Star.
London, England, 1818-04-03 00:00:00

' 1101.75 E OF COMIONS.

Mr. BLACKBURN presented a Petition from certain Ma-
nufacturers, residing at and near Manchester, praying to he
heard by Counsel against the Bill for regulating the hours of la-
boor in manufactories.—Ordered to lie on the table.
Sir J. 6 R 111 A M presented a Petition from Carlisle against
the Labour Regulation BilL—Ordered to lie on the table.
Sir W. LEMON presented a Petition from the Tanners and
Carriers of against the Leather Tax.—Ordered to lie
0:1 the table.

General ASCOYNF., in consequence of a conversation
which he had with the Attorney-General, withdrew the notice
he had given for a Motion to extend the provisions of a Bill of
the 224 and 23d Charles 11. cap. 9, relating to coats of mat.

Lord LASCELLES presented a Petition from Skipton, in
Yorkshire, against the Cotton Factory Bill.—Ordered to lie on
the table.
Mx. DAVENPORT presented a Petition from the Inhabi-
tants of Macclesfield, against the Bill for Regulating the Wages
of operative \Vitas/cm—Ordered to lie on the table.
Mr. LITTLETON postponed, to that day fortnight, his
Motion for revoking the existing Regulations afiecting the Wi-
dows of Military Officers.
Mr. WALPOLE brought up the Report of the Committee
on the Jury Courts of Sealant—Ordered to be printed.
Leigh's Divorce 84,1 went through a Committee, in which

LONDON.

ALL MUST BE DRAWN NEXT THURSDAY.-
Two Prizes of 00,000, 34 other Capitals of #;5,000,
£l,OOO, 4-c. and above 1,300 Prize.) of £lOO, C5O,
4c. eic.

FRIDAY, APRIL 3, 1818.
THE FUNDS.

PRICE or STOCKS Tills DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK :
Bank Stock shut—Reduced shut—Cons. 80it
Cons. for Ac. 80:1-4 per Cent. shut
Navy Annuities 106a—Bank Long Antis. shut
India Stock shut—lndia Bonds 9`2 93 pr.
Exchequer Bills 17 22 pr.

The Paris Papers of Tuesday arrived this morning.
The Appeal of M. Scheffer against the judgment of
condemnation passed upon him, for being the author
of the work, entitled " The State of Liberty in France,"
has only brought down upon him an aggravation of
punishment. The cause having been finally heard
in the ('our Royale on Monday, the Court sentenced
him to be imp, isoned for one year, to pay a fine of
5000 francs, to be placed under the surveillance of
the Police for five years, and to fir.d swcurity for his
good behaviour in the sum of '2OOO francs.
The Chamber of Deputies was occupied the whole
of Monday with a Project of Law relative to Perso-
nal Imprisonment, with respect to which many hu-
mane ameliorations of the law are proposed. The
discussion. of the Budget was also to have been taken
up on Monday, but was postponed till the following
day. The following is the order in which the leading
Members are inscribed to speak upon it—M. DE IA
BOURDONNAYE against ; M. LAFITTE for the Budget;
MM. LAISNE DE VILLEVEQ.F., and DE BOISCLAI-
REAUX against ; MM. MORISET, BoIN and NIAGUIER
GRANDPRES, &c. for.

' An article in the Lausanne, and another in the
Aran Gazette, mention, that the Grand Duke of Bader.
had no sooner seen the project of law on the customs
introduced into the French Chamber of Deputies, al-
lowing, in one of its provisions, the transit of mer-
chandize and colonial produce (passing up the Rhine
'from Holland to Switzei land) through the province
of Alsace, than he abolished the transit duties, hither-
to levied on that part of this trade, which passed
through his States. Had he waited a little longer,
he would have seen that this article of the Minis-
terial Project was defeated in the Chamber, and that
the French Legislature was either too wise or too
generous to claim any portion of this commerce, or

