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London, England, 1811-04-25 00:00:00

BERKELEY PEERAGE.

The- LORD CHANCELLOR observing that it
would be inconvenient for some Peers to attend to-
morrow, the day fixed on for resuming the question
of the Berkeley Peerage, moved that,the Order of the
bay for that purpose be discharged, and that Friday
text be appointed in its stead. Ordered.
LORD WELLINGTON AND THE ARMY.
Lord LIVERPOOL gave notice that he should,
on Friday next, notwithstanding the tact of Portu-
pl's being totally evacuated by the enemy, move that
the thanks of that Howse be presented to Lord Vis-
count Wellington, and the army under his command.
PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS.
Lord LIVERPOOL, alluding to a conversation
which before the recess had taken place respecting the
best means of expediting the printing of Papers,
Moved, that the Committee for that purpose should
4 Sig on Friday next.--. Ordered.
4 Lord SUFFOLK expressed a wish that some me-
` died should be adopted for giving previously effectual
notice of the business to be brought forward accor-
ding, to the practice which.used to prevail in the Irish
House of Peers. _
COURT OF CHANCERY BUSINESS.
On the motion of the LORD-CHANCELLOR,
the sitting of the Committee, respecting le Court of
Chancery, was, by reason of other buiTness which
stood for that day, postponed.
SIR SAMUEL ItOidILLY9S BILL.
Lord LAUDERDALE gave notice that he should
on Wednesday, the 15th of May, move for the second
reading of the various Bills respecting Thefts, com-
prehended under this title.—Adjourned.
}Tun OF COMMONS.
Mr. MARRYATT renewed for to-morrow his notice of a
motion for at Account of the Amount of Exchequer Bills held
by the Bank.
'I he Cinque Ports Justices' Salaries Bill was ordered to be con-
. sidered on Monday next.
The Westminster Poll Bill was ordereil to be read a seacida'
time on Monday next.
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Mr. Tow presented at the Bar a Iteturipitcd.e averafrpnce
of Wheat for the year 1810.
• Mr. GRATTAN presented a Petition from the Porter
Brewers of Dublin, Cork, and Waterford, praying that the Le-
` Islature would encourage the consumption of Malt Liquor.
Mr. FOSTER then moved that a copy of the Surrender of the
'Prisage and Butlerage of Wines in Irehnd by the Earl of Or-
'Mond a id Ossory, be laid on the Table.
Mr. GRATTAN gave notice of a motion respectinttbe Dub-
11n Brewers' Petition for Thursday se'nnight.
DUTIES ON CALICOES AND COTTON.
Sir JAMES SHAW presented an Account of the Excise Du-
ties on Calicoes and Cottons stamped in England, Wales, and
Scotland, for the last Ave years; and likewise of the
and Bounties on all Calicoes and stamped Cottons exported from
Great Britain during the same period.—Ordered.
LIZOIRICIC ELECTION. , •
The following Gentlemen form the Committee 'to
ter-mine the merits of the Limerick Election Petition:
. Wm. Fitzgerald, Esq. : Banker, Esq.
George Simpson, Est. - Reginald Pole Chew, Esq.
Lord Forbes George Jones, an.
Ebel. Fuller Maitland, /6"..• lochs Dupre Portlier, Esq.
7ohn Jackson, Esq. aa4 41..) rM. S. Irelkse,ilirei
•ToonwTyrwhiet Drab% LIMP Charles Adams, Fig.
Henry Boyer, Esq. •
ifieshon Calvert, Esq.' I Dr. Dulgepan.
• IRISH LOAN.
"The CHANCELLOR of the EXeIiEQUER
;moved, 'rbat the House resolve itself into a Commit
tee of WA's and means.
The SPEAKER having accordingly left the Chair
Mr. FOSTER rose to state the terms on which the
Irish Loan had been raised. It would be quite nn-
necessary fa him to say much on the subject. He
bed only to state, that Government had succeeded in
raising the Loan.in Ireland. The terms 9,a, a(hicis it
bad been contracted for were these— v. it.
lEir,every -,ei50p...44 per cent. Interest
£ 11 Ss. Treasury Bills Interest, ~•*•11

