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or oiwydycr., .111rty 7. 181 9.
ipal OFFICERS ?This MAJESTY'S
h .v. 4 ATI: do hen by ^Fue Notice,
• ~,!1 S I'UBLiC AUCTION, at the
I I' RS D.% V, the pith of May instant, at eleven
inreivon prt ci,Lly, SUNDRY LOTS of NEW,
::"En V I Cr.:l BLE ...aonts; contisting of Tar-
a sorts, St:Aiding Vic( s, )llows, llandscrews,
; Pieces, &dean; and Clothing, harness and
Cases and Wheels, together with various
the whole of which may be viewed upon appli-
-I:ir.cipal Storekeeper's Office in the Tower, and
.:rnal, Woolwich, until the d'y of sale, and where
or the Lots will be deliverCd to those persons who
the ram?. lbj Or!..r of the Beard,
R. U. CREW, Seerettrry.

.84ST-INDIA HOME, May 4. in •
THE CO CRT of DIRECTORS ?I' the UNITII)
COMP44IIY of MERCHAATS of RgaraND, trading
to the .E.147-I2 TIIES, do hereby give Kotice,
That a GENURAL COURT of the said Company oral be
held at their Ibuse, in Leadenhall-street, on WEDNESDAY,
the 19th instant, at Eleven o'Clock in the Forenoon, at the de-
sire of nine Proprietors, agreeably to the follovrimc Letter, viz.
" Losnon, the 44th April, 1819.
" To the Honourable the Court of Directors of the East
India Company.

to be repaid out of the Arai IVecelpts upon She growing produce
of the Consolidated Fund in Use ensuing Quakter-
" At a Committee of the Treasury, Sed of July, 1818, thc
folioering letter from the Chancellor of the Eashequer was'
read* v#,— " Dcnvaing-areet, 21.1 Of itily. 1814.
" zsniumn—l beg leave to represent to you,that it will b
Ci e
a great accommodation to the public service if your Court ill
consent to exchange the Exchequer Bills in your posiseaiion,
dated io.May, 1817 (beyond the amount of £1,000,0001 of which
part has already been paid off, and the remainder well be paid
is soon is the convenience of the public will admit), f6i* other
Bills to the liki amount, to be dated on the 4th of August next,
and to hear interest at the rate of 2d. per cent. per dient. I beg
therefore to request you will' have the goodness to move your
Court to consent thereto : and I have the honour to remain, ik•c-
-" N. VANSITTART. ,
"The Governor and Depety Governor of the BankaEngland."
" Re'solved—That tinder the circumstances of the delicieucy
of £583,000 of the sum of .C 1,000,000 engaged to be paid for the
month of slay, the diseppoiritmeat in, not receiving £1,000,000
fur the month of June, and no provision being yet made for the
Bills of the present month, now nearly expiring ; the Committee
are of opinion that the Court of Diteetors are not likely to com-
ply with the request couteined in the said letter ; nevertheless,
they are ready to submit it to the Court, if the Chancellor of
the Eachequer desire it.
" That the Governor and Deputy Governor be requested to,
wait upon the Chaicellot of the Exchequer wilt the above lk-
solution." _ _ _

" Honourable Sirs--We request the favour of your calling a
Special General Court of Proprietors, for the purpose of taking
into congideration the following prop-orttlon,
" That a Sum of Money equal to Stem Rupees one hundred
and eighty thousand (I 80,000 Sa. 'Rs.) be paid to Alr. Jwasss
Wit.sirame, at the exchange of Ss. 6d. per Neel Rtipar, in cow
sequence of the hues sustained by hlm from the enactment of
a monopoly of Saltpetre by the Bengal Governinent in the year
IEI2. "We have the hot our to be, /ton. Sirs,

