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1819, insteadof the year HMS, the measure with which
it is conjoined; I must regard the conduct of Ministers,
in courting such discussions at a moment of pectiniary'
embarrassment, as not only rash in the extreme, b it as
exhibiting a lamentable ignorance of the ialutary mode
of conducting the affairs of this great mercantile country,
when. suffering under distress produced by a temporary
panic. Whilst I sincerely regret, that I must be of
Opinion, that the conduct of Parliament in sanctioning
the peroposed measures cannot fail to :plead throughout
there kingdoms an alarm, the effects of which, conjoined
with those oldie ex ing panic, must inevitably redtice
chit country from the greatest prosperity to a state of
suffering which, in profound peace, it has seldom, if
ever, eiptriesced.
Sie6Odly—Because nothing has been stated in debate
that can vindicate Government in proposing, far less•
justifyirParliament in adopting, legislative measures
pregnanOwith consequences so destructive to the im-
mediate interests of the community.
Ministers had advised his Majesty, in his speech from
the throne, to announce to Parliament and the public
the temporary sufferings of the country in a asannet
unjustifiably alarming; and to state their opinion that,
to a certain portion of the evil (meaning the state of
the currency ). correctives if not effectual remedies,
might be applied. Whilst, against the recurrence of
the remaining portion of the evil (meaning the demand
for capital arising from Joint Stock Companies, and
other wild schemes and speculations) there could exist
no settiritf but in the experience of the mischiefs they
had occasioned.

With such. a statement of the nature of the calamity
thus Siblemnly laid before the public, I must think they
had a eight, to expect that Parliament would devise
somoismediate remedy for the evil to which it was
held to.be coinpeteto to administer a corrective: and
that it' would at least abstain from encouraging that
portion of the evil, the remedy for which had been de-
scrilistas !mond the reach of its interposition.
I 4anailt ',herein,s help anticipating the lAA effects{
of thewlisappointanent which, so this asementof al.itas,
must ensue when the public learn, that to, that part of
the,vvil ,wl;ich Parliament is said to havothe pouter ell
that
corek;jog, they hese selected aerernedy, 'hick."' .tom'
expense of great immediate treileie ,te{take Once-
year. hentet whilst they Nee alierCB the law with the
*yolked intention of encouragimilleihtitediotO iltilliii:
*!glitzoCllillitt Jorititon {RC the sell *and 'the reich4
theiranteopesition,. by the establishment of joint *sock
bantingeompories throughout this kingdom. • • • •
Thlrifty,lticAtie *thoie who recommend these melt
... _ .... 1
lilies 10 Park talent, assume that the increase of Bank.
paper raise the price of commodities; that a rise in the
price of ontsmoditieS gave birth to schemes, spetulitc
tion, and •joint-stock companies; that this state of
thine erected a necessity for a- farther extension of cur-
reneyr-and that the extension of currency, with the,
dispositiqn to scheming which it generates, thus alter;
nately operating as cause and effect, produced the calm-
mity under which we at present suffer.
No ptoeflas, however, been given, that paper either
of the Bank of Bugluid, or of the Country Banks,
existed in excess; or that an excess of paper payable in
cash on demand can produce a rise in the price of
commodisies.
Poe some days Bank Paper has been de jetre, as
well is de facto. contertible into coin, on demand;
and I must agree with the Committee on the high
price of bell'on, in 1810, " That no safe, certain. and
constantly adequate provision against an access of
paper currency, either permanent or occasional" cats be
fnund, except in the convertibility of all such paper
into•specie." ,

