Star.
London, England, 1811-07-17 00:00:00

GREENWICH.

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LIFE, HEALTH, HAPPINESS.

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Eligible FREEHOLD ESTATES, rapitil HOUSES with Gar-
dens, Garden ground desirable for Balding, Freebuld Ground-
rents, Sze —By Mr. It OBINS,

At Garraway's, on Thursday, August, 9, at Twelee,:in Leta,
'IIHE valuable FREEHOLD ESTATES, cant•
-I- prising a capital Fend)), Residence, with Oflces, Gotha
house, Stables, Garden-ground, Ste. on Crooua'►-bill, in gossip-
sion of John Harrison, Esq. Two spacious roomy Houses, wt.la
Gardens, Ac. near the above, anti opposire the Park, in pokiesdon
of Mrs. Stow, and Captain Sanders. An eligible Residence On
Royal Hill, with Offices, Coach-houses, and Stables, Garden
and Pleasure-ground, in possession of Mr. Young. Six substan-
tial brici•built Duelling-bowel, most desirabty Attar,, in the
C;rcus, No, 6,7, 8,9, 13, and 14; two Coach-houses and Sts-
I Ming, on Croont's Hill, adjoining the Park; let to most respects•
ble tenants at net rents, amounting to upwards of £4no per
annum, materially Improvable. Also, the Freehold Ground
Rents, Issuing from twenty-five substancial bnek
ISsrellug-
hourn, in the Circus and Royal Hill, amounting to onwards Of
refl per annum. And a very eligible Freehold Piece of Guden
Ground, about One Acre and a half, in front of the Circus; in
possession of Mr. Purvis, tenant at will, °a most desirable and
beautiM spot fur building.
May be viewed at convenient times, by leave of the tenants;
Particulars of Mr. Cook, Catpenter, Royal Hill; girth.: t rey -
I bmtud, Greenwich; of Edward Morgan, Ey. tv, Gray's
square • at Garraway's; and of Mr. Robins, Wartvactiesuott,
Guided-square, where kPlan may be seen.

CAPITAL PREMISES IN MARK-LANE, nearly orposite
the Corn-Market, and a HOUSE in SCO AK%

TO BE LET, for 21 Years, from 01t1 Lady-Day nest§
ACAPITAL HOUSE, No. :16, ill Mark-Wit,
with I:trge 'Yard, containing another Dwelling-house god
spacious Warelsotnes, Stabling, &c. and every convenienCe n«-
cessary for carrying on an extensive Wholesale. Puslness, how in
the occupation of Messrs. Greavt-s, Wh rocers.
Also to be Let, for 2t years, from Micliadma, urn, a Hume,
N 0.7, in ticnt's-yard, Bush-lane.
The above Premises are to be Let upon the Terms of die Te-
nants doing et Repairs, and bearing el .I.lr.ri except the Land-
lord'. Property 'Pax, and are to pay nett Ken's.
Persons willing tO take either of the aboveOrnsises tsmit send
proposals in uniting, sealed up, off ring the highest nett rent
they are willing to five for each, to the C'erb of the lirap.-r's
Company, on or before Monday, the 5,1 i Aug-ion !Fitt, by risotto
of the Clock in the Forenoon, when a Court of Assistants will
be held for letting the game, and where all persons stroing Pro-
mug attend personally to enter into an agreement, if their
P. !:pn.a.g shall be accepted.
Mir viewed by leave of the respective Tenants, and for.
?her Particulars ',mown by application at the Clerk's Office; at
Drapers-!tall, 1 to tnnitorton.st.eet, London, an, day between
ten and two, except a:urdays or Court Days.

