Star.
London, England, 1812-04-30 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

The Order for the Call of the House having been
deferred to this day, strangers were not admitted
to the Gallery until hall-past five o'clock. During
their exclusion a discussion took place upon the ques-
tion, Whether the Order for the Call should stand
for next week, or be postponed for two months ?
and a division took place, by which it was decided,
that the House should be called over on this day
two nientlis.—On the admission of strangers,
Sir JOHN NEWPORT moved—

" 1 hat there be bid before the House a detailed Account of
the Expenditure of X 10405. mi. issued front the Trearary of
Ireland, for• the insertion of Prochunationts in the
.I.)ublin Ga-
zette and other Newspapers."
In making this motion, the Right Honourable
Gentleman reprobated the wasteful manner in which
the public money was expended, by the
of these Proclamations, which, he said, were fre-
quently given to the Proprietors of Newspapers as a
remuneration for their services in supporting the
measures of the Govetnment.

Mr. W. POLE felt no disposition to object to the
motion, although the Right Honourable Gentleman
had given no regular notice of his intention to bring
it forward. With respect to the wasteful manner in
which the Right Honourable Gentleman had stated
the public motley had been squandered, he had only
to observe, •that during the last year, for the first
time, she expenditure for the pdrposes alluded to
had been much less than on any former otcasion,
having been within the sum allowed by Parliament
for that purpose. When the Right Hon. Gentle-
man (Sir John Newport) was Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer .for Ireland, the expenditure was £17,000
per annum, acid was never less than £15,000. The
newspaper in which the Proclamations were gene-
rally inserted was the Dublin Journal, which, it was
known had been the channel through which the Irish
(Government had issued their orders for fifty years.
As to the assertion, that the Irish Government had
rewarded or encouraged the conductors of Newspa-
pers who had thought proper to support their mta-
sures, by any unnecessary expenditure of public mo-
ney., he begged leave to give it the most unqualified
contradiction.

Mr. PARNELL gave full credit to the Right
Honourable ,Gentleman for the economical measures
which bad• been pursued by the present Government
of Ireland.' He, however, observed that it bad been
candidly admitted his redecessor in office (Lord
Wellington) that those proclamations were given to
certain Papers, As a reward Or their advocating the
measures of Government.

7he motion was agreed to, and the account ordercct.

BANK TOKENS AND FJCTITIOCS. NOTES.

The CHANCEL/AR of the EXCHEQUER I
postponed hie motion for leave to bring in a Lill 0
present the issuing of Local Tokens, Dna togeor;.•
row. The Right Honourable Gentleman then ad.
verted to the notice which he pie yesterday respec.i
ting Bank Tokens, and observed, that the object of
the Bill for which he intended to'move would be to
increase the penalties already enacted for the punish-1
went of persons uttering and coining counterfeit'
sank Tokens, and to put an end to the practice ;
which had so long existed of printing and engraving
papers, Which at first view appeared to be Bink.
notes, but which were mere frauds to catch the eye, i
by which depredations to an enormous extent hail'
been cowthitted upon the public. He had seen many.
`,of them, which were calculated to deceive the most',
wary upon a rough examination, but which upon
i close investigation proved to be fir one hundred pins„
instead of *IO% as their general complexion would
have led one to imagine. He should therefore pro-
pose
• that the punishment for uttering counterfeit To-
ikens, which was at present imprisonment for six.
months, and at the end of that time to find security.
for one year, should be increased •to twelve months
imprisonment, and at the expiration of that time se.
curny to be found for two years ; and for the second
offence, the penalty for which was at present impri-
sonment for two years, he should propose that the
offender should be liable t.,1 seven years transporta.,
tiou. minting white letters on black ground, in the