The Sun.
London, England, 1816-05-31 00:00:00

Iik7CONM I'AX. •

Mr. BROUGII4Oi rose, pursuant to his notice,. to
move for the destruction of all the Rettirns
resreting the Income Tax. lie understOod that
/JO ObjeCtiOn WoOld be made to khe mot!on,
that the only ttut-,tion was as to the mode of col-
-1::etin1; the papers forthc purpose of dott„ying
them. Ile therefore wished- to know what
had been taken; or were intended to be tatten, for
this purpose
The CHANCELLOR Of the I"..x6aatiCit assured •
the Muse that there was no with to preserve the
Retttrns alluded. to, and'that suer' directAons Ind •
been given ,as Would. substantially effect the 06-
jeci:' circular had been sent to the different ;.
Offices .fni. tl,l pirpose. it was proposed to erase
thernames at ;nth iitivalg from all Returns.. The
Returns themselves'would riot be entirely destroy-
ed, as it \VISS fieCeRS3ll7 CO preserve an .account of
the stuns coptribatteeby the eliffCrent .I.tsses
the people. As to the Returns to be wade for the
future, they tvonld be, made -SO RS to 'keep the
names of persons out of sight, by the. Le-
turns by number, instead of names.
ItßovOliAm expressed his satisfaction at
the arrangement, particularly as to future R,:-
ttrvits, and ad:nit-led .t.he proprietFiof keepiligian
account of the different cfasses of Tenons who:
paid. But he exprestici his'dOnbt aS to the made
of erasure ; be thought burning the papers would
be 'Much better, and 'there was'a public Otlicer„
not in Very &c;►t 'a lose assistance
for this purpose !nigh( be very advantageously
canto!

The„CliAiwrt.t,nn of the 11.f..',IIPOITER rose to
move for leave, to bring in:a Bill for the pnrpose
of evending the time of payment of the arrears
of Property Tax now clue. 'fhb general contents
of the Bill which he intended to,snbinit to the
House, were, Ist, to continue in force the pro-
visions for collecting the arrear of the Property
Tim; next, to extend for one year the ct
making the' returns through the Receiver Gene:-
rat's ()thee;
,then to allow ti further tir.ee for pay-
ingtheitcond ,moiety. of the ,trrear. The opera-
lion of this last part of the Bill-woithl be to divide
411 e, :second Amiety into two parts; the first of
which would be unade payJnie on or before. Jim.
'text, 'tlnti the last in the July following. The
..Act wbold tt en go on lq eithtii.in the Inclu
allowed by ate Trea.ury Minute ns to the lands,
the rents whith had, not been or were in
arrear. inere were also to he cl,tuci,s in the OM
for granting relief as to tbOge larOdS tvhich had re-
tortard from the tenants into tlte handw of he pro-
prietors. "The -Bill Would contain,. Justly, • the
usual clauses to exempt the Collectors' Bonds front

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the gtatiip 'tnoted..
in a Bill to thisttleet. f
-Mr. liAttit:a did sitit tinderstand; whetho id
-
"cases where the tait opon the rent oi. a farm l):14
betss paid necoilling to a rent perhaps one-tool
higher Than that itAtially paid; the overplit, t,i II
so petit! %rai to be returned nor did he tind4,l:!:!,
%I-nether it was proposed tri give any reliei 1.0 hic
proprietors ut West India Estates.
Tice CBANk,ELLott'of the lixclibdufin

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Bill had no reference to the c3se of Win 3t hulk,
rroperi y, and that it would be fratned so a$ to
grant relief in the first instant-.e ottationcil
Lion. Gent/A:tam'.

'!•Le 'Lotion wailbeti agreed to.
Uncidilbed I,ivitiends Bill was brongld
read a tirsi, ami ordered to be read a second Conc.