On. such reasoning as I have beard, I cannot there-
foie mimosa these vpininns, and sanction measures
calculated to. create an alarm, the effects of which
mast be fat more injurious to the interests of the public
than th•ise of the momentary panic for which it is as-
serted they are the only remedy.
Ikiiirtbly—.4lecause I am of opinion that those who
have argsied in favour of these measures, have foinied
an trfonso,ns siaiwof the actual state of the country ;
ani that she se if cause ot • the calamity ariies from an
immediate tiansi.iim from a state in winch it enjoyed an
extrA supply of capit.iiktOit state in which it suddenly
gt rat curs demand for it.
That ,the.rise Moshe Value of land, of funded pro.
puny. and of all securities producing a permanently
tired•revlibuetiss',Vilans the diminution of the interest
of d4Poslble criterion of its value), was the
11.1111060600•0( a iferceil-minversion of revenue into ca-
pitally the sinking fend to the extent of 5,000,0005
a-year, cannot be doubted, unless. it is meant to deny
the proposition, that an increase of the supply of a
commodity, in proportion to the • demand for it dimi-
nishes its value.
When, again, in the year 1824, and in the year'lB2s,
the desire of enjoying their former incomes led those
who suffered under the diminished and diminishing
musket rate Of interest to embark in schemes, joint
stock companies, and speculstions, which caused the
investment and payment of capital within a year to the,
mein of mine than three tenses the amount of the sink.
fund. this demand.for capital occasioned an imme-
diate increase in its value, and of coarse raised the rate
of interest, forchly r capital with which
they had aeconir
bihty of ciedit from
of funded property
extended value of
and, ihias,inevitably
in all pecuniary ne
sinned.* temporary suspension
part of many who had
those who had
which eiperience
real or ide4nnifernily

LAW REPORT.

T
COURT OF KING'S BRNCIII, Fita. is.

V. TOSS.

This was an action brought bra merchant in Mel:-
lane, against the Secretaty of the Society fur the protec-
tion of trade, against sharpers and swindlers. The libel
was implied by the insertion of the plaintiff ssiame in a
list of names circulated among the members of the So.'
ciety, which were understood to be the names of sharpers
andswindlets.

IMG SOMILETT who opened the case, stated that Mr.
Goldstein was a Gentleman of the highest respectability
and finding himself thus stigmatised, he wrote to the
defendant to know the authority on which his name had
been painted out as a dishonest person, but received no
answer whatever. This Society, the Learned Gentleman
said, might be very useful, but unquestionably the de-
fendant was not infallible in the information he promul-
gated. The libel in question was of the most atrocious
kind when published respecting a mercantile man;
and therefore, though Mr. Goldstein had not waited
until ruin had come upon him as a consequence of it, it
was a case which demanded the greatest damages.
Evidence was then called, which proved that the
names of Goldstein and Co. were inserted in a little
book, circulated by the defendant as Secretary of the
Society, which book was understood to be a list of per-
sons unfit and unworthy of credit. Several bills to
,large,
amounts from Odessa. Rheims, differeist parts of Italy,
and other foreign places, which bad bees regularly pA id,
and showed extensive and respectable dealings by the
Plaintiff, were put in and read.
In the cross-examination one witness, it came out
that Goldstein had only commenced business in 1825,
and that shortly before that be had been a bankrupt,
and was =fined a short time in the King's Bench.
Mr. Guansv shortly addressed the Jury for the de-
fendantkin which he spoke of the utility of that So-
ciety of which ttse defendant was Secretary, and con-
tended that the bankruptcy and confinement of Mr.
Golditois in the King's Bench raison, were circum-
stantortaletdated to excite suspicion. It was stated,
howeffir, declaration, that the libel.: imputed to,
Goldstein and to. the character of sharpers and swin-
dlers. No sae witness, however, had sworn that he un-
itood that tete the Moreover, no d image
bid been Vtilreed by Mt. Gol.isteln, and therefore no-
minal damages would be sufficient.
TheagoPlicksomPled up au whole evidence, and gave It
las ht, that, ibsugh dia publication in peal= was cautious
in its nature, he was neverthinas NW.
The Jury feentke the Pbtatiff—..Dassaiies

FRIDAY.
TUSKING V. •LITRLN JACOB, MART ANN IVRE'XII, AND
/PRISCILLA DICKINSON.

