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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1818.
TUN 171.1ND54
PRICE OY STOCKS THIS DAT AT TWELVE O.CLDTIC:
S per Cent. Reduced per Cent. Cons. shut
Cons. foi AeCoUnt, 741 :lei Cent. 87ti
4 per Cent. 95196-5 per Cent. Navy shut
Indii Bonds 78 81 pre....—Otunium 1 prem.
Exchequer Bills 17 80 pre.

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The reports on 'Change this. morning are very un'-
favoitrable. It is said that the Bank have come to a
r..olrntionto limit their discounts verycnnsiderstbly,
ar;i that yesterday the Directors threw out an im-
mense number of B Bs belonging to Bankers and in-
dividuals of the first respectability. This unexpected
dete !.ir,.ttion has caused great confusion in the
monied market, as it is well known large sums have
lately been advanced upon Stock for the s.:ke of
keeping up the Funds. Money is now so scarce in'
the City, that good Bills are difficult to be cashed at
5 per Cent. It is also said, that the Bank have sus.
tended the printing of she Notes for 1819, having it
in agitation to issue a new C'l Note of a different de-
scription from the old ones.

The Paris Papers of Tuesday arrived this morn,-
ins, but furnish us with nothing of any interest. The
Moniteur contains two Official Ordinances, one ap-
pointing M. Roy to be Minister of Finance ; and
another accepting of the resignation of Count COR-
VETTO, which is stated to have arisen from iil health,
and noulinating him, in return for the important ser-
vices wl,ich he has rendered to the &ate in the ad-
ministration of the finances, and as a Mark of the
Ktsitis satisfaction and particular esteem, Minister
•of State and Member of the Privy Council. The
5 per Cents. opened on Monday at 68 fr. 75 c.—fell
at one time :is low as 67 tz. 60 c. but ultimately ral-
lied and closed at 68 fr. 2U c.

An Antwerp Journal contains the following article

on the State of Trade in that and other toe/us of the
Netherlands. It assumes, rather ignorantly, that the
distress which they experience is occasioned by the
exportation of Coin to the Baltic to Purchase Corn
for exportation to England, which is said to return,
u )t coin for h, but the produce of its manufactures.l—
is as much as to say, that the Netherlanders

are parting with their coin to purchase corn for

England, purely to oblige us, and beggar them-
. selves ! Such seasoning needs no refutation. The
scarcity of money in the Netherlands is a common
evil, with which every State in Europe is at the we-
sent time more or less afilicted, and which has arisen

obviously from the large financial operations which
have necessarily attended the recent settling down
of the nations into a state of peace:
ANTWERP, DI EMBER I.
" The fatal effects of the corn trade begin to be felt; money
is scarce in &lithe commercial places in the Idagdoin, and the
. little fen alaing is at an extravagantly high. rate. TO what shall

we attnlate this scarcity of money, unless it be to the exporta-
tion of coin, for the corn trade with the taltic ? -h h true, that
**COM imported does not remain In this cr,mtry, and that It is
ebeset all exported !—But whithor is it exported? To England
which pays for it In—the produce of its manufactures; and thus
this unhappy trade has served at once to deprive the country of
. Its coin, which is the soul of commerce, and to rain the oat!oniti
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manufactures.
" ft-is In vain to say that this trade formerly made the pros-
perity of Holland. This may be; but at that time the Dutch
yr= the raetoes of all Europe; now it is the English.
" With another system of Customs, the results of the corn

trade would not have been so afßicting ; perhaps they might
even have turned to the advantage of the kingdom ; bit with
such a system of Customs as we Lave, it is, and always will be.
destructive of our ormoneme and our manufacture,.
• If we had the Transit, (we lay, if we bad the Transit,
be-
cause we consider it as prohibited, the duties to which it is Mb-
jsct being equal to a prohibition) it is probable that this trade
might have indemnified us for the loss of our manufactures;
but at present, when our tnagazines.are leaded with goods, and
wore arrive daily, without any hope of a market, it is ivident
that trade must languish, and commercial transactions be greatly.,
limited by the want of ready money.
What has resulted, what will result, from this state of things?
Numbers of our merchants ruined by bankruptcies; our ntaou-
fsztories shut up, or languishing; our industry ruined; thou-
sands of workmen reduced to want, loudly demanding employ-
ment and food; and to-complete the evil, our monied men,
whom the stagnation of our commerce does net escape, with-
dtaw their wv.alth from circulation !"