to enter into any competition with him for its •ad-
vantages. The argument, on which the minority
of the Chamber supported the policy of the measure
seemed to be unanswerable, and the fears of those
who opposed it, on the grounds that it would open
a door to fraud, and became injurious to the interests
of the maritime ports, were shewn to be chimerical.
One Member mentioned that, iu the course of a single
year, there passed through the French Rhenish pro-
vinces 240,000 quintals of colonial produce, and that
the customs levied in the same time amounted to
3,000,000 of francs. The Duke of RICHELIEU, in the
same Sitting, proved that the Swiss, who derived
their supply of colonial produce through Holland, by
means of the navigation of the Rhine, would not go
to Bourdeaux or Marseilles for it, although the route
by Alsace was stopped against them ; but that the
trade of the Dutch and Swiss merchants would merely
pass from the left bank to the right bank of the Rhine,
and enrich the subjects of Baden, instead of benefit-
ing those of France.
French 5 per Cents. Monday, G 5 fr. 90 c.
PRIVATE LETTERS.

" PARIS, MARCH 30.

" The communication of the settlement of the Al-
lied claims has not yet been made to the Chambers.
The liquidation of those of Prussia is nut yet con-
cluded, and the Duke of Wellington leaves Paris be-
fore it can be brought to a conclusion. The discus-
sion on the Budget will commence on the lit of
April. Every other kind of business is postponed.
'There is no hope that the Concordat can be discussed
this Session."

" BIKI

MARCH 20.

" After long discussions, it has at last been decided,
that our bankers are not to supply the loan to Go-
vernment. It will be transacted in England, with
the banking-house of Rothschild and Berandon, as
was at first intended. The Ministry, say the friends
of the Government, does not wish to draw money
from the pockets of the subject, but to bring money
from abroad into this country. It appears likewise,
that our bankers had demanded a security of their
debt from the States ; but this national representation
exists in prospect, and nothing announces that a na-
tional representation will not so soon he organized.
" It is believed that Prince Hardenberg will not
return from the provinces of the Rhine, till after the
Congress of Aix-la-Chapelle."

In the House of Peers last night, the Earl of LAU-
DERDALE pressed Lord LIVERPOOL, by repeated en-
quiries to State, whether it is the intention of Go-
vernment to make any alteration in the circulating
medium of the country, by the issue of Stock Deben-
tures, as has for some time been currently reported
Lord LivearooL, however, evaded the question, on
the ground that the time for explanation as to the
financial measures of Government, is not yet arrived.

The Prussian Loan, it appears, has at length been
concluded with the House of ROTHSCHILD and Co.
The Finance Minister of the King of PRUSSIA is
arrived in this country for the purpose of making the
final arrangements. The 5,000,0001. sterling are to be
taken at three different prices, viz. 70, 724,-. and 75,
and the payment is to be made by ten instalments.

' A Bayonne Banker has been in the French capital
fur some time, endeavouring to negociate a loan, on
account of FERDINAND VII. of 200 millions of francs,
to meet the arrears and exigencies of the State. Though
the above sum is the one mentioned, it was, however,
understood, that a sm.lller amount would be ac-
cepted, if it could be obtained. Proposals on this sub-
ject had also been made to Messrs. Itoriv:citiLD, BA-
. RING and HOPE, but the Spanish KING's Agents
had sotne reason to think that despotic Governments
were not the best suited for this kind of negotiation.
It is curious, when the FRENCH KING had to go from
home to obtain his loan, that King FERDINAND should
now make Paris the theatre of his money transactions.

•
Yesterday morning the Dukes of YORK and OLA-
RENCK, and. Mince of HEsse-Ifossucnc, visited her
MAJEsTv, at the Queen's- Palace. The Duchess of
CIA/KOESTER deed svith her MAJESTY yesterday. In
the evening her MAJESTY had a select party.
Yesterday the Earl of LIVERPOOL and Viscount'
CASTLERE.tGII had audiences of the PRINCE REGENT
at Carltoc-house. •

The. Prince ofHEsse-HomzEno dined with the Earl
of yesterday.
Wednesday came on the election of a Verderer of
the New Forest, on the vacancy occasioned by the
death of the late flight Hon. G. lto3E—when HENAN"
COMBE COMPTON, list'. of Manor house, near Ring.'
wood, was declared duly elected.