THE Reglan Praclitiosner pinnace himself :n that
-A- superior t•ae,:city which enables him to detect the impos.•
tures of the Qurck, while the latter, with equal libitittie4s, if nit
truth, tetorts the charges Of ignorance and inefficacy on the is ab-
fished system ot regular Medicine. 4. Who shall decide, when
Doctors eisagrefe?" Let premimpti fn smile, or Pride brown: it
is a lantentable truth, that the present rate of Medical pretension
as a certainty, is not to be ranked with the anea:.est mechanical
discovery of the
For me let Galen moulder on the shelf,
I'll live and he Plopician for my-elf.
There is but one Intailible criterion which Cannot tfeceire--ex•
perience the test of truth. Dr. WEBil Ele's VF.GETABLL
MEDICINE, the English Diet Drink, has far nearly tin years,
in every species of Fever, itt all kind, of Nervous Complanw,
Scut Vy, in Scrofula, in Dropsy, in the Gravel Xe. Kcc. unitormly
restored the dejected to spirits, the exhausted to strength, and
real:eel the vital spark to multitudes, wham professional skill had
abandoned in despair. .
Dr. W. well knew the pernicious and destructive r Teets of quac-
kery, and was therefore decidedly hosale to an descriptions ot
quacks. He was an eminent physician, of extensive exi-erleirce,
and who, for halt' a centrry, cbspenst,d more betkfits to stifling
humanity, by the application of this VkGETAIILC REMILDf,
titan all that the practitioners in the modern Mauna Meilica can
boast. He happily combined a rerfeet kcou ledge of the hutautio
frame, and of the animal economy, with botanical att.!
was therefore completely qualifieel to administer such it .parittort
with sueeetts.
Those who wish to see Ills improved Vegetable Systerin and
Principles fully developed, may, by applying to the Venders, pr
cute his own Treatise, a uew edition ref w.dcli is just puld.ahed,
price ss. and also a small Pamphlet, containidg thirty Cases of
remarkable Cures, wlitch all occurred during the last year. 'Flits
'lnvaluable Medicine is now faithfully pretiared by E. Sire arid
Co. Borough High-street (sole Proprietors), front the original
Recipe, which was assigned over to them by Dr. Webster, some
years prior to hls'cleath. Sold in Half Pint Bottles, 45.; Pint.
ditto, 7s. 6.1.; _and in Quart d tto, 14s. each, duty include d. '
Wholesale only by the Pruprieturs; also wholesale and retail by
their agents, Messrs. Howard and liana, Limr•laue, West-
Smithilail. All ,steers and Ottkrs (post paid) addressed to
them, will meet the earliest attention. And is sold retail, by
one at halt, in every considerable I two in the United Kinedunt ;
and by the following Waders of Medicine in London: Flimflam,
Coymist and Artiggio, 106, Borough ; lioltmfs Medicinal Ware-
house. ft,iiit of the Royal Licie.nge, Cordial; Cole.worthy,
Chyntist and Druggist, 144, Whitee;tapel; Mutin.fey, Chymist,
24, Great Sorry-street, Biackfriara toad, and at Kerinisietoi.-
cross ; :Anger Cate Bacon), 150, Oxiord-ateet; Midgley, City-
miat and Druggist, 49, Strird; Hudson and Ca. Chytnists, Lc.
fl 7, Haymarket; ; sod Mattress, Na 1112111.1.
PS, kleet sueit.

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ROYAL MILITARY COLLEGE, Juts, 8, 1811.
IN conformity to the Resolutions of his Majesty's
Commissioners for conducting the affairs of the Royal
Mili-
tary College, that the Appointments of Professors and Masters
aball be determined by a compesitioo of Talents, the Governor
dotb heteby give Notice, that a Master of Fortification wilt be
-wasted at the Junior Departments of the said College at Great
Ishrlow, in the County of Bucks.
No Person will be approved for the Establishments, whose
character will not bear the strictest scrutiny.
A Collegiate Bnard of the Royal Military College will be beld
at Great MarloW on Tuesday, the 6th thy of August next, for
the examination Of the Candidates for the above-mentioned ap-
pointment.

1 0' FROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE.

