The Sun.
London, England, 1817-03-06 00:00:00

ithat Ii 1):c..11 Pmaitced. A personal attack bad
been ma le upon him for the letters W.W. P. said
to be inscribed on the tLverse ot the coin. He
should not tell air Honout•able Gentleman what
private mark's tie ball filaced ' theta. Jikt Ilie
,should inform him of what lie ought to have
known, that the Dint indentures autliarite and
almost direct the Master of the Mint to place his
private mark on the edge or on the flat part of the
coin, that he may know it from counterfeits. He
objected to being held ii us a man wbo should
have ostentalhmsly fixed his iilitiali nit the coin,
and as some falsely asserted, ota the shield itself.
Whatever private mark he had ii.,,), wits on the
contrary placed in such a manner as to be per-
ceived only with the aid of Magnifying -lasses,
and even then, if it had not been betrayed, it
would piobably never have been found out.:; As
to the conspariton between him and Cardindl
Wolsey, be, would tell the honourable and Learn-
ed Gentleman the fact, and let him get out of the
scrape as he could.—(Laughter.)—He called it a
scrape, for it was 'oriel° have fallen into misrepre-
sentations. Jo the reign of Henry VIII. Cardinal
Wolsey had
.been allowed to coin money for the
Clown at York. He 1)11(1 coined groats, some ot
which lie (Mr. W. V.) kart seen, An I put on them
in large capitals his initials: 21. ...,' ..•.i 1 I
W umasW otsf,.y ~
or, the table of the die, and under the Royal arms
a Cal dinars hat. One of the Articles of the int--
peachment was, that he had ponipinisly placed a
Cardinitl's hat, bat nor a word was said about
his having used his initi )19-. Now, was it fair to
say, that he liarl-done. the same thing as Cardinal
Wolsey 1 The ilinourable Gentleman was very
.ready to make an attack, and then attempted to
laugh it otl, but that would not do.—(Laughter )
lie had proved that lie had not acted as Cardinal
VolseY, butt he ,would now shOsi, that Cardinal
IVa!sey had been impeached on. other grounds
than tlioSe mentioned by the Hon. Gentleman -•-.
liar Martin Fawkes said that it were, the common
practice of his (the Cardinal's) predecessors and
successors, to pat their initiak on the coin, and
as indhe case of sevel il Arel.i 1 i 1 .i.soops of Canter-
bury, their mitres, but.that lit suppos.cd the ar-
ticle of impeachment itg;iinst !lie Colt nal was
for having put a foreign mark. Tire Ho,Oorable
Gentleman .had asked tor precedents. -,Re had
.more than twenty prl:cedents;' for Since Vial le,,
1.. all the Misters ot the Mint. had placed :heir
initials on the coin. As long as he should hold
his present office be shotild have wbat private
that k he pleased, only taking care that it should
be one to which his SOvereign could have no ob-
jection. Ile should then think very little of die
taunts or approbalioll of t lie 11,o). 'Gentlemen rip-
posit, The Learned Member had alsocomplained
of the expellee which the New Coinage had cog,
ntid eStimated it at 411) warOs of half a million. Ile
was happy In say, that in his opinion, as 14r as he
was able to judge at pre:etil, the 500.,0001. voted
last Sesdon for the New I.,oinage, wouhl covet
every expellee attending its execution and its dis•
tribntion. ,

Mr. BnotinuA.m contendqd, in explamitioo, that
the Right lion, Gentlew<in ba'l misunderstood lite
the whole II his urgoments, which were directed
agilinst lii issue of notes by the Batik, _and not
Against the Silver Colungt:

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER stnted
that no such col•respontleoce ns that of which a
copy was moved for VHS iit eXiitt'llee.

Mr. BRouOHANt thought that it might not exipt
in the shape descrfbed'in is motion, but that lie
had seen a copy of a letters- purporting to have
been sent from sonic public boirrd, to the effect
which he had mentioned.

The CHANcELLott of the LIACIIEQUER.—No
such letZer has been written from the-Exchequer,
CUMEN thought it his ditty to say that the
new coinage, and the manner in which ii bad het ti
exchanged for the old, had given universal sat is•
faction, and that he had not heard of one single
complaint,
After a few observntion9 from Mr. Alderman
SMITEI rind Lord.Coel(101148, the MULLM Wttti ne-
gatived without a division.