Star.
London, England, 1817-02-20 00:00:00

BANK DIOTICH RILLATiVE TO CASH PAYSIENTS.

Lord A. HAMILTON rose to submit a motion,
which could not, he imagined, lead to a diversity 01
sentiment. It a as--

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bat there be laid before the House copies of any notice, or
notices, given by the Directors of the Bank of England to the
public, the year 1814 respecting the payment of a certain pop.
lion of their notes In specie, together web the amount of specie
to the paynieut of which they were Wile in consequence of suck.
a notice, and also the merit' actually paid In obedience thereof."
Tht klOble Lord, in calling the attention of the
House to this subject, did so from a conscientious
feeling, that the prosperity of the country was con.
nec.o.d with the affairs of the Bank. His own expe-
rience convinced him that the interest and prosperity
of the affairs of the Bank, and those of the Country,
were mutually connected, but octal upon in au in-
verse ratio. The prosperity of the Bank always
kept pace with the distresses of the country. The
one decreased as the other advanced, and so the
operation of cause and effect.would continue as long
las the present mode of management was protected.
The entire regulation of the Bank affairs should not
I be vested in the Directors to the exclusion of the in-
terposition of that House in behalf of the public.—
The Noble Lord proceeded to point out with great force, the
baneful effects that were aidured by the Public from the
ta-
Cuence of the Bank upon the circulating medium of the country.
which was at one moment greedy augmented, and then soddenly
withdrawn by the operation of we issue or read of paper money.
—(1/ser.)-.-Admitung that Bank paper bad net been depre-
ciated, was there nu evil la the fluctuation wb'cb was incidental
to the present cmine of thinp t Was the mashies arks, in
the articles of Ilk no evil for the Public 1 or bad it not produced
the granter pan of the digress which all now deplored I Hs
would ask, whether the country bad nut borrowed matey at a
rate of I 3s. in 'impound, and was now paying igst a rate of
(Ifser.)—His pram* Object was thersiy to reek lnhematleae, mad
he holy required the addition of data and sums to the Worms.
tiun shandy communicated to the Public. He was far features

LONDON.

THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 20, 1817..
PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK s
Reduced 6611—Cons. out. 651 66—Cone. for sec. 66
4 per Cent. bit I—s per Cent. Na.r 97
IL:chequer 131 Rh 12e. Me pre.

The Report of the Secret Committee of the Com-
mons nn the subject of Treasons and Conspiracies,
was laid before the House last night ; and its sub-
stance will be found amply detailed in our Parlia-
mentary Report. It differs but little in its statennons
from the Rep a of the Coinmittee c.t the Longs, of
which we have this day laid a cctrect copy before
our Readers.

From the particulars stated, it can hardly be
doubted that some individuals have been so base, so
wicked, and so mad as to harbour ideas of a Revolu-
tion ; or, in other wards an entire subversion of our
Goeerninent and Constitution. But from neither of
these Reports can we make ourselves sufficiently ac-
quainted with the facts to enable us to form any cor-
rect opinion of the extent of the danger to which the
country was actually exposed ; for they neither give
a correct idea of the numbers really joined in any
conspiracy that existed, nor a sufficient number. of
dates, nor any part of the evidence upon which the
Reports are founded.
We would not, however, have it inferred that the
Committees have not had sufficient evidence before
them to warrant the Reports they have presented. We
are willing to take it for established, that certain in-
dividuals have actually been guilty of High Treason:
still the .question will remain to be.discussed—whe-
ther their numbers, rank, influence, and means to
perpetrate mischief were, or are such as to warrant
any departure from the usual modes of procedure
against such criminals ? Whether, because it is ne-
cessary to restrain and to punish the guilty, any mea-
sures should be adopted which in their operation may
punish the innocent—by suspending any of the laws
by which they are protected in their persons, their
property, and their privileges ?

