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AIM _ ~ - : sity would mite, as the Bank ofr ngland were:awing
CITY OF HEREFORD.—RUNAWAY APPRENTICE. 1 large quantities of tokens cf considerably mote t&
AwONDED,from his Master's service, on trinsic value than those issued by private Individuals.
Sunday be, the so of July, 1512, JOHN LORD, ; lad I Mr. DAVIES GIDDY had not analysed those '
Oben 1$ years of op, eased), 3 feat 3 inches high, thin pale face. .
okens
lightly marked with the smolh-pers. rattier a ghtosol look. light Local t ; but he believed, in many instapces,
brown hair, light eyes, that read', and has a 'wavering walk. that which was issued Or a ;hang was not intrinsi-
tie et summed tp have bad uit wben he want off, a brown short cally worth thelzente—at all events, even this sort of
coat; retch yellow buttons, a hat nearly new, with the hatter's change he considered preferable to those private
ytaaw " Jones and Meredith, Hereford," in the crown, half- -
notes which had been disseminated for very install
boots or slimes, a coloured neckciods, either nankeen irowsers, a
white paten, ;op! breeches. or a pepper and salt coloured small . sums. He begged leave to suggest to the Right Ho.
eitttbe*vs-Whoeeer will aperrhend the said lone Loan, and give noprable Gentleman (Mr. Vansittart) that it would
eouce to fair wristr, Prinrer,Hereftvd, shall recsive a Reined be highly expedient, before the present system was
pt TW 0 PPINEAS, and all reasorable 'sperms, on his being rs * abo i hed that there should be a sufficient supply of
Pleasulm,.andsaf.ely eonveyed to Hereford, and any one employ.
fps or harbouring the said J. Lord, will be prosecuted with the silver throughout the country. That supply ought
utmost rigour of the law. ' not to be confined to London and the principal cities
The above 5. lord has from his infancy been indebted to his, and large towns, but should extend to the most st-
ilarter (or various kindnesses, was taken Apprentice without * mote situations.
Premium, found in clothes, aril every neeessary tit is therefore ,
hoped anyone who may meet with will apprehend him, and they . Mr. HUSKISSON expressed himself hostile to
eat) reed* the Reward above stated. ' the Token System. The private Token he conside-
red as bearing the same proportion to that issued by
the Bank. as the latter did to the legal coin of the
HOUSE OF LORDS, Jut" 8. 1 realm. When the,Bank Token became a legal ter.
The Ilidtop of ELY toot the oaths and his seat.
t der, the coin of the realm disappeared ertirely ; and,
Mr. WALLACL, Mr. lo in the same manner, wherever Local Tokens were
If.IIIINOTON, and other Members
the House of Connwions, brought up the East India Loan bill, issued, which contained less value than those of the
the Starch Mansfacture Bill, mad the Poor I.aws Amendment Bank, the latter in their earn vanished. In Birming.
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Bill, which were laid upon the table, and afterwards read the s st
ham and all the neighbouring countre the lverade,
ore tune. of the realm had completely disappeared ; in come.
The Lotter, Bill, the Corn Distillation Bill, and the Local
Militia Amendment Bill, were reed the second time, and order- quence, bits of leather and pieces of pasteboard were
id to be cotniadtted tor tewaerrow. issued for small sums as low as 6d. and Is. This
The Soldier' Families BR famed donut' a Committee, and was a great inconvenience and abuse, and )'e had
peas reported without any amendment. suggested the necessity of putting an immediate stop
The Leather Duty at/ was...rad the third time and passed.
Tbe Five Millions Exchequer Oils )AR, the Irish Treasury to it. Representations were then made to him by
Bells Bill. the Muriadc Aesci pit. the Carnatic comuurnoners persons from the neighbourhood, that there was a
Bill, the West !MIA Intereconse bd. sad the Scotch Assessed total absence of small currency ; and if a stop were
Tames 80, were also reed the shire! time and passel not put to the system, they knew not what would be-
. Adjourned till tpuiptrow. come of them.—His answer was, 44 if these articles
DISSENTERS. I are put down, the regular silver currency will find

PARLUIPIENTARZ PROCEEDINGS.