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A. short- conversation inoll place respecting tii'
Bill, between Mr. 3. P. (ILA c.-;.,
Mr. Gust:YLLL,
Mr. PRESTON, unit the CISA.NCIAI.OI: a flic b,.
CHEQUER, consisting merely of (N)rosion a
s
approbation of the principle of the Bill.
PR

EXTENTS IN AID.

motion relative to the isstliel
submit ilni i
ttVe,tShs:Hfrottusreos pursuant
ue, to his notice' a 'de
writs of extents in aid from the Court ofEschettacr:
_He remarked, that in 1801, only ten writs °tall!
kind were issued, whereas last year no less 1141.
been issued than 141.. This he thought a Sre'.
evil, but he .hope4-be would now succeed al:
resting its progress and be tats happy to 111(101:
Stanchhat be waii not to he opposed,
were of two —.extents Oiler, whi
clt
were issued by the CroWu 'against 1,5
frehturs
and extents in aid, which .tt ere granted c" i
jects against their debtors, to assist 00" 1.1
ot
recovering their debts, rut the tictio tir
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was dieto the Crown. The power gr""te`t(7 tot
extents' was coin mous. For instu.icei 10e
was it allowed to take the land, hot city
found upon the land were also .011031, 1411.11114 y,
they might be on the lands lir aecideot
'long to a different proprietor. The 1.1" H"
man then went at great 'coot into a (lela,' ()1",,f
hardships which were.isiitieled consi.qtte"c":
the operation of the process tit Eitents
Even in Turkey soon a privilege as that winch tb
Crown possessed wonl.l br dished tyranny. kid
contended that it was it. neiv practice, or, it ot
ri
new practice, at least a new doctrine.. 19 1731 'Li
extent was refused, tw the ground that it 1160,C
Ly.,01(;011seq11elle case of .tiatters; and that
vas a Simple contract debt. In anwher. rese
the Loutt declared that they would nut let-10
;prerogative be used to get in a private delo.
then adverted tu'rnore ancient cases, in whielr.lo.e
moilev seized under extents in aid had bet:our;
dered to be refunded with costs, because tt:qi"“
been frocored with an intenttU defraud. of her rro
• 1G
dittos. The present practice was very (lido':
-for he found in the list law buoli,...pubilsil"
1813, " Bingham on EXecutioOs," ,that it 01'cr.
soft appiying..for,all extent in aid made an
vit,.the fiat wontd be, issued, although it iiiightu!
,presumattbat the intention was to strip the 0:;
,creditors of the amount', of their debts. tb,
destrilsed 'Several late easo, irr tvl,iclt there
tlp
rippear,loce.or common equity or cortrilio-
„ l``,tt
tIC Would 130't fluty give tititieS; but It
artieeeditigsWer,e. continued, he would blog
up"i'O" pOld-leYfpioniiiry.-: He etiorplaiitedll,4t tt
:tears in aid bcen granted on the 11,01t,1"":
IOUs grounds, and sometuno the most inifto,'•
':Of the latter be Would give the loilowoig
stances :—The wholesale Station,r, itr Loadoti
had entered into a-conttnet With
I:lClikrer in. the country, to sapply dicill
paper.-.- aiiro chcr took pi n•.: tin it itc"
-Aounts, at sit id.losteati of settling it, s parr Intl'
i
nufat,:turer obtained ass tAtent, iheiu,
though it was only a disputed acc,init, seized
their. goods," effects, and. hooks, thre,l
jails, and paid his own debt,, „t the ~ponce itf
all theif oilier creditors. The pooVversoli: theat"
selves were 110's lyin:.; itrjail, Without the liosll'
or opportunity at stipritinl-their 6aittilit`s• !'
other ;was etpially infamous and inhuman,
person of the name
thatit would be a good ,iseciikition to con,l"lc
general Directory of all tradesmen kind gmohnice
throughout the wholeAingdow. On this +"}rl;
he had expended several thoosands 9f
.his 0111
property, and son-At:of the best, years of his I;tc.
lie had procured sortie thow,;;;nci subicribers,
hia work, vvilich was to bt. in troll'.volltillyi, g a
go:pea it-piece, and he liontd It) sell a 'great Ow:
.ber besides. ' llis expellees kid so roa':-
derable, however, thAt 'lifter lie had printed "
first volume, lit was obliged to apply to his ere"
theirs, aril to abe►v
haired trim tin e, he tti
onit! be obliged to cfipcctll•
unanimously, as he understOod, agreed to riv-
hiiti t hoe, and even offered him a flittlier
of money tO Cvirry uI) the.work if wanted. 114-
ho, ttle day of his -death, that borsest
stated to have ugreed with the Wutclr.e,c
hii..opportuniry arid. sent in no extent t4W4in'
4111 his property; sei:.4ed his incomplete ~vork, anti
. sold. every copy of it at a shilling, liliet4
thong') the price was a guii,el. It was u At'9l.
atnnuoheotlter,erctlitor; whether lie thus rt eel"'
enongli Co pity or whether there 15115 '-``/,C
it small surplus of wi.iith Ilk: :lad Ito aceou""
They did trot get 'a of their debt. „"ti It
potir man "as thrOwil'intO'aprison, where iii 9i4
Months he died of a broken heart.'fli rasa"
tor gteaned the-property so much ti the last stri'f'e
`k6th his extent; that even the Crown lost nil tatel'
He pointed Out • toe nece,sity forming 1t CO;
raittee 19 inquire into the reality of cASeS
rimpile; Se he rtltnitionert. thitliought tiff
Court Court of Exchequer wai not sufficient to put .t
end to those ahuses, The practice in'that
.lout been grO.tving winsr ;trid worse, anti be
that a, faeility had been'given to the issues of Ole
„Lents to a degree searcely,, to be believej•
wished the law to he altered, as he would '").
I
trust tor a remedy to the source- front Mika n
of the evil originated. It he were to Out"de 11:,
own course, his motion would be to "spPlii;.e,„
Committee to consider of the subject,
port their opinion thereon. But it the Connoitte-
should not be agreed to; his ntixt plan would jial
With the assistance of Some ot his Learned Frle!f'.-*
for he not trust liituselif alone ott such 1";
occasion, to hring in a Bill for the pl-tr1)(r"
altering the law. lie thanked the I4ouse for tmr