DOWNING-STRUT, JULY 16. •

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S Plspatch, of which the following is an Extract, was on Sun-
day received at Lord Liverpool's Office, addressed to his Lord-
ship by Lieutenant-General Viscount Wellington, dated Qoiuta
de St. Joao, 20th June.
The enemy moved forward his advanced guard,
consisting of about ten thousand men, to Los Santos,
on the morning of the 13th.
Upon this occasion Lieutenant Streenuwitz, of the
21st Light Dragoons, was sent out by Major-Gene-
ral Sir William Erskine to reconnoitre the enemy,-
with a small detachment of the 2d Hussars and 3.4
Dragoon Guards, which distinguished themselves in
an attack upon a superior number of the enemy, and
took some prisoners.
I had arranged that the cavalry and 2cl and 4th
divisions of the allied British and Portuguese army,
nod the corps of Spanish troops under General Blake,
should collect if the ettemy.should advance to inter-
rupt the siege or blockade of Badajoz ; and I went
to Albuera on that night to superintend the move-
'tents of the troops.
I also moved, on the night of the 13th, General
Hamilton's division from the blockade of Badajoz,
with an intention to stop the enemy in case the Army
.of the South alone should have moved forward.
On the 14th, in the night, Lieutenant Ayling of
the 40th regiment, who had been employed to ob-
serve the movements of the enemy, arrived at Albue-
ra with the account, that the advanced guard of the
enemy's Army of Portugal from Castile had entered
Truxillo at noon the 13th, which conErmed the other
accounts which I had received of their progress up
to the 12th, and as from Truxillo they might have
been at Merida on the 15th, and in communication
with the Army of the South, I determined to raise
the blockade of Badajoz, and that all the allied troops
should cross the Guadiana on the 17th. This was
accordingly effected without difficulty or loss of any
description ; and General Blake likewise crossed with
his corps at Juramenha on the 17th.
Since that period, the allied British and Portuguese
army have been encamped in the woods upon the
Caya about Torre de M'atro, having their right upon
the Ponte de Caya ; the 3d and 7th divisions and
Brigadier-General 14adden's cavalry being in Campo
Ilayor. And the troops which had been under the
command of L;ete-cnai t-General Sir Brent Spencer
on the frontiers of Castile, have crossed the Tagus at
Villa Veiha in proportion as the enemy have crossed
that river at Almarez. The whole are now upon the
Caya, between this place and Arronches,
The enemy's advance have appeared in the neigh-
bourhood'of Badajoz this day, and I conceive that
their whole army will be collected to-morrow.
The enemy have collected upon this occasion all
their force from Castile, their whole force from Ma-
drid, and what is called their Centre.Army, and *all
their force from Andalusia, excepting what is abso.
lately necessary to maintain their position before
Cadiz, and that held by Sebastiani in the Eastern
Kingdoms of Andalusia.
The enemy have abandoned Old and New Castile,
with the exception of a small garrison in Ma4rid, and
have risked every thisg in all parts of Spain, in order
to collect this large army in Estremadura.