Some of the German Journals assert, that the
French Minister of Police. M. DR CAZE, has contrived
to purchase the manuscript from which the works
that appeared in London, under the title of .Iforiu-
renu de St. Helene, were printed. The greatest
astonishment was excited, it seems, on its being four..
to be in the hand. writing of a certain person, to
whom Madame DE STA EL, whose amanuensis he was,'
used to dictate : the corrections were in Maclaine DE
STA EL'S own hand-writing. BONA PARTS, to whom
the work is said to have been sent to St. Helena,.
disowns it.

Yesterday as Mr. JOTIN ScitLYErt, of Mile-end, was
in the act of climbing over the paling to get into his
garden, he happened to slip off, and falling on his
head, dislocated his neck ; he was carried immediately
to the London Hospital, where he expired.
Yesterday morning an old man, carter to Mr. PA-
rosit, of Edmonton, crossing the road, going to
work, was run down by a cars that happened to be
pa-sing at the time, when one of the wheels went ever
his head, and killed him on the spot.

l'
peal
fi,
hi

FORGERY OF BANK Nores.
Secrets a
It is impossible to contemplate the f to leisej4
this crime, and the numerous victims to the .
°ig . stele the 1
ontempu
laws of society, occasioned by the c • bie 11l might hat
ner in which our great circulating medium is , making it
factured by the Bank, without me utmost jeer-
hops in the Metropolis the Art4'4' dress, and
lindignamtioe s
n. tuns,S, that
In so with the c
tendered in payment, are so numerou its. ,d rind
is almost impossible to carry on businee
.1.- ' eve foun
time since, Mt. Knott, a respectable -;":1 I his firm
Blackfriars-road, was so much annoved*, .. '' of the Ba
tbrgeries, that he se& to the Bank to ere-:'''' soperinter
would send an Inspector of Notes, to it isie,:.47 But WI
the forged from those that were genuine, as
er:'l Di'
could see any difference ;or at ;ray tee e..,,41.::' . ,
• ssurance
discovering the guilty titterers. -e
.: the In
Mr. Knott having taken 1.0 less that 4". e fiq : ()the pal
i
notesp in one day, the Bank condescueiel • . `: ens is di
with his request, and sent an Ins.pecter, ....!.::swi , es she
been
y long
n th.i
on
witlhhi
The person
0 bpshetarosnpinedntilwl
thahnfe
numrogateedd,eir,",:tie7i..,.4c:.:r;:"... lessieste
a fit to I
it jecreat
iin
questionedpa
it from the hands of the Bank Ineeee. ...: ' that tc
into his mouth, and swallowed it, lie ce i . tliisernin
detained, and as the circumstance arse.... e ... of ten
some bustle in the neighbourhood it o impra
, was re ',
till other tradesmen appeared, and :ecogueeil. 1 .: 13ank 1
ie
as the same individual who had impost! erce.tkez 4, to rem
withArged Brink note:. This ,
Several of the fOrgery frauds being iced eel Fuolie I
him by the parties who had suffered, he see e esausand
to be tried at Te tors t
THF. KINGSTON Assl7rs, ueeeent
Where, on the Ist instant, ..ro‘a Jakarta • ekes cop
pl.taj zi
guilty to the charge of having uttered a Fireemi d the
forged Bank Note, knowing it to be forgel ar.ci re artery,
entenced to transportation for fourteen ve.e 01 1797, II
the same day, James. Richardson was coreur. oi
rs
having had fin get/ Bank Notes to the extern o'iee every in
five pounds in his possession, knowing them v. it which i
damage
forged, and was sentenced to transportatiot for Er. "Flitch I
teen years. to the I
OI.D BAILEY SESSIONS. Public •'
The following prisoners are to be tried at thee, But i
sent Sessions for forging Bane of England .I.ei,t Directu
fur uttering them, knowing them to hefored: to call 1
Swan Nelson, aged 19, on . four separate charge, cower'
concerning forged One Pound Notes. DETECT
George Downes, aged 18, on one charge for tle Beek
same offence. hue b
