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this surrender, we should be giving not a little State
or City, but a piece of barren and desolate land.
Sir J. MACKINTOSH accepted the consent of
the Noble Lord to the motion of his Hon. Friend. as
a pledge against the enactment of as perfidious a
transfer as could ever disgrace any free country.—
There was, he contended, nothing in the treaty of
1815 which could oblige us to consummate so very
treacherous an act. How, he would ask, could we be
bound by. the Convention of 1800 ? In what part of
the Law of Nations was it discovered that we had a
right to insist on the fulfilment of a treaty against a
people towards whom all its contracts had been
broken ? The Turks had forfeited all claim from
any clause in that treaty : they had themselves vio-
lated and shamefully neglected the duties to which it
had bound theM. If this were so, how could we be
bound by the treaty of 1815 ? He denied any such
inference, and the cession of Parga would be, he
maintained, the most abominable that ever was Made
of or by a free people. There was no example among
nations where faith was kept of giving up a free and
Christian people to a Mahometan tyrant—Wear.)—
If the treaty of 1815 was said to renew that of 1800,
why not renew it all? Why should one-half be
kept in favour of a Mahometan tyrant, and the other
thrown aside as advantageous to a Christian people ?
(Hear, hear)—When the papers should come before
the house, he would be prepared to shew that it was
the duty of the Legislature to interfere to prevent so
gross a violation of the privileges of a free State.
Mr. GOULBURN did not mean to go into the
question, but could not avoid expressing his surprise
at the Honourable and Learned Member's calling
that an act of atrocious perfidy, of which, in the same,
breath, he avowed he had not sufficient information.—
The question was then put, and carried.
On the mu:ion of Mr. LONG, leave was given to bring in a
Bill for the better regulation of the Distribution of Navy
Prita-Money.
The Report on the Irish Clerks' of the Peace Bill, was taken
lets fuither consideration, and the Resolutions agreed to; and
after a -short conversation between Lord CaIUAUTTON and Sir
J. Nzwrbar, the third reading was fixed for Wednesday nett_
Oa the motion that the Frame-work Knitters' Bill be read a
second dine, it was argued by Mr Manserne, Mr. J. Sarum
Mr. T. Vi"a.t.sos, Mr. RICARDO, and Mr. P. Moons, that great
frauds were committed upoia the honest tradesman, by the sub-
atiVusion of a spurious article of hosiery for one of good many-
fatture; that it threw three or 4000 men out of employment, and
produced the greatest distress in the trade; they therefore sup-
ported the Bill, as going to prevent so great an evil. It was
argued on tile other side by Mr. Hex; that the manufacturer
of the species of hosiery which this Bill went to prohibit, gave
employment to three thousand persons, who would, if deprived
of it, be left without the means of subsistence. He had no ob-
jection to its bet:,g distinguished from the other by some parti-
cular and obvious mark, but he deprecated the total abolition of
the trade.
The 13ii1 was then read a second time, and was ordered to be
committed for.to-morrow week.
The Bankruptcy Regulation Bill went through a Committee ;
and after a conversation between Mr. COITIVM:.Y, Sir.J. Nzw-
roar, Mr. J. Sutra, Mr. Wuzums, Mr. Pautzrr, and Mr. G.
Lasts. a division took piece on a clause relative to the Couuoul
of the Messengers by the Commissioners:
As forty Members were not present, an Adjournment took
place until to-morrow.
Esaarcrsid—ln Mr. Psn's Speech, in the Star of Tuesday, for
" By the regulations of the Mint 14 guineas were coined out of
every pound of bullion," read, "44 guineas out of every
paund."

THE EVENING STAR.

LONDON:

THURSDAY, MAY 27. 1819.
THE FUNDS. -

PRICE OP STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O.CLOCK
Bank Stock 220 221 218 219
3 per Cent. Reduced 67f 661
3 per Cent. Consols 671 681671;
51 per Cent. 7S 74-4 per Cent. 83 84j 83!
5 per Cent. Navy 101 102 1011
Rank Long Annuities 17f 5-16
India Bonds 12 5 9 dis.
Exchequer Bills (2d.) I pre. 2 dis.
Consols for Acct. 671 681 671 6812 6711.
The under-mentioned Stocks Open and Shut as follow:
Shut. Open.
Consols - June 3 - July 16.
S per Cent. June 2 - July 21.
India Stuck June 5 - Ju;y 15.

The result of the discussion on the Resolutions for
returning to Cash Payments has, on the whole, been
favourable in its effects on the public mind. While
undecided, the agitation was grout, but before the
close of the Stock Exchange yesterday, the alarm,
had somewhat subsided, and Stocks, in consequence,
rallied a little, and the Consols left off at 671. This
morning they opened at 671, rose to 63i, and fluc-
tuated to 781,771,,i. Bank Stock has recovered about
10 per Cent. the prices being 220, 221, 218, 219.
Up to one o'clock there were no defaulters in set-
tling the differences on the Account. The Commis-
sioners bought in the Reduced at 66i, and were
served by the Jobbers generally.
The principle for which we have so often con-
tended, that two permanent measures of value can-
not be maintained, has been fully recognized in Par-
liament, and stated in such clear terms that no one
can mistake it. Silver is not now our invariable mea-
sure, but Gold is--or will be, when the period shall
arrive in which the Bank shall pay in Gold, at
£3. 17s. 10d. per ounce. our silver coin is merely a
matter of convenience for fractional payments, and
therefore it is by law (1. e. when we have a metallic
currency) not a legal tender beyond £25. Since silver
is not our legal measure of the comparative value of
commodities, it is impossible that paper ever can be
a measure of value, though for some time to come
it will continue to be equivalent to a legal tender.
We consider one important point as having beet
gained by the Community : we are no longer to have
our ears abused with attempts to prove that the Pound
sterling is net a given weight of a certain metal, but
an ideal measure of value; which is the same as to
insist that a given weight of metal (no minter what
absolute weight that may be) can by a jingle of,

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