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att eht ri Mitch they hail 04ildi hi'' "sitltemc.",ll ;
and concluded by ftioving, tio.o a Comulitlce lit
appointed to take into coM>ideratiou the pi
of granting extent's-in nit! ut b _e_o trs the
'Crown in th&Com tot Exi:heq •ei', and the a (in ,ts
that• haVe 'taken 'place therein, and to report
thereon..
TheSdLiCtrou-GENRiAL could proinisc thcllo-
nourable Gentleman the assistance of L's .Learned
X4riend .(the Atiorney-General), and himself. i't.
eheeking the practice of issiong extehts aids
improperly. It had fallot within the sphete
his professional exertions to emleavotie to ii,et aside
some of those extents so issued ; and on his re.
presentations the Court, of Exchequer in alinost
every case, had set them aside. He .vould have
preferred that the. Hon. Gentleman slittidd have
'proposed some Bill upon the subject, as then par-
ticidar abuses might have been pointed out and
remedied. He WO unwilling to agree to the
Committee, because it wont(' theu appear that
there were parts 'of the law on extents that
re
qnired alteration. This he did not think to be
the case. He nrtim allied, that the person against
whom an eXt ut, in aid Was issued, had all oppor-
tunity disputing it. Th,re was it complete
vower in the Court of Exchequer to correct
abuses ; there were rules and torus s that were
generally attended to, Attiough by art it'llt coo-
-114)g they ihight bothetithes,he evaded'. • -He w
ish to reduce the remedy of extents ill aid
Vto the narrow ;;round to which the floh. Gentle-
. wan seemed to' desire. He contended that in
many t ases they'were necessary, and, to his know-
ledg, Sei,ebt• that bad heel' issued improperly,
hat{ beet, set aside the last six. mouths.
. lli concluded by moving the preAiouS question.
. Ito zka 1_1;y observed, mat the Learhed and
Hon. „View lemau bad ad:hitted that' ti.ere were
abases in practice, hot Hot it, the law itself. Of
coto4s'e ntiaiacii cltitr,e lord been made against the
law.- Bitt he contended Britt extents in aid had
. been' issued to enable persoits'conuected with the
Crown to collect their debts to the prejudice or
the other creditors of those who ed them
too y This
.was an Anse that ought to be
remedied. He contended that the process had
the utr-ct of making a detitor to tne,Crowo a pri-
vihged nelson, by giving him a pi etvrelice over
all other creditors, whO'4,e.o,.ny ruined tfy
uttt being ith:e to guard against this extraindimay.
process. He could not think, wider all the eir-
cum*tance's, that airy evil trOuld reSult, front the
appointment of rite Comhifitee.
the c,:ttatice.u.ott of the ExcuEauEß admitted
that' instances had been hi-Ought to light of im-
proper prosecutions, •but there was no reason to
suppose that ally extent!of an improper oat are had
jieen entoised by the ;Court of Exchequer; Rodin
4:oo.svgnehte of applications that had been made,
- t•lke...Lords of the Treastiry'had directed that any
regulations might be made by the CouniiisSioners,
which-twilit be deemed necessary, The Right
Gentlemau replied to the various observa-
tions-of the Hon. plover, to skew that the Com-
thittee Was shut necessary.
Colonel t onD stated an instance which he.,
,kne Au have occurred iu the County of Breck-
nmk, while au extent was issued to the amount