IPlKEritirr ON vs: atlrcTiou OR LORD STAKIMPt'S SILL, IN
Tit 110011 Z or Loans, ON TIIpAY, JULY 3.
Jimmy, taw toleration hitherto granted to Dissenters by law is
',ban ial and condi-

its way to Birminghanl" And, without any other
assistance than £lOOO, Birmingham very soon found
the utility of the mode which had been adi ted.—

in-Complete, amounting to melting more ti a pant
"local exemption from penalties and pertecutiuns; whereas the
Bill now rejected, by recogniteng the right of private judgment
kt mitten of conscience, would have placid r.ligioua liberty on
mi only mit and legitimate bast% (Signed)
VASSAL ROLLAND. NORFOLK.
4741itiors. F.ANSDOWNr.

utility Aopteo.
Great evils had arisen from the facility of dissemi-
nating private coin throughout the kmgdem. Every
person who had it in his power immediately set to
work; and Individuals advertised in the newspapers
that they could make money and invited the people
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to purchase it. He could state, that many

thnse

HOWE OF COMMON. . _
persens paid ten per cent. to agents to distribute,
'Me Poor's Return Bill was read a third time and pasted. . their coin through the country, and to get the Bank"
The Report of tire Scoot Bottles Duty }Aiwa, received.—To . ,
I•okens into their possession. And here it should be
be taken into further eorsideration to farrow.
Mr. ItIiNRiCK brought up the Report of the Committee on recollected, that these' private Tokens were not issued
eke Isle of Men Trodeßill, which was agreed to, and leave given tinder a promise to be paid on demand in legal coin;
ea bring in a Bill in conformity therewith. but they absolutely purported to be coin and money,
The Life Annette), Bill was read a second time.—To be coma for f 'which no pews, n was accountable. The Honour-
pitted to-morrow.
Mr. WHARTON brought in a Bill for the better prevention able Gentleman then expressed his disapprobation of
et arnuesting, by reentries tie mode in which Melees 'ban be sane of the causes of the Bid, which, he conceived,
slanted by the Contanis.ioners of Customs.—React a firs, and to called for amendment. By one of these it was enac-
be reed* second time to-morrow. led, that if any person after the 25th c f March, 1813,
Mr. WHARTOV brought in a Bill for the reguhtion of the
Coffee Trade in Great Britain.--Read a Mat, and ordered to be shetild Le the utterer of any Local Token, he should
Mild s wcond time to-morrow. forfeit for such offence not less than £5, nor more
Sir Y. BURDE 17 presented a Petition from the Inhabitants than sE2O. This, he thought, nould apply to the
or oho Parish of St, Mary, Whitechapel, against the Nightly i innocent .
bona Jae holder ; who, if he presented a Lo..
Watch Ml.—Ordered to lie on the table.
cal Token to the person who had issued it, and who
Mr. MELLISH presented three Petitions against the same
Bin. 'two of these were from the parish of Wapping and of St. ought in justice to return the nominal value, would
'On, Clorkenwen.—Ltd on thetahle. pethaps be considered as liable to this penalty. It.
On the motion of Mr. WRAtTON. the House resolved itself should also be recollected, that the Legislature had
Into a Conunittee on the Malt Duty Regulation Bill. In the
not imposed any necessity on the Bank of England
Committee, Mr. Wm/taros. moved several amendments, which
were agreed to. The House resumed, the Report was brought to make any issue ofl'okens. Now when there was
op, and ordered to be taken into further consideration on Friday a metallic circulation, and the Bank of England were
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peat. bound to pay their notes in specie, every person
The Report of the Commercial Erchequerßills I'll was taken .
could get whatever sum he wanted ; and if he pro.
into farther consideration. Several amendments were amen-ed
and agreed to, and the BM was oree-ed to be read a third utue I cured hull'on, by carrying it to the Mint he could
ito-morrow, with the amt ndments if then ergrossell. I have it convened into coin. 13ot, by this Bill, the
Two Impairs from the Lords announce dtheir Lordships ascent ! power of converting bollion into specie, by a private
ee the Eloise 811, the Exchequer Mk Bill, and several others. I -
individual, was taken away ; and, if the Bank made
Mr. TIERNEY, from the fax Office, brought the Account of
the Prodsee of the Property and several other 'l slam, for the : no issue of Tokens, the opporturi:y of procuring a
use three wars. supply of coin, by sending bullion to the Mint, was
Lord JOCELYN brought inn Pill to amend thy Turnpike . ab, bled, which might cause great inconvenience.
• Road Acts In Ireland. head a firt time and oiderrti to be read The difference between the price of silver now and
le second thug on Monday next, and to be pentad. i
TOLERATION ocr. 1 twelve months'ago was worthy of obse: vatinn in this
Mr. WHITBREAD, adverting to a motion or hi 4 on the laws • view of the subject. Twelve months ago, it was at
iffecir g Dissent• re, which s nod fur to-day, and which he had ss. 11d. per ounce, arid the Tokens were issued at the
poaponed, is bop s tl.at a measure to that effect would he intro- rate of 6s. .scl. per ounce ' • there was therefore, in this
duced by Gdverrm. nt, wished to know from tie Right Hon.
state of things, no probability that they would be
Gentleman opposite (the Chancellor of the Exchequer) whether
melted down. But now, from ss. 11d. silver had
or not such a measure was actually in the contemplation of Las