It would be folly to disguise the fact, that many
are of opinion that these Reports are but the precur-
sors of a Bill to suspend the Habeas Corpus Act.
But this may be only a mere conjecture, founded on
a precedent in the recollection of all of us ; for the
Report of the Commons admits the it:probability of Me
tweus of the absurd schemes entertained by a sit o:
desperate men ; that the disaffection appeared to hare
been confined to the manufacturing and more popu
Inns districts, where the distress was the most preva-
lent; that even in these there had been instancus of
exemplary fottitude in the support of great privations,
and in resisting the arts of the disaffected; ai:d that
there is eveA,reason to believe that the contagion of
disaffeetionkti"•cur happy Constitution had reached
few or none of the agricultural classes.

It seems plain, however, that some strong me--
sure is in contemplation ; for the Committee of the
Commoasseport " that the evil is of an extent which
the existing laws are not strong enough to controul."
Still we are inclined to think that Paliaracut should

pause before k pass any act invAving tl e
with the guilty. In what respect have the Ltws btm,
found detective ?—un able to Li tog ;Le gui.'y it, yu_
nishment ? Has their et&t.,i.cy been prop,rly put
to the test .-..13ut, for ary.utnent sake, let it. be i4ra..-
ted that some restraints, not !ecogn'zed ')y
ing laws, are required, wutt!d there lie P.ny
dity in drawing a local line of tlentatc:itiw bytwe,n
the loyal and the disaffected, has beets often ci.le
in Ireland ? It the disaffection is " Collined to the
manufacturing districts," tali)! extend the poitishtn;:, t
to the agricultural 44(1

We offer tlas timely as a suggestion ; and to us ,t
appears that the adoption of some exceptiui s t., z•
operation of the 111:1, whatever it may be, w !.
a salutary effect; were it only in showing tn.&
whicli is must exposed to the danger of being n, ,
that i quiet, inactable, and loyal der/kith/Jur, .
culated to exempt them from the ieproacti abct E, .
ment which a different line of condt;cl is L...c OWE,:
to produce. but, as we have already stated.
out the means of firming a correct en;
only speak generally ; and the public will do ws.al to
wait the discussions to which the considesat..m
Reports will give rise in Parliament, belere they lwas
any decided judgment on the question.

We last night receivzd the Paris Paper: of
day, and this morning those of Monday
The Chamber of Deputies ccrnmenccd, ix' the
15th, the particular discussion of the articles IA the
Budget, several of which were agreed to, and the
discussion was aej..umed.

In the Chemins( of Peer! they h .ve then erzawil
in the consideration of the Plan 1,1 Law se.•t uy from
the Deputies respecting the Journals. 'Dia nuraer
discussion of it i► ac-jotainLltill the 20a.

The Duke of OHLEAN3 flas arrived at P.ui., aid
had an auJience of the KING. The Duch.•
petted to j.,in him about the end of the th • c. Th:
Duke of Botatuom is also ssid to have .4441,.!:.c5a
London.

The Foods !eft off oa Friday at WE. 50c.

Kingston Papers to the 13th January have arrived,
but they bring no news from South America. 11.1
Governor of Jamaica issued on the 2d Lou Iry 4
Proclamation, warning the Negroes of the oaf
of the report which caused the insurrection at IS u!):.
does—that the PRINCZ AEGENT had ordered
emancipation.

The Bermudian sloop of war, fr,m t!,e
Mexico to Jamaica, with specie, has been lost.
The Stirling, Russ, from Quebec for
wrecked in the river St. L 4 vreuc cn Cle .!,•
'ember—crew saved.

L.etters from Antigua of the ISt') December mu.
don the setting in of North East wends, wi:1:11 it was
hoped would terminate the ravages of d:::truc-
tive fever.

This being the QUEEN'S Birth the Pa: s-1
Tower guns were tired ac one o'clock.