of 8)001 uudcr
,intdroper circumstances, and on
- application to •Mitusters, it turned out that they
-conk!' bare• nothing to do iv th the subject. The
extviit (irked out the instance of the bro-
ther of a bankrupt, of the name of North, who
„, Was a:farmer of the I'ost Horie Duties:awl ttho
swore that the btan%rupt owed him the.,Soool. and
towci, hy received till his property, whileilie
- other, creditors.h.,it not:ling. It .% as the abuse of
the. pritetice of which lie compl,tined., that allowed
aii itidiVidnat, inkier the pretence of a debt due to
the Crowe, to step in and'stVcep away tile pro-
.
'perty tli;“ would'have fallen to all the other cre-
' ditors. It was a practice of the inmost ihjUstice
%%1101'h:oiled Co bring-tbe Crown into disrepute,
when in tact it deserved no odium at all.'
The krytraNEY,Guszett.“. opposed the motion.
He assured the Hatt:Gentleman, who supported
it,.that the subjot loud not beet, unattelided.to by
•I\lioisters, and that every thitig had been done
•ttlkii could tend to humble those Officers of the
Crown ‘ylio had pule an improper use-of their
anthority; and that they had i4iven the tallest at-
tendon to' the details of all such abuses as bad
come before them, with a viciv to institute' every
'propee'remedy that cool& be adopted.
Mr. LOcK.HAttT said, that'the Learned and the
Hight Hon. Genleman who had opposed the nio.
-had tilit given any satisfactory. reasons why
the Committee should not be appointed. He
went lit some length over the grounds that had
been stated by the-Hon. 'Mover in favour of the
-Inquiry, and coechided with. declaring Isis opinion,
that the -subjects t)t coMp:aint coidd not be mite-
Alied by anyginterference of the Law Officers of the
-Crown.
Lord CASTLRREAGH expressed his determina-
tion to support the presionA gnestion. 'All he
contended for was, that' his Alajcsty's Low Ser.,
WCre hot prepared to torn, a ititiguaetit as to
_what was the most proper remedy to apply to the
• toils eomplatui:d of.
Mr. Posati*BY did not think the question was.
properly understood by anybody. He -Was per,
t urtdc.a these rotas nothing so injorions as .to en-
courage the opinion that itrty inquiry 'into rite pro-
eeelinigsuf our Courts of Just tee was injurions.
There w.is ho mode so proper to ascert a in .the
„Inutile and extent of the rtijurics co:opt:tined of,.
as a Committre of the I-louse.- Nobody .10:used
the: Darous- of, the Exchequer of hating °vet.-
•atretchcd their pones,, hut the subject altogether
• 'deserved. the Most set ions consideration.
Mr. WETIIERALL thotight the Coinmittee would;
itieshm, as-: 110 did not see bow any remedies
recoromend••coitide applied. The
;Court i,f.ftitchequer potter in itself to
,eorravt the.libt-tsys corupbdued ot, mid it was only
hrte weeks since that Court li ul stippres-ted
144(-fat's';' vi hi Osi
ich were lreti'to have heed int..
wropurly issued. .
thought it it danget_ous doctrine to
,311aintAin that the proceedings of out' Courts of
...Justice ought hot to be interfered with. rf he
ties TO poliCy_ttilder Ikl hat restric-
lions the prerogatives of the Crown .could he exer-
.elsetit 'vith security to the subject. He contended
• at touch length for the neeessity of au inquiry.
MAirevATT detted that any man Jiggrieee4l
P,Olad kid relief by aPplVirrir to.the Court of L 3