ADMIRAL I Y-OFFICE, JUNE le.

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Cop? of a Letter from Rear-Admiral Sawyer, Commander-10.,
- Chief ends Majesty's ships and vessels on lbe Coast of North
America, to John Wilson Croker, Esq. dated on board the
Africa, at Bermuda, the 11th of June. •
Silt—lnclosed I transmit to you, for the information of the
.Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, a Copy of a Letter from
Captain Arthur Bair Bingham,Commander of his Majesty's sloop
Little Belt, received this day from Lord James Townshend, Cap-
tain of his Majesty's ship Bolus, and Senior Officer at Halifax;
by which their Lordships will perceive he was attacked on the
evening of the 16th May last, when cruizing between Caps
Henry and Cape Hatteras, by the United States frigate the Pre-
eident, of forty-four guns, .commanded by Commodore Rogers;
and that after a close action cf three quarters of an hour the
American *hip made sail from him.
Captain Bingliam's modest, but full and clear statement, ren-
ders any comment from Me unnecessary; and I have only to
admire the extraordinary bravery and firmness with which him-
self, his officers, and ship's company supported the honour of the
British flag when opposed to urea an immense superiority of
force. I have, however, deeply to lament the number of valua-
ble British Seamen and Royal Marines who have been either
killed or wounded on this unexpected occasion ; a list of whole
games is also inclosed, togither with a Copy of my Order, µoder
which Captain Bingham .was cruizing.
I have the honour to be, Ste. 4 •
H. SAWI LA, Rear-Admiral.
His Majesty's Ship Little Belt, May 21, lat. 36.53. N.
long. 71. 49. W. Cape Charles bearing W. 48 miles.
SIR—I beg leave tcracquaint you, that in pursu-
ance of your orders to join his Majesty's ship Guer-
riere, and being on my return from the northward,
• pot having fallen in with her, that at about eleven A.
M. May 16th, saw a strange sail, to which I imme-
diately gave duce ; at one P. M. discovered her to
be a man of war, apparently a frigate, standing to
the eastward, who, when he made us out, edged away
from us, and set hi: royals ; made the signal 275, and
finding it not answered, concluded she was an Ame-
rican frigate, as he had a Commodore's blue pendant
flying at the main ; hoisted the colours, and made
all sail tooth, the course I intended. steering round
C,ape Hatteras, the strabger edging away, but out
maleng any mice sail. At half past duce he made
sail in chart, when I made the private signal, which
' was net answered. At half past sis, he gain-
pd so considerably on us as not to be able to.-elude
him during the night, being within gun shot, and
clearly discerning the stars in his broad pendant, I
irrogined the mote prudent method was to bring to,
and hoist the colours, that no mistake might arise ;
an 4 that he might see what we were 1 the sliip was
therefore brought to,, colours hoisted, guns double-
;hotted, gnd every preparation made in case of a
sun l rise, his, manner of• steeling down, lie evi-
dently wished u, lay his ship in 4 position Forsaking,
which I b ustrat!ii by we.uing three times{ About
a (pang pmt ht l 8 Eallif 401: i 4441