Richard Raiford, aged 26, for fbrging or utteq,:g islue, I
a forged Note for Ten Pounds. the pe
Thomas Smith, aged 20, and Jchit Roger!, agel:9, same c
on, four charges respecting forged Ott Ponied Nem rence i
Matthias Maker, on two charges for forged (su iohed
• Pound Notes. . kadini
Thomas Thomson, age.! 17, on charges nespeeee rents
twenty One Pound Notes ; further
With others whose names are not yet in the Cs. We
leadar.
sent L
m
I low long is the public to be abused with lees
Arint w
petition of a crime which the Bank Directors see Art
bound. by every obligation of Justice and Morice, left a
to put an end to?—or, if
.it be impossible to mere fend
to the
it entirely, to diminish the number by ins:ea:silt:lc
of pri!
difficulty ? Is it rot criminal to hold out tempta6se
culati
to the unprincipled to perpetrate a crime which ca
bUdit.l
thing can prevent but the fear of punishment?
dually
The Invention that was offered to the Bank hy/E
Direr
TILLOCII. in the year 1797, had precisely the. tee feel,
of Testimony which alone can satisfy the 11.1:: ~
acres
to the value of any plan contemplated for that is... their
tare purpose; dad perhaps there cannot be (.....1
tails
upon record such an example of disintertee! .-
niinc,
rality and magnanimity as was exhibited by ...'.-:- • feel I
cipal British Engravers in certifying. eaeh to er.•
your
self, that he could not make a copy .of Me TIL-
LOCH'S Specimen. When this fact is contraete with
TI
the conduct of the then Directors of the 8.r..k, it
tills the mind of every cJiisiJerate pe:son wi± n, Corn
small degree of surprise. The Directors ~,f :h.: ki.ok proc
called in the First Engravers for the preiesc ci to th
hearing their opinion on Mr. Tutocx's Art, and brie)
nqn
then to set their own opinion in opposition to i:'—
ithe
They may be, and no doubt are, welt qualified to that
direct the commercial concerns of that Great 'key; tutu
but it will not be allowed by any that they are
.ere It
petent even to give an opinion on such a queeee. -4 eel 1
that which was discussed by Messrs. Ilse rite 1:.:• rico
LERa LANDSEER, BIRNE, SLIARP, and Lowes, tee
Pm
of tl
Bark, on the 4th of July, 1797, and with ‘‘:.• .'" bee
priaicn Messrs. BARTOLOEZI, SMITH, HOWARI`, BA. and
SIRE, HOLLOWAY, BLAKE, Peer, Bon, .v.. 1 '..7 ed 1
Engravers distinguished in their varioas braee"-:; 11101
Cos
concurred. rep
Will it be said that the then Ent^,ravet- f,7 ::4 to I
Bank and some of his friend: were afr.U.l:2: ti:. tie
adoption of Mr. Tteeoczt's plan might ea::,' •'::m to the
for
lose his situation, and that in consequeee s'n:e "i tio
oi
those efforts were put in practice with wl.i.la iege
air(
public bodies are sometimes charged? The idetap- of
wlpears preposterous ; for the Bank could feel ra de..-
ticulty in providing for any person who n:ight lose evi
his situation from no fault of his own, but mere.,). Ai
the
from a change of system in the business of the et'
hank.--We may also add, for none can hen. i h
se
know the fact than the person who writes the presect
article, that the idea of supplanting the 133-11 .0
at
Engraver never entered the wind of Mr. Tit teen.— w
lie merely wished to dispose of, to the B.lak, tie c;
.. .

er an Art known only to himself, calculated
: if n,;t prevent entirely, the crime of F0r-
t,;,,,:
~ management and conducting of which they
,
couiraitted to their uwn Engraver, after
it +tytheir own property. Mr. TlLLoctt was
i; s-111 to much occupied in other avoca-
'Le could not entertain a desire to be loaded
,re of managing the details of engraving
at the Bank, however much he might
it his duty to have devoted a portion
Lo the instruction of the confidential agent
to render him competent for the entire
,nice of that department.