In the Court of Chancery, yesterday. the Loma CHANCEL:Mt
gave judonseet in the case of lgg st. 'I he Waterloo Brittle 4..!•01-
pany. His Lordship directed the injuneticia to be dissolvel;
but with permission for the plaintiff to bring an action 1;.:
damages, and the defendants to give four opulent per.uas as cr.
why, to answer whatever dtmages the Jury may give.—in s
few minutes after the judgment was pronounced, the wort:fr.:a
began to pull down the Wows, which are to make room (or clic
new a reet into the Strand from the Bridge.
Yesterday, a Court of atectors was held at the EMI Inl'a
House, when the appointments took p:ace, v z.:—
James Stuart and Charles !Pithier Rickets,, Esqrs to seats Ui tL
Supreme Council of Bengal; John Adam, El. Pr oti4n-.1
Counsellor for Beogal; John I iodgison Esq. PriivisitPlAt k:
senor for Fort St. George; Alexander Bell and Guy Letwz
Prendergast F.Setri. to seats hi the Council of Uonthan
Francis Warden, toy. Provisiotral Counsellor for Hominy. -El
unsleninreotioatd Comarauders took th.ir leave t--;`:;tit il 1.
Dale, Sineatharis; Captain r. M' Taggart, Rose; and Capin L.
B. GrihNe, Princess Charlotte of Wales—for Madrai an l
It appears that the crew of the Campbehown packet fica!!l•:,,
wrecked in au• um on a voyage from Campfieltowit to !IT/ S,
did not perish as has been saippoted. .1 hey took to •he Ilea,
and were picked up by an American vessel outward-lye:A :at
New York. he wind blew so violently off shore that it
impossible to • land them in any part of Scotland or Ireland.—
They of course were taken to the United States, awl that
friends in this country bare received from them lyre's
cing their safe arrival

I'ALMOCITII. Fee 17 —Arrived the Prinems Fizatuth *
from Malta and Gibraltar—in 17 days from the latter; a!el •
Mariam-Kr: Packet, from Jamaica, in 33 days—bath with Ntai .
Also the Caroline, Watts, from Bahia for Liverpool, in .;t
By the Caroline welearit, that the Sydney Pa-itet,
New South Wales for I.llllllt/U, foundered at se:-. to tioveni!) •r tay.
flae Captain and crew took to the boars, and artved, arts r
ten days at sea, oa the mast of the Brazil. One of the ma' •
iIIOW aboard the Ca:vlioa. The Congo and Dorn :lay hai el hoc
Bahia four days before the Catolnia, far tiw first purr lo E,f•
land. By the Manchester packer, we learn that the Certmh!.l
'Auer of war, front the Gutph of hi. aim to Jamaica, tc.c en
away. having on board a great quantilt of specie. Ihe oelior,
lug transports wiled from Jainalc.t the 11th January for Fiir'.l,l
Ship Vittoria, with klaior.Genetal G'llara on board; Ca:a.:
Minerva, brig Vittoria. .
Deal, El AM:AIRY 19.—Sailed the 1ri,11; .......... 2f.1 flerecr, •"1
shire, Baht ludiamen, fur Mad. AS; and the whole of the
bound on their respective voyages. Came down from the Rte.:
and hailed the Centurion for Jamaica, and Sisters tor Havart.,`..,
Wield u'Clock.—k is doubtful whhther thewinti
not come back again, it is now doe North.
PUKT3IttOUTII, FtiILOAXT 19.--Sailed the William fit ~•
Dicer, for London. The wind having come dawn to the ;:i
outward-hound are preparing to sal, and will be (hi at ila!-I:r;
tomorrow.—Wind s.E.

Abs._ ii h from the quick SliZZC:Slill of Lltterfeli atm wo ".•
inclined to imagine that the spirit of adventure in t. is way v''.•••
becnne somewhat blunted, yet the conrra'y app.er, •"
ra,e, at least if we may jui!.g-, trout Cie erg. rums with • '", •
etiquiries are Made for particuh•t NuniberF in the r -nevi •i*
Lottery, which is to be drawn on St. Dam's 113/, •
March; as the whole Lottery contains but Sip to i kYi •
anairty on the part of adverrurers rot to he disaiatinteii
Orden has of course produced this pressing deirs id. .
The whole of the Tickrs it: the pru.enr %mall
estOch there are but 3,000, pace already been issued ir •
of England; this has bees done in order that tl`••
keepers aboeld be enabled (the drawing brit.; so :
to let their customers have such partictdar y )'•
iiis•cy at elite, without waii,;,is to twspeak them h.:
number of '1 whets, and the demand already tat for th: is
we appreltend, cause a great !molest the Offices dining oi
days now to intervene previous to dm drawing, wh;cii
plate 1111 tit at at Matele (*.David's 111).
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