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05,-,rs. and Privates of the first Battalion of the
North Herefordshire Local &LIMA, under the coin-
loand-of 64 John-Geer,. Quartermaster
.37 IC t-i
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Ditto Little Strikelv, Huntingdon - . 11 1i e
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Parish of Oakley, Surrey, per Rev. T. Woodrdffe ]0 0 0
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Rayetuidon do. do. per do. 3 8 9
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Parish of Rolvenden, Sussex 't • 26 0 0
Parish of Newenson, do. • 13 0 0
Mr. 1). 11:okPr - • 1 1 0

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J. P. - - -- 10 0 0
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Wyltle • - - 12 S I
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Parish of Maismore - 6 4' to'

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PARLIAMENTARY ARO4 XeDINGS.I

HOUSE OF LORDS, JULY 9.

Earl CAMDEN laid OP the Table, agreeably to the Order of
the House, a Copy of the Report of the Physicians, presented to
the Queen's Council, respecting the State of his Majesty's health.
An Appeal Caper, "Wham v. Fuller, and the Appeal, Crow-
kr v. Bromfield, on which the Judees pronounced an opinion, were
ordered to be taken into consideration to-morrow.
The Royal Assent* was given by commission to the English
Inlolvent Pebtors, the Westminster Election, and the York 1t0.i.1
Tlie Commissioners were, the Lord Chancellor, Earl
Cantdeui 4pd Lord Walsingham--Adjourtred.

.M.M.M.,

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

The House attended, by commission, in the Lords. The'l
Speaker announced, on his return, the assent of their Lordships
go the English Insolvent Debtors' Bill, and some others, as well
•,144 the Royal Assent to the former.
A Message front the Lords was then delivered, acquainting
the House with the passing of Lord Stanhope's Bill, with respect
to the cdrrency.
Mr. BROUGHAM said, that if he thought a Noble Lord op-
posite would oppose a motion lie wished to make, for the pro-
duction of the Minutes of a Court Martial, held on Lieutenant
Richartli, of his Majesty's ship the Dart, he would Ore the re.
solar notice, but otherwise, he did not conceive it necessary.
• Lord WALPOLE stn' td, that it was hia intention, to op-
pose the motion, and Mr. Brougham accordingly gave formal
botice of his motion for to-morrow.
Mr. W'HI I.BREAD moved, that an humble Address be pre-
aented to his Royal Highness the Prince Regent, praying that lie
would be graciously pleased to order, that a Copy el the Com-
gounication nt.tde by the Queen's Council, with respect to his
Islajesty's health be laid before the House.—Agreed t..
Lord COCHRANE rose to renew his notices with respect to
Lk two intended motions. That with respect to the Fisgaid he
wished to stand as in order for the first sitting day ; and that
respecting the Judge of the Admiralty Court in Malta for the
second.

