Star.
London, England, 1819-02-11 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

The Fourteenth Report of the Carnatic Committee was pre-
sented, read, and ordered to be printed.
Mr. DICKENSON obtained leave to bring in a Bill for the
better Recovery of Small Debts in Somersetahire.
General MONTGOMERY presented a Bill for a New Iron
Railway in the County of Ayr. It was read a first and second
time, and ordered to be committed.
Ordered, That there be laid before the House an Account of
the quantity of Flax and Hemp imported into England, Scot-
land, and Ireland, for the last five yenta.
Mr. BENNET presented a Petition from the Burgesses and
Inhabitants of the town of of Musselburgh, Scotland, praying for
the adoption of some Change in the Borough System of Scot-
land, so far as regarded their internal government.
Mr. LYTTLETON presented a Petition from the Inhabi-
tants of Dudley against the Insolvent 13111, as pernicious to trade
and destructive to morals. _ _

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Mr. WILLIAM DUNDAS obtained leave to bring in a Bill
for the F.xtension and Improvement of a Road near Edinburgh,
Iconnected with a Canal (Forth and Clyde).
Ordered, That there be laid before the House a Statement of
the Expenditure in the Storekeeper-General's Department, dis-
tinguishing the Amount of his Salary, and the Names and Sala-
ries of all those under him, including also the Names of the par-
ticular places in which the various Serelces are performed.
Mr. DASTARD obtainedleave of absence for one month, on
his private affairs.
Mr. COATES obtained a similar leave for six wevlts. •

The LORD ADVOCATE of SCOTLAND, on the Motion
of Mr. Wat.tax DIJIMAII, obtained leave of absence for sir
weeks, on his official duties in Scotland.
Sir ROBERT VAUGHAN obtained leave of absence for
on month, on account of Indisposition in his family.
The Committees of Ways and Means and Supply were post.
posed till Friday next.

, REPEAL OF THE USURY LAWS.
Mr. Serjeant ONSLOW said, he had risen to move
for leave to bring in a Bill for the Repeal of the Laws
which regulate or restrain the Interest of Money. He
was happy to find his views supported by those per-
sons who were most conversant with the subject, not
only in England and in Europe, but in America. In
1817,_ the House of Assembly in Virginia took into
consideration the propriety of repealing all restraints
upon interest. Usury was now applied only to what
was paid for money above the legal rate of interest ;
but formerly the term was applied to all interest. The
prejudices against interest on money had been very
ancient and very general. All patties, all sects, and
all divisions in society, united against those whom
they called extortioners of usury. But those politi-
cians finding it impracticable to act upon their own
principles, were obliged to allow interest to be taken
to a certain extent. Still they considered it but a
tolerated evil. Early in our history, I 0 per cent. was
allowed to be taken ; but in the reign of Edward VI.
prejudices against usury became very violent, and this
toleration was repealed. The consequence was, that
money which might have been borrowed at 10 per
cent. could not be obtained for less than 14. In Queen
Elizabeth's reign, the 10 per cent. was again allowed,
but with a declaration that to take any interest was a
sin and detestable. Subsequent statutes afterwards
regulated this subject, till at length the Act of Queen
Anne reduced interest to 5 per cent. But through
all those statutes the same sentiments prevailed, re-
garding interest as an evil that was only to be tole-
rated. This subject had lately been referred to a
Select Committee, who had reported the result of
their investigation. In times of distress, the Usury
LAWS had been most grievously felt ; mercantile in-
terests had been much injured by them. He could
appeal to Judges of the greatest experience, and to
the Lawyers of that House, whether persons were not
found guilty of usury who were not extortioners, but
followed the common usage; only they happened not
to do so according to the Act of Parliament. Here
the Learned Gentleman made some observations on
Mr. Preston's hook. Dr. Adam Smith had rather
'favoured the 'Usury Laws ; but with that candour
which always distinguished him, he afterwards ac-
knowledged that he had been wrong. One of the
consequences of the Usury Laws was, that annuities'
were often had recourse to as loans. Another very
injurious consequence was, that lands had suffered by
disadvantageous sales, because no money could be
borrowed at the market price.
Mr. HUME rose to address the Chair.
The SPEAKER asked whether the Honourable
Member had risen to second the motion ?
Mr. HUME said, that it was his intention to con-
cludeby secohding it. The motion had his hearty
concurrence. Property in houses was left to the dis.
cretion of its holder. Why then should money, the
representative of property, be restricted ? The holder
cif es ery other kind of isropent was left to.manage it.
to his profit or his kos, as it might happen. . nian•

THE EVENING STAR.

