Star.
London, England, 1805-05-04 00:00:00

WIN BUSINESS.

Mr. FOSTER. moved the Commitment of the kith Loan EU—
lacritarton Monday mat.

He then moved the ad Reading of the hint Bank Tokens Bill.
Mr. MAO ENS unpofed it. It was only following up the fvf..
tent of paper cfrcalttion cauf,d by the Roppage of cant payments
at the bith Bank. He lamented the depreciation of the currency
whirl, was the oreateßnf dotneftic calamities; to prove which, be
referred Gemlemen to the hiflory of our own country from the
reign of Henty VII. to that of Queen Elizabeth. He was convinced
agent: fly might .be found. if the Chancellor of the Exchequer for
England would apply his great and comprehenOve mind to the
point. Mr. PR INCEP fupported the Eill.
Mr. ROSE hid, that the great advantage of tokens was, that
they were nearly of the intrinfie value of the font which they re-
prefentel _ _ _

Mr. Moor nv and Mr. Rosa mutually explained.
hit JOHN NEWPOR obferved, that the preent iffue of
tokens was neeeffary, till fome effectual regulation could be
adopted, tn.a the proverb might not be verified—" While the
grads is growing, the 'teed Rarves."

Mr. LEI: fupported the Bill. He would, however, by no
means allow that there had been ^n over ine of Paper in Ireland.
The circulating medium of that country had not been encrecfed,
and he believed the paper Mucci (ince the Bank Reltridicin was
not enough to fupply the vacuum occalioned by the Auld being
withdrawn.

Mr. FOSTER thought it almoft nnneceffary for him to 'late,
that there Wasa diftrefa hardly to be def.-ribed in Ireland for the
want of filver for the internal circulation of the country, and par-
ticularly for the ufc of the lower orders. This mature would af-
ford the belt WA:me which could be found for the real coin.
Mr. JOHNSTONE did not with to oppofe the Bill, but ap-
prehended theft tokens were to be circulated at a rate higher!hro
their r..,1 wine: it not, he was apprehenflve that the comic ofex-
change would zzain draw out of Ireland the Giver which thould
now be iltued.

Mr. FOSTER allowed that the dollar, which was intrinfic.lly
worth but 4/1 when made a Eank token, pars for cs. ;
wl.n to this thfferv,ec. which amounted to 7s pa- cent. Otould be
added the rate of exchange, and at feet five per cent. for the
trouble of colleaing them to fend them cut of the country, it would
appear there would be near as per cent. lofs on exporting them,
which WO:liti be facient to prevent their being drawn out of the
country. _ _ _

After a kw words firm Mr. Vanfittart and Mr. jnhnitore, in
explication, the Hill was real a fecond time, and ordered to be
committed foe Monda v.
The other eiders of the tlay were then difpofed of•—•Adjoorned
ti Meador.

LONtiOgs

SATURDAY, MAY 4.

PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY ATONE O'CLOCK:
Confute, for money, 581 53—for ace. 58H—Omnium xi!:
DUBLIN, APRIL .49.-31 per Cent. 681.
Exchange—Dublin on London :o} tl.

On a point of Co much Importance as the move-
ments of the Toulon fleet, joined by thc Spanifh (hips
from Cadiz, our Readers cannot be furprized that we
fhould from time to time flop our paper even when at
pref., to Rate the lateft intelligence that reaches us ;
nor under fuch circumftances can it be expeCted that
all the accounts thould agree with each other.
We Rated in a large part of oar Impreffion yefter-
day, the arrival of a veffel at Plymouth from Gi-
braltar, which had brought intelligence that the
combined fleets from Cadiz were returning to the
Mediterranean. 'rids intelligence is in Come meafure I
confirmed, we underfland, by accounts received at the
Admiralty, which however w•e have not heard to be
official; and on the fame fubjeft we find the follow.
ing Paragraph, dated at two o'clock this morning,
in a Paper of this day :
" loft as this Paper was going to Prefs, it was in-
timated to us from a quarter of high authority, that
I the French and Spanifh fquadrons have certainly
palled through the Sticights of Gibraltar into the
Mediterranean."

It is thought by our mon experienced naval people,
that the intention of the French in their prefent
movements, is to induce us to withdraw our block-
ading fleet from off Breit, that their 'force in that
quarter may have an opportunity of getting out.
Should the enemy fuccted in effeEting a junClion
of their different fquadrons, they will have a very
formidable fleet It confill of forty (hips of the
line at lean. We hope, however, that they will be
difappointed, but we cannot help thinking that at the
prefent crifis, the public bufinefs Coffers by the time
and attention bellowed on queftions which might as
well be taken up at a leis inconvenient period ; and
we are fare the voice of the country will go with us
when we exprefs a win', that at the prtfent critical
moment the attention of thofe who have the care of
the public welfare was not fo much divided.
His Royal Highncfs the Duke of KENT received
yellerday intelligence of the nature above Rated, of
the enemy having returned to the Mediterranean. It
is our duty to Rate every report on the fubjea ; but
we ought to add, that this intelligence is very much
doubted, and that the enemy are believed to have
fhaced a different cootie.
Difpatches were laft night fent off from the Ad-
miralty, to Brixham, to be forwarded in a fall failing
cutter, to Lord GAII.Dt: ER.

The movements of the French in the Nell Indies
occafion confickrable alarm in the City. The latea
accounts are thofe brought to Liverpool. Two in-
terefting letters on this fuhjeel, which appeared only
in part of our imp:ea.:on yeferday, we infert again
to day for general information:

" ER PQM.. WEDNEEDAY,MAY I.—The
fon Senior, of this port, is jult at rived here from St.
Ihotnas's, which place the left on the 22d of March.
—She brings advice, that the Rochefort fquadron,
after leaving Dominica attacked Montferrat, Nevis,
and St. Kitt's, where they burnt and dearoyed all
the (hipping; excepting a very few, who got to St.
Thomas's from St. Kitt's. Part of Baieterre had
been burnt. They rantomed Montferrat forpool. and
St. Kitt's for 15,0001. It was not known whether
Brimllor.e.hill had been taken ; in all probability k
had 11,4. After leaving St. Kitt's, the French went
againft Antigua, according to tepit. Sir SAMUEL
Hoon was at Antigua ‘k tI) all the men of war he
could mutter, confining of one line of battle fhip, a
few frigates, and Ow ps ! Every thing was expeeted
from fo able an officer. No account of Admiral
COCHRAN E. It was teprted,that an exprefs from the
town of St. Domingo) reached the French fleet nn its
way to windward, defiring immediate relief ; and a
paflenger in the Higginfon Senior, who left that town
on the 6th of March, fays, it was invetted at that time
by the Brigands. The Toulon fleet was expeded in
the Weft Indies ; and the dello-union of our (hips and
iflands, intlead of their holding them, teems to cur.
roborate this report, and to point out Jamaica as
their real object. This feems the mink of all the re-
ports circulated fence the arrival this morning."