, with fhb record of any proceedings ' presumed to call their theories in question. So long
,ii had subsequently. - . as the necessity for a Bank restriction existed, so long
'ORNEY.GENERAL should not have it was necessary thpt the public creditor should be
' at the motion of the Noble Lord if protected lay that legislature, by 3R apt of which he'
any particular hardship in the cese of was compelled to receive payment from the Govern- I
De Yonge ; but that was by no means the case. It meat in Sank-notes. •He would suppose a peon who
did not ;depend on a prosecutor or his Counsel when derived an income of three hundred a year from the
Judges should make known their decision with respect funds, who was compelled to receive that income in
to any case referred to their judgment. In some cases notes, and who, renting a house for which he were to
there was more, in others less cause for delay. The , pay that three hundred pounds a year, could be com-
reason of the delay which had taken place with re. pelled by his landlord to pay it in Gold, cauld any
,spect to that which Was now under the considesation case, he would ask, involve greater injbstice than
of the House, Was not that the argument had been that of such an ludividual ? It had been elledged
left iocompkte, but was to be found in the inherent that the present measure was one which would lead
difficulty of the case itself, and therefore the Judges to the further one of making liank-notes a legal ten-
ordered a second argument. He could not think the der. He would not scruple to avow, that it was very
motion of the. Noble Lord in any degree called for. possible that such would be the case, and he would
Lord FOLKESTONE explained, and the motion further state, that at the period of the Bank restric-
,
was negatived without a division. lion Mr. Pitt contemplated such a measure as one of
LORD STANHOPE'S BILL. not improbable necessity at a future period, nay, that
The CHANCELLOR. of the EXCHEQUER, even at th it time he was restrained from adopting it
rising in order to move the first reading of Lord only by the readiness with which it was agreed to take
Stanhope's Bill, stated, that it was with great re. Bank-notes in payment on the part of those who con-
hictance that he and his-colleagues had been induced ; tributed to the exigences of the State. The question
to adopt the measure, and recommended
,it to the I had been expressly put to him by an Honourable
adoption of the House. It was matter of much-re- Alderman, now present, whether when be was mak-
gret, that there should exist a necessity for-bringing it ing Benk-notes a legal tender from the Government
forward at all, and still more for bringing it forward and the public -creditor, he would not follow up the
at so late 4 period of the Session, when so great a' measure by making them a legal tender between in--
number of Members, who, without doubt, would dividuals ? He (the Chancellor of the Exchequer)'
wish to deliver their sentiments on the subject, were had it from the best authority, that on the question
absent. Since the period of the Bank restriction, being pressed, he had then declined answering it ;
fourteen years had elaps:d, during which time the now if his mind had been made up as to the total in-
paper of the Bank had continued to circulate, pro- expediency of the measure, there could have been
teeted by its intrinsic merits, without the aid of any. nothing of this hesitation, he would have explicitly
such measure as was now in contemplation. During i and immediately expressed his opinion to that effect.
the seme time, the country had received very great i The conduct of Mr. Pitt was that of a person who
shocks, and had been compelled to make proeiigious would not dogmatize, like certain individuals of the
exertions ; yet, neither the mutiny of out seamen, nor present day, on a subject necessarily involved in much
the rebellion in Ireland, nor any thing of the kind doubt and difficulty, though he would then have been
which had pressed on her head, made such a mea, supported in adopting the measure by the ppinion of
sure necessary. This fact made it the more necessary 1 Sir Francis Baring, no mean authority, who then
to justify the bringing forward the present, and it ; stated that it would be necessary to make paper a
would he incumbent on him to enter into a further ;legal tender. He hoped the good sense of the coun-
justification, as to the time it was brought forward. !try would render it now unnecessary to resort to the
He trusted that on both heads he shOuld be enabled :expedient, The same danger which we now dwelt
fully to satisfy the House. He had then to state, ;on by the alarmists of the community, were the theme
that a Nobleman, possessed of very considerable of similar declamation at the time of the restriction,
property, who 14 been hitherto contented to receive yet none of the apprehended evils had occurred. It
Bank-notes from his tenants at par, in payment of' his was alledged that we even were on the verge of ruin,
rents, had given them recent notice, that he would , yet we had survived, and every day had gained, and
in future require them to pay in proportion to thelevery day were gaining an access of vigour and pros-
supposed depreciated state of the currency. This ' perity. There could be no fair parallel instituted be-
notice was given so short a time before that when the tween the tulip& system in France and that of our
Parliament was to rise, that, if it called for Legisla- paper currency. At no time during the fourteen
tive interference, there was barely time for it to be . years duration of the latter had the Bank issues
obtained ; this circumstance was a complete justifi- I amounted to more than twenty-five millions ; it was
cation as to the time when the Bill was introduced. ' now reduced to twenty-three. The atrignats had in-
It now remained to be considered, whether or not creased the currency of France, in a year and a half,
the interference of Parliament were or were not ne. to seventy-five millions, and at the end of four years
cessary ? He (the Chancellor of the Exchequer) had it amounted to four thousand millions. In cases such
at first entirely believed that it would not be found as these, for what purpose could a comparison be
so, but that a system, which had been found efficient made but for that of creating alarm ? The House,
for -fourteen years, might still be left, protected sim- in considering the Bill, would recollect that the prac.
ply by its inherent stability. The measure adopted tice against which it was framed, though new in Eng-
'by the Noble Lord was one, undoubtedly, calculated land, was not so in Ireland, and therefore it was not
to excite some alarm ; but he had, nevertheless, con- necessary to inti-oduce it in that part of the United
ceived that he would not receive much support or Kingdom sooner than next Session ; and he trusted
countenance. in thus reducing to practice his whim-. that it would not be thought to promote, but rather to
sical theories ; and that, when he found himself dish alleviate those dangers and difficulties to which it was