This was an indistment tot a conspiracy. It charged
The defendants with compiring together to induce one
William'Browning Sergeant, a lad of only 17 years of
'age, to marry the defendant, Mary Ann Wrench, the
said Mary Ann Wrench being at the time a common
prostitute. One count in the indictment charged the
defendants with entering into the conspiracy, in order
to get the property of William Browning Sergeant into
their possession: another count charged the defendants
with inducing young Sergeant to many, lie being too
poor to keep a wife.
Mr. GURNEY (with whom was Mr. CHITTY and Mr.
At stated the case for the prosecution. The
young man alluded to was the son of a respectable
widow, who carried on business as a soap boiler and tal-
low chandler in the neighbourhood of Lambeth, and at
his coming of age he would inherit some property ; the
defendant, Mary Alin Wrench, was a common prosti-
tute, living in Oakley-street, Black(' iars-toadi the other
female defendant was her companion, and the male de-
fendant was related to her by marriage. The Learned
Counsel then proceeded to relate a number of facts re-
garding the manner in which the man age was effected
stating that the defendant Wrench had- taken a false
oath, an order to procure a license, and that the defend-
wit Jacobs bought the ring, and gave away the bride.
Evidence was tailed to prove the facts as far as they Mated
to Ann Wrenelt ; but the charge against Jacobs was not proved.
itlr.Tusassout, foe the defendant, Wrench, addressed
the !fury giatat leagtb. He implored them not to
suffer her Inspirer mode of lite to prejudice her in their
t.minds. Tose it was she bad been for some few months
the character she was representeil, but that was no tea:
son why she should not be reformed. The charge
against bee to-day was not for taking the f4lse oath at
Doetose Commons or for her vicious course of lite.—
The iinestion was, whether she had complied with the
other defendants to contract this marriage.
Several witnesses were then called, who proved the fact of
Wtench 'taint on Jacobi, and saying that her father bad requested
hinilb go tithe &Or& With her and give her away. They also
ptoved the open manner in which the male defendant had acted in
this transaction, and spoke to his general character.
Verdict—Jacobs blot Gutky- Wrench Guilty.

Saturday the dispatches were clnsed at the Litt
India Home and delivered to the !osiers of the following ships,
vbo....Doelosie of Athol, C.apt. EDWARD MAILIPALL DANSIKS.; and
Thomas Couto, Capt. Atm Comas, for Bombay and China. j
The number of tenements destroyed by. the late fire'
st riteribuvt, ka site Unite4.4te,tes was many tow
Lortinsaisi nettled for the (Lb Stakes fog .191104:
Peter, *sit V' his sism •
4ss. Keys "Inn, Shrewsbury, on Friday
Goake an Irish hawker, and Langfordat
quihrelted, and a scrambling fight took. &Eel
when Liagiord fastened with Ishii
Irishman's nose, and bit it nearly ott ,
3atton Boniagtone named iintwick sad:
been drinking at Loughborough, quer.
the sbot, at the Green Man. On going
. to fighting, and Gadd was so much in-
died in tree days after.

resignation of the Hon. and Rev:Gerard _
Rev. John flallstrard, of Ridley Parsonage, Kent, to the Rec-
tory of East Thorp, Ellet•Xj on the pret.entation of the Hon. Co-
!oriel and Mrs. Onslow.

Rev. R. Wiliest, B.A. to the Rectory of Ashweltherpe, with
Wreningbsrn cum Nayland annexed, Norf4l.
Rey. James Lynn, to the Vicarage of Newcastle.
The Archbishop of York has licensed the Rev. Charles Mus-
grave, M. A. Vicar of Whitkirk, and some time Fellow of Trinity
College, Cambridge, to the Perpetual Curacy of St. John's Church,
in Itoundhay, on the nomination of Stephen Nicholson, Es+ of
Roundh.iy, at whose expense the Church has been recently built
and endowed.

The Ilan. and Right Rev. the Bishop of Durham has appointed
the Rev. Thomas Singleton, ILA. Rector of Elsdoe, in that disease,
and Domestic Chaplain to his Grace the Duke of Northumberland,
K.G. to the dignity of Archdeacon of Northumberland, vacant by
the death of the Venerable R. G. Bouver. B.C.L.
Sir Hew Dalrymple Hamilton, of Bargany, has presented Mr.
Thomas Burns, Preacher of the Gospel, to the Church and Pariah
of &gastric vacant by the trandation of the Rev. "Ulnas Hilt,
is the Church and Parish of Loglepert. Mr. Bomb a son of
Mr. Gilbert Burns, brother of the oet.