:ver may have been their reason, the
A:xi, in the year 1797, had the modest
.a set up their own verdict as to the efficacy
fention then offered to them ; in opposition
ively declared opinion of the First Engra-
Metropolis, and consequently in Europe,
lan offered, " must," in the words of Mr.
had it been adopted, have been a bene-
le community—being an Art which would
the difficulty of Forgery on the Bank, and
an is calculable degree."—" In short," says
int Engraver, " until mean; arc discovered
Icring the Forgery of Bank limes utterly
citable, it should seem to be a duty the
lirectorsowe to the Public and to themselves
n. it as difficult as possible."
ctn which the Bank Directors owed to the
d to themselves in 1797, is, if possible, a
'old more obligatory upon the present Di-
in it was on them, for forgeries to the
more than a thousand to one that were
witted; are now imposed upon the Public,
.r:penses of .the Bank, in prosecutions for
mast now be greatly augmented. Since
victims that have suffered for a crime
Directors should have endeavoured by
,any to prevent, are innumerable—and the
suffered by individuals amounts to a Total
cold be hardly credible, were it fully known
iblic. Who have caused that loss to the
—Tits BANK DIRECTORS.

slmly cannot be believed that the present
will feel themselves justified in neglecting

and to adopt an Art declared, by such
icuogs, to be " calculated, not merely to
but to PREVENT the possibility of forging
'tea." They cannot now recall the lives that
!n sacrificed to their negligent and defective
m can the Public be ever compensated for
tniary losses they have sustained from the
ise: but they can shew their hearty abhor-
a system which ought to have been aban-
'wenty years ago by their predecessors, by
their hearty aid, instead of offering impedi-
and obstacles, to means calculated to save the
effusion of blood and waste of properey.
,Vanot, for a moment, suppose that the pre-
mctots will longer feel themselves justified in
ining the fiat of their predeceisors against an
Lich the improvements of twenty years have
inscrutable and efficacious as when first of-

to the Bank ; or shew themselves indifferent
spread of crime, the sacrifice of life, and waste
Ate property, occasioned by their present cir-
ion. It is not uncommon for the members of public
; to put away entirely from
.themselves indivi-
the collective guilt of the Body ; but the present
ns are men so well informed, that they must
their conscience, that they 'are individually

try to the guilt, if they do not, to the utmost of
Idividual power, prevent the crime which en-
the death of the 'criminal. It is needless to
matters. Instead of blaming, they ought to
.ghly indebted to every individual who eitclea-
to reuse them to a sense of their individual duty.

ie Select Committee appointed by the House of
noas to inquire into the education of the lower
Qt the people:, have reported that they are
_ceding in the consideration of the subject referred
iem ; but, in the mean time, they recommend the
ring in a bill for appointing Commissioners to
ire into the abuses of charities connected with
!ducation of the poor, in England and Wales,
nu unnecessary delay may take place in pro:ie-
ig this investigation.

appears from the American Papers, that a guar-
ias arhen among the Naval Officers of the Ame-
Squabon in the Mediterranean. Commodore
rtv is accused of having struck a Captain HEATH.
to Marines, and two or three Courts-martial have
held, It has become even an affair of party,
the different Officers of the squadron have rang-
hemselves on diffetent sides. At length, a Me-
ial ffom the disaffected Officers was presented to
egress ; but a Committee who was appointed to
itt upon it, stated " that no measures were proper
takes by Conginrss on the sub:;ect." An Atne-
in Journalist makes the following remarks -.tpcn
S`YJiCCI. :-" No squadron ought to be suffered,
:milky months together, to remain upon any sts-
hi active service. Particularly should be
1.1,:d in the soft, luxurious, and enervating reginns
Mediterranean. It was there CIESAR waiter_ a
oar iii voluptuous and disgraceful dalliance
b:witching 'CLEOPATRA ; it WaS there that
o'nosy was shorn of his honours ; it was there
t dnlntiess NELSON sunl: beneath thesorcery
a sy;vn'i charm. if a squadron must he kept in
se's I, should he frequently relieved. Active
vi((... and the invigorating breezes of our I,estern
:more to collect arrogance on ore si;te,
c7,s'-:!'o...iinatinn qr tlle other, than all the lases
hr. enacted, or all the Courts-martial that.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE..

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•,L•e found it
to •
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Be: wh„::,
Bank
ante to s
Yi t'.;•.: Invent'
t.; the positive
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tl:st the plat
fit to the
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that to an
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to the spn
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C.
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