Majesty's Miniver'? risen to 6s. 2td. per ounce, being within. Sld. of, he
'sue CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER replied, that a valve at which the Tokens wet e issued. •It the price
Noble Friend of his (we suppose Lord Liverpool) intended to of silver did not rise in the next year, the silver coin
Introduce, in a 'Mort time, a measure to that effect in another
would, of COOT*, remain in circulation ; hot if it did,
pbce. —Mr. WHITBREAD withdrew his notice in expectation
of that Pleanire• i then it would be necessary that the denomination of
CLERK 4 IN TN?. NAVY outer.. i those Bank Tokens should he again tai.ed, or perhaps
Sir FRANCIS BURDETT adverted to the statement con-
no fresh issue would be made. Therefore, it was not
nit other improper to conernplate the possibility of
Holler so;rcsa in a Petition which he had some tine since presented to
the Hoer !rum ;hit; ;lass of individuals. It arpvared that how. ,_ .
abstaining frOm making apy .fa iSallp.
even Icng tl.r period of their servic .s, they never voila Wain a P4v
higher Wary than "(to per annum. They were emitted to Sir SAMUEL ROMILLY W. 15 in favour of the
this, after a lspse of twelve years ; but, if they rername.l in the Amendment proposed, to extend tide period of re.
, pore for thir y years or upwards, they got-no more. lie would calling the local
be glad to know whether Govertiment dinuelt it fit to take ,
no doubt ,
1814. Some eersons, ,- ( rad issued those
it to their consideration the situwion of those "-arsons, for the
pf forming a sort of wale of ealafiell. in propesrion co tokens for the mere sake of profit, . and had made
:;rieso of service, on the same principle that was adopted in , considerably by it in the first instance ; brit there
other departments ? were others who had no other consideration in view
'no os. Mr. ROBINS0)1 saitli the Hon. Baronet was not but that of acct mmodating the puYie, and whose
correct in *slog Out tfv.bo was the highest salary
spew. Sos,le of the Oaks in 11-e superior departments, to tokens were nearest to the standard ; and those would
wean easpoosibill.y atmehsd, roomed 6(A ,CIOO per annum.— suffer considerably by any measure reclining the
'Fels revere to ship, prison., who were Inver paid more than tokens too suddenly.
sten a Trltr,.tlvir duty consisted in nothing more than mere
Mr. BANKES thpught, that although some indi-
pstatieitaboey4 as they were not in the slightest degree respone
as
viduals might be hurt. the sooner an end was put to
fibir.Ows certainty did not receive the same emoluments
sfresiatihrid most important dirks to pet form. the system the better. The evil did not, towever,
originate with the issuers of Bank tokens, the cause
NOW PURDErr eon4dered the situation of tho
row to whom he hat) anutlfd, as ante of considerable hardship, of rt was to be found in the general depreciation of
-,lssiarriefarei demanding the toterference of Government.
LOCAL TOKeNB SILL. the currency. When on that subject he would ad.
On the /notion et the CHANCELLOR of the
vert to a circumstance which bud created consider-
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ractirclunt. the Report if the above Bin was able ernbatrassment in the trading eommnaisy.—
.The Bank tokens first issued were suing ed in a
pken into further consideration.
manner rather slovenly; the die had been since ;m-
-g. fitßei „averted to the great expence at which
proved; to this he would not, perhaps, object ; but
thes Tokens had been sect into circulation, and con.
the effect of ti.at improvement had been to depre.
meted that a sufficient time should be granted for
' calling them bate the tokens first issued, by in— for thic purpose, two years or two making them op-
pear as spurious.
,His opinion was, that the House
yews and a half, he did not think would be too long
could not come too soon to a conclusion on the
a period, He had no objection to private individuars
subject.
biting Prevented froth issuing more of them ; but, in
justice to ther`n, as well ks to afford an opportunity Mr. gosE adverted to several abuses in the issue
pf substituting proper change in their place, I.e should ing of local tokens, which the Bill went to remedy.
prose, as an an.cm.n ent, that, instead nt 64 the :15111 He had known instances where those tokens were
of March, 18l,,," " the 25th M.rch, 1814, should not worth half their nominal value. In another cir-
issued those tokens, had
cumstance, people who had
lie inserted, as the period by which the Local Tokens
ehoold he called io. given notice that they would not redeem them, un-
less brought within 48 hours—and even then the
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER,
value was to be given, , not in cash; but in goods.
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aid, i; was his wish that those tokens Arnold be re-
as Fools as possible, to the persons Irho had After some further observations, from Mr: pus-
-hated them; If any eiritkmstance occurred, which ICIPSON and Mr. YDAYIES GIDDY, Mr. Home replied,
',mild render it necessary that they should be con-
and the amendment was carried withopt dividing
vinnerl longer in circulation, it would be competent •the Houser
fitted, and the several itt in
p
,lor the persons interested to apply to Parliament. He, The ill was then recorn
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thin t 410, that any .nch „.,es. amendments introduced. The 'Report was brought
' pp, and atir?ed toa and the pill, with the amend.
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