tLeciver. rrc, ar),litiOneg b.rikraptcy
of a f
aid
in hid for Ito t..x!e:tt , the
IVaS, the other ertiditins had ntn!ittv2: C.,se
110tV Vooll,,ipa intik b‘C/ 0 .7 a NiNleent
lt
share in a banking or ocher
all illt• other. partners the'hentin of 'tin
the injury of their fair ett.ll tots, 'as tir extent,
'when issued, was trtkeotigainst the.whoie firm,
and :his one partner could secure, all the debts dile
to the rest. That such a grievoni evil might be
remedied, he Should snptiort the Mrnion,
COURTENAY also snpported the motion,
contending, that all the cases Minded to by the
Learned Attorney and Solicitor General,. only.
proved i hat exteots had beenlinproperly issned.
There were sufficient grounds made out tot tin in-.
which would lead wa proper considera-
tion in regard to the dealings between the Crown
and the stiOject.
Mr. P. MoottP, thought that on all hands it.mUst
he admitted that-something like aboses existed and
they Ought to be remedied. Ile mentioned an in-
stance of a distributor of stamps in the County of
Warwick, lived in stuilt a splendid Style that'
it Was talked of as onpos.sible that he could sup-
port such establishments, without lie hail made
use of the public. monry. Ile sold a freehold
estate to St respectable Quaker (personally known
. to him,Nr-Moore) with a family of
.eight or nine
children, and soon afterwards it turned unit that
this distributor Of stamps had not been called on
for many yetirs to settle his accounts. When
he tvas required to make them ont, he !nosed to
be insolvent, and his property, imelnding the poor
Qaalset'Y house, was impounded, arid' it remained
so to this bmw. If the ( ommittee were agreed la,
'he pledged himself to bring this unfortunate
Quaker
.lie.tore
; The [louse divided on the motion, when there
w ere—

