Star.
London, England, 1809-04-19 00:00:00

ROXBURGH PEERAGES.

In a Committee of Privileges, their Lordships heard Counsel
further upon certain points touching the claims to those honours,
viz. Mr. Gillics and Sir S. Romiliy. The farther consideration of
t4e case was then adjourned by the Committee till Thursday ; and
the Lord Chancellor notified he should to-morrow submit a pro-
position to the House respecting the further proceedings of the
Committee.

Counsel were ag,zin called in on Paulett'sDivorce Bill ; evidence
was heard at the bar to prove the criminal conversation ; and the
Bill was ordered to, be committed.—Adjourned till to-morrow.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

Mr. BASTARD moved she second reading of the Bastard Bill.
The Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be committed on
Friday next.
Mr. H. MARTIN moved that the account presented to the
House of the Fees taken in the War-Office should be printed.—
Ordered.

A person from the Stamp Office presented an account of the
incidental expences of Stamps in England and Scotland. Ordered
to lie on the table. _

Mr. DICKENS moved, that the Papers presented relative to the
Silver Tokens and Copper Coins of Ireland, be printed. Ordered.
Mr. CROAKER moved the postponement of the second reading
of the Irish Militia Completion Bill till Friday. Ordered.
Mr. WHI (BREAD presented a petition from the Trustees of
the Foundling Hospital Charity, against the removal of Smith-
field Market. Ordered to lie on the table. . _

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Mr. PARNELL moved, that the accounts respecting the In-
land Navigation of Ireland be printed.—Ordered.
Mr. WHI'fBREAD moved, that the papers presented this day
from the Stamp Office be printed. 9rdered.

AMERICAN PAPER&
Mr. ROSE moved, at the papers respecting the Trade to
America be printed. He stated, that the amount of shipping em-
ployed in the trade to the whole of America had increased since
the commencement of the Orders in Council,
Mr. P. MOORE said, that though the trade in hard Ware and
some other articles might be increased, the cotton manufacturers
were almost starving for want of a market.
fhe papers were then ordered to be printed.

SMITHFIELD MARKET.
Sir CHARLES PRICE moved the order of the day
for the second reading-of the Smithfield Market-Bill.
Mr. Alderman COMBE objected to the Bill, prin-
cipally on account of the loss that would be sustained
from the removal of the market by those who carried
on trade in its vicinity. He moved—That it be read
this day six months.
Mr. HENRY MARTIN seconded the motion.
His objection was, that great injury would he sus-
tained by the property of the Foundling Hospital, to
which Charity some streets belonged through which
the catfie to the new market must pass, and prove
' such an annoyance, that they could scarcely get te-
nants. He also stated a similar objection on the part
of several individuals. There appeared no absolute
necessity for the removal of the market to justify so
strong an interference with private property.
Mr. ROSE stated, that this was an interesting
question to every county in ErOand. • He under-
: stood that the annoyance complained of might be in
a great measure removed, and compensation might
be awarded to those who might suffer in their private
property. He contended that it was necessary to
remove the market; from the great increase of the
business. The Bill fixed upon no particular spot ;
that would be considered in the Committee, and to a
Committee at least the Bill ought to be allowed to go.
Mr. HORNER observed that he understood that
the City of London was in treaty for the particular
spot in question. His principal objection was to the
! spot to which it was intended to remove the market.
: If the Bill was sent to a Committee, he hoped at
least that there would be two instructions to that
Committee—first, that the Inns of Court should be
removed • and second, that compensation should be
1 given to the Gentlemen of the Profession of the Law
for the loss which they must sustain.
Mr. LYTTLETON opposed the Bill. •
i Sir CHARLES PRICE said, that the object of
;
1 the City was to accommodate the public. There
were three different situations for the market pointed
out, which the Committee would have to consider.
1 The property of individuals would not be at all so
i much injured as some Gentlemen seemed to imagine.
1 He hoped the House would sec the necessity of send-
' ing this Bill to a Committee.
;
Mr. HUTCHINSON wished to know whether
the spot particularly objected to was likely to be fixed
upon by the Committee. The inconvenience and in-
jury to the Foundling Hospital appeared to he the
chief objection—and if that was done away, he felt
1 inclined to vote for the second reading of the bill.
Mr. ROSE said, that the City had instructed the
Commissioners of City Lands actually to abandon
the spot in question.
Mr. PONSONBY was inclined to vote for the se-
cond reading, but without engaging afterwards to
vote for this spot or that. The sacred right of pri-
vate property must be attended to, for this was the
great foundation of British prosperity.
Mr. MELLISH heard it was the intention of the
' ICorporation to erect the market near Gray's Inn So-
ciety. This he did not consider as just or eligible.
' -Mr. FULLER.—" Sir, in my opinion, the City
ought distinctly to point out some spot where they
. , would determine to build the market ; if they do not
do this, and that plainly too, I will not vote for them.
I certainly will not trust them. It is very odd in-
-1 deed if they expect I am to trust them, when they
have thought proper publicly to say they will not
trust me—(A loud laugh).
Mr. Alderman SHAW supported the second rea-
-1 ding of the Bill, which he thought ought to go to a
Committee.