TREATY BETWEEN ENGLAND AND BRAZIL.

A Paris Paper has the following t-16 It is known
that Mr. Canning declated to the English Parliament,
that the Treaty with Brazil had not been ratified-by
the English Government, and that it would not be,
without receising important modifications. The fol-
lowing is the let er addressed' by that Minister upon the
subject, to the Cunsuls of his Britannic Majesty re-
siding abroad : London. Jan. 27, 1824.
Sta,—A Brazilian Gazette has recently been re-
ceived is England, containing the alleged copies of
two treaties recently concluded and signed by Sir
Charles Stuart, at Rio Janeiro, with the Government of
Brazil; one, a Treaty of Commerce, the other a Treaty
for the final abolition& the S!ave Trade, including im-
mediate regulatioßz iarith the Brazilian Government
upon this subject. .
' These public documents are sufficiently exact copies
of those sent to England by Sir Charles Stuart, authen-
ticated by the ratification of the Emperor of 'kiwi;
but this premature publication of them rendered it ne-
cessary to Make .Isnown,_thiit these Treaties have been
concluded Ind signed,' wit,hout, aniipecial orders—that
they have not been. ratifiatill his ,01i;attaic Majesty,
and that they will not teceive the ratification. of his
Majesty is their plisent form.
"It is the second time that Treaties. ratified the
Government of Rrazil,i hay. beep ,Ipubli:hed it. Rio.
Janeiro before they were istific:ci by both conorrietioi
parties. The first publication (that ot the Treaty with
Portugal, oo the WO of Atsgstst,.lB2s). having taken
place, with the avowed sanction of the Brazilian Go.
vet nine t, it was natural to concluder that the same
Goveinment had authorised tins second irregularity.
However, it is proper to add, that I have received from
the Baron de Itabayana, the Brazilian Minister at this
Court, the most posisive assurances that his Government
has not authorised, in any way, this second publication ;
ind that he regrets..al much as we can do, the incon-
venience which such a proceeding must necessarily
occasion.

" Meanwhile, the object of this dispatch Is simply to drake that
you will declare in the most public manner, that the King, our
master, has been advised not so ratify these Treaties in their present
form, and without very important alterations.—l remain, Re.
" GEORGE CANNING•"

PUBLIC MEETING AT FREEMASONS' HALL

A numerous and highly respectable Meeting, eon-
tisting gf Medical Practitioners and Students of the dif•
fe,ent hospitals of the metropolis was held in the Hall of
the Freemasons Tavern, on Saturday evening. At
seven o'clock Mr. Thomas Lawrence, late Professor of

Anatomy at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, entered, and
was received with the most unbounded applause. Having
taken the Chair he pr-ceeded to explain the object of
the present Meeting. It was held, hesaid, for tbe pur
prbe of considering the best means of redressing some
'fledged abuses in the Royal Culler' of Nurgeons.
A variety of very heavy charges were adduced againt
the Court of Examiners, and a series of resolutions wire
passed. An:amendment was moved by Mr. Waylett,
with a view of effectually preventing a recurrence of
those numerous evils, and of rendering the Royal Col-
lege of Surgeons, in London, a benefit to ti,e
and an honourable distinction to all its Members. It
was *nether resolved, that a petition, founded en the
above Resolutions be immediately prepared and pre-
sented to the House of Commons, praying for tie ap-
pointment of a Commii tee, to inquire into the abuses of
the said College, with a view of ultimately obtaining
from his Majesty a new charter, which shall provide,
that the officers of the College be annually chosen by
the Members, so that each Member may have a voice,
in the election of those persons who sire to regulate the
proceedings of that college, in the proiperity of which
he must feel a personal, as well as national, interest.
The question was then pet, and the amendment was carried,
amidst loud applause.
Thanks were then voted to the Chairman for his excellent con-
duct in the Chair, and the Sleeting separated.

