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TO THE. PROPRIETORS OF EAST-rNDIA ti POLY.
LAMES AND GESTLESIEN.
WE beg leave to offer you our grateful acknow-
v v ledgements for the honour you have conferred on us, by
re-electing us irm the DIRECTION.
Trusting that the Proprietors will ever find us deserving of'
the confidence they have reposed in us,
We have the honour to be, with great respect,
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Year most odient and humble Servants,
WILLIAM STANLEY CLARICE
JOHN HUDLESTON
RICHARD CHICHELEY PLOW DEN
GEORGE -RAIKES
GEO. ABERCROMBIE ROBINSON
JOHN THORNHILL.
East-India House, the 9th April, 1818.

-PARLIAMEVTARY PROCEEDINGS.

sage should be sent to the Princess Elizabeth, offering
the Con,gratulations of that House on the happy
evened her Marriage with the Hereditary Prince
Frederick Lewis Joseph Charles Augustus, Heredi-
tary Prince of Hesse Homberg. The Motion was
carried unanimously.

HOUSE OF LORDS, APRIL 9.
Petitions from the City of Canterbury, and the Town and
fieighbourhood of Bromley, in Kent, were presented by Lord
Imolai, against the continuance of the additional Duties on
',either ; which were ordered to be laid on the table.
A few private or local Bills were brought up from the COM..
*On by Sir JADISS GRAHAM, Mr. FILLLOVISA, Mr. MiIIICEN,
sod other Members, and severally read the first time.
On the question for the third reading of the Longitude Act
Amendment Bill,
• Viseount MELVILLE proposed an Amendment thereto, in
the way of rider • which was agreed to by their Lordships.
The Bill was ;ben read the third time, and liaised.
Lord HOLLAND stated, that he had several Petitions to
present to their Lordships for the repeal of the additional Du-
pre on Leather. He was induced thus to lay them before the
House, because they went to prove the general repugnance to
the tax in question. It must, he deemed, be no small proof of
the deteriorated state of the finances of the country, when a tax
so obnoxious was persisted in. This he held to be the more
reprehensible, as Ministers were pressing the votes of large
sums for such purposes as the construction of a number of new
churches in the country ; and when it was thought proper to
hhep up the pageantry of the establishment -now.continued at
Windsor, an establishment which could afford no comfort to
any men, arid Val not very creditable to those who persisted in
retaining it.
His Lordship then presented Petitions to the above effect
from York, Ilalifax, Nottingham, and King's Lynn, which
„ere severally laid upon the table.
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE gave nonce of his intention
to move to-morrow for an Address to the Prince Regent, on a
.subject, and of a nature, to which he could not rationally expect
any objection; the less so, as the documents (on a subject of
considerable public importance) to which he referred, had been
already communicated to the other House of Parliament—
namely, the reports which had been made relative to the Fees
taken in Courts of Justice.