Mr. BARHAM expressed his astonishment that
the Bill had been allowed to go on so fir without more
examination, considering the way in which it might
bear on private property. The best way 'could be to
reject this Bill, and then refer the matter to a Com-
mittee.

Mr. WHITBREAD and the ATTORNEY GE-
NERAL objected to the Bill, on the ground that if
was calculated to injure the interests of many persons
who had no notice of it whatever. '

The Gallery was then cleared, but the Bill was re-
jected without a division.

ASSIMILATION OF CURRENCY.

Mr. PARNELL rose to makes his promised mo-
tion upon this subject ; and having stated the great
inconveniences and injury sustained by the public,
particularly in that part of the United Kingdom
called Ireland, from the want of an equalization of
the currency between Great Britain and Ireland, and
the evils which have arisen for some years past from
the high rate of exchange against Ireland with this
country ; he adverted to the Report -of a Select
Committee appointed to inquire into the state of the
current coin, specie, exchange, &c. &c. in the Session
of 1804, upon which he grounded the object of his
present motion. The plan which he meant to submit
to the House, for the consideration of the Committee
was, in the first instance, that the Bank of England
notes should be made legal payment in Ireland. He
did• not mean to establish a fund belonging to the
Bank of Ireland, in the Bank of England, as was done
upon the Union of Seed Ind with England, not seeing
the necessity of such a measure. His next object was
to call in all the Bank silver tokens in Ireland, and
to issue a new coinage of silver to pass at the same
rate in both countries, and also to call in all the cop-
per coin now in circulation in Ireland, and which now
pass at the rate of thirteen-pence in the shilling, to
issue a new coinage of copper, the same as in Eng-
land, to pass at the rare of twelve-pence to the
shil-
ling; and to reconcile the difference between 12d.
and 13d. at which they now pass, he meant to pro-
pose that the 12d. should be of equal value with the
present 13d. This arrangement, he conceived, would do
away most of the inconveniences arising from the pre-
sent corrupt state and scarcity of the coinage, and
the high rate of exchange between the two countries.
As the latter was now nearly at par, he thought the
present the most favourable period for adopting these
regulations, and concluded by moving, that the re-
,port before alluded to be referred to a Committee of
the whole House.

Mr. FOSTER, concurring in the observations of
his Honourable Friend as to the equalization of the
currency, at the same time thought, that making
Bank of England notes legal payment in rieland was
a measure wholly impracticable while the Restriction
Act was in force. With regard to a new coinage, he
thought it wholly unnecessary at present, as Ireland
had now a circulation of silver currency equal for all
her domestic purposes.

LONDON.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19.
PRICE OF STOCKS ThIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Consols, for money, 6714—Ditto for May 681 CR.
Exchequer Bills. 10s. to 124. prem.—Omnium i prem.
PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY.

S per Cent. Red. Ann. 67.144
per Cent. Cons. 67ff
4 per Cent. 824 82
5 per Cent. N:tvy 98f9
Long Ann. 18i4

India Bonds, 13s. 124. pre
outli Sea Stock
Excheq. Bills, 10s. 12s. rr.
Lottery Ticket! 221. 4s.
Consols, for acc. tida

Hamburgh Papers to the 9th, and Dutch Paper
and Letters to the 12th, containing Paris news to ill
4th inst. and accounts from Vienna to the 22,1 uh
arrived last nighi. They give no countenance to
report previously received—that all differences hai
been adjusted between Austria and France : on ur
contrary, the military preparations on bcAli sides
pear to be prosecuted with unremitting rigour, ;,:-
the Princes of the Rhenish Confederation seem to
prepaiing to take an active part.in the contest.

Two bags of letters were delivered yesterday, iron
Heligoland, some of them to the 13th inst. Trail:
had begun to revive, and many prizes had hen
brought in, principally consisting of small armed
vessels, which had materially injured the trade be.
tween Embdcn and Glu'ekstaLlt. The following- a
an extract of a letter fr,--rn that island :
" 1-lELIGOLAND, APRIL 127
.1

" The Committee of Merchants have had a nueti:iy, a. whicl
it was agreed to impose a rate of half per cern. u 2 on oo,:s
ported here, in order to defray the expence incurred by nuara
to the captors of enemy's ships, and other public cliur7,e3.
Committee is indebte4, on acc4unt of such outgoing., to too
amount of about Soob marks."
The'earlier letters from Heligoland speak of ti:
probability of peace between France and Austri.t,
the latter ones, are Wholly silent on that subject.—+
They all concur in stating the probability, that th