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So that the whole had been raised:as an interest of
JE4 lss. per cent. which, in the present eircurostahces
of Ireland, could not but be regarded as a very advan-
tageous bargain fur the public. He then moved Re- ,
solutions, that it was expedient to raise two and a
Italf milltons, by way of annuities, for the service of
Ireland, and on the terms-ahovestated..
Resolutions agreed to, and Report to-morrow.
BULLION REPORT.
Mr. VANSITTART stated his intention to pro.
pose Resolutions on the subject of the Bullion Report
on Monday, in case those of his Hon. and Learned:
Friend (Mr. Horner) should not be adopted. Hay-.
ing only very lately seen the Resolutions of his Hon.
and Learned Friend, he was not prepared as iet-to-
state exactly what the nature of his own Resolutions
would be, but he would read them to the House on
Friday, after which they might be printed, so as to
. be' in the hands of the Members previous to the dis-
cussion. in the mean time, he was desirous that'
Some facts, already sufficiently notorious, should be
`brought formally under the view of the House, and
'would therefore move for some Papers :
let. An Account of the Number of Bank-notes in drculation
between February and August 1785-IL
The Average Amount in eirculition tp 1/99,180
ad. An Account of the Averigileorat between 1
tato.

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4th. An Ateeunt of the Queathy
volution to the beginnieg of the'"'
lie pelt moved for
A Report presented by the .
in 1811, inclosing Statement; at
i This would shew the rise
the Exchange in the reign of Queen Anne.
Sir JOHN NEWPORT remarked, that these were
called for at so late a period,' that it would be impos-
sible for his Hon. and Learned Friend to avail him-
self of whatever light they might throw on the ques-
tion.
Mr. VANSITTART said they were matters of
notoriety. Gentlemen might, by glancing over one
page, see the situation of the exchanges at different
periods.