Yesterday, about half-past one o'clock, the PRINCE
REGENT left Carltou-house for Brighton.
Yesterday TURNZRELLI, tse celebrated Sculptor,
bad the honour of having his Bust of her Late MA-
JESTY inspected by the PRINCE REGENT, at Carlton
At the Meeting of Common Council, yesterday,.
Mr. FA VRLL moved a series of Resolutions, &which
will be found in the•front of our Paper) on which a
Petition was afterwards founded, praying Parliament
to institute an enquiry into the proprietT of Revising
the Penal Code of the country. The pacture which
'these Resolutions exhibit of the rapid increase of
Crimes, both in number and malignity, during recent
Tears, arising chiefly, as the Commoa Council justly
• safer, from that Revolting severity and inequality
in our Penal Laws, which makes a strict and uni-
Pm execution of them utterly 'impracticable, is
truly appalling. The Resolutions appear to us to be
extremely well drawn up ; in their exposition of
facts, clear and unanswerable—in, their language,
feeling yet temperate—and we doubt not that they
will have a great and leading effect on the nation at
large. It is to be hoped that the Petition of the
Common Council of London will be speedily fol-
lowed up by Petitions to the same effect from every
other Corporate Body in the Kingdom.

NAVAL INTELIJGENCE. '
• FALMOpiII, DECEMBER P.
Wind variable.—Arrived the Prince Ernest packet,
with a Mail from Lisbon, in nine days: and his Ma-
jelly's ship Lae, from a cruise.
PLYMOUTH, DECEMBER 9.
Wind E.--Sailed the Tartar, HUNTER, for New
Orleans; and the Urania, HUTCHINSON, for St. Vin-
cent's.—The (a) Sven skiled yesterday morning for
London, the wind being then S.W.
POOLE, DECEMBER 10.
The Perseverance, PURDALZ, from hence to Hali-
fax, was spoke the 4th ultimo, in 1at.46. SO. 10ng.40.
had lost a man overboard—otherwise all well.

PORTSMOUTH, DECEMBER 10.
Wind N. E. blows fresh.—Arrived his Majesty's
ships Sorer, LAPWING, and LEVEN, from the East-
ward; LINNET, from a eruize, having captured on
the 9th instant, a smuggling boat, with 350 tubs on
boards Also arrived the Mayflower, ELLIsON, from
Dantzic ; Retrench, —, from the Downs ; Minerva,
Wi LLTON, from Antwerp; William, RICE, from Sun-
derland, with loss of bowsprit; and some other ves-
sels from the Eastward. A number of outward-
bound vessels were passing down Channel this day.

DEAL, DECEMBER 10.
Wind N. E.—Arrived the John, JACKSON, from :
Newcastle, and sailed for Jamaica. Came down from
the River and sailed, the Probity, COOPER, for Lis-
bon ; Lord Cranstoun, for Jamaica ; Crisis, BitArrit-,
WA ITE, for the West Indies; Tiger, PowELL, for Pal-
mouth, &c. Enterprize, BLAIN, for Jamaica; and
Britannia, SHARP, for St. Rites.
DOVER, DECEMBER 10.
Sailed last night the Lord Duncan packet, for Os-
.end, with a Mail and l ass •ngers. Arrived last
night the King George pucka:. Captain Ktiao, and
Lady Castlereagh, Cap_ain AIAWLL, from Calais,
with passengers; also the Lord Sidmouth, Captain
PEAKE, from Ostend, with a Mail and passengers.
Sailed this mot ning the Lc rd Duncan packet, Capt.
HAMILTON*, and Lady Castiereagh, for Calais with
passengers. Arrived this evening the Lady Jane'
James, Capt. HAYWARDsiTOM CIIRIS, with. passengers.
—Lord CASTLEREAGH iS expected LO arrive here in
a day or two, from Calais.
RAMSO.VrE, DECEMBER 10.
Wind E.—Sailed the remainder of the trade bound
Westward.
HOLYHEAD, DECEMBER S.
Wind W. by N. blowing hard.—About eighty sail
of outward-bound and other vessels have arrived in
the harbour, and remain wind-bound.