1:70.1 VUt TlggiF.D., AND It:Li A
INCH AND !IA NO-MASTS.
NAVY OFFICE, Mkt 4, 1919.
L:?;r:.7.:;L OFFICERS a;,4 COMMTS-
ts,f 3f.:2, ZSTY's NAVY do Amity give Notice,
RSDAY, thf...9eth instant, at One o'clock, they
to mat with such Pcr:ons as may be willing to
11,?Iying his Several Yards with
0.% 'ITAIEF.R,
(OA 1-:C1I-MfSTs, Eri
ICA IT.V:r-7.!ASTS.
_ _ _

Your moot °bodkin humble Serytets.
Cna.u.ss Foam. C. Itositutoom.
C.-Commits- Join/ Volum
H. Howoars. Joni! Imuct.
A. Buoy'''. Joint DIACON."
Awusiw Ram.
JOSEPTI DAM', Secretary.

" At a Committee of Treasury, 25,1 July, 11118.
" The Governor acquainted the Committee, that himself and
the Deputy Gdirernor had waited upon the Chancellor of the
Exchequer, and had conununicated to him the resclution of the
Committee on his letter of the 21st instant, in consequence of
which the Chancellor of the Exchequer bad desired that his let-
ter might not be laid before the Court."
" At a Committee of Treasury, Sth August, 1818.
" The Governor laid before the Committee a proposition de-
livered to himself and the Deputy Governor this morning, by
the Chancellor of the Exchequer, as fellows:
" It is proposed to complete the payment of £1,000,000 on
the May Thlls held by the Bank, and to pay .E2C0,000 on the
June Bills, and to advertise the June Bills, the Bank consenting
to exchange the remainder of their May Bills."
" Resolved—The Conuninee„ having takcninto consideration
the proposition of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, are of opi-
nion, that consistently with the sentiments expressed on the Bth
and 14th May, and on in st July, they cannot recommend the
Court to exchange the Bills dated in May, whilst the instalments
fir June and July are unpaid; and that the Governor be desired
r to acquaint the Chancellor of the Exchequer with the above Re-
solution,"

and a form of the Tender may

..1 rectiwzd ift'er One o'Clock on the day of
e:::1•:+c the party or an agent for him

,7 --7:: accompnied by s Letter addressed to
.1, ..:d signed by Two responsible Persons, en-
., • wi:h the person tendering, in the sum
pc:iormance of the Contwitt.

.1.0:1:;:r,TIL-BILL OFFICE, gly 15, 1319.
TO BE PAID OFF.
Lr 1.. y virtue of Act 57th Geo. 111.
• ••• .:7,0,000,600 for the stretee of the year
Cie :tlenth of March; 1618.
,ORDS CO..II.IIISSIONERS et his MA-
TII IT:taring given dirt:edits. for paying?"
f cl.xe-nt ationed Ercacquer Bills,with the Inkroot
• the El:b:'quer-3il: Ojfice in the Receipt of Erchegsser,
nrd, IreAntinster, en Friday, the 211th day of May
:onceati be given daily (Sundays and Holidays mein-
g Wednesday, the 26th May inst. front ten
r;„; tdiene in the afternamt, for the purpose of
.me; and, for the greeter dispatch, the Bcarer•s•nf
cn desired to place Cid Bills in Lists (which are to
:tins Oilier*, classing then iw the order ether respective
ore fur the same amount being numericalll arransed,
the principal Sums, and Interest due thereon, conijnit.i4
endive; the days on ,Minh they are respectively dated, to
day of 314 &Woke when she Nem* will cease ;
Bowl, stash! they be acting at M Agents of Molders
are inserted in the Bills, are previously So procure the
is of :nett Holders ; and the Bearers are also indispee-
tad to enet.l.sc tech Bill with their usual Signatures,, and to
Itaiv.ta ord re.4dente. at the eaten% of the Liss ; and they
-required to attend the Eschequeraill Qffice for Pay-
) recAree the new Bills:and give the Beeeiptsfor the some.
the Holders of the cif,w, said Bills should be desirous of
twnent of tko Principal and Interest previous to the said
May, they may be accommodated, on computing the
Day on to?: ich they vide to be paid, and !Luting the said
• emmiestiox (meek, prior Ilk retc.
Pc seas ot !any be elezirutst of boring new Erchequer Bills in
Poym-nt of Principal, upon marking hey Bills,
the amount at the hallo rf their Listsdclitered en
..sth of :flay, may be accommodated with new Bills.
or Order, tarrying on In-
.:1 1:',.r:•• hsi '1 r Day, no every One Ho ndrod Pounds,
ad new Bits tear dr:c the said •.....Bth day if May, and
*hived to!mthcr zr!,lt tic _''+ ',rest duct in respect if the Bills
be 0-changed, en Saturday, the 29th day If May,
going days:
lequer B:113 to 5e issued i!t F.zehengc and mole payable
or Order, as abode-me attuned, may be either trans-
liorrement, or will be paid to the Bearer the Blank shall