• AROLITIOi OF TIT' SLAVE TRADE.
Lord CAS LEftEAGH brought in a Bill to carry
into execution a Treaty concluded between his Ma-
jesty and the King. of Spain, respecting traffic in
Slaves. Read a first, and ordered to be • read a se-
cond time on Monday. •The Bill to be Printed-
Mr. BENNETT, seeing an Honourable Gentleman
oppoeite connected with -the Colonies, wished to ask
him . a question. He understood a correspondence
with some of• the_ inhabitants of Cape Breton on the
subject of the conduct of Governor Ainslie, who was
stated to have imposed taxes without the authority of
the General Assembly, had taken place.
Mr. GrOULBURN said a correspondence had cer-
tai4y taken place on the subject referred to. A
ntilittitn rising out of it had been underconsi3eraeloa,
but at present he was not able to state ti:e result.
Mr. BENNETT then gave notice, that if the in-
formations he had asked were not given before, he
should, early in the ensuing week, submit a Motion
to the House connected with this subject.
BANK RESTRICTION AND COUNTRY BANNERS' NOTES.
The House having resolved itself into a Committee
on the Bank Restriction and Private Note Act,
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, not
having formed a decided opinion in the early part of
the Session whether or not it would he proper for
the Bank to resume cash payments in 01.2 course of
the current year, bad been anxious to postpone the
consideration of the question to as late a period as
he could, with due regard to the convenience of the
House, taking care that it should not be brought
forward when a good attendance' could not be ob-
tained ; and he had expected that before the present
time intelligence would have been received that.
would have established the propriety of returning to
cash payments, or that circumstances of such insu-
perable difficulty would have arisen as would at once
have decided the question, and satisfied the House
what course they were bound in duty to pursue. At
present he certainly had nothing of this nature to
urge ; hut, at the same time, he must submit to the
House, however reluctantly, that it would not ac-
cord with the public convenience that the Bank
should return to cash payments at a very early pe-
riod of the present year. To explain the view he
took of this question, it was necessary that he should
briefly advert to the ccurse which had been pursqed
with respect to the Bank Restriction Act in former
years. That measure, first adopted during the war
against the French Revolutionists, had,been renewed
at different periods down to the *year:lBl6, when an
Act was passed for restricting the Bank front *ying
their notes in cash for two years, it being then snider..
stood that when .these two years had elapsed the
Bank should positively return to cash payments, the.
two years being allowed them to prepare for doing
so. To shew what hat, been the probabiliti.of doing
this, it was necessary shortly to refer to those
cal events by which the exchanges had been affected
of late years. The House would recollect that, pre-
vious to the return of the French army from Russia,
at the latter end of 181'2, and the beginning of 1813,
the price of gold rose to ,51. 10s. per ox. while the
price of silver in dollars was 6s. per oz. It was im-
possible at such a time to restore the metallic cur-
rency. Auy effort to do this must have been una-
vailing, as gold and silver. issued from the Mint
would have been melted down, and put out of cir-
culation as soon as it was sent abroad. From the
period at which the French armies were compelled
to leave Bussii, and retire into Germany, a favour-
able issue to the contest was foreseen, and, as might
naturally be expected, the exchanges became favour-
able to this country. In the course of the year 1814,
when the Allies were enabled to enter the city of
Paris, the price of gold fell to 5/. the ounce,. anti
subsequently declined below 41. 10s. There Was
every appearance of its continuing to fall, when the
unfortunate events of the next spring occurring,
brought again upon us all the calamities of war.—
'this of course interrupted the favourable turn of the
exchanges, and after the return of Bonaparte in 1815,
gold rise again from 4/. 6s. 6d. to 51.75. It war
then obvious that a return to cash payments then was
as impracticable as it had been in the former war.—
For that time, therefore, the idea was abaudowd, as
it was seen it must be wholly unavailing. In 181 e.
when peace had been again restored, the resumption
of cash payments by the Bask was then postponed
for two years, till the sth of July, 1818. From that
time the Bank had taken every precaution, and adop-
ted every measure that promised to enable them to
comply with the wish of Parliament, by resuming
their cash payments at the appointed time. By way
of experiment they, in the last year, had made a par-
tial payment. They offered to pay a certain descrip-
tion of their notes, the amount of which was but
small, not exceeding 1,000,0001. The effect was
what had been foreseen. The public were so far
from being anxious for a return to cash payments,
thatthe amount of the notes presented was so small,
as to be of no consequence whatever. At this time
the price of gold bullion was little above the. Mint
price, being but Si. 18s. 10d. per oz. while silver
was actually below the Mint pride, being but 4s. 10d.
the ounce. To exemplify his argument he must to
allowed to state one fact. When the exchange of new
silver for the old was to take place, a large sum in
new silver had been seat down to Scotland. After
all the old silver had been exchanged for new, there
remained in the possession of the Batik (the Royr.l
Bank he believed) of Scotland, the sum of 70001.
This it was thought desirable to retain,' and it had
been asked as a tavour, that gold might be sent to
London' for it instead of .Bank nom* He could
bring many other circumstances forward of a simi.
tax aexacter, to prove how, little ans..intra the public

