1 Dublin, Watertord. -bus--; Cadiz.

piticE 01 sTocics
THIS DAY AT TWILV F., O'CLOCK.

Consols -

68 Red. Ann. 6g I

THE SUN.

SOLENI QUIS AI SUM AUDEAT?

LONDON.

TUESDAY, AUGUST 14, 1510.

-A report was, circulated yesterday, that the Car-
teret packet, had brought intelligence of MURAT
having been defeated in an attempt to invade Sicily,
,with the loss of between three and four thousand
men. We should be very hippy- to Confirm this
agreeable intelligence, but it is our duty to state
that it is withotit foundation. We yesterday com-
municated to our readers, from the best authority,
the news brought by that packet. ' •

From the last accounts of our Squadron employed
on the coast of Calabria, which go up to the 23d
. •
,June, we had been invariably successful in taking or,
destroying all the armed vessels or gun-boats of the
enemy that our flotilla engaged, or were able to come
up with. All Mint AT'S great naval viBories con-
sisted in the desertion of a Sicilian gun-boat. to the

enemy. . .
•
The DRY of ALotEßs•declared war against France
on the 29th May' last.
The French have evacuated, the island of .Fantl,
to the:northward of Corfui which has been taken
•possession of by Capt. GIIFFITHS,. of the Leonidas.
On the .eoih June, a detathment of seamen and
marines, ' belonging- to the Alceste and Topaze,
.brought out and destrOyed seven vessels of the
'enemy from the Bay of Martino, IA .the Island of
Corsica, after driving the enemy frcm two strong
torts, burning the inagaiinet and spiking the guns.
tlu the performance of, this service, one men was
killed, and two wounded.

Last night. .we received Spanish Papers to the
2.601 tilt. We are happy to find that, the Spaniards
persevere- in their 'plan of avoiding general aelions,
and of harassing the French by innumerable small
patties. Even .in the Province of Biscay, which we
'might naturally suppose to be most completely in
the power of the French, the Patriots are incessantly
intercepting their dispatches, seizing their convoys,
and cqtting off their small parties.
Nothing at any, importance has occurred at Cadiz.

Sunday evening their MAJESTIES, Princesses,
AUGUSTA, ELIZABETH, MARY, and SOPHIA, walked.
on Windsor Terrace till half past eight o'clock.—
Their MAJESTIES and the Royal Party were ac-
companied by the Mafquis CORNWAi.Lis and family,
Earl COLLYER, Count MUNSTER, Gen. WYNYARD,:,
MeSsrs. PERCEVAL, RYDER, and a very crowded and
genti•el assoublage ot Nobility and Gentry of the
environs of Winthor, &c. During the time, the
bandi ot the Royal Horse Guatds (Shies), and Staf-
ford -Militia, played set 'cial martial pieces.