CUSTO •',IIOUSF. LONDON,. DECEMBER 10.
Suers meaty) Itswaane--The General Murray, Carrington,
from Antwerp; Flora, Parry, from Hamburgh ; Mari, Webster,
from Gijon Roberts. Pyle, fraln Petersburgh ; and Lord Li-
verpool, Ellis, from Rotterdam.
Ourwaine—The John Dougan, Leggett, for Trleste • the Re-
becca, Rowe, for St. Thomas's; Preston, Hall, for Gesso.; and
Emelie, Kerckhove, for Antwerp.
atm= Ourwaans—The Prince Regent, Benson, for Lis-
bon ; Union, Thomas, for St. Mary's; Amelia, Coruflessin, fur
liamburgh ; Diana, Jay, for !dogadore; Rosana, Snow, for
Boston; Henry William, Worts, for Naples; Onyx, Walker,
for Trinidad, &e. ; Alleluia, Lynn, for Bombay, dec.; the Xiric
Louise, Picr.iot, for Rouen ; Enigheden, Madsen, for Elsinore ;
and Flora, Wallis, for Griefswald.

We are sorry to learn that Mr. Glantrs, of Ham- I
mersosith, the active and worth; Magistrate, on being
I called upon a few days since, in his official capacity,
Ito interfere in a case of assault, was himself attacked
Iby one of the parties, who was in a state of brutal
intoxication, in the most outrageous manner, and is
consequence of a fall which he received in the scufde,
had two of .his left ribs broken, and was otherwise
much bruised. The person guilty of this shameful
outrage was taken into custody, and, afterwards, for
want of bail, committed to prison to take his trial at
the Quarter Sessions; but Mr. GIRDLER, with laudable
humanity, on learning that he had a wife and six
children, two of them twins, of which she hasl just
been delivered; and, on the man's expressing great
contrition for his conduct, has consented to his libera-
tion, and relinquished the prosecution.
If the Prizes in the Lottery be to be paid in Bank
Notes, Ulm sells them—if in Guineas or Sovereigns,
his counter is sure to echo with the ring of them—if
in Wine, hie merchant supplies it—and if in Houses,
he throws open the doors to us—look at his list of
Capitals, and this cannot be (Jellied. Is it any won-
der then that his Offices are just now besieged with
suitors for the Four Stock Prizes of £30,000 in the
present Lottery, Two of which may fall to one Ticket
nn the First Day, the 15th instant ?
The Public do Recoiled that HAZARD and Co. sold
both the Thirty Thousands last Lottery ; it is proved
by HAzsans' increase in their Sale, which is greater
this Lottery than for many years past. NEXT Toss-
DaLthe first-drawn Prize will be entitled to £30,000
Three per Cent. Consols, on which day Four Thou-
sand Tickets will be drawn.—HAZARD and Co.'s
Offices, Royal Exchange Gate, 26, Cornhill, and 324,
Oxford-street.

Botaas--Chalkige from Turner to Martin.—'timer went to
Burn's, in Windmill-street, on Wednesday, to challenge Martin,
the conquetor of Strouins, for 100 guineas a side, providing Mar-
tin would reduce himself to a conditirsigkt/ Burn replied, that It
was time enough to deliver the challenge when the man would
be fit to come to London and answer for himself; but it was ra-
ther quick upon him as yet.—Ths match, however, will qo
doubt be made. _

Penzsriummes.—Yesterday a man, named James Acorn, Un.
dertook for a wager to carry one hundred weight and a half one
mile in fifteen minutes. The spot which was fined on was tits
City Road, where numbers of persons assembled to witness the
transaction. He completed his task within three quarters of a
minute of the given time.
SHrrurtzt.n CUM CArrga Sazw..-Early yesterday morning
the Stewards of the Club began their arrangements of the Cattle
in Mr. Sadler's Yard, and soon after nine o'clock the three
Judges chosen for deciding the Premiums, entered the Yard ;
their names arc :—Mr. John Banister, Butcher, of Windsor,
Berke; Ms Daniel Larratt, Grazier, of Thurlby, Lincolnshire;
and Mr. Francis Whitfield, of East Stour, Kent • they were
employed until the afternoon in examining the Animals, and
'then made their award of the Premiums, but too late for allow-
ing the Yard to be opened to visitors before dark. Earl Bridge.
water, Sir William Curtis, and many others, had sent in stock
since our last account, and the Spew, although not so filled witk
Animals as on warns former occasions, Is considered to yield to
no former ono in the many_exceliencics which it presents.
CORN EXOftAtital, MARE-LANS, DEC. 1 h—Several
vessels arrived this morniqg from the Sufolk and
Norfolk coast, chiefly laden with Wheat and Batley;
and a large quantity of each being left over from
Monday, the supply far exceeded the demand: in
consequence of which, our prices have declined 2s,
per quarter from Monday's currency, and at that re-
duction a very small proportion of what appeared
could be disposed of. Oats were dull sale, and Is.
per quarter cheaper. In Peas and Beaus there is no.
iateration. • ,