14 faehequer Bills &trl pr+r to l‘larch, 1818, have
ti 4 to be rua qff:

the first of June will be published, in Three Vols.
:OLD, THE EXlLE.—Printed tirr Henry
Colburn, Conduit-street.

This day were published, in limo. price Gs.
'ERS from a LADY of DISTINCTION to
NIECE, the late Duchess of • • • • shortly aftcr

'ttea fo• Henry Colburn, Conduit-street.

1.17.77)1,1 Or TUE QUEEN'S MEMOIRS.
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pric? vg. the &c011..] or Concluding Part, of
,lUIRS of the QUEEN.—By JOHN WAT-
KIN'S, LL. D. &c.
P;:r,tt Ilcnry Ce-urn, C,mddit-atreet.

TL's day was publishctl, in lour Vols. 2.45.
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fly HANS BUSK, Esq.
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the Noble Earl to the repeal of the disqualifying sta;
futes—laws which, far from affording
sassy advantage
to the State, tended only to its injury, by exaspesat,
ing the feelitegs of those against whom they Were dl. •
revel.' It the House went into the Committee, the
ulterior Measures which he should propose wadi's*, --
Chiefly some alteration in the Oaths required ill be
taken by Members of Parliament and lei era hole.:
ing appointments, under the Government. In ohe
first place he would. propose the repeal or modificas
don of the Declaration Oath, a great part of which
amounted merely to a denial of docu ines held by
those who believed them to be the great truths of•
the Christian religion; and had no reference whatever
IL
to the, political quest's:moan which disqualifying stn.
tutes had been fbunded. His next object. wo d be
to obtain the repeal of the Oath of Abjuration. at
reason there could be for Maintaining on the Statute;
book an oath wit* the claims of a itom-existiag.fa,o
.
:oily, except to cihibit to the world an absurdity, he
did nratittiosv. The Oath of Suprettiacy, he thought.
might. remains After all that haul messed, aid tbli,
great light which had recently. beep thrown oat the
subject, he trusted that the relief asked by the Ro-
man Catholics would be • granted... Through 010
Whole of his Parliantentaty life he bad 'earnestly and
sincerely supported their Claims. It would be di&
cult for him to offer any new arguments in their =p•.
port ; but he thought it would be still more diffietat
to maintaio the converse of the problem, and sheik
any good reason for their exclusion from the benefias
of the free Constitution. which their fellow subjects
had the happiness to enjoy. He should, thetefores
refrain from troubling their Lordships fuolsor.:—
( Hear, hear.)—Were it necessary, which it cettainly
was not; he was not well enough to eotea into all the
details which this important question presenleWand
should, consequently, condudehy. moving the_Rese,
lution stated in the commencement of his speech. .
The Bishop of WORCESTER could not give his
concurrence to the prayer of the petit'wnson which
the Noble Earl had founded his motion. Ile was
CATHOLIC QUESTION.
surprised at the strange notions which pseVailed o
The Earl of DONOUGHMORE MO, in pug-'n
this subject; and that it should be supposed by any
-mance of the notice he had given, to call their Lord-
'hpersons that a professor of the doctrinesolthe Church
ips' attention to the Petitions en the table, praying of England must necessarily be hostile to the grant-
or relief to the Roman Catholics. In furtherance
in the claims of the Catholics, merely on the ground
the object he had in view, he felt it to be his duty to r
o their religious opinions. Nothing could be more
submit to their Lordships a Resolution, to the effect- unfounded than such an idea. Their Lordships
that this House do resolve itself into a Committee to would allow him to say, that whoever supposed that
consider the state of the laws which inflict civil dis- Members of the Church of England could be pie-