For it

. _
Against it
Majority .

-.On our return. to the Gallery we tound Mr
sant)), moving for a Copy of sill Rules of the COurt
of Exchequer, touching the issue of Extents in

The kI"I'OhNEY-GENERAL argued, that this Ino-
tion'was unnecessary, as it had been proved, that
every thing which was r ossible had been done by
that Co in to remedy the evils complained of,
1lonNE.1; cOntended, that even if the Court
of Exchequer administered the law as it found it,
this would not 4 a sufficient remedy fur the

The ATTORNEY.GgNERAL and Mr. PONSONBY
•
The house then divided, when the numbers
were—

Aves SS
70
ALuority against. the Mot rm. „_—_is

A short'conversation occurred in which Airs
Pousouby, Mr. J. P. Gi ant, 'NE. W. Wynne. and
Lord 12.nstlereugh participated, on the Alien Bin ;
the result of which Ives, Hu uOdcrstioi-ditig
come to that the third rending of the Bill should
be pnitrOtted till to-morrow

The h Ouse then 'vent into a Committee on the
Alessage of the Prince Regent respecting the

SILVER CURRENCY.

The Order of the Day was Allen read for the
House resolving itself into a Committee on the
Message of his. Royal flightless the Prince Re.
gent, respecting the issue Of a new Silver Cur-
rency.
Mr. W. Pot. 2 regretted that at. that late hour
he was obliged to aildreis the Committee, but he
trusted the 1111portance of the qttestit•tt would be
;Ili apology for his taking up their time, aid he
pledged himself-to he as concise as pOssible. That
a new Silver Currency was ahsolutdy called for
he believed no person could doubt, and he was
also 'confident that The Committee would enneur

with hint in thinking the• preSettt to he a roost
anspieions period for issuing that Currency. A
long and sant:nitL!ry war had now been fermi.
;ffilleti, Huii the day. of 'petice had once' more re•
visited our laud. By the pink Restriction
whiCh was Ihnitved to two years, Government had,
given that respectahle body time to prepare, and
indeed no person present could doubt itwas re.
quisite cash payMents should then he resumed.—
Our §ilver Currency was at present very hail, and
indeed it was impossible' to deckle on what prin-
cilile ircould be corrected, tmless we considered,
first, the present 'standard' measure of value, and
secondly, what that :standard, should be,. At pre.
sent he forbore entering, into discussion on the
pernicious consequences of having the two metals
as a standard, aware that these consequences had
atromly been' pretty severely felt by the country.
The first gold which was eiritted, was in the reign
oh Edwardthe'll, and from that time downwards
it became more common. Mr. Locke coMplained
that the country !bad ben hurt by having two
standards. in 1662, the guinea was 265. by the
-Mint indenture, though it kept at `3os. in the
market. In 1693, it was by Act of Parliament
declared that it should not give more than.26s.

and in one month 'After, its value was fixed itt
225, Tim crAnlge ref seven millions in 1695 had
ne3llrdisappeafed in 1717; and fir Isaac Newton
was applied to for suggesting a plain to prevent
the currency le.i‘ iug the country. That illustrious
philosopher blamed the high rate of,Gold, which
then was 21s. Mid fid, and'proptised to fix the gui.
nca 21s. tvhich was adopted tuv his Majesty, and
a proelartiatiOn issued to that effect. During last
century, only 450,0001. in Silver was'coined, and
0n1y114,0001. a that during his present Majesty's
Reign. 1% er a minutedet ail attic Various circum-
stances attending the currency since 1774, the
Right Gentletion observed, that tie
,cer-
tainly thought as gold now was,the present Stan,
n.tit, it should be kept-at the saint!' valise in fine-
, Hess and quantity. tie ditildtcd the idea or coin-
ing gold '2() shining pieces; as leading to much
iitusion, un ,orount of their near value to gni-
netts. There had been 64 millions of gold coined

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in this resent teign, but God wily Itnyw what
I,ltid become of laugh.),--The tioy
was at present 62 • • he did not wish the
filtenrss of oar silver to be altered, heciase this
,would lean to the immediate ruin of the country.
Let. %dyer he made a legal teinler to a certain ex-
teat, for exainple he •shoold say .0.3. It should
only be reduced to such an extent' as would-pot-