LONDON.

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1819.
THE FUNDS.

PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ti:E O'CLOCK :
Bank Stock 268k—Bk. Long Ans. 20 1-16 3-16
3 per Cent. Reduced 76i 7i 7—Cons. 7611 i
Cons. for Acc. 76ktiii —3l per Cent. 8. 6i
+ per Cent. 94f 51-5 per Cent. Navy 105V1
India Stock 228—India Bonds 76 78 pr.
Old Annuities 76} 77—New Ditto 751
Excheq. Bills (2d.) 15 816 pr.—Omilitun dis.

The Market has experienced an advance of I per
Cent. since the opening. Consols for the account
commenced at 76i, and went to 761, but it is consi-
dered an artificial rise, and not expected to continue.
—To-morrow is the day for the payment of 40 per
Cent. upon the New Loan, being the last redemption
due to the Bank.

The Paris Papers of Monday arrived this morning.
The list of changes, consequent on the appoint-
ment of the new Ministry, in the Prefectships and
Sub-Prefectships Of the Departments, is every day
receiving new additions. M. CINTRE, Prefect of
Finisterre, has been named President of Dordogne,
and succeeded in the former Department by M. AN-
GELIER, late Sub-Prefect of Leghorn. M. Puc ET has
been named to the Sub-Prefectship of Saint Mar-
cellin : and the Sub-Prefects of several other Depart.
meats have also been superseded. It is not surprising
that the attention of the Ministers should be thus di-
rected to a branch of the public service which em-
braces so large a portion of the Exe,utive Power
throughout France, and which possesses consequently
such effectual means of supporting or thwarting the
policy of the Administration.
General GOURUAUD having requested the Austrian
Minister at Ilamburgh to inform him whether he
might be permitted to establish his residence at
Prague, in Bohemia? received for answer, that he
was at liberty to do so, on condition that the Austri:ui

Government should be entitled to remove him to any
other part of the Empire, should such a measure be
rendered necessary in the sequel. The General, not
choosing to submit to this condition, has given up his
design of going into Austria, and will remain some
time longer at llamburgh.
The 22d of this month will be the second century
of •the foundation of the Bank of llamburgh—an
establishment to which that city is principally in-
debted for its commercial greatness. Tl►e merchants
intend to celebrate it by a grand fete, and a medal is
to be struck in commemoration of the occasion. Puy-,
ing the last year, which has been one of leis prosperity
than usual to this city, there have been in all t,eventy-
three failures for sums amounting to 2,113,105 liv.
2s. banco, 185,025 liv. 2s. current, 2, i florins
and 3,05 y liv. of nine louis.—Trade continues still in
a very languishing state.
Several of the mediatized Princes of I3.►varia per-
:gist, it seems, in refuting to recognise thc Con,titti-
tionia Charter which the KING has riven to his sub-
jects. The Archbishops and Bi►hops are also, we
are told, to wait till some arrangement is made with
the. Nmicio of Rome, before they take their scats.
The Government, however, we arc ltApity to be .15-

cured, is as firm as it.is enlightmed, and w,
stopped in its course. 'The Gazette of the s,
nerd; which appears to be a semi-official Pal
dares that the Kin; will not suffer any
upon the Charter.

The conditions on whith the Court of
has effected at Hamburgh a loan of six milli
stated to be, that it is to continue for a
thirty years—that 8 per Cent. interest is to

on it; and that the KING is to mortgage the
domains in security.
Accounts from• Bayonne state, that seven
duals (of the 28, who some time back were
from the Basque Provinces to Valladolid;
being implicated in the conspiracy of General
VALES, which was suppressed about two years
have been sentenced to suffer death: others
have been seat to the garrison of Ceuta, some
space of two years.
In Spain, it seems, the English Journals
pursued with more vigour than any Works
in the Index of the Inquisition. What a come
to them, to have plovokeLl the vengeance of

A ItusSian Courier has proceeded to Ital;
to St. Petersburgh the Count CAPO Slam,
ter-Secretary of State of Russia, as soon as
of health permits it.
The following is an evract crom a prival
from Paris, dated Fel,ruary :—" Another ,
phice yesterday, between M. \'iennais, one
Editors of the Journal de
.Paris, and M. Royoi
of the Author of the TratTedy of Nocizm, %yr'
for his Ultra-Royalist opinions. The lltter
a slight sword wound.—Fears were entertail
another duel of more importance, between
nant-Generals Maison and Excelmans ; but
ciliation took place between these two Officers,
the auspices of a great personage.... M.

