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cite* and made them payable-at their own compter
onlaientaien the forgeries ceased. •
THORNTON expressed his 'misty for
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success of the Honourable Member's Motion.—
He had the highest respect for the Gentlemen of the
Bank ; but he could not but believe that they were
too much under the controul of their own officers.
lie was surprised that the Directors themselves had
not moved for a Committee to thew that nothing
better could be done on their part.
Mr. BENJAMIN SHAW regretted, that although
the Bank Directors had made every investigation, no
mode of preventing forgery had been invented. A
public reward should be offered. 'No public money
could be better repaid.
Mr. H. DAVIS answered the assertion, that if the
notes had been better executed, they would not be so
often forged, by stating, that he had seen notes issued
by a private Banker, executed by a most distin-
guished artist, which had been so completely forged,
that, brought before him, he could not distinguish
the false from the true one.
Mr. SAMUEL THORNTON, in reply to the
Member for Shrewsbury (Mr. Bennet), -contended,
that Bank prosecutions had been conducted with the(
'utmost possible moderation. No expenses had been
incurred for the put pose of entrapping persons. To
prove these assertions, the accounts of the Bankivould
'Le presented without any objection—Wear, keen)
• Sir JAMES MACKINTOSH said he availed him-
self of the courtesy of the House, not for the pur-
pose of reply, but strictly to explain two parts of his
former speech, that seemed to have been misunder-
stood by the Right Honourable Gentleman opposite.
Of the Judges of the Land he felt always disposed
t 3 speak, not only in respectful but in reverential
-terms. If he had used any disrespectful terms, they
'Must have proceeded from the warmth of the mo-
ment ; he was not conscious of it, and did not believe
lie had done it. He had merely complained of the
'severe jurisprudence of the,law on this subject. He
lad also intended to have spoken of the Bank Direc-
'tbrs with respect, as the managers of an useful pub-
institution. Of them, all he had said was, that
...: they refused the object of his motion, they would
excite a prejudice, a suspicion of something to be hid.
Much was he therefore surprised to be charged with
dlsrespett towards them, but much more to be charged
with disrespect towards the Judges, who must ever
deserve veneration, if they should rot deserve punish-
'meat, for there was no medium. The discussion for
last kalif hour had wandered from the object of
.4 motion,' and adverted to a subject''on which he
should bring forward a motion afterwards, perh
that day se'nnight, if, unfortunately, the motion
I Right Hon. Friend for Friday should be rejected.
The several Motions were then put, and carried
without a division. When the last Motion relative
to the Expenses of Prosecutions was agreed to;.
Opposition Benches returned several cheers. • •• •
The other Orders of the Day were disposed,of,

the louse adjourned.

THE EVENING STAR.

LONDON.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 1818.
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Last night Sir JAUZII NACKINTOStes Motions rela-
ave to the Forgeries on the Bank of England, came
on in the House of Commons. Sir JAMEekstatement
was highly impressiVe ; indeed, the whole of the dis-
..ussion will be read with much interest. General
7110RNTON observed, and with great justice, that
the Directors of the Bank were Gentlemen of the
ighest respectability ; and that, if any blame at-
tacked at all to them, it could only be for having
formed their judgments, as a Body, too implicitly
upon the opinions expressed by their own Officers.
We take this to be the real fact, for nothing can be
more natural—at least nothing is more common,
'lan for individuals, placed in such circumstances,
to be much guided by the opinions of those who re-
gularly manage the details of the business—such as
their Engraver, and others engaged in the manufac-
ture of their Notes.
We may even go farther. When Mr. TILLoCH
Offered his Plan to the Bank in the year 1797, the
crime of Forgery was comparatively of but rare oc-
currence, and of course any arguments founded on
the inconvenience which a change of system knight
ncasion, were entitled to great weight, and might
induce a reluctance to any thorough investigation...—.
But circumstances have so greatly changed since
that period, that even to suspect that the Directors
should still feel r.o anxiety to lessen the frequency of
crime, it it cannot be entirely prevented, would
b z to ascribe to them a chtuacter which cannot, with
propriety, be imputed to any Gentlemen occupying
such a sphere as they fill in Society.

Yesterday morning the Prince of HEssz HOMBERO
rode out in a Royal carriage, attended by Baron
ONAGIiTSN, and made visits to most of the Cabinet
Ministers and Officers of State.
The dispatches with which Colonel Ousi,tz, the
Messenger from the Court of Portugal, was charged,
in his 11Iajesty's packet Princess Elizabeth, were
dropped by him into the sea,• picked up from want
of sufficient weight, by the pirates +rho plundered
that ship, and restored to him after having been
taken on board their ship.
Both Houses of Parliament adjourn this evening,
to Friday, on account of the QUERN'S Drawing-Room
tO.IIIOITOW.
PARISIAN BON Moz.—A Member of the Chamber
of Deputies, with a bundle of papers under his arm,
was about to pass from the Chamber into the Garden
of the Luxembourg. " Packets do not pass," said the
porter at the gate • gi Bat this," said the Member, "is
a /*Acts and budgets always Iss: I"

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