suedeal from his purpose by every person he had alledged the country was exposed.
been accustomed to regard with respect, he would Mr. ABERCROMBIE said, it was not unusual
stop short in his mischievous career, more especially to oppose a Bill in so early a stage of its progress ;
when he had the example of no one who had pre. but the Right Hon. Gentleman had entered so fully
ceded him in it to look up to but peddling Jews, into the subject that he would take the opportunity
and smugglers. But even if the Noble Lord were of offering a few remarks on the statements made by
not deterred by these considerations, still it was to him. The first ground of his justification was, that
be hoped and expected that there would be found lie aid not think the people would follow .the example
very few to follow his example, and that the matter i of his Noble Friend ; but did he not know that Bank
would not attain the size of a public mischief and; Paper was depreciated 20 per cent. and that persons
calamity, such as would render necessary the inter-1 making demands like his Noble Friend were protected
posing fiat of the Legislature ; but, when, on the by har ? How was he qualified for a Minister who
contrary, it appeared that even those who would not could suffer Parliament to separate without taking
themselves adopt the practice of the Noble Lord, yet . measures to resist the steps to which people were
would stand forward to justify and panegyrise him, j prompted by such powerful incentive ? The Right
and nick-name his conduct patriotism, and that those ; Hon. Gentleman had stated that the system had been
who did so were certain persons who arrogated to I acted upon without any evil result for fourteen years,
themselves as it were a monopoly of all the high but such was not the fact, there was no time limited
statesmen.like.qualities in the realm, it became high for the continuance of the restriction at first, it was
time to think of checking' the progress of :he evil. in the year 1304 that it was first made to depend on
He would not be understood as calling in question the continuance of the war. An application for the
the rectitude of the Noble Lord, there could be no protection of property affected by this regulation was
doubt that he thought he was doing his duty, that shortly after made to a Court of Law ; and if this
his motives were perfectly correct ; but if he enter-1 example was not followed, it was because the temp-
tained erroneous opinions, and was abetted by others tation from the credit attached to the paper currency
who entertained erroneous opinions, there was no rea- obviated' any inducement to follow it. But the case
son why the mischief likely to form it question ground- was now very different, when the fifth part of the pro-
ed on them should not be resisted as early as possible, perty of every individual was wrested trom him to in-
and he really did not conceive that there was within crease the profits of the Bank. The Right Hon.
the limited sphere of the actions of an individual, one Gentleman by defending his measure, on the principle
to be found attended with more terrible peril than of being the better enabled to carry on the war, did
that of the Noble Lord. His Majesty's Government not perhaps perceive bow completely he was identi-
had been reproached with not having taken steps im. fying this with the aisignat system, for assuredly those
mediately to oppose the evil, thinking it to be, as it who had recourse to it would use, as the most pro-
appeared they did, one of so alarming a magnitude. minent argument in its defence, the exertion it was
He had already assigned the reason why they had necessar y to make against the enemy, while they were
abstained from doing so, and he would now add, willing to leave the holders of assignati to take care of
that it could never have been supposed that those very themselves. He conceived the Bill to be an outra,
persons who had expatiated so largely on the evil of genus violation of private property, and as such he
double prices, would themselves lend a hand to create should most streetiously oppose it.
it, for so it was evident they were doing in applaud- Lord ARCHIBALD HAMILTON said, that
ing and encouraging the Noble Lord in the step he there was one remarkable principle that pervaded the
had thought proper to take. He was now at a lots 'speech of the Right Hon. Gentleman, namely, that
to know upon what principle these gentlemen would !the interests of the Bank and the Government were
oppose the present Bill, as he understood it was their ;identified, and that the people if they supported one
intention to do. Their opinion stood recorded,. that , must support both. Tu this he had very strong ob-
the Bank restriction could not be removed in a shorter I jections, as applying to any body of men, but in par-
period than two years. Now if this limitation as to ticula'r to that which was 30 favoured, and which he
the resumption of cash payments were necessary, considered as wholly unworthy to be the depositaries
would these gentlemen contend in the teeth of such of such a confidence. Upon these grounds, as well as
a necessity, admitted, nay, affirmed by themselves, upon many others, he should seize every opportunity
that the public creditor was to remain for the space of giving his most strenuous opposition to the Bill.
of two years without legislative protection from the , Mr. DENT was of opinion, that, if the necessity
effects of a depreciation from which they fancied pro. , of the times rendered it expedient to adopt such a
prietors of other denominations were able to protect 'measure as that which was now proposed tothe House,
themselves. He understood that the persons to whom ; however disagreeable it might be, it became every in-
he hadalready alluded, maintained an opinion that ' dividual who had the interests of his country at heart,
gold was never more plentiful in the country than to give it his support. fie should, however, reserve
now, He should much wish for an exposition of the any observations he had to make upon the general
grounds on which such an opiniot rested e for his principles of the Bill until it' was committed. , .
own part, he would confess that it appeared to, him Mr. WHITBREAD declared.his satisfectinn at
to involve the greatest absurdity, howsoever such a the opportunity which was afforded him, by the foe-
cOnfession might subject him to the reprehension of \ mei' manner in 'which the Right Hon. Gentlemen,
t lose gentlemen who thought their high statesmen- f(the Chancellor of the Exchequer) had ietrodweed
like qualities invested them with a right to lopk down the measure in discussion to the censideratien of the
with mingled pity
.1)044 folitemr on all those who House, of exiiressins his oiainion upon it. tie coil

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,'. • RELIEF OF THE BRITISH PRISONERS I which had been
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Amount
reuciuedlN FRANCE.
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Colinction at St. Mary's, Leicester, by the Rev. 1 there had been a
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