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PARLIAMENT:IR?' PROCEEDINGS.

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and asked what ship it was ? fie reputed my eines.
tion. I again hailed, and asked what ship it was ?
HOUSE OF LORDS. JULY 16.
He again repeated my words, and fired a broadside, . -
In the Appeal " Menzies V. Beresferd," Sir Samuel Romilly
which I immediately returned. The action then be. and Mr. Abercromby were heard tor the Relondent, and Mr.
came general, and continued so for three quarters of Adam in reply—Judgment on Thursday.
an hour, when he ceased firing, and appeared to be The farther consideration of the Scots' Appeal Cause respect-
on fire about the main hatchway. He then filled.•p ing Burns's Poems, was deferred till Thursday neat.
was obliged to desist from firing, as the ship falling CIRCULATING MEDIUM.
The order of the day was read for the continuation of the de-
off, no gun would bear, and had no after-sail to keep
bate from the adjournment thereof till this day, on the fourteen
her to. All the rigging and sails cut to pieces, not a Resolutions presented to the House by Earl Stanhope.
brace or bowline left, he hailed, and asked what ship Earl STANHOPE then rose, and addressed the.
this was ? I told him : he then asked me if I had House upon the subject at considerable length. The
.struck my colours ? My answer was, No, and asked principle of his Resolutions was what he first stated
What ship it was ?As plainly as I could understand, to the House. Then came a particular instance,
(he having shot some distance at this time) he an- which rendered it necessary to bring in the Bill he
swered, the United States frigate. He fired no more had introduced, and which was now before the Com-1
grins, but stood from us, giving no reason for his most mons. The law as it would stand, if that Bill should
extraordinary conduct. At day-light in the morning, ITiass into an Act, would avert for a time those great
saw a ship to windward, which having made out well 1 mischiefs which were . daily to be apprehended. It
what we were, bore up and passed within hail, fully i would leave open three remedies for the landlord, u
prepared for action. About eight o'clock he hailed, before; but it would prevent him from making a di,-
and said, if I pleased be would send a boat on board; : tress when Bank-notes were tendered. We had been,
I replied in the affirmative, and a boat accordingly brought into a situation, something like a man with
came with an officer, and a message from Comma- a number of roads before him, and not knowing
dore Rogers, of the President United States frigate, which of them to take. There'were mud and water;,
to say that he lamented much the unfortunate affair i and' broken bridges before him; and he knew not
(is be termed it) that had happened, and that had he ; how to choose. The Ministers seemed afraid to take
known our force was so inferior, he should not have i a direct road, and the Opposition.had no directions to
fired at me. I asked his motive for having fired at , give.' He had, therefore, brought them 'to the point,
all ? his reply was, that we fired the first gun at him,- and they had begun now to take the right, road for a
which was positively not the case. I cautioned both . short way ; but something farther Must he crane, or
the officers and men to be particularly careful, and they would soon be overturned. He neverlSoughe
not to suffer any more than one man to be at the , his Bill perfect. On the contrary, he-bad said, it
gun. Nor is it probable that a sloop of war within ' was like a coat made for Humpy. He had been ob-
pistol-shot of a large forty-four gun frigate should ,lilted to frame it to meet the distorted shape of des
commence hostilities. He offered me every assistance law as it stood, and the circumstances of the time..
I stood in need of, and submitted to me that I had He could not possibly look at the dangers-likely to
better put into one of the ports of the United States, ensue without alarm. Why was the tenant, . who
which I immediately declined. By the manner in produced for their Lordships their rents and their
which he apologized, it appeared to me evident, that comforts, to be obliged to bring gold, (which, by
had he fallen in with a British frigate he would cer- the bye, he could not procure) or to pay ank-notes
tainly have brought her to action ; and what further ,at a depreciation of four shillings in twenty ? His
confirms me in that opinion is, tkat his guns were not j Lordship put a case of a tenant having received such
only loaded with round and grape shot, but with every a notice, and going to his landlord, to represent to
scrap of iron that could possibly be collected. him his difficulties. " Have I ever failed to pay my