abilities on account of religious opinions, particularly mies of the Roman Catholics on such grounds were
in so far as these laws deprive his Majesty's Roman ignorant of the faith professed by that Church. It
Catholic subjects of the exercise of their civil rights ; did not follow, however, that the Boman Catholics
and in how far it may be expedient to alter or mo- should be admitted to all the privileges they claimed.
dify the lame, Such was the nature of the motion Whatever unnecessary severity existed in the laws.it
with which he intended to conclude, and he believed was proper to iemove, and such had been the course
no question of greater importance in 41 its relations pursued by the Legislature. Much had within the
could be brought under the considefation of Parlia- last two years been done in this respect. An Act had
' ment. The importance of the subject could noofail passed which admitted Roman Catholics to the mini,
to be felt by their Lordships, when they recollected tar}' and naval service, but he could not•think it ad-
'the great proportion of, his Majesty's subjects affected, visable that they should be appointed to the highest
by the severe and, as he must contend, illiberal ex- commands, or, permitted to fill the highest offices
elusions which it was his object to remove. The law, in the State. The laws against them had hitherto.
as it now stood, disqualified and rendered incapable been administered tenderly and soaringly, Those
of sitting in Parliament and holding various civil and which still existed would doubtless coutinue to be so
' military situations, no less than four fifths of the per administered, unless- some event should occur to
pulation of that country from which most of the Pe- render their strict enforcement necessary; and on that .
titions now on the table relative to this question had ground it J.vould be imprudent to repeal them, It
come ; and if to that portion were added the Roman was said, that the motives which induced the U
Catholics of England and Scotland, 'it would be man Catholics to refuse taking the oaths ought to be
found that the exclusion applied to at least one-fourth treated with candour. It was doubtless their Lord.
of the paspulation of the whole United Kingdom. ships' duty to do so; but it v. as also their duty to
This was a state of things whiCh appeared at the first guard against the influeitce of a captivating express
sight strongly marked with severity and injustice ;• sion, and to take care in tOilowing the advice to ex,
for the men composing this great proportion of their ercise candour to one party that they did not injure
Lordships fellow subjects were disqualified for no another. Could ho persuade himself that no. usjery
other apparent reason than a conscientious adherence would accrue to the Constitution from their admis.
to the principles of the religioil in which they had. soot to all the privileges of the Constitution, .most.
been educated. The old unreasonable grounds nn' readily v:ould he' accede to their claims. To patella,
which their exclusion was defended lied gradually those privileges to all descriptions of persons was.
been abandoned. The opinions which had been at doubtless what would be the first feeling*" theta
tributed to them had been, both in and out of that, Lordthips on the proposition of such a question ;,liut .
House, acknowledged to be unfounded; and yet laws' feeling was not the only rule by which they were to,
enacted on these erroneous views were still main,- be guided in legislating. In former .discus..,icns ma
tamed in force, It had been asserted, that Roman
this question much stress had .liem laid on .4.4040.
Catholics held the doctrine, that engagements made
ritics, and the name of Locke had been ,rc:.ereed to
with persons professing otheoreligions were not bind- on both sides; but Laiore his general principles ou.
