The Sun.
London, England, 1827-04-26 00:00:00

BANK NOTES.

An Account of the total number of Notps of the Governor and
Company of the Bank of England, under the value of 51.,
which has been issued during each and every Week from the
12th of March, 1827, until Saturday preceding the 15th of
April, 1827; and also the total number of Notes•, under the
value of Si. actually in circulation at the close of the business
on every such Saturday, pursuant to Act 7th Geo. IV., cap. 6.

'Both inclusive.

From tarch 12 to March 17...
From arch 19 to March 24...
From March 26 to March 31...
From April 2 to April 7...
From April 9 to April 14...
N. B. No other Notes under thi
(Signed)
Bank of England, April 16.

tion
, the value
X.
Nil March 17 640,944
Nil March 24 625,055
Nil March 31 617,334
Nil April 7 607,962
Nil April 14 601,034
le value of 51. have been issued.
WM. DAWES, Acct. Gen.

Number of
Notes of
£1 issued.

Amount in Circula-
tion of Notes under
, the value of X 5.

It was enacted by the Long Parliament, that
every person should .retrench one meal a week,
and pay the money thereby saved into the
public treasury. This whimsical tax produced
608,4001. in six years, during which it continued.
The following," says a New York paper,
,4 is a brief statement- of the present system of
our trade with the British. colonies in, America
Our ports are closed against British vessels
coming' from British. Colonial ports closed
against us, even if they have touched at ports
not closed against us. Bdndi are to be required
from British vessels receiving American goods,
that they shall' not be delivered in such ports.
These requisitions
.are to be complied with un-
der pain of confiscation. These are the enact-
ments of the first-mentioned act, concerning
navigation.' The Supplementary Act, dated
May 15, 1820, closes our ports against British
vessels from the ports of Lower Canada, New
Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, St.
John's, Cape Breton, Bermuda, the Bahamas,
the islands of Caicos, or the dependencies of any
of them ; and from all British places south of the
southern boundary of the United States, not in-
cluded in the original Act, under penalty of for-
feiture. Bonds are also required of British
vessels receiving our articles, that they shall not
be landed in any place mentioned in either of
the Acts, under the like penalty. There is one
prohibition in this Supplementary Act, which
must prevent, in a great degree, the trade we
might otherwise expect to see open, under this
system,. between our ports and those of Nova
Scotia, New Brunswick, &c. Even our own
vessels are prohibited to bring back other articles
than those of the growth; produce, or manufac-
ture of the places from which they comes under
penalty of forfeiture."

The priest-ridden party, which rules in France,
Spain, Italy, and part of Germany, wishes t 9
instigate war against Portugal. It conceives
that its power in Spain, and consequently all the
other States of the Continent, will be compro-
mised, if the Portuguese Constitution be not
overthrown. All its efforts are directed to this
object. This party may pause for a few mo-
ments in its course, it may even make., a few ap-
parent concessions, but you may be assured that
it will only do so with the view of recovering its
strength, or procuring new resources. Should
Mr. Canning only obtain half a triumph, the
faction in power on the continent of Europe will
go on in its present course, persuaded that it will
find auxiliaries in the English Ministry, and that
in the alternative of war, or of giving up Portu-
a bal to the influence of priests,lthe party for the
latter will prevail in your councils. There is no
person of the least sagacity here, who does not
perceive that the influence exerted in Spain for
keeping up the system established in that
country has for its great object re-action on
France. Should the same influence extend to
Portugal, we shall be exposed to an invasion
of barbarism, which it will be impossible to stop
by any other means than insurrection.
It is not merely against the Constitution of
Portugal that the clerical faction works; it equally
dislikes the independence of Spanish America
and the independence of Greece. 'Wherever it
perceives anything like rising liberty, it considers
it an evil example necessary to be put down. lf,
therefore, your Government were to yield up the
Peninsula to its power, it would still be neces-
sary to abandon in succession all the other coun-
ty ies it might feel an interest in attacking. Thus,
England will be gradually brought into partner-,
ship with the new Holy Alliance, and to adopt;
all its resolutions, or to separate completely from:
it. These are the considerations which produce
the strong interest felt among us for the success'
of Mr. Canning and his friends. If they triumph,
Englnd will be with us, and with almost all the,
nations of the continent, considered as the bul-
wark of knowledge and civilization. If they fail,
England will be placed on a level with Austria
and Russia. In the former case, she will have
on her side, everywhere, the people ; in the
second, she will have for her friends the Courts.
When your journals brought us the news of
Mr. Canning's elevation, so great was the joy
manifested, that one would have supposed there
never had been either rivalship or war between
England and France.