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ROYAL NUPTIALS.
The Order of the Day on which their Lordships
were summoned, being read—
The Earl of LIVERPOOL, pursuant to his notice,
rose to move the customary Addresses of Congratu-
lation, on the part of their Lordships, on the above
auspicious occasion. It would not, he believed, be
necessary, when the illustrious Personages who were
the subject of the motion were considered, to take
up the time of the House in making any observations
upon the subject. He could not conceive that any
objection would be made to what he should have
the honour to propose ; 'he should merely observe,
that there was no man but must be satisfied that the
alliance formed by the marriage of the illustrious
Personage was with a Prince of a most ancient and
illustrious family, and one who bore a high military
.reputation, which, he had repeatedly shewn, was
well-deserved, in the course of the long and arduous
wars in which this country was engaged. He would
no longer detain their Lordships, but move-6, That
an humble Address be presented to his Royal High-
ness the Prince Regent, to offer their Tribute of
Congratulation on the happy event of the Marriage 1
of her Royal Highness the Princess Elizabeth,
1
daughter to his Majesty, with his Serene Highness
Frederick Joseph Louis, Hereditary Prince of Hesse- 11
Homberg."
His Lordship then moved a similar Address to her
Majesty the Queen ; and thirdly, That a Message be
sent to her Royal Highness the Princess Elisabeth,
to congratulate her Royal Highness on the auspicious
event of her nuptials.
Lord HOLLAND inquired if the whole of these
motions were regulated by precedent?
The Earl of LIVERPOOL replied in the affir-

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mative.
The form of presenting the respective Addresses,
and the nomination of the Official Peers who are to
present the same, was then ordered by the House.
Adjourned till to-morrow.
HOUSE OP COMMONS. •
Mr. BRADLEY (from the Mint) presented a Return of the
Prosecutions Instituted against persons for Counterfeiting the
Gold and Silver Coin of the Realm.—Ordered to be primed.
Mr. MARSH gave notice that on 3loaday he should move,-
that an Order of that !louse, calling upon th.• High Bailiff of
Westrninsler to furnish an Account of all the l'rofits and Emo-
luments arising from his office since the year 1807, which had
been moved without any previous notice, should be rescinded.
The Fau Drink Drainage Bill was read a 3d time and passed.
'r. FINLAY presented a Petition from the Widows of the
Writers to the Signet in Scotland, against the Bill now in the
House for regulating their Pensions.—Ordered to lie on the table.
Mr. Alderman ATKINS moved the second reading of the
Mock Auction Bill; but, at the suggestion of Mr. LI.SIIINa.IOI,
the second reading was postponed till Tuesday.
The Irish Privately Stealing Bill went through a Committee,
die Report of which was ordered to be received to-morrow.
ADDRESSES .OF CONGRATULATION.
Lord CASTLEREAGH rose, pursuant to the no-
tice he had given yesterday, to submit a Motion to
the House, on which he was sure but one sentiment
would prevail. It was his intention to propose a vote
of Congratulation on the Marriage of her Royal
Highness the Princess Elizabeth with the Hereditary
Prince of Hesse Homberg. The House had always
taken a lively interest in all that concerned the illus-
trious Princesses of the reigning family, and he was
satisfied this feeling would know no abatement on
the present occasion, when one whose character was
so high in public estimation had been united to a
Prince whose personal merits were so well known to
the House, that it would appear ridiculous in him to
occupy their time by dwelling on the high character
which he had gained. It was known that he had
been a distinguished soldier all his life, and had
fought in most of those glorious battles which had
accomplished the deliverance of Europe. He moved
that an humble and dutiful Address should be pre-
sented to his Royal Highness the Prince Regent, to
congratulate his Royal Highness on the happy nup-
tials of the Princess Elizabeth, daughter to his Ma-
jesty, and the Hereditary Prince of Hesse Nurnberg,
and to assure his Royal Highness of the satisfaction
with which they contemplated an event from which
they trusted much happiness would be derived to_his
Majesty's family. —The Motion was agreed to, and
the Address ordered to be presented to the Prince
Regent by the Members of that (louse, who were
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