Tug Mumma AT
the sailor who has been brought to
ionliag2. eisrgad.
n his own confession with having mu Mr. IBM
and his housekeeper, at Greenwich, took place on
Pride, last, at the Kings 'Arms Tani* Greenwich.—
Tbe sailer, to whom the prisoner confessed the murder,
repeated his statement to that effect. The prisoner
declared every word the witness said Vre fake, and
that he never once spoke to him upon the subject et
as murder-of Mr. Bird. The prisoner was remanded
Id lbw *meaty gad, and ordered to be re-rmnined in
a weak. All the Greenwich Magistrates and the So-
'shoe to the Admiralty were present.
As kokers heeds are my cotr.snon affairs at elec-
dons, Surgesess, we understand, ore to be appoln.cd in future as in-
spectors of the Ptil.

exaninatioa al

companions,
ni Saturday • .
-•
resist the temptation held out to bim by thet6•board and rbhublei•
of the Hebrew. an instrument with which he was provided in au-
dition to his fruit basket. To work they went.. Sovertigais were
the stake, the ball and thimbles in (al pity, when Curtis the patrol,
in company with Herring, corning by, very properly interrarted
the sports, and.brought the parties here to hitigh their g Tb.
chug, being fully proved, and not indeed denied by the defendant*,
his Worship consulted the Act and expressing his destrminatintrep
put a stop, if possible, to so pernicious a practlea,,aenteneed btu
the parties to three months' hard labour in the Henna( Ceallidinut.

• • • .
WORSHIPLSTREET,
A man, named Thema Tailor, was charged, .16 iitvribiliej
Elizabeth Harris, aged nine yeast' with hewing abseeeplielittreiw
late her person. It appeared ht the .o.sss of 4he girl's teatioway,
which was clear and decided as to the man's gilt, that the mother
had placed ber two children in bed with the man. The titkiiie
had the effrontery to be mem at this essankaation, sod the lidso
glares ordered her to be taken into custody. The saaptirtterep.
witteil for the anatth with intent to ceoustit.tfie Mau, Aid Ali
mother for aiding and assisting him in the widatiokof her ours 01W