'Constant has delayed the publication of his
of the Hundred Days: This work was
with great impatience. The cause of its dei
known; but it has given rise to various coni

We announced yesterday that the Court
had issued a thundering denunciation
reigners found aiding the Insurgents in South
rica. The fict reminds us of the Balls put
the See of Rome against the Reformers, t!.
them with' nothing less than eternal perch'
the work went on notwithstanding the
succeeded in breaking their priestly chains
and so will it be with the Patriots.

To-day we make an entry on the other
account. The Patriots have captured alotll,
nish frigate, of 50 guns, and have had an •
of other two new frigates which were latel
them at New York. We subjoin the acm
is extracted from a letter received this mo:
Lloyd's, from their Agent at 21,!eLos Ayr,
BUENOS AYRES, NOVENHLf?
44. By an express arrived lion, St. Jago de
have accounts of the capture of the. Span
la Reyna Maria Isabel, mounting 50 &a
port of Talcalutina, by the Patriot vessel.
San Martin, and Latc:;r.). It is likewise repot
font of the transports of the expedition from
to Lima, under the convoy of that frigate,
taken.—The CLili Gazdie, of the Bth, ord,
capture of the convoying ship. On the I 2th
rived the Horatio and Cttneago frigates,
York, where they were built ; they will
3'2 to 36 guns, with a complement of 200
the 6th inst. arrived the Spanish ship San
prize to the Vigilance ship privateer, from
and on the 18th inst. arrived the Spanish
gente, from La Gityra to St. Domingo, p
same privateer:'

The Notice of the above illteLizence
been posted up to-day at Lloyd's, adds
CoenuAxt: was hourly looked for, at
when the Expedition would proceed at o
Lima."

It is a fact, says the liii,:tor,tun (•ity Gm
generally known, but highly interesting ,
candle interest, that by a late Trvaty evil
Britain, 16 per cent. only is levied on
ported into the Brazils in BritiA: •-essels,
trade carried on in American vessels is
duty of 21. per cent. This diAinction, it.,
'by the Americans, must scion destrgy't'tlei
that quarter of the Anierican Pontinent,
deavours are not promptly made for placii
a more equal footing with Great Britan.

It is pretty generally understood that Lord
REMill has been outvoted in the COmtuitt
Windsor Establishment, the numbers beini
the reduction of two of the I.:queries, and
fusal of any pensions to the 140 State OIS
QUEEN. -

The forthcoming Play of a Stoisse;land,
lane, is from the pen of. Miss JANE Pow
of the Popular
:Novels of the Scottish Chief%
dens of Warsaw, Pastor's Fire-side, fire. Sr
No. 2,325, a Prize of Ll,OOO, and /so,
of t3OO, drawn on TUESDAY LAST, were
Shares at CAttacu.t,'s Offices, No. 19, Cr
No. 26, Old3rd•street, which it will be I
were the most fortunate Offices iu the tat
having Sold No. 2,337, a Prize of C. 10,000,
7,003, a. Prize of I:S,(XX), in Shares.—T:
Shares tttr the New Lottery, which con
.?rites of P.:0,00Q. and Thirty-seven eth
are on Sale, at CA itanci:. successful Offio
Co..uhill, And ,26, 04ertl-street.

OFFICIAL Rrx,;RNS.-

of the Unfunded Debt, in Eichoquer
on the sth of January, 1819, was

,verage prices of Wheat, Barley, Oats, and
twelve maritime districts of England
for the two last years, ending 15th No-
year, was AS follows:
'Wheat. Barley. Oats. Beans.
8. d. 8. d. 8. d. 6. d.
79 7 ..... .42 6 ... 25 5
80 2 49 7
of errors in the Returns of the price
the County of Glamorgan, in the six
Jing the 15th of February, 1818, the
published in the Gazette on the 14th of
18, was 275. 2d. instead of 265. 10d.
terence of 4d. on the whole of the twelve
lAricts, produced the effect of allowing
yon.aion of Oats six weeks earlier than it
-ise have been.

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