.vent, itt plifting the eottntly.,: Foe entuple. if
the 1)1't'lil tetbieed 06's. it wt.uiht
(he coinage ally way, hilt ;Aught merely
reduce weight.' A gos;TheirculatiOn wend., th. s
.he procured, better t h.,lt taut beets for many ycars.
vets abaid be tired the Collitii;tee,ttittt
this detail, but it AV ‘l,l ert' ss,l►y taf iic some-
what tninute.—(llear-, bear !)--41e would now
come to the most difficult and prism/ .1)(111,
of the intioiry, :trot be begged the „Inither,!
indulgence of the Connaittee.T-(I-1ear., hear !) It
etas impossible to 'know, the exact amount- Of- I he
preJent currency of 'the country. la, 1805 /lie
then' Lord 'Liverpool had stated the circulation of
the' coin itry to be 2,700.0001. and of that sum
about 1-,000,060/, were in halt!.crowns.- This
statement he (Mr. W.) questioned,vety much, as
gscarce a 1141 f-crown was now to be Seen. in King
Williayes time the ~hale amount _of circulation
was 5,500,006/. of which 4,060,000/. was clip--
money, 1811, the Mint lots isisfied
4.-100.0001. in tokens. The circulation this- mo-
most could not exceed two us (lions and has de-
; -teriorated 80 per cent. With respect to the, pro
bable loss at bleb Government would sustain Upon
1 the coin to he called in, lie dill not think it could be
It ss than 3Q per cent. The more rapid the operation
wits, the better it would be. In the great ,coinage
which took place last, century, 30 millionS of pieces
were' coined in eleven months, Which Ike consi-
dered u prodigious effort, when they remembered
that a great proportion was• in halt-crowns, an'
1 the defective state of the machinery at that time:
lie had JlO however, that sinless any tol-
leXpeciest accident should ocean, they would he
able to issue‘ the new Cain:age (2,500;0001j, con,
sisting of sixty millions of pieces 35,000,000
shillbsgs and 23,000,000 of sixpences), in se
vest months trona the sly that the Bill pasSed. A
great object would be to get the old money mit of
circulation, and the new into eircohoion,. with as
little inversening delayes possible. The mode at
present proposed was the following :---Besides the
legal coin, defaced and depreciated as it was, there
was a great quantity of base coin circulating, and
1 theregold hardly condemn persons for receiving
and issning it, when, if they had not dope b
they must have been absolutely without ally silver
currency at all. It would, however, be utterly
impossible for the Government to do more than
to' receive, tinder the most'liberal construction, all
coin of whatever description, that could be sit. all
considered as the legal coin of the realm Where
the effigy was effaced, but it appeared, from
other examination that it was highly probeble
'it had origivally issued from the Mint, that Coin
would be received. Without that limitation, it
would be impossible to sav what the expence would
, amount to. lie was strait(, however, though the
evil seemed without remedy, that a vast number
would otcessarily be sufferers, timing the time
that must elapse before the issue of the new coin-
:age. Ile should have been happy it it had been
possible to avoid applying to Parliament, and that
they could have gone.on silently in their prepare-
Lions without saying a word till they were ready
with their new coinage. But under existing dr.'
'commences that-could nut be done, for as the law
now stood, the Mint had no power to issue a sil-
ver coinage, and it was necessary therefore to
*or away those legal obstruct ions. 'With a'view
to obviate some of the difficulties which must arise
doling the interim, and which *mild ehieflybeer
upon the lower classes, whom they were most hound
to protect ,it had beeosoggested by an flon. Friend,
to pass a law, pending the new coinage to milting
shillings a legal tender to the extent of three still-
s ling*, kind tai%,pences a legal tender to the extent
of eighteenpence. 'By that meaos, to, which he
saw no obj'ection, the Rio firer part of the popola.
tion would he secured from those embarraissioents
which would otherwise result front a general' re-
Nut of shillingi and sixpences not lola ing
eincrly the Tower mark upon them!---71'be mode
pr.,posed to,he adopted, in removing the old ,eoift.
unit introducing the new, 'was thefollowing.• In
is ()portion as the coinage proceeded at the Mint,
regnhitions would be mane by the thivernment
for bulging in all she different
,great towns
thicmgliont the country, a sum of view motley
equal to what might he supposed tik he in eircula.
1 lion there of the old. Vigiela the coinao was cum-,
pleted, a prochamation might !hell be issued in all the
towiss, competent persons appointed to exchange
the old coin tar the new, and thus, in a few days-,
nearly the whole silver currency of the realm ironld
! be railed in, without any interval during 'whale//
the circulation would -be suspended. Ile' was
, quite sate, it they were to issue it as they coined
it, the new coin would he sweated and flattest
, down, and returned upon the Mint as out legal
currency. It WO'S originally intended to have ap-
propriated 500,0001. of the stew eirAnage to Ire,
land ; but he rather thought that measore" would
not be necessary. 'Dist Batik Tokens of Eitglan4
and Ireland were very different. It was Imo; that
in Ireland they were 'thirty per cont. hrlu v the
staodard value, and that in England they \veil:
'only twenty-one. But Chen, in Irekin:l, they
~were .eskined by order of the GOverionent, and
actually received
,us legal tenders in the payment
'of taxes. It did not therefore appear expedient
to iitterfere at all with that circulation, kinder its
present tircumstances.L The Hon, Member then
concluded by moving his Resolutions,- observing
that if they wereagieed to, the Report mi 4,111 be
received to-motrriw, he 'could hrinc; in his Rill,
kind l'eing Printed, ,the-emisitleration of it might
lie oirer till after the holidays.
The first Resolution being read,
Mr. BAlttsci said/ he did not wish to discuss the
-general spiestion at -so late an' hour ; there
41413 One- point which he wait unxions to press upon
the :attention of ,the Committee. fie thou lit it
VI great iMpOrtaneq that ihe country shOuld he
aware of the intent inn to niake the ariti Coin the
legal 'stall:taro of votue, and to Oita .the ,door
against ailverimeing considered so: Certainly gold
he, pe the ,Ilinre
ir o ferstandard, if it could
b ed e attain ; bat Ike feared that silver being More'
ptadtirable would, in 'Mint of fact, be. the si and aril
tn''veat
a t
, ,silver
standard
to- dustiest try
represew
twentay wish to see the guinea
shillings instead ot t wen-
' teJ-one.
l 51r. POSitThelr, as. the rilaillin a were to. be GC