ing on themselves, and that they would make use of civil rights could be appette to as autllority, their ,
any power which they might obtain to destroy our Lordships
o onoht to consider what 'be had shed iii,
establishments in Church and State. If it were pos-
sible that such absurd charges had. ever been be- his first letter on toleration, part cf which bad n
bne,
remarked upon by a dignitary of the Chistch. That
lieved, the whole experience of the last century, and
'especially that of the last 40 yeacs, was sufficient w writer had said, that the li.orriart Ca..holics had no
rikht to indulgence from o.lieri, as they granted no
prove its falsehood. The legislature had, to a certain indulgence themselves;. Ti.is, 1-.2 aortic.;, was an
extent, already mitigated tire laws which operated i ifuld ~,,,iIA, FV,p6sitin„ ; b„...„. the :-,!,„ part of the
against them ; and in proportion as the disabilities I
alty and attachment to the al-gun:cut, that those ::!pep bold :'ices under the CiorL
were removed, their goy
\Tullmn lould be us the re::ginn cf t.'l:.• Fiate,, ..-aie.
Constitution had been more and more ly io strongly
evinced. What objection could now be made to the his ooinion well f 'untied. The rcasca forndhe-
ring to this principle in this.country was particularly
•
total repeal of these disqualifications? No proof had
ever existed of the charges foi ci!)le, as'the l'rote:tant icli;,.ol -,yas E 0 intimately
which had been made intcrwcven svitli the whole system of rue Constau-
against the Catholics, and nobody new believed them. tint.. l:;idcr such a Const.-..-.7,.i0n, it would be . On-
As a proof of the change of opinion on this subject, roots to adroit to Offierr. uf Lii.7ll MSC persons a::..::-
he would refer to what had passed in another place, I le;•-i nt t'i the religion of t:.e ....itae, and still rrtc:e,..
where a Right Hon. Gentleman, distinguished for his
opposition Co the claims of the. Catholics, had di.- - dain;crons so to admit .lie enern;es of that religicn,
lie wits aware that many Ne•lie Len's :p that House;,
tittetly disavowed the absurd charges made against
entertained a view of the sus ect very ii..;erent from
them. The Noble Lord opposite had also :than- Lis. They placed lull ccr.Nel.ce in 4.eclarations ct.
:;;
doned most of his objections to granting relief to the
Catholics, and now insisted only on one or two priiri:S tiensi, cf any danger front z.:c itc rliss•sn.t f Roman .
attachmcnt to the Cnnst:t..t;c,a, and iii;•.i no appro.
as affording ground for opposition to the relief de-
manded, fbese objections were, the foreign joris- )Ishanent of the Rt-
e,
COl:holies to ever: privilege. '',l'..c: net. :,..r.g loekcd
te in L-eland would be the csta .
diction asserted to be acknowleded by the Catholicc,
and a persuasion of the impolicy of admitrng Fo-! vlt
i 'led, wend ef being nit::reti, would be increases,
• man Catholic is:io:en ; and :'ne ,:static n ~hid: pr. _
man Catholics to participate fully in a Protestant . f( r a desira.e ob?ct was a:ways puts:led with rac:e
Constitution. He had no doubt that, like all other I
unfounded ipprehtosions, these would soon he re- pilsSioll and ergs -Alen in proportion as its satainotert
. appeared near. so that country, where, according
moved. As so the only important point, the 1, °- to the Noble Lord's statement, the great majority-a,:
reign supremacy, it was altogether sFiritnal, and
the populatic,a was net of the rclip,iou of tbe State, * ,
the Roman Catholics acknowledged none that ,in government of the most mild ar 4 ju6t choraciir pg. ,
any ss.ay interfered with their allegiance.—On this ottioto, The 7tiobae lord at the bead of tbut scrieT ,
'gout they were willing to give the most corn- vent was most deservedly popular,
.alai 1104/i4
‘pl-te. yledgc7, and securities ;. and if that were bcral could be aperciezt:Tfil ;soul 4.1--1. Sus t 11'43
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