Star.
London, England, 1810-05-30 00:00:00

Namilemr—,...! FUNDING EICNEQUER BILES:
rKoad LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE. —...--.
----..—. I PRIVATE LETTER.—PARIS, MAY 24. It may be recollected, that a short time ago, while
FOREIGN OFFICE, MAY 211. I The fate of Turkey is, we believe, decided. It is the eight millions of floating Exchequer Bills were
The King has been pleased to cause it to be signi- understood that a Treaty has been in coniemtAttios, funding which the Chancellor of the Exchequer had
fled, by the most Noble the Mar is Wellesley, his some time, and is now about to be executed, eeli determined to call in, several complaints were made
qu
the Courts of Paris, Vienna, and Petersburgh, the that an undue preference was sbewn to certain hot-
Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign expulsion of this Mahometan intruder from g dersof these Bills, in detriment to others and the public 1
Affairs, to the Ministers of friendly and neutral the Christian nations of Europe. The couriers That at large. A Select Committee was appointed by the
powers residing at this Court, that the necessary mea- pass and repass continue very frequent, and altieost House of Commons to enquire into the truth of these ,
sires have been taken by his Majesty's command for daily'
. '._ :complaints; and the Report, v•hich has just bees per.'
You have received most probably before this time sented, spews that they were not without foundation.
the blockade of the port of Elsineur ; and that from the Decree published here on the 13th. It is not an The. Report first mentions the period during which,
this time all the measures authorized by the laws of unexpected blow, and it will be a very serious one, according to public luivectisement, the Bills were to
nations, and the respective treaties between his Ma- considering the immense quantity of American pro- be received. This was from the 20th to the 27th of
iesty and the different neutral powers, will he adopt_ pert), in this country : as to a mitigation of its seve- last March, it 10 o'clock in the morning : but ~ the
n t you know it is not to be expected. . Bills to be funded bearing two different rats of in-
ed and executed with respect to all vessels which may 7:
1 Ihe buz respecting a peace between England and terest, viz. Sid. and 30. per diem, it was declared
attempt to violate the said blockade. 1 France has, like other unfounded rumours, died away, that no Bills, bearing the interest of Sid. per diem,
t ADMIRALTY OFFICE, MAY 29. ' and we no more expect it now than we did before it would be received at the Office till•the 22d of March.
• Vice Admiral Sir James Saumarez has transmit- was mentioned. By this advertisement it appears that the doors of the
ted to John Wilson Croker, Esq. a letter he had re- , --- Exchequer Bill Office were not to be open to the pub-
ceived from Captain Reynolds, of his Majesty's ship I PORTUGAL. , lic, or any part of the public, until the hoer therein
,
the Tribune, giving an account of his having, on the , - specified, namely, ten of the clock on the morning of
1
12th instant, fallen in, off Mandal, on the coast of ' PRIVATE LETTEIL—..ISBON, MAY 14. the 20th of March, end every succeeding day to the
Norway, with four Danish brigs, two of 20 guns each, 27th; and it appears to your Committee conseqnendy,
me of IR, and one of 16, which, after a severe action that the admittance of any person for the transaction
of two hours, made all possible sail for the shore, and of that particular business before that period. or the
owlig to the damages sustainel by the Tribune in dispensing witk the attendance of any person for the
her sails, and the want of wind, escaped amongst the purpose of presenting the Bills of which he might he
possessed, or with which he might be entrusted, to

FRANCE.

Every exertion continues to be used for the rein-
forcement of our army here, and they are daily i,n-
pressing men, who are not allowed as formerly to lie
in prison, but are immediately obliged to swear fide-
lity to their colours, and are then marched off to the
corps to which they are appointed. Cannon are also
constantly sending to the frontiers. It is very com-
mon to see twelve or fourteen carts, with a gun and
carriage in each, drawn by six oxen ; we, in common
with our neighbours, have been called upon to send
one and sometimes two men for a week together, to
work at the erection of the forts which are forming
in every eligible spot, as rallying points in the event
of the troops being compelled to return. All these
measures are doubtless very prudent and proper, but
we should be very sorry to see the army obliged to
fall back upon these forts, however formidable they
may be.
We are expecting more troops from England,
which, on landing, it is supposed, will form a reserve,
and be quartered- in the city.
The transports here, are divided into divisions, with
3 Lieutenant commanding each division ; they are
stationed in different parts of the harbour. Two di-
visions are lying in the bay formed by the point of
Clisilas and Coinha ; and as they are all fine cop-
pered ships and armed, it has a very beautiful ap-
pearance. Another division is below Belem, and
each regiment, now, has certain regular transports
appointed in case of need, and one in particular for
the field officers, &c. of each. The men of war are
also formed in line of battle, with the small craft in
the intervals.

rocks.
Eight men and one boy (named in the margin *)
were killed on board the Tribune, and, thirteen men
wounded. The loss of the enemy is supposed to
have been considerable.
• Lawrence Higgins, William P. Real, Thomas Chapman,
and Joseph Nutbur, 11rdlnary Seamen ; Niche/as Johan, William
Cordery, David Powel, and Benjamin Isaacs, Marines; Patrick
Petefson,- boy.

the different Clerks and Officers employed to conduct
that operation. would, upon proof, subject the clerks
or officers to whom such proceeding could be traced,
to the just imputation of criminal preference and par-
tiality, to the disadvantage and injury of the public
at large.
6' Nevertheless, your Committee have follod upon
examination, that such preference and partiality were