instead ()1 tt.) the potthil,
hit,)w ‘‘h;it viket•that ivt7 0.4 t t ht. i‘rovh•F-
-t4oh
.kviii-Lit the 6ri)per itt ts';:it t') tit‘ ther
Coin . •, • ,

Sir FlusittssoN replied, that the picsent silver
coin was $e docrio • I t i vt,, ott app 01 on
, •
need ho entertained ot ativ,c(xi. resi,ittog 1,0:11 the
prtyortion between t e copper and silvcrc"iu be"
ing affected. • °

, .
Mr., liontkiett., althoueli -he 'concurred. in- the
great outlitte of the Right-Hon. GVfille,ihtli'S pia,,
eXplosed his doubts whether the pre, lit
.propc:r time For ciirryiirg it'into effect. Witile.the
Bahl. Restrietiou «mt limed, it woulahe
trosecure the new coin from beittg
-It "'Rs als,o “ matter of serious cont,i,hl.,tioo,
whether the circumstances of the cominon
were such as to render it sate to make the expeti-
-rrtertt on their peace anti 'comfort, which would
arise from chlling in the p`resent silver coin.
Alter sonic further observatimis I,y Mr. D.
Giddy, Mr. liankel, the
,:ehaorellor of the Ex-
chequer', Mr. C.:4reufell, Mr. 31elfisb, ao,i Mr. IV.
Pole, the Resolutions were agreed to, ui.il the
noose hatzing resumed, 014... R oft w.J.ior;lerett
to be received th;s day.
, .
• •
The ClunNer.t.t.oit ltl theExcitrnu•Krt hrooeht
the Hill for etnisolidating the Exchequets l,t Gr(`lt-
- .gritain and Ireland; Ow Banii-Atleatico mitt
the Exchequer Bill's which wete
first time, 'Tice t IVO first were order,.d to be
a second rime on Thursday uext, the last on'tsili'l

The other C)rrleys ofthe.•Dav wure
stvl Ai TWO O.CIOCk this
h mouse adiotlined.

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