I have to lament the loss of thirty-two men killed rent at the appointed time ?" " No, never."—
and wounded, among whom is the Master. His Ma- 64 Have I ever cur down the trees, or ploughed up,
i jesty's sloop is much damaged in her masts, sails, the gardenc, or injured your estate ?" " No 1"....
rigging, and hull, and as there are many shot 64 I have borrowed money, which I have expended',
' through between wind and water, and many shots still in improving your land." " You have."—" I," con-
i remaining in her side, and upper works all shot away, times the tenant, " can't get gold." 66 Then," says
starboard pump also, I have judged It proper to pro- the landlord, " you must turn out." What horrible
teed to Halifax, which will I hope meet with your injustice would this be ! This landlord would, like
approbation. shylock the Jew, in the play, take out his long knife,
I cannot speak in too high terms of the officers and and whet it upon the floor, and tell his tenant, 66 I'll
men I have the honour to command, for their steady have my bond, I'll have my pound of flesh." Aye, so
and active conduct throughout the whole of this bus- he might : but they ought to take care that he should
siress, who had much to do, as a gale of wind came not get a drop of Christian blood ! It was clear, that
,on the second night after the action. My First Lieu- forcing tenants to paying gold must have an injurious
• tenant, Mr. John Mo'aerly, who is in every respect a effect in raising the prices of all the necessaries of lite :
most excellent officer, afforded me very great assis- the butcher, the baker, &c. must all be affected by it.
tance in stopping the leaks himself in the gale, secu- His Lordship proceeded to deny the principles that had
iring the masts, and doing every thing in his power.— been laid down by so many persons, about gold being,
i It would be the greatest injustice was I not also to exclusively the medium of circulation. .He said
speak most highly of Lieutenant Lovell, Second Lieu- that it had been for various reasons so esteemed in
Itenant ; of Mr. *Queen, Master, who, as I have be- earlier and infant ages of civilization, .and that it
fore stated, was wounded in the right arm in nearly boasted an antiquity bordering on the days of barbale
I the middle of the action ; and Mr. Wilson, Master's., rism. Those notions had been received and acted
Mate. Indeed, the conduct of every officer and man upon, but did it not follow that they were indisputite•
was so good, it is impossible for me to discriminate. I ble ? As civilization had increased, the use of a pa..
• I beg leave to enclose a Eat of the S'2 men killed per-medium had been introdtiCed, which was, in many
and wounded, most of them mortally I fear. : case, much more convenient. Yet he heard from
I hope, Sir, in this affair 1 shall appear to have done. hundreds, nothing but " Gold, Gold ;" which they
my duty, and conducted myself as I ought to have exclaimed like so many parrots or magpies, who had
done against so superior a force, and that the honour 4 been taught to say nothing else : but he could hear
of the British colours was well supported. I have no sound arguments from thence.' Gold was a fluc-
the honour to be, &c.
(Signed) coating medium in its value,as different circumstances
A. B. BINGHAM, Captain. occurred, such as the balance of trade, and course of
Return of ()Steers, Petty Officers, Seamen, and Marines, Killed Exchange. A pound sterling, he contended, was
and Wounded on board his Majesty's Sloop Little Belt, Ar-
thur Batt Bingham, 'Esq. Commander, in Action with the
can Frigate President, the 16th May.
CUED. • ;what the law had made it, and not bullion. If he'
I wanted to measure the length 'and width of that
American
I house, he should look for a rule of feet, or feet di-
ritr. Samuel Woodward, Midshipman ; Christ. Bennett, Cap-
vided into inches; and not for a thermometer or any
' tarn of the Foretop; Jacob Greaves, Carpenter's crew ; Thomas thing else that would expand in his hands, or when
Shippard, Ganner's Mate ; George Wilson, able seaman ; Robert he came near the fire. Nobody in the kingdom could
Liversage, able seaman ; James Grey, ordinary seaman ; Robert
Howard, ordinary seaman ; and John Pardon, private marine. misunderstand what was meant by a pound-note.—
Let those who complained call county meetings. He
WOUNDED.
Daniel Kilbam, landasan, dangerously—died ten hours after the would attend in Kent, if one were called, and take
action ; Richard Coady, ordinary seaman, ditto—died 20 Yours . care to call for the skew of hands on this subject, and
after the action ; John Randal, able seaman, dangerously ; Isli- Ihe had little doubt as to the result. The effect of the
cholas Manager, Gunner's crew,
Acting Master, severely; hunee Dunn (2), Captain of the Main- .
ditto ; Mr. James "Qmeens ' system of two prices would even be seen in the com-
