The Sun.
London, England, 1818-02-02 00:00:00

BANK TOKENS.

Mr. CURWEN begged to kliow %vhether any steps
'ad been- taken to secure those persons. front loss
who might chance ro have Bank of Etigland To-
.
-kens in their possession after the period appoint-
ecl by' for their recall ; anti 'whether they
.would not bvreceked in payment by the Receivers
.of. Taxes ?:

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, that
?the question of the Hon. Gentleman could' not be
easily• answered. The receivers of Taxes would
no doubt receive the Bank Tokens so long as the
.Bank wonld receive theist, bin he was not pre,
-pared to say they would do more. [le :understood
there had been 'some communication frOm the'
Bank on the subject to the Country Bankers, with
tt view of facilitating the exchange of the Token,s
for other money.
Mr. Co awEbr-saidi- that so as means were taken
•-to,Sciire the
,public.front,-loss, he yeas satisfied;
and that, in the mean time, he hoped the stare-
inent •of the Right Hon Genilcman would pot the
public on their guard.
COMMITTEE OF SUPPLY;
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER having
moved that the House should resolve itself into a
Committee to consider of the Supply,tobegranted

to his Majesty, observed that the object he bad
► tiotv in view was Merely to. adopt the usual
form of taking into consderation that part of his
Majesty's Speech which referred to the supplies
for the year. . It - was always customary to refer
,this subject to a Conemittee of Supply the day
succeeding . that on which the Speech itself had
been taken' into consideration. He had adopted
..tl►e earliest opportunity of pursuing .this.courAe.
If it were intended to enter into any discOssion,
it would be fitter to d►fcr the quebtion till Mon,'

tlaW

Mr. SHARPE did not rise to oppose the motion,
lya•to express his.surprise, that'in the Prince Re-
gent's Speech there was not one word said of eeo.;
pinny or retrenchment.. There was not the same
tegard even to appear:awes that was observable
at the opening of the preceding Session. On the
,contrary, it seemed to be the intention of his ilia,
jell's Government to raise the income of the
.co, ~try to, the expencrs, rather th.,n to re(inee
!,•pencts 'to the: income. 'lt WI'S inipOrtN;ll,
ly that petiod approached when they

were tb Meet their eanstitnebts, anti when
would be calla upon to describe, what the state
of the country was, that it should be understood
to what class th,y belonged—whether to that
class which had assisted in adding to the iisto:er-
able taxation of the people, wolf() the 1av4,11 ex-
penditure of Ministers, or to that class which en-
deavoured to lessen the burthens of the people,
and to oppose a further extension of. extrava-
gance.

' The CHANORtLoR of the EXCHEQURR said, that
as be bad already pledged himself to
_bring for-
ward a regular statement of the Financial staite of
the Country, and as it was Only when that state-
went was before the House that any discussion
on financial subjects could be fairly or regularly
entered upon, the observations of the llonourable
Gentlemau who spoke last were quite uncalled
for for on the present occasion. His Altjesty's Mi-
nisters were 'now, as they had ever been, desirous
of acting on a system of the most rigid et:pilot-try,
and he trusted the House would be found to pay
as much regard to the interests of the people now
,as at any former period. It was his intention to
take-the earliest opportunity the Session afforded,
namely, Monday next, to move for the revival of
the Committee to inquire into the public expendi-
ture of the conntry7
anduGnam could not agree With the Right
.Hon: Gentleman, 'that his Hon. 'Friend's obser-
vations were wholly uncalled for. The Right
Hon. Gentleman might talk of his Committee of
Finance, but where s' ere the benefits arisingfiorn
it to be discovered ? The Speech from the Throne,
at the opening of the present Session, did not
even hold forth a hope of economy or retrench-
ment. This was at least promised in the Speech
Of last Session ; but in-the present Speech there
was not a word to -allow its to-suppose that such
objects were even in thecontemplat ion of his Ma-
jestv's Government. He trusted, lioWever, that
the House would watch every'Movernent of Xlinis-
tets, and that those Gentlemen' wt o, pethaps,:, in
the course of a few, .weeks, or ever, a shorter
rind, would be sent to meet large: bOdies of their
con\titnents, .nonld so employ that' short-time in
illtbity;into abuses, and protobting:cconotny and
retrenchment, that they might nut fear to meet
them.

The 'liouse then resolved itself into a 'Com-
mittee, inywhich, on the motion of .the Chaocel-,
lor,of the Ekeheyrer, the osnal general Resoin..
tion for H supply was agreed to. he Esiiittatea.
for the current year iVt're kid before time Corn-:
mit tee, and the Horse res'nmed.• The Report was
ordered to be received on Monday.

PII.OPERTY TAX.
Mr. BROUGHAM Wished'to know from the Right
Hon. Gentleman' it the [irony:lse, 'made two years.
ago, that all doentpents relating to that odious
impn,r, the Incontt, Tax, winch tire exertions of
the House had got rid of, and which he hoped
never to see I oft:red, had beep detrOyed as tar
as possible ?
The 9kIANCELLOR the.'EXCHEQI.I,IOa
that the docoments alluded to tip the Hon. Gent.
were destroyed.