MILITARY PROMOTIONS.
ORDNANCE OFFICE, MAY 26.
Corps of Royal Engineers.
Second Captain Thomas Feyers to be Captain, vice Lefebvre, de-
cees 41. Dated April 23, 1810.
First Lieutenant Cavalic Mercer to be Setond Captain, vice
Fyers, promoted. Dared as above.
Second lieutenant William Reid to be First Lieutenant, vice

actually shewn to particUlar persons, not only through
the means of persons employed in the subordinate
departments of the Office, but through the agency
and co-operation of one of the principals.
44 Your Committee here think it necessary, for the
elucidation of the narrative which it is their duty to
submit to the House, to state that the establishment
of the Exchequer Bill Office is composed of three
Paymasters, who are the chief and responsible per-
sons in the Office. The present Paymasters are, Sir
John Peter, Mr. Planta, and Doctor Cudlipp. Sir
' John Peter and Mr. Planta were the Paymasters at-
' tending the Board at the time the funding took place,
,
and were also the Paymasters in attendance at the
time the Committee were .proceeding in their exami-
nafo as. According to the rules of the Office, the
I ant n _lance of two Paymasters is necessary upon every
operation of the office ; and it appears that the three
IPaymasters arrange their periods of duty for their
mutual convenience and accommodation. Sir John
1 Peter and Mr. Planta are resident in London ; Doc-
tor Cudlipp is a practitioner in medicine, resident in
the West of England, except at the period when he
is in attendance at this Office."
The Committee having then commented on Ale
extremely inconvenient manner in which the Holders
gained admittance into the Exchequer Bill Office,
proceed to skew with what kind of impartiality the
different holders were treated :
" Such is the mode in which business ought, by
the custom of the Office, to be conducted in the
operation cO. funding ; a mode sufficiently loose and
inconvenient, but which certainly should be the
!same for all. In the late funding it appears, that
1 one of the Paymasters, Sir John Peter, according
to an arrangement previously made, did. on the first
day of landing, before the doors were opened to the
public, take into the office with him Mr. Goldamid,'
1 Mr. Sutton, and Mr. Gilman, as appears from the
' evidence of Mr. Goldsmid and Mr. Sutton. The
i other Paymaster in attendance, Mr. Planta, says,
that he found those Gentlemen in the Board-room
upon his arrival at the Office ; that he knew it to be
a great impropriety ; that he expressed indignation
at the proceeding, and ordered the doors to be imme-
diately thrown open to the public. The names, how.
ever, of the gentlemen so introduced stand among the
very first on the books of that day. This irregularity
appears to have been sufficiently known and noticed to
have prevented a repetition of the same practice; but it
probably would not have been brought under the ob-
servation of the House of Commons of itself ; because
the whole of the £8,000,000 of Exchequer Bills was
not subscribed in Bills bearing Ad. interest per diem ;
all who wished to subscribe such bills hid room. On
the 22d of March, the day on which the 31d. bills
were first admitted, there remained of die 5€8,000,000
a sum of £2,188,700 unsubscribed. The holders of.
those bills were very eager to fund them ; a great com.
petition was excited, and a great number of persons
assembled ; there was great press and hazard to those
in the throng, and many irregul trines were on that
day committed in the Office. and much partiality was
shewn. In the first place, fmm neglect of constantly
casting up, an excess of bills to the amount of
€311,000 were admitted on the books, and when bills
to that amount were returnad to the bill-holders, it
appears that some perons who had been in attendance
at the door of the Office from the earliest hour, and
who had been admitted amongst the very first after
the doors were opened, received their bills back under
pretence that they were not in time to have their
names put down before the £8,000,000 were corn- ,
pleted ; whilst others who had manifestly arrived ii.'
the Off to at a later period, some who had obtainedl
1 adpittance into the Office by ways not intended foe
, theft purpose, and some who had not been in the Office
I at *all, nor any one for them, at the proper period.
had their bills included in the funding. The circum-
stances attending these separate modes, by which ma
undue advantage was allowed to some persons to the
injury of the public at large, will be found in the evi-
dence contained in the Appendix, which your Coln.
mittee is sorry to observe has been rendered much
more voluminous than was necessary by the mode in
which some of the witnesses have answered to their
examinations ; but your Committee forbear to press
their opinion Oil such conduct, or the motisfes of it.
The House will judge for itself. The House will
%also perceive in the evidence of Sir John Peter, the
reasons why his examination was not continued by
the Committee.'
`the manifest impropriety of this conduct is obvious,
'bid to proceed-:- •e, wo,-1. .
• 'Si It appear§, first, that it auunstutimition was held
' joetween Sir John Peter, Mr. Sutton, and Mr. Roberts,
ruttier to MT, Sutton, on. she,SlsiCii March, relative

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Mery r, promoted. Dated as above.
Commissions signed by tke Lord Lieutenant of the
County of Salop.
Shrewsbury Yeomanry Cavalry.
Jonathan Perry, Gent. to be Cornet, vice Dodson, mired. Da-

ted lone 4. 1807.
John !lake., Gent. to be Cornet, vice Stonier, resigned. Dated
October 5, 11108.

Renfrew Militia.

Lieutenant David Drummond, from the East London Militia, to
be Captain of a Canyany, vice Spooner, appointed to the Line.
Dated May IL IMO.
Ensign Robert Morrice to be Lieutenant, vice Young, resigned.

Dated as above.
Humphrey Cochrane, Gent. to be Ensign, vice Morrice, pro-
moted. Dated u above.
Commission signed by the Lord Lieutenant of Hants.
South Hants Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry.
John Jenrdnp Westcott, Gent to be Cornet, vice Strangeways,
resigned. Dated May 18, 1810.