monest ric
top, ditto ; James Lawrence, able seaman, ditto • John Richards ! enrrences. Suppose a brewer, for instance
able seaman, ditto ; 'Thomas Ives, able seaman, 'ditto ; Michael 1 —he would say, Brewer Whitbread, and why not ?
Skinners, landman, ditto ; William Fern, 'boy, ditto ; David Well, Brewer Whitbread tells one of his publicans
Dowd, marine, ditto ; William Harrold, marine, ditto;. Mr. ,
James Franklin, Boatswain, slightly ; Mr.. Benjamin Angel, . that lie must be paid in gold. The man murmurs,
Carpenter, (lino ; Peter b•PCaskeU, Captain of the Mast, ditto ; .
i and the brewer must compromise, unless the publican
- mers that have
William Andrewi, ordinary seaman, ditto ; William isrcs,",. can procure gold every time his customers
boy, ditto; Edward' Graham, able seaman, ditto; George Da- ; a little credit run up their pints and pots of porter to
!any, able seaman, ditto ; George Roberts, boy, ditto; George i a seven-shilling piece. If he don't compromise, the
Shoard, marine, ditto ; and Daniel Long, Marine, ditto. ' publican would take down the board 66 Whitbread's
(Signed) A. B. RINCIAM, Captain. . Entire," ' and put up 66 Meux's Entire," or " Calvert's
W. Tuawea (2),Surgeon.
Entire." (A laugh.) lie only wished Noble Lords
" By Herbert Sawyer, Esq. Rear-Admiral of the Red, and Comm!
wander-in-Chief of his Majesty's ships and vessels employed, !to consider the subject more attentively. Gold, he
and to be employed, in the River Saint Lawrence, along the ; asserted, could not be got, though it was said there
Coast of Nova Scotia, the islands of Anticoste, Madelaine.and was a great deal of it in Mexico and Peru. So there
faint John, and Cape Breton, the Bay of Fundy, aad At or was , .
about the Island of Bermuda, or Somers Island: .. . some under the earth and some over it, but they
- I might send all the British navy for it, and not ger
" You are hereby required and directed to Out to .
sea in his Majesty's sloop under your Command, and . it. No! they must send something that the people
wanted to buy in exchange for their gold. It watt
proceed without loss of time off Charlestown, where i
t.:
ue course of exchange and balance of trade that
you may expect to meet Captain Pechell, in the
deprived us of gold. When Bonaparte set up his
Guerriere, to whom you will deliver the packet you
will herewith receive, and follow his orders for your system of
further proceedings. Should you not meet the Guer-
riere many people laughed at it. He had never thought
so contemptuously of that man, as not to believe
off Charlestown, you will stand to the North-
that he would push his plan as far as he could
ward, and use your utmost endeavours to join him Nv
off the Capes of Virginia, or off New York ; and in time might
hat was wanted; was generality, and success.. A.l
the event of not meeting the Guerriere, you will time some presently, when he would have that
duce success. It was with a view to that that he had
enerality in the effect of his plan, which would pro-
cruize as long as your provisions and water will last,
and then repair to Halifax for further orders. You drawn up his resolutions, not to press them at the en
are to pay due regard to protecting the trade of his
Majesty's subjects, and the capture or destruction of of the Session, but to have them printed, so that No-
be particularly .
ble Lords might consider theta well before next Ses-
the ships of the enemy. You are to
sion, wnen it would be necessary to do something
caretut not to give any just cause of offence to the
permanent. His Noble Friends in oosition seemed
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Govement or subjects of the United States of Arms-
to think gold was easily to be hadpp: that be must,
rica ; and to give very particular orders to this effect
to th officers you may have occasion. to send on deny. They seemed to suppose, that, as they
thought the Ministrrs were ruining the country, the
board ships under the American flag. You are not
people could have no confidence in them, and there
any -
to anchor in of the American ports, but in case
of absolute necessity, and then put to sea again as fore naturally hoarded up all the gold : but that
soon as they came inf out would come all the
soon as possible. • . ,
secreted gold, and cover the country ! (Hear.)--
,6 Given under my Hand at Bermuda, this 19th He did not think that would be the case. Respecting
April, 1811, (Signed') ' HERBERT SAWTAR,
Bank-notes, he thought it most dangerous and unjust
46 Til Arillur Batt Bingham, Esq. Commander
of kis Ma sloop Little Bel!. , to make them legal tenders. How were two people
!‘ Dy Command of the Rear. Admiral, to act safely with them, neither of them being a
t‘ li• N. ScilisPvluiZt" judge of a good 131111 k-note from 4 Im4 Pile ? 'Am