Mr. TIERNEY said, that though the Hon. Gen-
tleman wished to elucidate his own view of the sub-
ject from these Papers, others might see cause to use
them for the elucidation of another view. He did
not refuse to grant the paper however ; but the tittle
even for the consideration of the Hon. Gentleman's
Resolutions was very short. He was as anxious as
any one that the House should come to a speedy de-
cision on this subject ; but, at the same time, it was
necessary that they should be thoroughly aware of
whatever was to be proposed on either side. If the
Hon. Gentleman then intended to prdpose Resolu-
tions contrary to those of his Hon. and Learned Friend
(Mr. Horner), and could not state them till Friday,
be suggested whether it .might not be advisable at
once to delay tke diScussion for a day or two..
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
admitted there was some weight in what had been
said by the Hon. Gentleman, but he thought it better
to wait till they heard what the Jtesolutions Of -his
Hon. Friend were before they postponed the discus-
-1 sion. Finding that the view taken of the subject by
' his Ron. Friend (Mr. Vansittart) coincided with his
own, he had requested him to draw up Resolutions
accordingly, and it had so happened, that.this was
the earliest moment he could apprize the House of
his intention.
..; - Mr. TIERNEY spoke only on the supposition that
they were to be the contrary of those proposed by his
Hon. and Learne4 Friend. If they should turn out
unexpectedly not to be so, certainly the foundation of
ibis-suggestion would be gone.
Mr. THORNTON thought that there should be
the earliest notice given of Resolutions of such great
and acknowledged general importance as those to be
proposed by the Right Hon. Gentleman. He did not
accuse the Right Hon. Gentleman of taking the
House by surprise—very far from it ; but still it was:
to be lamented that they were not already before the I
public, in order to enable them to form a fair judg-
ment upon them, compared with those from which
they were avowed so materially to differ. It might
too operate rather unexpectedly on his Hon. anti
Learned Friend, who was not then in town, nor could
be, he believed, before some time in the forenoot of
Monday.
.; Mr. HUSKISSON expressed a wish that the Re-
solutions might be ready for printing on Friday.
Mr. VAN SII"I.'A Rl' pledged himself that nothing
should be wanting on his part to put them in every
state of forwardness.
The motion was then agreed to.—Adjourned.
The following art the Resolutions on the Bullion
ronun Monday next
rc, to be taken into consideration in the House
of
i.. That the only money which can be -legally tendered In
Great Britain, for any sum above twelve pence in the whole, is
made either of gold or silva; and that the weight, standard,and
denomination, at which any such money is authorised to pass cars
rent, is fixed, under his Majesty's prerogative, according to law.
S. That since the 43d year of the reign of Queen Elizabeth, the
Indentures of his Majesty's Mint have uniformly directed that
all silver used for coin should consist of it oz. 9 dem. of Ise dl',
ver, and 18 dwts. of alloy in each pound troy, and that the mita
.pound trey should be divided into 62 shillings, or into other coins
in that proportion. I. 1
3. 'That since the 15th year of the reign of King Charles the
Second, the Indentures of his Majesty's Mint have uniformly di.
reefed, that all gold used for coin, should consist of 11 on. dints,
'gold, and in oz. of alloy in each pound troy ; and that the *
pound troy should be divided add coined into 44 guineaaand man
half-guinea, or into other coins in that proportion.
4. That by a Proclamation of the 4th year of the reign of King
George the First, it was ordered and directetiP that guineas and
the several other gold coins therein named, should to current at
the rates and values then set upon them, viz. the guinea at the
rate of 21 shUlings, and other gold coins in the same proportion •
thereby establishing, that the gold and silver coins of the realm;
should be a legal tender luau money payments, and a standard
measure for' ascertaining the value of all contracts for the pay-
ment of money, in the relative proportion of lb and a fraction
pounds weight of iteriing silver to one pound of sterling geld.
4. That bra statute of the 14th of the reign of his present Ma-'
jesty, subsequently revived and made perpetual by a statue of
She 39th year'of his reign, it is enacted, That no testier in pay-
ment of money made in the silver coin of this realm, of any sum
exceeding the sum of sEtte, at any one time, shall be reputed In
law, or allowed to be legal tender, within Great Britain or Ire-
land, for more than according to its value by weight, after the
rate of 51. sd. for each ounce of silver.
6. That by a proclamation of the 16th year of the reign of his 1,
proem Majesty, confirmed by several subsequent proclamations, '
k was ordered and directed, that if the weight of any guinea shall
be less than sdwin Stirs. each guinea shall cease to be a legal ten-
der for the payment of any money within Great Britain or Ire-
land; and se is dig same-proportion for any other gold coin.
7. That alder these laws.(wkiels constitute the established po-
licy of this realm in regard to money,) no contract, or undertak-
ing for the payment of money, stipulated to be paid in pounds
sterlieg, or in good and lawful money of Great Britain, can be
legally satisfied and disthargod in gold coin, unities the coin ten-.
slered.shall weigh in the proportion of tO-El-parts of idwta.
Agri. of standard gold fbr each pound sterling, specified in the
,said contract ; nor in Slyer coin for a sum exceeding £25 unties
each coin shall weigh in the proportion of 96-62-parts of around !
groy of standard silver for each pound sterling specified in the
Contract.
' S. That the promissory notes of the Bank of England are sti- '
relations to pay on demand the Sum in pounds sterlicg respec- ,
*rely specified in each of the said notes.
9,) 9. 'That when it was enacted by the authority of Parliament,•
*that the Payment of the Promissory Notes of the Bank et Eng-
land in Cash should for a time be suspeuded, it was not the in-
tenHon of Parliament that any alteration whatsoever 6houltl take
"leek in the Value of such Promissory Notes.
lb. That it appears, that the actual Value of the Promissory
Notes of the Batik of England, (measuring such Value by weight
Of Standard Gold and Silver as aforesaid,) has been, for a consi-
derable period of tirue, and *till is, considerably less than what Is
established lay the laws of the Realm to be the legal 'fender in
payment of any Money conrract or stipulation.
11. That the Fall which has then taken place in the Value of
the Promissory Notes of the Bank of England, and in that of the
,Country Bank Paper which is exchangeable for it, has been oc-
casioned by too abundant Issue of Paper Currency, both by the
Ewa of England, and by tha Country Banks ; and that this Ex-
cess has originated,. from the want of that Check and Controul
on the issues of the Bank of England, which existed before the
'Suspension of Cash Payments.
IL That it appears, that the Ezclueetts with Foreign Parts
bar, for a considerable peziodpf clime, been unfavourable to
this Country, le an extraordinary degree. '
13. That, although the adverse cactuuswees of oar Truk,

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oar Exchanges with the
• yet tbe extraordinary degree 6
4 depressed for so long a period,
occasioned by the deprechtion,
Valet of.the•Ctirrency of

Monty of Foreign Countries.
14. That during tbeeentinualsce of the auopension of CashPay-
menu, it is the duty dale Directors of the Bank of England to
advert to the state of the foreiga exchanges, as well u to the price
of Bullion, with a view to regulate the amount of their issues.
IS. That the only certain and adequate security to be provided
against au excess of paper currency, and for maintaining the rela-
tive value of the circulating medium of the Realm, is the legal
convertibility, upon demand, of all paper currency fnto lawful coin
of the Realm.
16. That in order to revert gradually to this security, and to
enforce meanwhile a due limitation of the paper of the Bank of
England, as well as of all the ether Bank paper of the courtry, it
is expedient to amend ti.e Aet, which suspends the cash payments
lof the Bank bi altering the time, till which the suspension shall
'continue from six maths after the ratification of a definitive
Itreaty of peace, to that of two years from the present time.

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