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_............1 That thie is the, rtse . • . Calamity u _ •": '4'7:44LERICAir INTELLYOENCEa --)1, \:7 • P4Lifil lIIVELLtGANCI
which thstoentry gitlfesoi• a a doubt* 'LAI- -.. laff"' :1 Pit. 4r A . ..0.....
BANK CHARTER BILL it iatherefare adds Otin AO regret 'ma. : c,,,,...: .CA3IIOEIIOO, N
17.
. ,k 0,1 . Cittn•DH ALL
....1/.."'• worded ws adept Measurer ea a gulden .; delfilertea Gentleness; 11l thistetivrl weF• vralasud Cs WY. ilia: •
M illie weploy el Kr.
. .. --.—. PitOTBST. .. . , . aura desaindijor • ' habiriognoi -... *tam. by the Bishop of War:ester, at Hartlelniry castle. sad bra • . . fI . lane.
Inaariiiiillia irralnalf af so- fro,ii 41Tarib." a."' . -.`
dlijelitrillitrififik:— 7,-77 .. . -. raglig-a-tagain S,Vagalliras ArtfrSlONA°9-11"11-WOPeUtaa tiaras
' ilsOstiAtal, B.A. Queens College. tae further e . ...1.?::.1r.L1
arledlataitikentithd "AO Art to amend as Air paaredki Yet it is impossible to citiebille that COMM/. of eints.-Jolin Lass* Freer, B.A. Trinity College; John Vet. . _ .110049tibilt.- _________...
0014011111kieth,OrritAbristriltibridslar? Mil aiititr -- drid and Iwo pottbd tees can be withdrawn. nun, 13.. A. feel cane. .
&hada/ Ir.- filikiiillie-iiiiiilK ill- , •
tbe Third, entitle 4 an , Act .fix establishing an Agreement with without forcing the bankers to Make a demand for OXFORD. TICAILUA At Ist. ' brought befliii tile It vheretes, etirsid' *IA itsgitte .t
the thoiler9".an4. .400??Pani.nt the Malt of Ealliasdo for ad. 5.000,000 of their funds, with which the public are Sicardsy Indoist Henry Le Messurier was admitted actual 'Siotese the. ' Af hld dantiltif-k4.4; Ifiri !tan CS . ,
vandos the aunt of 3.000.00 a towards do olglidY for the garde* now accommodated.; or that 6,00(1,000 of gold to, Fellow of Nee*, College. Tbi . sedated him to ins bail forids aPP4.4IIBIS
fiche year 1000; and for the better regulating Copartnerships supply the place of these bank notes, can be obtained Monday. the following degrees were conferred : the Sehlebt, to the charge of Wasik *Milstein to efilh
of eartirda kadien ip Engiud," against the measures brought without makiag a further demand for capital to that Mantas oe Aare. -- Wm. Woodiery Cerjat, Trinity Cage, a rape, and to jive 40 hours' notice of bail.
..
Grand Compounder ; Rev. Charles Henry Grove, University Col- The eheihe ,r,..te Gn: hi,
frinturf Aii usaedy for the calamities which at present oppress estent.—And lastly, it is impossible to believe that tbe age. Grand Compounder; Rev. G Childe, Magdalen Nall; the -- jeT- iii-"''' "; • 11811"4
of waeaccitiiiliPhil
slack torday, in hearing a case of pertypassillov, Die.
the eflmtrf- projected/joint-stock banking companies can be gene- •Ite.. John Bt. Vincent Bowen Brasensiose College. ware vihiski was the entrance of Druty-lane Theme. Thai
First.-Sectiuse, waiving all consideration 'of the rally established, with murky, without embarking Naas. szowest4lPßA ave.-pc:l74 GVriilsii Butcher,
ih Brjaosietnnosvvl Col- scat were Lewis hews and Wm. Ferris, the former of whout
sapital tp- an extent that will create a further demand ocea.ional Lets as an itinerant orange merchant; of ,therlcwiuti,
raintillim wisether the system of circulation, as now by
for ti 1,000,0001. Wright,ri; ity Coorl'ege ; lion.eLloy° 1 .fireo; yon, Z7h. rist Church. permission, while the latter was stated to be a. man posseised of
aw established. will or will not be ameliorated by a Ice areas-rya r. I.ll.oMoTtoxs. some payporty, and propriesir of a brewery in the Coinsiertisiii
saetial repeat et the exclusive privilege enjoyed by the rot to. theria:eara, with 4"ter* a" draP aglidia-12 I antic*" the Rev. Joeeph Charles Pring, B.A. is appointed Chaplain of New eami: The ephie of guaing ,i t should smith as coin as mbar;
atry most swab from this ignorant attempt to Come 0 ford►
'• acquaints a man with strange cast ors" and Mr. Petit,: is?
'auk' 4 England, which this Bill enacts, and by the .nom raTeell "ari"shis irons a sodden eters demand for capital, by -' . '
Rev. J. Poore, D.D. to the Vicarage 'of Hafnium, Kent, void by
innihilatioa .of all .Bank-notes under a. in the year creating a demand for it far mote roortnous.-LAUDERDALR. the resignation of the Hon. and Rev. Gerard Nod. pawing through Vinegar-yard en Saturday • morning, could nue
__- . . . . . .resist the teenntetion held nut to hint Ur thaelh•hmaral and thimbles'

in many to cell np capital *ith which
',lodated ottani% .and, limiting the possi- , his br. mix, by Sir
from the diminntiostbf the value of land, , At the Cross.l
erty, and of fiiicd securltliaak on the more Thooias Gaice
of which it had beep granted; glazier, qtakrtil
ably produced sich 4 itadfan rearrelat oa the floor, w
ry nellaciationst 'eniorenentaly occei- teeth up,* chi]
wary saspensiost of pepsine; even on the Twp men of 1
rilin had fonds, and the bantruptcy of GaddoehO had
been alone sustained by that confidence rot about the
oce Waits en general prosperity. either 110 n they 11.°I
sifermly creates. kited that he di