would be a step like those of Robnititrre and Mares II
who, when in France, used queer words for things--,
called the making assignats legal tenders, proneydisiny )
the assignats. Afterwards they were obliged tolekais
recourse to the tuorsoneydiriq of their assignats. The
same. consequences must result here from making
Bank notes legal tenders. Every body recollected a
cause in our t-ourts of Justice respccung the forgery
of French assignats, and that the Court computed
one party to stay the other's bill for doing so. Thus
the law had made it leial to forge French assignats.
Might not Bonaparte, whenever we should fume re-
Nurse to the making Bank-notes legal tenders, per-
mit the same thing, and throw 'millions of forged
legal tenders out of boats and ships Hato this country ?
After a variety of ingenious arguments and illustra-
tions on the subject, the Noble Earl strenuously re-
commended his plan of bouk-entries, which was na
impracticable theory, but had been adopted with suc-
cess in Hemburgh and Holland, where people knew.
at least, something about commerce sad circulating
mediums. He stated a variety of instances in. whicla
this plan was superior to every other, as it wouls! af.
ford us what we so much wanted—a permanent legal
tender ; and had none of those disadvantages, and that
injustice, which must follow the making of Bank-
limes legal tenders. In Ole view of transfer, what
was the selling an estate in Kent for £lOO,OOO and
buying another in Yorkshire• of about the same
amount, but a mere exchange of land : say in the
neighbouihood of. Canterbpry for, one in the vicinity
of Yolk, which the man liked better ? Then. the
look entry system particularly applied. If the_ no.
ney must be received in gold, it could not he carried
in a post.chaise, for fear of. snapping the springs, it
might be carried in a great broad wheeled w .ggon.
—(il laugh)—There-was no need for this ; th,re was
a positive necessity for some thing permanent as a
medium, something that might be well understood
by every body. In fact, his plan had been begun
and acted upon by individual bankers in the West of
England. One who had written to him, did not, on
'that account, want his bill, because it proceeded on 4
the foundation of the Bank of England, whereas the
individual's notes could be made legal tenders. But
still, this instance was a strong argument for his Bill.
His Lordship adverted to the present execution of
Bank-notes, which he represented as so easily to be
forged, that in the opinion of good artists, any clever
engraver's apprentice, of three years standing, might
do it. The country notes were much better done:
these of the Bank were inferior to their Lnrdships'
visiting cards. He did not censure the Bank, be-
cauie he knew that they could not get the numbers
wanted executed with sufficient dispatch, if they em-
ployed eminent artists. He concluded, after many ge-
neral observations and particular explanations on the
whole subject, by recommending the Resolutions to
the serious consideration of the House, as they coo-
tained recorded principles on this most important
question. He moved that the Resolutions be printed,
The Earl of LIVERPOOL said, he deemed it ne-
cessary before he should puke those short observa-
tions he intendend on the main object of the Noble
Earl's speech, to say a very few words on what i
tell from the Noble Earl in the outset. He had said it
would be impossible for the law to remain as it
asttuld be after the passing of the bill now before the
other 'House. With respect to this part of the sub-
ject, however, all the Noble Earl's reasoning would
equally apply to the state of the law ar it stood im-
mediately after the suspension of cash payments by
the Bank in the year 1797. And in effect, the whole
of the agricultural and commercial dealings of the
country have been going on under that system, from
that time until the present moment. In what the
Noble Earl said, of its being best first to look to prin.
ciple, he agreed ; he always thought it the best mode
of conduct, to act upon principles drawn from facts
I and experience ; and not to begin with speculative
-principles, and then seeing hew facts and circumstan.
cat 'geoid turn out. It was preferable to do no more
than was absolutely necessary, than to legislate on
the idea of speculative evils. With respect to the
main
subject of the Noble Earl's speech, he appeared
to have fairly stated the circumstances, whatever his
prejudices might he in favour of this other child nfhis
mind ! But he felt it his duty to put it to the House
generally. whether, in such a state as Parliament must
now naturally be supposed to be in, with reference to
' the season of the year, and the expectation of adequate
attendance, whether prdpositions of such extent and
magnitude could be allowably proposed fcr consi-
deration. But when the Noble Earl stated that his
only object at present was to have them pribted, and
that they may be considered at some future opporu-
nity, it altered the case so far, as that upon that prin.
i.
ell:4e he should not abject to the mere printing. At
4 the same time, he wished to observe. that it such a
proceeding were taken to imply the least sanction of
the House to what was proposed, he should resist the
motion for even printing them. But as that mere
proceeding gave no Parliamentary authority, and was
allowed to obtain even to what max be thought of an
Objectionable nature, he should accede to the Noble
Earl's motion, and upon the further ground of its
being consid, red, that in so doing he gave no opinion
whatever as to the merits of the propositions.
The Earl of LAUDERDALE said it was highly
satisfactory to him to hear the Noble Earl on the other
side decline to adopt this secotiet child of his Noble
Friend, but he still thought that to vote the printing
of these Resolutions would be giving a sanction to
them which the House, ought to pause long before
they agreed to. He could not but cons der some par s
of his Noble Friend's speech as inflammatory and mis-
chievous, although undoubtedly not intended to be
so. When his Noble Friend talked of calling a mei ting
in Westminster, and putting a question, whether they
would have dear or cheap bread, what would it be
,but raising a clamour upon a subject which those who
were called upon to decide did not understand ? When
• men's minds were agitated as they now were, by this
subject; he could not think that his Noble Friend's
Resolutions, or his speech, were calculated to do any
good. He had heard, with feelings of pain and rygre,
those parts pf his Noble Friend's speech, in which he
had so strongly urged the absurdity of haying gold as
a circulating medium, recollicting that the very s me
arguments were used in Paris, at the time of the Re•
IrOltition, when gold NV46 equally said to be unnece.-
"ilerle and when it was said, Gs Let the dirt return to the
earth trom whence it came." These ye. 7 same argu•
menu which led to the freed currency and consocr 1 t
depreciation of assignats, and all the dreadful co, ..e-
-luences which followed, could any Wag be uses'